Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it not simply dismissed as heresy atheism. In nineteenth century, evolved into a central progressive politics, reappearing again in past decades through renewed Marxist Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, feminist discourses. This volume inqui...

This paper proposes two first-order all-pass filters using DDCCs as active elements, one resistor and one capacitor. Both proposed filters have two DDCCs, one grounded resistor and one grounded capacitor. Thus the two topologies are having minimum number of components and there is no need for matching constraints on passive components. The performance of the proposed circuits is examined using ...

Outdoor education has traditionally dealt with sources of knowledge that originate within the experience itself. This situated source exists in tension with more traditional modes of institutionalized learning which emphasize knowledge as an objectified curriculum content. Two types of knowing emerge: one reflected in a more practical knowing how, the other in a more theoretical knowing that. T...

We describe a discourse annotation scheme for Chinese and report on the preliminary results. Our scheme, inspired by the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB), adopts the lexically grounded approach; at the same time, it makes adaptations based on the linguistic and statistical characteristics of Chinese text. Annotation results show that these adaptations work well in practice. Our scheme, taken toge...

In this paper we present a system that uses its underlying physiology, a hierarchical memory and a collection of memory management algorithms to learn concepts as cases and to build higher level concepts from experiences represented as sequences of atoms. Using a memory structure that requires all base memories to be grounded in introspective atoms, the system builds a set of grounded concepts ...