Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changing labour markets and accelerating digitalisation of the workplace in Central and Eastern Europe. It provides an innovative and enriching take on the work experience from the pandemic times and discusses the challenges of ongoing changes in labour markets and workplaces in a way that is not covered by the extant literature. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalisation on labour market outcomes is analysed throughout 12 chapters, by 34 labour market experts from various CEE countries. Most chapters are based on empirical methods yet are presented in an easy-to-follow way to make the book also accessible for a non-scientific audience. The volume addresses the three key goals: to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the adoption of workplace digitalisation in the selected labour markets in CEE countries and the potential trade-offs facing those who do and do not have access to this benefit; to complement the labour market research by incorporating the outputs of changing demand for skills; to contribute new insight into policies and regulations that govern the future of work. The book argues that the recent COVID-19 pandemic　was a sombre reminder of the relevance and necessity of digital technology for a variety of sectors and market activities. It concludes that to downside the risks of vanishing jobs, as well as to minimise the threats and maximise the opportunities of digitalisation in CEE countries, labour market partners need to consider an effective governance tool in terms of inclusive access to the digital environment, re-skilling, and balanced regulations of the more problematic facets of digital work. The book will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and academics in the fields of labour economics, regional economics, and macroeconomics. Additionally, due to the broader policy implications of the topic, the book will appeal to policymakers and experts interested in labour economics

Sokrates in Pöseldorf

Erwin Panofsky – vom wissenschaftlichen Nobody zum »Einstein der Kunstgeschichte«. Ein »Lehrer mit genialem Profil und Charisma«, ein »sprachsensibler Gedächtnisriese«, der »Einstein der Kunstgeschichte« – Erwin Panofsky ist als wissenschaftliche Ausnahmefigur in die Geschichte eingegangen. Sein Name steht für die Entwicklung und Anwendung einer neuen Methode, der Ikonologie: der Interpretation eines Kunstwerks aus seinem kulturhistorischen Kontext heraus. Wo sich die Kunstgeschichte bisher eher mit Stilkritik und Zuschreibungsfragen beschäftigt hatte, rückten nun große geistesgeschichtliche Horizonte in ihr Blickfeld. Von seinem späteren Wirkungsort Princeton aus hat Panofsky dieser Methode Weltgeltung verschafft. Entstanden aber ist die Ikonologie in Hamburg, wo er an der gerade gegründeten Universität als erster Ordinarius für Kunstgeschichte wirkte – und wo er im Umfeld Aby Warburgs und dessen »Kulturwissenschaftlicher Bibliothek« entscheidende Impulse erhielt. Panofsky wurde 1934 zur Emigration gezwungen. Bis zum Ende seines Lebens hat er die gut dreizehn Jahre, die er in Hamburg verbracht hat, als »die glücklichsten und fruchtbarsten seines Lebens« bezeichnet. In diesem Buch geht es um die Frage nach den Hintergründen: Wie sah die Konstellation aus, die diese intellektuelle Erfolgsgeschichte ermöglichte? Und warum spielte Hamburg in ihr eine so große Rolle

Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2022, held in Oslo, Norway, during May 31–June 1, 2022. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: robotics and intelligent systems; ai in cyber and digital sphere; ai in biological applications and medicine; and towards new ai methods. This is an open access book

Creating Future People

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how advances in genetics will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their children’s intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection and motivates the moral questions it raises by thinking about the strategic aspects of parental choice. Professor Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have, and the limits policymakers face in regulating what will soon be a global market for reproductive technology. Anomaly argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives each person faces. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects, and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly ends by considering how genetic engineering will transform humanity. Key Updates to the Second Edition Significant revisions to include more details about what will be scientifically possible in the coming years and the moral issues these developments will raise. New and substantial coverage of embryo selection (guided by polygenic scores) for minimizing the risk of genetic diseases. Engagement with all important, new publications on the science of genetic enhancemen

Der deutsch-türkische Bildungsraum im Wilhelminischen Kaiserreich

Today's ignorance of German-Turkish relations before the 1961 recruitment agreement stands in astonishing contrast to the attention paid to the Ottoman Empire before and during the First World War. Using a variety of previously unknown historical sources, the author reconstructs how German pedagogy and teachers in the Wilhelmine Empire contributed to the shaping of a German-Turkish educational space. To this end, she takes a transnational perspective on the actors, networks, and discourses that flanked Germany's world power ambitions at the time in terms of cultural policy. With her study, she makes an insightful contribution to the postcolonial historiography of pedagogy and educational science

The Ever-Reviving Phoenix

For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 during the period of Ottoman conquest. Despite their difficulties in a war-torn country, a network of Jesuit colleges was established as part of the Austrian Province, and the eighteenth century was a period of cultural and scientific prosperity for the Jesuits in Hungary. The Suppression of 1773, however, abruptly suspended this tradition for eighty years. After they resettled in Hungary in 1853, the Jesuits searched for new ways of apostolic work. The independent Hungarian Jesuit Province was established in 1909. The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century posed fresh challenges. During the Communist period, the Hungarian Jesuit Province was forced to split up into two sections. The Jesuits in exile and those who remained in Hungary were reunited in 1990

Altering crop management practices to promote pollinators

Agricultural intensification, or the increase in crop production per unit of input or land area to meet the needs of a growing population, has resulted in a landscape dominated by large scale monoculture cropping. Pollinators, specifically, are impacted by the lack of diverse floral and habitat resources associated with this type of farming. Agriculture must develop practices that diversify the crop landscape and increase the availability of habitat and flowering resources to support these populations. In this chapter, we summarize the available literature on how the production space, i.e., within a crop production field, orchard, or pasture, can be more effectively managed to sustain pollinator populations. We report on various spatial and temporal approaches within the context of various cropping systems (row crops, specialty crops, perennial orchards, and perennial forage and pasture systems). Collectively, these approaches represent opportunities to re-introduce diversity into the agricultural landscape to benefit pollinators

General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' – a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all participants to protect equity. This volume traces the history of this risk management tool from its origins in the pre-Roman Mediterranean through to its use in the shipping sector today. Contributions range from the Islamic Mediterranean to the Low Countries, and taken together, provide a wide-ranging analysis of social, cultural, and political aspects of pre-modern maritime commerce in Europe