“…This book brings forth and examines the evidence as it reveals itself through one of the major institutions of our time: the work organisation. …”

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“…Identifying discursive features of hate speech is a complex process which could be affected by digital practices. On the one hand, it is relatively easy to analyse what we have called "discours de haine directe" (direct hate speech) which relies on three concomitant conditions: the pathemic discursive dimension, the negation of otherness and judgement speech acts (provocation, offence, threat ...). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- The Next Frontier for Practitioners: Lean for Social Good -- The Word "Lean" -- What's in This Book -- Case Studies and Profiles of Practitioners -- Overview of Lean and Toyota Kata -- Tour of the Four Sections -- SECTION I THE FOUNDATION OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND OPERATIONAL MATURITY -- 1 Introduction to Lean and Continuous Improvement -- Tracing the Roots of Quality Management -- By Any Other Name -- 2 The Three Stages of Maturity in State Government -- Maturity Level One: Reaction-Driven -- Maturity Level Two: Results-Driven -- Support for Results-Driven Work -- We Don't Know What We Don't Know -- Optimal Components for Results-Driven Government -- Maturity Level Three: Social-Good-Driven-Helping People Thrive -- 3 The Kaizen Concept -- Launching a Lean Initiative with a Kaizen -- Chartering -- Assessment of Value -- Expertise: Imported or Home Grown -- Funding Stream Barriers -- Integrating IT -- Learning Other CI Tools -- Training to Build Capacity -- Setting a Foundation -- 4 Lean Management -- A Management Trifecta for the Public Sector -- Government Is Different. …”

“…And the Society's publications . . . that stretched back to Stith Thompson's Volume I in 1916 and make up our umbilicus, the visible chain of the Society's being, that makes us all a part of it from its inception in 1909"…”

“…This conference has also stimulated many of us to test out other new ideas for conducting meetings on computers and information processing technology…”

“…Inferential statistics informs us regarding the probability that the descriptive statistics that we calculate from samples are accurate estimators of the populations from which we took the samples. …”

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“…Professors teaching courses on US Foreign policy, Middle East, International Relations, Comparative Politics and many related fields will find the book a very suitable choice for their students to read. …”

“…Interactions between human beings and the environment have settled like sediment down the centuries and may be read in the present - in the form of landscapes and collective memory, in bodies of water and the earth's strata, tree rings and human cells. One of Mauch's dominant themes is that the grand hopes and bitter disappointments of the American paradise are not equally distributed - the blues is the voice of the dispossessed and disadvantaged; and here environmental injustice toward Black, Indigenous and other marginalised people is a recurring and haunting motif. …”

“…Some case studies were first presented during a preconference at the National Communication Association (NCA) convention in November 2013, while others have been invited or solicited through open calls. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction to Data Privacy and Machine Learning -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Privacy, Privacy Breaches, and Threat Modeling -- What do privacy and data privacy mean? …”