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Chapter 12 The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces
Dominant representations depict outdoor markets in Switzerland and beyond as typically local. Not only are they presented and promoted by different actors as being local in terms of the products sold on a market day, but also the traders are imagined as being locals. Applying a ‘mobility lens’, this chapter looks at marketplaces at the intersections of mobile traders, performance of local a…
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Language technology approach to “seeing” in Akkadian
One of the ways meanings of words can be understood is based on their distributional properties. Such methodology offers an interesting quantitative viewpoint on the study of the lexicography of long-extinct languages. This chapter explores the use of Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI), a well-known statistical word association measure used in collocation analysis
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Chapter 12 The power of place and perspective
Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communicati…
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Chapter 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art
Studies of rock art normally depart from a classification of type, style and what the motifs represents or depicts. South Scandinavian rock art, however, is often vague, incomplete and fragmentary. In this chapter, it is argued that certain rock art motifs, mainly boats and anthropomorphs, were deliberately made incomplete as a part of a vitalist technology with the aim of affecting the world. …
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Chapter 12 The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens
This book is a “big history” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. The genesis of our planet is explored, especially the circumstances that must exist for complex life to arise. This brief journey highlights th…
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The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: a contradictory forerunner
The chapter maps the formal institutional arrangements, which support gender equality within the institution and constitute important facets of feminist governance. This includes not just the FEMM Committee but also different gender mainstreaming initiatives in all parlia- mentary committees as well as gender action plans and sexual harassment policies for parlia- mentary staff.
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Chapter 12 Taking drugs to help others
Some risky medical treatments confer no benefit on the patient who undergoes the intervention though they do benefit third parties. It is commonly thought to be unethical for doctors to provide such treatments even if the patient agrees to undergo them; doing so violates the requirement that medical professionals provide only treatments that are in the best interests of the patient. I present a…
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Teacher agency in plurilingual learning contexts
Educational institutions offer different teacher education programmes to prepare teachers to effectively implement a plurilingual approach in the language classroom. The formative model that underlies those programmes is of two types: training sessions through conference and workshops, as well as collaborative work between universities and schools
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Addiction treatment providers’ engagements with the Brain Disease Model of …
Debates about the etiology of addiction among researchers and policymakers have a long history and continue to the present day. In contemporary societies within a range of nations, the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) has received strong support. This has come, in particular, from US agencies such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and American Society of Addiction Medi…
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Interaction in Aerial Warfare The Role of the Mission Commander in Composite…
This chapter explores the leadership practices of Mission Commanders. The major focus is on key features in leadership practices that contribute to effective samhandling in the execution of Composite Air Operations and handling of unexpected events. “Aerial warfare” is the term used to describe the use of military aircraft and other aeronautical equipment in warfare
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