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rtificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, innovate teaching and learning practices, and ultimately accelerate the progress towards SDG 4. However, these rapid technological developments inevitably bring multiple risks and challenges, which have so far outpaced policy debates and regulatory frameworks. This publication offers gui…
Before human beings learned to plant, they gathered wild foods. The seeds of various wild grasses, the ancestors of modern grains, were rich in nutrients and valued by prehistoric peoples as important foods. These seeds, unlike modern grains, had husks that clung tightly to them. People learned that by toasting the seeds, probably on hot rocks, they could loosen the husks and then remove them b…
One of the most distinctive and recognizable features of Persian po-etics, the refrain (radīf), entered literary history by way of a contrast with Arabic poetic norms. Defined as a word, syllable, or set of syl-lables that recurs at the conclusion of each poetic distich (couplet), radīf can be provisionally translated as “refrain.” As a slightly more technical definition has it, the radī…
Cultural concepts and ecologies are vitally inseparable, mutually constitutive and made living through each other. Pacific philosophies understand oceans, lands and skies as agentive, malleable living forms participating in, constitutive of and responsive to cosmological and kinship-based relations capable of encompassing the perspectives of fish and the rel…
Covering Turbo Pascal Version 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0... Structured Programming in Turbo Pascal presents scores of easy-to-follow methods for designing, debugging, and testing well-structured programs. A disk with more than 50 sample programs from the book makes Horn's guide a self-contained programming package. Features include: * An emphasis on problem-solving -- all case studies are analyzed us…
The ninja were the secret agents and assassins of feudal Japan and they remain a subject of enduring fascination. They first arose during the power struggles of 9th and 10th century Japan - where they catered for an increasing demand for spies, informants and assassins - and were used until the mid-1600s when, due to a campaign to destroy them, disappeared.
I shall never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni. I had learned of the existence of this cromlech only on my arrival at Champigni in the afternoon, and I had started to visit the curiosity without calculating the time it would take me to reach it and to return.…