It is now widely accepted that for a country to thrive in the knowledge economy, it must develop high-level skills and competencies (human capital), as well as its scientific research, innovation and technological development capacity. Higher education, and universities in particular, are regarded as key to delivering these knowledge capabilities for development, based on the…
Tis book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The dream was of the progressive utility of statistical knowledge, and was shared by many a nineteenth-century statistician. Their dream would be fulfilled in three phases. First, data about society would be gathered in every country, employing uniform methods…
Ia seorang gadis Belanda yang lahir di Nijkerk, sebuah kota kecil yang mirip desa besar. Sebetulnya, namanya Siebrigje. Akan tetapi, ia lebih suka dipanggil Siedjah. Nama itu diberikan oleh sahabat-sahabatnya di Hindia. Memang, sesungguhnya hidupnya baru dimulai pada tahun 1924. Di Hindia. Ketika itu, ia belum lagi berumur 20 tahun. Ia ingin mengembangkan sayap, ingin mencicipi kehidupan yang l…
ohn Cage’s 4'33" remains an echo, a repetition of the space of silence and all silence entails. Performed for the first time by pianist David Tudor in 1954 during a piano recital in Wood-stock, New York, it asks of the performer to sit at the piano, and to “perform” a piece of music. Tudor interpreted the instruc-tions Cage had written and sat at t…
The city’s eminent position in the New Kingdom affected the nature of itsdesert-edge necropolis. The latter’s prominence is underlined by the fact thatsome of the kingdom’s most influential priestly, administrative, military, andcourtofficialschosetoconstructtheirtombs11inthisculturallandscapewhich,atthetime,wasalreadyancient.Italsousedtobeaverylivelyplace,onewhereancient people worked, l…
Under a certain description, Immanuel Kant appears like an intellectual ancestor of today’s animal rights movement.1 Here we have a philosopher who insists that duty trumps self-interest. That we should treat others according to rational principles, not momentary appetites. That moral responsibility arises from the capacity to determine our own actions auton-omou…
In a presentation to the Lausanne Younger Leaders’ gathering in Indonesia during August 2016 on the state of the church, Jason Mandryk, of Operation World, asserted that bythe year 2020, 80% of the world’s Christians would come from what is known as the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America). In the year 1900, there were reportedly around 9 million Christians …
This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological perspectives. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, probabilistic forecas…