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L₁-statistical procedures and related topics
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Year: 1997 Volume: v. 31 Publisher: Hayward, Calif. : Institute of Mathematical Statistics,

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Signposts to Silence. Metaphysical mysticism : theoretical map and historical pilgrimages
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Durbanville AOSIS

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Signposts to Silence provides a theoretical map of what it terms ‘metaphysical mysticism’: the search for the furthest, most inclusive horizon, the domain of silence, which underlies the religious and metaphysical urge of humankind in its finest forms. Tracing the footsteps of pioneers of this exploration, the investigation also documents a number of historical pilgrimages from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. Such mountaineers of the spirit, who created paths trodden by groups of followers over centuries and in some cases millennia, include Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu, Siddhattha and Jesus, Sankara and Fa-tsang, Plato and Plotinus, Isaac Luria and Ibn Arabi, Aquinas and Hegel. Such figures, teachings and traditions (including the religions of ‘Judaism’, ‘Christianity’ and ‘Islam’; ‘Hinduism’, ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Taoism’) are understood as, at their most sublime, not final destiny and the end of the road, but signposts to a horizon of ultimate silence. The hermeneutical method employed in tracking such pioneers involves four steps:• sound historical-critical understanding of the context of the various traditions and figures• reconstruction of the subjective intentional structure of such persons and their teachings• design, by the author, of a theoretical map of the overall terrain of ‘metaphysical mysticism’, on which all such journeys of the spirit are to be located, while providing a theoretical context for understanding them tendentionally (i.e. taking the ultimate drift of their thinking essentially to transcend their subjective intentions)• drawing out, within the space available, some political (taken in a wide sense) implications from the above, such as religio-political stances as well as ecological and gender implications.Continuing the general direction of thought within what the author endorses to be the best in metaphysical mysticism in its historical manifestations, the book aims to contribute to peace amongst religions in the contemporary global cultural situation. It relativizes all claims to exclusive, absolute truth that might be proclaimed by any religious or metaphysical, mystical position, while providing space for not only tolerating, but also affirming the unique value and dignity of each. This orientation moves beyond the stances of enmity or indifference or syncretism or homogenisation of all, as well as that of mere friendly toleration. It investigates the seemingly daunting and inhospitable yet immensely significant Antarctica of the Spirit, the ‘meta’-space of silence behind the various forms of wordy ‘inter’-relationships. It affirms pars pro toto, totum pro parte, and pars pro parte: that each religious, mystical and metaphysical orientation in its relative singularity represents or contains the whole and derives value from that, and that each represents or contains every other. This homoversal solidarity stimulating individual uniqueness is different from and in fact implies criticism of the process of globalisation. While not taking part in a scientific argument as such, Signposts to Silence aims at promoting an understanding of science and metaphysical mysticism as mutual context for each other, and it listens to a number of voices from the domain of science that understand this.


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Absolute Komplexität in der Nominalflexion : Althochdeutsch, Mittelhochdeutsch, Alemannisch und deutsche Standardsprache
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ISBN: 3961100233 3961100225 9783961100224 9783961100231 Year: 2017 Publisher: Language Science Press

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This book provides a quantifiable measure and analysis of absolute complexity in the nominal inflection of 17 Alemannic dialects, of standard German as well as of Middle and Old High German. The data is based on grammatical descriptions. What can be interpreted as being more or less complex in a language system is deduced from LFG (Lexical-Functional Grammar) and from an inferential-realisational morphological framework. The tool to measure inflectional complexity is also developed from these frameworks. Variation in the inflectional complexity is analysed based on the following factors: diachrony, isolation, language contact, standardisation, and dialect groups.


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The many and the one : a philosophical study of plural logic
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ISBN: 0191915467 0192509160 0198791526 9780198791522 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York: Oxford university press,

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"Plural logic has become a well-established subject, especially in philosophical logic. This book explores its broader significance for philosophy, logic, and linguistics. What can plural logic do for us? Are the bold claims made on its behalf correct? After introducing plural logic and its main applications, the book provides a systematic analysis of the relation between this logic and other theoretical frameworks such as set theory, mereology, higher-order logic, and modal logic. The applications of plural logic rely on two assumptions, namely that this logic is ontologically innocent and has great expressive power. These assumptions are shown to be problematic. The result is a more nuanced picture of plural logic's applications than has been given so far. Questions about the correct logic of plurals play a central role in the last part of the book, where traditional plural logic is rejected in favor of a "critical" alternative. The most striking feature of this alternative is that there is no universal plurality. This leads to a novel approach to the relation between the many and the one. In particular, critical plural logic paves the way for an account of sets capable of solving the set-theoretic paradoxes"--


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Alcohol.
ISSN: 18736823 Year: 1984 Publisher: Fayetteville, NY : ANKHO International Inc.


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Alcohol and alcoholism.
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ISSN: 14643502 Year: 1983 Publisher: [Oxford] ; [New York] : [Pergamon Press]

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Alcohol and Alcoholism publishes papers on the biomedical, psychological, and sociological aspects of alcoholism and alcohol research, provided that they make a new and significant contribution to knowledge in the field. Papers include new results obtained experimentally, descriptions of new experimental (including clinical) methods of importance to the field of alcohol research and treatment, or new interpretations of existing results. Theoretical contributions are considered equally with papers dealing with experimental work provided that such theoretical contributions are not of a largely speculative or philosophical nature. Alcohol and Alcoholism is the official journal of the Medical Council on Alcohol.

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Alcoholism --- Alcoholism. --- Ethanol --- Alcohol Addiction --- Alcohol Dependence --- Alcohol Abuse --- Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic --- Abuse, Alcohol --- Addiction, Alcohol --- Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication --- Dependence, Alcohol --- Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic --- Absolute Alcohol --- Grain Alcohol --- Alcohol, Ethyl --- Alcohol, Absolute --- Alcohol, Grain --- Ethyl Alcohol --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii︠a︡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Ethanol. --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Alcohol Use Disorder --- Alcohol Use Disorders --- Use Disorder, Alcohol --- Use Disorders, Alcohol --- Blood Alcohol Content --- Alcohol Drinking --- Social Problems --- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Great Britain --- England and Wales --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Ethanol Abuse --- Abuse, Ethanol --- Intoxication, Alcohol --- Health and Wellbeing.

Louis XIV and the parlements : the assertion of royal authority
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ISBN: 0719062357 0719069807 9786610734184 1847790674 1781700370 1280734183 1423706390 1526137488 9780719069802 1847795501 Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester New York Manchester University Press

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This is the first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial tribunals. The author explains how the king managed to overcome the century-old opposition of the parlements to new legislation, and to impose upon them the strict political discipline for which his reign is known. The work calls into question the current revisionist understanding of the reign of Louis XIV and insists that, after all, absolute government had a harsh reality at its core. When the king died in 1715, the regent, Philippe d'Orleans, after a brief attempt to befriend the parlements through compromise, resorted to the authoritarian methods of Louis XIV and perpetuated the Sun King's political and economic legacy.


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Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
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ISBN: 0472902679 0472128566 0472132350 0472038486 9780472902675 9780472128563 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale anti-democratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD--People's Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are anti-democratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country's democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is also one of the few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on anti-democratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously.

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Democracy --- History --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Social media --- Political aspects --- Khana Kammakān Prachāchon Phư̄a Kānplīanplaēng Prathēt Thai Hai Pen Prachāthippatai Thī Sombūn ʻAn Mī Phramahākasat Song Pen Pramuk --- Phanthamit Phư̄a Prachāthipatai --- Influence. --- Thailand --- Politics and government --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- People's Alliance for Democracy --- PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy) --- Yellow Shirts --- People's Democratic Reform Committee --- PRDC (People's Democratic Reform Committee) --- People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State --- PCAD (People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State) --- democracy --- democratic collapse --- democratic breakdown --- social movements --- protests --- yellow shirts --- Phanthamit Phư̄a Prachāthipatai. --- Tʻai-kuo --- Hsien-lo --- Muang-Thai --- Thaimaa --- Prates Thai --- Prades Thai --- Thaïlande --- Kingdom of Thailand --- Prathēt Thai --- Tailand --- Thailandia --- Thajsko --- Royal Thai Government --- Ratcha Anachak Thai --- Koninkryk van Thailand --- تايلاند --- Tāylānd --- Tailandia --- Reino de Tailandia --- Tayilande --- Royômo de Tayilande --- Tayland Krallığı --- Pratet Tai --- Thài-kok --- Тайланд --- Каралеўства Тайланд --- Karaleŭstva Taĭland --- Tailandya --- Tajland --- Kraljevina Tajland --- Кралство Тайланд --- Kralstvo Taĭland --- Siam


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Infectious diseases of poverty.
ISSN: 20499957 20955162 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : BioMed Central,

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Communicable Diseases, Emerging --- Communicable Disease Control --- Disease Outbreaks --- Healthcare Disparities --- Poverty --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Communicable diseases --- Epidemics --- Maladies infectieuses --- Pauvreté --- Epidémies --- epidemiology --- economics --- Prevention --- Periodicals. --- Health aspects --- Periodicals --- Social aspects --- Prévention --- Périodiques --- Aspect sanitaire --- Aspect social --- Healthcare Disparities. --- Poverty. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- epidemiology. --- economics. --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Health aspects. --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Indigents --- Low Income Population --- Indigency --- Low-Income Population --- Indigent --- Low Income Populations --- Low-Income Populations --- Population, Low Income --- Population, Low-Income --- Populations, Low Income --- Populations, Low-Income --- Health Care Disparities --- Health Care Inequalities --- Healthcare Disparity --- Healthcare Inequalities --- Disparities, Healthcare --- Disparities, Health Care --- Disparity, Health Care --- Disparity, Healthcare --- Health Care Disparity --- Health Care Inequality --- Healthcare Inequality --- Inequalities, Health Care --- Inequalities, Healthcare --- Inequality, Health Care --- Inequality, Healthcare --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Destitution --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Outbreaks --- Biosecurity --- Economics --- Working Poor --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Infection --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Human medicine --- Absolute Poverty --- Extreme Poverty --- Poverty, Absolute --- Poverty, Extreme --- besmettelijke ziekten --- armoede --- Communicable Diseases --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Pandemics --- Federal Poverty Threshold --- Poverty Threshold, Federal --- Poverty Thresholds, Federal --- Thresholds, Federal Poverty --- Malalties infeccioses. --- Pobresa. --- Indigència --- Lluita contra la pobresa --- Misèria --- Pauperisme --- Precarietat econòmica i social --- Mendicitat --- Pobres en el mitjà urbà --- Assistència social --- Barraquisme --- Economia de subsistència --- Escassetat --- Marginació social --- Pobres --- Contagi --- Malalties contagioses --- Malalties encomanadisses --- Malalties transmissibles --- Microbiologia mèdica --- Salut pública --- Abscessos --- Desinfecció --- Malalties bacterianes --- Malalties emergents --- Malalties infeccioses en els infants --- Malalties d'origen alimentari --- Malalties parasitàries --- Malalties per prions --- Malalties víriques --- Micosi --- Zoonosi --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- Federal Poverty Level --- Federal Poverty Levels --- Level, Federal Poverty --- Poverty Level, Federal --- Malalties infeccioses --- Pobresa

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