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This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book highlights the connections between anti-corruption reforms and the rapid implementation of innovative solutions, primarily developed by tech-savvy public officials and citizens committed to anti-corruption efforts. The book draws on interviews with experts, activists and civil servants, as well as open-source materials and social media data to identify key actors, their practices, challenges and limitations of anti-corruption technologies. The result is a thorough analysis of the process of digitalisation of anti-corruption in Brazil, with a theoretical framework which can also be applied to other countries. The book introduces the concept of “integrity techies” to encompass social and political actors who develop and facilitate anti-corruption technologies, and discusses different outcomes and issues associated with digital innovation in anti-corruption. This book will be a key resource for students, researchers and practitioners interested in technologies and development in Brazil and Latin America, as well as corruption and anti-corruption studies more broadly.

Pays de plus de 90 millions d’habitants, le Viêt Nam connaît depuis quelques décennies une évolution considérable. Cet ouvrage en explore les enjeux les plus marquants. Les défis à relever sont nombreux. Malgré une population encore jeune, ce pays connaît désormais un vieillissement rapide. Or, les formes de sociabilité et de solidarité changent, comme le montre la lutte contre l’épidémie VIH/sida. Le déséquilibre des sexes à la naissance continue de se creuser au détriment de la population ...

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The management of the built environment is a topic that requires reference to the management of complex systems. In fact, the variety of domains involved means that the management of urban centers is not only complicated, and therefore it is not enough to model a set of rules that are representative of phenomena related to the real environment. Not only that, but what is evident is that emergency management lacks the ability to access real-time information that could be decisive. Having tools that provide real-time data, that reprocess it, and that are able to provide an enriched and slightly predictive view of what is happening offers the possibility of having a real impact in the management of the built environment. In this sense, digital twins are a valuable approach to achieving the desired results. Digital twins through the integration of technologies such as lnternet of Things (IoT), simulators, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies make it possible to develop systems capable of exploiting the concept of collective intelligence, in a digital version, through a large number of heterogeneous agents working according to stigmergic mechanisms. This research work aims to propose its own architecture of digital twins for the management of resilient urban centers, with particular reference to the management of post-earthquake reconstruction scenarios

There are different ways of translating popular songs or pop music. They can be translated for a volume that collects lyrics only to be read, to understand the meaning of the song’s message. If the song must be translated to be sung, for the performance, and you do not want to change the music, the only way to go is that of adaptation, in the appropriate choice of rhyming words that must adapt to the musical, mask (Low 2008). Our thesis, supported by three original case studies whose results we will study in the transition from a foreign language to Italian, is that this adaptation can coincide with what is now called transcreation.

Based on a qualitative study into the experiences of readers when they were children, this is an innovative exploration of the effect of place and social geographies on reading development and textual interpretation.

The book Separation, divorce and family relationships. A multidisciplinary analysis is the result of a collective work of academics and professionals, in which the processes of separation and divorce are addressed from a legal, sociocultural and psychosocial perspective, offering an interdisciplinary analysis of said process, its causes and the effects that They can manifest in family members, both in adult ex-spouses and in sons and daughters.

Gebärdensprache ist sichtbar. Die Anwesenheit von Gebärdensprachdolmetscher*innen im öffentlichen Raum ist vertraut. Doch nicht nur für Gehörlose ist Gebärdensprache wichtig. Gebärdensprachkurse und -studiengänge sind bei Hörenden beliebt und zeugen von einer wachsenden Neugierde an dieser besonderen Sprache. Tomas Vollhaber bewegt sich auf einem Grat zwischen der Forderung nach Anerkennung der Interessen Gehörloser und der Entdeckung der Gebärdensprache durch Hörende. Mit seinen Essays wendet er sich an Menschen aus dem Bereich der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, der Deaf Studies und Disability Studies und an jene, die mehr vom Körper und seinen Sprachen erfahren wollen.

Aujourd’hui, y compris pour les croyants, la mystique chrétienne a rejoint les parages de la Fable. Ce livre retrace par quelle lente métamorphose, quel drame interne, la foi chrétienne a pu être vidée de sa mystique. Il montre que l’idéologie théologique depuis les derniers siècles du Moyen Age a marginalisé la Sagesse de la Croix du Christ, préparé sa dissolution à la fin du XVIIème dans le quiétisme, facilité son aliénation rationaliste puis sa subversion finale par l’idéologie athée et le scientisme. Dans le sillage des Maritain, Congar, Chenu, Gilson, de Lubac, l’auteur entend montrer que la division actuelle du monde, perceptible au plan des idéologies, est en réalité théologique. En mettant à jour le rigoureux parallélisme entre les phases du déclin de la spiritualité mystique et les étapes du déploiement des idéologies, il propose non seulement des vues complètement nouvelles sur saint Thomas, Luther, saint Ignace, saint Jean de la Croix, sainte Thérèse, mais innove encore par rapport à ce qui a été écrit sur l’affrontement de Pascal avec Descartes, sur la religion de Kant, sur le socialisme scientifique de Marx et sur l’héritage de l’idéologie -surtout hégélienne- dans la pensée actuelle. Il suggère tout au long en filigrane, puis plaide ouvertement en conclusion la renaissance d’une religion plus conforme aux ressources humaines et divines de l’Evangile et de l’Esprit. Ce livre constitue l’aboutissement des recherches de l’auteur (1915-2000) sur l’histoire de la pensée théologique occidentale et ses rapports avec la philosophie. Il a été rédigé entre 1980 et 1990.

This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials.

Ce volume propose une initiation à la lecture et à la compréhension des documents du xvie siècle et du xviie siècle. Il comprend un cours et un recueil de documents pour les exercices. Le cours aborde de façon pédagogique des aspects très concrets : l’écriture, les alphabets, les lettres, la langue française et les langues provinciales, le latin, le vocabulaire, les chiffres, les abréviations et les règles de transcription. De nombreux documents, volontairement assez courts, permettent ensuite de s’entraîner.

The book edition of the Universe Special Issue “Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram” is devoted to the overarching aspects shared between heavy-ion collisions and compact star astrophysics in investigating the hadron-to-quark matter phase transition in the equation of state of strongly interacting matter in different regions of the phase diagram of QCD. It comprises 22 review and research articles that, together, will serve as a useful guide in educating both young and senior scientists in this emerging field that represents an intersection of the communities of strongly interacting matter theory, heavy-ion collision physics and compact star astrophysics.

2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers for their Annual Best Book Prize Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet—most uniquely, romanticism—Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces—with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.

This open access book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable challenge for the production and service sectors. While digitization initiatives are usually integrated into the central corporate strategy of larger companies, smaller firms often have problems putting Industry 4.0 paradigms into practice. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) possess neither the human nor financial resources to systematically investigate the potential and risks of introducing Industry 4.0. Addressing this obstacle, the international team of authors focuses on the development of smart manufacturing concepts, logistics solutions and managerial models specifically for SMEs. Aiming to provide methodological frameworks and pilot solutions for SMEs during their digital transformation, this innovative and timely book will be of great use to scholars researching technology management, digitization and small business, as well as practitioners within manufacturing companies.

Comment bien récupérer au moyen de l'alimentation ? Comment se nourrir lors d'un voyage à l'étranger ou lors des stages en altitude ? Que faire pour préserver son capital osseux ? De quelle manière concilier ramadan et entraînement ? Comment perdre du poids intelligemment ? Quels sucres ? Quelles protéines ? En matière de nutrition, les questions que se posent les sportifs et leurs entraîneurs sont nombreuses, et toutes méritent des réponses claires ! Telle est l'ambition première de cet ouvrage qui a réuni les plus grands spécialistes mondiaux de la nutrition sportive afin d'apporter les éclairages tant attendus... En effet, à l'heure d'une compétition plus serrée que jamais, l'empirisme ne suffit plus : la victoire, qui se joue souvent sur d'infimes subtilités, requiert des choix rationnels, notamment alimentaires. Et si la réussite sportive est un objectif légitime, ce dernier ne doit pas être poursuivi aux dépens du capital santé : trop souvent encore les athlètes mettent celle-ci en danger. Telle est donc la seconde ambition de ce livre : apprendre à concilier performance et respect de son corps...