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This book aims to establish a foundational understanding of the prohibition of self-favouring by digital gatekeepers as stipulated in Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It elineates current concerns while offering guidance for effective compliance. Until now, little attention has been paid to the intricate interrelations among online search engines and other digital services. This book seeks to elucidate this landscape, delineating, in particular the boundaries between online search engines, online intermediation services and online information services that designated gatekeeper need to consider when designing their systems to comply with the DMA. Article 6(5) targets ‘platform envelopment’ strategies that detrimentally impact consumers and businesses. The core concern is the presentation or the direct offering (i.e. embedding) of distinct services on the results pages of an online search engine. Such practices are permissible only if third-party providers of a similar service are afforded an equal opportunity for presentation or offering. Equivalence necessitates that no imbalances in rights or obligations remain and no disproportionate advantage in conferred on the gatekeeper’s embedded first-party service, its online search engine or any other core platform service. This book sets out precise legal guidelines for achieving compliance with these obligations.

Several technological developments like the Internet, mobile devices and Social Networks have spurred the sharing of images in unprecedented volumes, making tagging and commenting a common habit. Despite the recent progress in image analysis, the problem of Semantic Gap still hinders machines in fully understand the rich semantic of a shared photo. In this book, we tackle this problem by exploiting social network contributions. A comprehensive treatise of three linked problems on image annotation is presented, with a novel experimental protocol used to test eleven state-of-the-art methods. Three novel approaches to annotate, under stand the sentiment and predict the popularity of an image are presented. We conclude with the many challenges and opportunities ahead for the multimedia community.

This conference proceedings gathers work and research presented at the International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022 (IASSC2022) held on July 3, 2022, in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Information Management of Universiti Teknologi MARA Kelantan Branch, Malaysia; University of Malaya, Malaysia; Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia; Universitas Ngudi Waluyo, Indonesia; Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges, Philippines; and UCSI University, Malaysia. Featuring experienced keynote speakers from Malaysia, Australia, and England, this proceeding provides an opportunity for researchers, postgraduate students, and industry practitioners to gain knowledge and understanding of advanced topics concerning digital transformations in the perspective of the social sciences and information systems, focusing on issues, challenges, impacts, and theoretical foundations. This conference proceedings will assist in shaping the future of the academy and industry by compiling state-of-the-art works and future trends in the digital transformation of the social sciences and the field of information systems. It is also considered an interactive platform that enables academicians, practitioners and students from various institutions and industries to collaborate.

This edited book presents a comprehensive, research-led coverage of the progressive ways public relations (PR) and social media is utilised today. It offers innovative research approaches to explore PR and social media initiatives, and in so doing, provides guidance on how to direct PR communication across the complex canvas of social media where some of the communication can be highly emotional varying from overt expressions of loyalty to brandjacking. Progressive organisations are carefully engaging with their audiences in multiple social media channels with organisational goals including commercial success, sustainability or employee morale. The analytics offered by social media channels help organisations to learn about their audiences as well as design highly personalised content. This book extends our understanding of the ways PR and social media can be utilised for communication that resonates with target audiences in varying context. Through the academic research presented, readers can also learn innovative ways to investigate and improve their own PR and social media practice. The book’s main themes include the power of engagement, progressive management use of social media channels, business influence, social-influencing for non-profit causes and political impacts of targeted social media communications. Social Media for Progressive Public Relations is for scholars, researchers and students of PR and communications. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Mouvement, bifurcation, révolution, tournant ? Les termes et métaphores par lesquels sont décrites les mutations des pratiques de recherches en sciences humaines et sociales, opérées et nécessitées par l'usage des technologies numériques sont nombreux. L'étude de ces mutations, et des nouvelles pratiques qu'elles entraînent et autorisent, dessine un champ de réflexion, désormais englobé sous le terme d'Humanités digitales, qui a particulièrement stimulé la réflexion des chercheurs ces dernières années en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, mais aussi dans le champ des Humanités et des Arts. L'ouvrage que nous proposons s'inscrit dans la lignée de ces études sur les bouleversements technologiques et leurs implications, dans le domaine scientifique, à la fois sur les communautés épistémiques, mais aussi sur la nature des savoirs, leurs modes d'élaboration, de diffusion et de patrimonialisation, notamment dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales. La plupart des textes qui sont présentés dans cet ouvrage ont fait l'objet d'une communication lors de journées d'étude sur les Humanités digitales, organisés par le laboratoire MICA (Médiations, Information, Communication, Arts EA 4426) de l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne, en collaboration avec sept laboratoires du campus universitaire bordelais, mais aussi de Paris 3 et de l'IRI, le laboratoire de recherche du Centre Pompidou. Ces réflexions poursuivent l'ambition de fournir des matériaux pour la réflexion, dans un domaine qui suscite des interrogations nombreuses et sur lequel l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne poursuit une réflexion active, notamment à travers des journées d'études annuelles depuis 2011.

During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided Australian readers with access to stories from around the world—from Britain, America and Australia, as well as Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and beyond—Australian newspapers represent an important record of the transnational circulation and reception of fiction in this period. Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world’s largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Australia’s Trove database), A World of Fiction reconceptualizes how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in the 19th century. Katherine Bode’s innovative approach to the new digital collections that are transforming research in the humanities are a model of how digital tools can transform how we understand digital collections and interpret literatures in the past.

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit dem tabuierten und zensierten 'obszönen' Wortschatz im Russischen unter sprachwissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten auseinander: 1) die Herkunft der sexuellen/skatologischen Lexeme und Redewendungen: "Etymologie" (Kapitel 2); 2)die Bildungsmechanismen obszönen Vokabulars: "Wortbildung" (Kapitel 3); 3) die Bedeutung nicht wörtlich gebrauchter Lexeme mit sexuell-skatologischer Referenz und die sich darin reflektierende Haltung zur Sexualität: "Semantik" (Kapitel 4); 4) die über die Wiedergabe alltäglicher Signifiés hinausgehenden Funktionen des obszönen Wortschatzes: "Funktionen" (Kapitel 5).

Eigentumsrechte behandelt die Privatrechtswissenschaft in zwei verschiedenen, weitgehend voneinander abgekoppelten Diskursen. Allgemeine Zivilrechts- und Immaterialgüterrechtswissenschaft stehen kaum im Dialog. Die intensiv diskutierten, gut aufbereiteten Voraussetzungen und Grenzen für eine präzise und ausdifferenzierte Zuweisung immaterieller Güter werden für die Reichweite des Sacheigentums nur unzureichend fruchtbar gemacht. Dabei fordert die digitale Gesellschaft Eigentumsrechte insgesamt heraus. Die Grenzen zwischen körperlichen und unkörperlichen Gegenständen zerfließen. Damit stellt sich die grundsätzliche Frage nach der individuellen Zuweisung von (immateriellen) Gütern. Der Band ist das Ergebnis einer intradisziplinären Tagung, bei der die Funktion, Reichweite, strukturelle Ausgestaltung sowie Ausübungsbedingungen von Eigentumsrechten mit einem breiten Publikum grundlegend diskutiert und die getrennt geführten Diskurse im Recht des Geistigen Eigentums und der allgemeinen Zivilrechtswissenschaft zusammengeführt wurden.

Expansion of the phase field crystal model for multi-component mixtures, as ternary dendritic and lamellar eutectic crystallization. Comparison of crystal growth with molecular dynamics and phase field simulations. Parameters and initial data structures are used to simulate, starting from a small atom cluster to a ternary dendrites with side arms. Optimization techniques to reduce the amount of computation are developed.

This book aims to answer a controversial question in our society: how to help the children of gypsy communities to succeed in school? For a long time, the gypsy community has been singled out as being on the margins, difficult to educate because often absent, living in a multilingual environment (a home language different from school) and particularly impoverished. The challenge of working on and with these children who are also students, beyond the possible benefits for their academic success, is to highlight the linguistic and teaching approaches that would allow the school to include all children, whatever their real or imaged specificities might be, in order to teach all groups more effectively, including those who do not have any academic “problem” to start with. This book, intended for researchers and students of language sciences, didactics, education and related disciplines (sociology, anthropology, etc.), is also accessible to teachers regardless of their teaching subject, as well as to families and the general public. From the strict point of view of research, the original nature of the project is to rely on (socio)linguistics, development and didactics – fields rooted in language sciences. Our objective is to approach the phenomenon of academic difficulty through the medium of languages (in the family and at school) and their acquisition, while including the social dimensions and didactic implications of this reflection.

This book presents a compilation of topics related to primary total knee arthroplasty. The chapters cover, in a clear and didactic way, the current themes, written by experts from the area, from different parts of the world. Topics related to the three surgical phases (before surgery, during surgery, and after surgery) are discussed here. This is very important because the surgeon is not a "factory worker." First of all, it is a medicine doctor who has to feel and understand the particularities of each patient. Demographic studies show an aging population. Osteoarthritis and inflammatory diseases are becoming much more prevalent. In addition, a worldwide epidemic of trauma has led to the need for arthroplasties much more frequently. Therefore, total knee arthroplasty will be an increasingly important subject.

The high-temperature deformation behavior of oxide dispersion strengthened steels was investigated and correlated to the resulting microstructure using electron microscopy. Viscoplastic constitutive equations were developed from the results to model the deformation behavior.

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms).

Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) helps acquire socio-emotional skills, enables self-knowledge, as well as the integration of body and mind; there are many benefits that may be gained from practicing it, this is the reason why it was necessary to write about this topic. In this book, a proposal of DMT methodology which may be applied in groups is established, as well as a model of DMT for emotional well-being, which make a socio-emotional education possible, by way of posing the theoretical bases, the methodology used to reach this model, until it is finally captured and explained, being described as an innovative proposal which has a theoretical foundation and many years in practice.

l llibre que el lector té a les mans ha estat considerat una fita de l’etnologia que inaugurà per alguns el gènere —literari i antropològic— de narratives autobiogràfiques dels indis americans. L’etnòleg Paul Radin, amb el seu característic esperit de mostrar-nos la cultura del winnebago “tal com ells i elles eren”, va ser l’artífex d’aquesta fita. Es tracta d’un text extraordinàriament vívid que ens endinsa en el món cultural d’aquest grup ètnic a partir de l’experiència d’un dels seus individus, en un escenari de profunds canvis i transformacions socials. L’objectiu de Radin va ser copsar el món emocional d’un indígena americà des del seu propi punt de vista, intentant eliminar les interferències de l’etnògraf i mantenint el llenguatge col·loquial.