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How can educators, teachers and trainers stay current and address the dynamic opportunities of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship teaching and training? This book offers an overview of the VISION research project, which provides an understanding of the future of education in these areas and describes the approach taken by the VISION team, including the findings of interviews with more than 130 global stakeholders.

Who were the inhabitants of the castle, the main center of power during the Middle-Ages? What um their life style? These are some of the many questions to which this Collective study hopes to reply. Confronted by archaeological and written evidence, unusually treated here as sciences auxiliary to archaeology we are offered here an unusual lieu of a sparsly inhabited castle. This study is centred on the region of the Rhône-Alpes with several incursions for comparison in Alsace, Spain and in Poland, their objective goes far outside the regional limits and should provoke the interest of all archaeologists and medieval historians.

This reprint is about the latest research on Process Systems Engineering (PSE) at the 2024 PSE Asia International Symposium held in Penang, Malaysia, on 5–8 August 2024. The PSE Asia series is a biennial international symposium in Asia, bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in Process Systems Engineering. Process Systems Engineering (PSE) plays a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of industrial systems by employing advanced methodologies to optimize processes. PSE allows for the meticulous design, modelling, and control of complex industrial systems, ensuring that every component operates at peak efficiency. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), these capabilities have been significantly augmented. AI-driven modelling and analysis tools enable more accurate predictions, better decision-making, and seamless integration of various subsystems, leading to improved overall performance. By leveraging AI, PSE can now tackle increasingly complex challenges, making it possible to manage and optimize large-scale industrial operations with unprecedented precision and efficiency.

Durante los últimos veinte años transitamos procesos de investigación e intervención social en los cuales la realidad juvenil y las escuelas públicas de Córdoba nos han convocado, particularmente a reflexionar en orden a problemas, conflictivas y experiencias de participación que plantean convergencias y divergencias respecto de los cruces entre la realidad de los/as jóvenes cordobeses y la vida que transcurre en los espacios educativos. El estudio y la mirada de la condición ciudadana de los/as jóvenes y de sus instancias de participación, especialmente de participación política, nos ha interrogado en diferentes direcciones y momentos, por lo cual buscamos profundizar en aquellos procesos que se instalan en la escuela y que plantean un potencial de acción y entrenamiento respecto de la dimensión política de la ciudadanía de los/as jóvenes estudiantes secundarios

Il volume illustra i risultati di una ricerca nata nell'ambito di uno specifico programma dell'Unione Europea. L'analisi condotta da studiosi italiani, francesi e spagnoli, coordinati dal Centro interuniversitario di Sociologia politica dell'Università di Firenze, ricostruisce i percorsi di formazione delle nuove generazioni all'interno del contesto sociale ed economico dell'Europa del Sud, con particolare riguardo alla condizione degli studenti universitari ed alla disoccupazione giovanile. Il tema è esaminato e discusso anche in relazione ad una più ampia riflessione sociologica sui valori che configurano il futuro della cultura politica nell'Europa contemporanea.

In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse–the “Second City of the Empire”–a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan's photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan's achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer's work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan's career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography–a mechanical practice or an artistic one?–and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further.

This cumulative habilitation thesis, proposes concepts for (i) modelling and analysing dependability based on architectural models of software-intensive systems early in development, (ii) decomposition and composition of modelling languages and analysis techniques to enable more flexibility in evolution, and (iii) bridging the divergent levels of abstraction between data of the operation phase, architectural models and source code of the development phase.

L'essai, au sens étymologique, c'est la pesée, le poids ; au figuré, c'est l'exercice, le prélude, l'échantillon. Partant du mot, que Montaigne introduit dans le domaine littéraire, ces pages envisagent le livre III, d'abord de manière synthétique et globale, en trois sections consacrées à Montaigne, aux Essais et à la « bibliothèque des Essais ». Puis se dévident des « cheminements de chapitres », analysant quelques-unes des plus célèbres sections du livre III, « Du repentir », « Sur des vers de Virgile », « Des coches », « De l'art de conférer », « De la vanité », « Des boiteux », « De la physionomie », « De l'expérience ». L'anthologie critique conduit de Pascal, lecteur assidu, et quand bien même indigné souvent, des Essais, à Stefan Zweig, qui termina ses jours au Brésil en lisant et commentant Montaigne, au début d'une longue guerre dont il ne vit pas la fin.

Responding to the need for a timely and authoritative volume dedicated to this burgeoning and expansive area of research, this handbook will provide readers with a map of themes, topics, and arguments in the field of engineering ethics education (EEE). Featuring critical discussion, research collaboration, and a team of international contributors of globally recognized standing, this volume comprises six key sections which elaborate on the foundations of EEE, teaching methods, accreditation and assessment, and interdisciplinary contributions. Over 100 researchers of EEE from around the globe consider the field from the perspectives of teaching, research, philosophy, and administration. The chapters cover fast-moving topics central to our current understanding of the world such as the general data protection regulation (GDPR), artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, and ChatGPT; and they offer new insights into best practices research to equip program leaders and instructors delivering ethics content to students. This Open Access volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, postgraduate students, and faculty involved with engineering education, engineering ethics, and philosophy of education. Curriculum designers, staff developers teaching pedagogical courses to faculty, and engineering professionals may also benefit from this volume. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Immer mehr Selbständige haben eine Migrationsgeschichte, gleichzeitig sind Migrant*innen in Gremien der berufsständischen Körperschaften unterrepräsentiert. Wie kann die Teilhabe von Migrant*innen in diesen Gremien erhöht werden? Am Beispiel der Situation in Nordrhein-Westfalen identifiziert die Studie anhand von Interviews, Gesetzesanalysen und Literaturrecherchen Maßnahmen, um Hindernisse abzubauen und Partizipation zu fördern.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and festivals are attracting a wide audience. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. At the same time, Jewish life has undergone an impressing transformation in the second half of the 20th century&#8211 from rejection to acceptance, but not without disillusionments and heated debates. And while the ´new Jews of Germany,` 90 percent of them of Eastern European background, are already considered an important factor of the contemporary Jewish diaspora, they still grapple with the shadow of the Holocaust, with internal cultural clashes and with difficulties in shaping a new collective identity. What does it mean to live a Jewish life in present-day Germany? How are Jewish thoughts, feelings, and practices reflected in contemporary arts, literature, and movies? What wi

Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is an adamant 'no'. Why is this issue of Turkish Islam relevant? After all, Turkey should not be judged by standards other than the Copenhagen criteria. The answer is that the public debate outside 'Brussels' will not be limited to these official criteria. Many people in Europe are worried about Turkey's 'Islam factor'. They believe that Muslims are (potentially violent) fundamentalists who want to establish a theocracy. By explicitly examining the role of Turkish Islam and Muslims in Turkey, the WRR wants to contribute to a well-informed European public debate on Turkey's accession. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.