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The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture across the domains of sport education and public space. Presenting important new empirical research it helps us to understand how the paradoxical blend of social democracy and liberalism in the Nordic countries influences physical culture which in turn contributes to a quality of life that ranks highest in the world. Drawing on perspectives from sociology cultural studies history education political science outdoor studies and urban studies the book explores topics such as dance education for sport students doping in cross-country skiing outdoor education the active body and the ideology of public parks. It includes research material from across the region including Norway Sweden Iceland Finland and Denmark. This is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in physical culture sport studies leisure studies or outdoor studies as well as sociologists or political scientists with an interest in Nordic politics culture and society. | The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

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Peace Support Operations Nordic Perspectives

Peace Support Operations Nordic Perspectives

Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It contains a collection of articles that present different theoretical approaches to the study of peace support operations and contribute to enhance the knowledge of the Nordic countries’ participation in such operations. Its case studies describe the development of peacekeeping forces from Norway Sweden Denmark and Finland in the face of evolving threats to world security over the past sixty years and how each country's reaction has differed. The conflicts covered in this study include the Cold War the Balkan conflict the first Gulf War and the Malawian ethnic conflict. Thus it constitutes a contribution to the academic field in both a theoretical and an empirical sense. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping | Peace Support Operations Nordic Perspectives

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The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records. Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data to easy user access. However digitization also poses challenges for archival practitioners worldwide. Bringing together contributions from practitioners and academics to offer a range of international case studies this book offers practical solutions for archivists in terms of governance technologies and processes. It highlights and analyses the cornerstones of the Nordic model of archiving: reliance on standards; powerful regulatory instruments - especially in public sector archiving including legislation; and collaboration between archivists and government agencies and among different tiers of central and local government. While showcasing work in the Nordic region for the benefit of archivists and record keepers globally this volume also challenges the limits of the Nordic model with insights drawn from international archival theory. The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving offers a new perspective on archiving that will be of interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students of archiving digital archives and records management.

GBP 130.00
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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

Migrant women stepping into ethnic catering; homeless men employed to take care of bees producing honey for sale; young people on the edge getting microcredit funding to start social businesses; or former criminals joining forces to create social and economic structures for an honest lifestyle. These initiatives capture the transformative power of social enterprise and might indicate how social enterprises have the potential to make a difference for people and societies. The Nordic countries represent an interesting case. Social enterprises and co-operatives played a significant part in paving the way for the Nordic solicaristic welfare state. As the welfare state grew civil society organizations and co-operatives lost ground to a certain extent. But in recent decades the welfare state has been restructured and simultaneously the concepts social entrepreneurship and social enterprises have gained attention. The Nordic context with extensive public welfare structures and a high degree of citizens’ participation in public affairs might affect the emergence of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises. | Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

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Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA A Historical Exploration of Identity

Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA A Historical Exploration of Identity

This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In deploying central insights from whiteness studies postcolonial feminist and intersectionality theories it shows that Nordic immigrants - Danes Swedes Finns Norwegians and Sámi - contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity. A diverse group of immigrants they could proclaim themselves ‘hyper-white’ and ‘better citizens than anybody else’ including Anglo-Saxons thus taking for granted the racial bias of American citizenship and ownership rights yet there were also various unexpected intersections of whiteness with ethnicity regional belonging gender sexuality and political views. ‘Nordic whiteness’ then was not a monolithic notion in the USA and could be challenged by other identities which could even turn white Nordic immigrants into marginalised figures. A fascinating study of whiteness and identity among white migrants in the USA Nordic Whiteness will appeal to scholars of sociology history and anthropology with interests in Scandinavian studies migration and diaspora studies and American studies. | Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA A Historical Exploration of Identity

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Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from or worked in Denmark Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Sápmi and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s. The book addresses the culturally specific conditions that shaped Nordic artists’ contributions brings the latest methodological and feminist approaches to bear on Nordic art history and engages a wide international audience through the contributors’ subject matter and analysis. Rather than introducing a new history of rediscovered women artists the book is more concerned with understanding the mechanisms and structures that affected women artists and their work while suggesting alternative ways of constructing women’s art histories. Artists covered include Else Alfelt Pia Arke Franciska Clausen Jessie Kleemann Hilma af Klint Sonja Ferlov Mancoba Greta Knutson Aase Texmon Rygh Hannah Ryggen Júlíana Sveinsdóttir Ellen Thesleff and Astri Aasen. The target audience includes scholars working in art history cultural studies feminist studies gender studies curatorial studies Nordic studies postcolonial studies and visual studies. | Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

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From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

How successful have the Nordic Agrarian-Centre Parties been in transforming themselves from class parties to catchall parties drawing significant support from voters engaged in the non-primary sectors of the economy? Using case studies from five comparable countries David Arter provides an insightful account of an historic group of parties who still wield distinctive strength in the Nordic region. This detailed profile the first ever in English makes a unique contribution to the topical issues of party adaptation and institutional modernization. | From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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Neoliberalism Nordic Welfare States and Social Work Current and Future Challenges

Neoliberalism Nordic Welfare States and Social Work Current and Future Challenges

How have three decades of neoliberalism affected the Nordic welfare states as well as the organisation education and practices of social work in those countries? During recent decades the welfare states of Denmark Finland Norway and Sweden have gone through dramatic changes infl uenced by the political triumph of neoliberalism. This has led to both the electoral success of extreme right and mainstream neoliberal parties and to the neoliberal ideological transformations of social democratic parties. The neoliberal doctrine of making governance cheaper has thus been made the focus of governance and has led to increased marginalisation and social problems. This is the first book to comparatively explore the role of neoliberal reforms on social work and social policy across the Nordic welfare states. The richly theoretical and empirical chapters explore and illustrate the consequences of the dominance of neoliberal policies and provide an analysis of the effects of globalisation glocalisation welfare nationalism symbolic violence and forced migration. The book provides valuable insights into the shortcomings of retreating welfare states in a time of increasing glocal social problems. Neoliberalism Nordic Welfare States and Social Work should be considered essential reading for critical social work education. Students scholars educators and researchers of Nordic countries and beyond have much to learn from this book. | Neoliberalism Nordic Welfare States and Social Work Current and Future Challenges

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Geopolitics Northern Europe and Nordic Noir What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics

Geopolitics Northern Europe and Nordic Noir What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics

With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series from Scandinavia and Finland as well as the impact of such programmes on how northern Europe is viewed around the world. Drawing on a diverse set of literature from screen studies to critical International Relations Geopolitics Northern Europe and Nordic Noir addresses the fraught geopolitical content of Nordic television series as well as how Nordic noir as a genre travels the globe. With empirical chapters focusing on the interlinked concepts of the body the border and the nation-state this book interrogates the various ways in which northern European states grapple with challenges wrought by globalisation neoliberalism and climate change. Reflecting the current global fascination with all things Nordic this text examines the light and dark sides of the region as seen through the television screen demonstrating that series such as Occupied Trapped and The Bridge have much to teach us about world politics. This book will be of interest to those interested in geopolitics national identity and the politics of popular culture in: Scandinavian studies media/screen studies IR/political science human/cultural geography sociology anthropology cultural studies and communication. | Geopolitics Northern Europe and Nordic Noir What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics

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Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work. Using a multidisciplinary and holistic approach the book compares Nordic countries’ attitudes towards the digitalization of education and demonstrates the Nordic region’s position as digital front-runners in a European and a global context. The book provides up-to-date cases and future-oriented perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work. Chapters use empirical data gained from policy documents interviews and questionnaires to present nuanced discussions theoretical perspectives and implications for the future of digitalization in education. Ultimately this book’s reach far exceeds that of its Nordic contexts and will be of use to postgraduate students researchers and scholars across the globe involved with digital education teacher education and educational policy and politics more broadly. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice

GBP 130.00
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Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries such as Sigurd Lewerentz Jørn Utzon Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos (Aino Elissa and Alvar) among others. It is structured around the ideas of organic design principles that influenced them and allowed their work to evolve from one building to another. Erik Champion argues organic architecture can be viewed as a concerted attempt to thematically unify the built environment through the allegorical expression of ongoing interaction between designer architectural brief and building-as-process. With over 140 black and white images this book is an intriguing read for architecture students and professionals alike.

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Machine Learning Concepts Techniques and Applications

Machine Learning Concepts Techniques and Applications

Machine Learning: Concepts Techniques and Applications starts at basic conceptual level of explaining machine learning and goes on to explain the basis of machine learning algorithms. The mathematical foundations required are outlined along with their associations to machine learning. The book then goes on to describe important machine learning algorithms along with appropriate use cases. This approach enables the readers to explore the applicability of each algorithm by understanding the differences between them. A comprehensive account of various aspects of ethical machine learning has been discussed. An outline of deep learning models is also included. The use cases self-assessments exercises activities numerical problems and projects associated with each chapter aims to concretize the understanding. Features Concepts of Machine learning from basics to algorithms to implementation Comparison of Different Machine Learning Algorithms – When to use them & Why – for Application developers and Researchers Machine Learning from an Application Perspective – General & Machine learning for Healthcare Education Business Engineering Applications Ethics of machine learning including Bias Fairness Trust Responsibility Basics of Deep learning important deep learning models and applications Plenty of objective questions Use Cases Activity and Project based Learning Exercises The book aims to make the thinking of applications and problems in terms of machine learning possible for graduate students researchers and professionals so that they can formulate the problems prepare data decide features select appropriate machine learning algorithms and do appropriate performance evaluation. | Machine Learning Concepts Techniques and Applications

GBP 140.00
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English in the Nordic Countries Connections Tensions and Everyday Realities

English in the Nordic Countries Connections Tensions and Everyday Realities

People in the Nordic states – Norway Sweden Finland Denmark and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In this unique volume international experts explore how this came to be what English usage and integration looks like in different spheres of society and the economy in these countries and the implications of this linguistic phenomenon for language attitudes and identity for the region at large and for English in Europe and around the world. Led by Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten contributors provide a historical overview to the subject synthesize the latest research illustrate the roles of English with original case studies from diverse communities and everyday settings and offer transnational insights critically and in conversation with the situation in other Nordic states. This comprehensive text is the first book of its kind and will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of World/Global Englishes and English as a lingua franca language contact and dialect studies/language varieties language policy multilingualism sociolinguistics and Nordic/Scandinavian and European studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | English in the Nordic Countries Connections Tensions and Everyday Realities

GBP 35.99
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Entropy Randomization in Machine Learning

Entropy Randomization in Machine Learning

Entropy Randomization in Machine Learning presents a new approach to machine learning—entropy randomization—to obtain optimal solutions under uncertainty (uncertain data and models of the objects under study). Randomized machine-learning procedures involve models with random parameters and maximum entropy estimates of the probability density functions of the model parameters under balance conditions with measured data. Optimality conditions are derived in the form of nonlinear equations with integral components. A new numerical random search method is developed for solving these equations in a probabilistic sense. Along with the theoretical foundations of randomized machine learning Entropy Randomization in Machine Learning considers several applications to binary classification modelling the dynamics of the Earth’s population predicting seasonal electric load fluctuations of power supply systems and forecasting the thermokarst lakes area in Western Siberia. Features • A systematic presentation of the randomized machine-learning problem: from data processing through structuring randomized models and algorithmic procedure to the solution of applications-relevant problems in different fields • Provides new numerical methods for random global optimization and computation of multidimensional integrals • A universal algorithm for randomized machine learning This book will appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers and engineers involved in the development of applied machine learning systems and researchers of forecasting problems in various fields.

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Machine Learning Theory and Practice

Machine Learning Theory and Practice

Machine Learning: Theory and Practice provides an introduction to the most popular methods in machine learning. The book covers regression including regularization tree-based methods including Random Forests and Boosted Trees Artificial Neural Networks including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning focused on clustering. Topics are introduced in a conceptual manner along with necessary mathematical details. The explanations are lucid illustrated with figures and examples. For each machine learning method discussed the book presents appropriate libraries in the R programming language along with programming examples. Features: Provides an easy-to-read presentation of commonly used machine learning algorithms in a manner suitable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students and mathematically and/or programming-oriented individuals who want to learn machine learning on their own. Covers mathematical details of the machine learning algorithms discussed to ensure firm understanding enabling further exploration Presents worked out suitable programming examples thus ensuring conceptual theoretical and practical understanding of the machine learning methods. This book is aimed primarily at introducing essential topics in Machine Learning to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The number of topics has been kept deliberately small so that it can all be covered in a semester or a quarter. The topics are covered in depth within limits of what can be taught in a short period of time. Thus the book can provide foundations that will empower a student to read advanced books and research papers. | Machine Learning Theory and Practice

GBP 110.00
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Inclusion and Special Needs Education for Immigrant Students in the Nordic Countries

Inclusion and Special Needs Education for Immigrant Students in the Nordic Countries

Inclusion for immigrant students with special educational needs (SEN) is a neglected area of research. This edited volume addresses this problem providing up-to-date insights into the provided support and special needs education (SNE) for immigrant students in different contexts of the Nordic countries. This important book explores the diversity of student experiences addressing both compulsory schools and vocational education and examines how different Nordic countries conceptualise and approach support and SNE for immigrant students. Readers will get an opportunity to read various studies that address gaps in the realisation of inclusion and special need education. This book initiates a dialogue on generating new knowledge approaches and methods to expand the flexibility necessary to implement a fully inclusive education. The book offers research that includes strong theoretical and practical frameworks interviews interventions assessments case studies as well as offers future directions for inclusive and special needs education. By exploring the process of inclusion and special needs education in the Nordic countries this book is an essential read for those who intend to deepen their understanding and to enact inclusion and the development of special needs education for immigrant students. | Inclusion and Special Needs Education for Immigrant Students in the Nordic Countries

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Applied Machine Learning for Smart Data Analysis

Applied Machine Learning for Smart Data Analysis

The book focuses on how machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) has empowered the advancement of information driven arrangements including key concepts and advancements. Ontologies that are used in heterogeneous IoT environments have been discussed including interpretation context awareness analyzing various data sources machine learning algorithms and intelligent services and applications. Further it includes unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning techniques with study of semantic analysis and thorough analysis of reviews. Divided into sections such as machine learning security IoT and data mining the concepts are explained with practical implementation including results. Key Features Follows an algorithmic approach for data analysis in machine learning Introduces machine learning methods in applications Address the emerging issues in computing such as deep learning machine learning Internet of Things and data analytics Focuses on machine learning techniques namely unsupervised and semi-supervised for unseen and seen data sets Case studies are covered relating to human health transportation and Internet applications | Applied Machine Learning for Smart Data Analysis

GBP 125.00
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Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology and religious studies with interests in migration civil society resistance and social values. | Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

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Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

In machine learning applications practitioners must take into account the cost associated with the algorithm. These costs include: Cost of acquiring training dataCost of data annotation/labeling and cleaningComputational cost for model fitting validation and testingCost of collecting features/attributes for test dataCost of user feedback collectionCost of incorrect prediction/classificationCost-Sensitive Machine Learning is one of the first books to provide an overview of the current research efforts and problems in this area. It discusses real-world applications that incorporate the cost of learning into the modeling process. The first part of the book presents the theoretical underpinnings of cost-sensitive machine learning. It describes well-established machine learning approaches for reducing data acquisition costs during training as well as approaches for reducing costs when systems must make predictions for new samples. The second part covers real-world applications that effectively trade off different types of costs. These applications not only use traditional machine learning approaches but they also incorporate cutting-edge research that advances beyond the constraining assumptions by analyzing the application needs from first principles. Spurring further research on several open problems this volume highlights the often implicit assumptions in machine learning techniques that were not fully understood in the past. The book also illustrates the commercial importance of cost-sensitive machine learning through its coverage of the rapid application developments made by leading companies and academic research labs.

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Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics

Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics

Lucidly Integrates Current Activities Focusing on both fundamentals and recent advances Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics presents an informative and accessible account of the ways in which these two increasingly intertwined areas relate to each other. Examines Connections between Machine Learning & Bioinformatics The book begins with a brief historical overview of the technological developments in biology. It then describes the main problems in bioinformatics and the fundamental concepts and algorithms of machine learning. After forming this foundation the authors explore how machine learning techniques apply to bioinformatics problems such as electron density map interpretation biclustering DNA sequence analysis and tumor classification. They also include exercises at the end of some chapters and offer supplementary materials on their website. Explores How Machine Learning Techniques Can Help Solve Bioinformatics Problems Shedding light on aspects of both machine learning and bioinformatics this text shows how the innovative tools and techniques of machine learning help extract knowledge from the deluge of information produced by today’s biological experiments.

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Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Advancements in the technology and availability of data sources have led to the `Big Data' era. Working with large data offers the potential to uncover more fine-grained patterns and take timely and accurate decisions but it also creates a lot of challenges such as slow training and scalability of machine learning models. One of the major challenges in machine learning is to develop efficient and scalable learning algorithms i. e. optimization techniques to solve large scale learning problems. Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning identifies different areas of improvement and recent research directions to tackle the challenge. Developed optimisation techniques are also explored to improve machine learning algorithms based on data access and on first and second order optimisation methods. Key Features: Bridges machine learning and Optimisation. Bridges theory and practice in machine learning. Identifies key research areas and recent research directions to solve large-scale machine learning problems. Develops optimisation techniques to improve machine learning algorithms for big data problems. The book will be a valuable reference to practitioners and researchers as well as students in the field of machine learning.

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The Nordic Economic Social and Political Model Challenges in the 21st Century

The Nordic Economic Social and Political Model Challenges in the 21st Century

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies individual freedom economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness productivity growth quality of life prosperity and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic Model at a crossroads? Historically consensus continuity social cohesion and broad social trust have been hailed as key components for the success and for the self-images of Sweden and Finland. In the contemporary however political debates in both countries are increasingly focused on risks threats and worry. Social disintegration political polarization geopolitical anxieties and threat of terrorism are often dominant themes. This book focuses on what appears to be a paradox: countries with low income differences high faith in social institutions and relatively high cultural homogeneity becoming fixated on the fear of polarization disintegration and diminished social trust. Unpacking the presentist discourse of worry and a sense of interregnum at the face of geopolitical tensions digitalization and globalization as well as challenges to democracy the chapters take steps back in time and explore the current conjecture through the eyes of historians and social scientists addressing key aspects of and challenges to both the contemporary and future Nordic Model. In addition the functioning and efficacy of the participatory democracy and current protocols of decision-making are debated. This work is essential reading for students and scholars of the welfare state social reforms and populism as well as Nordic and Scandinavian studies. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | The Nordic Economic Social and Political Model Challenges in the 21st Century

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Machine Learning for Neuroscience A Systematic Approach

Machine Learning for Neuroscience A Systematic Approach

This book addresses the growing need for machine learning and data mining in neuroscience. The book offers a basic overview of the neuroscience machine learning and the required math and programming necessary to develop reliable working models. The material is presented in a easy to follow user-friendly manner and is replete with fully working machine learning code. Machine Learning for Neuroscience: A Systematic Approach tackles the needs of neuroscience researchers and practitioners that have very little training relevant to machine learning. The first section of the book provides an overview of necessary topics in order to delve into machine learning including basic linear algebra and Python programming. The second section provides an overview of neuroscience and is directed to the computer science oriented readers. The section covers neuroanatomy and physiology cellular neuroscience neurological disorders and computational neuroscience. The third section of the book then delves into how to apply machine learning and data mining to neuroscience and provides coverage of artificial neural networks (ANN) clustering and anomaly detection. The book contains fully working code examples with downloadable working code. It also contains lab assignments and quizzes making it appropriate for use as a textbook. The primary audience is neuroscience researchers who need to delve into machine learning programmers assigned neuroscience related machine learning projects and students studying methods in computational neuroscience. | Machine Learning for Neuroscience A Systematic Approach

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Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans. Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension this book helps linguists translators and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways in terms of word embeddings chunking of larger meaning units and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks including machine translation translation quality assessment and quality estimation and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of data in both human and machine learning processes. It proposes that a translator’s unique value lies in the capability to create manage and leverage language data in different ML tasks in the translation process. It outlines new knowledge and skills that need to be incorporated into traditional translation education in the machine learning era. The book concludes with a discussion of human-centered machine learning in translation stressing the need to empower translators with ML knowledge through communication with ML users developers and programmers and with opportunities for continuous learning. This accessible guide is designed for current and future users of ML technologies in localization workflows including students on courses in translation and localization language technology and related areas. It supports the professional development of translation practitioners so that they can fully utilize ML technologies and design their own human-centered ML-driven translation workflows and NLP tasks.

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