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Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises

Embodied Utopianisms of Care and Radical Spatial Practice

By: Carolina Crijns

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Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises

Embodied Utopianisms of Care and Radical Spatial Practice

By: Carolina Crijns

Under the premise that architecture makes life ›better‹, architecture is often presented as the ›solution‹ to social problems, made ›green‹ when promising sustainable futures, or fetishised as a cultural object for the creation of urban identities. Yet, what is it exactly that links architecture so closely to the pursuit of a good life? How is this link interrelated with crisis and crisis thinking? To what extent do belief systems in architecture influence its capacity to deal with crises? Carolina Crijns not only explores the transformative potential in radically rethinking architecture's central concepts but introduces a method of utopian speculation for practices ambitious of social change. With a preface by Sabine Knierbein.

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transcript Verlag

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3839467462

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Reconstructing the Middle Ages

Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism

By: Carolina Armenteros

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Reconstructing the Middle Ages

Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism

By: Carolina Armenteros

Reconstructing the Middle Ages looks at nineteenth-century medievalism in France using as a case study Gaston Paris, philologist, literary critic and professor of medieval studies. Gaston Paris's method, traditionally seen as a combination of romanticism and positivism, exemplifies several elements of nineteenth-century medievalism in the Parisian academia in late nineteenth-century France. The text investigates Gaston Paris's theories about three medieval literary genres (epic, fabliaux, and Arthurian tales) to understand how Paris's view of medieval literature and history cross-related with nationalism at a time when France was particularly vulnerable, and at which French academics were especially eager to make a long-lasting contribution. Examining the work of Gaston Paris and his interaction with other scholars in the Parisian milieu, Reconstructing the Middle Ages offers a look at academic medievalism and the history philology, linguistics and literary and textual criticism in late nineteenth-century France. In particular, the book shows that when it comes to the self-image of France, medievalism was a topic that reached far beyond the walls of academia as it was related to national pride, memory and identity.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443811696

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Tomorrow's People and New Technology

Changing How We Live Our Lives

By: Felix Dodds,Carolina Duque Chopitea,Ranger Ruffins

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Tomorrow's People and New Technology

Changing How We Live Our Lives

By: Felix Dodds,Carolina Duque Chopitea,Ranger Ruffins

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by the emergence of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between the physical, the digital, and the biological worlds. This book allows readers to explore how these technologies will impact peoples’ lives by 2030. It helps readers to not only better understand the use and implications of emerging technologies, but also to imagine how their individual life will be shaped by them. The book provides an opportunity to see the great potential but also the threats and challenges presented by the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, posing questions for the reader to think about what future they want. Emerging technologies, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, big data and analytics, cloud computing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, fifth-generation wireless technologies (5G), and fully autonomous vehicles, among others, will have a significant impact on every aspect of our lives, as such this book looks at their potential impact in the entire spectrum of daily life, including home life, travel, education and work, health, entertainment and social life. Providing an indication of what the world might look like in 2030, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers interested in the nexus between emerging technologies and sustainable development, politics and society, and global governance.

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Routledge

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1000467678

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Digital Interventions in the Health Sector

Country Cases and Policy Discussions

By: Carolina Bloch,Lucy Xiaolu Wang

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Digital Interventions in the Health Sector

Country Cases and Policy Discussions

By: Carolina Bloch,Lucy Xiaolu Wang

This note discusses, through selected country case studies, how digital health records and telemedicine can improve delivery quality, access to underserved populations, and resource utilization in healthcare. In addition, it shows how digital disease surveillance tools can identify outbreaks and track the spread of diseases, while novel digital platforms can facilitate patent licensing and international pooled procurements for better drug access in developing countries. Ensuring safe and well-regulated collection and use of healthcare data, as well as facilitating standardization and interoperability of digital infrastructure in different sectors is critical for the success of these interventions.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400251030

A People's Guide to New York City

By: Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina

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A People's Guide to New York City

By: Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina

This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs, outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.

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Univ of California Press

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0520964152

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IMF Engagement on Health Spending Issues in Surveillance and Program Work

By: Mauricio Soto,Mr. Geremia Palomba,Carolina Bloch,Nick Carroll,Tohid Atashbar,Deeksha Kale,Baoping Shang,Kiichi Tokuoka

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IMF Engagement on Health Spending Issues in Surveillance and Program Work

By: Mauricio Soto,Mr. Geremia Palomba,Carolina Bloch,Nick Carroll,Tohid Atashbar,Deeksha Kale,Baoping Shang,Kiichi Tokuoka

IMF country teams have become increasingly engaged on health spending issues in surveillance and program work, and more so since the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objectives of health spending are to improve health outcomes and provide protection to households against high financial costs of health care. The Fund’s engagement on health spending issues is guided by an assessment of its macro-criticality, with the scope and purpose of engagement varying across countries and depending on whether it occurs in surveillance or program contexts. This technical note discusses how to assess the macro-criticality of health spending and reviews appropriate policy responses. The design and implementation of macro-critical health reforms often require specific sectoral knowledge and experience. Thus, this note emphasizes the importance of collaborating with development partners on health policy issues.

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9798400258732

Operational Flood Forecasting, Warning and Response for Multi-Scale Flood Risks in Developing Cities

By: María Carolina Rogelis

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Operational Flood Forecasting, Warning and Response for Multi-Scale Flood Risks in Developing Cities

By: María Carolina Rogelis

The aim of this book is to contribute to understanding risk knowledge and to forecasting components of early flood warning, particularly in the environment of tropical high mountains in developing cities. This research covers a challenge, taking into account the persistent lack of data, limited resources and often complex climatic, hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. In this research, a regional method is proposed for assessing flash flood susceptibility and for identifying debris flow predisposition at the watershed scale. An indication of hazard is obtained from the flash flood susceptibility analysis and continually, the vulnerability and an indication of flood risk at watershed scale was obtained. Based on risk analyses, the research follows the modelling steps for flood forecasting development. Input precipitation is addressed in the environment of complex topography commonly found in mountainous tropical areas. A distributed model, a semi-distributed model and a lumped model were all used to simulate the discharges of a tropical high mountain basin with a páramo upper basin. Performance analysis and diagnostics were carried out in order to identify the most appropriate model for the study area for flood early warning. Finally, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to explore the added value of numerical weather models for flood early warning in a páramo area.

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CRC Press

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042961165X

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The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Chapel Hill Peter A. Coclanis Professor of History University of North Carolina

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The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Chapel Hill Peter A. Coclanis Professor of History University of North Carolina

This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors--the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions--on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195361016

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9780195361018

Fisioterapias y kinesiologías del sur. Volumen 1

By: Andrea Carolina Amaya Córdoba,Aydee Luisa Robayo Torres

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Fisioterapias y kinesiologías del sur. Volumen 1

By: Andrea Carolina Amaya Córdoba,Aydee Luisa Robayo Torres

El libro Fisioterapias y Kinesiologías del Sur es una obra pionera en su área y se destaca por su rigor teórico y práctico sobre las experiencias y conocimientos de profesionales en Centro y Sur América. Este libro se distingue al integrar las epistemologías del sur, que ofrecen una perspectiva única y enriquecedora, que contrasta con las visiones hegemónicas tradicionales. Los autores, polifónicos, diversos e incluyentes, plasman la esencia de las prácticas locales y regionales al resaltar cómo las comunidades de Centro y Sur América han adaptado las metodologías de fisioterapia y kinesiología a sus realidades específicas. Este enfoque les proporciona una voz a los profesionales que han sido históricamente subrepresentados en la literatura académica. La obra Fisioterapias y Kinesiologías del Sur es esencial para cualquier profesional de la fisioterapia y kinesiología que desee ampliar su perspectiva y comprender la importancia de las epistemologías del sur. Su combinación de rigor científico y valoración de las experiencias locales lo convierte en un recurso imprescindible para la práctica profesional y la formación académica. Este libro está dirigido a fisioterapeutas, kinesiólogos, estudiantes y académicos que buscan una obra completa y actualizada con herramientas prácticas y teóricas y que valora y destaca la riqueza del conocimiento desarrollado en Centro y Sur América.

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120

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Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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9585056771

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9789585056770

Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

By: Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina

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Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

By: Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina

With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195364457

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9780195364453

Advances in Artificial Intelligence

International Joint Conference 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000 Atibaia, SP, Brazil, November 19-22, 2000 Proceedings

By: Maria Carolina Monard

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence

International Joint Conference 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000 Atibaia, SP, Brazil, November 19-22, 2000 Proceedings

By: Maria Carolina Monard

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI and the 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI, IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000, held in Atibaia, Brazil in November 2000. The 48 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge engineering and case-based reasoning, planning and scheduling, distributed AI and multi-agent systems, AI in education and intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and knowledge acquisition, knowledge discovery and data mining, natural language processing, robotics, computer vision, uncertainty and fuzzy systems, and genetic algorithms and neural networks.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354041276X

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Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises

Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises

Reconstructing the Middle Ages

Reconstructing the Middle Ages

Tomorrow's People and New Technology

Tomorrow's People and New Technology

Digital Interventions in the Health Sector

Digital Interventions in the Health Sector

A People's Guide to New York City

A People's Guide to New York City

IMF Engagement on Health Spending Issues in Surveillance and Program Work

IMF Engagement on Health Spending Issues in Surveillance and Program Work

Operational Flood Forecasting, Warning and Response for Multi-Scale Flood Risks in Developing Cities

Operational Flood Forecasting, Warning and Response for Multi-Scale Flood Risks in Developing Cities

The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Fisioterapias y kinesiologías del sur. Volumen 1

Fisioterapias y kinesiologías del sur. Volumen 1

Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Artificial Intelligence

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