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  • Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity

    A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy

    by C. Archetti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Is the media obsession with image leading to a degeneration of politics? Are politicians more concerned with their appearances than with policy substance? Through the evidence provided by over 50 interviews with politicians across the UK and Italy - local councillors, MPs and MEPs - this book provides a very different picture of the world of politics than the one we often cynically imagine. By ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Explaining News

    National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context

    by C. Archetti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time - 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of governmental discourses and news coverage of eight elite newspapers ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media

    A Communication Approach

    by C. Archetti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    We cannot truly understand - let alone counter - terrorism in the 21st century unless we also understand the processes of communication that underpin it. This book challenges what we know about terrorism, showing that current approaches are inadequate and outdated, and develops a new communication model to understand terrorism in the media age. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Learning and Intelligent Optimization

    16th International Conference, LION 16, Milos Island, Greece, June 5–10, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Dimitris E. Simos, Varvara A. Rasskazova, Francesco Archetti, Ilias S. Kotsireas, Panos M. Pardalos ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 16, which took place in Milos Island, Greece, in June 2022.The 36 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LION deals with automatic solver configuration, parallel methods, intelligent ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities

    Edited by Noel Dyck, Eduardo P. Archetti ...
    Sport and dance command the passions and devotion of countless athletes, dancers and fans worldwide. Although conventionally thought to reside within separate social realms, these two embodied cultural forms are revealed in this benchmark volume to share a vital capacity to constitute and express identities through their practiced movements and scripted forms. Thus, the work of choreographers and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Multiple Information Source Bayesian Optimization

    by Antonio Candelieri, Andrea Ponti, Francesco Archetti, Antonio Sabatella ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book provides a comprehensive review of multiple information sources and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization, specifically focusing on the novel "Augmented Gaussian Process” methodology. The book is important to clarify the relations and the important differences in using multi-fidelity or multiple information source approaches for solving real-world problems. Choosing the most appropriate ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Childlessness in the Age of Communication

    Deconstructing Silence

    by Cristina Archetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable ... Read more

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  • Bayesian Optimization and Data Science

    by Francesco Archetti, Antonio Candelieri ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume brings together the main results in the field of Bayesian Optimization (BO), focusing on the last ten years and showing how, on the basic framework, new methods have been specialized to solve emerging problems from machine learning, artificial intelligence, and system optimization. It also analyzes the software resources available for BO and a few selected application areas. Some areas ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    by Eduardo P. Archetti, Ann S. Blum, Alejandra Bronfman, Arlene J. Díaz, Lessie Jo Frazier, William E. French, James N. Green, Cymene Howe, David S. Parker0, Pablo Piccato1, Lara E. Putnam2, Wendy A. Vogt3, Erica M. Windler4 ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Guinea Pigs

    Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador

    by Eduardo P. Archetti ...
    Series series Global Issues
    Guinea pigs have been reared and eaten by indigenous people in the Andes since ancient times, and it seemed rational to development planners to ‘modernize' their production. When these development projects ran into trouble, a team of anthropologists was invited to study the reasons for this lack of success. This intriguing book is the product of that study.What the author shows is that guinea pigs ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Masculinities

    Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina

    by Eduardo P. Archetti ...
    Series series Global Issues
    The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    Group method of data handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modelling has been developed to support complex systems in prediction, clusterization, system identification, as well as data mining and knowledge extraction technologies in social science, science, engineering, and medicine.This is the first ... Read more

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