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Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China
This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the work explores how Chinese philosophers dealt with issues not only in language but also in ontology, epistemology, ethics, axiol…
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- 978-3-642-54865-9
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Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain, MRMD 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, on March 29, 2015. The workshop was held in connection with ECIR 2015. The 14 full papers presented, including one invited paper, a workshop overview and five papers on the VISCERAL Retrieval Benchmark, were carefully reviewed and sele…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-24470-9
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- VIII, 153
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
Describes innovative approaches for achieving mixed-reality environments, combining augmented and virtual environments with full-body immersive user interfaces; Offers cost-effective means of body motion capture by hybridizing wearable sensor data; Utilizes energy-efficient micro-embedded sensors for wearable sensing applications; Includes innovative, power autonomous sensing using Bod…
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- 978-3-319-21293-7
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- IX
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Media Literacy Education in China
Dr. C.K. Cheung teaches at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 30 externally refereed articles and book chapters in the field of media literacy education. He has been successful in getting both internal and external research grants. In 2006, he was awarded the most competitive research grant (CERG) to look at the implementation of media education in Hon…
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- 978-981-10-0043-0
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- XII, 179
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Media Literacy Education in China
Dr. C.K. Cheung teaches at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 30 externally refereed articles and book chapters in the field of media literacy education. He has been successful in getting both internal and external research grants. In 2006, he was awarded the most competitive research grant (CERG) to look at the implementation of media education in Hon…
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- 978-981-10-0043-0
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- XII, 179
European Book Cultures Diversity as a Challenge
Stephanie Kurschus analyses the idea of a common "European" book culture that integrates the book market as an essential aspect and employs book promotion as balancing instrument. Characteristics of book culture are identified; the resultant concept of book culture provides an overview of the values and myths ascribed to the book. Furthermore, applied book promotion measures are analyzed for th…
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- 978-3-658-08060-0
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans : The Lure of the Local Film Economy
Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and cu…
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- 9780520967175
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- 791.43 MAY a
Digital Foundations : Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud
Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. Conseque…
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- 302.23 BUR d
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt and open up new research and pedagogical avenues. It is designed to help scholars and students engage with their subjects using an audio-visual grammar, and to allow readers to efficiently gain the technical and theoretical skills necessary to cr…
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- 9781800641976
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- 070 REI d
Realizing a New Global Cyberspace Framework: Normative Foundations and Guidin…
In many respects cyberspace has created a new world. The online phenomena encompass social, cultural, economic, and legal facets. Exceeding the present Internet Governance concept the book analyses the normative foundations and guiding principles of a global cyberspace regime that includes the exchange of people, businesses, governments, and other entities. Based on this assessment and philosop…
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- 978-3-662-44677-5
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- 343.099
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