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The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this book uncovers the historical trajectory of U.S. independent hip-hop in the post-golden era, seeking to understand its complex relationship to mainstream hip-hop culture and U.S. culture more generally. Christopher Vito analyzes the lyrics of indie hip-hop albums from 2000-2013 to uncover the dominant ideologies of independent artists regarding race, cla…
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- 1
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- 9783030024819
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- XV, 184 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Topological Obstructions to Stability and Stabilization : History, Recent Adv…
This open access book provides a unified overview of topological obstructions to the stability and stabilization of dynamical systems defined on manifolds and an overview that is self-contained and accessible to the control-oriented graduate student. The authors review the interplay between the topology of an attractor, its domain of attraction, and the underlying manifold that is supposed to c…
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- 978-3-031-30133-9
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- X, 132
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- SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BRIEFSELECTRIC)
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- 620 JON t
Uncertainty in Engineering : Introduction to Methods and Applications
This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it then focuses on reliability theory and simulation methods for complex systems. The final two chapters discuss various aspects of aerospace engineering, considering stochastic…
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- 978-3-030-83640-5
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- VII, 147
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- SpringerBriefs in Statistics (BRIEFSSTATIST)
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- 510 UNC
Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics
This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between Heyting's and Gentzen's approaches to meaning, knowability paradoxes, proof-theoretic foundations of set theory, Du…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22686-6
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- VI, 283
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- Trends in Logic
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- 511.3 ADV a
The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-M…
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information regarding change in behavior and strategy adaption. Identifying non-routine problem-solving experts by efficient online assessments could lead to less volatile system performan…
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- 1
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- 9783658331399
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- XVIII, 185 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 1
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- 9783030005788
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- IX, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging fi…
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- 978-3-031-33227-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Crime Files
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- 379
Disability, Health and Human Development
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-53638-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
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- 320
Reading Breath in Literature
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American…
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- 978-3-319-99948-7
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- -
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- X, 134
International Comparisons in Learning and Education : Eliasian Perspectives
This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational l…
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- 1
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- 9783031609589
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- XXIV, 275 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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