Language: en
Pages: 256

Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ

Author(s): Victoria Khurshudian, Svetla Koeva

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2013-07-16
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Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

NooJ is a linguistic development environment that provides tools for linguists to construct linguistic resources that formalise a large gamut of linguistic phenomena: typography, orthography, lexicons for simple words, multiword units and discontinuous expressions, inflectional and derivational morphology, local, structural and transformational syntax, and semantics. For each resource that linguists create, NooJ provides parsers that can apply it to any corpus of texts in order to extract examples or counter-examples, to annotate matching sequences, to perform statistical analyses, etc. NooJ also contains generators that can produce the texts that these linguistic resources describe, as well...

Language: en
Pages: 82

Queer Natives in Latin America

Author(s): Fabiano S. Gontijo, Barbara M. Arisi, Estêvão R. Fernandes

Categories: Social Science

Type: Book
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Published: 2020-11-06
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Publisher: Springer Nature

This book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers. Presenting data collected from both literature and field research, the authors give examples of native queer traditions in different cultural regions, such as Mesoamerica, the Amazon and the Andes, and analyze how colonization gradually imposed the models of sexuality and family organization considered as normal by the European settlers using methods such as forced labor, physical punishments and forced marriages. Building upon post-colonial and queer theories, Queer Natives in Latin America: Forbidden Chapters of Colonial History reveals a little known aspect of the colonization of the Americas: how a bureaucratic-administrative, political and psychological apparatus was created and developed to normalize indigenous sexuality, shaping them to the colonial order.

Language: en
Pages: 132

2012 Africa Cup of Nations: Complete Tournament Record

Author(s): Simon Barclay

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: Book
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Published: 2012
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Publisher: Lulu.com

Zambia's penalty shoot-out triumph in the Final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations was an emotional end to the 28th edition of the tournament, co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The tournament began back in 2010 with the first qualifying matches and finished with the dramatic win by unfancied Zambia over the favourites Ivory Coast, in the country where many of the 1993 Zambian side died in an air crash. This book records every match played in both the qualifying and finals tournaments, full line-ups in the 32 Finals matches, details of the national squads, top scorers, host stadiums plus an extended section on each of the previous 27 tournaments back to the first in 1957. 130 pages of facts and statistics covering all aspects of the competition.

Language: en
Pages: 154

Geometry of Time-Spaces

Author(s): Olav Arnfinn Laudal

Categories: Mathematics

Type: Book
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Published: 2011
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Publisher: World Scientific

This is a monograph about non-commutative algebraic geometry, and its application to physics. The main mathematical inputs are the non-commutative deformation theory, moduli theory of representations of associative algebras, a new non-commutative theory o

Language: en
Pages: 381

E-Business and Telecommunication Networks

Author(s): Joaquim Filipe, Mohammad S. Obaidat

Categories: Computers

Type: Book
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Published: 2008-07-15
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Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

This book contains the best papers of the Third International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held in 2006 in Portugal. This conference reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research results among professionals who work in the e-business field. ICETE is a joint international conference integrating four major areas of knowledge that are divided into four cor- sponding conferences: ICE-B (Int’l Conf. on e-Business), SECRYPT (Int’l Conf. on Security and Cryptography), WINSYS (Int’l Conf. on Wireless Information Systems) and SIGMAP (Int’l Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia). The program of this joint conference incl...

Language: en
Pages: 814

Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems - II

Author(s): Mnaouar Chouchane, Tahar Fakhfakh, Hachmi Ben Daly, Nizar Aifaoui, Fakher Chaari

Categories: Technology & Engineering

Type: Book
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Published: 2015-03-24
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Publisher: Springer

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 6th International Congress on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM’2015), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from the 23rd to the 25th of March 2015. It reports on both recent research findings and innovative industrial applications in the fields of mechatronics and robotics, dynamics of mechanical systems, fluid structure interaction and vibroacoustics, modeling and analysis of materials and structures, and design and manufacturing of mechanical systems. Since its first edition in 2005, the CMSM Congress has been held every two years with the aim of bringing together specialists from universities and...

Language: en
Pages: 468

Microbes Based Approaches for the Management of Hazardous Contaminants

Author(s): Ajay Kumar, Livleen Shukla, Joginder Singh, Luiz Fernando Romanholo Ferreira

Categories: Science

Type: Book
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Published: 2024-09-11
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Learn the various microbiological aspects one deals with in environment management and the remediation of toxic contaminants in the environment In recent years, the accumulation of hazardous contaminants has caused a broad-based deterioration in global environmental quality. These have had wide-ranging negative social impacts, affecting climate, soil and water ecosystems, and more. As traditional methods of contaminant mitigation have proven inadequate to the task, microbial-based remediation offers the clearest, most environmentally friendly path forward for this crucial aspect of global environmental stewardship. Microbes Based Approaches for the Management of Hazardous Contaminants offers...

Language: en
Pages: 113

2013 Africa Cup of Nations: Complete Tournament Record

Author(s): Simon Barclay

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: Book
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Published: 2013-02-11
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Publisher: Lulu.com

Nigeria's triumph over surprise finalists Burkina Faso in the Final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations brought to a close the 29th edition of the tournament, hosted by South Africa. The tournament began in January 2012 with the preliminary round of knock-out qualifying matches and finished with the 16 teams in the Finals competition. This book records every match played in both the qualifying and finals tournaments, line-ups in the 32 Finals matches, full statistics on each game, details of the national squads, top scorers, host stadiums plus an extended section on each of the previous 28 tournaments back to the first in 1957. 111 pages of facts and statistics covering all aspects of the competition.