Samudra Pasifik bagian Barat dan Tengah adalah rumah bagi perikanan tuna terbesar di dunia-sekitar setengah dari pasokan tuna dunia-dan merupakan sumber ekonomi yang vital bagi negara-negara kepulauan Pasifik. Potensi perikanan tuna Pasifik untuk berkontribusi pada pembangunan ekonomi di negara-negara kepulauan Pasifik sangat besar, tetapi akan membutuhkan strategi regional yang kooperatif untu…
Buku akses terbuka ini mensurvei bagaimana teknologi digital dapat berkontribusi secara efektif untuk meningkatkan pemahaman kita tentang masa lalu, melalui keterlibatan indrawi berdasarkan bukti budaya material. Secara khusus, ini mendorong para spesialis untuk mempertimbangkan indera dan hak pilihan manusia sebagai faktor penting dalam mempelajari ruang kuno, sambil mengakui peran yang dimain…
Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary debates on world novel and world literature.
Buku ini merupakan panduan komprehensif mengenai teori dan praktik pembuatan teks (captioning) dan subtitel yang disesuaikan bagi audiens tunarungu dan tuna wicara—sebuah disiplin yang berkembang pesat dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Panduan ini dirancang secara praktis dengan menyertakan contoh konkret dan latihan di akhir setiap bab untuk membantu pembaca mengasah keterampilan mereka. Buku i…
A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and t…
his article analyses the research field of Stalinist culture, which has been rapidly changing since the early 1990s when the study of Stalinism left the sphere of traditional Sovietology and gradually became one of the dominant subjects in the history of the 20th century.
In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the cultural conflicts in India that have shaped her identity. Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on land and regional affinity, migration and otherisation, and the ways in which memory works to attach us to a particular place.
Mechanical properties of the plantar soft tissue, which acts as the interface between the skeleton and the ground, play an important role in distributing the force underneath the foot and in influencing the load transfer to the entire body during weight-bearing activities. Hence, understanding the mechanical behaviour of the plantar soft tissue and the mathematical equations that govern such be…
Sometimes, the assumption of linear dependence of a response on a set of explanatory variables is not plausible, and model specification becomes a challenging task. Regression trees can be helpful to capture non-linear effects of the predictors.
This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its tro…