“…The symposium aims to share novel access control solutions that fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments, and to identify new directions for future research and development. The call for papers attracted about 30 submissions from a variety of countries around the world. …”

“…SCC'17 gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the topics of cloud security and privacy such as secure cloud architecture, cloud storage security, cloud cryptography, cloud access control and key management, identification and privacy in cloud, secure computation outsourcing, trusted computing, and many others. The call for papers attracted 27 submissions from total 22 countries and regions. …”

“…The theme of this workshop is to understand the foundations of blockchain technology and the design of new blockchain applications using smart contracts. The call for papers attracted 21 submissions from around the world. …”

“…This reported variability has led to a call for the accreditation of facilities that perform ECT in Canada. …”

“…The new category of tools, frameworks, and processes that fill this need is often called MLOps. In this edition of Radar Talks, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why machine learning applications need special treatment in the first place and why we can't just fold them into existing DevOps best practices. …”

“…Innovative, resilient, and high-performing teams all share a quality called "psychological safety." As a leader, you directly create your team's culture of psychological safety and determine whether people withhold or share vital information for fear of reprisal or ridicule, even in subtle ways. …”

“…This course shows you how to take full advantage of the power of the Google Suite of apps, also called Google Workspace apps. After completing this course, you will be able to See edits as others type Communicate through Google's built-in chat to ask questions or include comments. …”

“…Yet the conception of fair representation that prevails in American political culture and jurisprudence--what Melissa Williams calls "liberal representation"--concludes that the social identity of legislative representatives does not bear on their quality as representatives. …”

“…Senior judges and politicians increasingly question the role of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Some call for a reconsideration of the influence of transnational courts in the legal life of the UK, while others argue for a repeal of the Human Rights Act in favour of a British Bill of Rights. …”

“…In Most Likely to Succeed,bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of American schools, sharing insights and stories from the front lines, including profiles of successful students, teachers, parents, and business leaders. …”

“…The 1947 partition of India and the rise of fundamentalism has turned Kashmir, once called "Paradise on Earth" by Moghul emperor Jehangir, into a religious and political inferno. …”
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“…Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew; he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave is able to discover through inquiry. …”

“…In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth. …”

“…Saks argues that the best way to solve each of these dilemmas is, paradoxically, to be both more protective of individual autonomy and more paternalistic than current law calls for. For instance, while Saks advocates relaxing the standards for first commitment after a psychotic episode, she also would prohibit extreme mechanical restraints (such as tying someone spread-eagled to a bed). …”
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“…In VRx Brennan Spiegel introduces readers to a new kind of medicine, called virtual therapeutics, answering exactly this question, using technology that is already available.It works through two basic but powerful psychological concepts: embodied cognition, the idea that thought processes involve the whole body, not just the brain; and presence, the ability of virtual reality to trick your body into thinking it's somewhere that it isn't, or can do something that it can't usually do. …”

“…Friedman demonstrates that the foundational transition in thinking about what we now call economics, beginning in the eighteenth century, was decisively shaped by the hotly contended lines of religious thought within the English-speaking Protestant world. …”

“…This church declared its autonomy from the Roman church in 1415 after the Bohemian preacher Jan Hus, who had decried clerical abuses and opposed the pope's doctrinal and juridical authority, was condemned by a Roman church council and executed. Sometimes called "Hussitist" (a usage David attacks for exaggerating Hus's role "Utraquist" is the Latinized form of the Czech name it adherents used) this Bohemian church administered its institutions and educated and managed its clergy independently of Rome for the next two hundred years. …”
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“…For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called 'long peace' afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. …”

“…From an interdisciplinary perspective this study considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of the contemplative act; the nature of the active and contemplative lives in light of Aquinas’s Dominican calling; the role of faith, charity, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in contemplation; and contemplation and the beatific vision. …”