Tag: Knowledge

Free Download Toyin Falola, "Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1316511235 | PDF | pages: 533 | 134.0 mb
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the ‘Self’ and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.

Free Download Building Knowledge Graphs: A Practitioner’s Guide by Jesus Barrasa, Jim Webber
English | August 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1098127102 | 288 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 10.51 MB
Incredibly useful, knowledge graphs help organizations keep track of medical research, cybersecurity threat intelligence, GDPR compliance, web user engagement, and much more. They do so by storing interlinked descriptions of entities-objects, events, situations, or abstract concepts-and encoding the underlying information. How do you create a knowledge graph? And how do you move it from theory into production?

Free Download Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, "Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750-1945 "
English | ISBN: 0367410729 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.

Free Download Semantic AI in Knowledge Graphs
by Sanju Tiwari
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032321857 | 217 pages | True PDF | 16.02 MB

Free Download Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760"
English | ISBN: 0198840330 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 57 MB
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo,

Free Download Monica McLean, "How Powerful Knowledge Disrupts Inequality: Reconceptualising Quality in Undergraduate Education"
English | ISBN: 1474214495 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 1367 KB
Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Educationforegrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education.

Free Download Advancements in Knowledge Distillation: Towards New Horizons of Intelligent Systems
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031320948 | 398 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
The book provides a timely coverage of the paradigm of knowledge distillation-an efficient way of model compression. Knowledge distillation is positioned in a general setting of transfer learning, which effectively learns a lightweight student model from a large teacher model. The book covers a variety of training schemes, teacher-student architectures, and distillation algorithms. The book covers a wealth of topics including recent developments in vision and language learning, relational architectures, multi-task learning, and representative applications to image processing, computer vision, edge intelligence, and autonomous systems. The book is of relevance to a broad audience including researchers and practitioners active in the area of machine learning and pursuing fundamental and applied research in the area of advanced learning paradigms.

Free Download Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems: Decolonizing the Technology Education Curriculum
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819913950 | 592 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 27 MB
There has been a growing interest in indigenous knowledge systems and research. This interest has been mainly triggered by the need to decolonize education as a response to the colonial onslaught on indigenous knowledge and people. Research has, however, concentrated on the generality of the indigenous knowledge system rather than on its related dimensions. One area that has suffered a lack of attention is indigenous conceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) despite the unquestionable evidence of STEM in indigenous contexts. Most STEM is presented by colonial establishments and representations, especially in developed/modern/urban contexts, which portray STEM as a colonial construct.

Free Download The Ends of Knowledge
by King, Rachael Scarborough;Rudy, Seth;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350242292 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 7.28 MB

Free Download The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
by Lawrence M. Krauss
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1637588569 | 235 pages | True EPUB | 6.65 MB