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"With the advancement in processing power and storage now enabling algorithms to expand their capabilities beyond their initial narrow applications, technology is becoming increasingly powerful. This highly topical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on work, assessing its impact on an array of economic sectors, their resulting nature of work, and the subsequent policy implications of these changes. Featuring contributions from leading experts across diverse fields, the Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding AI's connections to existing economic, social, and political ecosystems. Considering a range of fields including agriculture, manufacturing, health care, education, law and government, the Handbook provides detailed sector-specific analyses of how AI is changing the nature of work, the challenges it presents and the opportunities it creates. Looking forward, it makes policy recommendations to address concerns, such as the potential displacement of some human labor by AI and growth in inequality affecting those lacking the necessary skills to interact with these technologies or without opportunities to do so. This vital Handbook is an essential read for students and academics in the fields of business and management, information technology, AI, and public policy. It will also be highly informative from a cross-disciplinary perspective for practitioners, as well as policy makers with an interest in the development of AI technology"-- Provided by publisher

Between 1945 and 1970, Canada's Department of National Defence sponsored scientific research into the myriad challenges of military operations in cold regions. To understand and overcome the impediments of the country's cold climate, scientists studied cold-weather acclimatization, hypothermia, frostbite, and psychological morale for soldiers assigned to active duty in northern Canada. Frontier Science investigates the history of military science in northern Canada during this period of the Cold War, highlighting the consequences of government-funded research for humans and nature alike. The book reveals how under the guise of "environmental protection" research, the Canadian military sprayed pesticides to clear bushed areas, used radioactive substances to investigate vector-borne diseases, pursued race-based theories of cold tolerance, and enabled wide-ranging tests of newly developed weapons and equipment. In arguing that military research in northern Canada was a product of the Cold War, Matthew S. Wiseman tackles questions of government power, scientific authority, and medical and environmental research ethics. Based on a long and deep pursuit of declassified records, archival sources, and oral testimony, Frontier Science is a fascinating new history of military approaches to the human-nature relationship

"This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core themes: The Early Years (aspects of language acquisition and development, including vernaculars or minority languages, reading, writing, and cognition, and multilingual extensions), Issues in Everyday Life (the role of multilingualism in and for speech-language-communication difficulties, including diagnosis, provisions of services, and later language breakdown), and From the Past to the Future (aspects of multilingualism beyond acquisition, education, or pathology, with a focus on heritage languages and translanguaging). Specialists from each of these areas introduce state-of-the-art research, novel experimental studies, and/or quantitative as well as qualitative data bearing on 'multifaceted multilingualism'. There is a broad spectrum for take-home messages, ranging from new theoretical analyses or approaches to assess multilingual speakers all the way to recommendations for policy-makers"--

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations - "totemism," "emulation of predatory animals," "ancestor eponymy," "nicknaming," and "Bedouin proximity to nature." It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include "attached" elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting "attached" groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young's argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship

"The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, politician, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women. "I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan." Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas--by horseback, by donkey, even on foot--to treat people who had never had medical help before. Her wide-ranging experiences both in her home country and on the world stage mean she has all the inside stories: the dishonesty, the collusion, the corruption, the self-serving leaders, the hijacking of religion. And as a former Vice President, she knows all the players in this chess game called Afghanistan. With stories that are at times poignant, at times terrifying, inspiring as well as disheartening, Sima provides an unparalleled view of Afghanistan's past and its present. Despite being in grave personal danger for many years, she has worked tirelessly to achieve justice and full human rights for all the citizens of her country."--

Food systems in Indonesia and worldwide have experienced major transformations in the wake of agricultural modernisation. Once intact eco-systems have declined dramatically, along with human diets, long term food security and social cohesion. Using long-term ethnographic research, we documented this loss of traditional food systems in Java, Bali, East Timor and India, but also a recent revival and reinvention of sustainable production methods and community-bas

Das Sportrecht weist als Querschnittsmaterie Bezugspunkte zu sämtlichen Rechtsbereichen auf. Dies hat zur Folge, dass aus sportrechtlichen Fragen oftmals vielschichtige und komplexe, gleichsam aber auch überaus interessante Konfliktfelder erwachsen. Als dynamische und stets aktuelle Rechtsmaterie unterliegt das Sportrecht aber auch gleichzeitig vielfältigen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Strömungen. Exemplarisch dafür sind in diesem Band ausgewählte aktuelle Themenfelder des Sportrechts aufbereitet, welche sich auf drei Zusammenhänge zurückführen lassen: Sportrecht und Verfassungsrecht - Sportrecht und internationales Recht - Sportrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht

Klappentext: Der Mensch kann brutal egoistisch sein, selbstgerecht und rücksichtslos. Dennoch: Wenn erst einmal eine kleine kritische Masse für ein größeres Ziel in Bewegung kommt, kann sie unaufhaltsam werden in ihrer Wirkmacht und revolutionäre Veränderungen schaffen. Kaum eine Errungenschaft unserer Demokratien wäre ohne kollektiven Mut denkbar gewesen. Viele der heute drängenden Kämpfe - allen voran den um unsere Lebensgrundlagen - haben die meisten jedoch nicht einmal begonnen. Politik und die eigene Einwirkung darauf scheint für zu viele Menschen zu weit entfernt. Wie lässt sich das ändern? Dafür müssen wir uns entscheidenden Fragen widmen: Was kann und will Aktivismus und Protest? Welche Mechanismen stehen dahinter? Wie organisiert sich effizientes Engagement? Wann setzen sich Menschen in Bewegung? Und wie viele müssen sich trauen, um die anderen mitzureißen? Mit Verve und Humor durchmisst Friedemann Karig Theorie und Praxis des Aufbegehrens. Er betrachtet historische wie aktuelle Protestbewegungen, deren Beispiele zeigen, dass hartnäckiger Protest und ziviler Ungehorsam Fundamentales ausrichten können. Karigs Buch verdeutlicht unsere riesige Chance, viel mehr erreichen zu können, als heute möglich scheint - auch, weil es vom vielleicht kostbarsten Gut unserer Tage erzählt: der Hoffnung.

Die religiöse und kirchliche Entwicklung in der Slowakei verlief im 20. Jahrhundert eingebettet in ihre ostmitteleuropäischen Kontexte. Zugleich weist sie grundlegende Besonderheiten auf, welche die Geschichte des Landes prägten. Dazu gehören Einflüsse aus der Zeit bis 1918, in der das Gebiet der heutigen Slowakei zum ungarischen Teil der Habsburgermonarchie gehörte. Im 20. Jahrhundert wirkte sich dann die Zugehörigkeit zur Tschechoslowakei aus. In Auseinandersetzung mit der tschechoslowakischen Staatsidee verlief die Geschichte der Kirchen in ihrem Verhältnis zu Staat und Gesellschaft jedoch unterschiedlich zum tschechischen Landesteil. In diesem Handbuch wird diese Entwicklung erstmals umfassend und mit Blick auf alle Kirchen und Glaubensgemeinschaften des Landes dargestellt. 33 Autorinnen und Autoren aus den Fachgebieten Geschichte, Theologie, Politologie bzw. Soziologie haben mit ihren Beiträgen zu dieser Gesamtschau beigetragen