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“…Second, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of “Newly Industrialising Countries” (NICs) in East Asia was mediocre in spite of the impressive investment drive in those countries. …”

“…By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. …”

“…The call for papers attracted submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The workshop had in total 11 submissions. …”

“…We received 415 paper submissions for DIS2019 from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For the first time ever, the entire program committee met (including associate chairs and subcommittee chairs) during a virtual program committee meeting to determine paper acceptances. …”

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“…With case studies spanning North America, Europe, Asia, India and Africa, this edited volume provides a global perspective on covered market halls across many disciplines, including architecture, history of art and architecture, landscape architecture, food studies and urban history. …”

“…A global tour of the high stakes of constitution-making, this book features 18 diverse and outstanding scholars from around the world-across Africa, America, Asia and Oceania, and Europe-raising new questions, opening our eyes to new streams of research, and uncovering new possibilities for constitutional design"--…”

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“…Topics covered include: The basics of Unicode--what it is and what it isn't The history and development of character encoding The architecture and salient features of Unicode, including character properties, normalization forms, and storage and serialization formats The character repertoire: scripts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and more, plus numbers, punctuation, symbols, and special characters Implementation techniques: conversions, searching and sorting, rendering, and editing Using Unicode with the Internet, programming languages, and operating systems With this book as a guide, programmers now have the tools necessary to understand, create, and deploy dynamic software systems across today's increasingly global marketplace. 0201700522B08092002…”

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“…The breadth of cases allows for a comparative perspective of East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as the basis of comparisons outside of the continent in Europe, South Asia, and elsewhere. The motivations behind corridor initiatives in Africa range enormously, from resource extraction to urban development and poverty reduction. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connoisseurship in the Networked Eighteenth Century -- Tactile Simulacra: Japanese Still Life Surimono as Artifacts of Eighteenth-Century Treasure Gatherings -- Tout Rome veüt vendre: The Collection of Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualtieri in Rome and in Dresden -- The Connoisseurship Practices of a "Levantine" of Marseille or When Trade Meets Art -- A Crouching Woman at Her Toilette: Venus or Radha? Cross-Cultural Connoisseurship of an Indian Album Motif -- Japan's Southern Schools: Imported Painting, Chinese Criticism, and the Contours of Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Japan -- Jean-Baptiste Gentil's "Mughalesque" Albums: A Study in the Visual Nodes and Aesthetic Modes of Firanghi Paintings in Eighteenth-Century India -- Accommodating Contours: Vicente Victoria on Chinese Printmaking -- The Practice of Drawing as a Tool of Connoisseurship in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Fragonard's Companion Pieces for the Marquis de Véri: The Art of Pendants or a Transcultural Narrative of Modern French Painting -- Breaking Grounds: Print Connoisseurship and Resurfacing Antiquities in Naples -- Duke August's Chinese Cabinet at Gotha: Authenticity and Connoisseurship of Asian Objects in Germany -- Asymmetries of Connoisseurship in a Globalizing World: The Geopolitics of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- Biographies of Authors and Editors -- Image Credits…”

“…This book, therefore, brings together international collaborative research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems compiled by leading scientists and experts from Europe, Asia and Africa. The chapters present evidence-based research and innovative solutions that can be applied or upscaled in different farming systems and regions across the world. …”

“…10 chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discoursesProvides an analytical understanding of anti-feminism as an intersectional ideology between continuity and change, with a conceptual framework of analysis and a comparative perspective on common global trends as well as regional/national specifitiesShows how discourses originally developed in the Global North/West are re-articulated in different national (including post-colonial) contexts, promoting an understanding of the entanglements between global and the localPresents new perspectives and information on different world regions, opening up new angles in research on transnational anti-feminist networks and the global spread of anti-gender discoursesProvides a solid basis for further research in local, national and regional contextsThis new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. …”

“…"Abstract: Ninety percent of the world's youth live in Africa, Latin America and the developing countries of Asia. Despite this, the field of Youth Studies, like many others, is dominated by the knowledge economy of the Global North. …”