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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1. Beresford Road - How a History of Activism Got Us Here -- 2. Green Man Lane Estate - How We Live with Social Housing Negligence -- 3. Yeading Lane - How We Feel 'Safe' at Home -- 4. Meifod Cottage - How We Breathe in Green Space -- 5. A Note on Finding Home in Community -- 6. W. R. Davies - How We Live in Places Not Meant to Be Lived In -- 7. A Note On Kindness -- 8. Mill Lane - How We Make a Case for Welfare -- 9. A Note on All the Shops I've Ever Lived Above -- 10. Surrey House - How We're Taught We're All the Same -- 11. Amersham Grove - How We Rent -- 12. Pepys Road - How We Protect Our Health -- 13. A Note on Some of the Floors I've Slept On -- 14. Oswyth Road - How the Internet Has a Say -- 15. A Note On Stuff -- 16. Peckham Rye - How Gentrification is a Housing Issue -- Conclusion: All the Houses We Live in - How to Fight -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Endnotes -- Index -- Copyright.

Intro -- The Pocket Guide to Neurodiversity -- Cover -- Of related interest -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- AcknowledgEments -- Preface -- 1. Neurodiversity Explained -- 2. Neurotypes -- 3. Processing -- 4. Working Memory -- 5. Communication -- 6. Unwritten Rules -- 7. Emotions -- 8. Problem-Solving -- Conclusion -- Neurodiversity Resources -- References -- Index.

This is one of the first books on U.S. foreign policy and NATO in the international system published in the immediate wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book assesses the extent to which the Russian invasion of Ukraine pushed both the U.S. and NATO into making necessary changes to contend with a multipolar world structured in terms of Cold War 2.0 great power competition. The North Atlantic space is now a complex and complicated strategic environment. In addition to the persistent confrontation between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, multi-dimensional security challenges emanate from China. In addition, hybrid war operations and competition over advanced technologies are fast becoming disruptive threats as are transnational threats like climate change, pandemics, and migration. Moreover, a Cold War 2.0 system of tension and rivalry is playing out along military, economic, and technological lines with two bounded orders between the U.S. and NATO allies on one side and China and Russia on the other. The consequences will likely force to NATO wrestle with whether the alliance is transatlantic with a global outlook or a global alliance with responsibility for upholding the liberal world order.

With rising customer expectations and increasing computational potential, many transportation services face real-time decision making in stochastic and dynamic environments. They often need to find and adapt complex plans that are effective now but also flexible with respect to future developments. Mathematically, these three challenges of searching the large and complex decision space for effective and flexible decisions are reflected in the three parts of the famous Bellman Equation, namely the reward function (effective), the value function (flexible), and the decision space (search). In the transportation literature, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown potential to quickly evaluate the reward- and value function of the Bellman Equation for a limited number of decisions but struggles to search a complex, constrained decision space immanent in most transportation problems. The question of how to combine the thorough search of the complex decision space with RL-evaluation techniques is still open. We propose three RL-based solutions, each inspired by one component of the Bellman Equation, to search for and evaluate decisions in an integrated manner. The first and second method learn to dynamically manipulate the reward function and decision space to encourage effective and flexible and prohibit inflexible decisions, respectively. The third method models the Bellman Equation as a mixedinteger linear programming formulation in which the value function is given by a neural network approximator. We compare our proposed solution methods in a structured analysis for carefully designed problem classes based on longhaul, medium-haul, and short-haul transportation logistics. We demonstrate the overall effectiveness of our methods compared to prominent benchmark methods and highlight how the methods' performances depend not only on the problem classes but also on the instances' parameterizations

"Since the publication of the ground-breaking first edition, there has been an exponential growth in research and literature about the digital world and its enormous potential benefits and threats. Fully revised and updated, the new edition brings together an expertly curated and authoritative overview of the impact and emerging horizons of digital consumption. Divided into sections, it addresses key topics including digital entertainment, self-representation, communication, Big Data, digital spirituality, online surveillance, and algorithmic advertising. It explores developments such as consumer data collection techniques, peer-to-peer payment systems, augmented reality, and AI-enhanced consumer well-being, as well as digital transgression, secrecy, crypto-currencies, NFTs and cultural concerns such as the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news. From digital influencers, digital nomads, and digital neo-tribalism to robots and cyborgs, it explores existences that blur boundaries between humans and machines, reality and the metaverse and the emerging "technoculture" - a state of all-encompassing digital being. This unique volume is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers, and will continue to provide a new generation of readers with a deep understanding of the universe of digital consumption"--

Intro -- The escape -- Another world -- The jib in jowi -- Anitok is tested -- A surprise for the defeated -- The test -- The pledge -- Ijokelekel sails to Lae -- The legends cross -- Anidep -- Likōkkālọk's curse -- The awakening -- Sau-temoi -- Lañinpo's story -- The tide turns -- The stones have ears -- Paratak's return -- Ḷainjin's revenge -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Die Studie zeigt, dass die 2017 publizierten Bund/Länder-Handlungsempfehlungen für die Erstellung von Hitzeaktionsplänen zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit bundesweit bekannt, anerkannt und hilfreich sind. Auf der Grundlage einer bundesweiten Online-Erhebung, einer Behörden-Interviewserie und einer Analyse von Fallstudien bilanziert das Projekt die Wirkung der Empfehlungen u.a. mit Blick auf deren Bekanntheit und angestoßenen Entwicklungen. Dies wurde verbunden mit einer Bestandsaufnahme von Maßnahmen, die Institutionen, Kommunen und Länder in Deutschland etabliert haben, um hitzebedingte Gesundheitsrisiken zu verringern. Zusätzlich wurden unterstützende Klimaanpassungsdienste für den gesundheitlichen Hitzeschutz zur Aufnahme in das Klimavorsorgeportal der Bundesregierung identifiziert und ein Evaluationsleitfaden für solche Dienste entwickelt.