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Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods and draws from specific case studies to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in CSS approaches. The Handbook is divided into two volumes written by outstanding internationally renowned scholars in the field. This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science statistical modeling and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues including the management of big data in terms of record linkage streaming and missing data. Machine learning agent-based and statistical modeling as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data as well as probability non-probability and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field but also encourages growth into new directions. With its broad coverage of perspectives (theoretical methodological computational) international scope and interdisciplinary approach this important resource is integral reading for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers engaging with computational methods across the social sciences as well as those within the scientific and engineering sectors. | Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

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Managers of Discontent

Managers of Discontent

In today's political climate the status and future of the trade unions are subjects of particular interest. Yet apart from national leaders of major unions little is known about full-time trade union officers. In Managers of Discontent Diane Watson draws on a rich fund of material based on extensive interviews and observation to examine the role of trade union officers comparing them with their managerial counterparts in three industrial sectors. Her lively and interesting interview material by allowing the people studied to speak for themselves raises a series of challenging questions about the future of trade unions.

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The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

First Published in 1967 the Tactics of Resignation examines the principles of collective and individual ministerial responsibility and investigates the parallel problems related to the shadow cabinet in Britain. It raises pertinent questions like: why do so many hold their peace and support policies of which they privately disapprove? Loss of confidence in the House of Commons should involve individual resignation. How have so many ministers been able to hang on in the face of adverse criticism or apparent inefficiency? This book is a valuable addition to understand the difference between traditional principles and actual British government. It is an interesting read for students of British government and politics. | The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

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Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

Lingdao the Chinese word for leadership is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions. Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy the book explores how Western understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive media for social change. It also offers a new understanding of lingdao and leadership; how they represent a natural human desire regardless of formal rank or position to mobilize collective will change minds and achieve social change. The book will be of interest to professional scholars and graduate students of Chinese culture educational leadership mass media and popular culture. | Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

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The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

For a brief period the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq Syria and Turkey. In particular the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar Mosul Nineveh Plains Baghdad and Hasakah regions in 2007–2015 raised questions about the prevention of genocide. This book while principally analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914–1925 and its implications for the culture and politics of the region also raises broader questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities in the Middle East genocide studies international law and the politics of the late Ottoman Empire as well as the politics of the Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean basin. A key question the book raises is whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts used within international law and diplomatic history to study genocide and group violence. In this light the Assyrian genocide stands out as being several times larger in both absolute terms and relative to the size of the affected group than the Srebrenica genocide which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek victims the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan Bengali and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the impact of the genocide period of 1914–1925 on the development or partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion including aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by reference to diplomatic and political archives international legal materials memoirs and literary works. | The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

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The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

This title was first published in 2001. Public childcare provision in Britain is an issue that raises much passion and has been the source of much disappointment. Free childcare in Britain is limited. Public policy has been slow to change in terms of providing more childcare. Insufficient public childcare provision is a barrier to acheiving equal rights for women especially within the employment sector. This book sets out to search for the factors crucial to constraining the development of childcare policy and public childcare provision. It looks at schemes that have been set up but that ultimately fail in allowing women to work by not providing the necessary childcare provision. The book looks at the issue of childcare provision how the policy process works the different types of childcare provision past and present and implementation and operation of childcare schemes. | The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

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Traveling through Video Games

Traveling through Video Games

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification. Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Minecraft and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds the elusive nature of freedom and control and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptive—but through design choices players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world and being moved by it. This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies game studies tourism and technology and the Digital Humanities.

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London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

First Published in 1980 London Patidars presents the case study of the Patidars a landowning caste from the Indian state of Gujarat in London. Patidars being the landowning caste has taken over much of the ideology of the merchant castes. This ‘merchant ideal’ is a central part of their self-image. It is an incitement to initiative in business and to some extent their actual economic behaviour does reflect the ideal. But the cases studied do not all conform to this ideal and they pose questions: How does this particular type of ethnic boundary relate to the opportunities of the individual Patidar? Why and how is this boundary maintained? Harald Tambs-Lyche concludes that the form given to the ethnic boundary is advantageous to many Patidars but not to all in the same degree. This raises problems which potentially could change the present pattern. Other potential problems relate to their relationship with the English. As successful merchants they risk becoming objects of envy like formerly the Jewish community. This book is a must read for scholars of ethnic and race relations and sociology. | London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

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Autofiction and Cultural Memory

Autofiction and Cultural Memory

Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory. Most discussion of autofiction has treated it as an individualistic form dealing with the personal growth of its authors. In doing so it privileges narratives of private development over those of social commitment and accords with Western concepts of ownership and authorship. By contrast Hywel Dix shows how a variety of writers outside the Western world have used the techniques of autofiction in a different way placing themselves on the side lines of their own stories to show solidarity with struggles against imperialism and tyranny. Drawing on examples from Algeria Ethiopia the Caribbean the Americas India and Turkey Dix presents autofiction as a form which combines the life stories of authors with the collective struggles of their societies to restore to view historical injustices that have been marginalised and forgotten. By contributing to new forms of cultural memory autofiction raises important questions about what we choose to remember and what we value in the present. This book will be of interest to anyone working in postcolonial studies world literature trauma studies autobiography life writing or social justice.

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The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia

The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia

Combining biomedical psychological and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous [and] peasant women in the Andean region this book raises new questions surrounding humanness and the normalisation of sexual violence. Through original ethnographical research the author analyses Andean understandings of incest medical positivist practices as well as the psychiatric ‘treatment’ of incestuous and gender-based violence. The book examines the implications that psychiatric institutionalisation within the context of interethnic gender and class schemes has on what it means to be human. It also draws on a theoretical framework in order to understand how discourses shape and are simultaneously problematized by individual experiences of sexual violence and incest. Intergenerational incestuous violence against women is not necessarily an exceptional event but can be an ordinary process one where through the articulation of biomedical and indigenous medicine as well as indigenous and mestizo forms of administration of political power women as subjects can become possible. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in gender-based violence as well as mental-health practitioners and academics in Latin American studies anthropology gender studies and sociology. | The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia

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Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research. Historical events are the treasure of human experiences the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdisciplinary methodology supported by practice-based research that serves as a pathway between historical and computer sciences to design and build computational structures that analyse how societies create narratives about historical events. This consilience pathway aims to make historical memory machine-understandable. It turns history into a computational discipline through an interdisciplinary blend of philological accuracy historical scholarship history-based media projects and computational tools. Nanetti presents the theory behind this methodology from a humanities perspective and discusses its practical application in user interface and experience. An essential read for historians and scholars working in the digital humanities. | Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

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Urban Social Sustainability Theory Policy and Practice

Urban Social Sustainability Theory Policy and Practice

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability dimension that needs to be taken into consideration and incorporated into a comprehensive and cohesive ‘urban agenda’ that is built on three principles of recognition integration and monitoring. This should be achieved through a dialogical and reflexive process of decision-making. To achieve sustainable communities social sustainability should form the basis of a constructive dialogue and be interlinked with other areas of sustainable development. This book underlines the urgency of approaching social sustainability as an urban agenda and goes on to make suggestions about its formulation. Urban Social Sustainability consists of original contributions from academics and experts within the field and explores the significance of social sustainability from different perspectives. Areas covered include urban policy transportation and mobility urban space and architectural form housing urban heritage neighbourhood development and urban governance. Drawing on case studies from a number of countries and world regions the book presents a multifaceted and interdisciplinary understanding from social sustainability in urban settings and provides practitioners and policy makers with innovative recommendations to achieve more socially sustainable urban environment. | Urban Social Sustainability Theory Policy and Practice

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Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare

Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making there is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns such as resource depletion or climate change are considered. Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts this book regards the current financial economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing and how these may feasibly be overcome. How can researchers assist policymakers in promoting synergy between economic social and environmental policies conducive to globally sustainable welfare systems? Co-authored by a variety of cross-disciplinary contributors a diversity of research perspectives and methods is reflected in a unique mixture of conceptual chapters historical analysis of different societal sectors and case studies of several EU countries China and the US. This book is well suited for those who are interested in and study welfare ecological economics and political economy.

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Latin America since Independence A History with Primary Sources

Latin America since Independence A History with Primary Sources

Now in its third edition Latin America since Independence explores the region’s rich and diverse history through carefully selected stories primary source documents maps and tables that offer a diverse approach to dominant historical narratives. While histories of the other Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives this text begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply problematic. Without losing sight of chronology or regional trends the book offers a distinctive conceptualization of the region as a diverse social landscape with a multiplicity of peoples and voices. Each chapter introduces students to a specific historical issue which in turn raises questions about the history of the Americas as a whole. Key themes include: Race and Citizenship Inequality and Economic Development Politics and Rights Foreign Interventions Social and Cultural Movements Globalization Violence and Civil Society The Environment Chapters also include timelines highlighting important dates and suggestions for further reading. This third edition has been updated throughout and includes a new Chapter 9 that discusses foreign intervention in Central America and new text on the drug wars resource extraction and indigenous self-determination. Richly informative and highly readable Latin America since Independence provides compelling accounts of this region’s past and present that will be of interest to students of Latin American history and society. | Latin America since Independence A History with Primary Sources

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Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Policies and Issues presents tools and concepts about environmental policies in several developed and developing countries. It explores a broad survey of ecological modernization theory ecological feminism theory environmental justice theory the concept of sustainability and research on environmental policies. Data were collected through surveys interviews and focus groups and are used to analyze social economic and environmental impact on people. The book specifically discusses how the earth’s basic life-supporting capital (soils forests species fresh water and oceans) is degraded or depleted to provide for human needs and how air pollution and acid precipitation are causing widespread injury to humans forests and crops. Realistically over-taxing of natural resources and ecological systems throughout the world has promoted economic growth and created increasing opportunities for people while also advancing social injustice. The use of the environment to accomplish social and economic transformation raises fundamental issues for the study of environmental policy and the natural ecological system. As human beings exploit the natural environment to meet present needs they often will destroy resources needed for the future generations. Thus environmental policies are enacted to ensure that social and economic impacts of the environment are compatible with the limits of natural systems. Offering an intuitive and crystal-clear explanation of the key concepts and principles of environmental policies and sustainable development this volume is suitable not only for environmental science students but also for instructors practitioners researchers and academics.

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Workshop Machining A Comprehensive Guide to Manual Operation

Workshop Machining A Comprehensive Guide to Manual Operation

Workshop Machining is a comprehensive textbook that explains the fundamental principles of manually operating machinery to form shapes in a variety of materials. It bridges the gap between people who have traditional toolmaking skills and those who have been trained in programming and operation of CNC machines in a focused production environment rather than general machine shop. Using a subject-based approach David Harrison intuitively guides readers and supplies practical skills. The chapters cover everything from the basic machine controls to advanced cutting operations using a wide range of tooling and work-holding devices. Theory and practice are shown via a mixture of diagrams text and illustrated worked examples as well as through exercises. The book is ideal for students and lecturing staff who participate in or lead practical machining sessions and for those who wish to further develop their machining skills. It also serves as an excellent reference to understand the principles and limitations of producing shapes with cutters that move in a limited combination of linear and radial paths. | Workshop Machining A Comprehensive Guide to Manual Operation

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The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care

The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care

At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management. Providing a range of contributions that draw on a Critical Management Studies perspective the book raises macro-level concerns with theory demographics and economics on the one hand as well as micro-level challenges of leadership voice and engagement on the other. Rather than being an attempt to define the ‘wickedness’ of problems in this field this book provides new insights designed to be of interest and value to researchers students and managers. Contributions from international researchers explore four main topics: identifying contemporary challenges in health and social care; managing leading and following; listening to silent voices in delivering change; and new methodologies for understanding care challenges. The concerns discussed in this volume are ‘wicked’ in so far as they are persistent pernicious and beyond the curative abilities of any single organisation or profession. Such problems require collaboration but also new approaches to listening to those who suffer their effects. This book demonstrates such listening through its engagement with policy makers leaders followers professions patients forgotten groups and silenced voices. Moreover it considers how future research might be transformed so as to shine a more inclusive light on ‘wicked’ problems and their amelioration. This is a timely and engaging book that challenges you – the reader – to think again about how we should look at engage with and support all those involved in health and social care. | The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care

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The Economics of Immigration

The Economics of Immigration

This book in its second edition introduces readers to the economics of immigration which is a booming field within economics. The main themes and objectives of the book are for readers to understand the decision to migrate the impacts of immigration on markets and government budgets and the consequences of immigration policies in a global context. Our goal is for readers to be able to make informed economic arguments about key issues related to immigration around the world. This book applies economic tools to the topic of immigration to answer questions like whether immigration raises or lowers the standard of living of people in a country. The book examines many other consequences of immigration as well such as the effect on tax revenues and government expenditures the effect on how and what firms decide to produce and the effect on income inequality to name just a few. It also examines questions like what determines whether people choose to move and where they decide to go. It even examines how immigration affects the ethnic diversity of restaurants and financial markets. Readers will learn how to apply economic tools to the topic of immigration. Immigration is frequently in the news as more people move around the world to work to study and to join family members. The economics of immigration has important policy implications. Immigration policy is controversial in many countries. This book explains why this is so and equips the reader to understand and contribute to policy debates on this important topic.

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Indian Capitalism in Development

Indian Capitalism in Development

Recognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using field research at a local level to engage with larger issues it raises questions about the varieties and processes of capitalism and about the different roles played by the state. With its focus on India the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of the comparative political economy of development for the analysis of contemporary capitalism. Beginning with an exploration of capitalism in agriculture and rural development it goes on to discuss rural labour small town entrepreneurs and technical change and competition in rural and urban manufacturing highlighting the relationships between agricultural and non-agricultural firms and employment. An analysis of processes of commodification and their interaction with uncommodified areas of the economy makes use of the ‘knowledge economy’ as a case study. Other chapters look at the political economy of energy as a driver of accumulation in contradiction with both capital and labour and at how the political economy of policy processes regulating energy highlights the fragmentary nature of the Indian state. Finally a chapter on the processes and agencies involved in the export of wealth argues that this plays a crucial role in concealing the exploitation of labour in India. Bringing together scholars who have engaged with classical political economy to advance the understanding of contemporary capitalism in South Asia and distinctive in its use of an interdisciplinary political economy approach the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Politics Political Economy and Development Studies. | Indian Capitalism in Development

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Introduction to Geopolitics

Introduction to Geopolitics

This new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs. It helps readers understand the geopolitical implications of COVID-19 China’s pronounced role in the world the relative decline of the US and the Black Lives Matter movement. Using new pertinent case studies and guided exercises the title explains the contemporary global power of the United States and the challenges it is facing the changing foreign policy of China and other countries the persistence of nationalist conflicts migration cyberwar and cyberactivism terrorism energy geopolitics and environmental geopolitics. Expanded case studies of the South China Sea disputes and China’s Belt and Road Initiative emphasize the multi-faceted nature of conflict. The book raises questions by incorporating international and long-term historical perspectives and introduces readers to different theoretical viewpoints including feminist contributions. The new edition features fresh discussion of island geopolitics the Anthropocene age and geoeconomics. Introduction to Geopolitics will provide its readers with a set of critical analytical tools for understanding the actions of states as well as non-state actors acting in competition over resources and power. Both students and general readers will find this book an essential stepping-stone to a deeper and critical understanding of contemporary conflicts. The companion website will enable readers to apply the themes of the book to the constant shifts in current affairs to enable deeper understanding. It will provide access to weekly essays showing how the themes explain current events.

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Research Methods in Education

Research Methods in Education

This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational research; methods of data collection; and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students academics and researchers who are undertaking understanding and using educational research and has been translated into several languages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice underpinned by clear theoretical foundations research evidence and up-to-date references and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning conducting reporting and evaluating research. This edition contains new chapters on: Mixed methods research The role of theory in educational research Ethics in Internet research Research questions and hypotheses Internet surveys Virtual worlds social network software and netography in educational research Using secondary data in educational research Statistical significance effect size and statistical power Beyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses. Research Methods in Education is essential reading for both the professional researcher and anyone involved in educational and social research. The book is supported by a wealth of online materials including PowerPoint slides useful weblinks practice data sets downloadable tables and figures from the book and a virtual interactive self-paced training programme in research methods. These resources can be found at: www. routledge. com/cw/cohen.

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act Regulating Subliminal AI Systems

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act Regulating Subliminal AI Systems

AI in combination with other innovative technologies promises to bring unprecedented opportunities to all aspects of life. These technologies however hold great dangers especially for the manipulation of the human mind which have given rise to serious ethical concerns. Apart from some sectoral regulatory efforts to address these concerns no regulatory framework for AI has yet been adopted though in 2021 the European Commission of the EU published a draft Act on Artificial Intelligence and UNESCO followed suit with a Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. The book contextualises the future regulation of AI specifically addressing the regulatory challenges relating to the planned prohibition of the use of AI systems that deploy subliminal techniques. The convergence of AI with various related technologies such as brain–computer interfaces functional magnetic resonance imaging robotics and big data already allows for mind reading or dream hacking through brain spyware as well as other practices that intrude on cognition and the right to freedom of thought. Future innovations will enhance the possibilities for manipulating thoughts and behaviour and they threaten to cause serious harm to individuals as well as to society as a whole. The issue of subliminal perception and the ability to deceive and manipulate the mind below the threshold of awareness causes severe difficulties for law and democracy and raises important questions for the future of society. This book shows how cognitive technological and legal questions are intrinsically interwoven and aims to stimulate an urgently needed transdisciplinary and transnational debate between students academics practitioners policymakers and citizens interested not only in the law but also in disciplines including computer science neuroscience sociology political science marketing and psychology. | The EU Artificial Intelligence Act Regulating Subliminal AI Systems

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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence needs are met? Some advanced market economies e. g. the United States have exhibited a decline in well-being both subjectively and objectively measured over several decades despite seeing economic growth during the same period. This book provides an original and comprehensive explanation: economic growth as driven by market forces induces people through both the demand- and supply-side channels to pursue command over more material resources and this weakens the self-generation of capabilities putting well-being at risk of deterioration. The book argues with the support of a variety of evidence that the challenge can be overcome if governments’ policies and people’s choices pursue as their ultimate goal ‘fundamental human development’ on an evolutionary basis: the development of the capability of a typical person to conceive and share with others new purposes to pursue them individually or collectively and thus to contribute to building human culture. If such human development is prioritised it makes people satisfied with their lives and resistant to adverse shocks and it can even shape the pattern of economic growth. By contrast if economic growth is prioritised it tends to weaken and impoverish fundamental human development and consequently people’s well-being and social cohesion. With this volume readers will find an answer to a problem that is both urgent and long-term both individual and societal. The work makes a substantial contribution to the literature on wellbeing the economics of happiness human capital and growth and the capability approach. | Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

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Real Estate Valuation A Subjective Approach

Real Estate Valuation A Subjective Approach

Real Estate Valuation: A Subjective Approach highlights the subjective valuation components of residential and commercial real estate which can lead to a range of acceptable property value conclusions. It discusses the causes of housing booms and goes in depth into the heterogeneity of commercial real estate property valuation via examples from owner-occupied multifamily residential hotel office retail warehouse condo conversion and mortgage-backed security areas of real estate. Other topics explored include the role of machine learning and AI in real estate valuation market participant value perceptions and the challenge of time in the valuation process. The primary theoretical basis for the range of acceptable values and the subjectivity of property valuation focuses on the work of G. L. S. Shackle from the Austrian School of Economics. This illuminating textbook is suitable for undergraduate and master’s students of real estate finance and will also be useful for practitioners in residential and commercial real estate. | Real Estate Valuation A Subjective Approach

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