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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

ResNet-50-NTS digital painting image style classification based on Three-Branch convolutional attention

open access: yesEgyptian Informatics Journal
Addressing the difficulties and challenges faced by current traditional digital painting image style classification methods, the study enhances the residual neural network model by incorporating a three-branch convolutional attention mechanism ...
Xiaohong Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genre Nature of Empress Eudocia’s Poem “The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian”

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2018
The article considers the issue of genre nature of the poem “The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian” by Empress Eudocia, the wife of Emperor Theodosius II (V century). It is noted that this is the only survived example of the Greek life written by hexameter, which
T. L. Aleksandrova
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, "maps matter" today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago.
Barker, Elton   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

German Romantics Imagining India : Friedrich Schlegel in Paris and Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When, some two centuries ago, German Romantics turned their backs on modernity – industrialisation, urbanisation, commerce and secularisation – they turned to ancient India.
Dusche, Michael
core  

Biophilosophy: From the Concept of Life to Genetic Engineering [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
The aim of this paper is to explore biophilosophy's emerging perspectives on the concept of life and examine the boundaries of biopolitical power in the age of genetic engineering. The findings reveal that the notions of "life" and "the living" have been
Stančienė Dalia Marija
doaj   +1 more source

Musings on the Confluence of Drama and Society

open access: yesAltralang Journal
With a ‘transhistorical’ approach and a ‘selective appropriateness’ of playtexts and literature traditions, this article muses on the confluence of society and dramatic expression.
Khedidja CHERGUI
doaj   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial metaphors of the ancient world: theory and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Group C-2 of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi Space and Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Texts is dedicated to the study of spatial metaphors and their functions in texts of different genres, languages, and epochs. This outline of the work of group C-
Breytenbach, Cilliers   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

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