The book sheds light on the relationship between human rights and comparative education research, particularly in the context of reproductive healthcare, democracy, and equality. It focuses on the interpretation of human rights and reproductive healthcare globally.

Human rights education is not only about principles and goals. It is also a dialogue about tools and methodologies that can be used to deliver quality and value-added education, which reflects the values of social justice and human rights. It raises strategic questions about where to prioritize efforts: whether we should concentrate on human rights education and reproductive healthcare for legal professionals in developing countries, or perhaps, prioritise community learning or focus on primary school children instead? It also emphasizes the need for effective pedagogy and curriculum design tailored for these diverse contexts.

This book analyses education and policy issues affecting human rights and reproductive healthcare globally. It provides innovative ideas concerning the future directions for teaching human rights, and promotes more engaging and more meaningful knowledge of human rights values and reproductive healthcare globally.

This book presents a rigorous academic investigation into the digital transformation of public hospitals in China, drawing upon four in-depth case studies from leading tertiary hospitals in Shanghai-Ruijin Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital, Huashan Hospital, and the Sixth People's Hospital. The cases, selected into the five major international business case repositories (ChinaCases.Org, Harvard Business School, Ivey, European, and Japanese Business Case Centers), provide rare empirical evidence and analytical frameworks for understanding the strategic, technological, and organizational dimensions of digital transformation in large-scale public healthcare institutions. Notably, three academicians also contributed directly to the writing of this volume, further enhancing its scholarly depth and practical relevance.

Beyond descriptive accounts, the book critically examines the design and deployment of digital platforms, AI-powered diagnostic systems, clinical data integration architectures, and governance models for patient-centric services. Contributions from renowned academicians, experts, and senior hospital administrators complement the case studies with theoretical perspectives and policy-relevant insights into digital infrastructure development, talent-system alignment, and the evolving role of public hospitals in the smart healthcare ecosystem.

Positioned at the intersection of health economics, hospital management, and digital strategy, this book offers high scholarly value to researchers, graduate students (MBA, MHA, EMBA), healthcare policymakers, and practitioners. It serves as both a research-based reference and a pedagogical resource for advancing the theory and practice of healthcare digitalization in emerging economies.

This book captures Zimbabwe's economic and social history with a focus on the various colonial categories as they interacted and unfolded. It analyses the complex histories of colonialism by illustrating the points of intersection in and interaction of the various aspects of colonialism. Chapters within the book demonstrate how various aspects of colonial society - environmental, ideological, and economic - related to each other.

This book departs from earlier similar publications in how various themes or elements in society were interwoven. Existing titles in this area tend to isolate a single theme, such as environmental or women's history, from other categories. In reality, colonial spaces, however, did not exist in isolation. The social, economic, political, ideological and environmental factors, for instance, were intricately interconnected. The book includes topics such as health infrastructure and urbanization in Southern Rhodesia, encounters between plastic manufacturing industries and the Customs Union, the development and maintenance of Rhodesia's road infrastructure, livestock diseases, the conversion of indigenous lands into wildlife sanctuaries, and the brutalization of workers.

Marketing is undergoing a radical transformation: companies face the challenge of strategically leveraging a flood of technologies, data, and automation opportunities. But how can MarTech and Artificial Intelligence be used effectively to secure competitive advantages?

This book combines scientifically grounded insights with practical best practices and helps bring clarity to the often-overwhelming MarTech landscape. Andreas Fuchs demonstrates how companies can make optimal use of their data foundation, create personalized customer experiences, and intelligently orchestrate marketing processes.

The Marketing Technology Framework serves as the structured foundation-from data strategy and smart segmentation to seamless cross-channel customer interaction. Numerous real-world examples and concrete recommendations make this book an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to leverage MarTech as a true engine of growth.

Contents

• Why MarTech is the future of marketing
• Know Phase: Building a solid data foundation
• Analyze Phase: Understanding and predicting customer behavior
• Orchestrate Phase: Creating a unified experience across all channels
• Engage & Measure Phase: Measuring and optimizing marketing activities
• Artificial Intelligence and automation in marketing

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore the deep structure of complexity-from cosmic origins and planetary evolution to biological innovation, human development, civilizational dynamics, and possible future trajectories.

Notably, several chapters bridge multiple phases of Big History, providing valuable cross-disciplinary insights-such as comparisons between cosmic and terrestrial evolution and analyses of energy dissipation across physical and complex adaptive systems.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of complexity's manifestations and transformations across time and scale. By exploring these diverse topics, the book contributes to the broader field of Big History, deepening our understanding of complexity's interconnected nature across the cosmos, life, and human civilization.

This book examines the structure of university knowledge production as publications. Offering an in-depth case study on a medium-size Italian university, it explores networks of collaboration by evidencing the relationship between internal and external authors, their productivity, and the role of team size taking also a longitudinal perspective.

This book investigates also partner's selection mechanisms in terms of institutional and disciplinary, gender, and academic role proximity. The pathologies of contemporary scientific practice, such as large team size, are discussed within a broad interdisciplinary theoretical landscape.

The book shows that knowledge is produced locally and transferred globally by constituting a multi-layer Glocal Invisible College, rooted in a model of single universities made by three subsystems loosely connected.

Researchers, university administrators, and policymakers alike will find this work invaluable. For researchers, it provides a replicable methodology that combines network and statistical analysis, while for university governance and policymakers the insights gained from this analysis can inform strategies to enhance collaborative efforts and improve research outcomes.

This open access volume examines the multifaceted role of AI in coaching practices, featuring insights from leading coaching experts, and with a focus on practical developments, scientific topics, and ethical implications. It addresses three key perspectives: AI as a replacement for human coaches, as an enhancement within the coaching process, and as a tool for training and supervision. The contributions discuss these positions not in opposition but as complementary possibilities, fostering a nuanced and integrative understanding of AI's potential. Key transversal themes-ethics, research, and philosophy-highlight the broader implications of AI, addressing pressing questions about its impact on human development and the coaching profession. By bridging academic theory and practical applications, the volume provides actionable insights for practising coaches, researchers, and AI enthusiasts. It offers a comprehensive framework to navigate the complexities of integrating AI into coaching and sets the stage for ongoing dialogue, advancing both scientific understanding and professional practice in this rapidly evolving field.

This book offers a innovative exploration of the intricate interplay between causality and modality through a comprehensive formal semantics analysis of causal relations encoded in causative constructions. It addresses foundational questions about causation within theoretical linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. By integrating Modal Semantics and Event Semantics, it illuminates how language encodes complex causal relations with remarkable precision, revealing the subtle ways in which diverse causal dimensions reflect human cognition.

Drawing on data from periphrastic causatives in Teochew-an understudied Southern Min language, this volume presents innovative analyses of four dimensions of causality: direct vs. indirect, deterministic vs. probabilistic, attitude-bearing vs. attitude-neutral, and permissive vs. non-permissive. It also proposes a causal ontology intended as a blueprint for future cross-linguistic studies. The book bridges theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence, while engaging with classic philosophical discussions.

This volume is essential for scholars and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of causation.

Digital trade, encompassing the exchange of goods, services, and information through digital channels, is viewed as a catalyst for innovation and inclusive economic development. Though, the share of African trade in global digital trade appears to be on the low side, the growth in digitally delivered services is recently growing fast relative to trade in goods and non-digitally delivered services. Digital trade represents an important engine of growth and development for the African continent.

This contributed volume is motivated by a shared perspective that digital trade can offer significant opportunities for African countries to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty. The book first distinguishes itself by providing an in-depth and comprehensive examination of the complex dynamics of digital trade in Africa, setting itself apart by probing into the driving forces propelling its growth along with the obstacles that limit the expansion of digital trade in the region. Second this book innovates by linking regional integration efforts in Africa to digital trade. It focuses on how collective efforts within different regional groups across the continent can be harnessed to boost digital trade in Africa.

Third, one of the key differentiators of the book lies in its thorough analysis of the regulatory frameworks governing digital trade across African nations. The existing policies and regulatory challenges are discussed across specific countries and group of countries. Lastly, the book links digital trade to the broader socio-economic environment by exploring the nexus between digital trade and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa. By aligning the principles of digital trade with specific SDGs ranging from poverty alleviation and quality education to gender equality and industry innovation, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of how digital trade can be harnessed as a tool for sustainable development across the African continent. It systematically examines how digital trade can be a driving force in achieving these global sustainability benchmarks.

This book presents the findings of the Verbier Summit 2025. Serving as an international hub for interdisciplinary research, discussions, and emerging best practices, the book explores the understanding, financing, structuring, and monitoring climate-related issues and subjects. The book aims to foster collaboration among financial economists, meteorologists, policymakers, and practitioners, enabling them to apply best practice financial engineering grounded in a profound understanding of climate-related challenges.

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, significant question marks hung over the capacity of the world's wealthiest economies to sustain a long international conflict. This book goes beyond macroeconomic perspectives on war financing to show in highly granular detail how the war was financed in Britain, using previously unstudied data to explore at a societal level how this capital was raised. It offers a framework for understanding how economic and financial policy during wartime became instruments of capital-raising that were crucial to the eventual outcome of the first-ever global war and were not simply ancillary factors affecting military efforts.

Using rich archival sources from the Bank of England, the author explores the identities and demographics of the investors who bought bonds that financed Britain during the First World War. The book examines the different policies and strategies employed to bring investors into the war from across society, including different classes and genders, and demonstrates how the need to raise capital for Allied victory ultimately altered not only the distribution of income and capital in Britain but also the form in which it was held. The book also analyses Britain's war debt and re-financing efforts in this context, spanning a timeline from 1914 up until 1932. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of economic, financial and military history.

This book provides a comprehensive guide for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data to drive business innovation in the digital economy. As data from modern digital sources like sensors, social networks, and online transactions grows exponentially, businesses must adopt data-driven strategies to remain competitive and agile. The book equips leaders, technologists, and data scientists with the knowledge and tools to transform vast datasets into actionable insights, optimizing decision-making, enhancing customer experiences, and fueling innovation. At its core, the book addresses the critical challenge of moving beyond mere data collection to effectively harnessing data for innovation. In today's competitive landscape, gathering data alone is insufficient; success depends on a company's ability to extract meaningful insights and translate them into actionable strategies. The book explores the latest tools and technologies that facilitate this transformation and delves into the organizational changes needed to foster a data-driven culture, such as leadership engagement, cross-departmental collaboration, and data governance. By weighing both the benefits and risks, readers gain a balanced and forward-looking perspective on implementing AI and Big Data responsibly and sustainably. As businesses increasingly seek to capitalize on Big Data and AI, there is a growing need for resources that bridge the gap between technical data science concepts and their practical applications in business. This book meets that need, helping business leaders, technology professionals, and academics understand how to leverage Big Data to solve complex problems and drive innovation. The book's primary audience includes business executives, data scientists, IT professionals, and graduate students in business, data science, and computer science. It also appeals to decision-makers in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing who are looking to implement data-driven strategies to enhance their operations and customer offerings.

This book aims to examine the practical implications of digital video advertising across a wide range of contemporary video formats. It systematically explores the contributions of advanced advertising technologies-including 360-degree video, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 3D and 2D video formats, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, high-definition (HD) video, and Dolby surround sound-in enhancing consumer experience and engagement. The book provides actionable insights into visual arrangement strategies and immersive design principles, making it a valuable reference for advertising design agencies, creative professionals, and expert panels involved in digital and 3D video advertising. In addition, it serves as a comprehensive knowledge resource for researchers working in gamification, virtual reality, and augmented reality by presenting the latest research findings in advertising technology. By outlining emerging trends and proposing future research directions, the book offers significant academic value for postgraduate and doctoral students seeking to pursue research in digital video advertising and related advertising technologies. The book is structured into three interrelated parts. The first part establishes the conceptual foundation of social proof and social media-driven influences on consumer decision-making. Chapters in this section analyze social media marketing strategies, mechanisms of brand awareness creation, the role of fear of missing out (FOMO), and the dynamics of digital influence shaping consumer behavior. The second part focuses on technological advancements that are redefining digital video advertising practices. It explores immersive and data-driven formats such as virtual reality, augmented reality, short-form video advertising, metaverse-based product demonstrations, and advanced video analytics. The final part examines effective digital video advertising strategies through the lens of consumer cognition, ethics, and engagement. Key themes include gamification, 3D video advertising in sports marketing, digital twins, extended reality (XR) technologies, and ethical concerns associated with artificial intelligence and data analytics.

A thoroughly insightful and comprehensive discussion carried out by practitioners and academics from a range of jurisdictions across the globe, this book explores aspects of sustainability in financial and commercial contracts. The opening part concentrates on financial products and regulation in the context of ESG related investing. ESG stands for "environmental, social, governance" and describes aspects of sustainability not only in finance but also across all aspects of trading and commerce. It touches on a wide range of criteria of products and producers. It concerns supply chains as much as corporate governance and regulatory supervision. Aspects of legislative definitions are as important as enforceability of ESG promises both in terms of public and private liability. International experts from academia and practice comment on the transactional and regulatory framework in this field. The second part deals with procedural aspects of sustainability in connection with arbitral awards. Integrity, trust and confidentiality are emanations of sustainability in the social context. Parties to contracts and litigation are part of a wider trading community who rely on a certain architecture of dispute settlement frameworks. Practitioners discuss problems the independence of arbitrators. The concluding part deals with the topical discussions on the role of good faith and the emerging concept of relational contract in a comparative context. Practical applications in construction contracts, supply chains, the circular economy and in arbitration are explored as well as the notion of good faith in English, Scottish, Canadian, German, French and Polish contract law with a comparative emphasis.

This book contains the latest cutting-edge research, compiling the most interesting contents of reports by researchers from 42 countries around the world at the International Studies Association Asia Pacific international conference held in Tokyo in 2023. Topics such as the Anthropocene, Covid-19, security, regional collaboration, democracy and autocracy, gender, and the Global South are included. Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan, along with emerging powers, China, India, and ASEAN nations, have conducted multifaceted analyses of topics involving climate change, Covid-19, the achievements and challenges of the growth of Asia, China and India, regional cooperation such as the Belt and Road Initiative, SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN, RCEP, IPEF, and ASEAN, security issues, democracy and autocracy, and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Gaza. The book also includes lectures by leading figures in international politics such as Joseph Nye, Amitav Acharya, and T.V. Paul; a panel of distinguished professors, with Mike Mochizuki, Mikel Swaine, Steven Rosefielde, Sang Chul Park, and Hundah Su among them; as well as papers by young, up-and-coming researchers, making it a collection of trailblazing research on the world order in the twenty-first century, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and changing democracy. It is a must-read book on raising issues and solving problems from Asia, a world leader.

Utilizing the first-ever linguistic analysis of North Korean nuclear doctrine, this definitive study of North Korea's nuclear ballistic submarine and missile programs fills in important information and intelligence gaps regarding the nation's nuclear capabilities.

North Korea's ongoing development of submarine forces and sea-based ballistic missile capabilities indicates that the country is striving to achieve the second leg of the nuclear triad. If successful, this will present a new national security challenge to the United States by enabling North Korea to boast a survivable nuclear weapons force. This book offers the most definitive study of North Korea's ballistic missile submarine (SSB), submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), and submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM) programs, filling in important information and intelligence gaps regarding these capabilities, their origins, and sources of technology, as well as the current stage of these programs. This study investigates the strategic doctrine surrounding these programs by employing the first-ever data-scraping linguistic text analysis experiment of 26 years of North Korean statements and documents about their nuclear programs.

The autocratic regimes in both North Korea and South Korea attempted to legitimize their rule through efforts in nation-building but achieved different results. North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula seeks to answer: How did these regimes' nation-building strategies through a variety of tools and venues differ in the process of regime development? How was nationalism utilized to construct a regime-legitimizing founding myth? What implications did these varied efforts have on authoritarian legitimacy and state-society relations under authoritarian rule?
Focusing on the period from the end of the Second World War and the start of the Korean War to South Korea's democratic transitions in the 1980s and North Korea's crises in the 1990s, Qingming Huang examines the authoritarian regimes' efforts in monopolizing the narratives of nationalism and constructing the founding myths of the regimes through textbooks and other myth-making venues. Huang argues that the North Korean regime's monopoly of nationalism helped it construct the founding myth of the party-state as an essential source of regime legitimacy. In contrast, the autocratic regimes in South Korea failed to eliminate the competing narratives about the nation and were unable to monopolize nationalism. As a result, South Korea struggled to construct a founding myth to buttress the regimes and became more vulnerable to domestic challenges.

The conference proceeding aims to provide a global platform for researchers, academics, and practitioners to engage in discussions and share insights on sustainability education, the role of youth in driving change, and the power of innovation in building a sustainable future.

The primary focus of this year's conference was to explore how sustainability education can empower individuals and communities, equipping them with the necessary knowledge, skills, and values to drive transformative action towards a sustainable and resilient world. Special emphasis was placed on the critical role of youth as key agents of change and the innovative solutions they bring to the table in addressing pressing environmental and social challenges.

In the context of this conference, sustainability education served as a catalyst for fostering awareness, critical thinking, and responsible decision-making. It enabled individuals to integrate sustainable practices into daily life, promote interdisciplinary learning, and encouraged collaboration across sectors.

Youth-led initiatives and innovation are central to shaping sustainable solutions for the future. Young entrepreneurs, researchers, and changemakers are at the forefront of developing groundbreaking ideas that challenge traditional approaches, advocate for policy reforms, and implement community-driven solutions. Innovation in sustainability encompasses technological advancements, digital transformation, and creative problem-solving approaches that accelerate progress toward environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Objectives of this publication:

• To offer diverse avenues for knowledge sharing, including scientific research presentations, case studies, conceptual frameworks, and policy-oriented papers.
• To delver into the strategies and practices that empower organizations, educators, and young leaders to make a lasting impact on sustainability, innovation, and urban resilience.
• To highlight the role of education in fostering sustainability literacy and its integration into training programs and community initiatives.

Through this conference, we seek to bridge the gap between education, youth engagement, and innovative practices, ultimately fostering a global movement toward sustainability-driven transformation.

Well-being has become a central concern in contemporary societies, particularly in the face of rapid social change, growing inequalities, and increasing mental health challenges across the lifespan. This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and internationally grounded exploration of well-being, positioning it as a dynamic, relational, and context-dependent construct that evolves from early life to older adulthood.

Bringing together scholars from psychology, education, health, and the social sciences, the volume is structured into five thematic parts that reflect the complexity of human development and the diverse contexts in which well-being is shaped. The first part establishes a strong theoretical foundation, integrating perspectives from Positive Psychology, neurobiology and personality research, while also addressing key issues in the assessment of well-being, including the PERMA Profiler.

The second part focuses on well-being in childhood and adolescence, emphasizing comprehensive and preventive approaches that highlight the role of early relationships, health care, sport, and interprofessional strategies in promoting healthy development. The third part then examines adolescence and emerging adulthood as critical periods for positive development.

The fourth part explores well-being in adulthood through a diversity of specific contexts, including eco-anxiety, labor participation, transitions from education to work, physical activity, chronic illness, artistic engagement, and pregnancy and childbirth. The final part focuses on positive aging, offering integrative perspectives on flourishing, caregiving, dependency, and mental health in later life.

A distinctive strength of this volume lies in its integrative lifespan perspective, its strong empirical grounding, and its explicit attention to sociocultural and contextual diversity, particularly from Latin American and international perspectives. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students seeking evidence-based frameworks and applied insights to understand, assess, and promote well-being across diverse populations and life stages.

As cities grow and demands increase, continuing to build is unavoidable. Continuing to build in the same way, however, is not. This book challenges the dangerous trajectory of extractive, growth-centred practices within of the built environment industry and calls for a fundamental rethinking of how and why we build, and who ultimately benefits. It shows how the built environment can be reshaped to generate lasting ecological, social and cultural value. Drawing on robust practical evidence and real-world examples, this book demonstrates that regenerative built environments are not only possible, but necessary. It offers a holistic framework for accelerating this transition and invites the industry to step up its responsibility in delivering a future that is healthy, resilient and thriving.

A fascinating examination of the Korean War years and its impact on Major League Baseball

Although baseball's history in the immediate post-World War II years has sometimes been characterized as a "golden age," such was not the case. By the time North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel in June 1950, Organized Baseball was still struggling to re-integrate returning veterans into its labor force, fight off an attempt at unionization, and deal with a competing major league south of the border.

In Warm Summers and Cold Winters, historian Steven P. Gietschier carefully examines four baseball seasons-1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953-set against the background of Cold War America and the Korean War, a "forgotten war" that is often overlooked and underappreciated for its impact on US and baseball history. These four seasons saw exciting pennant races, the success of the Philadelphia Phillies' Whiz Kids in 1950; the "shot heard 'round the world" in 1951; the debuts of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle; and the tenure of Bill Veeck as owner of the St. Louis Browns. On the warfront, the hostilities in Korea stand as the first time the United States tried to fight a war with one hand tied behind its back, attempting to fight a limited war without disrupting civilian life. Simultaneously, the United States' limited military commitment meant that the war imposed peculiar challenges and uneven pressures upon individuals and institutions throughout American society, including Organized Baseball.

Providing rare insight into how baseball responded to the unique situation the country found itself in during the Korean War years, Warm Summers and Cold Winters will be of interest to baseball and military historians alike.