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Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Casting doubt on the assertion that online discourse, with its proliferation of voices, will somehow yield collective wisdom, Speaking Power to Truth raises concerns that this wealth of digitally enabled commentary is, in fact, too often bereft of the hallmarks of intellectual discourse: an epistemological framework and the provision of evidence to substantiate claims. Instead, the pursuit of t…
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How Canadians Communicate IV Media and Politics
With contributions from such diverse figures as Elly Alboim, Richard Davis, Tom Flanagan, David Marshall, and Roger Epp, How Canadians Communicate IV is the most comprehensive review of political communication in Canada in over three decades – one that poses questions fundamental to the quality of public life.
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Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media
Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent. Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan examines how the American media has portrayed Canada, from Confederation to Obama’s election. By examining major events that have tested bilateral relations, Bomb Canada tracks the history of anti-…
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- 9781897425497.01
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- Global Peace Studies
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Recent Development in Wireless Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of numerous physically distributed autonomous devices used for sensing and monitoring the physical and/or environmental conditions. A WSN uses a gateway that provides wireless connectivity to the wired world as well as distributed networks. There are many open problems related to Ad-Hoc networks and its applications. Looking at the expansion of the cellula…
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- 978-81-322-2129-6
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Learning from Data Streams in Dynamic Environments
This book addresses the problems of modeling, prediction, classification, data understanding and processing in non-stationary and unpredictable environments. It presents major and well-known methods and approaches for the design of systems able to learn and to fully adapt its structure and to adjust its parameters according to the changes in their environments. Also presents the problem of lear…
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- 978-3-319-25667-2
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Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies: 11th International Symposium, APPT…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2015, held in Jinan, China, in August 2015. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They deal with the recent advances in big data processing; parallel architectures and systems; parallel software; parallel algorithm…
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- 978-3-319-23216-4
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- IX, 117
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 004.6 ADV a
Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: Future Information Technology…
This volume brings together contributions representing the state-of-the-art in new multimedia and future technology information research, currently a major topic in computer science and electronic engineering. Researchers aim to interoperate multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. This book covers future information technology topics including …
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- 978-3-662-47895-0
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- XXVI, 513
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- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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- 004.6 ADV a
Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: Future Information Technology
This volume brings together contributions representing the state-of-the-art in new multimedia and future technology information research, currently a major topic in computer science and electronic engineering. Researchers aim to interoperate multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. This book covers future information technology topics including …
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- 978-3-662-47487-7
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- XXVI, 358
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- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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Leakage Resilient Password Systems
This book investigates tradeoff between security and usability in designing leakage resilient password systems (LRP) and introduces two practical LRP systems named Cover Pad and ShadowKey. It demonstrates that existing LRP systems are subject to both brute force attacks and statistical attacks and that these attacks cannot be effectively mitigated without sacrificing the usability of LRP system…
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Writing as Material Practice : Substance, surface and medium
Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as…
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