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Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of…
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected…
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Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the…
This volume brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire. An enormous apparatus that employed 22,000 men and women at its heyday, the Department operated a "machine" with myriad moving parts. The first part of the book portrays…
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Ludwig Prandtl - A personal biography drawn from memories and correspondence
When Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research institutions of worldwide renown, the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Strömungsforschung, but with the so-called ‘Göttingen School…
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Low Complexity Physical Layer Cooperation Concepts for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In this thesis low complexity physical layer cooperative communication schemes are investigated to improve the spectral efficiency, the scalability and the coverage range of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Specifically, we investigate cooperative broadcasting and provide an accurate coverage prediction to it, introduce leakage based beam shaping to increase the transmission range of virtual an…
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Lithium-ion Batteries: Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices
The book “Lithium-ion Batteries - Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices” provides recent research and trends for thin film materials relevant to energy utilization. The book has seven chapters with high quality content covering general aspects of the fabrication method for cathode, anode, and solid electrolyte materials and their thin films. All the chapters have been written by expert…
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Linked Data; A Geographic Perspective
Linked Data opens up structured data from databases to be searched and queried via the web, and a geographic element is increasingly being used to link to those data. This book helps you understand how to organize and describe data that includes geographic content and how to publish it as Linked Data for the Semantic Web, as well as explaining the benefits of doing so. In easy-to-understand ter…
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The Linguistics of Newswriting
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and theoretical macro perspectives, strategies and practices of research developm…
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Large Risks with Low Probabilities: Perceptions and willingness to take preve…
This volume contains studies of one particular category of risky situations, namely, those involving highly negative consequences with low probabilities. Situations of this type involve both natural and man-made disasters (e.g. floods, technological hazards, economic crises, epidemics, etc.). Such risks are characterized by two features: (1) they occur relatively rarely (the probability of thei…
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Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age: 27th Internation…
semantics; artificial intelligence; natural language processing systems; natural language processing; NLP; machine learning; social networking; named entities; support vector machines; SVM
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Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to coloniza…
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