Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 7
Free Download Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 7: Results from the 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications by Jun Jo, Han-Lim Choi, Marde Helbig, Hyondong Oh, Jemin Hwangbo, Chang-Hun Lee, Bela Stantic
English | PDF/epub | 2023 | 462 Pages | ISBN : 3031268881 | 63 MB
We are starting to enter a post-COVID-19 life. While this pandemic has made everyone's life challenging, it also expedited the transition of our everyday lives into a new form, often called "The New Normal." Although many people often use the terminology, perhaps we still do not have consensus about what it is and what it should be like. However, one thing that is clear namely that robotics and artificial intelligence technologies are playing a critical role in this transition phase of our everyday lives. We saw the emergence of last-mile delivery robots on the street, AI-embedded service robots in restaurants, uninhabited shops, non-face-to-face medical services, conferences and talks in metaverses, and AI-based online education programs.

Rise of the Red Engineers The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
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English | March 10, 2009 | ISBN: 0804760772, 0804760780 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 1.9 MB
Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups―the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated elite―coalesced to form a new dominant class. After dispossessing the country's propertied classes, Mao and the Communist Party took radical measures to eliminate class distinctions based on education, aggravating antagonisms between the new political and old cultural elites.

Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States Networks of Science in the Middle East
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English | ISBN: 0755650352 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism. But Jorg Matthias Determann argues here that, despite official prohibition, research on biological evolution has flourished, due in large part to the development of academic and professional networks. This book traces these networks through the history of various branches of biology, including botany, conservation research, ornithology and palaeontology. Typical of rentier societies, some of the scientific networks in this region consist of vertical patron-client relationships. For example, those in power who are interested in wildlife conservation have been known to offer patronage to biologists working on desert ecology. However, just as important are the horizontal links between scientists both within the Gulf region and beyond. Given the strengths and importance of these two forms of professional networks, Determann argues that we should look at the Arab world as an area interconnected with global science, and therefore fully integrated into the scientific and technological advances being pioneered worldwide.

Realizing the Values of Art Making Space for Cultural Civil Society
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031245970 | 225 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of diversity, or for economic purposes such as growth or innovation. To counteract that, the authors study the values that artists and audiences seek to realize in the social practices around the arts. They develop the concept of cultural civil society to analyze how art is practiced and values are realized in creative circles and co-creative communities of spectators. The insights are illustrated with case-studies about hip-hop, Venetian art collectives, dance festivals, science-fiction fandom, and a queer museum. The authors provide a four-stage scheme that illustrates how values are realized in a process of value orientation, imagination, realization, and evaluation.

Re-Create Your Life Transforming Your Life And Your World With The Lefkoe Method
Free Download Morty Lefkoe, "Re-Create Your Life: Transforming Your Life And Your World With The Lefkoe Method"
English | ISBN: 0615782388 | 2003 | 264 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Re-Create Your Life details a method of unlearning the deepest causes of our problems - our limiting beliefs. When limiting beliefs are unlearned, people are able to make lasting changes to their emotions and behavior freeing them to live more fulfilling lives. This book shows how unlearning beliefs has unleashed the potential of thousands of people to create lives they love, helped dozens of corporations increase profits and how it might be used to solve problems such as improving health care, reducing crime and improving education.

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Raving

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Raving
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English | ISBN: 1478019387 | 2023 | 136 pages | PDF | 5 MB
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and a technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. Extending the rave's sensations, situations, fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems onto the page, Wark invokes a trans practice of raving as a timely aesthetic for dancing in the ruins of this collapsing capital.