Perkembangan komunikasi digital memiliki karakteristik komunikasi global yang melintasi batas-batas geografis dan batas-batas budaya. Sementara setiap batas geografis dan budaya juga memiliki batasan etika yang berbeda. Setiap negara, bahkan daerah memiliki etika sendiri, begitu pula setiap generasi memiliki etika sendiri. Misalnya saja soal privasi. Masyarakat kolektif seperti masyarakat Indon…
'Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age' is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination of the …
This book is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge colleges as the basis for conditional offers. They are also used by Warwick University, and many other mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on the past papers even if…
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, analyzing both the role and impact of the EU and regional organizations in Latin America on crisis management as well as t…
"It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world, or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’, and to appreciate why its shapes, patterns and formulae provide us with precisely the language we need to make sense of the w…
Companies frequently face the challenge of screening the continuously increasingnumber of (Web) documents and assessing the contained information with respectto its relevance and novelty. For instance, technology scouts need to discover andmonitor new technologies, while investors and stock brokers would like to beinformed about recent acquisitions. The systems that have been developed so farfo…