Download or read book SOCIAL DISTANCE ACTING EDITION written by JUSTIN CURTIS ERMER LACCHE and published by Lacche-Media, LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Distance is a play that follows the paths of four people: Hannah, Paolo, Ya and Amare. All four are friends and colleagues at a Pacific Northwest technology company and are forced into self-quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. This play examines all the waves the four, and indeed the world, face during this period of global pandemic: Fear, strength, resolve, financial strain, emotional and physical fatigue, faith and community, all through the lens of social distance. As the waves of national, state and local measures intensify to combat COVID-19, the four try to stay healthy and stay connected, growing a deeper bond in the face of isolation and potential significant illness. The play concludes with a world that truly has changed for generations: The real-world costs, and finality, in many respects, caused COVID-19.

Download or read book Silent Sky written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.

Download or read book Men on Boats written by Jaclyn Backhaus and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. MEN ON BOATS is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.

Download or read book The Who The What written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister. Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart. With humor and ferocity, Akhtar's incisive new drama about love, art, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.

Download or read book Hypothesis Phase The Human Body as a Baseline for Web4 IoT AI Quantum Self Healing Hardware written by and published by Lacche-Media, LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human brain, still in 2024 the great beyond of biological engineering, operates with a complexity that has long inspired technological advancements. In the ethos of Web4, comprising the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Computing, and self-healing hardware, we observe remarkable parallels to the brain’s functionality. This section explores these similarities, positing that insights from neuroscience can inform and enhance the development of Web4 technologies. Through a detailed comparison, we illustrate how the brain’s mechanisms of decision-making, self-repair, and resilience can be mirrored in these cutting-edge emerging technologies.

Download or read book IoT UNIFYING AI QUANTUM COMPUTING IN PREDICTIVE BASEBALL MODELING FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OUTCOMES written by Justin Curtis Ermer Lacche and published by Lacche-Media, LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores the unifying expression of The Internet of Things (IoT), unlocking: predictive modeling, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing in the realm of professional baseball. With the advent of Qiskit 1.0 and the rise of utility-scale quantum computing, there exists an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize the way we analyze and forecast baseball outcomes. By integrating game theory principles and leveraging the computational power of quantum computers, teams can dynamically forecast paths to winning World Championships. This paper delves into the theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future prospects of this groundbreaking approach.

Download or read book Water Bears Tardigrades As A Baseline For Web4 IoT AI Quantum Self Healing Hardware Hypothesis Phase written by Justin Curtis Ermer Lacche and published by Lacche-Media, LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Bears, or tardigrades, are microscopic animals renowned for their extreme resilience and adaptability. Their ability to withstand harsh conditions such as extreme temperatures, radiation, and desiccation makes them a versatile subject of study in various scientific fields. This paper offers the hypothesis how the biological mechanisms of tardigrades can serve as a comparative baseline for developing Web4 technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and self-healing hardware. Equally, the paper will equally challenge the same assumptions, with the intent of further validation, via the scientific method.

Download or read book Principles of Sociology written by Frederick Elmore Lumley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Americans and Criminal Justice written by Delores D. Jones-Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does justice exist for Blacks in America? This comprehensive compilation of essays documents the historical and contemporary impact of the law and criminal justice system on people of African ancestry in the United States. African Americans and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia comprises descriptive essays documenting the ways in which people of African descent have been victimized by oppressive laws enacted by local, state, and federal authorities in the United States. The entries also describe how Blacks became disproportionately represented in national crime statistics, largely through their efforts to resist legalized oppression in early American history, and present biographies of famous and infamous Black criminal suspects and victims throughout early American history and in contemporary times. Providing coverage of law and criminal justice practices from the precolonial period, including the introduction of African slaves, up to practices in modern-day America, this encyclopedia presents a frank and comprehensive view of how Americans of African descent have come to be viewed as synonymous with criminality. This book represents an essential learning resource for all American citizens, regardless of race or age.

Download or read book The Component written by Kas Oosterhuis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is the Oosterhuis' personal account of four decades of architectural and societal thinking, designing, building, and theorizing. It is an orchestrated yet non-linear series of subjects all leading toward the creation of a parallel world called "Another Normal." Another Normal is as of now a hypothetical parallel world. Nomadic international citizens are the inhabitants of Another Normal. Urged by the climate crisis, the food, energy, and water nexus, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Another Normal demonstrates the inevitable data-driven techno-social architecture of the physically built environment and the metaverse. Besides robotic production on demand of almost anything – when, where, and as needed – Oosterhuis' proposes a dozen strategies that run in parallel to establish Another Normal, among others: ubiquitous basic income, global birthright to own a generous piece of land, distributed production of healthy food, clean energy, and drinking water, ownership of private data and personal avatars in the Web 3.0, autonomous electronic transportation, ubiquitous shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques, ubiquitous home delivery, working from anywhere for any period of time, and decentralized real-time peer to peer banking. The organic real and the synthetic hyper-real co-evolve naturally in Another Normal, where a mix of strong and simple legislative, planning, and design rules create complexity, diversity, fairness, and equality.

Download or read book Civil Resistance written by Kurt Schock and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, protests against war and economic inequality, countless struggles against corruption, and demands for more equitable distribution of land. These actions have attracted substantial scholarly attention, reflected in the growth of literature on social movements and revolution as well as literature on nonviolent resistance. Until now, however, the two bodies of literature have largely developed in parallel—with relatively little acknowledgment of the existence of the other. In this useful collection, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars takes stock of the current state of the theoretical and empirical literature on civil resistance. Contributors analyze key processes of nonviolent struggle and identify both frictions and points of synthesis between the narrower literature on civil resistance and the broader literature on social movements and revolution. By doing so, Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle pushes the boundaries of the study of civil resistance and generates social scientific knowledge that will be helpful for all scholars and activists concerned with democracy, human rights, and social justice.

Download or read book Databases in Networked Information Systems written by Shinji Kikuchi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2011, held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan in December 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited talks and 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The workshop generally puts the main focus on data semantics and infrastructure for information management and interchange. The papers are organized in topical sections on cloud computing; access to information resources; information and knowledge management; bio-medical information management; information extraction from data resources; geo-spatial decision making; networked information systems: infrastructure.

Download or read book Decolonising African University Knowledges Volume 1 written by Amasa P. Ndofirepi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics. It claims that academics from socially, politically, and geographically underprivileged communities in the South need to have their voices heard outside of the global power structure. The book argues that African universities need a relevant curriculum that is related to the cultural and environmental experiences of diverse African learners in order to empower themselves and transform the world. It is written by African scholars and is based on theoretical and practical debates on the epistemological complexities affecting and afflicting diversity in higher education in Africa. It examines who are the primary custodians of African university knowledges, as well as how this relates to forms of exclusion affecting women, the differently abled, the rural poor, and ethnic minorities, as well as the significance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the future of African universities. The book takes an epistemological approach to university teaching and learning, addressing issues such as decolonization and identity, social closure and diversity disputes, and the obstacles that come with the neoliberal paradigm. The book will be necessary reading for academics, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of Sociology of Education, decolonising education, Inclusive Education, and Philosophy of Education, as it resonates with existing discourses.

Download or read book Everyday Ethics and Social Change written by Anna Lisa Peterson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman creatures, we practice a nonutilitarian morality that makes sacrifice a rational and reasonable choice. Recognizing these everyday ethics, Anna L. Peterson argues, helps us move past the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of culture and refocus on issues that affect real social change. Peterson begins by divining a "second language" for personal and political values, a vocabulary derived from the loving and mutually beneficial relationships of daily life. Even if our interactions with others are fleeting and fragmentary, they provide a viable alternative to the contractual and atomistic attitudes of mainstream culture. Everyday ethics point toward a more just, humane, and sustainable society, and to acknowledge moments of grace in our daily encounters is to realize a different way of relating to people and nonhuman nature--an alternative ethic to cynicism and rank consumerism. In redefining the parameters of morality, Peterson enables us to make fundamental problems such as the distribution of wealth, the use of public land and natural resources, labor and employment policy, and the character of political institutions the preferred focus of debate and action.

Download or read book Disability and Social Performance written by Bernie Warren and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia written by Catherine A. Schuler and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did the theatre—both institutionally and literally—play in Russia’s modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that developed among the state, the nobility, and the theatre in the eighteenth century transform into ideological warfare between the state and the intelligentsia in the nineteenth? How were the identities of the Russian people and the Russian soul configured and altered by actors in St. Petersburg and Moscow? Using the dramatic events of nineteenth-century Russian history as a backdrop, Catherine Schuler answers these questions by revealing the intricate links among national modernization, identity, and theatre. Schuler draws upon contemporary journals written and published by the educated nobility and the intelligentsia—who represented the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural groups of the day—as well as upon the laws of the Russian empire and upon theatrical memoirs. With fascinating detail, she spotlights the ideologically charged binaries ascribed to prominent actors—authentic/performed, primitive/civilized, Russian/Western—that mirrored the volatility of national identity from the Napoleonic Wars through the reign of Alexander II. If the path traveled by Russian artists and audiences from the turn of the nineteenth century to the era of the Great Reforms reveals anything about Russian culture and society, it may be that there is nothing more difficult than being Russian in Russia. By exploring the ways in which theatrical administrators, playwrights, and actors responded to three tsars, two wars, and a major revolt, this carefully crafted book demonstrates the battle for the hearts and minds of the Russian people.

Download or read book Distant Speech Recognition written by Matthias Woelfel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete overview of distant automatic speech recognition The performance of conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems degrades dramatically as soon as the microphone is moved away from the mouth of the speaker. This is due to a broad variety of effects such as background noise, overlapping speech from other speakers, and reverberation. While traditional ASR systems underperform for speech captured with far-field sensors, there are a number of novel techniques within the recognition system as well as techniques developed in other areas of signal processing that can mitigate the deleterious effects of noise and reverberation, as well as separating speech from overlapping speakers. Distant Speech Recognitionpresents a contemporary and comprehensive description of both theoretic abstraction and practical issues inherent in the distant ASR problem. Key Features: Covers the entire topic of distant ASR and offers practical solutions to overcome the problems related to it Provides documentation and sample scripts to enable readers to construct state-of-the-art distant speech recognition systems Gives relevant background information in acoustics and filter techniques, Explains the extraction and enhancement of classification relevant speech features Describes maximum likelihood as well as discriminative parameter estimation, and maximum likelihood normalization techniques Discusses the use of multi-microphone configurations for speaker tracking and channel combination Presents several applications of the methods and technologies described in this book Accompanying website with open source software and tools to construct state-of-the-art distant speech recognition systems This reference will be an invaluable resource for researchers, developers, engineers and other professionals, as well as advanced students in speech technology, signal processing, acoustics, statistics and artificial intelligence fields.