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Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don't Play Dice : The Calculated Vulnerabilities of Je…
Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017) narrates the misadventures of young Irish Catholic Anna Kerrigan in her pursuit of a diving career in the New York docks during WWII. These misadventures are heavily conditioned by the accumulation of a series of structural vulnerabilities intersecting class, gender, religion, immigration, and disability, as well as political and economic corruption, whi…
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Emerging consumerism and eating out in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from household research to national data, and combine different methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietna…
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Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests and Salt Marshes
Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and salt marshes provide a range of important benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning services such as fuelwood and food, regulating services such as carbon sequestration and wave attenuation, and various tangible and intangible cultural services. However, strong negative perceptions of coastal wetlands …
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DoF/6 DoF Localization System for Low Computing Power Mobile Robot Platforms
The combinatorial number of possible methylomes in biological time and space is astronomical. Consequently, the computational analysis of methylomes needs to cater for a variety of data, throughput and resolution.
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Digital Inquiry into Emerging Issues of Public Concern Controversy mapping i…
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning and offers insights for both analysing and intervening in digital learning practices.
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Digital Inquiry into Emerging Issues of Public Concern
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning and offers insights for both analysing and intervening in digital learning practices.
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Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion
This chapter focuses on the cuneiform Akkadian texts available in the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc) and applies two language-technological methods, Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) and the fastText implementation of the Continuous Skip-gram model, to a dataset of 7,346 texts.
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Derivation of Morality from Prudence
The chapter then outlines how this prudential psychology leads prudent agents to want to know how to act in ways they will not regret in morally salient cases, as well as to regard moral actions as the only types of actions that satisfy this prudential interest.
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Daemonization
An ironic response to Richardson’s Pamela, The Turn of the Screw examines questions of moral hypocrisy and status inconsistency. Adopting a Fielding position, James celebrates the exemptions of a liberal conversation—or contemplation—premised both on the protection of adult secrets and the rejection of a Puritan education that prevents children from having free access to the open adult wo…
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D. Natsagdorj, Mongolian travel writing, and ideas about national identity
Given the interests of this book, the ability of Natsagdorj’s image to transcend his status as a socialist-era poet constructed by the Soviet-influenced intellectual institutions of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party is a remarkable one. Natsagdorj has become a symbol of authentic Mongolian nationalism, this Romantic post-socialist form of identity that rhetorically uses historic…
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