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In recent years, speech prosody research in Brazil has grown significantly, mainly due to a series of events organized through the support of the Brazilian government. The two most important of these events are the biennial Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody and School of Prosody, both of which attract a number of prominent Brazilian and international researchers.Due to the success of the 1st Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody, the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS) was created in 2007 to support the organization of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, which was held

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Language arts --- Communication arts --- Communication --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Phonetics --- Study and teaching --- Phonology

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Multidimensional measures of poverty have become standard as complementary indicators of poverty in many countries. Multidimensional poverty calculations typically comprise three indices: the multidimensional headcount, the average deprivation share among the poor, and the adjusted headcount ratio. While several decomposition methodologies are available for the last index, less attention has been paid to decomposing the multidimensional headcount, despite the attention it receives from policy makers. This paper proposes an application of existing methodologies that decompose welfare aggregates-based on counterfactual simulations-to break up the changes of the multidimensional poverty headcount into the variation attributed to each of its dimensions. This paper examines the potential issues of using counterfactual simulations in this framework, proposes approaches to assess these issues in real applications, and suggests a methodology based on rank preservation within strata, which performs positively in simulations. The methodology is applied in the context of the recent reduction of multidimensional poverty in Colombia, finding that the dimensions associated with education and health are the main drivers behind the poverty decline.

Decomposition and non parametric methods --- Health monitoring & evaluation --- Health systems development & reform --- Health, nutrition and population --- Multidimensional poverty --- Poverty monitoring & analysis --- Poverty reduction --- Poverty transitions --- Rural poverty reduction --- Services & transfers to poor --- Shapley value

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The Hizmet Movement initiated by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the 1960s is today active in more than 160 countries. The participants of Hizmet are often less visible among the Muslim minorities in Western societies. They do not build mosques or hold regular prayer meetings like institutional Muslims or Sufi masters, but establish emancipatory schools without religious instruction, cherish networks of business people, publish the newspaper Zaman in various national editions, and run dialogue charities for intercultural and interreligious encounters. Small groups come together in private houses to hold sohbets, that is spiritual talks on faith, religion and society, and to discuss Hizmet-related projects in the light of teachings articulated by Gülen in his books and talks. This book provides a broad presentation of Gülen's thought and practice. These issues are discussed in the first part of this book. The second part presents six case studies from countries where the name of Gülen has been attached to a great variety of social activities in the field of education, media, business, dialogue, and the support of integration and defence of human rights. These countries are Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Albania as the centre of Muslims in the Balkans. Although the participants of Hizmet are quite small in number and work in an extremely decentralised way, they are among the best educated and most socially active of the Turkish-speaking communities in their countries. This is therefore an important study of a group of Muslims who cannot simply be categorized as «conservative» or «progressive», «pietistic» or «political».

Gülen Hizmet Movement. --- Çelik --- Europe --- Fragnière --- Gabriel --- Gülen --- Gürkan --- Hizmet --- Inspired --- Johan --- Journey --- Karel --- Leman --- Movement --- Muslim --- Steenbrink --- The Hizmet Movement in European Socie-ties. --- Turkish --- Turkish Muslims in Western countries: a multidimensional approach to the Gülen Movement --- Western --- Western journey of a modern Muslim movement

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Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading.  The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on prosody (‘timing’) and intonation (‘melody’) used to constrain the parsing and interpretation of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody/intonation in silent reading, and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading?  Prosody and intonation interact with phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language processes.

Linguistics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistique --- Psycholinguistique --- Sémantique --- Syntaxe --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Language acquisition. --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics). --- Social Sciences --- Languages & Literatures --- Psychology --- Philology & Linguistics --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Psychological aspects --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Phonetics --- Phonology --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax

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The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This, the 17th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of five papers, selected from the 24 full and 8 short papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2013, held in Prague, The Czech Republic, in August 2013. Of the five papers, two cover data warehousing aspects related to query processing optimization in advanced platforms, specifically Map Reduce and parallel databases, and three cover knowledge discovery, specifically the causal network inference problem, dimensionality reduction, and the quality-of-pattern-mining task.

Computer Science. --- Database Management. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Computer science. --- Computer software. --- Database management. --- Data mining. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Informatique --- Logiciels --- Bases de données --- Exploration de données (Informatique) --- Systèmes d'information --- Intelligence artificielle --- Gestion --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Informatics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Software, Computer --- Algorithms. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Science --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Database searching --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Foundations --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Data warehousing --- Data mining --- Information warehousing --- Warehousing, Data --- Database management --- Management information systems --- Multidimensional databases