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Exploring approaches to the generation and representation of heritage artefacts in video game contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
© 2016, © 2016 University of Wollongong. Video games can allow players to explore environments, which are representative of, or contain elements of physical world cultures, for example, allowing a player to explore ancient Egypt in Pharaoh (Impressions ...
Balela, Majed S., Mundy, Darren
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and Psychic Exploitation of American Indians [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Two general points can be made about Euroamerican exploitation of American Indians: first, whatever level of exploitation they have experienced by the motion picture industry, it is part of a long tradition which dates back to the earliest contacts ...
Bataille, Gretchen M.   +1 more
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Shakespeare in Chinese Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Shakespeare’s plays were first adapted in the Chinese cinema in the era of silent motion pictures, such as A Woman Lawyer (from The Merchant of Venice, 1927), and A Spray of Plum Blossoms (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1931).
Wu Hui
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P4s Are Either Unhelpful or Unnecessary. Proposing a Better AI‐Powered Solution to Predict Patients' Preferences

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
wiley   +1 more source

Muslims in America: Identity, Diversity and the Challenge of Understanding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Discusses the challenges and opportunities posed by the growing number of American communities that practice the Muslim faith, and Islam's impact in the U.S.
Sam Afridi
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From Inaction to Action: The Cognitive Liberation of Amazon Workers in North Carolina

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the mechanism by which workers move from inaction to collective action, focusing on cognitive liberation, the awareness that change is possible, as it unfolded among workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina who contributed to the emergence of an independent, worker‐led union during a period of renewed growth in organising ...
Carla Lima Aranzaes, Destiny Blackwell
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial State as a Creative Destroyer: Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore's Creative Industries

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the limits of mission‐directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope
Bryan Cheang, Praharsh Mehrotra
wiley   +1 more source

The Polish Case

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2020
This article is a reflection on contemporary Polish-Catholic identity. It begins by reflecting on how a gluing-together of national and religious identity is evident in discourses about the most pressing challenge of the Catholic Church in Poland today:
Magdalena Dziaczkowska
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Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo

open access: yesBetween, 2011
As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door.
Francesco Giusti
doaj   +1 more source

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