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Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures t...
Le présent ouvrage a pour ambition de rendre compte des caractéristiques de l’ensemble latino-américain, ainsi que de ses diversités et spécificités nationales et locales. Si historiquement, le terme « Amérique » a rapidement fait consensus sur les cartes, l’adjectif « latine » ne lui a par contre été accolé que tardivement, illustrant une certaine hésitation quant à l’identité et à la délimitation du sous-continent. Les pays qui le composent partagent l’héritage de la diversité culturelle, mais aussi des processus d’indépendance, puis de démocratisation. Leurs économies s’organisent dans la mondialisation et de puissants mécanismes d’intégration régi...
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Does business model innovation look the same in Asia as it does in the Western world? If not, what can we learn from the differences? This book attempts to answer these important questions through a series of original cases concerning a variety of companies, from large multinationals to small social enterprises. The cases arise from the Asian Strategy Project, an initiative conceived by ESSEC Business School and supported by Capgemini Consulting. As part of this unique programme, students were embedded in a company in an Asian emerging market and given the opportunity to develop their understanding of an innovative business model by working on real strategic issues that the company faced. Written by ESSEC professors, this book gathers a representative selection of the resulting cases, creating a repository of knowledge for business students, teachers and professionals who wish to learn more about innovative business models in Asia.
Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of heated debates, has made this publication one of the most significant literary phenomena of recent years. Taking the Holocaust as its central topic, The Kindly Ones is a disturbing novel: disturbing in its use of explicit sexual descriptions, in its construction of a perverted psychic world, in its combination of accurate historical descriptions and myths, and in its repeated suggestion that Nazism does not, in fact, lie outside the spectrum of humanness. Due to its striking monumental proportions ...
Speech is the natural medium of human communication, but audible speech can be overheard by bystanders and excludes speech-disabled people. This work presents a speech recognizer based on surface electromyography, where electric potentials of the facial muscles are captured by surface electrodes, allowing speech to be processed nonacoustically. A system which was state-of-the-art at the beginning of this book is substantially improved in terms of accuracy, flexibility, and robustness.
Un nouveau courant de l’économie prospère depuis le début des années 2000. À base d’expérimentations, il se propose de créer des modèles pour transformer la conduite des individus par la connaissance des biais qui régissent leurs comportements. Les tenants de ce « nouveau comportementalisme » occupent une position de plus en plus dominante parmi les économistes, auprès des autorités publiques, de grandes fondations, d’entreprises et même dans les médias. L’apparente simplicité de leur méthode, qui prétend notamment changer le sort des populations les plus démunies, redore le blason terni de l’économie, ainsi présentée comme compréhensible, accessible et util...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2020, held in Bolzano, Italy, in September 2020.* The 10 full papers, 5 short papers and 1 poster paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The proceedings also include two keynotes and two tutorials. The papers focus on the representation of and reasoning with conceptual structures in a variety of contexts. The topics of this year's conference range from formal concept analysis to decision making, from machine learning to natural language processing. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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