This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants’ biographies. For international migrants, life journeys are less conventional or patterned, while their family, work, and educational trajectories are simultaneously more fragmented and intermingled. The authors discuss the challenges faced by migrants and returnees when trying to make sense of their life courses after years of experience in other countries with different age norms and cultural values. The book also examines the ways to reconcile competing cultural expectations of both origin and destination societies regarding the timing of transitions between roles to provide a meaningful account of their life courses. Migration is, itself, a major life event, with profound implications for the pursuit of migrants’ life goals, organization of family life, and personal networks, and it can affect, to a considerable degree, their subjective well-being. <div> <br> </div> <div> Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.  </div>
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<p>Because water access, distribution and quality are the most urgent challenges for societies across the world, this book focuses on the current and future demands and challenges in the areas of water scarcity we may face and possible solutions in terms of technology and management including infrastructure changes that are needed for the future smart cities. Readers of this book shall gain an increased understanding of water supply and its demands and shall learn some of the research trends to overcome global water scarcity and urban growth by creating smart cities. <b></b></p>
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Ein Virus verändert das Antlitz der Welt: Im Februar 2020 tritt Covid-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019), eine Infektionserkrankung aus China, die durch ein Coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) verursacht wird, erstmals in Europa auf und bringt innerhalb wenige Wochen das gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Leben zum Erliegen. Man vermutet Fledermäuse als Überträger, die in Wuhan für den ersten großen Ausbruch gesorgt haben. Die Covid-19-Pandemie lässt viele Fragen offen, die es wissenschaftlich zu beleuchten gilt. Sie hat enorme soziale, wirtschaftliche und politische Auswirkungen, ebenso auf die medizinische Forschung, die mit Hochdruck daran arbeitet, dieses Virus in den Griff zu bekommen. In ihrem neuesten Buch geht Miryam Muhm den drängendsten Fragen nach: Woher stammt Covid-19? Existierte es womöglich schon früher? Wie wirkt sich die Krankheit aus? Ihre tiefgreifenden Recherchen zeigen, dass Covid-19 bereits vor Februar 2020 in Europa existiert und nicht nur eine Lungenentzündung, sondern eine systemische Entzündung des Körpers auslöst, die als virale Vaskulitis überall Blutgerinnsel verursacht. Chinesische Studien haben ergeben, dass die meisten Todesfälle darauf zurückzuführen sind und dass eine Behandlung mit Heparin Erfolg verspricht. Dennoch beharren die WHO, deren größter Privatfinanzier Bill Gates ist, und die Pharmaindustrie – darunter eine Impfstofffirma von Bill Gates – darauf, dass nur ein neu zu entwickelnder und weltweit eingesetzter Impfstoff die Pandemie beenden kann. Dabei werden andere mögliche Therapien beiseitegeschoben, was doppelt bedenklich ist, da die normalen Sicherheitsstandards, die für die Entwicklung eines Impfstoffs gelten, bei einer Pandemie außer Kraft gesetzt sind. Sogar anerkannte Mediziner wie Dr. Stephen Fauci aus der Covid-19-Taskforce von Donald Trump warnen davor, dass Impfungen eine infektionsverstärkende Wirkung haben könnten. Dabei gibt es jetzt schon Möglichkeiten zur Selbsthilfe: Wie Miryam Muhm anhand von vielversprechende Studien zeigt, kann Vitamin D nicht nur die Ansteckungsgefahr reduzieren, sondern auch die gravierenden Folgen von Covid-19 lindern.
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The book provides an analysis of the dynamics of the global launch service market associated with small satellites, by placing a particular focus on its unfolding trends and future outlook. <br>From an economic perspective, the emergence of numerous micro launcher initiatives on top of already existing launch solutions for small satellites raises questions about the specific nature and size of the small satellite market that will  - or could  - be addressed by these emerging launch services offerings. Identifying the specific features of such market by characterizing customers' expectations and providing a competitive analysis of the different launch solutions for small satellites is the second objective of this report. <br>Finally, and from a policy perspective, the book reflects on whether such market could and should be handled on a purely private basis in the European context, or on the contrary generates relevant stakes that compels European institutional actors to become more actively involved in this domain.
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<div> This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chagos Islanders' petition to the European Court of Human Rights and Mauritius' successful challenge, under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, to the UK government's creation of a Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Archipelago. This book, produced in response to the 50th anniversary of the BIOT's founding, also assesses the impact of the decisions taken in respect of the Territory against a wider background of decolonization while addressing important questions about the lawfulness of maintaining Overseas Territories in the post-colonial era. <div> The chapter ‘ <i>Anachronistic As Colonial Remnants May Be...’ - Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders As A Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial Territories</i> is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. </div> </div>
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Successfully implement a blended learning program with this step-by-step guide! The Blended Workbook: Learning to Design the Schools of Our Future is the practical companion to Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. Through real-world implementation exercises it will help you get the most out of the text. From understanding the basics of blended learning to fine-tuning your current program, this workbook gives you hands-on practice that will expand your knowledge base and help you develop a plan for your own classroom or school to create a student-centered education design that personalizes for all students. Key points drawn from over 50 case studies illustrate what works, what doesn't, and how to build a successful blended-learning program. This workbook's organizational structure allows you to jump in at any point to access field-tested exercises that will deepen your understanding of the design process. Blended learning is inspiring K-12 educators with an improved student experience that includes the best of face-to-face and online learning formats to personalize learning and deepen engagement. This workbook provides hands-on training exercises that help you design and implement an effective program with practical guidance from the experts. You will: * Examine case studies that illustrate blended learning * Solidify your understanding of effective blended-learning design * Complete illustrative exercises to further your implementation expertise * Evaluate the many paths blended learning can take, and implement what works best for your students Blended learning is a proven, highly rewarding learning strategy. However, the success of your program relies on proper design and implementation. As a companion to Blended this hands-on workbook helps you reap the benefits and strengthen your expertise.
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<p>The spectra of transfer operators associated to dynamical systems, when acting on suitable Banach spaces, contain key information about the ergodic properties of the systems. Focusing on expanding and hyperbolic maps, this book gives a self-contained account on the relation between zeroes of dynamical determinants, poles of dynamical zeta functions, and the discrete spectra of the transfer operators.</p> <p>In the hyperbolic case, the first key step consists in constructing a suitable Banach space of anisotropic distributions. The first part of the book is devoted to the easier case of expanding endomorphisms, showing how the (isotropic) function spaces relevant there can be studied via Paley–Littlewood decompositions, and allowing easier access to the construction of the anisotropic spaces which is performed in the second part.</p> <p>This is the first book describing the use of anisotropic spaces in dynamics. Aimed at researchers and graduate students, it presents results and techniques developed since the beginning of the twenty-first century.</p>
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Las respuestas de la ciencia a las cuestiones clave de la Genética: los organismos transgénicos, clones y mutaciones, la epigenética, la bioética, el papel de los genes en nuestras emociones, la estructura del ADN, la ingeniería genética y la medicina predictiva. ¿Cómo se construye un organismo desde el ADN?, ¿Se pueden crear mutantes?, ¿Cómo funciona el virus del SIDA?, ¿Qué es una dieta genética?, ¿Cómo se crea una planta transgénica?, ¿Para qué sirven los biochips?, ¿Existen los bebés a la carta?, ¿Existe el gen de la inmortalidad?, ¿Qué es la genética de poblaciones?, ¿Qué es un reloj molecular?
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