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Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?
A s testified by the increasing success of the extreme right in several countries, western societies are witnessing a growing disaffection with democratic institutions. Such a disaffection may have serious consequences for the future of democracy. Unfortunately, liberal democratic societies are…
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Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already availablefrom…
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Principles of Sociology
The accomplishments of Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) are somewhat paradoxical. He was unarguably one of the most widely read figures at the end of the nineteenth century, a fact easily confirmed by his importance to fields as various as biology, anthropology, sociology, politics, and ethics. But his…
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Mass Transfer in Multicomponent Mixtures
13 1.2What this Book covers 14 1.3 Structure of the Book 15 1.4 Guidelines to the Reader 16 1.5 Guidelines to the Teacher 17 1.6 Symbols 18 1.7 Conventions 21 2 is SOMETHING WRONG?24 2.1 The Starting Point 24 2.2 Three Gases 26 2.3 Two Cations 28 2.4 Two Gases and a Porous Plug 2.5 Summary 2.6…
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Behavioral Game Theory
Principles of Behavioral Economics, written by an acknowledged leader in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most exciting areas of modern economics. It demonstrates how models of economic theory can be enriched by using interdisciplinary insights from psychology…
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8 The Precariat The New Dangerous Class?
For the first time in history, the mainstream left has no progressive agenda. It has forgotten a basic principle. Every progressive political movement has been built on the anger, needs and aspirations of the emerging major class. Today that class is the precariat.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers
Source: Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers (London: J. Johnson, 1798), pp. 71–7, 79–82
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Language Difference in Writing: Toward a Translingual Approach
Growing numbers of U.S. teachers and scholars of writing recognize that traditional ways of understanding and responding to language differences are inadequate to the facts on the ground. Language use in our classrooms, our communities, the nation, and the world has always been multilingual rather…
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in finance: a systematic literature review
Abstract As the range of decisions made by Artificial Intelligence (AI) expands, the need for Explainable AI (XAI) becomes increasingly critical. The reasoning behind the specific outcomes of complex and opaque financial models requires a thorough justification to improve risk assessment, minimise…
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Biological Wastewater Treatment
Preventing environmental pollution by adequately treating the ever-increasing volume of wastewater generated by the over 8.1 billion (UN 2024 projection) people in the world, meeting governments’ often updated effluent quality standards as a result of emerging contaminants in domestic and…
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How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt both teach political science at Harvard University. In the midst of growing threats to democracy worldwide, they consider the reasons why some democracies have “died” historically or transformed into authoritarian regimes, especially in Europe and Latin America…
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Principles of Categorization
The following is a taxonomy of the animal kingdom. It has been attributed to an ancient Chinese encyclopedia entitled the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those…
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Theories of the policy process
This chapter provides an overview of general theoretical approaches to the policy process, and discusses how they may help to describe and interpret processes in the media and communication field. The six approaches discussed are: punctuated equilibrium theory, advocacy coalition framework, veto…
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8 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which…
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The Difference between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
Well-planned online learning experiences are meaningfully different from courses offered online in response to a crisis or disaster. Colleges and universities working to maintain instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic should understand those differences when evaluating this emergency remote…