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Why Indonesians turn against democracy
No full textMany Indonesians who welcomed the nation’s democratisation in 1998 now look on democracy with horror and shame. This chapter seeks to move beyond the focus on corruption and socioeconomic performance, which currently dominates both the literature and public discourse in Indonesia, to examine some of the deeper issues that might lie alongside such concerns, or for which they might serve as an idiom of distress. Pursuing a person-centred ethnographic approach, I show how the appeal of democratisation lies in its promise of new modes of acting and being in the world, and yet these modes of being can turn out to prove so distressing or uncomfortable that the subject turns against democracy altogether. I focus in particular on difficulties and ambivalences surrounding the expression, fulfilment, and disregard of one’s desires, opinions, and familial identifications
Introduction: sociality's new directions
No full textThe notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in the social sciences. By developing their own rigorous and innovative theory of human sociality, they re-set the framework of the debate and open up new possibilities for conceptualizing other forms of sociality, such as that of animals or materials. Cases from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe explore the new directions of human sociality, illuminating how and why it is transformed when human beings engage with such major issues as economic downturn, climate change, new regimes of occupational and psychological therapy, technological innovations in robotics and the creation of new online, 'virtual' environments. This book is an invaluable resource, not only for research and teaching, but for anyone interested in the question of what makes us social
The ideal of intellectual exchange: study abroad, affect and the ambivalences of citizenship in post-Suharto Indonesia
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Township of Long Gully, Victoria, ca. 1875 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Views of Bendigo [1].; Title from caption.; Inscriptions: "No. 28"--upper centre of mount; details of particular buildings on mount below image.; Condition: Discolouration; foxing.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an21094459-3
Kock's pioneer quartz crushing plant, Long Gully, Victoria, ca. 1875 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Views of Bendigo [1].; Title from caption.; Inscriptions: "No. 31"--upper centre of mount; "Perseverance United Claim. Wind-mill Hill in the distance"--lower centre of mount.; Condition: Mount stained; yellowing and fading.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an21094459-6
Bendigo flat as seen from Wattle Hill, Victoria, ca. 1875 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Views of Bendigo [1].; Title from caption.; Inscriptions: "No. 34"--upper centre of mount; "This flat twenty years since, was a busy scene with its thousands of diggers, breaking the native soil in search of gold. The canvas tents then used have long since given place to the more solid and comfortable domiciles constructed of wood and bricks"--lower edge of mount.; Condition: Mount stained; discolouration.; Condition of PIC 3322/7: Mount stained; fading and discolouration.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an21094459-9
Battery of stampers for crushing quartz, Victoria, ca. 1875 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Views of Bendigo [1].; Title from caption.; Inscriptions: "No. 5"--upper centre of mount; "The reduction of quartz by means of stampers, is the only method at present on the Gold Fields of Bendigo. The most extensive plants, being those at Koch's Pioneer Claim; Long Gully; The Great Extended Hustler's; also the Garden Gully United; and the Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, New Chum Gully"--On mount below image.; Condition: Foxing.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an21094459-30
Knapsack based optimal policies for budget-limited multi-armed bandits
No full textIn budget-limited multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems, the learner’s actions are costly and constrained by a fixed budget. Consequently, an optimal exploitation policy may not be to pull the optimal arm repeatedly, as is the case in other variants of MAB, but rather to pull the sequence of different arms that maximises the agent’s total reward within the budget. This difference from existing MABs means that new approaches to maximising the total reward are required. Given this, we develop two pulling policies, namely: (i) KUBE; and (ii) fractional KUBE. Whereas the former provides better performance up to 40% in our experimental settings, the latter is computationally less expensive. We also prove logarithmic upper bounds for the regret of both policies, and show that these bounds are asymptotically optimal (i.e. they only differ from the best possible regret by a constant factor)
Astronomy, in five books. By Roger Long, D.D. F.R.S. master of Pembroke Hall in the University of Cambridge [electronic resource].
No full textThe titlepage to vol. 2 bears the imprint: printed for the author. M.DCC.LXIV. Sold by John Deighton; J. F. & C. Rivington, and T. & J. Egerton, London; and J. & J. Fletcher, Oxford, 1785.With a list of subscribers.The text from p.655 written largely by Dunthorn and Wales.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
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