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Access to Social Justice
No full textAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book proposes a conception of social justice according to international human rights law. Social rights include everyday rights such as housing, food, fuel and social security. Drawing on extensive research with frontline practitioners, the book frames access to social justice as a journey that should end with the realisation of an effective remedy. It highlights discourses that marginalise and disempower rights holders and reclaims the narrative around social rights as legal rights. This is a unique contribution to our understanding of access to social justice from a social rights perspective complete with key recommendations for policy and practice
Future Memory Practices
No full textFuture Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies. It brings a novel relational approach to future memory work across institutions, people, and modalities. Advancing inter- and transdisciplinary research and rich empirical cases from across Europe and beyond, the book examines how memory practices in digital media are open for engagement of people with diverse backgrounds. It analyses the modalities of memory making and how they can enable institutional and public memory making with a broad spectrum of people and groups in civil society at local, translocal, national and global levels. The chapters examine the mediatized character of memory making, whilst also critically considering what obstacles and potentials emerge from participatory memory work. As a whole, the book is a comprehensive source of knowledge and ideas for creating socially inclusive, sustainable memory practices and futures. It sets the multidisciplinary research agenda for advancing studies of heritage in contemporary digital media as an element and a driver of cultural and social change. Future Memory Work is essential reading for academics, students and professionals working in the fields of Anthropology, Museum Studies, Digital Cultural Heritage, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies and Design
Chapter 1 Introduction to Transforming K-12 Education with Artificial Intelligence
No full textThomas Chiu’s book is one of the first to look at the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on K-12 education in two areas: AI education, and AI in education. AI education refers to teaching AI, and AI in education refers to using AI to support learning and teaching. Chiu examines the opportunities and challenges of these impacts for teachers and students, proposes a framework and a set of principles for the two areas with examples, and suggests learning outcomes. AI in K-12 education is one of the most important global strategic initiatives since it has made and continues to make impacts on education and the job market. Including AI technology and topics in K-12 education not only helps children understand what AI technologies are and how they work, but also inspires future workplace readiness and potential AI researchers, ethical designers, and software developers. However, educators and AI experts in general realize that planning AI-related education is very challenging. It involves integrating the topics or technologies into the curriculum, necessitating teacher development to address the gaps in knowledge, addressing educational inequity, and securing equipment and resources. Understanding student and teacher opportunities and challenges is crucial. This book is an essential and thought-provoking read for researchers, teacher educators, and school teachers and leaders who wish to embrace AI to prepare K-12 students for their future education and the workforce
Paradigms on Technology Development for Security Practitioners
No full textThis open access book is authored by a rich mix of contributors from across the landscape of research, academia, LEAs, civil protection, and other first responders, practitioners, public and private organizations and industry to address some of the most contemporary challenges within global security domain. The authors cover topics such as protection of critical infrastructures (CI), serious and organized crime, counter (cyber) terrorism, border management, cybercrime, cybersecurity, management of disasters and crises, big data analytics, the application of AI and the legal and ethical dimensions of the implementation of cutting-edge technologies. The book benefits from research actions and lessons learned from more than 35 EU R&D projects within the security domain. The book not only addresses theoretical narratives pertinent to the subject but also identifies current challenges and emerging security threats, provides analysis of operational capability gaps, real world applied solutions, methodologies, and case studies within security domain. This is an open access book
Teilhabe für alle - Auf dem Weg zu einer diskriminierungsfreien Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
No full textThis volume is the first to comprehensively address issues of protection against discrimination in child and youth welfare law. Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack develops a concept of inclusion and equal participation based on fundamental and human rights. Katharina Lohse examines the individual regulations of the German Social Code VIII with regard to protection against discrimination. Daniela Schweigler sheds light on the principle of organisational diversity. Further contributions deal with the influence of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Sophie Funcke), organisational diversity from an empirical perspective (Christian Peucker), the importance of ethics commissions for a youth welfare service that is critical of racism (Ersan Özdemir) and the guaranteed child allowance (Kindergrundsicherung) set forth by the current federal government (Anne Lenze). With contributions by Sophie Funke | Prof. Dr. Anne Lenze | Katharina Lohse | Ersan Özdemir | Christian Peuker | Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheiwe | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröer | Prof. Dr. Daniela Schweigler | Prof. Dr. Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack | Prof. Dr. Friederike Wapler | Prof. Dr. Michael Wras
Inequality and the European Union
No full textThis book constitutes a timely and unique interdisciplinary endeavour in law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle inequalities between, across, and within European societies and states.
By gathering cutting-edge research by specialists of inequalities across Europe, the volume pushes conceptual frontiers as to the EU’s role in fighting or fuelling inequalities pertaining to antidiscrimination, mobility and migrations, and the European welfare model. It provides solid empirical insights on the EU policy tools and legal instruments and assesses whether they are effective.
This book will be of key interests to scholars, students, and practitioners in EU policymaking, EU law, and more broadly in EU studies, comparative politics, and regionalism
Trends in Grain Processing for Food Industry
No full textTrends in grain processing for the food industry have evolved significantly in recent years, driven by changes in consumer preferences, health considerations, and technological advancements. This Special Issue explores the increasing consumer demand for grain-based products due to their nutritional value and economic benefits. Different grains, such as wheat and buckwheat, are used to produce flour for various industries, including bakery, pasta, and beer production. The Special Issue discusses the impact of different ingredients, such as essential oils and sea buckthorn, on the rheological properties of dough and bread quality. It also examines the role of sourdough in improving bread volume, elasticity, and sensory characteristics. This Special Issue highlights the increasing importance of food products for managing health conditions like diabetes and gluten intolerance. Specific attention is given to the development of gluten-free and low-glycemic bakery products, as well as innovations in grain processing to improve the nutritional value of food products. Furthermore, various studies on non-gluten products, such as those using baobab and buckwheat flour, are discussed for their nutritional benefits. This Special Issue also presents different studies by emphasizing advancements in grain processing, driven by biotechnological progress and the need for continued research to enhance the nutritional value of food products
universitat davant del genocidi, La
No full textAquest llibre recull els continguts de la jornada «La universitat davant del genocidi», organitzada per la Xarxa Universitària per Palestina, que es va celebrar a la Universitat de Barcelona el 10 d’abril de 2024. Francesca Albanese, Relatora Especial de les Nacions Unides, hi va presentar l’informe Anatomia d’un genocidi sobre la situació dels drets humans en el territori palestí ocupat des de 1967, en què es descriu la política d’extermini que està duent a terme l’Estat d’Israel sobre el poble palestí. El volum inclou també les qüestions plantejades a la taula rodona que va tenir lloc a la Facultat de Geografia i Història, en la qual es va debatre des de diferents disciplines sobre el genocidi i el paper de la universitat. Aquestes pàgines volen obrir un espai de reflexió crítica i de diàleg basat en els drets humans i el dret internacional, per tal que el poble palestí assoleixi una pau justa i duradora
Methods for Analyzing Large Neuroimaging Datasets
No full textThis Open Access volume explores the latest advancements and challenges in standardized methodologies, efficient code management, and scalable data processing of neuroimaging datasets. The chapters in this book are organized in four parts. Part One shows the researcher how to access and download large datasets, and how to compute at scale. Part Two covers best practices for working with large data, including how to build reproducible pipelines and how to use Git. Part Three looks at how to do structural and functional preprocessing data at scale, and Part Four describes various toolboxes for interrogating large neuroimaging datasets, including machine learning and deep learning approaches. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory. Authoritative and comprehensive, Methods for Analyzing Large Neuroimaging Datasets is a valuable resource that will help researchers obtain the practical knowledge necessary for conducting robust and reproducible analyses of large neuroimaging datasets
New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland
No full textWhat are the main similarities between new cohorts of Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland, and what key differences distinguish them? In Scotland, public policy to support and maintain the language has increased substantially in the past 40 years. In addition to Scotland’s 57,602 speakers, however, Gaelic has persisted in Nova Scotia since the 18th century and a third of Nova Scotians are descended from families who spoke the language historically. As a response to policymakers’ language planning priorities in both polities and drawing on three years of ethnographic research in Scotland and Nova Scotia, this book presents a comparative analysis of new speaker motivations, identities and linguistic ideologies. An innovative approach to examining bilingual discourses is employed to demonstrate key distinctions and commonalities among new Gaelic speakers, with a view to informing future policy to generate greater numbers of proficient speakers on both sides of the Atlantic