264 research outputs found
Erratum to: The Responsibilities of Privilege: an Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Public Intellectual
No full textIn the original publication, the author Noam Chomsky was missing. The complete list of authors is given above. The original version was corrected
Power and Terror : Perbincangan Pasca Tragedi WTC 11 September 2001 (Menguak terorisme Amerika Serikat di Dunia) / Noam Chomsky
No full textIn this, his first new book since the international bestseller "9-11," Noam Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy, focusing on alternatives to the current course of armed provocation.Noam Chomsky is the author of, among many other books, "Profit over People," and the international anti-war bestseller "9-11," which has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide
Conferencia de Noam Chomsky
No full textThe author criticizes U.S.A. support of dictatorships in the Middle East that serve American oil interests in the region. In the seventies and eighties, massive military aid was provided to Iraq in its war against Iran and the Kurds. As the invasion of Kuwait was contrary to U.S.A. interests, the first Gulf War ensued, followed by sanctions that lasted ten years, causing enormous suffering and material loss to Iraq and its people. Turkey´s devastating offensive against the Kurds was possible thanks to massive arms supplies provided by the U.S.A. Economic, political and military backing of Israel by America is unconditional, in spite of repeated U.N. Security Council Resolutions that are ignored by both countries
Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice: A Treatise on Technology and Dispute Resolution
No full textOnline mediation is spreading rapidly as a mode of practice. In this chapter, Ebner surveys the development of e-mediation within the wider context of ODR growth. Next, the chapter presents a snapshot of the field's status quo with respect to stakeholders, modes of communication and the technology utilized, Finally, the chapter addresses substantive and process issues in e-mediation: mediation process models, stages and issues; practitioner skills; professional issues; ethics and practitioner standards.|The author identifies current trends in the fields and makes several predictions regarding the field's future development, including the adoption of online mediation by solo practitioners (as opposed to "service provider" firms), the rise of video-conferencing (primarily through low-cost, familiar platforms) and the somewhat counter-intuitive implementation of online mediation in disputes involving strong relational elements, such as divorce, community and workplace issues.357-38
Noam Chomsky, Yugoslavia : Peace, war and dissolution, davor džalto (ed.), pm press, oakland, 2018
No full textIn this essay, the author reviews and critically assesses the book Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution, authored by Noam Chomsky and edited by Davor Džalto. The author also points to the importance and value of the book for the field of political theory, international relations and Yugoslav studies, examining at the same time particular concepts (such as “genocide”) within the broader context of legal theory and international law
Assaulting solidarity, privatizing education
No full textEn la presente sección Zona Remix compartimos un texto de Chomsky. Noam Chomsky es uno de los
pensadores más influyentes de la actualidad. Reconocido en el campo de la filosofía, la lingüística y
ciencia cognitiva, así como por su actividad filosófica política. En el presente texto, el autor apunta un
certero análisis de los efectos de la privatización educativa justo en los inicios del siglo XXI, la cual
lejos de perder vigencia es más actual en nuestro presente y contexto globalizado.Texto bajo licencia Creative Commons – BY.In this section Remix Zone we share a text by Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is one of today's most
influential thinkers. Recognized in the field of philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science, as well as
for his political philosophical activity. In the present text, the author points out an accurate analysis of
the effects of educational privatization just at the beginning of the 21st century, which far from losing
validity is more current in our present and globalized context.
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How does fair trade, as practised by Trade Aid and MINKA, contribute to the aspirations of Quechua producers in Peru?
No full textAs part of a Master of Indigenous Studies from the University of Otago, Trade Aid staff member, Michelia Ward, conducted research throughout 2011 and 2012 on whether fair trade is able to contribute to the aspirations of indigenous producers. The research focused on fair trade as practiced by Trade Aid, New Zealand and one of its Peruvian partners, MINKA.Fair trade is a development mechanism that aims to support food and craft producers around the world to improve their lives through trade. Many indigenous communities are producers of craft or food products such as woven textiles and coffee, and have engaged in fair trade relationships selling mainly to Western consumers. Fair trade organisations have universal principles that provide guarantees to consumers about working conditions, fair payment and trading relations with producer groups. This research project focuses on whether a universal framework designed to bring development to disadvantaged and marginalized producers can work for unique indigenous cultures across multiple continents. This research focuses on Trade Aid in New Zealand and their partnership with a Peruvian fair trade organisation, MINKA, who works with Quechua producers in the Andes. Indigenous theorists place large value on local epistemes (knowledge systems) and local solutions to local problems. Is fair trade one of these local solutions, or just another solution imposed from the outside upon indigenous producers
Optimization for sparse and accurate classifiers:
No full textClassification and supervised learning problems in general aim to choose a function that best describes a relation between a set of observed attributes and their corresponding outputs. We focus on binary classification, where the output is a binary response variable. In this dissertation, we seek motivation within statistical learning theory, which attempts to estimate how well a classification function generalizes with respect to unseen data in a probabilistic setting.
We study linear programming formulations for finding a hyperplane that separates two sets of points. Such formulations were initially given by Mangasarian (1965) for the separable case, and more recently extended by "soft margin'' formulations that maximize the margin of separation subject to a penalty proportional to the sum of margin violations. LP-Boost is a boosting algorithm which solves the large scale linear program in a high dimensional space of features using a column generation solution technique.
While many authors have developed different boosting algorithms that assume the existence of effective base learning algorithms for generating a feature or base classifier (e.g., solving the pricing problem with a column generation approach), there has not been much work done to propose such algorithms. In this dissertation, we propose a branch-and-bound algorithm for finding a Boolean monomial that best agrees with the given set of data. This problem has been known as maximum monomial agreement and has been mostly studied in the computational complexity and learning communities in the context of negative computational complexity results. Here we propose an algorithm that finds the monomial that best agrees with the given data and show that it is computationally efficient in practice for UCI datasets.
Revisiting the problem of finding weighted voting classifiers, we consider the problem of balancing the sparsity of the vector of weights and accuracy with respect to the given the training data. It has been suggested by several authors to minimize the L1-norm of the normal vector of the separating hyperplane in order to find sparse solutions. In contrast, we formulate the discrete optimization problem of minimizing the sum of disagreements of a weighted voting classifier and a penalty proportional to the number of nonzero components of the hyperplane's normal vector. The problem that we propose extends the NP-hard Minimum Disagreement Halfspace problem studied in computational learning theory. We are able to formulate this problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP), and show that the continuous relaxation of the MILP is equivalent to the well-known L1-norm minimizing LP for finding weighted voting classifiers. We proceed by suggesting novel cutting planes to tighten the continuous relaxation. Finally, we propose and test a novel boosting algorithm that solves the relaxation by dynamic generation of columns and cuts. The algorithm used for generating the columns in this procedure generalizes our algorithm for maximum monomial agreement. In our experiments with the novel MILP relaxation, we demonstrate that our formulation, as well as solution technique, provide an effective approach for constructing sparse and accurate classifiers, and balancing the tradeoff between the two.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-87)by Noam Goldber
Just Making It Up: Structure and Spontaneity in Music and Teaching. An interview with W.A. Mathieu by Noam Lemish
No full textWilliam Allaudin Mathieu (born in 1937) is a consummate musician, a pianist, composer, author, and teacher — and, in my view, one of the most influential musicians of his generation. In his early twenties he composed music for the Kenton and Ellington Big Bands, was the founding musical director of the famed Second City of Chicago (Improv Theater) and was a pioneer in the 1960s of the application of theater improvisation games into the musical sphere. He is the author of four influential books, including the best selling "The Listening Book" (1991). In a teaching career spanning more than fifty years, Mathieu has been an important influence and guide to many musicians worldwide. As I demonstrate throughout this essay, W.A. Mathieu reminds us that in highlighting the world of improvisation we must be careful not to romanticize spontaneity, for doing so might well involve our falling into the trap of dualistic thinking that separates if not excludes such activity from composition. Overall, Mathieu implores us to reflect deeply about false dichotomies as improvisation/composition, and by extension think more broadly about the perils of dualistic thinking in general. In exploring themes in discussion of improvisation, I highlight some of the ways in which we can begin to draw connections between Mathieu’s ideas and the usefulness of improvisation to pedagogy in music education and beyond
Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body
No full textThe aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP). The latter has proven to be a major cost to health services and private industry throughout the industrialised world and now represents a global health issue as recent WHO reports on obesity and LBP reveal. Thus far there have been few co-ordinated attempts to deal with the causes of the problem through public policy. Drawing upon a range of sources in anthropology, health studies, politics and economics, the paper argues that this a modern social problem rooted in the contingent conjuncture of natural and social causal mechanisms. The key question it raises is: what are the appropriate mechanisms for addressing this problem? This paper develops an analysis rooted in libertarian social theory and argues that both the state and the capitalist market are flawed mechanisms for resolving this problem. There remains a fundamental dilemma for libertarians, however. Whilst the state and the market may well be flawed mechanisms, they are the dominant ones shaping global political economy. To what extent can libertarians work within these structures and remain committed to libertarian goals
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