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How architecture became a medium In the modern world, architecture interacts with and within networks. Long before they began to communicate with digital devices, houses were permeated by technical systems, buildings were conceived as nodes of transportation infrastructures, and ever-larger complexes were overlaid with information systems. In this process, architecture itself was understood as a medium, organizing access, connection, and shielding.　 This volume presents current positions of architectural research grounded in media and cultural history. The focus is on the question of how architecture, as one medium amongst other media, contributes to the emergence of new spatialities that influence knowledge, subjectivity, and social behavior, as well as climate and environment.　 German media studies meets Anglo-American history of architecture　 A current view of architecture as a medium With contributions by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Christoph Asendorf, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Crinson, Moritz Gleich, Tom Holert, Christa Kamleithner, Reinhold Martin, Roland Meyer, Bernhard Siegert, and Meredith TenHoor

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This book presents a self-contained introduction to techniques from field theory applied to stochastic and collective dynamics in neuronal networks. These powerful analytical techniques, which are well established in other fields of physics, are the basis of current developments and offer solutions to pressing open problems in theoretical neuroscience and also machine learning. They enable a systematic and quantitative understanding of the dynamics in recurrent and stochastic neuronal networks. This book is intended for physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists and it is designed for self-study by researchers who want to enter the field or as the main text for a one semester course at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. The theoretical concepts presented in this book are systematically developed from the very beginning, which only requires basic knowledge of analysis and linear algebra.

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This textbook presents the most efficient analytical techniques in the local bifurcation theory of vector fields. It is centered on the theory of normal forms and its applications, including interaction with symmetries.The first part of the book reviews the center manifold reduction and introduces normal forms (with complete proofs). Basic bifurcations are studied together with bifurcations in the presence of symmetries. Special attention is given to examples with reversible vector fields, including the physical example given by the water waves. In this second edition, many problems with detailed solutions are added at the end of the first part (some systems being in infinite dimensions). The second part deals with the Couette-Taylor hydrodynamical stability problem, between concentric rotating cylinders. The spatial structure of various steady or unsteady solutions results directly from the analysis of the reduced system on a center manifold. In this part we also study bifurcations (simple here) from group orbits of solutions in an elementary way (avoiding heavy algebra). The third part analyzes bifurcations from time periodic solutions of autonomous vector fields. A normal form theory is developed, covering all cases, and emphasizing a partial Floquet reduction theory, which is applicable in infinite dimensions. Studies of period doubling as well as Arnold's resonance tongues are included in this part.

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Founded in the fifteenth century, planned and rebuilt by the French, and then modernised and expanded in the era after independence, the city of Phnom Penh displays a diverse mix of styles. Here, early religious and vernacular buildings, the glittering structures of the Royal Palace, and colonial buildings of the French Protectorate (1863–1953) coexist with the gems of the ‘New Khmer Architecture’ of the 1960s. After the destructive period under the Khmer Rouge, the city went through a rebirth. It has seen rapid modernisation and economic development in recent years, and its urban landscape is transforming at a breathtaking pace. This guide offers a comprehensive overview of Phnom Penh’s built heritage, highlighting its history and architectural layers. In addition to covering better-known masterpieces, it also takes readers through the city’s ‘everyday architecture’, revealing places off the beaten track. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and historical images, the book presents more than 140 works that illuminate the four major phases of development in the city’s ever-changing urban history. It thus makes an important contribution to current debates on heritage preservation in the booming metropolis. Interviews with local experts present their individual perspectives on the city and place the buildings in a broader context.

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An authoritative, up-to-date graduate textbook on machine learning that highlights its historical context and societal impactsPatterns, Predictions, and Actions introduces graduate students to the essentials of machine learning while offering invaluable perspective on its history and social implications. Beginning with the foundations of decision making, Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht explain how representation, optimization, and generalization are the constituents of supervised learning. They go on to provide self-contained discussions of causality, the practice of causal inference, sequential decision making, and reinforcement learning, equipping readers with the concepts and tools they need to assess the consequences that may arise from acting on statistical decisions. Provides a modern introduction to machine learning, showing how data patterns support predictions and consequential actions Pays special attention to societal impacts and fairness in decision making Traces the development of machine learning from its origins to today Features a novel chapter on machine learning benchmarks and datasets Invites readers from all backgrounds, requiring some experience with probability, calculus, and linear algebra An essential textbook for students and a guide for researchers

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Tras la muerte de Moritz Schlick, en su archivo se encontró un manuscrito inédito. Era el texto que había servido de base a sus clases de filosofía de la naturaleza del invierno de 1932-33. Éste es el valioso documento filosófico que presentamos en esta obra: un singular testimonio de la penetrante capacidad analítica y la pulcritud expositiva del fundador del Círculo de Viena.

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Der Einsatz der Europäischen Union auf dem Gebiet des privatrechtlichen Diskriminierungsschutzes hat in den letzten Jahren für viel Aufsehen gesorgt. Lassen sich Diskriminierungsverbote mit dem Grundsatz der Vertragsfreiheit vereinbaren oder ist der Unionsgesetzgeber zu weit gegangen? Moritz Zoppel nimmt die emotional geführte Diskussion zum Anlass um gesellschaftspolitische Diskriminierungsverbote im Privatrecht zu untersuchen. Die Arbeit gliedert sich dazu in vier Abschnitte.Zunächst überprüft der Autor die Verbote der rassistischen und sexistischen Diskriminierung auf ihre Systemverträglichkeit mit dem Grundsatz der Vertragsfreiheit. Nach einer Beleuchtung der kompetenzrechtlichen Dimension der - auf Art. 19 AEUV gestützten - Diskriminierungsverbote setzt er sich eingehend mit dem umstrittenen Problemkreis der Wirkung des Diskriminierungsverbots der Grundrechtecharta der Union auf das Privatrechtsverhältnis auseinander. Abschließend widmet sich Moritz Zoppel den unionsrechtlich gesollten Sanktionen bei verbotener Ungleichbehandlung. Er skizziert dazu die Voraussetzungen eines unionsrechtskonformen Sanktionsinstruments.

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Einleitung.- Governance durch Algorithmen im Fall von DAOs.- Algorithmische Governance und Digitale Organisation.- Die Autonomiefrage in der Digitalen Organisation.- Theoretischer Rahmen auf Grundlage der Strukturationstheorie.- Empirische Forschungsstrategie.- Die Praxis der Herrschaft.- Die Praxis der Legitimation.- Die Praxis der Signifikation.- Algorithmische Governance und Kollektive Autonomie als Spannungsverhältnis.- Kernbeiträge und Implikationen der Forschungsergebnisse.- Schlussbetrachtung.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Die US-amerikanische Praktische Theologie ist dem Anliegen verschrieben, Menschen in ihrer Selbständigkeit als Interpretinnen und Interpreten ihres Glaubens zu stärken. Insbesondere erforscht sie die bildsame Begegnung mit akademischer Theologie in Hochschulen und Kirchengemeinden - die Chiffre dafür lautet "Theological Education". In dieser Studie legt Moritz Emmelmann dar, unter welchen disziplingeschichtlichen Bedingungen Bildung in den 1980er Jahren zu einem zentralen Thema Praktischer Theologie in den USA avancierte. Vor diesem Hintergrund rekonstruiert er die methodologischen, enzyklopädischen, und bildungsbezogenen Konzeptionen Edward Farleys und Don S. Brownings. Es tritt ein Verständnis von Theological Education als intellektuelle, handlungsorientierende und personengerechte Bildung hervor, das der Religionspädagogik transatlantische Gesprächsmöglichkeiten eröffnet und Grund gibt zu neuem Elan bei der Arbeit an einer Hochschuldidaktik der Theologie.

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An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions’ instabilities can have devastating effects on societies and economies. COVID-19 brought similar financial devastation at the beginning of 2020 and once more massive interventions by central banks were needed to heed off the collapse of the financial system. All of which begs the question: why is our financial system so fragile and vulnerable that it needs government support so often? For a generation of economists who have risen to prominence since 2008, these events have defined not only how they view financial instability, but financial markets more broadly. Leveraged brings together these voices to take stock of what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility and to offer a new canonical framework for understanding it. Their message: the origins of financial instability in modern economies run deeper than the technical debates around banking regulation, countercyclical capital buffers, or living wills for financial institutions. Leveraged offers a fundamentally new picture of how financial institutions and societies coexist, for better or worse. The essays here mark a new starting point for research in financial economics. As we muddle through the effects of a second financial crisis in this young century, Leveraged provides a road map and a research agenda for the future.

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Unflinchingly honest about his family, his failures, his already broken health at the age of sixty?three and the loss of the hopes he once had for himself, Thomsen is also sickened by the corruption and rapacity of our societies, the inequality and the economic destitution. What starts as an almost reluctant concatenation of memory and poignant, limpid descriptions of Brazil, grows into a shattering romantic symphony on human misery and life s small but exquisite transcendent pleasures. He spares the reader nothing.

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