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The concept of "other" is one of the fundamental concepts of philosophy, especially in the twentieth century and in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Levinas, which carriesepistemological and ontological importance. It was also introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in the field of literature and literary theory. From another perspective, Naser Khosrow developed and introduced such a...

the social realism is a significant literary school. one may notice this school in various forms and works in the world literature. its source and origin can be traced in the marxism philosophy which has influenced the eastern european peoples. many works, such as the novels, poems, and plays have been formed on the basis of this school in russia and the third world countries. najib mahfuz is o...

The present paper considers the activity of tele-care within the broad framework of the information age, of how modern society is organised and of the structuring role of the health sector. The importance of key concepts such as social structures, human agency and the instance of being-in-the-world, are highlighted and explored. The inputs of computer ethics, critical realism and philosophy of ...

In this paper, a pixel-based method for personal anonymisation in visual surveillance applications, is presented. The proposed method tries to tackle the problem of balancing the intelligibility with privacy, by including some form of contextual information in the anonymisation process. Objective and subjective evaluations show promising results in intelligibility and appropriateness, but they ...

Modern social media platforms facilitate the rapid spread of information online. Modelling phenomena such as social contagion and information diffusion are contingent upon a detailed understanding of the information-sharing processes. In Twitter, an important aspect of this occurs with retweets, where users rebroadcast the tweets of other users. To improve our understanding of how these distrib...

This paper presents initial findings from on-going research on the development of assessments that measure how students are prepared for future learning in fast changing environments. Issues of assessment are extremely important for measuring the quality of learning and teaching. Typical assessments tend to tell us what students have learned in the past but not necessarily how prepared they are...