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Tourism, one of the world's leading industries, has propelled
countries into recovery from economic recession. As a
multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral, holistic, and systemic
industry, tourism also uniquely placed to address the concerns of
the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the
relationships between tourism, sustainability, and sustainable
development are the subjects of deep study, the direct positive
effects of tourism on SDGs remain underdiscussed. The Handbook of
Research on the Role of Tourism in Achieving Sustainable
Development Goals is a collection of innovative research that
explores sustainable practices within the tourism industry. While
highlighting a broad range of topics including economic growth,
education, and production patterns, this book is ideally designed
for engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, executives, advocates,
researchers, academicians, and students.
The book is divided in 3 sections, each containing several
chapters: Section 1 includes chapters that identify and discuss
several ethical issues along the food chain, with particular detail
of issues in the food industry and in consumer behavior; Section 2
includes chapters that present the basis of a code of conduct in
the food profession as well as the description of existing codes of
conduct of food industry and food scientist professionals,
including ethics of publishing, and also ethics in risk
communication; Section 3 includes chapters based on case studies
with examples of teaching approaches currently used in teaching
food ethics, easy to implement and already tested and confirmed as
successful examples that engage students in this topic. Although
professional ethics in food supply chain is claimed as an essential
topic to be addressed in any degree program, few higher education
institutions that currently include a module on ethics in their
study programs. In g eneral, it is argued that ethics is a topic
addressed along the curriculum and embedded in the contents of the
modules. However, ethics, for its importance, needs a different
teaching and educational approach, and this book achieves that..
The single most important task of food scientists and the food
industry as a whole is to ensure the safety of foods supplied to
consumers. Recent trends in global food production, distribution
and preparation call for increased emphasis on hygienic practices
at all levels and for increased research in food safety in order to
ensure a safer global food supply. The ISEKI-Food book series is a
collection of books where various aspects of food safety and
environmental issues are introduced and reviewed by scientists
specializing in the field. In all of the books a special emp- sis
was placed on including case studies applicable to each specific
topic. The books are intended for graduate students and senior
level undergraduate students as well as professionals and
researchers interested in food safety and environmental issues
applicable to food safety. The idea and planning of the books
originates from two working groups in the European thematic network
"ISEKI-Food" an acronym for "Integrating Safety and Environmental
Knowledge In to Food Studies." Participants in the ISEKI-Food
network come from 29 countries in Europe and most of the institutes
and univer- ties involved with Food Science education at the
university level are represented. Some international companies and
non teaching institutions have also participated in the program.
The ISEKI-Food network is coordinated by Professor Cristina Silva
at The Catholic University of Portugal, College of Biotechnology
(Escola) in Porto. The program has a web site at: http: //www. esb.
ucp. pt/iseki/.
The concepts of power and identity are vital to many areas of
social research. In this edited collection, a prominent set of
contributors explore the double relationship between power and
group identity, focusing on two complementary lines of enquiry: In
what ways can the powerful dictate the identities of the powerless?
How can the powerless redefine their identity to challenge the
powerful? Each chapter is written by leading authorities in the
field, and investigates a particular aspect of the interplay of
identity and power via a range of empirical contexts such as
colonialism, nationalism, collective action, and electoral
politics. The case studies include early modern Goa under
Portuguese rule, the tribes of modern-day Jordan, the use of sexual
stereotyping and objectification by female activists seeking to
transform social systems, and a revisiting of the classic Stanford
Prison Experiment. The chapters include contributions from a
variety of social disciplines and research methodologies, and
together provide a comprehensive overview of a subject at the
cutting-edge of social and political psychology. Power and Identity
will be of great interest to researchers, graduates and upper-level
undergraduate students from across the social sciences.
Previously viewed as a relatively small group of errant travellers
rooted in counter-cultural ideas, backpackers have now become a
powerful tourist sector of predominantly young travellers, planning
and preparing their own trips, and looking for direct cultural
contact, novelty and spontaneity all around the globe. The
Backpacker Tourist: A contemporary perspective explores the
increasing number of people traveling around the world as
backpackers and analyses the great diversification of this
demographic and their varied experiences while traveling. Martins
and Costa highlight the conflicting interpretations in the
literature on backpackers and the comparative reflexion between
Western and the growing number of Eastern backpackers, particularly
relating to their travel motivations and the way they experience
destinations. The Backpacker Tourist presents new perspectives to
researchers of Tourism Studies and the Sociology of Travel, but
also to those who looking for a synthetical, contemporary and
critical analysis of contemporary backpacker tourists.
Get quick hands-on experience with Google Cloud. This cookbook
provides a variety of self-contained recipes that show you how to
use Google Cloud services for your enterprise application. Whether
you're looking for practical ways to apply microservices, AI,
analytics, security, or networking solutions, these recipes take
you step-by-step through the process and provide discussions that
explain how and why the recipes work. Ideal for system engineers
and administrators, developers, network and database
administrators, and data analysts, this cookbook helps you get
started with Google Cloud regardless of your level of experience.
Google veterans Rui Costa and Drew Hodun also cover advanced-level
Google Cloud services for those who have appreciable experience
with the platform. Learn how to get started with Google Cloud
Understand the depth of services Google Cloud provides Gain
hands-on experience using practical examples and labs Explore
topics that include BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes Build and
run mobile and web applications on Google Cloud Examine ways to
build your cloud applications for scale Build a minimum viable
product (MVP) app to use in production Learn data platform and
pipeline skills
The book is divided in 3 sections, each containing several
chapters: Section 1 includes chapters that identify and discuss
several ethical issues along the food chain, with particular detail
of issues in the food industry and in consumer behavior; Section 2
includes chapters that present the basis of a code of conduct in
the food profession as well as the description of existing codes of
conduct of food industry and food scientist professionals,
including ethics of publishing, and also ethics in risk
communication; Section 3 includes chapters based on case studies
with examples of teaching approaches currently used in teaching
food ethics, easy to implement and already tested and confirmed as
successful examples that engage students in this topic. Although
professional ethics in food supply chain is claimed as an essential
topic to be addressed in any degree program, few higher education
institutions that currently include a module on ethics in their
study programs. In g eneral, it is argued that ethics is a topic
addressed along the curriculum and embedded in the contents of the
modules. However, ethics, for its importance, needs a different
teaching and educational approach, and this book achieves that..
The single most important task of food scientists and the food
industry as a whole is to ensure the safety of foods supplied to
consumers. Recent trends in global food production, distribution
and preparation call for increased emphasis on hygienic practices
at all levels and for increased research in food safety in order to
ensure a safer global food supply. The ISEKI-Food book series is a
collection of books where various aspects of food safety and
environmental issues are introduced and reviewed by scientists
specializing in the field. In all of the books a special emp- sis
was placed on including case studies applicable to each specific
topic. The books are intended for graduate students and senior
level undergraduate students as well as professionals and
researchers interested in food safety and environmental issues
applicable to food safety. The idea and planning of the books
originates from two working groups in the European thematic network
"ISEKI-Food" an acronym for "Integrating Safety and Environmental
Knowledge In to Food Studies." Participants in the ISEKI-Food
network come from 29 countries in Europe and most of the institutes
and univer- ties involved with Food Science education at the
university level are represented. Some international companies and
non teaching institutions have also participated in the program.
The ISEKI-Food network is coordinated by Professor Cristina Silva
at The Catholic University of Portugal, College of Biotechnology
(Escola) in Porto. The program has a web site at: http: //www. esb.
ucp. pt/iseki/.
The concepts of power and identity are vital to many areas of
social research. In this edited collection, a prominent set of
contributors explore the double relationship between power and
group identity, focusing on two complementary lines of enquiry: In
what ways can the powerful dictate the identities of the powerless?
How can the powerless redefine their identity to challenge the
powerful? Each chapter is written by leading authorities in the
field, and investigates a particular aspect of the interplay of
identity and power via a range of empirical contexts such as
colonialism, nationalism, collective action, and electoral
politics. The case studies include early modern Goa under
Portuguese rule, the tribes of modern-day Jordan, the use of sexual
stereotyping and objectification by female activists seeking to
transform social systems, and a revisiting of the classic Stanford
Prison Experiment. The chapters include contributions from a
variety of social disciplines and research methodologies, and
together provide a comprehensive overview of a subject at the
cutting-edge of social and political psychology. Power and Identity
will be of great interest to researchers, graduates and upper-level
undergraduate students from across the social sciences.
The relations between immigrants and host society members are
inherently affected by dynamics of similarity and dissimilarity. Do
host society members react more positively to immigrants who are
similar or who are dissimilar? This was the question driving this
work. Having as background the Portuguese context, this work
analysed the attitudes of Portuguese citizens towards (similar and
dissimilar) immigrant groups. Results show that this phenomenon is
far from straightforward depending on several factors, namely the
dimensions to which this similarity and dissimilarity refer to.
Nowadays, translation may be the bottleneck of the pretended
information globalisation. While surfing the Internet, for
instance, sometimes we come across languages and characters we
don't understand. Statistical machine translation (SMT) constitutes
a research sub-area of machine translation (MT) that has recently
gained much popularity. In fact, this technology has experienced
real growth motivated by the development of computer resources
needed to implement translation algorithms based on statistical
methods. This PhD thesis focuses on the SMT framework and primarly
on the definition and experimentation of novel algorithms for
building a correct structural reordering for translated words.
Moreover, challenging techniques regarding language modeling and
system combination are successfully applied to state-of-the-art SMT
systems. This dissertation should shed some light on the SMT
approach and on the word ordering challenges and should be
specially useful to natural language processing researchers having
non or some expertise in machine translation.
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