Noted: Media representations of global cities

The Global Media and Information Literacy Week: Moving Towards MIL Cities

Global / globalizing cities.

Along with the rise in research on globalization, the concept of globalization has become a subject to a more critical scrutiny. While majority agree that it represents a serious challenge to the state-centrist assumptions of most previous social science, doubts about its newness, inevitability and epoch-making qualities are also being raised. Others argue that the globalization literature neg...

Briefly Noted

With the explosion in the quantity of online information in recent years, automatic abstracting and indexing has received renewed interest and a number of promising approaches have emerged. The goal of this book is to present a complete description of current indexing and abstracting techniques in the context of the underlying linguistic and statistical knowledge. The book has three parts: the ...

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

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Typological discourse analysis is the study of those factors that affect the choice of constructions in a language, taking the surrounding discourse context into account. Typically, texts from a large number of languages are analyzed quantitatively in order to discover statistical regularities between functional parameters affecting the choice of alternations. Examples of alternations are activ...