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This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality. A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.

"The United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea ('UNCLOS') is hailed as one of the most significant multilateral legal agreements executed in the past few decades. However, its shortcomings are neither trivial nor inconsequential, especially regarding maritime boundary disputes involving hydrocarbon resources. This monograph examines the relationship between UNCLOS and maritime boundaries in five non-polar regions, encompassing almost 90% of global unresolved disputes involving offshore hydrocarbon development. The regions, which include the eastern Mediterranean, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, northeast Asia, and the South China Sea, were chosen for their oil and gas resources potential and recent military skirmishes that have the potential to lead to wider regional confrontations. The book addresses each region's maritime boundary status in the context of specific articles within UNCLOS that have been exploited by disputing states to justify their overlapping claims. The history and future applicability of multilateral Joint Development Area agreements for each region are evaluated for their potential to provide a f cooperative solution to resolve ongoing tensions. Highlighting the limitations of current 'gun-boat' diplomacy, the monograph makes practical suggestions for new paradigms for resolving outstanding disputes, promoting lasting peace and generating economic benefits resulting from resource development"--

Introduction / Kahina Le Louvier, Karen Latricia Hough -- From the Aliens Act to the 'hostile environment' : the making of the British border control system / Evan Smith -- Towards two-way integration : a comparative review of refugee integration strategies / Dan Fisher, Scot Hunter, Savan Qadir, Alison Phipps -- Temporalities, dependencies and the politics of marriage migration / Eleonore Kofman, Elena Vacchelli -- Rethinking access to asylum : border-shifting, burden-shifting and externalisation of international protection in the light of the UK-Rwanda arrangement / Sonia Morano-Foadi, Micaela Malèna -- Politics of exhaustion at the UK border : depoliticising suffering, invisibilising violence / Marta Welander -- Cracks in the UK borderscape imaginary : opportunism, fluidity, and contradictions in implementing migration controls abroad / Nicole Ostrand -- Conflicting imaginaries of the UK border and self-bordering / Karen Latricia Hough, Kahina Le Louvier -- Evaluations of 'opportunity' versus 'risk' : Vietnamese migrants' experiences and perceptions of the UK border / Tamsin Barber, Hai Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen -- No longer marginal : migrant rights activism and the confrontation with everyday borders / Don Flynn -- Institutionalised resistance and everyday bordering / Kathryn Cassidy -- The material politics of asylum support : speed, intimacy and confusion / Dan Fisher, Sarah Hughes -- Migrant women resisting borders through participatory arts / Laura Marziale, Rose Knight, the Stronger Together Leaders Fatiha, Felicia, Ijeoma, Khadidja, Lian, Lucie, Tracey Reynolds -- Epilogue / Kahina Le Louvier, Karen Latricia Hough.

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of prison ecologies - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a product of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts

Introduction : queer(y)ing AI / Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss -- Queering intelligence : a theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence / Blair Attard-Frost -- Neural "freedoms" : population, choice, and machine learning / Orit Halpern -- I spy with my little AI : how queer bodies are made dirty for digital technologies to claim cleanness / Nishant Shah -- We're all cyborgs now? : cripping the smart cyborg / Ute Kalender -- Uncanny bodies: queer subjects, artificial surrogates, and ambiguous robotics / Michael Klipphahn-Karge -- Patching & hoarding : recodings of digital reproduction technologies / Katrin Köppert -- Wild science/fiction : conscious AI as queer excess in VanderMeer's Annihilation / Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss -- Innovation and iteration : queer machines and the tension between manifesto and manifestor / Carsten Junker -- AI as medium and message : the (im)possibility of a queer response / Johannes Bruder -- Inconclusion : absent presences / Os Keyes.

Intro -- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Women's Health Issues -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Role of artificial intelligence in gynecology and obstetrics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Clinical benefits of GYN/OB via AI -- 1.3. AI in obstetrics -- 1.4. AI in IVF -- 1.5. AI in obstetric ultrasound -- 1.6. AI application in trimester (first) -- 1.6.1. Automatic estimation of fetal growth and development -- 1.6.2. Nuchal translucency (NT) thickness assessment -- 1.7. AI application in second and last trimesters -- 1.8. AI application in gynecology -- 1.9. Application of ML in the early examination of maternal-fetal conditions -- 1.10. Existing constraints and future prospects -- 1.11. Research gap -- 1.12. Discussion on obstacles of AI -- 1.13. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Prediction of female pregnancy complication using artificial intelligence -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Review -- 2.2.1. Monitoring of fetal heart and surveillance of pregnancy -- 2.2.2. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) -- 2.2.3. Labor in preterm birth -- 2.2.4. Parturition -- 2.2.5. In vitro fertilization (IVF) -- 2.2.6. Screening of cancer -- 2.2.7. Surgery in the field of gynecology -- 2.2.8. Discussion -- 2.3. Machine learning applications of maternal-fetal issues -- 2.3.1. Preterm birth -- 2.3.2. Abnormal growth in fetal -- 2.4. Pregnancy and artificial intelligence -- 2.5. Understand maternal and fetal health outcomes from pharmacologic through recent uses of artificial intelligence -- 2.5.1. Pregnancy and animal models -- 2.5.2. Technologies based on assisted reproduction -- 2.5.3. Toxicology in development -- 2.5.4. Pregnancy and management of chronic disease -- 2.5.5. Disease based on induced pregnancy -- 2.5.6. Labor anesthesia -- 2.5.7. Delivery mode -- 2.5.8. Pregnancy and pharmacology.

Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs. In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book examines how ex-ante and ex-post harmonization work individually and in relation to one another, offering practical guidance on harmonization decisions in the preparation of new data infrastructure for comparative research. Contributions from experts in sociology, political science, demography, economics, health, and medicine are included, all of which give voice to discipline-specific and interdisciplinary views on methodological challenges inherent in harmonization. The authors offer perspectives from Europe and the United States, as well as Africa, the latter of which provides insights rarely featured in survey research methodology handbooks. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to approaches and concepts for survey data harmonization, as well as the effects of data harmonization on the overall survey research process. Comprehensive explorations of ex-ante harmonization of survey instruments and non-survey data. Practical discussions of ex-post harmonization of national social surveys, census and time use data, including explorations of survey data recycling. A detailed overview of statistical issues linked to the use of harmonized survey data. Perfect for upper undergraduate and graduate researchers who specialize in survey methodology, Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences will also earn a place in the libraries of survey practitioners who engage in international research.

The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension. This edited volume is a compendium of theoretical knowledge on sustainable development. The context analysed in the publication includes a multi-level and multi-aspect analysis starting from the historical and legal conditions, through elements of the macro level and the micro level, inside the organization. Organizing Sustainable Development offers a systematic and comprehensive theoretical analysis of sustainable development supplemented with practical examples, which will allow obtaining comprehensive knowledge about the meaning and its multi-context application in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, management studies, organizational studies and corporate social responsibility.

"Based on extensive original research, this book examines the extent to which media in Russia upholds the Russian government's stance on sexuality. It considers the Russian government's policies designed to uphold "traditional sexuality", reveals the strategies of resistance used by Russian media outlets to create positive portrayals of non-heteronormative people and circumvent the restrictive 2013 legislation banning positive representations of "'non-traditional sexual relations", and highlights particular examples of subversive media practices. Overall, the book challenges the prevailing view that media in authoritarian regimes are completely compliant with their government's position"--

"Explains how China spreads its global influence via infrastructure development and exports of digital technologies and standards. This book will appeal to policymakers, business leaders, students and scholars of Chinese politics and foreign policy, economic development, international business, international relations, and comparative politics"--

"This edited volume offers a new look at community and heritage languages schools around the world, providing a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of language education and cultural understanding in and beyond school contexts. Covering research and practice, the contributors survey the global landscape of community and heritage language schools and explore new developments in the field to understand the challenges the schools face and discuss the impact they have on their students and surrounding communities. Chapters address key topics including language development, academic achievement, professional development, learner identity and agency, online learning, and teaching disruptions. Contributors highlight learners' voices throughout, with special attention to overlooked minority language communities and Indigenous voices. Through this wealth of thorough and insightful analysis, the contributors of this book position students of community/heritage languages schools as citizens of a plurilingual world who are central to global change. Abounding with original research, innovative ideas and cutting-edge teaching practices, this volume is ideal for courses on multilingualism and language and culture"--

"Competition over the Nile watercourse is becoming a global crisis. As population growth, economic development, and urbanization increase the demand for water in the Nile Basin while climate change threatens its supply, the region faces a looming water crisis. An effective resolution of this multifaceted issue, which impacts 11 African countries, requires detailed multidisciplinary research"--

"This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration. It focuses on what migrants write and how anthropologists may incorporate insights gained from engagement with this writing into research methods and writing practices. The volume includes a range of contributions from leading scholars in the field, all organized around a striking set of questions about the conditions in which migrant narratives are written and translated, the audiences for which they are intended, the genres and media through which they are disseminated, and what such stories include or leave out. The contributors to this volume demonstrate an innovative shift in anthropological methods by showing how fiction and nonfiction, graphic memoir and autoethnography, song lyrics as well as social media posts and images, unsettle the power dynamics in the study of migration narrative. This book will serve as important supplemental reading for courses on migration, literary anthropology, ethnographic methods, and sociocultural anthropology in general. It's interdisciplinary perspective will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students with interests in migration, narrative, and anthropological writing genres"--

"This study explores the economic contribution of immigrant textile workers from the Low Countries who settled in England in the fourteenth century. Providing historical context for contemporary debates on the free movement of people, it will appeal to scholars interested in medieval and migration history"--