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Mark Twain, the great American writer of the South whose characters struggle with difficult choices, famously said: “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” Taking Twain’s phrase as a starting point, this book considers how literature and art explore different systems of values and principles of conduct, and how they can teach us to cope at times of trial. Morality remains one of the most contested areas of thought and ethics in the modern world, due to numerous misapprehensions and the move away from solidarity, from what we share and hold in common, particularly our inherent pursuit of virtue and consideration of principles concerning the dist...
This two-volume set LNCS 14025 and 14026 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The SCSM 2023 conference offers a wide range of topics related to the design, development, assessment, use, and impact of social media.
Una de las capacidades más importantes de la persona es la capacidad de aprendizaje. La globalización, la tecnología y los nuevos espacios de aprendizaje son algunas de las tendencias que están marcando el cambio y la transformación de la Educación en el siglo XXI. Una educación que permita atender a las diferentes formas y maneras de aprender y promueva la adquisición de las competencias y habilidades que necesitan los estudiantes y profesores en la actualidad. Estos son los agentes implicados en este contexto educativo y nuevo modelo de enseñanza-aprendizaje con el que educar a los futuros ciudadanos: creativos, innovadores, emprendedores, líderes, con pensamiento crítico y con ...
Este libro es el resultado del trabajo realizado por el Grupo de Investigación «Culturas, religiones y derechos humanos en la sociedad actual» de la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). TABLA DE CONTENIDOS: PRESENTACIÓN PARTE I RELIGIÓN Y COMUNIDAD INTERNACIONAL LA RELIGIÓN EN LAS RELACIONES ENTRE ESTADOS: EL PASO DE LA ERA CONFESIONAL AL NUEVO PARADIGMA EN EL MUNDO occidental Pablo Miguel Orduna Portús [Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR] LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y SU PERSPECTIVA ACTUAL: UNIÓN EUROPEA-PAÍSES EN DESARROLLO Armando Alvares Garcia Júnior [Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)] EVOLUCIÓN DE LAS DECLARACIONES UNIVERSALES DE DERECHOS Y RELATIVIZACI...
The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions. Mendelson begins with an examination of El Pueblo Español, a model Spanish village featured at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. She then discusses Buñuel's and Dalí's documentary films, relating them not only to Fren...
Origen, significado y datos históricos más relevantes del apellido, así como la heráldica (escudo de armas) del linaje. Para la documentación y edición de todas nuestras láminas nos regimos por un estricto protocolo cuya finalidad es la de garantizar la veracidad y utilidad de la información. Incluye descripción y simbolismo de los principales esmaltes, metales y piezas heráldicas.
In the wake of the end of the Cold War and worldwide protests against corporate globalization, anarchism continues to attract new adherents among both aging leftists and new generations of young radicals. Arena aims to tap into this revived interest in libertarian ideas, culture and practice by providing a dynamic focal point; a journal that brings together good, stimulating and provocative writing and scholarship on libertarian culture of all kinds. Designed for a general, intelligent, popular readership as well as for scholars and aficionados working in the area, the first issue of Arena focuses on film and video - historical and modern - and future issues will cover the entire spectrum of the arts; film, theatre, and art criticism as well as political theory and practice, reportage, letters, reviews, and unpublished fiction and nonfiction.
Food-scanners are novel, portable and miniaturized devices, which operate on the principle of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). According to the manufacturers, these devices are suitable for measuring a wide range of important quality parameters on fresh produce. This research evaluated the suitability of food-scanners for determining fruit quality along the supply chain of fruit and vegetables. Using the qualitative research approach, the first step of this research comprised interviews of experts at different positions along the fresh produce value chain in Germany. Thereby, preferences and concerns regarding the utilization and implementation of this technology for fresh produce were inv...
Desde el ámbito de la antropología de la conservación, se analizan los procesos de declaración, desarrollo y gestión de las áreas protegidas y, en concreto, mediante una selección de casos de estudio, los de los parques naturales. Con una mirada crítica, holística y comparativa, se examinan las políticas conservacionistas orientadas a la planificación, reordenación y participación en espacios socioecosistémicos con dinámicas socioculturales complejas. Los distintos capítulos se articulan transversalmente en torno a la reivindicación de la antropología pública de la conservación y comparten un objetivo central: reflexionar sobre las áreas protegidas con una voluntad transformadora y diseñar la implementación de acciones efectivas para su conservación.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 17th Colombian Conference on Computing on Advances in Computing, CCC 2023, held in Medellin, Colombia, during August 10–11, 2023. The 22 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Applications - Industry 4.0 - Precision Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed systems and large-scale computing, Computational Statistics, Digital Learning - E-learning, Software Engineering, Human Machine Interaction, Image processing and Computer Vision, Robotics in Industry 4.0 and Scientific Applications.