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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

The rapidly growing world population and increasingly dense settlements demand ever-larger and more complex buildings from today's engineers. In comparison to this technological progress, a building's equipment for emergency evacuation has been hardly developed further. This work presents a concept for a building evacuation system based on mobile devices. Furthermore, various algorithms for route planning with mobile devices and for indoor localization of mobile devices are addressed.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731502070

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Collectivist Visions of Modernity

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Collectivist Visions of Modernity

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Poland, and Donald Trump’s United States.

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Central European University Press

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9633863104

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9789633863107

Lived Theology

Impulses for a Pastoral Theology of Empowerment

By: Sabrina Muller

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Lived Theology

Impulses for a Pastoral Theology of Empowerment

By: Sabrina Muller

The common priesthood is one of the central concepts of Protestant ecclesiology—and yet it remains a marginal phenomenon in practical theological discourses. The unwieldy wording and the theologically dense conception make it difficult to talk about. For that reason, the question arises as to how “priestesses” and “priests” show themselves today, what life plans they have, and what their lived theology looks like, which must again and again change and prove itself in everyday life. This lived theology is at the center of Sabrina Müller’s attention. Such theology focuses not on the traditional forms of church alone, nor is there a return to parochial core church structures. Rather, religious social-media phenomena are also the subject of this study. For in such digital places lived theologies emerge at a rapid pace, and new leadership structures are formed. Müller thus expands the concept of the common priesthood to include an essential new aspect and advocates that ordained and non-ordained persons meet on a theological level. With its strong emphasis on empowerment, the book is not only based on traditional discussions from church theory and pastoral theology but also implicitly leans on feminist conceptions and topics from liberation theology.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725273969

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9781725273962

Social Currents in Eastern Europe

The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Social Currents in Eastern Europe

The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Examines the meanings and sources of various social currents - intellectual dissent, feminism, religious activism, the formation of independent youth cultures and movements, and trade unionism - in seven communist countries.

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Duke University Press

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0822315483

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9780822315483

East Central Europe and Communism

Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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East Central Europe and Communism

Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000877124

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9781000877120

History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

The dramatic history of Russia proves fertile ground for laughter in this volume of humorous verse by the author of Pets of the Great Dictators. Sabrina P. Ramet is a serious academic with a seriously funny side. She has made major contributions to European history with her scholarly work on the former Yugoslavia. But her most unique contribution may be the well-informed and wackily executed poems in this volume. No Russian is safe from Sabrina’s hammer-and-sickle wit. Even the most fearsome and formidable—Lenin, Stalin, Peter the Great, and many others—are shown to be buffoons in this collection of satirical poems as dry as a straight shot of vodka.

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New Acdemia+ORM

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195583508X

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9781955835084

Mediated Bordering

Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border

By: Sabrina Ellebrecht

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Mediated Bordering

Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border

By: Sabrina Ellebrecht

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat mediate a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of viapolitics.

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transcript Verlag

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3839447534

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9783839447536

The Gender Bias

The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

By: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

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The Gender Bias

The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them

By: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are so brave!', while the other is asked: 'Isn't that dangerous? Aren't you scared? What about your kids?' Can you guess the difference between the two? These comments are the reality for Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and many other women at work and in life. Gender biases stop women from succeeding - but why are certain qualities associated with success viewed less favourably for women? After leaving home at 15, going through extreme personal adversity and a period of homelessness, Sabrina gained first-hand experience of the hurdles women face to become successful. In The Gender Bias, she explores the everyday prejudices women experience through the prism of success. From leadership, to risk-taking, perception and failure, Sabrina exposes the invisible barriers that are holding women back. Through an analysis of studies and data, Sabrina unpicks why women are judged differently, examines why that matters and offers practical solutions on how we can tackle our biases and overcome sustained systems.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1788707230

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9781788707237

Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

The Freedom to Conform

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

The Freedom to Conform

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

“This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual “histories” of a single country arguing for the “two German states”, and the three political systems.”- Prof. Dr. László Kürti, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Miskolc, Hungary This book contrasts three very different incarnations of Germany – the totalitarian Third Reich, the communist German Democratic Republic, and the democratic Federal Republic of Germany up to 1990 – in terms of their experiences with and responses to nonconformity, dissent, opposition, and resistance and the role played by those factors in each case. Although even innocent nonconformity came with a price in all three systems and in the post-war occupation zones, the price was the highest in Nazi Germany. . It is worth stressing that what qualifies as nonconformity and dissent depends on the social and political context and, thus, changes over time. Like those in active dissent, opposition, or resistance, nonconformists are rebels (whether they are conscious of it or not), and have repeatedly played a role in pushing for change, whether through reform of legislation, transformation of the public’s attitudes, or even regime change.

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Springer Nature

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3030554120

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9783030554125

Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

The Postmigrant Condition

By: Moritz Schramm,Sten Pultz Moslund,Anne Ring Petersen,Mirjam Gebauer,Hans Christian Post,Sabrina Vitting-Seerup,Frauke Wiegand

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Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

The Postmigrant Condition

By: Moritz Schramm,Sten Pultz Moslund,Anne Ring Petersen,Mirjam Gebauer,Hans Christian Post,Sabrina Vitting-Seerup,Frauke Wiegand

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts. The authors explore postmigrant theory in relation to the visual arts, theater, film and literature as well as the representation of migration and cultural diversity in cultural institutions, offering case studies of postmigrant analyses of contemporary works of art from Europe (mainly Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).

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Routledge

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0429013671

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9780429013676

The Three Yugoslavias

State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

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The Three Yugoslavias

State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005

By: Sabrina P. Ramet

Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork and the culmination of more than two decades of study, The Three Yugoslavias is a major contribution to an understanding of Yugoslavia and its successor states.

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Indiana University Press

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0253346568

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9780253346568

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

By: Sabrina Merkel

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

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Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe

Lived Theology

Lived Theology

Social Currents in Eastern Europe

Social Currents in Eastern Europe

East Central Europe and Communism

East Central Europe and Communism

History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse

History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse

Mediated Bordering

Mediated Bordering

The Gender Bias

The Gender Bias

Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990

Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

The Three Yugoslavias

The Three Yugoslavias

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Building Evacuation with Mobile Devices

Building Evacuation With Mobile Devices

Building Evacuation With Mobile Devices

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