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Transparenz als Katalysator fur Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit

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Implementationsstand und Auswirkungen des Reformmodells Open Government in deutschen Grostadten

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Das vorliegende Buch untersucht den Implementationsstand und die Auswirkungen des Reformmodells Open Government in deutschen Grostadten. Open Government zielt darauf ab, Transparenz, Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit in offentlichen Verwaltungen zu starken, um demokratische Prozesse zu fordern und die Leistungsfahigkeit des politisch-administrativen Systems zu steigern. Anhand eines zweistufigen Forschungsdesigns  einer deutschlandweiten Online-Umfrage und eines Fallstudienvergleichs  wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie weitreichend das Konzept bereits auf kommunaler Ebene umgesetzt wurde und welche Effekte auf die Input-, Throughput- und Output-Legitimitat von Grostadten nachweisbar sind. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass Transparenz als Katalysator fur Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit fungieren kann, um die kommunale Performanz zu optimieren. Gleichzeitig zeigt die Arbeit auf, welche Herausforderungen und Grenzen bei der Umsetzung von Open Government bestehen und welche Perspektiven sich daraus fur zukunftige Verwaltungsreformen ableiten lassen.

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A Practical Guide to Cyber Risk Quantification

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Cyber risk quantification (CRQ) is the practice of measuring cybersecurity risk using numbers not colors or guesswork. Instead of labeling risks high, medium, or low, CRQ uses probabilities, ranges, and impact estimates to help organizations make better, data-informed decisions about risk.
In a world where ransomware gangs operate like small businesses, every core function of an organization is digital, and Boards and regulators are demanding meaningful, defensible risk metrics, CRQ has never been more relevant than now. And thanks to AI, its about to scale fast.
At the same time, CRQ is often misunderstood as expensive, technical, or just voodoo math. People assume you need a stats degree, six-figure software, or a room full of analysts. This book is here to prove otherwise.
 
From Heatmaps to Histograms is a hands-on, plain-English guide written by a seasoned practitioner whos built CRQ programs at top global companies. Its packed with step-by-step instructions, practical tips, templates, shortcuts, AI prompts, and plenty of myth-busting to take you from CRQ skeptic to CRQ championeven if youve never cracked open a statistics book.
 
All techniques in this book can be performed in Excel or Google Sheetsno coding required. But for readers who want to go further, youll find dozens of GenAI prompts that help you generate risk scenarios, clean messy data, or even vibe-code your way through a Monte Carlo simulation in Python or R. You'll also get guidance on when to not use AI, how to spot hallucinations, and how to integrate it responsibly into your risk practice.
 
CRQ is no longer optional. This is your roadmap for making it workcheaply, ethically, and effectively.
 
What You Will Learn:

A beginner-friendly introduction to the statistical foundations of CRQ, including Monte Carlo simulations, credible intervals, Bayesian reasoning, and simple methods for summarizing uncertaintywithout requiring a math or coding background
Gather, vet, and work with dataeven when its scarce, messy, or missing
Perform full end-to-end quantitative risk assessments using only Excel or Google Sheets
Harness the power of generative AI to supercharge risk analysis workflows
Apply CRQ and GenAI responsibly and ethically, with clear guidance on common pitfalls, misuse scenarios, and ensure transparency, fairness, and trustworthiness in your analysis and reporting

 
Who This Book Is For
Beginner/intermediate in the cyber/technology risk management field
 

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Kommunikation und Beziehungsgestaltung in der Physiotherapie

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Das Beziehungsdreieck Patient:in - Therapeut:in - AngehArige

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Kommunikation und Beziehungsgestaltung sind Schlusselfaktoren gelingender (Physio-) Therapie. Dieses Essential zeigt, wie Interaktionen zwischen Patient*innen, Angehorigen und Therapeut*innen den Therapieverlauf pragen und wie sich beziehungsorientierte Therapiesteuerung gezielt nutzen lasst. Praxisnahe Fallbeispiele verknupfen theoretische Grundlagen mit konkreten Handlungsansatzen fur den Therapiealltag. Aus dem Inhalt: ,Personlichkeit und Krankheitsverarbeitung, Kommunikation als Gestaltungsmittel sozialer Beziehungen, Beziehungen und Konstellationen in der Physiotherapie, Interaktives Clinical Reasoning: Sozialanamnese und partizipative Zielentwicklung, Einbindung von Angehorigen in die Rehabilitation.
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch, was bedeutet, dass Sie freien und uneingeschrankten Zugang haben.

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This open access book introduces social aspects relevant to research and developments of explainable AI (XAI). The new surge of XAI responds to the societal challenge that many algorithmic approaches (such as machine learning or autonomous intelligent systems) are rapidly increasing in complexity, making justified use of their recommendations difficult for the users. A large body of approaches now exists with many ideas of how algorithms should be explainable or even be able to explain their output. However, few of them consider the users' perspective, and even less address the social aspects of using XAI. To fill the gap, the book offers a conceptualization of explainability as a social practice, a framework for contextual factors, and an operationalization of users' involvement in creating relevant explanations.
For this, scholars across disciplines gathered at the Shonan meeting to account for how explanation generation can be tailored to diverse users and their heterogeneous goals when interacting with XAI. As a result, social interaction is the key to the involvement of the users. Accordingly, we define sXAI (social eXplainable AI) as systems that interact with the users in such a way that an incremental adaptation of explaining to the users is possible, along with the unfolding context of interaction, to yield a relevant explanation at the interface with both active partnershuman and AI. To encourage novel interdisciplinary research, we propose to account for the following dimensions:
    Patterndness: XAI should account for different contexts that yield different social roles impacting the construction of explanations.    Incrementality: XAI should build on the contribution of the involved partners who adapt to each other.    Multimodality: XAI needs to use different communication modalities (e.g., visual, verbal, and auditory).
This book also addresses how to evaluate social XAI systems and what ethical aspects must be considered when employing sXAI. Together, the book pushes forward the building of a community interested in sXAI. To increase the readability across disciplines, each chapter offers a rapid access to its content.

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Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology. Volume 1

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This book from the LNNS Series is composed of the best selected papers accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2025 International Conference in Information Technology & Education. The ICITED is a multidisciplinary conference with a special focus on new Technologies and Systems in the Education sector and was held between July 10 and 12, 2025. The ICITED25 was supported by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, Brazil and by IADITIInternational Association for Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation. This book is intended for researchers, academics, lecturers, specialists, professionals, doctoral and master's students, undergraduates, and practitioners working in Information Technology and Computer Science in Education area.

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11th International Conference, ICVNS 2025, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 1214, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2025, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2025.
The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.

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IN SEARCH OF CANDY


The Joes, along with new recruits Quick-Kick and Alpine, are sent on a covert rescue mission to extract a rogue Rip-Cord (and whatever surveillance info they can get) from Cobra Island. Meanwhile, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow discover the identity of Hard Master's killer and head to Cobra Island as well to exact revenge.

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck, John Beatty

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SLAUGHTER


Deep within the Pit, Zartan attempts to escape, confusing the Joes at every turn. But he wasn't counting on SGT. SLAUGHTER reporting for duty!

An action-packed comic of heroes and villains colliding as secrets unravel, loyalties fracture, and one choice will reshape the world forever. Right!!

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck

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"WHO'S WHO ON COBRA ISLAND"


On Cobra Island, the Joes rescue a disguised-as-Ripcord Zartan and unknowingly head back to G.I. Joe headquarters. Meanwhile, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow slice their way through Cobra Island's bunker to get to Zartan. But if Zartan's already with the Joes, then who is escaping in the Firebat?

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck

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SERPENTOR


General Hawk stages the biggest G.I. Joe assault ever on Springfield! But will it be enough to topple Dr. Mindbender's ultimate creation of the greatest Cobra warrior in history a SERPENTOR?

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck, John Beatty

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SEA DUEL


New Joes Beach-Head and Wet-Suit go head-to-head against Dr. Mindbender and Cobra EELS as they lead the rescue efforts for Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow, who fight their way off Cobra Island. But will all of them get out alive?

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck

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IN SEARCH OF CANDY


The Joes, along with new recruits Quick-Kick and Alpine, are sent on a covert rescue mission to extract a rogue Rip-Cord (and whatever surveillance info they can get) from Cobra Island. Meanwhile, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow discover the identity of Hard Master's killer and head to Cobra Island as well to exact revenge.

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck

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IMPROVISATION ON A THEME


Lady Jaye takes new Joe recruits Crank-Case, Heavy Metal, Bazooka, and Airtight on a routine training mission... until Destro, Baroness, and Dr. Mindbender unleash a surprise attack!

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck, John Beatty

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CROSSROADS


Billy, Candy, Soft Master, and Buzzer's worlds collide in Springfield. Meanwhile, Stalker and Snake-Eyes convince an old friend long thought dead that he has so much more to live for.

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Rod Whigham, Andy Mushynsky, George Roussos, Mike Zeck, John Beatty

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The Theological Promise of Religious Diversity

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This book draws the recent approach to religious diversity known as relational pluralism into dialogue with Nicholas of Cusa's mystical masterpiece, On the Vision of God, to offer an imaginative way to make theological sense of religious diversity. This is theology that views religious diversity as promising rather than problematic. God in Perspective examines how the familiar Christian theological responses to religious diversity known as the exclusivist, inclusivist, and pluralist models, along with their variants, reflect either modernity's totalizing epistemology, by upholding the pre-eminence of a single religious tradition, or postmodernity's decentering epistemologies, by upholding the relativity of all traditions. God in Perspective seeks a space beyond that stalemate between common-ground and incompatibility, beyond modern homogeneity and postmodern fragmentation. By offering a fresh reading of Nicholas of Cusa's vision and drawing on the best scholarship in contemporary theologies of religious diversity, God In Perspective presents a theological framework that enables people of diverse traditions to hold to the particularity of their beliefs and yet learn from those who stand in a different place, discovering a God who is revealed in and through multiplicity.

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A concise, colorful, and convincing account of capitalisms rise to global dominance.

Today, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalismit touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things cant stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite amassing and consumption of resources is at odds with a finite planet. How did this happen? As the economic historian Trevor Jackson argues in this powerful book, It wasnt always capitalism, it didnt have to be capitalism, and capitalism didnt have to be this way.

With a firm grasp on history and economics and a keen eye for the telling anecdote, Jackson explains where capitalism came from, how it spread across the globe, and how it came to be the dominant way of organizing life. He traces capitalisms development from the accidental construction of an international monetary system to the creation of banking, the emergence of a new form of slavery in the eighteenth century, fossil-fuel industrialization, and finally the global capitalist system spread by imperialism in the nineteenth century. Along the way, readers learn about the surprising role of Chinese mulberry trees, Dutch cheese, whale blubber, imperial gin and tonics, Spanish conquistadors, Mexican mine workers, and English bankers in the history and development of capitalism.

Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.

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Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

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"This book, I suspect, will detonate over certain corners in America.... Darkology is a major and thrilling work of American history." Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review
As Heard on NPR's Fresh Air: "Quite enlightening." Terry Gross
"Tremendous.... Barnes has corralled the chaos, contradiction, and surprise of American social reality; evaded mythology; and made... the unwritten legible.... [A] painfully necessary autopsy of the nations soul." Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe
Named one of the Best Books of the Month by the New York Times, TIME, and Kirkus Reviews

A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.
Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex, subterranean, and all-too-often expunged history of Darkologythe insidious study, commodification, and dehumanization of Black life, through which performers caricatured the enslaved and formerly enslaved for their supposed subservience and happy demeanor.

Given the extraordinary research reflected in Darkology, its not surprising that Barnes spent twenty years tracking down fading photographs, old movies, bureaucratic detritus, moldy scripts, and living witnesses, assembling an impressive archive that allowed her to demonstrate the astonishingly broad reach of blackface minstrelsy (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich). Painstakingly piecing together these scattered shards of evidence, Barnes reveals the shocking extent to which blackface took center stage in every era of American history.

This was not a fringe activity. By 1830, as political resistance to slavery grew, blackface exploded from a niche performance into a venomous national export. Within a decade, hardly a theater in the country didnt put on minstrel shows. Following the Civil War, this grotesque entertainment soared, seeping from professional theaters into everyday amateur shows, print, and advertisements. It was everywhere: Elks Clubs, religious institutions, battlefields, universities, and schools. It wasnt just in the Jim Crow era; it defined it. The very name Jim Crow derives from minstrelsys founding character.

Darkology dismantles the myth that blackface was a fleeting, postCivil War phenomenon. Even in eras known for liberal progressivism, it flourished. Barnes unearths the startling fact that four-term president Franklin D. Roosevelt was a devotee who died hours before a blackface show he had commissioned at Warm Springs. It permeated U.S. military bases and was even used in World War II Japanese American concentration camps and German POW camps as a bizarre tool of Americanization.

After WWII, the tide began to turn as Black veterans and mothers in places like suburban California protested the practice in schools. Still, blackface performances proved resilient, surfacing as late as 1969 at the University of Vermont. Even as the Civil Rights movement fought for equality, blackface remained present in American politics and white supremacist organizing through the Nixon and Ford administrations, its legacy still percolating in variable forms today.

By tracing minstrelsys evolution through oral histories, material culture, and a wide range of multimedia sources, Barness masterpiece (David Blight) forces us to reckon with the myriad ways the American Dream wore blackface. Recasting this American story with vivid and engaging storytelling (Howard French), Darkology is a landmark work that peers beneath the boulders deliberately obscuring our pastilluminating a path toward a more just and equal society in Americas future.

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A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

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Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.

Nicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was intrigued by his roots, thinking he wanted to be like Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter in Robert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men.

And like his fictional hero, who gets drawn into a web of Southern political intrigue, Lemann in Returning delves deeply into the family storyfrom their arrival in the 1830s as peddlers from Germany, to their becoming plantation owners and department store owners after the Civil War, to their emergence as aspirants in the aristocratic world of New Orleans, where they could never quite belong.

Seemingly more Our Crowd than Yentl in its depiction of a German-Jewish family where young scions matriculated at Harvard and liveried staff served crustless duck sandwiches at cocktail parties, Returning, with its parade of colorful family charactersfrom his grandfathers cousin, who participated in a campaign to prevent a Jewish state in the 1940s, to his father, a wealthy business lawyer in a Deep South seigneurial city, who took his kids to temple only on Thanksgiving, to his New Jerseyraised mother, who went into a kind of cardiac arrest of the soul upon meeting the familydefies easy categorization. Indeed, as the Lemanns climbed the ranks of New Orleanss high society, their struggles became part of a larger metaphorical story of the challenges faced by Jews, even wealthy ones, who are never able to fit in.

Keenly aware of these contradictions, Lemann began chafing both at the Souths strict racial hierarchy and at his relatives eagerness to be accepted in a subtle but distinctly antisemitic environment. Returning then follows the narrator as he rejects this cossetted, assimilated society, embraces religion, and chooses, along with his wife, to raise his children in a Jewish world.

Searchingly asking what it is about antisemitism that allows it to flourish after two thousand years, Lemann uses his own family saga as a springboard to address some of the most urgent questions of our time. Through its nuanced combination of biography and philosophy wrapped into a family history, Returning ultimately becomes one of the most memorable statements about Jewish life in the twenty-first century.

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Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine

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A moving look at the challenges and triumphs of caregiving, told through candid literary accounts by more than 60 doctors, nurses, and other healers

Where It Hurts invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicines frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share what its like to deal with difficult patients, life-changing diagnoses, private doubts, painful failures, and the victories that keep them going.

By turns conversational, spare, urgent, poetic, plain-spoken, heart-rending, and heart-mending, each piece offers a glimpse into the extraordinary daily realities of those charged with taking care of us at our most vulnerable.
A doctor shares the do-or-die pep talk she gives herself while performing a life-saving procedure. A nurse wrestles with caring for a woman accused of murder. A neurologist recalls how learning the art of pole dancing helped her through residency. A GI fellow serves us an unorthodox cure for an ER regular with a dangerous love for fajitas. A surgeon-poet imagines inviting Death over for tea.
Anger, shame, panic, loneliness, love, hate, wonder, joy: Theyre all part of a days work. As the authors of each piece unpack the highs and lows of their vocation, they teach us what it means to empathize deeply, to live fully, and to be human.

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An atmospheric and gripping rural noir thriller

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In a small town full of secrets, the past never stays buried.
When twelve-year-old Kayleen Ellis vanishes from her home in the rural town of Muswellbrook, Detective Rebecca Giles is called to investigate. Within hours, she's hailed a hero  the case is closed, the missing girl is found and a string of local burglaries have been solved.
But the celebration doesn't last long. The next morning, the body of a young farmhand is discovered floating in a cattle trough. Giles must uncover answers to this brutal death, and she soon starts to suspect a connection between the disappearance, the murder and her mother's mysterious drowning thirty years ago.
Now, in a community where loyalties run deep and grudges last generations, Giles must face the ghosts of her past before the killer strikes again.
Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Candice Fox, The Fall Between is a dark and atmospheric rural noir thriller that's impossible to put down.
'Rural noir at its very best.' Candice Fox

'Unpredictable, authentic, a thrilling debut.' Margaret Hickey

'Full of heart while keeping you on the edge of your seat.' Kyle Perry