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In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht die Autorin die Fortentwicklung des Datenschutzrechts zu einem Datenhandelsrecht. Sie stellt dar, wie Personendaten bereits heute gehandelt werden können und wo sich Problemfelder insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund von Big Data ergeben. Außerdem veranschaulicht sie bestehende Reformvorschläge, wie z. B. die Einführung eines sogenannten „Dateneigentums“, und misst dies an einer vertieften Analyse des Interessendreiecks beim Datenhandel. Aus der Einordnung in eine Gesamtanalyse lassen sich wichtige Handlungsempfehlungen ableiten.

This publication belongs to the series coordinated by Jesús Rivas and Ignacio José García Zapata, from the Department of Art History at the University of Murcia, founded in 2001 and published annually, coinciding with the feast of San Eloy, patron saint of silversmiths, an annual volume with works related to silverwork and jewelry by the most accredited Spanish and foreign researchers in this field. The topics range from religious silverwork to civil silverwork, its masters, marking as well as the typologies and techniques specific to silverwork and jewelry.

In a time when Mormons appear to have larger roles in everything from political conflict to television shows and when Mormon-related topics seem to show up more frequently in the news, eight scholars take a close look at Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books.Some authors examine specific works, including the Tony-winning play Angels in America, the hit TV series Big Love, and the bestselling books Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. Others consider the phenomena of Mormon cinema and Mormon fiction; the use of the Mormon missionary as a stock character in films; and the noticeably prominent presence of Mormons in reality television shows.

La publicación de este volumen se inscribe en el estudio de las dinámicas portuarias atlánticas, bajo el foco de la larga duración, llevado a cabo por la red de investigación nacida en 2012 «La Gobernanza de los Puertos Atlánticos (siglos xiv-xxi)». Su contenido gira en torno a la temática de las políticas y estructuras portuarias y, en particular, al análisis sistemático de cuestiones estructurales sobre el gobierno de los puertos atlánticos. Las materias objeto de atención van desde el estatus jurídico de los puertos atlánticos, las políticas portuarias, las obras públicas, las instalaciones portuarias, a la gestión o las políticas económicas, todas ellas convertidas en elementos determinantes para la gobernanza de los puertos. Partiendo de una investigación plural, comparativa y cronológicamente transversal, se propone profundizar en un debate sobre cuestiones fundamentales que afectan a las políticas y estructuras portuarias, con particular incidencia sobre la articulación de los puertos atlánticos de la fachada europea, los puertos africanos y los de América Latina.

Diasporas can undermine authoritarian regimes from abroad, but when and how do they become transnational forces for change? By comparing diaspora activism for the Arab Spring revolutions, this book identifies the social forces that make diaspora activism a powerful tool for rebellion and relief.

This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three levels are closely inter-connected and action is therefore needed to conserve and protect the systems if the benefits provided to human life will continue to be available. However, conservation of the biological diversity is essentially an umbrella term for traditional species, relationship to human health, ecosystem conservation and the need to manage the human use of the species and ecosystems in a sustainable way.

This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, and on Kempe's own social and cultural contexts, in order to shape a unique type of life-writing. Attention is paid to the multi-modal sensory quality of Kempe's visionary experience, and to the privileging of voice across the book. Topics addressed include the ways in which affective and cognitive combine in Kempe's experience, the difficulty of placing inner experience, the paradoxes inherent in attempting to express the ineffable, and the radical quality of her attempt to write an inner life.

Ontology is a formal characteristic and an entity of perception and concept. The characteristic of an ontology is the formal description of a set of terms and the relationships between them, which is obtained with a special language and in a file that can be understood by computers. Ontologies could be employed in several domains, such as global semantic networks, search engines, electronic commerce, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, information extraction and retrieval, multi-agent systems, qualitative modeling of physical systems, database design, information systems, and geographic and digital libraries. This book presents the latest advances and new visions in the field of ontology in information science.

Les Touaregs Kel Ferwan nomadisent aux portes de la vieille ville d'Agadez, déplaçant leurs lourdes tentes en nattes de doum. La tente kel ferwan, avec sa base circulaire analogue au cercle de la terre, sa forme sphérique évoquant la voûte céleste, et ses quatre piquets d'angles semblables aux quatre piliers qui, dit-on, soutiennent le ciel aux quatre coins du monde, est censée être une réplique du cosmos. Dieu en donna autrefois le plan aux Touaregs et, depuis, ces tentes toujours reconstruites selon ce modèle immuable et céleste sont transmises de mère en fille. La tente en effet appartient à l'épouse, alors que l'époux, même s'il en est le « maître », n'y est qu'un hôte. Dès qu'il commence à devenir un homme, l'adolescent déserte la tente de sa mère et mène une vie incertaine durant laquelle il partage de précaires abris de nattes avec des compagnons d'âge. Il ne réintègre une tente que lorsqu'il se marie, et un divorce ou le veuvage peut toujours le ramener à la condition précaire de l'adolescent. Cependant, les tentes appartenant à des femmes, et auxquelles toute une symbolique attribue un caractère féminin, se regroupent autour d'hommes puisque chaque campement rassemble un homme, ses fils, son épouse et ses brus. Dans le paradoxe constitué par ces campements d'hommes vivant dans des tentes appartenant à des femmes s'inscrit l'essentiel de la vie sociale touarègue, dont ce livre décrit le déroulement rythmique.

The prevalence of smart devices and cloud computing has led to an explosion in the amount of data generated by IoT devices. Moreover, emerging IoT applications, such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), intelligent transportation systems, and smart factories require ultra-low latency for data communication and processing. Fog/edge computing is a new computing paradigm where fully distributed fog/edge nodes located nearby end devices provide computing resources. By analyzing, filtering, and processing at local fog/edge resources instead of transferring tremendous data to the centralized cloud servers, fog/edge computing can reduce the processing delay and network traffic significantly. With these advantages, fog/edge computing is expected to be one of the key enabling technologies for building the IoT infrastructure. Aiming to explore the recent research and development on fog/edge computing technologies for building an IoT infrastructure, this book collected 10 articles. The selected articles cover diverse topics such as resource management, service provisioning, task offloading and scheduling, container orchestration, and security on edge/fog computing infrastructure, which can help to grasp recent trends, as well as state-of-the-art algorithms of fog/edge computing technologies.

Los textos aquí publicados apoyaron las discusiones del seminario La defensa del territorio, la cultura y la vida de las comunidades campesinas e indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe ante el avance del capital extractivista, realizado del 12 al 16 de septiembre de 2019, en Asunción y que congregó a líderes de movimientos sociales campesinos e indígenas, organizaciones urbanas que luchan por el derecho a la tierra y a la ciudad, académicos de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, México y Paraguay. La actividad pública se construyó en el marco de la XIX Reunión Anual del GT CLACSO Estudios Críticos del Desarrollo Rural, resultado de una alianza con la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FACSO) de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), a través de su Dirección de Extensión Universitaria (DEU) y el Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios de Paraguay (CERI).

There are many different types of cancer. Some are very common; others are rare. Having some similar features, each cancer has its own characteristics and symptoms, which vary according to the type of cancer and where it is in the body. The treatment selected may be influenced by the patient's age, concurrent health problems, life expectancy, characteristics of the individual's cancer, the patient's goals of treatment, and the bias of the treating physician. In preparing this book, we have considered and reflected on the concept of the recent advances in cancer management and therapy as well as molecular applications in cancer therapy. The readers can find detailed information about the treatment and management of specific cancers in these book chapters.

The book contains a presentation of ministerial curricula for ethical education subjects in France, Spain and Portugal. Ethical education in these countries is carried out in the form of citizenship education. The common denominator of the curricula for the subjects presented in the book is the belief that the very institution of citizenship and the idea of human rights expressed in subsequent declarations from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Citizen is a source of ethical values that are worth promoting in school education. The book composes of three chapters. In each chapter there is a brief outline of the history of debates held in the public sphere, which accompanied the introduction of subsequent forms of ethical education in selected countries. In the second part of each chapter, there are translations of the core curriculum documents for subjects in the field of ethics and citizenship education in France, Spain and Portugal respectively.

If we were to rely on what the pundits and politicians tell us, we would have to conclude that America is a deeply conservative nation. Americans, we hear constantly, detest government, demand lower taxes and the end of welfare, and favor the death penalty, prayer in school, and an absolute faith in the free market. And yet Americans believe deeply in progressive ideas. In fact, progressivism has long been a powerful force in the American psyche. Consider that a mere generation ago the struggle for environmentally sound policies, for women's rights, and for racial equality were fringe movements. Today, open opposition to these core ideals would be political suicide. Drawing on this wellspring of American progressivist tradition, John K. Wilson has penned an informal handbook for the pragmatic progressive. Wilson insists that the left must become more savvy in its rhetoric and stop preaching only to the converted. Progressives need to attack the tangible realities of the corporate welfare state, while explicitly acknowledging that "socialism is," as Wilson writes, "deader than Lenin." Rather than attacking a "right-wing conspiracy," Wilson argues that the left needs one, too. Tracing how well-funded conservative pressure groups have wielded their influence and transformed the national agenda, Wilson outlines a similar approach for the left. Along the way, he exposes the faultlines of our poll- and money-driven form of politics, explodes the myth of "the liberal media," and demands that the left explicitly change its image. Irreverent, practical, and urgently argued, How The Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People charts a way to translate progressive ideals into reality and reassert the core principles of the American left on the national stage.