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RUSSIAN WARSHIP, GO F*CK YOURSELF: Circulating social media discourses in the RussiaUkraine War
(Dispossession Anthropological Perspectives on Russias War Against Ukraine, 2023-01-01) Bridget Goodman
The purpose of this chapter is to present and reflect on discursive themes about Ukraine and Russia using data from an archive of posts on social media in English, Russian, and Ukrainian collected since 24 February 2022. The social media posts fall into four main themes: (1) Ukrainian leadership as heroic and Russian leadership as villainous; (2) military and everyday Ukrainian civilians alike as heroic; (3) dispossession of life, health, and basic services; and (4) current and imagined repossession of land and liberty. The data show that in social media, positive images of Ukraine and Ukrainians are enhanced, and Ukrainians are more willing than ever before to forsake basic needs on the road to freedom. The data also show that, while social media affords identification with Ukraine that transcends borders, social media is a space where the need for clear boundaries between Ukraine and Russia is asserted.
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Long-Tail Theory Under Gaussian Mixtures
(Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2023-09-28) Zhenisbek Assylbekov; Vassilina Nikoulina; Artur Pak; Igor Melnykov; Maxat Tezekbayev; Arman Bolatov
We suggest a simple Gaussian mixture model for data generation that complies with Feldman’s long tail theory (2020). We demonstrate that a linear classifier cannot decrease the generalization error below a certain level in the proposed model, whereas a nonlinear classifier with a memorization capacity can. This confirms that for long-tailed distributions, rare training examples must be considered for optimal generalization to new data. Finally, we show that the performance gap between linear and nonlinear models can be lessened as the tail becomes shorter in the subpopulation frequency distribution, as confirmed by experiments on synthetic and real data.
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West and Central Asia
(Literature A World History, 2022-06-10) Uli Schamiloglu; Timur Kocaoglu; Talat Sait Halman; Bo Utas; Mohsen Ashtiany; Kamal Abdel-Malek; As ad E. Khairallah
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Shadow education in the Middle East: Private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications
(Shadow Education in the Middle East Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Policy Implications, 2022-08-29) Anas Hajar; Mark Bray
This volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching implications for social structures and mainstream education. Around the world, increasing numbers of children receive private tutoring to supplement their schooling. In much of the academic literature this is called shadow education because the content of tutoring commonly mimics that of schooling: as the curriculum changes in the schools, so it changes in the shadow. While much research and policy attention has focused on private tutoring in East Asia and some other world regions, less attention has been given to the topic in the Middle East. Drawing on both Arabic-language and English-language literature, this study commences with the global picture before comparing patterns within and among 12 Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East. It presents the educational and cultural commonalities amongst these countries, examines the drivers of demand and supply of shadow education, and considers the dynamics of tutoring and how it impacts on education in schools. In addition to its pertinence within the Middle East itself, the book will be of considerable interest to academics and education policy makers broadly concerned with changing roles of the state and private sectors in education. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Introduction to the research handbook on disability and entrepreneurship
(Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship, 2022-10-25) Thomas J. Coogan; Shandana Sheikh; Wilson Ng; Shumaila Yousafzai
This is a collection of international studies to further explore, re-think, and recognize the value created by disabled entrepreneurs beyond economic, cultural, and geographical contexts. This volume co-creates useful knowledge and expertise of a range of disabled entrepreneurs and their ventures that can feed joint learning, innovative practices and evidence-based policy-making for all types of entrepreneurs to build and grow successful ventures and gender-inclusive growth in any context, worldwide. In particular, we highlight the importance of disabled women entrepreneurs as agents of change for society and the economy. We suggest how in certain developing economies, negative social views of venture creation by women and disabled people dominate. These social views can be value-destructive. Accordingly, a principal goal of the focus in this volume on disability and women entrepreneurs is to generate better understanding of the significant contributions of disabled entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of the nature of their ventures and of their social, political, and economic status.