Location Technologies In International Context

Author : Rowan Wilken,Gerard Goggin,Heather A. Horst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134828333

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Location Technologies in International Context by Rowan Wilken,Gerard Goggin,Heather A. Horst Pdf

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South. This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do location technologies differ across national markets, geo-linguistic communities and cultural contexts? What are the contrasting or shared meanings and practices associated with location technologies? And what innovative practices and new (or reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global South? In exploring these questions, the collection contributes to our understanding of social, cultural, gendered and political relations on a global and local scale. Location Technologies in International Context is ideal for a range of disciplines, including cultural, communication and media studies; anthropology, sociology and geography; new media, Internet and mobile studies; and informatics and development studies.

Author : Nir Menachemi,Sanjay Singh
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781780528595

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Health Information Technology in the International Context by Nir Menachemi,Sanjay Singh Pdf

This book facilitates the exchange of management theory, best practice, implementation challenges, and the impact of adoption as it pertains to HIT adoption in one or more international settings. It presents a holistic viewpoint on HIT use in health care organizations and systems, and provides a managerial perspective from authors around the world.

Author : Grazia Calabrò,Augusto D'Amico,Maurizio Lanfranchi,Giovanni Moschella,Luisa Pulejo,Roberta Salomone
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788856874679

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Moving from the crisis to sustainability. Emerging issues in the international context by Grazia Calabrò,Augusto D'Amico,Maurizio Lanfranchi,Giovanni Moschella,Luisa Pulejo,Roberta Salomone Pdf

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Author : Alan Wiig,Kevin Ward,Theresa Enright,Mike Hodson,Hamil Pearsall,Jonathan Silver
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781529225624

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Infrastructuring Urban Futures by Alan Wiig,Kevin Ward,Theresa Enright,Mike Hodson,Hamil Pearsall,Jonathan Silver Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.

Author : Ioan Iordache
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000795370

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Hydrogen in an International Context by Ioan Iordache Pdf

Hydrogen in an International Context: Vulnerabilities of Hydrogen Energy in Emerging Markets describes strategies and developments for hydrogen civilization efforts realised by various stakeholders such as authorities, institutes, research, industry, and individuals, in different countries and at different stages of the development cycle. Through their contributions, the chapter authors in this book propose a new approach to actual and relevant topics of interest, generically called the hydrogen economy and civilization.Hydrogen vulnerabilities is a topic that includes new challenges that face the hydrogen energy market. Weaknesses for the hydrogen stakeholder are becoming more refined, and it is necessary to be an active and sensitive player to understand these. A prosperous development of hydrogen will require the assimilation of numerous, diverse and unfamiliar contexts. Challenges for hydrogen will not only be in scientific, technical, economical or public acceptance, but challenges also lie in the genesis of this topic and the neglect of some aspects, however marginal, which negatively influence the desired hydrogen developed.This book informs the reader about the status of hydrogen energy in the international market, and it includes a series of examples and case studies about hydrogen activities in various countries. Thus, due to the synergy of this library of contexts, the reader should be able to reach a level of intuition enabling them to see the strengths and weaknesses of hydrogen.

Author : F. Rowe,D. Te’eni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137336132

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Innovation and IT in an International Context by F. Rowe,D. Te’eni Pdf

Innovation and IT are intertwined. In order to understand how, this book takes an interdisciplinary view of innovation in an international and digital world. It addresses strategic and operational aspects of R and D and new product development, emphasizing knowledge management, configurational design, distance and diversity.

Author : Anthony LaMarca,Eyal de Lara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031024788

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Location Systems by Anthony LaMarca,Eyal de Lara Pdf

Advances in electronic location technology and the coming of age of mobile computing have opened the door for location-aware applications to permeate all aspects of everyday life. Location is at the core of a large number of high-value applications ranging from the life-and-death context of emergency response to serendipitous social meet-ups. For example, the market for GPS products and services alone is expected to grow to US$200 billion by 2015. Unfortunately, there is no single location technology that is good for every situation and exhibits high accuracy, low cost, and universal coverage. In fact, high accuracy and good coverage seldom coexist, and when they do, it comes at an extreme cost. Instead, the modern localization landscape is a kaleidoscope of location systems based on a multitude of different technologies including satellite, mobile telephony, 802.11, ultrasound, and infrared among others. This lecture introduces researchers and developers to the most popular technologies and systems for location estimation and the challenges and opportunities that accompany their use. For each technology, we discuss the history of its development, the various systems that are based on it, and their trade-offs and their effects on cost and performance. We also describe technology-independent algorithms that are commonly used to smooth streams of location estimates and improve the accuracy of object tracking. Finally, we provide an overview of the wide variety of application domains where location plays a key role, and discuss opportunities and new technologies on the horizon. Table of Contents: Introduction / The Global Positioning System / Infrared and Ultrasonic Systems / Location Esimation with 802.11 / Cellular-Based Systems / Other Approaches / Improving Localization Accuracy / Location-Based Applications and Services / Challenges and Opportunities / References

Author : Jantien E. Stoter,Peter van Oosterom
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420005677

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3D Cadastre in an International Context by Jantien E. Stoter,Peter van Oosterom Pdf

The increase in private property value, growth of underground and multilevel development, and the emergence of 3D technologies in planning and GIS drives the need to record 3D situations in cadastral registration. 3D Cadastre in an International Context: Legal, Organizational, and Technological Aspects demonstrates how to record 3D scenarios in order to improve insight into overlapping constructions. This book emphasizes the technical aspects of cadastral registration, focusing on four main topics: context (in which 3D situations in seven countries are studied); the framework for modeling 2D and 3D situations; models for a 3D cadastre; and realization of a 3D cadastre. The book presents preliminary solutions for issues related to efficient methods for 3D data collection, 3D data structuring and modeling, organization of 2D and 3D objects in one environment, 3D database creation and 3D analyzing.

Author : Stojanovic, Dragan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605662916

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Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications by Stojanovic, Dragan Pdf

Provides research developments on mobile technologies and services. Explains how users of such applications access intelligent and adaptable information services, maximizing convenience and minimizing intrusion.

Author : Kevin Walby,Randy K Lippert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317907190

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Municipal Corporate Security in International Context by Kevin Walby,Randy K Lippert Pdf

Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines, little scholarly attention has been paid to corporate security. Increasingly, corporate security is playing an important role in municipal and other government organizations as well as its traditional private, corporate domain. This book is the first social scientific contribution on corporate security to draw together the sociologies of security and policing, legal and social theory, and debates about municipal government. In this book, Walby and Lippert conceptualize various types of corporate security, including its public and private forms, and analyze a range of practices, such as asset protection and physical security provision. The authors explore a number of heretofore neglected themes, including use of legal knowledge, professionalization, legitimation work, and corporate security links with other security agencies and public police. The book provides empirical analyses of developments in several countries, but especially Canada and the US, where corporate security - including its entry into municipal government - is particularly advanced. Because corporate security cuts across security, policing, law, and government, as well as issues of professionalization, public space and democracy, the readership for Municipal Corporate Security in International Context spans disciplinary and national boundaries. It is essential reading for academics and students engaged in studying security, urban governance, politics and legal regulation. It will be of great interest to corporate security professionals and government policymakers too.

Author : Roy Moodley,Uwe P. Gielen,Rosa Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135262723

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Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context by Roy Moodley,Uwe P. Gielen,Rosa Wu Pdf

Many factors in the world today, such as globalization and a rise in immigration, are increasing the need for mental health practitioners to acquire the ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. This text will be the most comprehensive volume to address this need to date, exploring the history, philosophy, processes, and trends in counseling and psychotherapy in countries from all regions of the globe. Organized by continent and country, each chapter is written by esteemed scholars drawing on intimate knowledge of their homelands. They explore such topics as their countries’ demographics, counselor education programs, current counseling theories and trends, and significant traditional and indigenous treatment and healing methods. This consistent structure facilitates quick and easy comparisons and contrasts across cultures, offering an enhanced understanding of diversity and multicultural competencies. Overall, this text is an invaluable resource for practitioners, researchers, students, and faculty, showing them how to look beyond their own borders and cultures to enhance their counseling practices.

Author : Dr. C. Thenmozhi,Dr. K.S. Ramakrishnan
Publisher : Prowess Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781545747421

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Effectiveness of Mobile Learning in the Indian Context by Dr. C. Thenmozhi,Dr. K.S. Ramakrishnan Pdf

Nowadays mobile communication is a part of culture among young people. Mobile phones are the vehicle for wider social change. Most of the millennials use social media tools such as Face book, Blogs, Twitter, Google, etc. They are ‘always on’ and connected to geographically-dispersed friendship groups. Mobile Learning means the personalized, connected, and interactive use of mobile phones in classrooms, collaborative learning, fieldwork, counseling and guidance. It is relevant for teaching, learning, research, and creative inquiry. It offers countless applications for self-study, reference, drill and practice, fieldwork, and research in hundreds of disciplines. Thus mobile learning has made “Education for all, anywhere, anytime, and any situation” possible. India has the world’s second-largest mobile phone user base and the world’s third-largest Internet user-base. In this context, the study conducted by Dr. C. Thenmozhi and Dr. K.S. Ramakrishnan is a significant one. This book deals with various dimensions of mobile learning in an exotic manner. It is not an exaggeration that this book is a must for students, teachers, and research scholars who are in the field of mobile learning. The book may pave the way for new findings. In that way, it is a lighthouse for the future researchers. The authors have penned such a good work in time and the academic fraternity may get many more such books in future.

Author : Christos Govaris, Stavroula Kaldi (ed.)
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783830972198

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The Educational Challenge of Cultural Diversity in the International Context by Christos Govaris, Stavroula Kaldi (ed.) Pdf

Author : Hing Kai Chan,Faith Ka Shun Chan,David O'Brien
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811531330

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International Flows in the Belt and Road Initiative Context by Hing Kai Chan,Faith Ka Shun Chan,David O'Brien Pdf

This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe and Africa. The collection examines opportunities offered in key areas such as trade and investment, policy coordination, facilities connectivity and cultural exchange. It also notably considers how the historical, environmental, cultural and political background to the BRI impacts this hugely ambitious plan which has been described as the ‘new Silk Road', as well as the challenges across these spheres in a part of the world which has witnessed much instability historically. Chapter "Between Adoption and Resistance. China’s Efforts of ‘Understanding the West,’ the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy, and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860-1910” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Peter Sloep,Andrew Blowers
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780080531168

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Environmental Policy in an International Context by Peter Sloep,Andrew Blowers Pdf

Volume two considers major environmental issues using individual case studies from around the world as illustrations. These case studies explore the causes of international environmental issues and investigate the conflicts that hamper these solutions. The case studies address such problems as intensive farming, overpopulation, deforestation, climate change and waste disposal. Each case study also looks at policy and management of these international environmental issues. The case studies span the globe, encompassing the Western world as well as the former Eastern Bloc and developing countries in Africa and South East Asia. A critical and analytical look at contemporary environmental issues Aimed to provide a body of knowledge to social and natural scientists A multi-disciplinary approach