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This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. The volume argues that understanding movement in the past requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies towards fluid, trajectory-based studies. Archaeology, by its very nature, locates objects frozen in space (literally in their three-dimensional matrices) at sites that are often stripped of people. An archaeology of movement must break away from this stasis and cut new pathways that trace the boundary-crossing contextuality inherent in object/person mobility.                 Essays in this volume build on these new approaches, confronting issues of movement from a variety of perspectives. They are divided into four sections, based on how the act of moving is framed. The groups into which these chapters are placed are not meant to be unyielding or definitive. The first section, "Objects in Motion," includes case studies that follow the paths of material culture and its interactions with groups of people. The second section of this volume, "People in Motion," features chapters that explore the shifting material traces of human mobility. Chapters in the third section of this book, "Movement through Spaces," illustrate the effects that particular spaces have on the people and objects who pass through them. Finally, there is an afterward that cohesively addresses the issue of studying movement in the recent past. At the heart of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement is a concern with the hybridity of people and things, affordances of objects and spaces, contemporary heritage issues, and the effects of movement on archaeological subjects in the recent and contemporary past.

Archaeology. --- Human mobility. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Archaeology and history --- Human beings --- Migration, Internal --- Social archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Migrations --- Anthropology. --- Archeology --- Social sciences. --- Social Sciences. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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The notion of ""mobilities,"" when looked at from a practical point of view, turns out to cover different kinds of human activity. It is not surprising, then, that when approached from an academic perspective, it reveals enormous potential for interdisciplinary research, which has proven extremely attractive to many scholars from different continents, disciplines, and schools of academic inquiry. The scholars in this volume focus on the specific aspects of mobilities, namely, tourism and travel behavior, but approach them from a plethora of positions. Such a myriad of perspectives is bound to be challenging in methodological terms, but it seems there is a growing agreement as to the worthiness of this interdisciplinary research. By means of combining various approaches, researchers obtain access to a fascinating and increasingly ubiquitous phenomenon of contemporary human mobility.

Tourism. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects --- Social Sciences --- Human Mobility --- Tourism Development --- Social Sciences and Humanities

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This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of “big data”, highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations. A valuable source for students and scholars engaged in migration research, the book will also be of keen interest to policymakers.

Migration, immigration & emigration --- Public administration --- Quantitative migration research --- Available administrative sources --- Forced migrants in the global North and South --- General population surveys --- Reliable quantitative information --- Migratory flows and populations --- Sampling and data collection --- Intercultural differences --- Survey design issues --- Absence of suitable sampling frames --- Target population --- Migration research --- Internally displaced persons --- Social networking sites --- Internet survey --- Data collection --- Transnational human mobility

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This open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical, epistemological and empirical questions that must be considered before, during, and after undertaking qualitative research in migration studies. It also covers recent innovative developments and addresses the key issues and major challenges that qualitative migration research may face at different stages i.e. crafting the research questions, defining approaches, developing concepts and theoretical frameworks, mapping categories, selecting cases, dealing with concerns of self-reflection, collecting and processing empirical evidence through various techniques, including visual data, dealing with ethical issues, and developing policy-research dialogues. Each chapter discusses relative strengths and limitations of qualitative research. The chapters also identify the main drivers for qualitative research development in migration studies. It is a unique volume as it brings together a multidisciplinary perspective as well as illustrations of different issues derived from the research experience of the recognized authors. One additional value of this book is its geographic focus on Europe. It seeks to explore theoretical and methodological issues that are raised by distinctive features of the European context. This volume will be a useful reference source for scholars and professionals in migration studies and in social sciences as well. The publication is also addressed to graduate and post-graduate students and, more generally, to those who embark on the task of doing qualitative research for the first time in the field of migration.

Emigration and immigration. --- Social sciences. --- Sociology. --- Migration. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- European migration studies --- Methodology of social sciences --- Qualitative research methods --- Human mobility --- Open access --- Migration Studies --- Qualitative methodology --- European migration research --- Epistemology in migration research --- Interdisciplinary migration research

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) plays an important role in supporting human activities. Man is concentrating more and more on intellectual work, and trying to automate practical activities as much as possible in order to increase their efficiency. In this regard, the use of drones is increasingly becoming a key aspect of this automation process, offering many advantages, including agility, efficiency and reduced risk, especially in dangerous missions. Hence, this Special Issue focuses on applications, platforms and services where UAVs can be used as facilitators for the task at hand, also keeping in mind that security should be addressed from its different perspectives, ranking from communications security to operational security, and furthermore considering privacy issues.

History of engineering & technology --- computer vision --- oil well working condition --- real-time detection --- sort --- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) --- YOLOv3 --- UAV --- autonomous landing --- vision-based --- ArduSim --- ArUco marker --- blind signature --- security --- MEC --- UAVs --- FANET --- 5G --- IoT --- Mutual authentication --- Privacy --- Traceable --- BAN logic --- coverage model --- human mobility model --- UAVs/drones positioning --- energy model --- UAS --- horizon --- undistortion --- FPGA --- sense-and-avoid --- LoRaWAN --- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles --- topology control --- virtual spring forces --- firefighting communications --- computer vision --- oil well working condition --- real-time detection --- sort --- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) --- YOLOv3 --- UAV --- autonomous landing --- vision-based --- ArduSim --- ArUco marker --- blind signature --- security --- MEC --- UAVs --- FANET --- 5G --- IoT --- Mutual authentication --- Privacy --- Traceable --- BAN logic --- coverage model --- human mobility model --- UAVs/drones positioning --- energy model --- UAS --- horizon --- undistortion --- FPGA --- sense-and-avoid --- LoRaWAN --- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles --- topology control --- virtual spring forces --- firefighting communications