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Digital Synergy
No full textIn an era where technological progress redefines the boundaries of business and management, ‘Digital Synergy - Innovative Management in the ICT Era’ emerges as a guide for current and aspiring leaders. This book delves into the heart of modern management practices, illuminated by the transformative power of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and digital synergy. Facing the relentless pace of change, adaptation, innovation, and the utilization of digital synergy are no longer optional; they are the bedrock of sustainable success. Through a carefully selected collection of theories, case studies, expert insights, and examples of digital synergy, this book provides the foresight and tools necessary to navigate through the complexities of a globalized, digital marketplace. The book is divided into four sections: 1. Financial and strategic management in uncertain times 2. Global trends and management challenges 3. Corporate social responsibility and effective CSR management 4. The future of logistics, with a special focus on military logistics Designed for business leaders, managers, students, and anyone keen on deepening their understanding of how ICT and digital synergy shape management strategies, this book is a call to action. It challenges to not just keep pace with technological progress but to lead the charge in leveraging it for strategic advantage
Advanced Ceramic Materials
No full textThe demand for advanced materials precisely tailored to specific industrial applications is becoming increasingly complex and challenging. Meeting this need requires the adoption of emerging manufacturing and environmentally friendly technologies to produce high-performance materials, which will be essential in the coming years. The future of the emerging ceramics industry lies in developing flawless materials with exceptional properties that are carefully engineered to meet changing market demands. A pressing challenge in this field is adopting sustainable practices - reduce, reuse and recycle - while ensuring that the ceramics industry becomes increasingly eco-conscious. Sustainability is no longer an option but an imperative, and scientists must revolutionize the industry through innovative techniques, processing methods and bold solutions for ceramic materials. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of advanced ceramic materials, emphasizing emerging technologies. It highlights processes and techniques based on proven advances, offering a critical overview of this fundamental area of research and development
Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young Children
No full textThis open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms of inquiry involving those stakeholders and actors whom the research concerns, specifically the participating children. The backdrop of the discussions and theoretical investigations is the inter- and transdisciplinary project Enhancing Children’s Attention. Within the framework of an evidence-based intervention, this project performed multiple qualitative forms of inquiry, including emergent forms of collaborations with children. The book provides a discussion on how young children’s development, learning, and lives are understood in the developmental sciences, and in the humanities and social sciences. It specifically addresses scholars interested in postdevelopmental, posthumanist, new materialist, and postqualitative approaches. The book proposes a displaced form of postdevelompentalism for future collaborative forms of inquiry with a focus on multiple forms of knowledge and knowing
New Silk Road
No full textIn 2013, China's planned "New Silk Road" initiative began, the implementation of which has directly transformed many places in Asia and Africa, as well as in China itself. In some cases, urgently needed infrastructure was created, such as Niger's hospital in Niamey or the National Library of El Salvador. At the same time, however, entire areas were created, such as the free trade zone in Khorghos, Kazakhstan, with controversial effects on the local population and the environment. Based on research at the Politecnico di Torino, this publication examines the "Belt and Road Initiative" from an architectural and urbanistic perspective. Thematically organized, 20 selected buildings are documented. All projects are presented with specially created maps, plans, and photographs
Succès et échec de l’héroïsation
No full textComment fabrique-t-on des héros et des héroïnes ? Comment expliquer que certains processus d’héroïsation aboutissent à la reconnaissance publique d’un individu comme supérieur, digne d’un culte (au sens propre ou métaphorique), alors que d’autres échouent ? Le livre qui étudie à la fois des textes et des images fixes ou en mouvement porte sur le phénomène de l’héroïsation conçu comme un processus de construction développé par un réseau d’acteurs. Il s’attache aux processus d’héroïsation eux-mêmes en examinant divers attributs, acteurs et obstacles. Il analyse différentes figures d’héroïnes et de héros à une période donnée, dans le temps long ou bien dans une perspective genrée. Il interroge la temporalité des héroïsations : certaines périodes historiques, certains régimes politiques, certaines sociétés ont été plus propices que d’autres au phénomène de l’héroïsation, et c’est précisément le cas de notre époque où l’on parle de plus en plus souvent de héros, comme on le constate depuis la Covid et la guerre en Ukraine. Il s’inscrit de façon pluridisciplinaire dans une vaste perspective chronologique, depuis l’Antiquité grecque, grande pourvoyeuse de héros, jusqu’à Zelenski, héros de la série télévisée « Serviteur du peuple »
Transformative Role-playing Game Design
No full textThis textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommendations for designing transformative goals; framing activities such as workshops and debriefs; narrative and culture design. This interdisciplinary book highlights theories from role-playing game studies, peace and conflict studies, psychology, social psychology, sociology, counseling, anthropology, pedagogy, and several other fields. Key concepts include bleed, alibi, RPGs as transformational containers, immersion, identity, transfer, ritual, psychotherapeutic techniques, group theories, and educational theories. We emphasize psychological safety before, during, and after games, as well as strategies for cultivating transformational communities. Key topics include working with specific populations; crisis management; sensitive content and representation. Then, we discuss working with myth, symbolism, and ritual, narrative, and postmodern magic as methods for transforming the stories of our lives. We cover forms of culture within and around RPGs, as well working with conflict in scenarios related to politics, culture, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. We share thoughts around the use of RPGs to foster activism, advocacy, inclusion, and accessibility. Finally, we offer considerations for researchers studying transformative role-playing games, including academic argument, structure, theory, method, data collection, ethics, and other considerations. We introduce key methods, including Research through Design, ethnography, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The book closes with a summary of evidence-based research available on the cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of role-playing games
Outsight
No full textTraditional view focuses on the person's thoughts and intentions as the driving force of creativity. This Element proposes a methodology and a theoretical vocabulary that restore the role of objects in the dynamic unfolding of creative problem solving. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Rome pour ou contre l’Empire ?
No full textLe début du xxe siècle apparaît comme l’apogée de l’union entre les missions catholiques et la colonisation française. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, cette alliance est remise en cause par l’affirmation de l’autorité romaine sur les missions. Malgré la législation laïque, qui n’a que peu de conséquences dans l’espace colonial, le gouvernement français se situe toujours dans une logique de contrôle et cherche à utiliser le catholicisme au service de son influence outre-mer. Mais le Saint-Siège cherche désormais à émanciper les missions à l’égard des puissances coloniales. Les évolutions imposées par Rome, en particulier la promotion des clergés autochtones, suscitent l’hostilité de l’administration coloniale et de certains missionnaires, dont l’engagement religieux reste intrinsèquement lié à la cause de l’expansion française. Cet ouvrage met en lumière l’ambiguïté des relations Église-État à l’échelle de l’ensemble de l’espace colonial français durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Il analyse avec nuance la position des différents acteurs du monde missionnaire catholique
Teacher Leadership in School for Student Learning
No full textThis leadership practice oriented book brings together empirical qualitative research and teaching / learning approaches. The monograph consists of nine original parts, which present empirical evidence that teachers implement creative and servant leadership, also through leadership they help students express themselves, create oppor tunities for students utilise their ideas in the name of better learning achievements, teacher leadership helps to create meaningful learning for students and strengthen their motivation to learn. This book is empi rical evidence that the essential vector of teacher leadership is student learning
Das Kindeswohl als Ausgangspunkt und Grenze der Elternschaft
No full textThe current law of parentage requires fundamental reform because of multiple new family models. The starting point and the limit of a new conception of §§ 1591 ff. BGB should be the best interests of the child. The present work examines modern family forms in terms of their suitability for the best interests of the child and presents concrete regulatory proposals on how a modern ›Law of Parent-Child Relationship‹ could be modeled, also with regard to surrogacy and multiple parenthood