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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian 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

From a mythical exemplum to a heroic cult. Orestes as a representative of power play, (re-)establishment of political authority and expansionism

New Classicists, 2020
The Orestes myth has served as a literary device that mythically justifies the political authority of various figures or city-states. The multiple power plays among the figures of the myth are projected and interpreted in political dynamics and tensions ...
Doukissa Kamini
doaj  

MALARIA IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1907
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openaire   +2 more sources

Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine, Ekaterina Chown, James Youdale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
wiley   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Evaluation of IoT Cloud Platforms: A Feature-Driven Review with a Decision-Making Tool

Sensors
The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has led to a growing ecosystem of Cloud Platforms designed to manage, process, and analyze IoT data. Selecting the optimal IoT Cloud Platform is a critical decision for businesses and developers,
Ioannis Chrysovalantis Panagou, Stylianos Katsoulis, Evangelos Nannos, Fotios Zantalis, Grigorios Koulouras   +4 more
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

Journal 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

Quadrotor trajectory tracking based on backstepping control and radial basis function neural networks

Results in Control and Optimization
In this paper we introduce a novel method for solving the trajectory tracking problem for a quadrotor system based on backstepping control and radial basis function (RBF) neural networks.
Aristotelis Kapnopoulos, Charalampos Kazakidis, Alex Alexandridis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source