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Vector Semantics
This open access book introduces Vector semantics, which links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning researchers who developed word vectors have relied primarily on the ever-increasing availability of large corpora and of computers with highly parallel GPU and TPU compute engines, and their focus is with endow…
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- Cognitive Technologies
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- XVI, 273
Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XII, 186
Resilienz
Resilienz ist in aller Munde. Egal, ob es sich um gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche, technologische oder ökologische Themen handelt: Der Begriff bestimmt zunehmend den Diskurs über die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Gesellschaft und den Zustand unseres Planeten. Der fünfte Open-Access Themenband des Instituts für Innovation und Technik (iit) gibt einen interdisziplinären Einblick in das T…
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- X, 227
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that exi…
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- Palgrave Studies in Political History
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- VII, 339
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Society
This multidisciplinary Open Access book provides nine problem-solving lectures for sustainable development for the planet and prosperity. Those are two of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships, or “the 5Ps”. Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on law, econom…
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XXVII, 254
Racialized health, COVID-19, and religious responses :black atlantic contexts…
Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and d…
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Cross-cultural and religious critiques of informed consent
This book explores the challenges of informed consent in medical intervention and research ethics, considering the global reality of multiculturalism and religious diversity. Even though informed consent is a gold standard in research ethics, its theoretical foundation is based on the conception of individual subjects making autonomous decisions. There is a need to reconsider autonomy as relati…
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English Medium Instruction in South Korea: Focusing on Language in School and…
Adding to the growing body of research on English Medium Instruction (EMI), this book focuses on the language support systems currently used by EMI mathematics and social science schoolteachers and university lecturers in South Korea. While EMI is an instructional field, there is a gap in the knowledge of how teachers and lecturers integrate English language-specific practices within their c…
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Environmental evaluation and global development institutions :a case study of…
Evaluation is increasingly important for finding sustainable solutions for the people and the planet, based on a systematic analysis of what works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, as they pertain to the environment. This book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accounta…
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The dialectic of ressentiment: pedagogy of a concept
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate 'resentment') is used today. It also proposes a new mode of addressing ressentiment in which critique and polemics no longer set the tone: care. Contemporary tendencies i…
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