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Introduction: working-class community -- Class and race in the interwar years -- Driving and chauffeuring in Miami -- Fighting the open shop -- Winter playground blues: unemployment, home labor, and the hobo express -- Appeals to harmony: Perrine Palmer and transcending scarcity -- Fighting for social harmony: relief, new deals, and the unemployed -- Labor marches: class struggle and the marginalization of class.

"In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city's service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami's atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness"--

"Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies"--

The First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War are episodes of a wider conflict, called here "The Seventy-Five Years War," dominated the twentieth century. Both unresolved issues and new issues from the First World War carry over into the next conflict, which in turn led immediately to the Cold War. While this great conflict can be viewed from different perspectives, this book focuses on the role of the Papacy. From the stateless Benedict XV's attempts to call a peace conference, to the establishment of Vatican City and the restoration of sovereignty, to the struggles of Pius XI and Pius XII with both Fascism and Communism, and the contributions of John Paul II to the collapse of Communism, the Catholic Church was a part of this struggle. In addition to its humanitarian and pacifistic efforts from 1914 to 1989, the Catholic Church was also engaged in an intense ideological struggle with atheistic communism. This conflict will often take priority over other ideological conflicts, such as that with Fascism, as well as complicate the Church's mission in other parts of the world, such as Latin America and Asia.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Biofuel Cells Based on Enzymes -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Drawbacks in Developing Enzymatic Biofuel Cell -- 3. Immobilization Methods for Biocathode -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Biomethane Production from Whey Treatment in an AnSBBR at Thermophilic Conditions -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 2.1. AnSBBR -- 2.2. Wastewater -- 2.3. Inoculum and Inert Support -- 2.4. Physical-Chemical Analyses and Microbiological Tests -- 2.5. Stability and Performance Indicators -- 2.6. Kinetic Metabolic Model -- 2.7. Energy Production -- 2.8. Experimental Procedure -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Adaptation of the Biomass -- 3.2. Optimization -- 3.3. Feed Strategy -- 3.4. Estimated Scale-up and Energy Production -- 3.5. Microbiologic Test -- 3.6. Comparison with Literature -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Algae-based CO2 Capture in Cold and Humid Climate Countries -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Algae with High Oil Content -- 3. Energetic Exploitation of Biomass Fuels -- 4. Use of Vegetal Biomass for CO2 Capture, Biofuels and Bioenergy -- 4.1. Biological Systems for Generating Biomass and Capturing Carbon -- 4.2. Energy Balance of Algal Biofuel -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 4 -- Miscanthus for Bioenergy Farming in a Mediterranean Semiarid Environment (S Spain) -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and Methods -- 2.1. Location and Experimental Design -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. Biomass Yield -- 3.2. Effect of Irrigation on Biomass Yield -- Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Related Nova Publications -- The 2014 Farm Bill: Bioenergy Provisions and Issues -- Bioenergy Systems, Biological Sources and Environmental Impact -- Proteomics for Bioenergy Production from Corn Stover*

Preface -- Health and social support from a gender perspective / Norma De Piccoli, Luana Ceccarini, Silvia Gattino, and Chiara Rollero, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin -- Italy, and others -- Sustaining resilience through caring and its gender differential / Chau-kiu Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, China -- Gender differences in cardiovascular effects of social support : predictors and potential mechanisms / Margit Gramer, Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria -- Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: the contribution of social support beyond fluid intelligence and personality traits in italian high school students, also considering gender differences / Annamaria Di Fabio and Letizia Palazzeschi, Department of Education and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Italy -- The role of social support in less studied context / Nancy J. Karlin, Joyce Weil and Kiley Floren, University of Northern Colorado, School of Psychological Sciences, School of Human Sciences, Gerontology Program, Greeley, CO, USA -- Social support as a mediator of the relationship between the religious meaning system and psychological well-being in older adults / Dariusz Krok, Opole University, Opole, Poland -- Social support, mental health and cardiac disease / Zarbo Cristina, Brugnera Agostino and Compare Angelo, University of Bergamo, Department of Human and Social Sciences, Bergamo, Italy -- Index

"Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds human capacity to process. Emergency managers, decision makers, and affected communities can make sense of social media through a combination of machine computation and human compassion - expressed by thousands of digital volunteers who publish, process, and summarize potentially life-saving information. This book brings together computational methods from many disciplines: natural language processing, semantic technologies, data mining, machine learning, network analysis, human-computer interaction, and information visualization, focusing on methods that are commonly used for processing social media messages under time-critical constraints, and offering more than 500 references to in-depth information"--

There are two different, interdependent components of IT that are important to a CIO: strategy, which is long-term; and tactical and operational concerns, which are short-term. Based on this distinction and its repercussions, this book clearly separates strategy from day-to-day operations and projects from operations - the two most important functions of a CIO. It starts by discussing the ideal organization of an IT department and the rationale behind it, and then goes on to debate the most pressing need - managing operations. It also explains some best industry standards and their practical implementation, and discusses project management, again highlighting the differences between the methodologies used in projects and those used in operations. A special chapter is devoted to the cutover of projects into operations, a critical aspect seldom discussed in detail. Other chapters touch on the management of IT portfolios, project governance, as well as agile project methodology, how it differs from the waterfall methodology, and when it is convenient to apply each. Taking the fundamental principles of IT service management and best practices in project management, the book offers a single, seamless reference for IT managers and professionals. It is highly practical, explaining how to apply these principles based on the author's extensive experience in industry.