***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 14941 to LNAI 14950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2024, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2024.The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks: -Research Track: The 202 full papers presented here, from this track, were carefully reviewed and selected from 826 submissions. These pap...

This open access book presents the results of the DFG priority program on Scalable Data Management for Future Hardware. It details requirements and solutions of how modern and future hardware architectures can be leveraged to address the challenges in modern data management.The nine chapters of the book present a wide range of data management architectures in conjunction with current hardware developments, often related to applications in data analytics or machine learning. They co...

***NATIONAL BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE 2023 WRITER'S TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN DEBUT FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION AWARDThe fates of two unforgettabl...

This book covers a broad range of topics related to digitalization. Specifically, it views digitalization across different organizational levels, such as the level of individuals, teams, processes, firms, and ecosystems.It includes a collection of recent research and reflections on the topic that helps to understand the technological foundations of digitalization and its impacts. It also reflects on the process of digitalization and how it changes established ways of working, collab...

Attempts at trans-jurisdictional debate and agreement are often beset by mutual misunderstanding. Professionals and academics engaged in comparative criminal law sometimes use the same terms with different meanings or different terms which mean the same thing. Although English is the new lingua franca in international and comparative criminal law, there are many ambiguities and uncertainties with regard to foundational criminal law and criminal justice concepts. However, there exists great...

This timely book addresses gaps in the understanding of how health information technology (IT) impacts on clinical workflows and how the effective implementation of these workflows are central to the safe and effective delivery of care to patients. It features clearly structured chapters covering a range of topics, including aspects of clinical workflows relevant to both practitioners and patients, tools for recording clinical workflow data techniques for potentially redesigning health IT ...

This volume gives a survey of the most recent developments and trends in intergroup research. Diverging from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives (positive distinctiveness, belongingness, etc), the present book focuses not only on the question what motivates intergroup behaviour, but especially on how the motivation of intergroup behaviour functions.The book focuses on the role of emotion and motivation in the development of intergroup conflict, social excl...

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were converted to the search for remaking social life that paradoxically embodied cultural differences and ...

"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethn...

Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. Restoring Civil Societies examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil society can be both pervasive and localized, broad-based and limited to defined social sub-groups. Whatever their scale, Restoring Civil Societies identifies models that analyze ...

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. This book examines how people actively utilize the *carnivalesque—*spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the extraordinary, the ritualistic—to confront, negotiate, disrupt, and transgress normative tr...