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Yearly Archives: 2021

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  • 9 Nov 2021
    Kobi Leins

    Weather Underground: Environmental Impacts of War and the Forgotten International Legal Instruments that Govern

    As the world’s eyes were on Glasgow, where more than 100 world leaders provided pledges to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the focus was on governments and industry. Not mentioned in the dispatches, although almost certainly present unofficially was the massive global military complex. The environment is subject to degradation by governments and industry not only […]

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  • 9 Nov 2021
    Song Guo, Zhihao Qu

    The Cutting-Edge of Edge Learning

    Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great promises in various fields, e.g., smart health, smart surveillance, smart home, self-driving, smart grid, which are fundamentally altering the way individuals and organizations live, work and interact. Big data is one of the key promotion factors that boosts machine learning development, following the significant successes and progress of machine […]

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  • 8 Nov 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving climate chaos at CoP 26 and the demonstrations outside

    Truths are emerging though the CoP 26 talks, pledges, alliances, and efforts to align private capital with public interests, while governments try to reassure a scared and outraged public.

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  • 5 Nov 2021
    Ric Knowles

    International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism

    By the end of the 20th Century festivals were springing up all over the world like mushrooms. Events that used merely to be events had become, in current jargon, “festivalized” as the world experienced the “eventification” of culture, “the experience economy,” “city branding,” and the global emergence of “creative cities” and lucrative urban “festivalscapes” as […]

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  • 4 Nov 2021
    Olutoyin A. Olutoye

    Anesthesia for Maternal-Fetal Surgery: Clinical Concepts and Practice

    Have you ever wondered how some babies develop congenital anomalies? Or more so, how some of these anomalies are repaired during pregnancy? How does that happen- particularly with the pregnancy continuing after surgery, until the baby is delivered near term? The congenital anomalies that can occur as the baby develops within the womb are limitless. […]

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  • 4 Nov 2021
    Crystal Nicole Eddins

    New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution

    How and why did the Haitian Revolution happen? How did enslaved people from varying backgrounds come together to orchestrate the most radical political event of the modern era – the only revolt of enslaved people to abolish slavery, overturn colonialism, and create the first free and independent Black nation in the Americas? These and other […]

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  • 4 Nov 2021
    Micah Alpaugh

    The French Inception of the American Democratic Party

    The U.S. Constitution of 1787 made no provisions for political parties. Only amidst the rivalries of the Washington administration, pitting Thomas Jefferson’s faction against Alexander Hamilton’s, did opposition politics coalesce. Even then, however, Jeffersonians remained reticent to mobilize the broader populace in support – that required the impact of the French Revolution. In early 1793, […]

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  • 4 Nov 2021
    Amanda T. Abbott-Jones

    What Inspired me to Write a Book on Dyslexia and Anxiety?

    Diagnosed later in life with dyslexia, I have first-hand experience of the interrelatedness between dyslexia, anxiety, and negative emotion. After completing a master’s degree, I undertook an education training course at a local University. Here I was asked by a Lecturer specialising in learning difficulties to have a screening for dyslexia. I had never imagined […]

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