Gender and Social Justice: A Conversation with Dr. CJ Pascoe

A Conversation with Dr . Edward

Ample evidence shows that KDD has become a major topic of interest in both research and industry in China since 2006. In academia, professor Zhi-Hua Zhou at Nanjing University in 2006 chaired a National Machine Learning workshop, inviting researchers in the greater China area to share their experience. In 2009, the first Asian Conference on Machine learning was inaugurated in Nanjing. In indust...

Gender representation and social justice: Ideology, methodology and smoke-screens

A number of researchers have provided an overview of the progress of research focusing on gender and educational leadership/management in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Bjork, 2000; Blackmore, 2006; Shakeshaft, 1993, 1999; Tallerico & Blount, 2004; Zheng, 1999). Shakeshaft (1999 p. 522) casts descriptive studies of representation generally ‘documenting the absence of women’ as an ear...

The Placebo Effect: A Conversation With Dr Irving Kirsch

Social Interaction: Multimodal Conversation with Social Agents

including robotics, artificial life, and artificial ecosystems. We present a new approach to human-computer interaction, called so&Z interaction. Its main characteristics are summarized by the following three points. First, interactions are realized as multimodal (verbal and nonverbal) conversation using spoken language, facial expressions, and so on. Second, the conversants are a group of huma...

12th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference: Breastfeeding as Social Justice: From Crucial Conversation to Inspired Action.

Public health efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding are based on the central argument that breastfeeding is the healthiest way of feeding and nurturing infants. Although supported by abundant scientific research, this core message has offered an insufficient framework for successful breastfeeding advocacy, practice and policy. If we are to increase breastfeeding rates around the...