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“…Concerning non-demographic drivers of health care, the projection method accounts for income elasticity and a residual effect of technology and relative prices. For long-term care, the effects of increased labour participation, reducing informal care, and wage inflation are taken into account. …”

“…Some of the accepted Emerging Technologies works will be chosen as "Emerging Technologies Prize" by the Emerging Technologies program committee members and reviewers at the event venue. …”

“…During your journey, Skylines Academy will lead you through a series of sections, modules, and demos to prepare you for taking, and ultimately passing, the Microsoft 365 MS-900 exam.The curriculum for this course includes: - Introduction - Cloud and M365 Concepts - M365 Core Services and Features - M365 Security & Compliance - M365 Pricing & Support Lectures will educate you on the fundamental terms and principles of the M365 platform and demos will enable you with a hands-on experience using scenarios to empower you in the real world."…”

“…The essays in this book probe the much-touted but under-theorized distinctions between monotheism and polytheism, Judaism and Hellenism, Christianity and paganism. …”

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“…This book proposes the 'Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas. …”

“…"This book argues that free time-defined as "time free from work, obligation, or any other necessary activity"-is one example of the goodness that can be celebrated as a source of happiness, if only people are primed to see it that way. At the moment, however, there is not a robust sense of the goodness of free time. …”

“…What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. …”

“…Les archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères du Royaume de Belgique recèlent, pour l'année 1917, les rapports réguliers d'Albert Remes, consul général du Royaume de Belgique à Moscou qui décrivent à la fois la vie quotidienne des Moscovites, les principaux développements politiques, et les événements sanglants qui accompagnent la prise du pouvoir par les Bolcheviks dans la capitale économique de l'Empire. …”

“…Et le rêveur est-il vraiment privé de tout contrôle sur ses pensées ? Enfin, si l'on pouvait empiriquement établir qu'une part significative de l'expérience onirique n'est pas remémorable à l'éveil, en quel sens pourrait-on encore la dire consciente ? …”

“…And finally, in "Schema and Bias", he probes whether the historian can clearly see into the past, peering through the layers of bias, which include their own prejudices, or if relativism is the only path."…”

“…In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. …”

“…To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. …”

“…It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures, and seeks to answer this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to "happiness" and "pain" in many languages and in different religious and cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of the expressions in question, but also provide extensive cultural contextualization, showing how these meanings are truly cultural. …”

“…He discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes under Chinggis' leadership; the establishment of a vigorous imperium whose Pax Mongolica held mastery over the Central Asian steppes; imaginative policies of religious pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran. …”

“…Gary Snyder (San Francisco, 1930) es un poeta esencial de la generación beatnik; inspiró Los vagabundos del Dharma, de Kerouac, y fue ganador de premios como el Pulitzer (1975) o el Ruth Lilly Poetry Price (2008). Es autor de una extensa obra traducida a diversas lenguas. …”

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