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Rights for Robots
ABSTRACT Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots. Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is …
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Japan's China Policy
ABSTRACT Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China policy: the negotiations for a bilateral investment protection treaty and the disputed …
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The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
How do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention? Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the …
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Computer algebra and polynomials : applications of algebra and number theory
Algebra and number theory have always been counted among the most beautiful mathematical areas with deep proofs and elegant results. However, for a long time they were not considered that important in view of the lack of real-life applications. This has dramatically changed: nowadays we find applications of algebra and number theory frequently in our daily life. This book focuses on the theory …
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- ix, 213 pages
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Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Edited by Blaise Cronin, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9445.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323284 Publication date: 2014 A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing w…
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Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia
ABSTRACT The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of "scientific" pathological models based…
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The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens : Public Opinion and Soc…
ABSTRACT The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between s…
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Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis By Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9525.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323314 Publication date: 2014 How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. …
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Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions
Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture—blogs, wikis, online photo-…
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Inside Technology Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9209.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323130 Publication date: 2014 Analysis and case studies e…
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