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In western society it is taken for granted that tourism is a necessary element of contemporary lifestyle, but while many people recognize its importance, they are usually more concerned with its contribution to the economy than with its social, cultural, and political significance. As a social action, tourism is at least partly based on the appeal of distance in time, space, and culture, which offers people the opportunity to question conditions they take for granted, and, by distancing themselves from everyday life, to re-examine the meaning of their lives. Within a traditional society, however, the action of distancing from normality is usually negatively sanctioned. By contrast, under modernity people mostly have the necessary resources to transcend the everyday world through experiences which are at a distance from their daily lives. Tourism thus has much to do with the conditions and consequences of modernity and is, in short, an indicator of the ambivalence of modernity. It is from this perspective that this book attempts to broaden the established line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 contextualizes tourism in terms of the relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. Part 2 then deals with the relationship between modernity and the motivations and experiences of tourists. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards leisure and pleasure travel.

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"A must-read for engineers and solution architects who work with streams on a regular basis." - Damian Esteban Every action by a user or a system process generates valuable data for your application or organization. Streaming systems capture and process these events, turning disconnected bits into coherent, useful information sources. Grokking Streaming Systems is a simple guide to the complex concepts you need to start building your own streaming systems. In this friendly, framework-agnostic tutorial, you'll learn how to handle real-time events and how to design and implement a system that's a perfect fit for your needs. Each new idea is carefully explained with diagrams, clear examples, and fun dialogue between perplexed personalities! about the technologyMany modern organizations rely on real-time event data to ensure top performance. In its raw state, most event data is unfiltered and hard to analyze. Streaming systems address this problem by processing event data so it can be used to create alerts, analysis dashboards, and automated responses, and to trigger other actions within a system. From live financial information to monitoring for signs of a DDoS attack and blocking rogue agents, streaming systems provide a big boost to the health, security, and flexibility of your applications. about the bookGrokking Streaming Systems helps you unravel what streaming systems are, how they work, and whether they're right for your business. Written to be tool-agnostic, you'll be able to apply what you learn no matter which framework you choose. You'll start with the key concepts and then work your way through increasingly complex examples, including tracking a real-time count of IoT sensor events and detecting fraudulent credit card transactions in real-time. You'll even be able to easily experiment with your own streaming system, by downloading the custom-built and super-simplified streaming framework designed for this book. By the time you're done, you'll be able to easily assess the capabilities of streaming frameworks, and solve common challenges that arise when building streaming systems. what's inside- Implement and troubleshoot streaming systems- Design streaming systems for complex functionalities- Assess parallelization requirements- Spot networking bottlenecks and resolve back pressures- Group data for high-performance systems- Handle delayed events in real-time systems about the readerFor readers interested in data processing. Examples in Java. about the authorJosh Fischer and Ning Wang are both Apache Committers, and part of the project management committee for the Apache Heron distributed stream processing engine. Josh is a software engineer at Scotcro and has worked with moving large datasets in real time for organizations such as 1904labs and Bayer. Ning is a software engineer at Amplitude building real-time data pipelines. He was a key contributor of Apache Heron in Twitter's Real-time Compute team.

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This volume constitutes poster papers and late breaking results presented during the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2023, Tokyo, Japan, July 3–7, 2023.The 65 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 311 submissions. This set of posters was complemented with the other poster contributions submitted for the Poster and Late Breaking results track of the AIED 2023 conference.

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