Tag: Transformation

Operational Research in the Era of Digital Transformation and Business Analytics


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English | PDF,EPUB (True) | 2023 | 283 Pages | ISBN : 3031242939 | 21 MB
This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in Operational Research and Management Science with a special focus on Business Analytics. Featuring selected contributions from the XIV Balkan Conference on Operational Research held in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2020 (BALCOR 2020), it addresses applications and methodological tools or techniques in various areas of Operational Research, such as agent-based modelling, big data and business analytics, data envelopment analysis, data mining, decision support systems, fuzzy systems, game theory, heuristics, metaheuristics and nature inspired optimization algorithms, linear and nonlinear programming, machine learning, multiple criteria decision analysis, network design and optimization, queuing theory, simulation and statistics.

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Homo Interpretans Towards a Transformation of Hermeneutics


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English | ISBN: 1786608820 | 2019 | 316 pages | PDF | 6 MB
When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author’s perspective which removes the anthropological interdict that has hampered hermeneutics since Heidegger. Michel proposes an anthropology of homo interpretans as the first and founding principle of fundamental ontology (relating to the meaning of being) as well as of the theory of knowledge (relating to interpretation in the human sciences). He argues that the root of hermeneutics lies in ordinary interpretative techniques (explication, clarification, unveiling), rather than as a set of learned technologies applied to specific fields (texts, symbols, actions).

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Financial Inclusion and Digital Transformation Regulatory Practices in Selected SADC Countries


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English | PDF | 2023 | 379 Pages | ISBN : 3031238621 | 4.3 MB
This book investigates the regulation and promotion of financial inclusion and provides a comparative analysis of the regulation, promotion and enforcement of the relevant laws in the SADC (in particular, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe), as well as the challenges of financial inclusion. In turn, it evaluates financial inclusion in the context of specific challenges faced by unbanked and underbanked customers, who are easy targets for cyber criminals because they tend to have lower levels of digital literacy.

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Transformation of the University


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English | ISBN: 0367610264 | 2022 | 196 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Transformation of the University imagines preferable futures for the University, building hope for the institution’s necessary transformation. It transcends old criticism and presents fresh ideas on how the institution might be conceived, organized, and put into practice while safeguarding that which makes it a university – the pursuit of knowledge.

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Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032434740 | 193 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved loss and trauma.

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Normative Transformation and the War on Terrorism The Evolution of Targeted Killing, Torture, and Private Military Cont


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English | ISBN: 1316515176 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 1172 KB
Pratt investigates the potential erosion of prohibiting assassination, torture, and mercenarism during the US’s War on Terrorism. In examining the emergence and history of the US’s targeted killing programme, detention and interrogation programme, and employment of armed contractors in warzones, he proposes that a ‘normative transformation’ has occurred, which has changed the meaning and content of these prohibitions, even though they still exist. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy, practice theory, and relational sociology, this book develops a new theory of normativity and institutional change, and offers new data about the decisions and activities of security practitioners. It is both a critical and constructive addition to the current literature on norm change, and addresses enduring debates about the role of culture and ethical judgement in the use of force. It will appeal to students and scholars of foreign and defence policy, international relations theory, international security, social theory, and American politics.

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Transformation of Chinese Newspaper Companies Management, Production and Administration


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English | ISBN: 0367085615 | 2018 | 186 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book focuses on the transformation of Chinese newspaper companies in aspects of managerial strategies, newsroom practices and interactions with national policies. The comparative case study of two publishers comprises empirical evidence from editors, editor-in-chiefs, commercial staff, managers, technicians and scholarly experts. Locating in the intersection of media management, journalism and media policy, its analytical devices include differing but related theories.

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