This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M....

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersec...

This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest cultures, new Russian fiction, Polish memory of Jewish heritage, ethnic nationalisms, revival...

Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on her work and a new approach to Munro’s art of short story writing. It offers literary interpretation of the genre, critical perspectives on film and stage adaptations of her work, comparative analysis to the writings of Mavis Gallant and Eudora Welty, exclusive reminiscences of encounters with Alice Munro by Canad...

This conference volume constitutes the proceedings of the 29thInternational Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2026, heldin Brno, Czech Republic, during September 1–4, 2026.The 54 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 111 submissions. The papers focus on Large Language Models, Speech Recognition, Speech Disorder Analysis, Retrieval AugmentedGeneration, or Response Quality Assessment.

The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: TextPart II: Speech, Dialogue

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2022, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2022.The 43 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The topical sections "Text", "Speech", and "Dialogue" deal with the following issues: speech recognition; corpora and language resources; speech and spoken language generation; tagging, classification and parsing of text and ...

The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015.With contributions from leading academics in the field this book critically examines the design, entitlement, delivery and impact of current welfare provision. The first half of the book...

This illustrated book describes in laser-sharp detail battle-tested techniques for influencing others’ perceptions of you.It gives you control over your own conscious and subconscious communications and the capacity to take affirmative action towards creating a purposeful first impression.Imagine you have one small five-minute window to create a solid emotional ecosystem from which every subsequent interaction you have with a person will build. This eco...

In Potpourri, you’ll find a thoughtful collection of poems and short essays that take you on a journey from the personal to the divine of a woman who is seeking truth and her place through the circumstances of life. Thought-provoking and funny, her point of view on a variety of areas of life may bring you to a new appreciation, new thoughts, and a new outlook on life. A wide-ranging contemplation of a surprising variety of topics include a look at law enforcement from the viewpoint of a wi...

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. This volume, the fourth in the Heliophysics collection, explores what makes the conditions on Earth 'just right' to sustain life, by comparing Earth to other solar system planets, by comparing solar magnetic activity to that of other stars, and by looking at the properties of evolving exoplanet systems. By taking ...

The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: TextPart II: Speech, Dialogue