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Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems (2024)
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Modeling, Identification, and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Industry 4.0 studies and analyzes the role of algorithms in identifying and controlling such a system towards Industry 4.0, which is the digital transformation of manufacturing... Read More about Industry 4.0 more than a challenge in modeling, identification, and control for cyber-physical systems.

On writing instability (2024)
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Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
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This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
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One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
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In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Tackling the climate and ecological crises: Contributions from community, critical community, and liberation psychology (2024)
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In the following chapter, we first provide an overview of the history, variety, values and methods of the community psychologies. Then, we briefly explore some key terms to illustrate how it has not always been easy to achieve what the field aspires... Read More about Tackling the climate and ecological crises: Contributions from community, critical community, and liberation psychology.

Open systems (2024)
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This is a chapter on "Open Systems" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. It describes the history and applications of this concept within economics discourse. The main focus is on the contributions by Kenneth Boulding and... Read More about Open systems.

Ernst Wiecherts Verwindung der christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Metaphysik, oder: mit Pan und Dionysos zum „Ganzen“ als „dunklem Zeugnis“ eines namenlosen Gottes aus Liebe (2024)
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Ernst Wiechert hat sich im Laufe seines Lebens zunehmend von der Metaphysik distanziert und dies auch durch Kritik an ihren christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Ausprägungen und den damit einhergehenden Phänomenen der Moderne deutlich gemacht... Read More about Ernst Wiecherts Verwindung der christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Metaphysik, oder: mit Pan und Dionysos zum „Ganzen“ als „dunklem Zeugnis“ eines namenlosen Gottes aus Liebe.

Institutional and substantive responses to economic and transnational organised crime: An African regional perspective (2024)
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Corporate conduct can have devastating effects on the social, governance, and economic systems of states and regions. The drafters of the Malabo Protocol of the African Union opted to include corporate criminal liability as a mode of liability, thus... Read More about Institutional and substantive responses to economic and transnational organised crime: An African regional perspective.

Thematic analysis (2024)
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This chapter introduces the thematic analysis (TA) family of methods, highlights characteristics shared by the various branches of the TA family, as well as important philosophical, conceptual and procedural differences. We discuss various ways of di... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Nostalgia, ageing, and older age (2024)
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This chapter offers an overview of connections between nostalgia, ageing, and older age and attempts to make a case for engaging with the complexity of older age when analysing nostalgia. The first two sections sketch out the significance of temporal... Read More about Nostalgia, ageing, and older age.

An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries (2024)
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This chapter examines the profound interconnection between the creative and cultural industries (CCI) and neoliberal economic policies, highlighting the influence of such policies on the sector’s development, structural characteristics, and the chall... Read More about An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries.

Top management team characteristics and decision-making nexus post-Brexit: Evidence from an international wealth management firm in Europe (2024)
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This chapter investigates an international wealth management firm, deVere's top management team composition, and the impact of their observable characteristics on strategic decision-making. Concurrently, the study also determines the significance of... Read More about Top management team characteristics and decision-making nexus post-Brexit: Evidence from an international wealth management firm in Europe.

Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
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Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.

Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
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This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
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Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan (2024)
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The belief that a centrally planned system results in wastefulness whilst a market-based system yields an efficient allocation of resources was central to post-Communist economies’ decisions to transform from a centrally planned to a market-based sys... Read More about Connectedness and inequitable access to formal financing in Uzbekistan.

Beauty, media representations and body image (2024)
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This chapter explores the impacts that sociocultural beauty ideals in media have on body image and societal attitudes towards appearance. The chapter begins by outlining how appearance is portrayed in traditional and social media, specifically focusi... Read More about Beauty, media representations and body image.

Agents’ perceptions of the potential use of virtual reality in sales of residential real estate (2024)
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The residential real estate market is critical for the UK economy. Yet, transaction processes are overly complex. Emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR) can help modernise this market whilst saving time and money for all parties involved.... Read More about Agents’ perceptions of the potential use of virtual reality in sales of residential real estate.

Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability (2024)
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In September 2022 UK gilt yields rose by 130 basis points over the course of a couple of days. Fearing broader financial instability, the Bank of England intervened. These events showcased in spectacular fashion an irony of modern market-based financ... Read More about Pension funds, bonds and gilt market stability.