Josep Bohigas, Vincent Chireh, Oscar Zapata, Cecil C. Konijnendijk et al.
Restrictions on the use of public space and social distancing have been key policy measures to reduce the transmission of SAR-CoV-2 and protect public health. At the time of writing, one half of the world’s population has been asked to stay home and avoid many public places. What will be the long te...
Junaed Younus Khan, Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Sadia Afroz, Gias Uddin et al.
The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of those focused on a specific type of news (such as political)...
Silvia E Rabionet
Qualitative interviewing is a flexible and powerful tool to capture the voices and the ways people make meaning of their experience Learning to conduct semi-structure interviews requires the following six stages: (a) selecting the type of interview; (b) establishing ethical guidelines, (c) crafting ...
Anupam Das, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam
Security and privacy issues have become critically important with the fast expansion of multiagent systems. Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid computing, and P2P networks can be viewed as multiagent systems which are open, anonymous, and dynamic in nature. Such characteristi...
Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Kerstin Schmidt
This paper sets out a new approach to understanding the relationship between migration and climate change. Based on the understanding that migration is a significant, growing, but also complex phenomenon, this approach seeks to address the sensitivity of existing migration drivers in specific contex...
Red Crescent Societies
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Section One: Key Issues. 1. Addressing Humanitarian Needs Around Conflicts. 2. UN Sanctions and the Humanitarian Crisis. Section Two: Methodologies. 3. Doing the Right Thing: Why Good Practice? 4. ...
Jack C. Green, Donald W. Griesinger
Abstract This article examines the tasks and responsibilities of nonprofit boards of directors and explores the relationship between board performance and organizational effectiveness. Thirty‐three activities in nine areas of board responsibility were examined through questionnaires and interviews w...
Mir R. Islam, Miles Hewstone
Three studies explored intergroup attributional bias. In Experiment 1, Muslims (majority) and Hindus (minority) in Bangladesh rated their explanations of in-group and out-group members' positive and negative acts on 4 causal dimensions: locus, stability, controllability by others, and globality. Bot...
Katha Kartiki
Migration in response to climate change should not be seen as a failure to adapt, but as a strategy undertaken to increase household resilience. This will, however, happen when migration is planned and supported and not under distress. This article focuses on people's movements in the aftermath of c...
Barry K. Gills
List of Tables and Figures Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System J.K.Galbraith Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH POLITICS Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance B.K.Gills Overturning 'Globa...
Mizan R. Khan, Stacy‐ann Robinson, Romain Weikmans, David Ciplet et al.
Abstract How much finance should be provided to support climate change adaptation and by whom? How should it be allocated, and on what basis? Over the years, various actors have expressed different normative expectations on climate finance. Which of these expectations are being met and which are not...
Heather McMillen, Tamara Ticktin, Alan M. Friedlander, Stacy D. Jupiter et al.
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in...
Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of a...
Rabiul Islam, Greg Walkerden