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Video in development : filming for rural change
This book is about using video in rural interventions for social change. It gives a glimpse into the many creative ways in which video can be used in rural development activities. Capitalising on experience in this field, the books aims to encourage development professionals to explore the potential of video in development, making it a more coherent, better understood and properly used development tool - in short, filming for rural change
Compositional analysis of lunar and planetary surfaces using neutron capture gamma rays, 1 January - 31 March 1968
Detection and quantitative determination of hydrogen on planetary and lunar surfaces by neutron capture gamma ray
The Urbanization of Nature underneath and beyond âthe city':Reflections on the book Turning up the Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a climate emergency
In this article we outline the impact that the field of Urban Political Ecology has on academia and policy-making; and argue that this body of scholarship is in a unique position to address some of the urgent political questions around urbanization and climate change. We outline the key epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of Urban Political Ecology and explore to what extent these can address the systemic disaster we call climate change. Our key aim is to show that academic research can â and should â remain relevant to the politics of a heating planet.<br/
Geometrical organization of solutions to random linear Boolean equations
The random XORSAT problem deals with large random linear systems of Boolean
variables. The difficulty of such problems is controlled by the ratio of number
of equations to number of variables. It is known that in some range of values
of this parameter, the space of solutions breaks into many disconnected
clusters. Here we study precisely the corresponding geometrical organization.
In particular, the distribution of distances between these clusters is computed
by the cavity method. This allows to study the `x-satisfiability' threshold,
the critical density of equations where there exist two solutions at a given
distance.Comment: 20 page
Emotion, Meaning, and Appraisal Theory
According to psychological emotion theories referred to as appraisal
theory, emotions are caused by appraisals (evaluative judgments). Borrowing a term from Jan Smedslund, it is the contention of this article that psychological appraisal theory is âpseudoempiricalâ (i.e., misleadingly or incorrectly empirical). In the article I outline what makes some scientific psychology âpseudoempirical,â distinguish my view on this from Jan Smedslundâs, and then go on to show why paying heed to the ordinary meanings of emotion terms is relevant to psychology, and how appraisal theory is methodologically off the mark by
employing experiments, questionnaires, and the like, to investigate what follows from the ordinary meanings of words. The overarching argument of the article is that the scientific research program of appraisal theory is fundamentally misguided and that a more philosophical approach is needed to address the kinds of questions it seeks to answer
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