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Setting Signs for Europe

Author : Bernd Kappenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838267036
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Setting Signs for Europe written by Bernd Kappenberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still sometimes cannot even render German umlauts correctly. Part of this problem is a hidden political agenda: Consciously or unconsciously, patterns of the Cold War are continued in the interaction between Western and Eastern European languages. This book examines the current use of diacritical marks in Western Europe, such as the use of names from Slavic languages in electronic data processing systems. The role of the media as multiplier receives particular attention, with most error examples taken from actual media coverage.Considering international, EU, and national law and referring to ground-breaking court decisions, Kappenberg answers the question: 'Is there a right to diacritical marks in people's names?' This is followed by a description of current practice in several European countries.Finally, Setting Signs for Europe answers the question how in the framework of the EU's multilingualism policy effective approaches can be created to raise awareness among software vendors, the media, government agencies, and individuals regarding the correct handling of diacritics. Kappenberg also assesses the use of diacritics as a style element and offers an improved input method for diacritics.

A History of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company, 1948--1989

Author : Lenka Krátká
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838267168
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company, 1948--1989 written by Lenka Krátká and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall of communism. Owned by the Czechoslovak state, C. O. S.'s activities were shaped by Soviet standards. This unique study is structured according to the different phases of the Cold War and highlights the political aspects that determined C. O. S.'s fate.Lenka Kratka focuses on two contradictory economic dimensions that C. O. S. had to engage with. Being part of the planned economy of a socialist state, it also dealt with companies in the capitalist West. Another paradoxical aspect of C. O. S. emerges from the memories of former Czechoslovak seamen, who experienced relative freedom when being aboard and strict communist regime control while at home with their families. Kratka's book offers fascinating insights into a neglected topic, using thus far untapped sources and building on primary research in oral history and personal memory.

Russia in the Arctic

Author : Alexander Sergunin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838267834
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Russia in the Arctic written by Alexander Sergunin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, the authors provide a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region. They assess Russia's domestic discourse on the High North's role in the system of national priorities as well as of Moscow's bi- and multilateral relations with major regional players, energy, environmental, socio-cultural, and military policies in the Arctic. In contrast to the internationally wide-spread stereotype of Russia as a revisionist power in the High North, this book argues that Moscow tries to pursue a double-sided strategy in the region. On the one hand, Russia aims at defending her legitimate economic interests in the region. On the other hand, Moscow is open to co-operation with foreign partners that are willing to partake in exploiting the Arctic natural resources. The general conclusion is that in the foreseeable future Moscow's strategy in the region will be predictable and pragmatic rather than aggressive or spontaneous. The authors argue that in order to consolidate the soft power pattern of Russia's behavior a proper international environment in the Arctic should be created by common efforts. Other regional players should demonstrate their responsibility and willingness to solve existing and potential problems on the basis of international law.

Agenda-Setting in the European Union

Author : S. Princen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230233961
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Agenda-Setting in the European Union written by S. Princen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the EU deal with some issues but not others? This is the central question of this book dedicated to agenda-setting processes in the EU. Through a comparison of EU and US policy agendas and the analysis of four case studies in environmental and health policy, this book offers a new understanding of how policy issues come onto the EU agenda.

Sign Language in Action

Author : Jemina Napier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137309776
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Sign Language in Action written by Jemina Napier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students and their supervisors, authoritative access to current ideas and practice.

The Missing Entrepreneurs 2014 Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Europe

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264213597
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Entrepreneurs 2014 Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Europe written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing Entrepreneurs 2014 is the second edition in a series of annual reports that provide data and policy analysis on inclusive entrepreneurship, and on its barriers, by target social groups across the European Union.

European Economic Integration, Wto Membership, Immigration and Offshoring

Author : Wilhelm K. Kohler
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814440191
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis European Economic Integration, Wto Membership, Immigration and Offshoring by : Wilhelm K. Kohler

Download or read book European Economic Integration, Wto Membership, Immigration and Offshoring written by Wilhelm K. Kohler and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium methods to quantify the effects of geographic extension of the European Union, including the effects of Eastern enlargement of the EU on incumbent Western member countries. The second set of papers deals with the trade effects of WTO membership, with special focus on the so-called extensive country margin, where new international trading relationships are formed. The third set of papers focuses on immigration, offering a rigorous theoretical analysis of the so-called immigration surplus as well as an econometric estimation of the gains and pain that Germany has forgone by initially restricting immigration from new EU member countries after the EU''s Eastern enlargement in 2004. And finally, the book contains a set of theoretical papers on the distributional effects of offshoring. Contents: Introduction; Modeling EU-Type Economic Integration: Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Jobs, Investment and Welfare in Present Member Countries (Ben J Heijdra, Christian Keuschnigg and Wilhelm Kohler); Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment (Wilhelm Kohler); The Role of Distance and WTO Membership for Trade: Exploring the Intensive and Extensive Margins of World Trade (Gabriel J Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler); WTO Membership and the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence (Gabriel J Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler); Offshoring: A New Form of Trade, Conventional Mechanisms?: The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation (Wilhelm Kohler); Aspects of International Fragmentation (Wilhelm Kohler); International Outsourcing and Factor Prices with Multistage Production (Wilhelm Kohler); The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration (Wilhelm Kohler); International Migration: Gains and Pains?: Immigration and Native Welfare (Gabriel J Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler); Can International Migration Ever Be Made a Pareto Improvement? (Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler); Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany: Pains and Gains Foregone? (Gabriel Felbermayr, Wido Geis and Wilhelm Kohler). Readership: Postgraduate students and researchers in the field of international economics.

The European Union and Japan

Author : Paul Bacon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317033000
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The European Union and Japan written by Paul Bacon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widely acknowledged to have significant untapped potential. Deploying the concept of civilian power, the book takes a fresh, honest and provocative look at this important relationship, in a post-Fukushima, post-sovereign debt crisis world. First the book analyses the place of EU-Japan relations within the worldviews of the Japanese and European bodies politic. Subsequently, three thematic sections evaluate their cooperation on such issues as trade, energy security, environmental politics, development, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, health and biosecurity. The eminent scholars of the EU-Japan relationship gathered in this book offer informed, empirically rich and policy-relevant insights into the present and future prospects for the relationship.

Europe and the Governance of Global Finance

Author : Daniel Mügge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191506869
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Europe and the Governance of Global Finance written by Daniel Mügge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance. Hardly any corner of European financial markets remains untouched by EU rules, and key regulatory competences have been shifted from national authorities to supranational ones. At the same time, the global context has become ever more important for how and to what effect the EU regulates its financial markets. On the one hand, EU policymaking is embedded in global initiatives such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. On the other hand, the EU now rivals the USA in its ability to shape global rules. Scholars and practitioners cannot make sense of EU rulemaking without studying its links to global financial governance, just as to understand how global initiatives evolve they have to appreciate the rise of the EU as a global regulatory force. This book charts and analyses this centrality of the European-global link in financial governance for the first time. Its chapters, written by experts in the specific fields, cover the whole breadth of financial markets. They range from banking, auditing and accounting to derivatives trading, money laundering, and tax governance. This book offers comprehensive coverage of: how and why global and European financial governance have co-evolved over time; how global and European rules, institutions, and actors are linked today; and what this implies for future global and European financial governance. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of either global or European financial regulation.

EU Trade Mark Law and Product Protection

Author : Lavinia Brancusi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000902927
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book EU Trade Mark Law and Product Protection written by Lavinia Brancusi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address business needs when registering trade marks consisting of product characteristics. The study comprehensively examines the absolute grounds for a refusal of registration of functional signs under EUTM. It interprets the functionality refusal grounds through objective tests, focusing on the pro-competition rationale of denying trade mark exclusivity on product features that are technically or aesthetically important for competitors’ ability to trade in alternative products. The work takes a comparative approach looking at the US trade dress functionality doctrine, and a law and economics perspective on the role of trade marks and brands in the marketplace. It explores how competition rules related to market definition and the substitutability of products, as well as marketing and design findings related to branding and aesthetics, could be integrated into the legal assessment of EUTM functionality. The volume will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Intellectual Property Law, Trade Mark and Design Law, EU Law, Comparative Law, and Branding.

Which Policy for Europe?

Author : Miriam Hartlapp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511900
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Which Policy for Europe? written by Miriam Hartlapp and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore crucially shapes EU policy, which in turn impacts on the daily lives of more than 500 million European citizens. However, despite the Commissions key role in setting the agenda for European decision making, little is known about its internal dynamics when preparing legislation. This book provides a problem-driven, theoretically-founded, and empirically rich treatment of the so far still understudied process of position-formation inside the European Commission. It reveals that various internal political positions prevail and that the role of power and conflict inside the European Commission is essential to understanding its policy proposals. Opening the 'black box' of the Commission, the book identifies three ideal types of internal position-formation. The Commission is motivated by technocratic problem-solving, by competence-seeking utility maximization or ideologically-motivated policyseeking. Specifying conditions that favor one logic over the others, the typology furthers understanding of how the EU system functions and provides novel explanations of EU policies with substantial societal implications.

Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets

Author : Kees Camfferman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199296294
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets written by Kees Camfferman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance

Author : Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137502762
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance by : Jakub M. Godzimirski

Download or read book EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance written by Jakub M. Godzimirski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection focuses on the impact of the changing global distribution of power on the EU's energy policy and ability to project its approach to energy-related issues abroad. It maps the EU's changing position on global energy, the impact of various factors on its energy policy, and its relations with Russia, China, the USA and Brazil.

22nd European Conference on e-Learning

Author : Shawren Singh
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 191458791X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis 22nd European Conference on e-Learning by : Shawren Singh

Download or read book 22nd European Conference on e-Learning written by Shawren Singh and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 22nd European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2023), hosted by University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa on 26-27 October 2023. The Conference Co-Chairs Associate Professor Sarah Jane Johnston and Associate Professor Shawren Singh both from University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. ECEL is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 22nd year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. It is especially relevant that the conference is being hosted by UNISA this year as the university celebrates its 150th anniversary. UNISA has been a pioneer in first distance and now e-Learning. The conference will also host the final round of the 9th e-Learning Excellence Awards where innovate case histories will be presented. The opening keynote presentation is given by Professor Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Vice Principal for the Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation at University of South Africa who will speak on, “The Role of African Feminisms in Shaping a Sustainable Future of Being and Learning”. An afternoon keynote on Thursday will be made by Dr Zolile Martin Mguda, University of South Africa on the topic of “ChatGPT: The first year”. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Dr Isabel Tarling, MD, Limina, South Africa with the title “Developing Digital Standards for Learning and Teaching in South Africa’s Schools”. With an initial submission of 100 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 45 Academic research papers, 3 PhD research papers and 1 Masters Research paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Norway, Oman, Perú, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

10th European Conference on Games Based Learning

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Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1911218093
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II

Author : Pawel Mink, Georges Reichardt, Iwona Reichardt, Adam Kowal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213238
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II written by Pawel Mink, Georges Reichardt, Iwona Reichardt, Adam Kowal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2014. After an introduction to the methodology of oral history, it presents twenty interviews with participants and eyewitnesses of the events in Ukraine, and documents a series of workshop discussions conducted at a symposium held in 2017. In these workshops, activists and observers of each of the three revolutions exchanged and compared their memories, analyses, and evaluations. This volume thus not only provides a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of the three historic Ukrainian upheavals, but also reveals the interrelations between them. The volume documents assessments from Barbara Krauz-Mozer, Markiyan Ivashchyshyn, Natalia Klymovska, Vakhtang Kipiani, Mykola Kniazhycki, Natalyia Zubar, Yulia Tymoshenko, Aleksander Kwaœniewski, Viktor Taran, Markiyan Matsekh, Yulia Tychkivska, Leonid Findberg, Yulia Mostova, Oksana Zabuzhko, Eduard Drach, Michailo Cherenkoff, Andriy Dudchenko, Oleg Mahdych, Rebecca Harms, Herman van Rumpoy, and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.

A Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945-2007

Author : Julian Lindley-French
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199214328
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945-2007 written by Julian Lindley-French and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and essential source of reference for all those with an interest in European defence and security over the last 60 years. An extensively annotated chronology, the book carefully places every key event in context, explaining what happened, where, when, and why.