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The Power of Platforms

Shaping Media and Society

By: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen,Sarah Anne Ganter

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The Power of Platforms

Shaping Media and Society

By: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen,Sarah Anne Ganter

More people today consume news via Facebook and Google than from any news organization in history. As a consequence, the technology companies behind them exercise new, distinct forms of platform power. In The Power of Platforms, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter draw on original interviews and other qualitative evidence from the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to trace the development of the relationships between platforms andnews publishers. They analyze how technology companies exercise platform power, how news organizations have responded, and unfold the implications for news and our societies more broadly.

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Oxford University Press

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0190908858

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Labour market attachment in the Nordic countries

Toward a more inclusive labour market in the Nordics 1?

By: Jakobsen, Vibeke,Thuesen, Frederik,Højbjerre, Andreas,Kildahl Scerdocz Nielsen, Sarah,Lang Thomsen, Rasmus

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Labour market attachment in the Nordic countries

Toward a more inclusive labour market in the Nordics 1?

By: Jakobsen, Vibeke,Thuesen, Frederik,Højbjerre, Andreas,Kildahl Scerdocz Nielsen, Sarah,Lang Thomsen, Rasmus

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-501/ This research report is part of a project examining how to increase labour force participation among vulnerable groups (young people, seniors, immigrants, and disabled people) in the Nordic countries. The purpose of this report is to provide a description of the vulnerable groups in the Nordic labour markets and analyse differences in labour force participation among these groups. We find that no country outshines all the others regarding labour force participation for these vulnerable groups. This highlights the fact that cross-country learning and collaboration can be fruitful in the future. In the forthcoming phases of this project, we will identify relevant barriers that lead to labour market exclusion and develop a method to group people, according to these barriers. The aim is to formulate policy recommendations to improve the labour market attachment among vulnerable groups.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289375094

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Ground Wars

Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

By: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

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Ground Wars

Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

By: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen examines how American political operatives use "personalized political communication" to engage with the electorate, and weighs the implications of ground war tactics for how we understand political campaigns and what it means to participate in them. He shows how ground wars are waged using resources well beyond those of a given candidate and their staff. These include allied interest groups and civic associations, party-provided technical infrastructures that utilize large databases with detailed individual-level information for targeting voters, and armies of dedicated volunteers and paid part-timers. Nielsen challenges the notion that political communication in America must be tightly scripted, controlled, and conducted by a select coterie of professionals. Yet he also quashes the romantic idea that canvassing is a purer form of grassroots politics. In today's political ground wars, Nielsen demonstrates, even the most ordinary-seeming volunteer knocking at your door is backed up by high-tech targeting technologies and party expertise. Ground Wars reveals how personalized political communication is profoundly influencing electoral outcomes and transforming American democracy.

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Princeton University Press

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1400840449

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Avoiding the News

Reluctant Audiences for Journalism

By: Benjamin Toff,Ruth Palmer,Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

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Avoiding the News

Reluctant Audiences for Journalism

By: Benjamin Toff,Ruth Palmer,Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

A small but growing number of people in many countries consistently avoid the news. They feel they do not have time for it, believe it is not worth the effort, find it irrelevant or emotionally draining, or do not trust the media, among other reasons. Why and how do people circumvent news? Which groups are more and less reluctant to follow the news? In what ways is news avoidance a problem—for individuals, for the news industry, for society—and how can it be addressed? This groundbreaking book explains why and how so many people consume little or no news despite unprecedented abundance and ease of access. Drawing on interviews in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as extensive survey data, Avoiding the News examines how people who tune out traditional media get information and explores their “folk theories” about how news organizations work. The authors argue that news avoidance is about not only content but also identity, ideologies, and infrastructures: who people are, what they believe, and how news does or does not fit into their everyday lives. Because news avoidance is most common among disadvantaged groups, it threatens to exacerbate existing inequalities by tilting mainstream journalism even further toward privileged audiences. Ultimately, this book shows, persuading news-averse audiences of the value of journalism is not simply a matter of adjusting coverage but requires a deeper, more empathetic understanding of people’s relationships with news across social, political, and technological boundaries.

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Columbia University Press

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0231555881

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Nielsen - från Rejnstrup till Ystad

By: Billy H Nielsen

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Nielsen - från Rejnstrup till Ystad

By: Billy H Nielsen

A familystory in Denmark. It starts during the 11th century and up til now. Many people notified and family with all backgrounds like farmers, knights and bishop. This story connect many families together in a developing community. People that struggle and people that fight for freedom and rights. This story includes movement in Sjælland and Skåne.

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8743045480

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Barriers to employment for vulnerable groups in the Nordic countries

Overview based on existing knowledge

By: Højbjerre, Andreas,Kildahl Nielsen, Sarah,Jakobsen, Vibeke,Thuesen, Frederik,Lang Thomsen, Rasmus,Saikku, Peppi,Mesiäislehto, Merita,Korpi, Tomas,Lorentzen, Thomas,Celine Hardonk, Stefan

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Barriers to employment for vulnerable groups in the Nordic countries

Overview based on existing knowledge

By: Højbjerre, Andreas,Kildahl Nielsen, Sarah,Jakobsen, Vibeke,Thuesen, Frederik,Lang Thomsen, Rasmus,Saikku, Peppi,Mesiäislehto, Merita,Korpi, Tomas,Lorentzen, Thomas,Celine Hardonk, Stefan

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-513/ This report is the second report in a research project examining how to increase labour market participation among vulnerable groups in the Nordic countries. In this report we develop a framework over employment barriers that vulnerable groups face in the nordic countries, based on an extensive targeted literature review. The purpose of the framework is twofold. First, we hope it can be a tool for practitioners to identify and address the broad range of barriers to employment that vulnerable groups potentially face. Second, the framework will be useful in future phases of this project, when we will operationalise and measure the prevalence of the barriers among vulnerable groups in the Nordic countries and analyse relevant and promising policies to help individuals with certain set of barriers.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289375973

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Place, (In)Equality and Gender

A Mapping of Challenges and Best Practices in Relation to Gender, Education and Population Flows in Nordic Peripheral Areas

By: Faber, Stine Thidemann,Nielsen, Helene Pristed,Bennike, Kathrine Bjerg

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Place, (In)Equality and Gender

A Mapping of Challenges and Best Practices in Relation to Gender, Education and Population Flows in Nordic Peripheral Areas

By: Faber, Stine Thidemann,Nielsen, Helene Pristed,Bennike, Kathrine Bjerg

This mapping presents a selected overview of existing research on gender, education and population flows in the Nordic peripheral areas. These areas are faced with a series of challenges that cannot be analyzed nor solved without taking a gender perspective into account. The challenges relate to, for instance, altered living conditions caused by global changes, stagnated or negative economic development, decrease in the amount of workplaces (particularly in the traditionally male-dominated professions) as well as, not least, migration and depopulation which is partly due to the fact that the young people of the area (especially the women) move to bigger cities to educate themselves. The challenges in question are not only significant in relation to the viability and cohesion of the areas, but also for the men and women who live there and their mutual social relations.

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9289342692

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9789289342698

Transatlantic Homeland Security

Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism

By: Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen,Daniel Hamilton

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Transatlantic Homeland Security

Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism

By: Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen,Daniel Hamilton

This major new study presents both conceptual and practical guidance at a crucial time when intellectual and practical efforts to protect against the new terrorism should move beyond a purely domestic focus. Creating an effective and integrated national homeland security effort is a significant challenge. Europe and the United States have reacted differently to the emergence of mass casualty terrorism, but must work together to cope with the diverse issue areas, sectors, professions, and relevant actors involved in such a broad-based concept. The authors suggest that Europe and the US have a lot to gain by coordinating more closely, and that the exchange of experience is crucial as we attempt to stay ahead of a learning enemy.

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Routledge

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113423824X

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9781134238248

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination

Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

By: J. Martin-Nielsen

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Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination

Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

By: J. Martin-Nielsen

Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its history from European contact through the Cold War, this study shows how Eismitte was the setting for scientific knowledge production as well as diplomatic maneuvering.

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1137375981

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The Silent Muse

The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen

By: Asta Nielsen

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The Silent Muse

The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen

By: Asta Nielsen

The memoirs of the pioneering Danish silent film star Asta Nielsen in English translation for the first time, with scholarly introduction and annotations. From her explosive screen debut in The Abyss (1910) through her "scandalous" fourth marriage at age 89, the Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) was a darling of fans and the press, a global star without parallel in the silent era. So famous in Germany that she was known simply as "die Asta," during her two decades of active filmmaking Nielsen also published about her career, her impoverished childhood, her breakthrough into film, the price of fame, and her interactions with the German film industry. In 1938 Nielsen returned to Denmark, where she published her memoirs in two volumes in 1945-46, expanding on her earlier writings. This carefully crafted, colorful text offers eyewitness insights into early European film, Nielsen's star persona, and the challenges of stardom in Germany in the tumultuous period before World War II. Yet although they have appeared in multiple Danish, German, and Russian editions, the memoirs have never been published in English until now. Nielsen's work has enduring value for transnational film history, and the recent growth of interest in women's contributions to early film makes the time ripe for this translation. Julie K. Allen accompanies the text with a scholarly introduction and annotations, and a foreword by leading early film scholar Jennifer M. Bean frames the volume.

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Boydell & Brewer

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164014126X

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Camp Century

The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice

By: Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen

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Camp Century

The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice

By: Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life, Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United States and its Arctic allies, Denmark and Greenland, to the risks of radioactive waste abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army’s “city under the ice.” Beginning with the Truman administration’s vision of military superiority in the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.

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Columbia University Press

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0231554257

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9780231554251

Deep Learning with JavaScript

Neural networks in TensorFlow.js

By: Stanley Bileschi,Eric Nielsen,Shanqing Cai

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Deep Learning with JavaScript

Neural networks in TensorFlow.js

By: Stanley Bileschi,Eric Nielsen,Shanqing Cai

Summary Deep learning has transformed the fields of computer vision, image processing, and natural language applications. Thanks to TensorFlow.js, now JavaScript developers can build deep learning apps without relying on Python or R. Deep Learning with JavaScript shows developers how they can bring DL technology to the web. Written by the main authors of the TensorFlow library, this new book provides fascinating use cases and in-depth instruction for deep learning apps in JavaScript in your browser or on Node. Foreword by Nikhil Thorat and Daniel Smilkov. About the technology Running deep learning applications in the browser or on Node-based backends opens up exciting possibilities for smart web applications. With the TensorFlow.js library, you build and train deep learning models with JavaScript. Offering uncompromising production-quality scalability, modularity, and responsiveness, TensorFlow.js really shines for its portability. Its models run anywhere JavaScript runs, pushing ML farther up the application stack. About the book In Deep Learning with JavaScript, you’ll learn to use TensorFlow.js to build deep learning models that run directly in the browser. This fast-paced book, written by Google engineers, is practical, engaging, and easy to follow. Through diverse examples featuring text analysis, speech processing, image recognition, and self-learning game AI, you’ll master all the basics of deep learning and explore advanced concepts, like retraining existing models for transfer learning and image generation. What's inside - Image and language processing in the browser - Tuning ML models with client-side data - Text and image creation with generative deep learning - Source code samples to test and modify About the reader For JavaScript programmers interested in deep learning. About the author Shanging Cai, Stanley Bileschi and Eric D. Nielsen are software engineers with experience on the Google Brain team, and were crucial to the development of the high-level API of TensorFlow.js. This book is based in part on the classic, Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet. TOC: PART 1 - MOTIVATION AND BASIC CONCEPTS 1 • Deep learning and JavaScript PART 2 - A GENTLE INTRODUCTION TO TENSORFLOW.JS 2 • Getting started: Simple linear regression in TensorFlow.js 3 • Adding nonlinearity: Beyond weighted sums 4 • Recognizing images and sounds using convnets 5 • Transfer learning: Reusing pretrained neural networks PART 3 - ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING WITH TENSORFLOW.JS 6 • Working with data 7 • Visualizing data and models 8 • Underfitting, overfitting, and the universal workflow of machine learning 9 • Deep learning for sequences and text 10 • Generative deep learning 11 • Basics of deep reinforcement learning PART 4 - SUMMARY AND CLOSING WORDS 12 • Testing, optimizing, and deploying models 13 • Summary, conclusions, and beyond

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Simon and Schuster

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1638351546

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Experiences and Explanations of ADHD

An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis

By: Mikka Nielsen

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Experiences and Explanations of ADHD

An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis

By: Mikka Nielsen

Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis presents research on the lived experiences of those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on in-depth interviews with adults diagnosed with ADHD, the book provides an examination of how the diagnosis is understood, used, and acted upon by the people receiving the diagnosis. The book delves into the phenomenology of ADHD and uncovers the experiences of a highly debated diagnosis from a first-person perspective. It further considers these experiences within the context of our time and culture and contributes to a discussion of how to understand human diversity and deviance in contemporary society. Studying both societal conditions behind the emergence of ADHD, questions concerning everyday life with ADHD, and interpretations of the diagnosis, the book offers an analysis of the intertwinement of experiences of suffering and diagnostic categories. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of cultural psychology and medical anthropology, as well as those with an interest in the sociology of diagnoses.

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1351392409

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Return on Ambition

A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being

By: Nicolai Chen Nielsen,Nicolai Tillisch

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Return on Ambition

A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being

By: Nicolai Chen Nielsen,Nicolai Tillisch

How do you become highly successful—while living a fulfilling life and growing as a person? Most ambitious people struggle in at least one of these areas, yet they feel they don’t have the tools to improve their situation. Return on Ambition is the culmination of an ambitious effort to harness insights from recent research in psychology and neuroscience to help people pursue their ambitions more fruitfully. The result is a radical and holistic approach to achievement, growth, and well-being that includes: • The Return on Ambition Self-Assessment: instructive, clear measures of how well you are currently doing in getting the return you aspire to • The Trinity of Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being: research and wisdom that show that compromises in any of these three elements will cause declines in the others over time • The 7 Frenemies: descriptions of personal attributes that are your core strengths as an ambitious person, but that can also be the biggest obstacles to your success and fulfillment in life • The Return on Ambition Toolbox: 4 tools that will help you articulate and pursue your ambition, expand your self-awareness, and help you learn consciously • 4 Self-Coaching Sessions: instructions for 30–60-minute contemplations inspired by thought-provoking questions Nielsen and Tillisch have tried-and-tested experience inside the world of grand ambitions. This means that readers will find not only concepts brought to life with rich interviews and stories, but also two authors who inherently understand their audience. Nicolai Chen Nielsen is an associate partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advises clients on leadership development, culture change, and agile transformations. He is the co-author of Leadership at Scale and has published several articles on personal development. He is currently based in New York with his wife, Samira, and their two dogs, Napoleon and Caesar. Nicolai Tillisch works with Cultivating Leadership, the global coaching firm, and is a co-founder of Deliberate Development, the venture behind the StepUpYourDay software solution. He has been a consultant with McKinsey & Company and was an executive with DDB Worldwide, Hutchison, and Nokia Siemens Networks. Nicolai lives with his wife Ida and their children, Margaux and Axel, in Denmark.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1734324872

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The Continental Backgrounds of English and Its Insular Development Until 1154

By: Hans Frede Nielsen

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The Continental Backgrounds of English and Its Insular Development Until 1154

By: Hans Frede Nielsen

In view of the numerous books that already exist on the subject, it may not be immediately obvious to the layman why scholars should feel the need to continue to write on the history of the English language. However, the flood of writing continues and bears witness to an incessant demand and an unabating interest. As this author demonstrates in his opening chapter, the relevance of English language history is as great as ever, not least as a central key to the understanding of cultural history. In conjunction with two further volumes scheduled to appear at a later date, this volume gives a comprehensive survey of salient aspects of English language history from its embryonic stages to the language spoken today in England and America. The volume spans the period up to 1154, the year which saw the inauguration of the Plantagenet era in England and the last year to be recorded in the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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8778384206

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9788778384201

Chalkis Aitolias II

The Archaic Period

By: Sanne Houby-Nielsen

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Chalkis Aitolias II

The Archaic Period

By: Sanne Houby-Nielsen

Homeric Chalkis is situated on the coast of Aetolia at the very ‘gateway’ of the Gulf of Patras. The foundation occurred during an important period in early Greek history when trade and movement of peoples along the Gulf intensified with a resulting strong pull to the coast. Well-preserved stratigraphies date the foundation to the early seventh century BC and testify to a flourishing settlement in the sixth century lasting till the early fifth century BC when the site was temporarily given up. Walls and roads follow a rectilinear layout. A broad spectre of pottery shapes and wares attest to innovative local and regional workshops already from the onset of the settlement. Alongside the pottery, tools for complex textile manufacture were found in all houses, among which were many small, pyramidal loom weights and spools. These findings indicated a high degree of experimental weaving techniques and demonstrated how the courtyard house, as a new house model, was particularly well suited to accommodate this manufacture, probably mantels. The results therefore offer important new evidence on relations between gender behaviour and Greek houses. The catalogue is richly illustrated with profile drawings, plans, black-and- white and colour photos and accompanied by discussions of the material.

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Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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8772191740

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9788772191744

Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility

Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries

By: Stine Thidemann Faber,Helene Pristed Nielsen

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Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility

Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries

By: Stine Thidemann Faber,Helene Pristed Nielsen

Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within ’Nordic Peripheries’, this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ruptures and/or stability in the lives of men and women living in and/or moving within these northern localities. Crossing disciplinary and geographical boundaries the focus of the book is specifically on how global processes shape and influence the Nordic countries at the social level: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, as well as the Faroe Islands. The book starts from the premise that the Nordic peripheries offer an especially powerful lens on ’peripherality’ in a globalized and globalizing world, because the region as a whole is traditionally perceived as relatively affluent, stable and with high levels of social equality. Yet, as the different chapters in the book demonstrate - with case studies that illuminate diverse gendered processes - globalization produces ruptures and new social constellations also at the rims of Nordic societies, well beyond the cushioning of comprehensive social welfare regimes. By elevating the empirical findings to more general debates about the gendered effects of globalization the book invites the reader to reflect upon not only Nordic particularities but also how insights from this part of the world can be instructive for understanding the nuances and complexities of global confluences at large.

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Routledge

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1317066790

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9781317066798

The Germanic Languages

Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations

By: Hans Frede Nielsen

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The Germanic Languages

Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations

By: Hans Frede Nielsen

The book is concerned especially with the debate surrounding the grouping of Germanic languages and with the research history of this controversial question. It discusses the methods applied to past attempts and outlines those aplicable to future research in the field.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817304231

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9780817304232

Employment and salary of Nordic coastal fishermen

By: Max Nielsen

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Employment and salary of Nordic coastal fishermen

By: Max Nielsen

Fishers are often perceived to be poor, and low income levels are used to justify subsidies and other types of direct and indirect income support to maintain coastal communities. In this study we investigate fishers’ income levels in four Nordic countries; Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden for different types of fishers and vessels and in comparison to alternative occupations. The most important result is that fishers in these countries are doing relatively well, and only in Sweden is the fishers’ average income level below the average national income. Within the fleets, there are substantial differences. Owners of coastal vessels tend to have the lowest income, and also lower than crews. Owners as well as crews on larger vessels tend to do much better and in the largest fishing nations, Iceland and Norway, very well.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289351918

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9789289351911

Inference and Asymptotics

By: D.R. Cox

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Inference and Asymptotics

By: D.R. Cox

Our book Asymptotic Techniquesfor Use in Statistics was originally planned as an account of asymptotic statistical theory, but by the time we had completed the mathematical preliminaries it seemed best to publish these separately. The present book, although largely self-contained, takes up the original theme and gives a systematic account of some recent developments in asymptotic parametric inference from a likelihood-based perspective. Chapters 1-4 are relatively elementary and provide first a review of key concepts such as likelihood, sufficiency, conditionality, ancillarity, exponential families and transformation models. Then first-order asymptotic theory is set out, followed by a discussion of the need for higher-order theory. This is then developed in some generality in Chapters 5-8. A final chapter deals briefly with some more specialized issues. The discussion emphasizes concepts and techniques rather than precise mathematical verifications with full attention to regularity conditions and, especially in the less technical chapters, draws quite heavily on illustrative examples. Each chapter ends with outline further results and exercises and with bibliographic notes. Many parts of the field discussed in this book are undergoing rapid further development, and in those parts the book therefore in some respects has more the flavour of a progress report than an exposition of a largely completed theory.

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1351438565

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Exports of Nordic Used Textiles

Fate, benefits and impacts

By: Watson, David ,Palm, David,Brix, Louise,Amstrup, Maria,Syversen, Frode ,Nielsen, Rasmus

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Exports of Nordic Used Textiles

Fate, benefits and impacts

By: Watson, David ,Palm, David,Brix, Louise,Amstrup, Maria,Syversen, Frode ,Nielsen, Rasmus

The Nordic Council of Ministers’ Green Growth Initiative highlighted the need for comprehensive collection, reuse and recycling of used textiles as part of a circular economy. Over 100 000 tonnes of used textiles are already collected each year in Nordic countries. This is for the most part carried out by charities to fund their charitable activities. Around three quarters of these textiles are sold on global markets. Does the export of used textiles support the circular economy through reuse and recycling, or are we simply exporting waste to countries that don’t have the facilities to deal with it? And does the export have a negative effect on textile industries in receiving countries? This report answers these questions by tracking flows of exports to their final destinations, and by estimating the socio-economic and environmental impacts arising from their subsequent treatment.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289347694

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9789289347693

Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color

By: Kay Nielsen

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Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color

By: Kay Nielsen

Enchanting images from Nielsen's illustrations for the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Nordic fables from East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. 59 illustrations.

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0486317862

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9780486317861

Structural Adjustment and Regulation of Nordic Fisheries until 2025

By: Max Nielsen,Ayoe Hoff,Rasmus Nielsen,Peder Andersen

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Structural Adjustment and Regulation of Nordic Fisheries until 2025

By: Max Nielsen,Ayoe Hoff,Rasmus Nielsen,Peder Andersen

Fishery policies are broadly debated in the Nordic countries, focusing on balancing biological concern of fish stocks, economic return to society and coastal communities’ interests. Market Based Fisheries Management is used in several Nordic countries today and is the core of these debates. While it by many is considered a powerful tool that works towards ensuring improved economy of fisheries, it is also considered a controversial tool. This report “Structural Adjustment and Regulation of Nordic Fisheries until 2025” document the effects of Marked Based Management of selected Nordic fisheries, forecast the structural development of these until 2025 under the current alternative fishery management. Nordic lessons on Market Based Fisheries Management are also provided as a basis for the political debate on the future of Nordic Fisheries.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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