04141nam 22005175 450 991056469770332120240322042150.09783031009259(electronic bk.)978303100924210.1007/978-3-031-00925-9(MiAaPQ)EBC6962814(Au-PeEL)EBL6962814(CKB)21639920100041(DE-He213)978-3-031-00925-9(EXLCZ)992163992010004120220425d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmpowering the Poor through Financial and Social Inclusion in Africa An Islamic Perspective /by Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid Ali1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (158 pages)Includes index.Print version: Elzahi Saaid Ali, Abdelrahman Empowering the Poor Through Financial and Social Inclusion in Africa Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031009242 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Islamic Microfinance: Moving beyond the Financial Inclusion -- Chapter 3. The Challenges Facing Poverty Alleviation and Financial Inclusion in Kenya -- Chapter 4. Empowering Women through Islamic Financial Inclusion in Comoros -- Chapter 5. The Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks of Islamic Microfinance in Sudan -- Chapter 6. The Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks of Conventional Microfinance in Kenya -- Chapter 7. The Challenges Facing Islamic Trade Finance in Promoting SMEs in IsDB Member Countries -- Chapter 8. Overcoming Financial Inclusion Challenges through Digital Finance.This book discusses financial inclusion, gender equality, regulatory regimes for microfinance, women empowerment, and digital finance from an Islamic perspective. It encourages the reader to reflect on whether the delivery of financial services from an Islamic perspective might be attainable and lead to achieving global financial inclusion. Accessing financing is one of the most formidable challenges facing disadvantaged in IsDB member countries. The race to serve these niche markets has led to the emergence of conventional microfinance. There remains the lingering question of whether conventional microfinance in its current form has conclusively led to poverty alleviation among Muslim communities. Hence, there is a need of having Shari'ah-compliant business model that depends on Islamic socio-economic tools such as Zakah, Sadaqah, and Waqf might best address the needs self-financial exclusion or the exclusion of the extremely poor in Muslim. Abdelrahman Elzahi SaaidAli is Senior Economist at the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBi). Before joining IsDBi in 2008, Dr. Elzahi held a faculty position as Associate Professor of Economics at Sudan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Elzahi received his BSc in Banking and Finance from Sudan University of Science and Technology, MA in Economics from Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan, and PhD in Economics from the International Islamic University Malaysia. He is a co-editor of Revitalization of Waqf Economic Development, Volumes I & II, and the main author of Volumes I & II of Financial Inclusion through Islamic Finance. His current research areas include Digital Financial Inclusion Technology Adoption in achieving sustainable development.Development economicsIslamStudy and teachingDevelopment EconomicsIslamic StudiesDevelopment economics.IslamStudy and teaching.Development Economics.Islamic Studies.332.096332.096Ali Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid1265097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910564697703321Empowering the poor through financial and social inclusion in Africa2966522UNINA04935nam 22005773 450 991101883490332120240328080228.09781394176311139417631797813941763351394176333(CKB)31073628900041(MiAaPQ)EBC31227199(Au-PeEL)EBL31227199(Exl-AI)31227199(OCoLC)1428259698(Perlego)4367298(EXLCZ)993107362890004120240328d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnhomely Life Modernity, Mobilities and the Making of Home in China1st ed.Newark :John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,2024.©2024.1 online resource (253 pages)RGS-IBG Book Series9781394176298 1394176295 9781394176304 1394176309 Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Notes on Fieldwork -- Chapter 1 Introduction: From Xiangtu China to Unhomely China -- Modernity as a Deal -- Two Dimensions of Uneven Mobilities -- Lijiang Old Town: The Case -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 A Sense of Home in China: Then and Now -- Home: An Ensemble of Representations and Experiences -- A Sense of Home in Traditional Chinese Culture -- Home as a Destination for Return -- Home as a Balanced Way of Living -- Modernization and Loss of Home Feelings in Post-Mao China -- Unhomely Life: An Analytic Framework -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Lifestyle Migration and the (Un)making of an Ideal Home -- Representing Lijiang as an Ideal Home -- Making Home in its Material and Lived Aspects -- Unmaking Home: The Spatial Politics of Belonging and Alienation -- External Pressure for Home Unmaking -- Internal Struggle between Here and There -- Divergence between Busyness and Slowness -- Conclusion: The Ambivalence of an Ideal Home -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Act of Retreat: Tourism, Loafing, and the Consumption of Home -- Solitude and a Natural Way of Living -- Loafing through Socialization -- Regarding Lijiang Old Town as a Home -- Being Unhomely in a Mobile World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Displacing Native Residents: Money, Meaning, and the Remaking of Home -- A Sense of Home in the Town -- A True Love for Courtyard Houses -- A Close-knit Community in the Town -- From Familiar to Strange: In-situ Displacement -- Age Difference: Departure or Stay -- Making and Remaking Home in Daily Life: Four Stories -- Story 1: Making a Home for Tourists -- Story 2: Promoting Naxi Culture for Profit -- Story 3: The Life Cycle of a New Lijiang Local -- Story 4: Being at Home Forever -- Conclusion -- Note.Chapter 6 Hometown Babies: Immobility and Lijiang Locals' Struggles for Home -- Speed and Slowness: The Supply of Homely Service to the Old Town -- Guesthouse A'Jie and the Commodification of Domestic Work -- Delivery A'Ge and Time Discipline -- Freelance Workers for Tourists -- Free Time, Away from Lijiang Old Town -- Pain and Joy: Embracing Hometown in Lijiang -- The Shadow of Patriarchal Society -- In Celebration of Hometown Babies -- Stay and Departure: The Longing for Settlement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Homemaking in a Relentless World -- The Politics of Homemaking in Lijiang -- Remembering Home in China: By Whom and for What? -- Being Unhomely in Modern Times -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.This book, 'Unhomely Life: Modernity, Mobilities, and the Making of Home in China' by Xiaobo Su, explores the evolving concept of 'home' in the context of modern China. Through the lens of Lijiang Old Town, it examines how modernization and mobility influence traditional notions of home and belonging. The work delves into lifestyle migration, the idealization of home, and the tensions between globalization and local identities. It aims to provide insights into the cultural and social transformations within Chinese society, highlighting the ambivalence and challenges of maintaining a sense of home amidst rapid change. The book is intended for scholars and readers interested in cultural geography, sociology, and modern Chinese studies.Generated by AI.RGS-IBG Book SeriesCultural geographyGenerated by AIMigration, InternalGenerated by AICultural geographyMigration, Internal307.240951Su Xiaobo1090382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911018834903321Unhomely Life4421996UNINA04981nam 22005895 450 991033760510332120200702054345.03-030-15028-310.1007/978-3-030-15028-0(CKB)4100000008048033(MiAaPQ)EBC5771316(DE-He213)978-3-030-15028-0(PPN)235670111(EXLCZ)99410000000804803320190426d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeveloping Networks using Artificial Intelligence /by Haipeng Yao, Chunxiao Jiang, Yi Qian1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2019.1 online resource (256 pages)Wireless Networks,2366-11863-030-15027-5 Preface vii -- Acknowledgements ix -- Table of Contents xi -- Chapter 1 Introduction 1 -- Chapter 2 Intelligence-Driven Networking Architecture 13 -- Chapter 3 Intelligent Network Awareness 31 -- Chapter 4 Intelligent Network Control 79 -- Chapter 5 Intelligent Network Resource Management 151 -- Chapter 6 Intention Based Networking Management 191 -- Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Challenges 237 -- Index 241.This book mainly discusses the most important issues in artificial intelligence-aided future networks, such as applying different ML approaches to investigate solutions to intelligently monitor, control and optimize networking. The authors focus on four scenarios of successfully applying machine learning in network space. It also discusses the main challenge of network traffic intelligent awareness and introduces several machine learning-based traffic awareness algorithms, such as traffic classification, anomaly traffic identification and traffic prediction. The authors introduce some ML approaches like reinforcement learning to deal with network control problem in this book. Traditional works on the control plane largely rely on a manual process in configuring forwarding, which cannot be employed for today's network conditions. To address this issue, several artificial intelligence approaches for self-learning control strategies are introduced. In addition, resource management problems are ubiquitous in the networking field, such as job scheduling, bitrate adaptation in video streaming and virtual machine placement in cloud computing. Compared with the traditional with-box approach, the authors present some ML methods to solve the complexity network resource allocation problems. Finally, semantic comprehension function is introduced to the network to understand the high-level business intent in this book. With Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), 5th Generation Wireless Systems (5G) development, the global network is undergoing profound restructuring and transformation. However, with the improvement of the flexibility and scalability of the networks, as well as the ever-increasing complexity of networks, makes effective monitoring, overall control, and optimization of the network extremely difficult. Recently, adding intelligence to the control plane through AI&ML become a trend and a direction of network development This book's expected audience includes professors, researchers, scientists, practitioners, engineers, industry managers, and government research workers, who work in the fields of intelligent network. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will also find this book useful as a secondary textbook. .Wireless Networks,2366-1186Wireless communication systemsMobile communication systemsArtificial intelligenceComputer networksWireless and Mobile Communicationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T24100Artificial Intelligencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I21000Computer Communication Networkshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I13022Wireless communication systems.Mobile communication systems.Artificial intelligence.Computer networks.Wireless and Mobile Communication.Artificial Intelligence.Computer Communication Networks.006.3006.3Yao Haipengauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut969896Jiang Chunxiaoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autQian Yiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910337605103321Developing Networks using Artificial Intelligence2204610UNINA