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This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for improving education policies in super-diversified Europe and beyond, where there is an increasing need for cultural understanding and constructive dialogue. The authors utilize concept analysis to reveal how these organizations seek to deal with dialogue between cultures, as well as weight given to cultural differences and intercultural encounters. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of intercultural dialogue and European education policies.

En las últimas dos décadas –y particularmente desde 2007– Uruguay ha sido una suerte de laboratorio de desarrollo digital a partir de la acelerada expansión de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TICs) en todos los ámbitos, destacando principalmente las políticas públicas de inclusión digital. A partir de esto, el país destaca en los diversos indicadores relativos a la transformación digital, algunos de los cuales son objeto de análisis de los artículos que forman parte de esta publicación.Sin embargo, ante la primera fase de deslumbramiento, con las posibilidades que este desarrollo tecnológico de la humanidad brinda, emerge también la necesidad de conocer sus efectos más nocivos. La vinculación con algunos fenómenos como la aparición de nuevas desigualdades, el deterioro de los sistemas democráticos y el cuestionamiento a la política como tal, las dimensiones más perniciosas del desarrollo productivo.

This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites-previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust-make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

L'idée de la conservation des films est contemporaine de la naissance du cinéma, mais les premières cinémathèques apparaissent seulement dans les années 1930. Cette situation est liée au statut même du cinéma qui, avant d'être reconnu comme un art majeur, fut longtemps considéré comme un simple divertissement. L'histoire mouvementée de la Cinémathèque française, créée en 1936, résume les contradictions qui se nouent autour de la préservation des films : lesquels conserver et comment gérer le lien difficile entre des organismes privés et leur indispensable financement public. De l'action précoce et désintéressée de passionnés à la lente prise de conscience de l'État face à la conservation d'un patrimoine national fragile, cet ouvrage permet de mettre en exergue le rôle pionnier de certaines personnalités (Henri Langlois, Georges Franju, Jean Mitry) et débouche sur une question actuelle : la place du cinéma et le rôle des cinémathèques dans un environnement audiovisuel de plus en plus diversifié et concurrentiel.

This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their own knowledge and professional communication skills in English by making extensive use of Internet sites in English, combining traditional in-class learning with in- and out-of-class learning through the Internet (blended learning). Dr. Tarnopolsky offers a thorough analysis of the principal forms of learning activities in English for this approach and suggests five principles underlying its practical implementation.

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recognition; Computer Communication Networks

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What holds Indonesia together? In The Making of Middle Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken develops an innovative historical explanation that looks beyond national elites to middle classes in provincial towns. Readership: The book should be of interest to students of Asian history, in particular those reading about state formation, democratization, political integration and urbanization (political geography, urban anthropology, historical sociology).

Metacognition in Action - Insights into Learning, AI, and Self-Regulation presents a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how reflective thinking influences learning, emotional regulation, and intelligent systems. This edited volume brings together insights from education, psychology, and artificial intelligence to show how metacognitive strategies enhance digital learning environments, foster self-regulation, and support mental well-being. Readers will discover how metacognition operates across diverse contexts, from AI-supported classrooms to therapeutic frameworks, making this book an essential resource for educators, researchers, clinicians, and technologists. With its clear structure and wide-ranging perspectives, the volume highlights the transformative power of metacognitive awareness in navigating complex cognitive tasks, making ethical decisions, and fostering adaptive growth. Whether your interest lies in cognitive frameworks, digital pedagogy, or the intersection of AI and human thought, Metacognition in Action - Insights into Learning, AI, and Self-Regulation provides both practical insights and conceptual clarity for understanding and applying metacognition in the twenty-first century.

This is the reprint of the Topic on “New Research on the Detection and Removal of Emerging Pollutants”. The journals involved in the SI were Materials, Processes, Sustainability, Applied Sciences, and Toxics, contributing 23, 21, 13, 7, and 2 interesting and high-quality papers, respectively, to the broad field of research on emerging pollutants. The removal of emerging pollutants is a challenging topic receiving increasing attention in terms of investigations and the risk concerns perceived by society. In fact, improving the means for both the quantification and removal of toxic substances is clearly relevant in the current situation of environmental stress affecting different environmental compartments. Combining the five journals mentioned above in this one Topic has promoted a wider diffusion of the issue, covering a wide spectrum of researchers and readers. This field needs continuous higher efforts, so it is expected that additional related SIs and Topics will be developed in the future.

Le Temps retrouvé de Marcel Proust, La Marche de Radetzky de Joseph Roth et Le Guépard de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa apparaissent dans ce volume comme les lieux de mémoire d’une histoire européenne récente. Habitées par la nostalgie d’une époque et d’un monde abolis, ces œuvres témoignent pourtant d’une grande lucidité critique vis-à-vis du passé dont elles revisitent les stéréotypes avec ironie. Elles tentent de communiquer au lecteur la mémoire du monde disparu, tout en appelant ce passé à témoigner dans et pour l’époque présente. Cette tension entre mythe et histoire, nostalgie et ironie définit leur tonalité originale, que l’on pourrait qualifier de rêve lucide. Loin de l’esprit de rupture appelé par les avant-gardes, ces romans explorent ainsi les voies d’une modernité singulière qui séduit le lecteur contemporain. Les différentes études de ce volume conjuguent une approche poétique et une approche historique, éclairant le fort ancrage contextuel de ces romans. Elles offrent ainsi des clés indispensables à leur interprétation et à leur comparaison.

"The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor affecting financial markets. It is focused on the impact of ICT on stock markets, bond markets, and other categories of financial markets, with the additional focus on the linked FinTech services and financial institutions. Financial markets shaped by the adoption of the new technologies are labelled ‘digital financial markets’. With a wide-ranging perspective at both the local and global levels from countries at varying degrees of economic development, this book addresses an important gap in the extant literature concerning the role of ICT on the financial markets. The consequences of these processes had until now rarely been considered in a broader economic and social context, particularly when the impact of FinTech services on financial markets is taken into account. The book’s theoretical discussions, empirical evidence and compilation of different views and perspectives make it a valuable and complex reference work. Information Classification: General The principal audience of the book will be scholars in the fields of finance and economics. The book also targets professionals in the financial industry who are directly or indirectly linked to the new technologies on the financial markets, in particular various types of FinTech services."

Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of the European Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal challenge in the EU Member States and the measures implemented by unions in their attempts to adapt to changed circumstances since 2000. It is clear that union activity, either independently or in conjunction with allies, will be at the centre of revitalization campaigns if the pieces left from the neoliberal challenges are to be picked up and wielded into a coherent response. This book offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the development, structure, and policies of national trade union movements in the EU. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses from 2000 to 2020.

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This book focuses on conservation genetic (and genomic) papers that demonstrate applied outcomes that inform practical threatened species management. We cover a broad range of species and genetic approaches, but focus on how conservation genetic information is used to underpin management actions for species recovery. Through the exposition of a diversity of approaches, we aim to demonstrate to conservation managers and researchers how conservation genetics can inform on-ground species management.