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The Nexus between Urban Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Identifying four Urban Innovation-Sustainability Categories: A Summary -- Regional Sustainability and Coordination with Cycle Superhighways Initiative in The Capital Region of Denmark -- Urban River Regeneration through Nature Inclusive Quays: Breda GreenQuays, the Netherlands -- Inter-municipal approach for the safeguard and enhancement of the Mangrove by the Local Authorities: Saint Louis, Senegal.

Introduction -- Landscape theoretical approaches - the theory of three landscapes and neopragmatic landscape research -- Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape -- Neopragmatic Synthesis -- Crude oil and natural gas - formation, extraction, distribution and processing -- Oilscapes - first conceptual approaches -- Methodological approaches to Oilscapes -- Louisiana's Oilscapes.-Media representations of Oilscapes. -- Experiencing Oilscapes in Mode a and b. -- 11 Contingent Oilscapes - from Aesthetic Redescriptions to Inverse Landscapes -- Oilscapes - a second and more differentiated conceptual version -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Einleitung -- Städtische Räume als Kontext adoleszenter Sozialisation -- Jugendliche Freizeitorte in Berlin – polyzentral oder segregiert? -- Ein neuer methodischer Ansatz zur Erfassung von Aktivitätsräumen -- Freizeitverhalten und Aktivitätsräume Berliner Jugendlicher -- Die Wahrnehmung von Stadträumen – präferierte und gemiedene Orte -- Fazit -- Literatur.

Fixed Effects Models -- When and How Much Do Fixed Effects Matter?- Random Effects Models -- Estimation of Sparse Variance-Covariance Matrix -- Models with Endogenous Regressors -- Dynamic Models and Reciprocity -- Random Coefficients Models -- Nonparametric Models with Random Effects -- Nonparametric Models with Fixed Effects -- Multi-dimensional Panels in Quantile Regression Models -- Multi-dimensional Models for Spatial Panels -- The Econometrics of Gravity Models in International Trade -- Modelling Housing Using Multi-dimensional Panel Data -- Modelling Migration -- Multi-dimensional Panels in Health Economics with an Application on Antibiotic Consumption -- Can Machine Learning Beat Gravity in Flow Prediction?

"The second edition of this introductory textbook provides students with an overarching understanding of social, political, and economic institutions of six South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Using democracy as a prism, it evaluates the varied opportunities and constraints facing these states. Key features include: Introduction to the region. The history and development of these South Asian states, including evaluations of their democratic trajectories. The management of conflict, economic development, and extremist threats. A comparative analysis of the states. Projections concerning democracy given evolving challenges. The textbook is an indispensable teaching tool for courses on South Asia. It includes pedagogical features such as political chronologies, political party descriptions, text boxes, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. It is written in an accessible style by country experts, thus offering students of South Asian politics a valuable introduction to an exceedingly diverse and complicated region"--

"This book provides an overview of elections throughout Latin America, including formal electoral institutions, informal practices, and the behavior of voters and candidates. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly and primary sources, the book provides readers with a highly accessible look at how elections in Latin America work"--

"This is not a traditional biography for a small group of academic experts on Turkish studies that seeks to cover an entire life. Rather the author will attempt to explain to the much broader arena of public and private non-experts who are still very interested in Turkey why Recep Tayyip Erdogan-the current populist, charismatic, but divisive president of Turkey and arguably the most consequential Turkish leader since Kemal Ataturk-was again reelected in May 2023 despite so many negative factors working against him such as a terribly faltering economy, deadly earthquake, and authoritarian reputation, among others"--

Introduction and Overview of the Book -- Abilities of UAS, Historical Expansion and Integration Challenges into Civil Aviation -- International Air Law Response to Challenges in UAS Regulation -- Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework For Regulation of UAS in the United States Of America (USA) -- Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework For Regulation of UAS in South Africa -- Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework For UAS in Kenya -- Synthesis of Outcomes Regarding Integration of UAS into Civil Aviation in the US, South Africa and Kenya -- Conclusion, Recommendations and Way Forward.

Introduction: Francisco Simões (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal) & Emre Erdoğan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) -- 1. Methodology for understanding policies towards rural NEETs: Emre Erdoğan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey); Anastasia Contini (Diesis Coop, Belgium); Mateusz Smoter (Institute for Structural Research, Poland); Antonella Rocca (Pathernope University of Naples, Italy); Heidi Paabort (University of Tartu, Estonia) -- 2. Rural NEETs social networks and social inclusion: Maria Fernandes-Jesus (York St John University, United Kingdom) & Tatiana Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal) -- 3. Rural NEETs and formal and non-formal education: Paul Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway) & Heidi Paabort (University of Tartu, Estonia) -- 4. Employment & employment services in rural areas: Claudia Petrescu (Quality of Life Research Institute, Romanian Academy, Romania) & Òscar Prieto-Flores (University of Girona, Spain) -- 5. Rural NEETs and sustainability: Alen Mujčinović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) & Štefan Bojnec (University of Primorska, Slovenia) -- 6. A meta-model for promoting rural NEETs social inclusion: Francisco Simões (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal) & Emre Erdoğan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey).

Requirements -- Functional Requirements for Enterprise Data Catalogs -- Are business expectations aligned with the development plan made by the software architecture area? A case study on Agile teams in a large company -- Investigating Open Innovation Practices to Support Requirements Management in Software Ecosystems -- Requirements tool practices that drive business agility -- Software Procurement -- On Public Procurement of ICT Systems: Stakeholder Views and Emerging Tensions -- Improving Communication and Collaboration in Enterprise Architecture Projects: Three Propositions from Three Public Sector EA Projects -- Navigating ICT In-House Procurement in Finland: Evaluating Legal Frameworks and Practical Challenges -- Artificial Intelligence Procurement Assistant: Enhancing Bid Evaluation -- Platforms, Ecosystems & Data -- Who Does What? Evolving Division of Responsibilities in a B2B Platform -- Understanding User Feedback in Software Ecosystems: A Study on Challenges and Mitigation Strategies -- A Survey on Perceptions of Data Sharing in the Norwegian Public Sector -- What are the barriers that women face in proprietary software ecosystem -- Artificial Intelligence -- Business and ethical concerns in domestic Conversational Generative AI-empowered multi-robot systems -- Prompt Patterns for Agile Software Project Managers: First results -- Startup creation beyond hackathons – A survey on startup development and support -- How to start collaborations between SMEs and researchers in software engineering -- Towards a Business Case for AI Ethics -- What is the Cost of AI Ethics? Initial Conceptual Framework and Empirical Insights -- Software startups -- Benefits, Challenges and Implications of Open-Source Software for Health-Tech Startups: An Empirical Study -- Corporate Startups: A Systematic Literature Review on Governance and Autonomy -- Exploring the Finnish Impact Investing Ecosystem: Perspectives on Challenges from Technology Startups -- Practitioner Views on Defining Analytics for Software Startups: A Preliminary Guide Based on Gray Literature -- Software Product Management -- An Evaluation of the Product Security Maturity Model through Case Studies at 15 Software Producing Organizations -- Strategic Digital Software Product Management in the Age of AI -- Experimentation in Early-Stage Video Game Startups: Practices and Challenges -- Software and Business Co-Development -- DevOps challenges and Risk mitigation strategies by DevOps professionals teams -- Good agile practices increase positive customer experience -- Information-Centric Adoption and Use of Standard-Compliant DevSecOps for Operational Technology: From Experience to Design Principles -- Exploring Sentiments and Emotions in Online Meetings: Unpacking Agile Retrospective Teams -- Emerging Digital World -- Feeling the Elephant: Insiders' Perspectives on the Metaverse -- What does Scopes 1, 2 and 3 mean for software companies -- Understanding Cost Dynamics of Serverless Computing: An Empirical Study -- Quantum Software Ecosystem: Stakeholders, Interactions and Challenges -- Dynamic Capabilities for Sustainable Digital Transformation Amid Crisis: Insights from Law Firms in Emerging Economy -- Research Streams of Barriers to Digital Transformation: Mapping Current State and Future Directions.

I. Concepts, Types, Causes, and Effects -- Inertia: resistance and endurance -- An Introduction to Institutional Inertia: Concept, Types and Causes -- The Origin of Development, Critical Juncture, and Institutional Inertia -- Context, Institutional Inertia and Development -- Inertia in Informal Institutions: Concepts, and Effects -- II. Cognitive Inertia -- The Roots of Cognitive Inertia: An Introduction to Institutional Changes -- Cognitive Inertia as a Fundamental Cause of Institutional Inertia -- III. Organizational Inertia -- Overview of Institutional–Organization Inertia Nexus -- Internal Empowerment Dynamics of Organizational Inertia Management -- IV. Trade, Energy and Environments -- Trade and Institutional Inertia -- The Transition to Sustainable -- Energy and Institutional Inertia -- Legitimacy, Institutional Inertia, and Climate Change -- V. Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- Early Entrepreneurship Entry and Institutional Rigidities in Emerging Market Economies: Evidence from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor -- Inertia, Innovation Failures, And Learning from Innovation Failures: Some Insights from MSEs in an Emerging Market Economy .

Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. The German Hyperinflation of 1923 -- Chapter 3. Macroeconomic Developments from the End of theof the 1960s to the early 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Inflation Wave from the Late 1960s onward -- Chapter 5. Comparison of developments in the various countries -- Chapter 6. The economic situation in the four countries after the price level shock 2021.-Chapter 7. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Explanations of Price Level Changes.

1. Men and Their Health -- 2. The Cultural History of the Prostate -- 3. Narratives of Prostate Cancer: The Social Triad -- 4. Leaking Bodies, Sexual Health, and Masculinity -- 5. Coping Strategies and the Emotionology of Masculinity -- 6. Partners Care, Couplehood, and Intimate Life -- 7. The Care Apparatus and Healthcare Professionals at Work -- 8. Conclusion: Sexual Health and Ageing Prostate Cancer Masculinities -- 9. Methodology and Method.

Why super weak ties? -- The human being in the web of ties -- Components of the effect of super weak ties- Super weak ties: The traffic light and the opera -- The leaning tower of Pisa -- How super weak ties affect fashion -- Conclusion: What makes super weak ties so important.