Sikap masyarakat Yahudi di dunia Kristen abad pertengahan terhadap fenomena konversi—baik bagi kaum Yahudi yang berpindah ke agama Kristen maupun umat Kristen yang ingin memeluk keyakinan Yahudi—mencerminkan karakteristik inti dari identitas diri Yahudi saat itu. Komunitas Yahudi memandang diri mereka sebagai kelompok unik pilihan Tuhan yang memikul peran spesifik di dunia. Penelitian ini m…
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, claiming millions of lives each year. Cancer biology is an essential research field to understand how cancer develops, evolves, and responds to therapy. By taking advantage of a series of “omics” technologies (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics), computational methods in bioinformatics and machine learning can help scientists and r…
Masyarakat semakin menyadari bahwa kualitas air, ketinggian air, atau indikator sumber daya lainnya di DAS mereka tidak memenuhi harapan. Perbedaan antara kondisi sumber daya yang diinginkan dan yang sebenarnya ini mengarah pada upaya restorasi DAS. DAS adalah sistem yang kompleks, dan terlalu sering, upaya restorasi tidak efektif karena kurangnya pemahaman tentang tujuan sistem, yang ditentuka…
This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. With helpful, full-colour diagrams throughout, each chapt…
A Sanctuary of Sounds adalah penulisan ulang aural dari novel William Faulkner, Sanctuary (1931). Sebuah objek polifonik. Sebuah taman — kumpulan bunga, afeksi, suara, makna. Sebuah undangan untuk memikirkan kembali apropriasi secara etis, estetis, dan epistemologis. Apropriasi sebuah karya, sebuah tubuh fisik, sebuah ide, sebuah data. Sejarah pengetahuan dan produksinya dimungkinkan oleh pro…
Robyn d’Avignon menceritakan sejarah industri pertambangan emas tradisional Afrika Barat yang telah ada selama berabad-abad, beserta praktik-praktik bersama, larangan-larangan, dan keterlibatan kosmologisnya. ;;; Buku ini mengeksplorasi hubungan kompleks antara manusia, mineral, dan kekuasaan di Papua Nugini melalui lensa "geologi ritual". Berbeda dengan narasi standar tentang pertambangan in…
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides whe…
As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition is the first to appear since the original publication in 1805. Rainsford, a career officer in the British army, went to Haiti to recruit black …
Modern neural networks gave rise to major breakthroughs in several research areas. In neuroscience, we are witnessing a reappraisal of neural network theory and its relevance for understanding information processing in biological systems. The research presented in this book provides various perspectives on the use of artificial neural networks as models of neural information processing. We cons…
The sustainable management of water cycles is crucial in the context of climate change and global warming. It involves managing global, regional, and local water cycles, as well as urban, agricultural, and industrial water cycles, to conserve water resources and their relationships with energy, food, microclimates, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and anthropogenic activities. Hydrological …