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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Crossings, Motzkin paths and Moments [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Kasraoui, Stanton and Zeng, and Kim, Stanton and Zeng introduced certain $q$-analogues of Laguerre and Charlier polynomials. The moments of these orthogonal polynomials have combinatorial models in terms of crossings in permutations and set partitions ...
A Schellekens   +48 more
core   +5 more sources

Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

News from the Field / Nouvelles du milieu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Once again, your department chairs have submitted their annual overview of comings and goings, awards and events. We present this information in the language(s) of choice of each institution, and we include almost every tidbit of information received. As
Mulloy, Darren
core   +1 more source

Aspects and problems of the Templars’ religious presence in Medieval Europe from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The medieval military orders were religious institutions whose members had professed to a life of combat and prayer that integrated them into a religious landscape exceedingly defined by diversity.
Schenk, Jochen
core   +2 more sources

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Perses, Grecs et Romains dans les écrits arabes du Moyen-Âge : histoires proches et histoires lointaines

open access: yesDialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1998
Parmi les écrits historiques que nous avons étudiés, la partie consacrée à l'histoire préislamique cherche, avant tout, à placer l'histoire de l'Islam dans le cadre d'une histoire universelle des civilisations.
Saber Mansouri
doaj   +1 more source

The world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Too often associated with the tropes of exile, wandering, or nomadism in postmodern thought, philosophical mobility has been little studied in itself, except in connection with the singular travel practices of a Voltaire, a Denis Diderot, or a Jean ...
Van Damme, Stéphane
core   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

New records of Glaphyridae (Col., Scarabaeoidea) from Iran [PDF]

open access: yesنامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران, 2017
New locality data are given for eight species of Geotrupidae and 65 species and sub-species of Scarabaeidae dung beetles from Iran. The species Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) anatolicus Petrovitz, 1962, and Onitis alexis ssp.
Olivier Montreuil
doaj   +2 more sources

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