“…Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents also reviews the history of these games' explosive growth, and explores the public policy options for controlling their distribution. Anderson et al. describe the reaction of the games industry to scientific findings that exposure to violent video games and other forms of media violence constitutes a significant risk factor for later aggressive and violent behavior. …”

“…They show how these informal, artisanal and small scale miners are inextricably engaged with, or bound to, global commodity values, are intimately involved in the production of new extractive territories and rural economies, and how their labour reshapes agrarian communities and landscapes of resource access and control. This book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their multiple meanings…”

“…Not only does the military regime tend to strategically withdraw itself from the regional scene, by choosing only a few but crucial diplomatic and commercial partners like China, India, Singapore, Russia or Thailand, but it also gradually isolates itself from the rest of the Burmese society, by opting for a strategic and nationalist entrenchment which was perfectly highlighted by the purge of the pragmatic Military Intelligence Services (2004), the transfer of the capital to Naypyidaw (2005) and the strict control over the transitional process initiated by its own “Road Map towards a disciplined democracy” and undisrupted by the recent crises…”

“…Machine learning algorithms are based on concepts and tools developed in several fields including statistics, artificial intelligence, information theory, cognitive science, and control theory. The recent advances in machine learning have had a broad range of applications in different scientific disciplines. …”

“…Disintegrated knowledge has become subservient to the competition in technological and economic race leading in the direction chosen not by the reason, intellect, and shared value-based judgement, but rather by the whims of autocratic leaders or fashion controlled by marketers for the purposes of political or economic dominance. …”

“…A intervenção da Igreja nesta área, num tempo em que a afirmação do poder régio passava também pelo controle destas questões sociais, foi o tema central do seminário Bispos, Cabidos e Assistência na Península Ibérica (séculos XVI-XVIII), de que resulta o presente volume…”

“…Le système judiciaire du protectorat de la France en Tunisie (1883-1956) est ici étudié dans son ensemble, tant en ce qui concerne ses acteurs (statuts des magistrats) que le fonctionnement des institutions (hiérarchie des ordres judiciaires et contrôle). Les contributions des différents auteurs montrent comment la Tunisie a pu servir de laboratoire d’expérimentation, les autorités ayant instauré ce protectorat de manière empirique. …”

“…Au terme de l'analyse, il apparaît que des secteurs importants de la société civile se trouvent être si dépendants de l'Etat qu'il est vital pour eux de les contrôler : les luttes croisées qui en résultent entretiennent l'instabilité... …”

“…Vinod Thomas proposes that economic growth will become sustainable only if governments, political actors, and local communities combine natural disaster prevention and controlling climate change into national growth strategies. …”

“…It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media…”

“…Also, like its unsweetened counterpart, O-GlcNAcylation controls fundamental processes, e.g. protein fate, chromatin topology, DNA demethylation and, as recently revealed, circadian clock. …”

“…These reflective microdisplays are composed of a high-performance silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) backplane, which controls the light-modulating properties of the liquid crystal layer. …”

“…Intense economic development of and Han settlement in China’s remote minority regions threaten to displace indigenous populations, post-Soviet establishment of independent countries composed mainly of Muslim and Turkic-speaking peoples presents questions for related groups in China, freedom of Mongolia from Soviet control raises the specter of a pan-Mongolian movement encompassing Chinese Mongols, and international groups press for a more autonomous or even independent Tibet.In Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, leading scholars examine the Chinese government’s administration of its ethnic minority regions, particularly border areas where ethnicity is at times a volatile issue and where separatist movements are feared. …”

“…Some of the topics covered in this volume: the secession of Bangladesh in international law; the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal; port state control: a comment on the Tokyo MOU; maritime jurisdiction over vessel-source pollution in the EEZ: the Chinese experience…”

“…Ce livre est l'un des premiers à présenter une histoire comparée du contrôle et de la comptabilité publique dans l'Europe des États modernes. …”

“…L'épisode carolingien y représente un moment fort, avec l'élaboration d'un véritable modèle chrétien de mort et de sépulture, en liaison avec la tentative ecclésiastique d'encadrer et de contrôler tous les éléments de la vie sociale. L'extension du domaine franc sous Charle-magne et la confrontation avec d'autres ensembles politico-religieux entraînent une structuration idéologique nécessaire à l'unifi cation de l'Empire. …”

“…Le régime napoléonien porte un coup d'arrêt à la concurrence débridée de la décennie révolutionnaire et instaure un lourd système de contrôle de l'imprimé, qui va perdurer après la chute de l'Empire. …”

“…These individuals perceived the reality of the border as everyday, very far from the geopolitical perspectives of the respective crowns.Continuing with the idea of ​​permeability of the border, a third plane of work focuses on borders in motion, understanding the border as that open permeable place in which all societies interact: the Hispanic, the Portuguese and the indigenous, generating within this world a complex ethnic mosaic where the peninsular crowns had to devise different models of control and organization.Finally, the block on historiography, memory and identity closes the book, leaving open the debate on the theme raised…”

“…In these locally defined and controlled, democratically operated organizations we see possibilities for a more human economy that is capable of transforming the very social and technical systems that make our current way of life unsustainable…”

“…The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. …”