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Author : Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 022674986X

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What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?

Author : D. E. Stephens
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Analog-to-digital converters
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Instrumentation has been developed which automatically senses thermocouple voltages sequentially at a rate of three per second and records temperatures in digital form as received from an analog to digital converter. The temperatures are typed on a reactor face map and simultaneously coded into perforated tape; data from the coded tape are then transcribed on IBM cards in a form convenient for subsequent calculations. The nearly continuous display of tube power generation has given invaluable assistance in maintaining optimum pile power distributions and the coded data make possible many detailed studies of reactor dynamics, control, and reactivity balances.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Evaluating Shipboard Display of Automated Identification Systems
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ships
ISBN : 0309085500

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Assesses the state of the art in Automatic Identification System (AIS) display technologies, evaluates system designs and capabilities, and reviews the human factors aspects associated with operating these systems.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category :
ISBN : 9264863818

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This report presents the latest conclusions of the peer reviews of the legal frameworks put in place by jurisdictions to implement the AEOI standard and two new initial effectiveness reviews. It supplements and builds upon the assessments of the legal frameworks and the initial reviews of the effectiveness of their implementation in practice published in 2022, for around 100 jurisdictions that were the first to commit to commence AEOI.

Author : Mohammed Dib
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319977105

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This book presents a contrastive linguistics study of Arabic and English for the dual purposes of improved language teaching and speech processing of Arabic via spectral analysis and neural networks. Contrastive linguistics is a field of linguistics which aims to compare the linguistic systems of two or more languages in order to ease the tasks of teaching, learning, and translation. The main focus of the present study is to treat the Arabic minimal syllable automatically to facilitate automatic speech processing in Arabic. It represents important reading for language learners and for linguists with an interest in Arabic and computational approaches.

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Page : 1992 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Infrared astronomy
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"The document is intended to be an interim reference document for astronomers who are studying infrared sources" ... Intro.

Author : Dorothy E. Setliff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461315514

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This book, and the research it describes, resulted from a simple observation we made sometime in 1986. Put simply, we noticed that many VLSI design tools looked "alike". That is, at least at the overall software architecture level, the algorithms and data structures required to solve problem X looked much like those required to solve problem X'. Unfortunately, this resemblance is often of little help in actually writing the software for problem X' given the software for problem X. In the VLSI CAD world, technology changes rapidly enough that design software must continually strive to keep up. And of course, VLSI design software, and engineering design software in general, is often exquisitely sensitive to some aspects of the domain (technology) in which it operates. Modest changes in functionality have an unfortunate tendency to require substantial (and time-consuming) internal software modifications. Now, observing that large engineering software systems are technology dependent is not particularly clever. However, we believe that our approach to xiv Preface dealing with this problem took an interesting new direction. We chose to investigate the extent to which automatic programming ideas cold be used to synthesize such software systems from high-level specifications. This book is one of the results of that effort.