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“…The persons who do not go to galleries tend to downgrade themselves in comparison with the image they have of those who do. …”

“…He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism's alleged privileged religious status in world history.Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto's resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. …”

“…The Asia-Europe Meeting: Contributing to a New Global Governance Architecture richt zich op de discussies en de resultaten van de achtste ASEM-top, die plaatsvond in oktober 2010 in Brussel. Het boek geeft een goed beeld van de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen Azië en Europa, en helpt te begrijpen hoe problemen kunnen worden aangepakt door middel van interregionale politieke dialoog. …”

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“…Speculative Medievalisms, like some weird friar-alchemist in an inexistent romance, plays the erotic go-between for these text-centered and text-eccentric intellectual domains by trying to transmute the space between past and present modes of speculation from shared blindness to love at first sight. …”

“…At the beginning of the book, Boethius is crying, all alone in prison, depressed that he's lonely and loveless and is going to be killed. Lady Philosophy descends from the heavens, à la Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. …”

“…As noted by the 2002 UN World Assembly on Ageing Report, this global trend in population aging is unprecedented in human history, is pervasive across societies, is enduring (there is no going back to younger populations), and has profound implications for human beings. …”

“…Since reform was first mooted in 1993, the numbers of young people going on to higher education have increased dramatically – up from 2 per cent in the early 1990s to over 13 per cent at present, and a higher system that was once comprised entirely of small, specialised institutions has been transformed into one in which the leading universities are large, multidisciplinary and progressively developing a research capability. …”

“…The booklet consists of: I) Profiles of each Work Package summarizing their work and II) Fact sheets that present an overview of evidence on thematic areas going from the relationship between health status and a wide range of determinants, to specific methodological aspects including the evaluation of health and of policies with potential to promote health and health equity. …”

“…A traditional view is that activity flows through cortical layers in a feed-forward manner, going from layer IV, to layers II and III and onwards. …”

“…When asked about 3 wishes, she replies, 'wish for my son to be back to normal, be sweet like he used to be, wish for my husband to come back, and I wish to go on a nice family vacation.'…”

“…Voisinages fragiles is the first product of an on-going collective effort participating in the wider effort of writing a connected history of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th centuries. …”

“…Docker and serverless are two terms that go hand-in-hand. This book will start by explaining serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) concepts, and why they are important. …”

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“…You will be introduced to foundational concepts in VXLAN without the need to go over hundreds of documentation pages. This book is a clear and precise guide to implementing a spine and leaf architecture running with VXLAN. …”

“…What You Will Learn Set up and configure your development environment properly the first time Build Alexa skills quickly and efficiently using Agile tools and techniques Create a variety of data-driven Alexa skills for home and business Access data from web applications and Internet data sources via their APIs Test with unit-testing frameworks throughout the development life cycle Manage and query your data using the DynamoDb NoSQL database engines Who This Book Is For Developers who wish to go beyond Hello World and build complex, data-driven applications on Amazon's Alexa platform; developers who want to learn how to use Lambda functions, the Alexa Skills SDK, Alexa Presentation Language, and Alexa Conversations; developers interested in integrating with public APIs such as real estate listings and stock market prices. …”

“…The evolution of IRT is now going beyond educational measurement. Recent advances in multidimensional extensions of IRT and computerized adaptive testing are leading to major advances in patient reported outcome measures of physical and emotional well being. …”