«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774

The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled ac…

Advanced Microwave Circuits and Systems

This book is based on recent research work conducted by the authors dealing with the design and development of active and passive microwave components, integrated circuits and systems. It is divided into seven parts. In the first part comprising the first two chapters, alternative concepts and equations for multiport network analysis and characterization are provided. A thru-only de-embedding t…

"And he knew our language": Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest C…

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and in…

Migration and Islamic Ethics; Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizen…

Migrasi dan Etika Islam, Isu Tempat Tinggal, Naturalisasi, dan Kewarganegaraan membahas bagaimana tradisi etika dan hukum Islam dapat berkontribusi pada perdebatan global saat ini mengenai migrasi dan pengungsian; bagaimana etika Islam dari muʾakha, ḍiyāfa, ijāra, amān, jiwār, sutra, kafāla, antara lain, dapat memberikan landasan etika bersama untuk paradigma baru dari kebajikan sosial …

Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation; Selected Papers of Hans Kamp

Kumpulan makalah penelitian yang ditulis oleh Hans Kamp ini menyajikan inti dari penelitian ilmiahnya tentang semantik bahasa alami dan hubungan antara logika, filosofi, dan linguistik. Disusun dalam enam bagian, topik yang dibahas mulai dari refleksi filosofis tentang isu-isu dasar dalam Paradoks Sorites kuno dengan penjelasan formal mengenai solusinya, hingga penjelasan mendetail tentang pras…

The Halal Industry in Asia = Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, J…

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Clinical Text Mining : Secondary Use of Electronic Patient Records

This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records. It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not require any tec…

The Future of India's Social Safety Nets

India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impac…

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …

Kurdish Studies Archive : Vol. 4 No. 2 2016. Special Issue: Yezidism and Yezi…

Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidiscip…