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This book offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity. By connecting those different perspectives, and analysing some practical case studies, it guides readers to dissect the relationship between machine and human autonomy, and machine and human identity. It analyses how the relationship between human and technology has been evolving in the last few centuries. Last, it aims at proposing an explanation on the reason/s why humans have been keen on developing their own autonomy's perfect avatar

1. What do we know about mammal movement in African tropical forests? -- 2. Movements patterns and population dynamics of giant forest hog groups in Kibale National Park, Uganda -- 3. Forest elephant movements in Central Africa – megafauna need megaspaces -- 4. Elephant movements, abundance and use of water sources in Kibale National Park, Uganda -- 5. Movement ecology and evolutionary history of forest buffalo -- 6. Site fidelity and home range shifts in a leaf-eating primate -- 7. Primate movements across the nutritional landscapes of Africa -- 8. Conditions facilitating a "landscape of fear from disease" in African forest mammals -- 9. Do seasonally frugivory and cognition shape foraging movements in wild western gorillas? -- 10. Females Move in Tight Crowds, Males Roam: Society and Movement Ecology of Mandrills -- 11. Linking Movement Ecology to Conservation Biology.

Chapter 1:Introduction – Risk governance dilemmas and democratization: public trust, risk perception and public participation in risk decision-making -- Part I: Motivated reasoning, science and values: rethinking risk perception and public participation in risk governance -- Chapter 2: Motivated reasoning and risk governance: what risk scholars and practitioners need to know -- Chapter 3: Science and values: the pervasive entanglement -- Chapter 4: The BIAS FREE Framework: A tool for science/technology and society education to increase science and risk literacy -- Part II: Public trust, risk perception and public participation: lessons from the real worlds of risk governance Energy -- Chapter 5: Getting it Right? The Site Selection Process for Canada's High-Level Nuclear Waste -- Chapter 6: Hydraulic fracturing in New Brunswick: trust, deliberation and risk decision-making. Chapter 7: Carbon capture, utilization and storage: public confidence in risk decision-making -- Chapter 8: Public Inclusion and Responsiveness in Governance of Genetically Engineered Animals -- Chapter 9: Decision-making about Newborn screening panels in Canada: risk management and public participation -- Chapter 10: Balancing shared decision-making with population-based recommendations: a policy perspective of PSA testing and mammography screening -- Chapter 11: Public Engagement on Childhood Vaccination: Democratizing policy decision-making through public deliberation -- Chapter 12: Narratives and the Water Fluoridation Controversy -- Chapter 13: Exploring the Role of Information Sources in Vaccine Decision-Making among Four Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in the U.S -- Chapter 14: Opportunities and Perils of Public Consultation in the creation of COVID-19 vaccine priority groups.

Chapter 1: Global Covid-19 policy response between law and political economy -- Chapter 2: Law and political economy of China's early pandemic response: limited economic support and insulation -- Chapter 3: Under Weak State Capacity, Are Militarized Lockdowns in the Philippines the Great Equalizer? -- Chapter 4: First 100 days of COVID-19 firefighting: Hits and misses of the policy in India -- Chapter 5: First 100 days of Italian COVID-19 Policy: A new image for democracy, security, education and the economy in Italy -- Chapter 6: First 100 Days of Hungarian COVID-19 Policies -- Chapter 7: Purchasing Time: The First 100 Days of German COVID-19 Policy -- Chapter 8: Covid-19 Crisis in the UK: the first 100 days of the unknown -- Chapter 9: Nigeria's Political, Economic, and Social Dynamics in a Pandemic Era -- Chapter 10: Inequality Dimensions of Kenya's Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 11: Reinforcing Inequality: First 100 days of South African COVID-19 policy -- Chapter 12: It is a Bumpy and Gloomy Road Ahead: An Analysis of Covid-19 Response in Namibia -- Chapter 13: The Informal Economy and the First 100 days of the Pandemic Policy in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 14: First 100 days of Brazilian COVID-19 Policy -- Chapter 15: The Deepening of an Economic and Political Crisis: The First 100 Days of COVID-19 in Chile -- Chapter 16: Reinforcement of economic inequality and extra-economic power - law and political economy of U.S. pandemic policy response.

1. Introduction: Destabilizing Gender -- 2. From dansō to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan -- 3. "I'll create my own precedents": Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo's yose Stages -- 4. Not Quite There: Nike's Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan's Readiness -- 5. Hybrid Masculinities?: Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University josō Contests -- 6. The Widening Road: Constructions of Gay Japanese Men on YouTube -- 7. Boys' Love, Transmedia Storytelling, and LGBT Awareness in Contemporary Japan -- 8. Creating the the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Cross-Dressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity and Hyper Masculinity -- 9. Engagements with Gender, Sexuality and Authenticity in Cosplay.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Historical Sources of Tsarist 'Survivals' Ethnography -- Chapter 2: Religious-Cultural 'Survivals' in Euro-American and Euro-Slavic Christian and Secular Sources -- Chapter 3: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Islamic Sources of 'Survivals' Historiography -- Chapter 4: 'Pre-Islamic Survivals' among the Kazakhs in Tsarist Russian and Kazakh Colonial Ethnography, 1770-1917 -- Part II: Historical Sources of Soviet 'Survivals' Ethnography -- Chapter 5: Sources and Aims of Soviet 'Survivals' Ethnography in Its Initial (Pre-World War Two) Phases -- Chapter 6: Transformations of Soviet 'Survivals' Ethnography in the Post-World War Two Period -- Part III: Historiographical Constructions of and Debates Over Kazakh Religious History and Identity in Late Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholorship -- Chapter 7: The Early Twentieth-Century Chernavsky-Dobrosmyslov Debate: Did Catherine the Great (r. 1762-96) Help Convert the Kazakhs to Islam? -- Chapter 8: The Framing of Kazakh Religious History and Identity in Post-World War Two Soviet Kazakh Publications -- Chapter 9: Religious-Cultural Revivalism as Historiographical Debate: Post-Soviet Kazakh Perspectives on Their Past -- Chapter 10: Retrospect & Prospect: Placing Post-Soviet "Survivals" Scholarship Within a World Historiographical Frame.

Chapter 1: Border Rules and Oppositional Currents -- Chapter 2: Border Rules: Imperialism, Race, and the Politics of Development -- Chapter 3: Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial Violence -- Chapter 4: Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial Violence -- Chapter 5: Documenting the Migrant Journey in Ai Weiwei's Human Flow and Diego Quemada-Díez's La Jaula de Oro -- Chapter 6: Visualizing Borders: M.I.A.'s "Borders" and Mural Art in Cuidad Juárez and El Paso -- Chapter 7: A Borderless World: Abolition Democracy and the Politics of Refusal Abolition and Solidarities Across Borders.

Introduction -- New Tools for Distribution Management in Health Industry -- An Assessment of The Financial Performance Of The Hospital Services Sub-Sector In Turkey By Ratio Analysis Method.-Pharmaceutical Warehousing 4.0 in Healthcare Supply Chain -- Internet of Things and its Applications in Health Industry -- Using Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medical Supply Chains -- Robotics Systems and Health Industry -- Big Data and its implementation in Health Industry -- Health 4.0 and the future of the Health Industry -- Healthcare 4.0 and decision-making techniques in the health industry -- New Dimensions in Health and Medical Material Transportation -- Healty and Tourism supply chain -- INDEX. .

1. Introduction -- 2. Populism, Clientelism and Corruption and the International Crisis of Democracy -- 3. The Pendulum of Democracy in Post-Yugoslav Successor States: Causes of the Backsliding of Democracy -- 4. Economy, Culture and Party System: Preconditions for State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 5. Populism as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 6. Political clientelism as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 7. Political corruption as a Type of State-Society Relations Eroding Democracy -- 8. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the Case of Serbia -- 9. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the Case of Montenegro -- 10. How Elected Governments Make Democracies Backslide: the case of North Macedonia -- 11. Prolonging or Halting Democratic Erosion in Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia: a Comparison -- 12. Conclusions.

Introduction: Social Movements in a Paraguayan Context -- Paraguay in the Twenty-First Century: From the Rise of Progressivism to Conservative Rearticulation -- Peasant Movements in Paraguay -- A Movement-in-Motion: CONAMURI and the Making of a Feminist Agroecology -- Understanding Indigenous Movements in Paraguay: The Case of the Xákmok Kásek Community and the Scales of Resistance -- The Paraguayan Labor Movement at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- Work, Gender, and Labor Organizing: Paid Domestic Workers' Unions in Paraguay -- The Feminist Movement in Paraguay: No Way but Forward -- State Violence Against LGBTQ+ setting the Boundaries of Citizenship in Paraguay -- The Movement for the Right to Education in Paraguay: Student Actors and Disputes over Youth Subjectivities in a Society of Inequality -- The Organization and Struggle of University Students in Paraguay: Student Movement Demands for Socio-educational Rights -- Conclusion: Mobilize, Repress, Repeat.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Understanding Migration Controls in Europe -- Chapter 2. External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits -- Chapter 3. Practices of External Control: Is there a North-South Divide? -- Chapter 4. A "European" Externalisation Strategy? A Transnational Perspective on Aid, Border Regimes, and the EU Trust Fund for Africa in Morocco -- Chapter 5. The Genealogy of the External Dimension of the Spanish Immigration Regime: When a Bricolage National Policy Becomes a Driver of Europeanisation -- Chapter 6. Challenges and Ambiguities of the Policies for Immigrants' Regularisation: The Portuguese Case in Context -- Chapter 7. Knowledge Production through Regularisation and Ex-Post Regulation Strategies: Italy and Germany Compared -- Chapter 8. Differently Similar. The Quest for Migration Control in The Netherlands and Spain -- Chapter 9. "Selecting by Origin" Revisited: On the Particularistic Turn of German Labour Migration Policy -- Chapter 10. The Admission of Foreign Workers to Italy: Closing the "Gap" with Northern Europe -- Chapter 11. Seasonal Workers in Agriculture: The Cases of Spain and The Netherlands in Times of Covid-19 -- Chapter 12. Migration Policy and Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom: European Divergence or Trend-Setting? -- Chapter 13. Turning the Welfare-Migration Nexus Upside-Down: The Case of European Retirees in Spain -- Chapter 14. Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany's Complex Asylum Regime -- Chapter 15. Looking into Policy Change: How the Italian Asylum Regime Came of Age -- Chapter 16. The Greek Asylum Regime: From Latecomer on Reception to Inspirational Model on Asylum Procedures -- Chapter 17. Concluding Remarks: Towards a New Conceptualisation of Similarities and Differences in European Migration Controls.