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Elderly Sexual Abuse: Theory, Research, and Practice (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society)
by Eric Beauregard Julien ChopinThis book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence. Sexual violence research has often considered children to be the most vulnerable population. However, another population just as vulnerable to sexual abuse but often overlooked by researchers, is the elderly. Evidence shows that elderly victims are more likely to be attacked by strangers, most likely to be victimized in their own homes, and are usually less capable of resisting a physical attack. Drawing on a large and representative dataset, Elderly Sexual Abuse offers a full and theoretically informed picture of the offenders and their crimes. In addition to a specific chapter devoted to prevention and criminal investigation, the book also connects research to practice, exploring what the findings mean for professionals working with these cases and the criminal justice system. This book is essential reading for all those engaged with sexual violence, victimization, elder abuse, and vulnerable populations.
Elections and Democratization in the Philippines (Comparative Studies in Democratization)
by Jennifer FrancoFirst published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democratic, still contributed to democratization by creating the political space needed for democratic oppostion to arise.
Elections as Popular Culture in Asia (Politics in Asia)
by Chua Beng HuatConventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world democracies, or in the various governmental systems present in Asia, can more realistically be seen as cultural events in which candidates’ campaigns are shaped, consciously or unconsciously, to appeal to the cultural understanding and practices of the electorate. The election campaign period is one in which the masses are mobilized to participate in a range of cultural activities, from flying the party colours in noisy motorcycle parades to attending political rallies for or against, or simply to be entertained by the performances on the political stage, and to gambling on the outcome of the contest. The essays in this book analyse electioneering activities in nine Asian countries in terms of popular cultural practices in each location, ranging from updated traditional cultures to mimicry and caricatures of present day television dramas. In presenting political election as an expression of popular culture this book portrays electoral behaviour as a meaningful cultural practice. As such this book will appeal to student and scholars of political science and cultural studies alike, as well as those with a more general interest in Asian studies.
Elective Language Study and Policy in Israel
by Malka Muchnik Marina Niznik Anbessa Teferra Tania GluzmanThis book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools. The authors explore language policy and the way languages are studied from the point of view of students, teachers, schools and curricula. Language in Israel is a loaded concept, closely linked to ideological, political, and social issues. The profound changes in language policy in the West along with two large waves of immigration from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia resulted in new attitudes towards immigrant languages and cultures in Israel. Are these new attitudes strong enough to change the language policy in the future? What do students and teachers think about the language instruction at school? Are the teaching materials updated and do they address modern demands? This book provides answers to these and other questions. As well as describing the instruction of two heritage languages, Russian and Amharic, and two foreign languages, French and Spanish, the book also contains an extensive background on the immigration history and acculturation process of the speakers of each of these languages. An in-depth understanding of the case of Israel will serve as a guide for other countries contending with similar issues pertaining to the adjustment of language policies in light of immigration and other challenging circumstances.
Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power
by Eric C. C. Chang Mark Andreas Kayser Drew A. Linzer Ronald RogowskiThis book investigates the effects of electoral systems on the relative legislative and, hence, regulatory influence of competing interests in society. Building on Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser's extension of the classic Stigler–Peltzman model of regulation, the authors demonstrate that majoritarian electoral arrangements should empower consumers relative to producers. Employing real price levels as a proxy for consumer power, the book rigorously establishes this proposition over time, within the OECD, and across a large sample of developing countries. Majoritarian electoral arrangements depress real prices by approximately ten percent, all else equal. The authors carefully construct and test their argument and broaden it to consider the overall welfare effects of electoral system design and the incentives of actors in the choice of electoral institutions.
Electric Mountains: Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition (Nature, Society, and Culture)
by Shaun A. GoldingClimate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America’s most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England’s iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked.
Electric Power For Rural Growth: How Electricity Affects Rural Life In Developing Countries
by Douglas F. BarnesThis book offers important historical information on the state of rural electrification in the 1980s. It also summarizes the development of benefit evaluation methods, along with findings from recent research on the impact of rural electrification for development.
Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Gender, Theory, and Religion)
by Aisha Beliso-De JesúsSantería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, and religious travelers remake local, national, and political boundaries and reconfigure notions of technology and transnationalism.Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel. Santería's spirits, deities, and practitioners allow digital technologies to be used in new ways, inciting unique encounters through video and other media. Doing away with traditional perceptions of Santería as a static, localized practice or as part of a mythologized "past," this book emphasizes the religion's dynamic circulations and calls for nontranscendental understandings of religious transnationalisms.
Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary
by Prof. Carolyn L. KaneBridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.
Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century
by Sébastien Darchen Damien Charrieras John WillsteedThis book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural and political histories, in the development of mainstream EDM scenes and underground Electronic Dance Music Cultures. This expansive work offers additional insights on cultural and creative policies, planning interventions and regulations associated with nightlife management, and provides a detailed analysis of current challenges inherent to the governance of EDM scenes in contemporary cities.
Electronic Communication: Technology And Impacts
by Madeline M. Henderson Marcia J. MacNaughtonElectronic communications technology and services permeate every aspect of national life. This book examines the current and expected states of the technology and considers the societal impact and policy issues arising from new technological developments. Particular attention is paid to evaluation of computerized conferencing for enhanced communication among researchers in specialized and interdisciplinary fields and to technology assessments of criminal justice and tax administration systems.
Electronic Databases and Publishing
by Albert HendersonThe true pioneers in electronic publishing put their bibliographic databases on tape and online in the 1960s. Nearly all of them had long experience with compiling information for distribution in printed form and a strong market connection. As a result of Soviet advances in science and space technology, American government support for information science and academic libraries flowed freely for a little over a decade, making possible tremendous advances in technology, in retrieval techniques and in sophisticated coverage. Advances in information technology and market conditions have encouraged many more participants to underwrite the development of databases that now extend into the arts, social sciences, business, and popular interests. These essays show how production statistics accompanied by statements of editorial coverage provide a fairly accurate reflection of output of many of the major disciplinary bibliographic databases. The urgent priority of information resources in the 1960s has encouraged comprehensive servicing of the formal research literature as published in journals and monographs. Authors have counted subject words, languages, origins, types of publication, and so on over several decades. This volume also includes articles on some databases that are not strictly bibliographic, such as the CMG database of college courses, which illuminates some of the changes in college textbook publishing. Information seekers will find the many tables of practical use, as guidance to what and how much may be found within each database. Analysts of publishing, of science policy, and of higher education will find information relevant to expenditures, human resources, and other indicators of education, research, and technology activity.
Electronic Feedback in Large University Statistics Courses: The Longitudinal Effects of Quizzes on Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition
by Andreas MaurDigital tools and pedagogies in public higher education are unfolding their potential by providing large groups of students with automated, continuous learning and feedback opportunities. However, most of the existing studies are cross-sectional, unidirectional and focus on a limited selection of relevant target variables and instructional features. In a field study, Andreas Maur used longitudinal latent structural equation modelling with a large sample of students to analyse the interrelations between formative feedback from electronic quizzes and different facets of the control value theory of achievement emotions. The results suggest that regular quizzes most consistently improve self-efficacy, anxiety, effort, course enjoyment, and hopelessness over time. Only feedback effects related to intrinsic motivation were consistently less effective for female and less proficient students, and for students in traditional versus flipped classrooms. These findings highlight the need to scale up formative feedback in higher education and to cultivate feedback systems with higher levels of sophistication, adaptability, and gamification mechanics.
Electronic Governance and Open Society: 5th International Conference, EGOSE 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 14-16, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #947)
by Dmitrii Trutnev Evgeny Roshchin Andrei Chugunov Yuri MisnikovThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on AElectronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2018, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2018. The 36 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart city infrastructure, policy; digital privacy, rights,security;data science, machine learning, algorithms, computational linguistics; digital public administration, economy, policy; digital services, values, inclusion; digital democracy, participation, security, communities, social media, activism; social media discourse analysis; digital data, policy modeling; digital government, administration, communication.
Electronic Governance and Open Society: 8th International Conference, EGOSE 2021, Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 24–25, 2021, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1529)
by Marijn Janssen Andrei V. Chugunov Dmitrii Trutnev Yuri Misnikov Igor KhodachekThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2021.The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions, additionally one invited paper has been included in this volume. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital technology and design; digital Society; digital government and economy.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 10th International Conference, EGOVIS 2021, Virtual Event, September 27–30, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12926)
by Enrico Francesconi Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele Kotsis Andrea KöThis volume LNCS 12926 constitutes the papers of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2021, held in September 2021 as part of the DEXA 2021 conference. The event was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions and focus on information systems and ICT aspects of e-government. The papers are organized in 3 topical sections: e-government theoretical background and cases; identity management and legal issues; artificial intelligence and machine learning in e-government context.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 11th International Conference, EGOVIS 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13429)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea Kő Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele KotsisThis volume LNCS 12429 constitutes the papers of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 20221, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2022. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions and focus on information systems and ICT aspects of e-government. The papers are organized in 3 topical sections: e-government theoretical background; semantic technologies and legal issues;; artificial intelligence and machine learning in e-government context.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 12th International Conference, EGOVIS 2023, Penang, Malaysia, August 28–30, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14149)
by Enrico Francesconi Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele Kotsis Andrea Kö Adeleh AsemiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2023, which took place in Penang, Malaysia, during August 28-30, 2023.The 8 full papers presented together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: e-Government; strategy; artificial intelligence.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 13th International Conference, EGOVIS 2024, Naples, Italy, August 26–28, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14913)
by Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele Kotsis Andrea KöThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2024, which took place in Naples, Italy, in August 2024. The 10 full and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI in E-Government; E-Government cases; mobile government and digital inclusion; open government data and security.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 5th International Conference, EGOVIS 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9831)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea KőThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 22 revised full papers presented together with three invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: e-government cases - legal issues; e-government cases - technical issues; open data and transparency; knowledge representation and modeling in e-government; intelligent systems in e-government; e-government research and intelligent systems; e-government data and knowledge management; identity management in e-government.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 6th International Conference, EGOVIS 2017, Lyon, France, August 28-31, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10441)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea KőThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers areorganized in the following topical sections: digitalization and transparency; open data ecosystems; intelligent systems in e-government; e-government research and intelligent systems; m-government and inclusion; e-government cases - data knowledge management; and knowledge management in the context of e-government.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 7th International Conference, EGOVIS 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3–5, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11032)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea KőThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digitalization and transparency; challenges in e-government technology and e-voting; knowledge management in the context of e-government; semantic technologies and the legal aspects; open data and open innovation; and e-government cases - data and knowledge management.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 8th International Conference, EGOVIS 2019, Linz, Austria, August 26–29, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11709)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea Kő Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele Anderst-KotsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019. The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: open data and open innovation; data-driven approaches in e-government; e-government cases – data and knowledge management; e-government theoretical background; and digitalization and transparency.
Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 9th International Conference, EGOVIS 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12394)
by Enrico Francesconi Andrea Kő Ismail Khalil A Min Tjoa Gabriele KotsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2020, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2020. The 15 full and one short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Knowledge representation and modeling in e-Government; e-Government theoretical background; E-Government cases - data and knowledge management; identity management and legal issues; artificial intelligence and machine learning in e-Government context.
Electronic Government: 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9820)
by Efthimios Tambouris Maria A. Wimmer Delfina Sá Soares Tomasz Janowski Hans Jochen Scholl Marijn Janssen Bram Klievink Ida Lindgren Peter Parycek Olivier GlasseyThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2016, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2016. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: foundations; benchmarking and evaluation; information integration and governance; services; evaluation and public values; EGOV success and failure; governance; social media; engagement; processes; policy-making; trust, transparency and accountability; open government and big/open data; smart government/governance/cities.