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Barack Obama Han blev valgt på løftet om at forandre USA. ”Change We Can Believe In” lød det valgslogan, der henrykkede både amerikanerne og resten af verden. I 2009 blev Obama indsat som Amerikas 44. præsident. Fem år er nu gået, siden Barack Obama blev taget i ed som præsident, og spørgsmålet er: Har han forandret Amerika? I denne antologi søger skribenterne på Kongressen.com at give svaret. Ud fra såvel indenrigs- som udenrigspolitiske vinkler ser de tilbage på Obamas første fem år ved ...

Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? And, relevant in what sense? These are some o...

A new framework for analyzing global power dynamics and the neglected role of small statesIn the decades since the Cold War, international relations scholarship has predominantly examined global power dynamics through the lens of great powers—namely, the United States—and rising powers such as China. This narrow focus overlooks small states, which are a critical component of the international system. As global power structures rapidly evolve and traditional alliances become increas...

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ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea.This analysis serves as a prism to investigate wider trends, particularly in female employ...

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022 on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19–23, 2022.The 73 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. ECML PKDD 2022 presents the following five workshops:

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online.The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops:Workshop on A...

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022 on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19–23, 2022.The 73 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. ECML PKDD 2022 presents the following workshops:...

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Seit Kurzem sind Tiago und Shari zusammen und schon wartet die nächste Herausforderung auf die beiden. Ihre Mitschüler an der Blue Reef High drehen einen Film – und Tiago soll die Hauptrolle spielen! Seine Filmpartnerin wird ausgerechnet Python-Wandlerin Ella, die Tochter der kriminellen Anwältin Lydia Lennox. Während Tiago mit Ella vor der Kamera steht, bekommt Shari unversehens die Chance, an einem echten Filmset zu drehen! Kann das gutgehen? Zur gleichen Zeit wird in der Lagune ein selt...