Tag: Context

Context-Aware Computing


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 3110555689 | 482 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.3 MB
The book addresses the impact of ambient intelligence, particularly its user-centric context-awareness requirement on data management strategies and solutions. Techniques of conceptualizing, capturing, protecting, modelling, and querying context information, as well as context-aware data management application are discussed, making the book is an essential reference for computer scientists, information scientists and industrial engineers.

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The God That the Poor Seek Conversion, Context, and the World of the Vulnerable


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839732733 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 1.3 mb
The assumption that conversion looks the same regardless of culture or religious context is challenged by a growing number of missiologists, both in the Majority World and in the West. In this book, Rupen Das explores the particularities of conversion for some of the world’s poorest populations. Sharing the stories of Syrian refugees and Indian slum dwellers, Das positions their voices within a missiological framework of contextualization, seeking to understand what attracts the marginalized to the gospel of Christ.

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A Case Study for Computer Ethics in Context


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032546913 | 346 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
Aimed at addressing the difficulties associated with teaching often abstract elements of technical ethics, this book is an extended fictional case study into the complexities of technology and social structures in complex organizations. Within this case study, an accidental discovery reveals that the algorithms of Professor John Blackbriar are not quite what they were purported to be. Over the course of 14 newspaper articles, a nebula of professional malpractice and ethical compromise is revealed, ultimately destroying the career of a prominent, successful academic.

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Tales in Context Sefer Ha-Ma’asim in Medieval Northern France


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English | ISBN: 081434271X | 2017 | 816 pages | EPUB | 152 MB
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover’s wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant’s daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma’asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories’ meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.

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Tales in Context Sefer Ha-Ma’asim in Medieval Northern France


Free Download Rella Kushelevsky, "Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma’asim in Medieval Northern France "
English | ISBN: 081434271X | 2017 | 816 pages | EPUB | 152 MB
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover’s wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant’s daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma’asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories’ meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.

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Emerging Adulthood in a European Context


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English | ISBN: 1138808474 | 2015 | 236 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Emerging adulthood has been identified as an important developmental stage, characterised by identity exploration, instability and open possibilities, in which young people are no longer adolescents but have not yet attained full adult status. This ground-breaking edited collection is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of emerging adulthood in a European context, which includes a comparison of findings in 9 different European countries and the USA.

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Constitutional Rights Cases in Context, Fourth Edition [Connected eBook with Study Center] Ed 4


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English | ISBN: 1543839029 | 2021 | 1108 pages | AZW3 | 17 MB
Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.

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Novels for Students Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels Vol 24


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English | 2006 | ISBN: 0787669474 | EPUB | pages: 360 | 0.5 mb
Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians – experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this references content.

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