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"In this book, Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed-and changed us-during the pandemic. The unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic, she argues, forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes to work and think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. It also led us as workers to exercise our freedom in ways that were previously unimaginable, as we rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do. Based on over 200 interviews, Gershon's book reveals how negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made workplaces into a laboratory for democratic living-the key places where most Americans are learning effective political strategies and how to think about the common good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern others) at work, this provocative book shows how the workplace can teach us to be democratic citizens"--

"This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy. Materials and processing methods are usually chosen with performance as the key metric. Why has our society embraced plastics? Because they work. In most cases, they are lighter, easier to manufacture, and less expensive than the metal, wood, glass, or stone they have replaced. Why do industrial manufacturers use toxic chemicals? Because they are effective, but the unintended consequences may be severe. By learning how various materials are made and what happens when they are recycled, readers will better understand the value of materials and the challenges that manufacturers face when trying to make their facilities and products less toxic and less wasteful. The three chapters in Part I provide essential background about materials in the circular economy, chemicals, and waste. Part II delves into specific materials. It includes chapters on plastics, metals, wood and paper products, glass, and novel materials. Part III covers recycling and manufacturing processes, and Part IV delves into practical considerations, including the effect of regulations, concluding with a chapter that helps readers translate the information presented into action. Interviews with industry experts round out the chapters and offer valuable insights. Materials and Sustainability is a must-read for business professionals who are serious about making their companies as environmentally responsible as possible and for business and engineering students who want to begin their careers with practical knowledge about materials and their impacts"--

Anomaly detection on blockchain -- Blockchain Scam Detection: State-of-the-art, Challenges, and Future Directions -- ScamRadar: Identifying Blockchain Scams When They are Promoting -- Based on Financial Characteristics to Capture the Source of Funds of the Ponzi Scheme on Ethereum with Graph Traversal Technology -- Based on Financial Characteristics to Capture the Source of Funds of the Ponzi Scheme on Ethereum with Graph Traversal Technology -- Edge Intelligence and Metaverse Services -- Dynamic Computation Offloading Leveraging Horizontal Task Offloading and Service Migration in Edge Networks -- Blockchain-Assisted Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Cloud-Edge Collaboration -- Towards Efficient and Privacy-preserving Hierarchical Federated Learning for Distributed Edge Network -- Blockchain System Security -- Securing Blockchain Using Propagation Chain Learning -- Privacy Protection Multi-copy Provable Data Possession supporting Data Reliability -- Research On Comprehensive Blockchain Regulation And Antifraud System -- Analysis of Peeling Chain Model in Bitcoin Mixing Service -- A Blockchain-based On-chain and Off-chain Dual-trusted Carbon Emission Trading System with Reputation Mechanism -- Empirical Study and Surveys -- Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Methods: A Survey -- Who Needs the Most Research Effort? Investigating the Importance of Smart Contract Weaknesses -- A Survey on Blockchain Abnormal Transaction Detection -- A Systematic Literature Review on Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection by Symbolic Execution -- Sharding Technologies in Blockchain: Basics, State of the Art, and Challenges -- Federated Learning for Blockchain -- A Blockchain-enabled Decentralized Federated Learning System with Transparent and Open Incentive and Audit Contracts -- Blockchain-based Federated Learning for IoT Sharing: Incentive Scheme with Reputation Mechanism -- An Optimized Scheme of Federated Learning Based on Differential Privacy.

"Aimed at students, instructors and general readers interested in the experiences of enslaved persons in ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. Provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and thematically and accompanied by contextualising introductions"--

"This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system. It draws upon a diversity of megaregional cases: city clusters of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River delta region, and Greater Bay Area; and metropolitan circles of Chengdu, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou. Megaregions are the new form of Chinese-style urbanisation. China's new discourse of 'high-quality development' and 'new-type urbanisation' is reshaping its megaregional strategy. Imbalance and fragmentation characterise the diversity of megaregions-developed or developing, coastal or inland. The central goal of megaregional planning and governance is to achieve integrated, balanced development of them. Hu challenges the official notion of 'top-level design' that dominates the planning, governance, and development of China's megaregions. Instead, he argues for the importance of engaging nongovernmental stakeholders, rebalancing the government-market relationality, encouraging bottom-up initiatives, and enabling grassroots ingenuity. The volume offers the first and most comprehensive study of megaregional China in the new contexts of both national development and urban development. It will be of interest to anyone looking into urban and regional development, and Chinese studies"--

Regional Development is a Major Socio-Economic Issue in the Contemporary World -- Progress of Foreign Research on Regional Development -- Progress of Research on Regional Exploitation and Regional Development in China -- Industrial Structure and Regional Development -- Resources, Environment and Regional Development -- Spatial Structure and Regional Development -- Location Differential Rent and Spatial Structure of Urban Land Utilization -- Point-axis Progressive Diffusion and Point-axis Spatial Structure System -- Technological Innovation and Spatial Structure.

Kultur von allen für alle mit allen? Eine Einleitung,- Ein neues Forschungsfeld? Zum Stand der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des Politikfelds Kultur und von Immateriellem Kulturerbe in Deutschland -- Kulturpolitik und ihre Spezifika in Deutschland -- Immaterielles Kulturerbe. Vom Konzept zur Konvention -- Konzepte und Methoden einer empirischen Untersuchung von kulturpolitischen Instrumenten zur Umsetzung der UNESCO-Konvention von 2003 -- Wissen. Können. Weitergeben. – Zur Umsetzung der UNESCO-Konvention in Deutschland -- Evaluierung der kulturpolitischen Maßnahmen: Ergebnisse aus der bisherigen Praxis und Erkenntnisse für eine künftige Politik zum Immateriellen Kulturerbe.

Welche Transformation -- Transformation als Fortschritt -- Transformation als Systemkrise -- Kulturpolitik der Krise -- Transformation als Systemwende -- Transformation als Kulturwandel -- Kulturpolitik der Transformation -- Jedes Ende ist ein neuer Anfang.

Der Wandel der Familie als Herausforderung. Zur Einleitung -- Geschichte der Familie – mit einem Fokus auf ihre Erziehungsfunktion -- Die reflexive Familie: Das Konzept Un/Doing Family vor dem Hintergrund eines empirischen Blicks auf Familienleben heute -- Co-Parenting als neues Modell der Familiengründung -- Individuelle Rechtsgleichheit als Grundlage pluraler Familienformen -- Die Co-Parenting- Situation aus der Perspektive katholisch-theologischer Familienethik -- Zwischen Privatsache und öffentlicher Angelegenheit. Anmerkungen zur gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung und Bedeutung von Elternschaft -- Der Wert der Familie -- Gemietet, gekauft, ausgebeutet? Normative Familienbilder in der Diskussion um Leihmutterschaft -- Reproduktionsmedizin und Familiengründung in ethischer Perspektive.

Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms ('shinise') in Japan reveal three factors as secrets of their longevity: (1) the Japanese family system ('ie') favours the eldest son for succession; (2) the option for adopting a capable successor; (3) the inclusion of the relationships with employees, customers, and members of the local community into the strategic decision making. The analysis deals with the succession process in Japan compared to the WIFU Model of Succession in German family firms, and rounds off with perspectives on how to deal with the challenges the Japanese family businesses face regarding the recent changes in the Japanese society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einführung: Ernährung im kommunalen Kontext – Akteure und Themenfelder -- Gestaltung von Ernährung als Aufgabe der kommunalen Daseinsvorsorge -- Hebelpunkte und Dynamiken kommunaler Ernährungssysteme -- Ordnungspolitischer Rahmen von kommunaler Nachhaltigkeitspolitik: Instrumente zur Stärkung der nachhaltigen lokalen Ernährungswirtschaft -- Integration von kommunalen Instrumenten zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der lokalen Ernährungswirtschaft – Beispiele aus Leipzig und Leutkirch -- Geschäftsmodelle kommunaler Eigenbetrieben der Ernährungswirtschaft – Konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Perspektiven der nachhaltigen Gestaltung von Ernährungssystemen auf kommunaler Ebene -- Referenzen.

"Peter L. Berger on Religion provides an overview and critical assessment of the work of one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. Situating Berger's writings on religion and secularisation in the broader framework of social constructionism, the book argues that neither he nor the research influenced by him consistently followed the constructionist paradigm. This assessment is informed by a close examination of The Sacred Canopy (1967) in particular. The volume also offers a Berger-inspired constructionist framework for the study of religion. This book is an excellent resource for students and researchers interested in the intersection of religion and social theory"--