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Against a backdrop of shifting political climates, digital transformations, and evolving cultural landscapes, Volume 63 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction offers a timely and incisive exploration of how identities are built, performed, and negotiated within contemporary social worlds, demonstrating the enduring relevance of symbolic interactionism for understanding how individuals make sense of themselves and others.Across its chapters, contributors examine identity work i...

Leading analyst Sandy Chen provides a thorough guide to the analysis and valuation of banks. Unlike other businesses and institutions, banks have a number of unique characteristics that need to be taken into account when performing a valuation and as such traditional valuation methodologies are unsuitable and more specialized techniques required.

Nature Tourism augments the current literature on the benefits and pitfalls in recent developments of nature tourism, tracing the history of development, highlighting the ecological impacts, and showcasing the current practices in nature tourism.Along with discussions on specific tourist markets from holistic viewpoints, this book examines lessons learned from various destination nations and continents across the globe. This new second edition has been updated to include:

In recent decades, the fast rise of emerging economies, like the BRICS nations, has propelled the growth of tourism worldwide. Meanwhile, a plethora of nature destinations has been developed to meet the diverse needs of the new wave of demand from emerging economies and to entice existing tourists from advanced and rich economies.Nature Tourism augments the current literature on the benefits and pitfalls in recent developments of nature tourism, tracing the history in deve...

This volume contains an Open Access chapter.This edited collection showcases the usefulness of symbolic interactionism in examining concurrent social issues which demand researchers’ attention - symbolic interactionists demonstrate their roots in pragmatism by examining contemporary social issues, mental health, gun control and the homeless. Although these issues have been around for quite some time, recent changes in social, political, and economic landscapes have...

Over the course of more than seventy years, symbolic interactionism as a resourceful and conceptually rich perspective has generated variegated lines of research.In Essential Methods in Symbolic Interaction, symbolic interactionists who adopt different methods in their research articulate the methodological issues critical to their research. Methods discussed include Grounded Theory method, qualitative laboratory method, qualitative media analysis, music research, as well ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), an umbrella term that includes any device capable of emulating or even exceeding human capabilities, emerged as computer technologies became more sophisticated and complex. Recent rapid developments in AI have utilized the pattern-matching capacity to create words, images, and sounds, often referred to as Generative AI. In 2022, Open-AI unveiled ChatGPT, a computer program designed to simulate conversation with users. After receiving input from users, ChatGPT ...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published annually since 2004, aims to promote seminal and innovative research outputs related to hospitality, leisure, tourism, and lifestyle. Specifically, this journal encourages researchers to investigate new research issues and problems that are critical but have been largely overlooked, while providing a forum to disseminate singular thoughts that advance empirical undertakings both theoreticall...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop, OMIA 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 27, 2025.The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 33 submissions.This workshop aimed to bring together scientists, clinicians, and students from multiple disciplines in the growing ophthalmic image analysis community such as electronic engineering, computer science, mathematics,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop, CDMRI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. The workshop took place in Daejeon, South Korea, on September 27, 2025.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They focus on all aspects of diffusion MRI acquisition, analysis, and application, bringing us ...

A perennial challenge for theological education is the integration of what is learned in the classroom with students’ church life and ministry. Is there a connection? How can greater connection be fostered? Many seminaries earnestly wrestle with these questions. Whereas some of the underlying issues are common to all seminaries, others are influenced by the cultural context in which theological education, church life, and ministry take place. In additional to cultural factors, the history,...

In a world where believers face increasing opposition, how do we pray for—and relate to—human rulers? This timely and engaging book takes us back to the pages of Luke–Acts to explore what Scripture says about government authorities and their role in the gospel story.Through careful biblical and historical analysis, it uncovers one possible reason why Luke emphasized centurions and other officials in his two-volume work to Theophilus. Tracing this theme from the Old Testament throug...