“Gender inequality holds back the growth of individuals, the development of countries and the evolution of societies, to the disadvantage of both men and women,” noted the State of World Population Report 2000. The report makes an excellent case for placing gender inequality under the spotlight so that it can be seen as one of the most urgent matters that severely affects issues of both human r...

Gabriel Pablo Nava1,3,∗, Yosuke Yasuda, Yoichi Sato and Shinichi Sakamoto 1Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Komaba 4–6–1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153–8505, JAPAN. 2Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5–1–5, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277–8563, JAPAN. 3NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Co. Hikaridai 2–4, Seika-cho, Keihana Science City, Kyoto, ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my sincere appreciation to my thesis advisor, Professor Magnus Egerstedt, for his guidance, patience, and support. I am also specially grateful to Professor Edward W. Kamen for his support and encouragement early on in my PhD studies, as my first advisor. I also wish to thank Professors Erik I. Verriest and Yorai Wardi for serving on my reading committee, and ...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. The most adjective metaphor studies have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier’s and head noun’s modalities. Sakamoto & Utsumi (2009) showed that adjective metaphor...

The next two chapters are about social history. The basic argument is that if Darwin was right about natural history (and he was) then Marx was right about social history. They both use the same explanatory framework. Each theory is an analogue of the other. Chapter 10 is about how we can use an evolutionary framework to understand social and cultural changes. And chapter 11 is about the implic...

Living in a world where the machine and the internet are ubiquitous, many people work and play online, in a world that is, ironically, often isolated and lonesome. While the internet, as intended, connects us to information, products and services, it often draws us away from the rich connections that are created through interpersonal communication. The goal of this work is to use the machine to...

Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt Northeastern University I. Legal Distinctions II. Hate Crimes and Prejudice III. Why Treat Hate Crimes Differently? IV. Problems in Collecting Hate Crime Data V. Types of Hate Crimes VI. Organized Hate Groups VII. Are Hate Crimes on the Rise? VIII. Responses to Hate crimes IX. Conclusion GLOSSARY Defensive Hate Crimes Hate offenses aimed against particular “outsider...

The Library of Babel, described by Jorge Luis Borges, stores an enormous amount of information. The Library exists ab aeterno. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, becomes a modern analogue of such a Library. Information retrieval and ranking of Wikipedia articles become the challenge of modern society. While PageRank highlights very well known nodes with many ingoing links, CheiRank highlig...

Agile estimation approaches usually start by sizing the user stories to be developed by comparing them among themselves. Different techniques, with varying degrees of formality are used to conduct the comparisons – plain contrasts, triangulation, planning poker and voting. This article proposes the use of a modified paired comparison method in which a reduced number of comparisons is selected a...

In an insightful essay on the representation of racial and religious difference in early modern English drama, Ania Loomba has pointed out the crucial significance of gender in this respect. More often than not, she observes, ‘a fair maid of an alien faith and ethnicity [is] romanced by a European, married to him, and converted to Christianity. Her story, unlike those of converted men, does not...