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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Innovative Technologies for an Inclusive World -- Business Process Mining for Service Oriented Architecture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Related Work -- 4 The Proposed Approach -- 4.1 The Research Methodology -- 4.2 The Proposed Approach Described -- 5 Case Study -- 5.1 Presentation -- 5.2 Application -- 6 Conclusion -- 6.1 Summary -- 6.2 Future Work -- References -- A Multi-step Approach for Managing Intellectual Capital Inside Communities of Practice -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 2.1 Communities of Practice and Intellectual Capital -- 2.2 Intellectual Capital Assessment -- 3 A Four-Step Methodology -- 3.1 Step 1 -- 3.2 Step 2 -- 3.3 Step 3 -- 3.4 Step 4 -- 4 Analysis and Discussion of Findings -- 4.1 The Nominal Group Technique: Main Results -- 4.2 The Focus Group with the Governance: Main Results -- 4.3 The Focus Group with the SMEs: Main Results -- 4.4 The Improvement Strategy -- 5 Conclusions and Further Insights -- References -- The Influence of ICT Adoption on the Development of Managerial Modes of Consulting Firms in France -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Organizational Agility and the Complementary Enabling Role of IT and Human Resources: Proposition of a New Framework -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review: Organizational Agility, HR Practices, IT Resources and Their Complementary Effects -- 2.1 Organizational Agility from a Dynamic Capabilities Perspective -- 2.2 HR Practices -- 2.3 IT Resources -- 2.4 HR Complementarities: IT Acceptance and IT Skills -- 3 The Conceptual Framework -- 3.1 Framework Description -- 3.2 Main Hypothesis -- 4 Conclusion and Perspectives -- References -- Creating Shared Value Through Information Technologies -- 1 Introduction.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination | Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls -- Part I. Spaces of Observation -- 1. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories | Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman -- 2. Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation | George Adamson -- 3. The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 | Katharine Anderson -- 4. Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current | Ruth A. Morgan -- Part II. Horizons of Expectation -- 5. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840-1930 | James Kneale and Samuel Randalls -- 6. The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa | Georgina Endfield -- 7. Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa | Meredith McKittrick -- 8. Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire | Martin Mahony -- Part III. Atmospheric Engtanglements -- 9. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body | David N. Livingstone -- 10. Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy | James Rodger Fleming -- 11. The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936-1955 | Daniel A. Barber -- Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate | Mike Hulme -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Tracking Superfoods: An Introduction -- Part One: Making Foods Super -- 2 From Seasonal Specialty to Superfood: Almonds, Overproduction, and the Semiotics of the Spatial Fix -- 3 "The New Pomegranate": Rooibos Magic, Traditional Knowledge, and the Politics and Possibilities of Superfoods -- 4 Extractionist Logics: The Missing Link Between Functional Foods and Superfoods -- Part Two: Working Miracles -- 5 "A Really Good Story Behind It": Moringa Bars and Venture Capital Funding -- 6 The Miracle Crop as Boundary Object: Quinoa's Rise as a "Neglected and Under-Utilized Species" -- 7 What Makes Food Super? The Post-eugenic Promises of Fish Flour and Other Super Powders -- Part Three: Superfood Trajectories -- 8 From Superfood to Staple? Tracing the Complex Commoditization of Kale -- 9 The Global Açaí: A Chronicle of Possibilities and Predicaments of an Amazonian Superfood -- 10 Amaranth's "Rediscovery" in Mexico: A Path Toward Decolonization of Food? -- References -- Index -- Imprint.

The book explores how diversity in United Nations' peace mission composition affects peacekeeping effectiveness. It identifies four key dimensions of composition: Blue Helmets' field diversity, top mission leadership diversity (between Force Commander and Special Representative of the Secretary General), vertical leadership distance (Leadership-Blue Helmets), and horizontal distance with the local population. Each dimension of diversity of mission is measured as linguistic, geographical, and religious distance. The book finds that diversity of Blue Helmets and diversity of top leadership may increase the mission's capacity to reduce battle-field violence and civilian victimization. This book crucially demonstrates why diversity of mission composition is a key variable to consider when trying to enhance peacekeeping effectiveness.

There is presently a view that accessible technologies offer an inclusive and humanistic expression of technology. They do. But that is not all. Accessible technologies offer more than this: they contain within them lessons on transformational leadership. Through examining six case studies the reader will begin to interpret these accessible technologies as expressions of leadership. The risk inherent in the current view is that to view accessible technologies only as examples of humanism, or the good, is to risk underselling them. In fact, accessible technologies (which are being created across international society) represent a powerful leadership approach to technology itself. Through their leadership, these accessible technologies demand and create new and original thinking by society. The reader will benefit from this Element by learning to identify transformational leadership within accessible technological creations and consequently gaining a capacity to apply this leadership to the very purposes of technology itself.

Front Cover -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World? -- 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases -- 3. Changing View of Disease -- 4. What Next After the End of "the Era of Diseases"? -- 5. Composition of This Book -- 1 - From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases -- Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development -- Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases -- Civilization gave birth to diseases -- Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind -- Is disease a punishment from god? -- 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason -- Reason leaps forward -- Hippocrates brings down disease from god's domain to the human domain -- Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge -- Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine -- 1.3 Epidemics Changed History -- Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease -- Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics -- The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear -- Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east -- Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science -- 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine -- The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera -- Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease -- Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine -- Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east -- 2 - The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases -- 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases

"Comment habitons-nous, dans la Nord-Amérique? Quelle est notre manière collective d'être sur cette terre et comment en tirons-nous notre subsistance? L'ouvrage propose une enquête géophilosophique sur l'habitation postcoloniale, qui fait apparaître le vécu spatial contemporain comme un mouvement général de déracinement. Ce mouvement correspond au processus de colonisation et à la révolution industrielle, dont l'habitat actuel est le résidu. L'autrice met au jour les forces, les valeurs et les formes de cet arrachement, en même temps qu'elle examine celles de la résistance à cette tendance, exposant ainsi les tensions du rapport à la territorialité. La méthode retenue, transdisciplinaire, réunit l'analyse du discours, l'auto-ethnographie, la documentation photographique, l'histoire des idées, la critique littéraire et l'analyse phénoménologique : une démarche inédite et fructueuse, qui débouche sur une poétique de l'espace."--Page 4 de la couverture

Intro -- Dank -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Die Lernherausforderung: Weltgesellschaft -- 1.2 Eine konzeptionelle Verortung -- 1.2.1 Globales Lernen -- 1.2.2 Politische Bildung -- 1.2.3 Begegnungsreisen -- 1.3 Eine theoretische Verortung -- 1.3.1 Erziehungswissenschaftliche Globalisierungsforschung -- 1.3.2 Empirische Jugendforschung -- 1.3.3 Internationale und interkulturelle Austauschforschung -- 1.4 Das Erkenntnisinteresse -- 1.5 Aufbau der Arbeit -- 1.6 Methodischer Zugang -- 1.7 Qualitativ-rekonstruktive Sozialforschung -- 1.8 Methodologische Vorannahmen: Praxeologische Wissenssoziologie -- 1.9 Das Sample -- 1.9.1 Auswahl der Länder -- 1.9.2 Auswahl der Gruppen -- 1.9.3 Darstellung der Gruppen -- 1.9.3.1 Gruppen aus Bolivien -- 1.9.3.2 Gruppen aus Deutschland -- 1.9.3.3 Gruppen aus Ruanda -- 1.10 Forschung im Nord-Süd-Kontext -- 1.10.1 Zum Umgang mit Sprache -- 1.10.2 Zum Umgang mit fremdkulturellen Daten -- 1.10.3 Zum Umgang mit sprachlicher und kultureller Hybridität -- 1.11 Datenerhebung: Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren -- 1.12 Datenauswertung: Die dokumentarische Methode -- 1.12.1 Thematischer Verlauf und Transkription -- 1.12.2 Formulierende Interpretation -- 1.12.3 Reflektierende Interpretation und komparative Analyse -- 1.12.4 Typenbildung -- 1.13 Zusammenfassung -- 2 Darstellung der empirischen Ergebnisse -- 2.1 Mehrdimensionale Basistypik der Differenz -- 2.1.1 Dimension 1: Lokalisierung von Differenzen -- 2.1.2 Modus 1: Orientierung am persönlichen Nahraum -- 2.1.2.1 Modus 2: Orientierung an Gemeinschaft -- 2.1.2.2 Modus 3: Orientierung an Gesellschaft -- 2.1.2.3 Zusammenfassung -- 2.1.3 Dimension 2: Verallgemeinernde Ordnung von Differenzen -- 2.1.3.1 Modus 1: Hierarchisierung -- 2.1.3.2 Modus 2: Identifikation -- 2.1.3.3 Modus 3: Abstrahierung.

This edited volume presents 12 chapters to enrich the cultural perspective of creativity. Contributed by esteemed scholars in the field, this text is a joint effort to provide an in-depth and systematic inquiry into the cultural processes of creativity and innovation, as well as the creative processes of cultural transformation.