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Communication, 2008 If human communication difficulties can constitute the bedrock of a number of utopias, these utopias develop long before 1942. Moreover, the communicational utopia so minutely an analysed by P.
Éric Dacheux
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Curvature driven acceleration : a utopia or a reality ?
, 2005 The present work shows that a combination of nonlinear contribution from the Ricci curvature in Einstein field equations can drive a late time acceleration of expansion of the universe.
Abdalla M +10 more
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Citizenship, democracy and social justice: A conversation with Maria Olson [PDF]
, 2013 Maria Olson is a researcher and lecturer in Education at Stockholm University and the University of Skövde, Sweden. Her areas of interest include democracy and citizenship in relation to education.
Peters, Michael A.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
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On Constructing Finite, Finitely Subadditive Outer Measures, and Submodularity
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2008 Given a nonempty abstract set 𝑋, and a covering class 𝒞, and a finite, finitely subadditive outer measure 𝜈, we construct an outer measure 𝜈 and investigate conditions for 𝜈 to be submodular. We then consider several other set functions associated with 𝜈
Charles Traina
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A leap of faith: Abbott, Bellamy, Morris, Wells and the fin-de-siècle route to utopia [PDF]
, 2016 In the great surge of utopian writing that was produced during the fin de siècle, Edward Bellamy, William Morris and H. G. Wells among others imagined utopias that were global in scale and located in the future.
Kingstone, Helen
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Contingency, Irony and Morality: A Critical Review of Rorty's. Notion of the Liberal Utopia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper introduces Richard Rorty’s notion of the liberal ironist and his vision of a liberal utopia and explores the implications of these for philosophical questions concerning morality, as well as morality in general.
Coombs, Wehan Murray
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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CommoditiesProperty Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to residential and commercial properties with a special tax assessment added to property taxes. This paper surveys the literature and documents the
K. Thomas Liaw
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