HISTORY OF READING, HYPERTEXT AND THE DIGITAL UTOPIA

History of reading, hypertext and the digital utopia

Backpack Vacuum Cleaner The utopian perception of electronic hypertext as a technology capable of revolutionizing reading habits and empowering the reader can only prosper if the nature of technology is taken for granted as a merely instrumental structure and not as a structuring force capable of producing a new cultural economy of values.This pape

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Crop Species Diversity Changes in the United States: 1978-2012.

Anecdotal accounts regarding reduced US cropping system diversity have raised concerns about negative impacts of increasingly homogeneous cropping systems.However, formal analyses to document such changes are lacking.Using US Agriculture Census data, which are collected nipple-clamps every five years, we quantified crop species diversity from 1978

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Nonfrontal and Asymmetrical Facial Expression Recognition Through Half-Face Frontalization and Pyramid Fourier Frequency Conversion

Expression recognition in the wild is easily distorted by nonfrontal and asymmetry faces.In nonfrontal faces, some areas are compressed and distorted.Even after frontalization, these compressed areas may still be blurred and distort expression recognition.Additionally, asymmetrical expressions are common on half or local face areas and produce inco

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