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National Security Intelligence
National security intelligence is a vast, complicated, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. This definitive introduction to the field guides readers skilfully through this hidden side of government. It not only explains the three primary missions of intelligence - information collection and analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action - it also explores the wider dilemmas posed by the existence of secret government organizations in 'open' societies. With over thirty-five years of experience studying intelligence agencies and their activities, Loch Johnson illuminates difficult questions such as why intell...
Work Time
Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? Topics addressed include work-time reduction in the US culminating in the 40-hour statute of 1938, recent trends in annual and weekly hours, overtime, part-time work, temporary employment, work-family integration, and international comparisons. She focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. This book brings together existing knowledge from sociology, anthropology, history, labor economics, and family studies to answer its central question and will change the way upper-level students think about the time we devote to work.
Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition
In recent years, prosodic competence has become increasingly important in second language acquisition studies, as it is a crucial element in the identification of non-native pronunciation and message understanding. This volume is the first attempt to provide a survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. It begins with an overview of the possible approaches to the study of rhythmic-prosodic skills acquisition in an L2. The second part of the book emphasizes the relationship between the mother tongue and a second language, and investigates the presence of transfer in prosody interlanguage development. The third part illustrates prosody’s role in the interpretation of pragmatic meaning in native-non-native interaction, and its influence on message persuasiveness. And in the fourth part, technology meets prosody in the areas of second language teaching and speech synthesis.
Enterprise Information Systems
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2022, This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis, during April 25-27, 2022. The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Databases and Information Systems Integration; Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems; Information Systems Analysis and Specification; Human-Computer Interaction; and Enterprise Architecture.
Lingue migranti e nuovi paesaggi
Il presente volume, che inaugura la collana Lingue Culture Mediazioni promossa dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione linguistica e di Studi interculturali (SMELSI), ospita una selezione dei contributi presentati in occasione del convegno omonimo, svoltosi il 22 e il 23 novembre 2012. La definizione di ‘Atti di convegno’, tuttavia, mal si adatta a questa raccolta di studi, che non si limita a trasferire gli interventi orali nella pagina scritta, bensì sviluppa ulteriori percorsi di studio e riflessione attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare adottato fin dalla progettazione dell’evento. Questa pluralità di sguardi, essenziale per lo studio di un fenomeno così complesso come ...
Variable Neighborhood Search
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2023, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2022. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.
Optimization in Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences
This book is addressed to researchers in operations research, data science and artificial intelligence. It collects selected contributions from the first hybrid “Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2021” international conference on the theme Optimization and Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences, which was held in Rome 14-17 September 2021 and organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society and the Department of Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome. The book offers new and original contributions on different methodological optimization topics, from Support Vector Machines to Game Theory Network Models, from Mathematical Programming to Heuristic Algorithms...
