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Inquisitive Logic
(2022)
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown ...
Chapter 6 Reconfiguring the Viewer
(2024)
Cultural organizations are increasingly turning to immersive technologies such as Extended Reality to create more embodied and interactive experiences of remote cultural objects. Yet, museum computing’s overriding focus ...
Chapter 1 Presence, Museums, and Immersive Technologies
(2024)
Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of ‘presence’, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a ...
Representation in Cognitive Science
(2018)
"Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental ...
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
(2018)
geospatial analytics; social observatory; big earth data; open data; citizen science; open innovation; earth system science; crowdsourced geospatial data; citizen science; science in society; data science
Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas
(2017)
This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script
and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate
societies. Over the last 30 years, the ...
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
(2017)
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
(2017)
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the ...
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
(2018)
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national ...
Chapter Bottom-Up Fabrication of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons
(2018)
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) make up an extremely interesting class of
materials. On the one hand GNRs share many of the superlative properties of
graphene, while on the other hand they display an exceptional degree of ...
Chapter 3 Optoelectronics and Bio Devices on Paper Powered by Solar Cells
(2017)
The employment of printing techniques as cost-effective methods to fabricate low cost,
flexible, disposable and sustainable solar cells is intimately dependent on the substrate
properties and the adequate electronic ...
Chapter 5 Mercury Tonics (Rasāyana) in Sanskrit Medical Literature
(2016)
This chapter will provide a brief survey of the uses of mercury preparations
in rasāyana therapy, discussing their position within rejuvenation
therapy in regard to other rasāyana formulations and exploring their link
with ...
On-Surface Synthesis II
(2018)
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision. Molecular building blocks holding adequate functional groups are dosed onto surfaces that ...
Magnifying perspectives
(2017)
Magnifying Perspectives is a festschrift for Robert Ross, Emeritus Professor of African History at Leiden University. The contributions have been written by the students and colleagues of Robert Ross, reflecting his ...
Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
(2021)
This book showcases a multidisciplinary set of work on the impact of regulatory innovation on the scale and nature of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. We consider the international tax environment an ...
The Political Carousel
(2019)
"This research project examines how various political events and factors influence the composition of senior government elites in a range of African states. Using a newly created dataset of African cabinet ministers, this ...
Essays on Political Elites and Violence in Changing Political Orders of Middle East and Africa
(2020)
"This research project addresses the question of how political elites’ behaviour varies when competition among them is heightened. Focusing on changing political orders across Africa and the Middle East, it seeks to ...
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
(2020)
This volume stems from a conference organised in November 2018 at the
University of Bucharest in the frame of the European Research Council
project CASTELLANY ACCOUNTS, “Record-keeping, fiscal reform, and
the rise of ...
Chapter Violence and Politics in Zimbabwe from 2008-2018
(2020)
"Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF party has been locked in an internal battle of political survival which intensified as the country democratized. Political violence has become a common feature in these internal struggles and underscores ...