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Wie gehen Verwaltungsbehörden mit den oftmals komplexen und eigensinnigen Geschichten von Flucht und Asyl um, wie wird daraus ein "Fall" und wie entsteht eine Entscheidung? Im Kontext europäischer Koordinierungsversuche sind solche Fragen nicht nur von wissenschaftlicher, sondern auch von gesellschaftlicher und politischer Relevanz. Dieser Band trägt zu einem besseren Verständnis der Strukturen und Veränderungen lokaler Verwaltungspraxis in einem hoch brisanten, umkämpften und folgenreichen Handlungsbereich bei. Er versammelt Beiträge, die sich aus soziologischer, sozialanthropologischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit behördlichem Handeln an unterschiedlichen Orten Europas befassen.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has propelled significant advancements in clinical medical imaging, offering unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in diagnostic procedures and treatment strategies. This transformative shift has permeated every sector of medical imaging, from traditional organ diagnostics to the dynamic realms of digital pathology and dermatology, where AI acts as a catalyst for innovation and progress. Now, consolidated into a reprint, the Special Issue titled "Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medical Imaging" comprises 14 comprehensive contributions, ranging from insightful editorials to cutting-edge scientific articles, reviews, and commentaries.

This open access book reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning outside the classroom contributes to unlocking the full potential of learners, demonstrating its benefits for academic learning, social competencies, personal and emotional development, psychological well-being, and physical activity and health. In addition, the book highlights how outdoor learning nurtures environmental awareness and helps learners to tackle current sustainability challenges. Its focus on high-quality learning makes it a unique contribution to the implementation of SDG 4. Aimed at lecturers at teacher training universities, teachers, professional educators, coaches, and multipliers who train staff of educational NGOs, as well as decision makers on all levels of education systems, this book is of interest to all those who seek a more in-depth understanding of the future of education.

Magris appears so often in the Spanish national press as to make it nearly impossible to be exhaustive. It is very difficult and complicated to talk about Claudio Magris’ presence in Spain and the presence of Spain in his journalistic articles within a limited space. Therefore, the current essay focuses on some of his most important contributions, starting with his first interventions and relationships with the main newspapers, magazines and writers, as well as the editions of volumes in Castilian and Catalan, and the awards he has won. Magris is a fundamental point of reference for the intellectual world in Spain, where he is never perceived as a foreigner, let alone a stranger.

In recent years, the topic of "academic success" has gained enormous importance in both higher education policy and the sciences. The 4th volume of the series 'University Sports: Education and Science' takes up this development from a sports science perspective and examines possible connections between sporting activity and academic success with an interdisciplinary focus. In order to record and expand the scientific knowledge on the relevance of sporting activity in the university setting, scientists from various disciplines present their thoughts, observations and findings on the topic. Based on a broad understanding of the concept of academic success, the significance of sporting activity is analyzed in terms of institutional criteria (e.g. final grade, length of study or dropout) as well as individual factors (e.g. study satisfaction, health skills, social skills, psychosocial health).

Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many Native Americans. During a ten-year period, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. interviewed hundreds of Indians about their past and their needs and aspirations for the future. This history is essentially their success story.In search of new opportunities, a growing number of rural Indians journeyed to Detroit after World War II. Destitute reservations had sapped their physical and cultural strength; paternalistic bureaucrats undermined their self-respect and confidence; and despairing tribal members too often sound solace in mind-numbing alcohol. Cut off from the Bureau of Indian Affairs services, many newcomers had difficulty establishing themselves successfully in the city and experienced feelings of insecurity and powerlessness. By 1970, they were one of the Motor City's most "invisible" minority groups, so mobile and dispersed throughout the metropolitan area that not even the Indian organizations knew where they all lived.To grasp the nature of their remarkable regeneration, this inspiring volume examines the historic challenges that Native American migrants to Detroit faced - adjusting to urban life, finding a good job and a decent place to live, securing quality medical care, educating their children, and maintaining their unique cultural heritage. Danziger scrutinizes the leadership that emerged within the Indian community and the formal native organizations through which the Indian community's wide-ranging needs have been met. He also highlights the significant progress enjoyed by Detroit Indians - improved housing, higher educational achievement, less unemployment, and greater average family incomes - that has resulted from their persistence and self-determination.Historically, the Motor City has provided an environment where lives could be refashioned amid abundant opportunities. Indians have not been totally assimilated, nor have they forsaken Detroit en masse for their former homelands. Instead, they have forged vibrant lives for themselves as Indian-Detroiters. They are not as numerous or politically powerful as their black neighbors, but the story of these native peoples leaves no doubt about their importance to Detroit and of the city's effect on them.

Settings, such as patient-centered medical homes, can serve as ideal places to promote interprofessional collaboration among healthcare providers (Fjortoft et al., 2016). Furthermore, work together by teams of interprofessional healthcare students (Van Winkle, 2015) and even practitioners (Stringer et al., 2013) can help to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. This result occurs, in part, by mitigating negative biases toward other healthcare professions (Stringer et al., 2013; Van Winkle 2016). Such changes undoubtedly require increased empathy for other professions and patients themselves (Tamayo et al., 2016). Nevertheless, there is still much work to be done to foster efforts to promote interprofessional collaboration (Wang and Zorek, 2016). This work should begin with undergraduate education and continue throughout the careers of all healthcare professionals.

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Legal aspects of banking regulation: Common law perspectives from Zambia by Kenneth K Mwenda 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9814420-7-5 Pages: 330 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available

The entry into the third decade of the 21st century was marked by an unprecedented social and economic situation. The Covid-19 pandemic is perhaps one of the most notable events of the decade so far. However, in the midst of the new normal left by the health emergency, human questioning of the process of transforming their environment intensified. Understanding how geographical boundaries blur in everyday life, with the advent of digital transformation, has involved questioning the scope of categories such as space, place, and territory. So, under what category should we embrace the new dynamics of interaction woven with digital technology in the different spaces of life? How to address the ways in which our cultural construction is being shaped by these new dynamics? "Artifacts in Dialog: Places, Moments, Creation, and Transformation" precisely brings to the reader a collection of artifacts to address these questions. Guided by the notion of "place," this work compiles the results of a series of territorial dialogs carried out in the departments of Boyacá and Santander. Among the constructed artifacts, videos, multimedia installations, podcasts, digital illustrations, sound compositions, and stage performances stand out. Likewise, devices such as sculptures, collages, musical compositions, artistic interventions, printed publications, and creations using familiar techniques like crochet, capture popular dialogs from our territories.

Avaldsnes on Karmøy in Rogaland, which according to Snorre was King Harald Fairhair's royal estate, has been the center of a major research effort since 2007. Extensive excavations have, among other things, uncovered the remains of a lordly settlement from the AD 200s–400s and the ruins of a royal masonry complex from around AD 1300. Important insights have been gained about the place, the region, and the history of the Norwegian kingdom, and the results are also of significance for international scholarly debates. The papers in this book are based on lectures from the Karmøy Seminar 2022, and have a joint spotlight on the nature of lordship and kingship. The themes range from tribal societies in Roman times via the first kings of the Viking Age to the Norwegian kingdom's collapse at Håkon 6. Magnusson's death in 1380. Prominent professionals from Norway, Sweden and England discuss, among other things, the migrations of Ryger, Goths, and other tribes in the continent in the first centuries AD, the queens and queen mothers of the Viking Age, Harald Fairhair's overseas contacts, and the Norwegian kingship's roots in Nordvegen, the sailing route along the western coast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The papers are written to be readable by scholars as well as the interested public.

Cet ouvrage étudie les conditions d’émergence historiques et discursives du « droit de (la) traduction » et du droit qui l’administre : le droit d’auteur. Privilégiant une approche essentiellement archéologique, l’auteur montre comment la conception classique de la traduction a joué un rôle sensible dans la formation du discours juridique qui a contribué à l’avènement de l’auteur et de son droit tels que conçus aujourd’hui. L’auteur examine les implications culturelles, politiques et éthiques du droit de traduire, surtout pour les pays en développement, engageant par là une perspective postcoloniale. Soucieuse d’une meilleure diffusion du patrimoine culturel mondial, la politique du droit de traduire qu’il propose n’interroge pas seulement le droit d’auteur comme catalyseur de la marchandisation de la production intellectuelle, mais également le droit international comme instrument de l’impérialisme culturel de la mondialisation. Conçu désormais hors du champ juridique traditionnel mais plutôt dans celui d’une résistance politique, l’auteur démontre comment le droit de traduction devient alors un « droit à la traduction ».

Dans cet ouvrage, les principaux philosophes et historiens de la philosophie des États-Unis, spécialistes de Spinoza, présentent leurs interprétations et dialoguent avec leurs homologues français. C’est la première fois qu’une discussion systématique entre ces deux traditions a lieu. Elle fait suite au dialogue engagé entre Italiens et Français dans le volume Spinoza transalpin (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2014). Si la philosophie ignore les nationalismes, elle n’ignore pas les langues. Ainsi se créent dans chaque pays des traditions d’interprétation : elles partagent des références communes, lisent les auteurs selon des problématiques liées à leur histoire et s’expriment dans des styles spécifiques, propres à leur formation et à leurs institutions. Loin de gêner le débat, ces différences rendent au contraire nécessaires les confrontations. Cette rencontre révèle que les philosophes américains prennent en compte les analyses de Gueroult, Matheron, Althusser ou Deleuze pour les prolonger, les contester ou les mesurer à leurs propres recherches. Elle témoigne surtout d’une évolution du commentaire. Il fut un temps où la lecture américaine se concentrait sur la logique et la métaphysique, alors que les questions d’éthique et de politique ainsi que les discussions sur la religion semblaient un domaine réservé à la recherche française. Il apparaît maintenant que ces frontières se dissolvent et que durant ces dernières années, les thématiques de la communauté, de la superstition, de l’objectivité du bien et du mal, de la générosité se développent outre-Atlantique dans de nouvelles perspectives.

In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this edited volume explores the changing landscape of International Student Education in Japanese universities and the impact on global student mobility. Through analysing a wide range of data, the book engages historical, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical contexts relating to higher education in Japan. With a particular focus on Japanese tertiary education, the chapters provide comprehensive analysis from surveys and interviews conducted since 2020 amongst Japanese and non-Japanese Higher Education institutions (HEIs) on leadership styles, decision-making behaviours and perspectives on higher education practices in Japan. The authors also examine the challenges and impact on student mobility and international student education, and present future directions for the internationalisation of higher education in post-pandemic Japan. This book will appeal to researchers, educators and anyone with an interest in higher education development, international student mobility and language learning. Chapters 5 and 9 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. The publication of these chapters as an open-access work was generously supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) [Grant Number JP20KK0052].

This book is intended for broad readership. Given the dearth of comprehensive appraisals of the Canadian Benchmark system, it is meant as a basic academic reference for discussion, in the Canadian context, of language policy, linguistic integration of adult migrants, second language teacher education, and taskbased language learning. It is relevant to Canadian researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, policy-makers, and various second language training stakeholders (administrators, instructors, assessors, curriculum and teaching material designers, and others). Finally, the book is of relevance internationally as well, in an ongoing reflection in the community of researchers and political decision-makers concerned with similar products abroad, such as the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and the ACTFL guidelines.