Open Design and Innovation Facilitating Creativity in Everyone

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Free Download Open Design and : Facilitating Creativity in Everyone By Leon Cruickshank
2014 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 1409448541 | | 1 MB
Open innovation, crowd sourcing, democratised innovation, vernacular design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design and innovation that have generated discussion and media coverage in recent years. In , these are often inspiring propositions rather than providing pragmatic strategies. Open Design and Innovation develops the argument for a more nuanced acknowledgement and facilitation of 'non-professional' forms of creativity; drawing on lessons from commercial design practice; analysis and a wider understanding of innovation. Specifically this book examines: innovation and design, the reality and of mass creativity and the future of the design profession, through a series of case studies of new approaches to open design practices. The text draws on academic research, experience of the author in delivering open design projects and first hand interviews with leaders in the fields. The author the notion of the designer as 'fountain-head' of innovation and, equally, the idea of 'user creativity' as a replacement for traditional design and innovation. The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers. It goes on to propose a roadmap for the of the design profession, welcoming and facilitating new modes of design activity where designers facilitate collaborations.
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Online Hate Speech

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Free Download Hate Speech: Analysis, Detection, and Mitigation
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031865944 | 240 Pages | (True) | 12 MB
This book informs readers on how to understand, detect, and mitigate hate speech in online social media. The authors first cover the definition of hate speech and how its prevalence can be measured on online social media platforms using text and graph-based . The book then describes the process of detecting hate speech and presents a account of the AI that are currently being used. Further, the authors discuss the associated that must be overcome while using these models. The book concludes with an overview of the mitigation techniques for hate speech, including blocking or suspension of the accounts (hard technique) and counterspeech (soft technique), and a discussion of the effects of these techniques on social media platforms.
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One Level Down

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Free Download One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson
English | April 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1616964308 | True | 196 pages | 1 MB
Trapped in a child's body, a resourceful woman risks by deletion from a simulated world. With her debut novella for adults, Mary G. Thompson (Wuftoom) has crafted a taut, ultimately hopeful story that deftly explores and autonomy.
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On Great White Wings The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight

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Free Download Fred E. C. Culick, Spencer Dunmore - On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the for Flight
McArthur & Company | 2001 | ISBN: 155278214X | English | 182 pages | | 115.93 MB
On the eve of the hundredth anniversary of the historic events at Kitty Hawk comes a splendidly illustrated account of the legendary twelve-second flight that changed the world forever. On 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright took to the air for less than a minute, accomplishing what mankind had only dreamed of for centuries. Now, almost one hundred years later, this account offers a unique look at the Wright Brothers' achievement, and at the many experiments that led up to their momentous ride. Revealing the brothers' youthful interest in technology and flight, the authors recount the trials and errors of other would-be aviators, and explain how the race to be the first man aloft became an international obsession. Readers will learn how The Flyer - the Wright Brothers' original plane - was built, and how its indefatigable inventors solved the that stumped their predecessors. And finally there is the historic flight itself - what went wrong and what, amazingly, went right - and the enormous impact the Wright Brothers had on their own and future generations. Written in engaging, accessible prose and, featuring more than 200 photographs and illustrations, On Great White Wings will delight anyone interested in the of flight and in the fantastic story behind the twentieth century's most important achievement.
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Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment

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Free Download Offender Reentry and Intervention : Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome By Ken Balusek
| 161 Pages | ISBN: 1593327234 | | 1 MB
The mass incarceration policies of recent decades have created the corresponding realization that the vast majority of these individuals will someday be released back into society. Failure to properly prepare these individuals for their return to society will result in a large number of these individuals returning to prison. This research uses propensity score matching to create comparison groups in order to evaluate a cognitive intervention program designed to reduce recidivism. Survival analysis reveals that offenders who completed the program were less likely to recidivate and their survival time was longer when compared to offenders who did not complete the program.
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Observations and Dynamics of Circulations in the North Indian Ocean

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Free Download Julian P. McCreary, "Observations and of Circulations in the North Ocean "
English | ISBN: 9811958637 | | 536 pages | | 98 MB
The book is the first to on the physical oceanography of the North Indian Ocean (NIO), a special region of the ocean that exhibits a distinct seasonality due to the impact of the South Asian Monsoon (SAM). It is written as a textbook about the NIO for graduate students, lecturers, and researchers in physical oceanography. It will also be useful for courses on the interior, coastal, and equatorial dynamics in any other ocean. It helps readers, particularly new entrants to the field, to gain a understanding of tropical-ocean dynamics by: from first principles the equation set for the linear continuously stratified (LCS) , which has long been used to study tropical oceans; and then obtaining solutions that explore different of the dynamics.
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Nurses Take Back Health Care One Employer at a Time

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Free Download Jeanne Moore, "Nurses Take Back Health Care One Employer at a Time"
English | | ISBN: 1733196110 | | pages: 210 | 1.6 mb
Health care has changed dramatically since my days of wearing whites. For the past twenty years, the quality of care in the United States has steadily declined, while the costs have astronomically risen. Health care is, in fact, making us sick, and those paying the lion's share for the highly dysfunctional system are American employees.
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Not So Strange Bedfellows The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century

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Free Download Not So Strange Bedfellows : The Nexus of and in the Century By Jim Jose; Rob Imre
| 225 Pages | ISBN: 1443865842 | | 1 MB
At the intersection of politics and religion is a nexus of belief in doctrine and adherence to socio- conventions. Lines of communication and of belonging permeate both spheres, enabling their respective participants, especially the (often self-described) 'true believers', to bond and belong, and most importantly to adhere to their various belief systems. Traditionally, this nexus has been approached from a standpoint that posits the idea of secularity as the governing principle. The authors in this volume challenge this orthodoxy. They examine a diverse range of historical and geographic locations involving markedly different religious and political movements. They explore how nation-states develop political religions, how they actively promote a politics infused with religiosity, and how they transfer symbols and meanings from one socio-political construct to another. Despite markedly different differences, the contributors repudiate the currently dominant orthodoxies on the relationship between religion and politics. They demonstrate that 'secular' democracy is not radically separate from religion. Nation-states actively participate in the of this nexus even as they extol their commitment to secular values. In so doing, they demonstrate that secularity as it is currently understood remains deeply implicated in the nexus between religion and politics in the twenty-first century.
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