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Culture and E-Learning: Automatic Detection of a Users’ Culture from Survey Data [PDF]
, 2005 Knowledge about the culture of a user is especially important for the design of e-learning applications. In the experiment reported here, questionnaire data was used to build machine learning models to automatically predict the culture of a user.
Kamentz, Elisabeth, Mandl, thomas
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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The ‘corporate’ corruption of identity in Tullio Avoledo’s Lo stato dell’ Unione [PDF]
, 2011 Since the political upheavals of the early 1990s, Italian writers have continually confronted issues of political identity, particularly in view of the fascistic tendencies that are increasingly polluting society.
Ania, G
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Aspects and problems of the Templars’ religious presence in Medieval Europe from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century [PDF]
, 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
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a quantitative study on sentencing practices in Brazil, focusing on the presence of numerical patterns and “penal clustering” in judicial decisions. Drawing on a dataset of criminal sentences from São Paulo—the country's most populous and active judiciary—the research statistically investigates whether ...
Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos +2 more
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Between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Burzenland in Medieval Hungary - The Teutonic Military Order status and rule in the poles of Christianity [PDF]
, 2010 The 800th anniversary of the Teutonic Order's occupation of Burzenland (Barcaság) in the eastern part of the medieval Hungary (in the Brasov region in Transylvania - Romania) will be marked in 2011.
Lotan, Shlomo
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Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Integration decisions are not isolated, as they are embedded in an organizational context. Using a multi‐country sample (Nordics, German speaking Europe, and China) of small‐ and medium‐sized acquirers, we explore the influence of firm strategic orientations on how managers conceptualize acquisitions, make integration decisions, and impact ...
Florian Bauer +5 more
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Diplomacy and Recruitment of Mercenaries before the Battle of Žalgiris
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2010 During the months preceding the battle of Žalgiris (Tannenberg/Grunwald) the diplomatic activity of the countries involved was intense. After the successful campaign of the Teutonic Order against Poland in 1409 an armistice was concluded on 8 October ...
Sven Ekdahl
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