Theory of dynamic critical phenomena
An introductory review of the central ideas in the modern theory of dynamic critical phenomena is followed by a more detailed account of recent developments in the field. The co...
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HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES:
In spite of feminist recognition that hierarchical organizations are an important location of male dominance, most feminists writing about organizations assume that organization...
Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors
When a large feedforward neural network is trained on a small training set, it typically performs poorly on held-out test data. This "overfitting" is greatly reduced by randomly...
Designing Social Inquiry
While heated arguments between practitioners of qualitative and quantitative research have begun to test the very integrity of the social sciences, Gary King, Robert Keohane, an...
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture.
The sociology of culture seeks to locate the world of the arts within the broader context of the institutions and ideology of society. This wide-ranging set covers the sociology...
Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis
Kernel methods provide a powerful and unified framework for pattern discovery, motivating algorithms that can act on general types of data (e.g. strings, vectors or text) and lo...
Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stabilization, Vectorization, Physicochemical Characterizations, and Biological Applications
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVReviewADDITION / CORRECTIONThis article has been corrected. View the notice.Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stabilization, Vectori...
Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research
Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Ac...
Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability
Dr. Chandrasekhar's book received high praise when it first appeared in 1961 as part of Oxford University Press' International Series of Monographs on Physics. Since then it has...
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expr...
Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific li...