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'Living Together' is one of three volumes collecting previously published essays by Jennifer Whiting. This volume explores Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, especially the roles played in it by the theoretical and practical activities central to human lives and by the quality of our relationships with one another. Whiting explores Aristotle's struggle to reconcile the desirability of living in accordance with justice and other distinctively human virtues with the ideal of pursuing the 'divine' life of contemplation.

"Conservatives have succeeded in establishing their vision of education in America, one in which government funds can be used to pay for both public and private schools. As a result, the very meaning of public education in the United States has shifted away from the idea of a universal good. To understand how we got here, The Death of Public School argues, we must look back at the turbulent history of school choice. The Death of Public School tells the rich and surprising story about the people, unusual political alliances, and philanthropic interests that have fueled the rise of the school choice movement over the last 70 years. Drawing on two decades of experience as an education reporter, Fitzpatrick traces the origins of school choice in the modern era from Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who helped lead a revival of conservatism in the 20th century, to the present day, in which conservatives are propelling the spread of choice options, such as charter schools, school vouchers, and tax-credit scholarships. Fitzpatrick paints rich portraits of people from various political and cultural backgrounds-from free-market conservatives to Catholic priests to white segregationists in the South to Black parents in urban school systems-who, in pursuit of their vision of education, linked arms with individuals across the aisle"--

This year, with the centennial of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Martin Hense is presenting his meticulous research on the robberies that took place in the tomb of this Egyptian pharaoh, 3300 years ago. This book is the outcome of that research, presented like a true ?cold case crime investigation?. Even though the tomb robberies took place more than 3300 years ago, the evidence for the way the robbers entered the tomb and the items they removed, could still be discerned when Howard Carter opened the tomb in 1922. Knowingly, but also unknowingly, Carter documented the last traces of evidence of these crimes. Now, one hundred years later in 2022, the evidence for the different robberies is presented through new analysis of the documentation of Howard Carter and his excavation team

The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation-in principle, they were 'for everyone'-they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms-from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings-and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique

Intro -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction and Overview | Nadim Ahmad, Brent R. Moulton, J. David Richardson, and Peter van de Ven -- I. Underlying Measurement Challenges -- 1. Addressing the Challenges of Globalization in National Accounts | Brent R. Moulton and Peter van de Ven -- 2. Meaningful Information for Domestic Economies in the Light of Globalization: Will Additional Macroeconomic Indicators and Different Presentations Shed Light? | Silke Stapel-Weber, Paul Konijn, John Verrinder, and Henk Nijmeijer -- 3. National Accounts for a Global Economy: The Case of Ireland | John FitzGerald -- 4. Eliminating the Pass-Through: Towards FDI Statistics That Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries | Maria Borga and Cecilia Caliandro -- 5. Multinational Profit Shifting and Measures throughout Economic Accounts | Jennifer Bruner, Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl, Comment: Stephen J. Redding -- 6. Strategic Movement of Intellectual Property within US Multinational Enterprises | Derrick Jenniges, Raymond Mataloni Jr., Sarah Atkinson, and Erin (Yiran) Xin, Comment: J. Bradford Jensen -- 7. The Relationship between Tax Payments and MNE's Patenting Activities and Implications for Real Economic Activity: Evidence from the Netherlands | Mark Vancauteren, Michael Polder, and Marcel van den Berg, Comment: Robert E. Yuskavage -- II. Global Value Chains for Intermediate Products -- 8. Accounting Frameworks for Global Value Chains: Extended Supply-Use Tables | Nadim Ahmad -- 9. Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within US Industries: Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added Using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data | James J. Fetzer, Tina Highfill, Kassu W. Hossiso, Thomas F. Howells III, Erich H. Strassner, and Jeffrey A. Young, Comment: Susan N. Houseman.

This book provides practical insights into applications of the state-of-the-art of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for solving intriguing and complex problems in procurement and supply chain management. The application domain includes perishable food supply chain, steel price prediction, electric vehicle charging infrastructure design, contract price negotiation, reverse logistics network design, and demand forecasting. Further, the book highlights the advanced topics in the procurement field, like AI in green procurement and e-procurement in the pharma sector. Furthermore, the book covers applications of well-established methodologies such as heuristics, optimization, game theory, and MCDM based on the nature of the problem. The inclusion of the vaccine supply chain digital twin and blockchain-based procurement signals the significance of the book. This book is a comprehensive guide for industry professionals to understand the power of data analytics, enabling them to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the procurement and supply chain sectors

This book seeks to clarify how soldiers must apply the proportionality rule during armed conflict, providing concrete examples for how this must be done. The book argues that a refocus of the interpretation of the proportionality rule in international humanitarian law is warranted to enhance the protection of civilians.

Informationen bilden die Grundlage für Entscheidungen. Damit ermöglichen sie eine individuelle und sichere Patientenversorgung, Versorgungskontinuität sowie eine stetige Qualitätsverbesserung. Die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen eröffnet der Pflege vielfältige Chancen, neue Wege zu gehen. Dieses Buch liefert das dafür notwendige Basiswissen: Es werden Grundlagen von Informationssystemen innerhalb von und zwischen Einrichtungen vermittelt sowie in IT-Standards, Pflegefachsprachen und Terminologien zur Unterstützung der Digitalisierung eingeführt. Darüber hinaus wird ein Überblick über personenbezogene Assistenztechnologien gegeben sowie Prozess- und Projektmanagement, Datenschutz, Datensicherheit und Ethik der Informationsverarbeitung thematisiert. Auch auf weiterführende Themen, wie die Rolle der künstlichen Intelligenz in der Pflege, wird eingegangen. Alle Themen werden anhand eines durchgängigen Fallbeispiels illustriert. Übungsfragen mit Lösungen, weiterführende Literatur sowie ein umfassendes Glossar unterstützen den Lernprozess.