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Many international journals have proliferated over the last 20 years regarding very specific themes of research [...]

İnternet içerikleri üzerindeki yaptırım yetkisi, internetin ülke sınırlarının aşan yapısı nedeniyle ciddi bir yetki karmaşasını beraberinde getirmektedir. Çalışmada, Türkiye’nin internette yer alan birçok içerik konusunda erişim engeli kararı vererek hem ülke saygınlığına zarar vermek hem de vatandaşlarının ifade ve iletişim özgürlüğünü kısıtlamak zorunda kaldığından bahsedilmektedir. Örneğin Türkiye’nin YouTube ve Twitter ile yaşadığı sorunların temelinde, Türk yargısı tarafından suç teşkil ettiği belirlenen içeriklerin kaldırılamaması yatmaktadır. Bu içeriklerin URL bazlı engellenememesi ve kaldırılamaması sonucunda Türkiye ifade özgürlüğü ihlaline neden olan kararlar vermek zorunda kalmıştır. Wikipedia’da yer alan ve Türkiye’nin terör örgütlerine destek olduğunu vurgulayan içerikler ise kişisel görüşlerden ibaret ve her nedense editlenemeyen ve silinemeyen içerikler olarak durmaktadır. Bu içerikler nedeniyle Wikipedia’ya erişim halen engellidir ve Türkiye yine iletişim ve ifade özgürlüğü haklarını ihlal eden ülke konumundadır. Ancak her nedense, Türkiye’nin bu ihlalleri yapmak zorunda kalmasının sebepleri yeterince tartışılmamıştır. Görülmektedir ki Türkiye’de bu konuda kendisini uluslararası arenada yeterince savunmamaktadır.

The Encyclopedia of Ocean Law and Policy in Asia-Pacific provides a detailed snapshot of the contemporary and historic ocean law and policy of numerous states across the region, from the perspective of regional authors and utilizing a consistent subject outline to promote comparative research.

High-level information fusion is the ability of a fusion system to capture awareness and complex relations, reason over past and future events, utilize direct sensing exploitations and tacit reports, and discern the usefulness and intention of results to meet system-level goals. This authoritative book serves a practical reference for developers, designers, and users of data fusion services that must relate the most recent theory to real-world applications. This unique volume provides alternative methods to represent and model various situations and describes design component implementations of fusion systems. Designers find expert guidance in applying current theories, selecting algorithms and software components, and measuring expected performance of high-level fusion systems.

In the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews around the world. Their goal was to publish a popular and comprehensive Yiddish language encyclopedia of general knowledge that would serve as a bridge to the modern world and as a guide to help its readers navigate their way within it. However, soon after the Algemeyne entsiklopedye (General Encyclopedia) was announced, Hitler's rise to power forced its editors to flee to Paris. The scope and mission of the project repeatedly changed before its final volumes were published in New York City in 1966. The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish untangles the complicated saga of the Algemeyne entsiklopedye and its editors. The editors continued to publish volumes and revise the encyclopedia's mission while their primary audience, Eastern European Jews, faced persecution and genocide under Nazi rule, and the challenge of reestablishing themselves in the first decades after World War II. Historian Barry Trachtenberg reveals how, over the course of the middle decades of the twentieth century, the project sparked tremendous controversy in Jewish cultural and political circles, which debated what the purpose of a Yiddish encyclopedia should be, as well as what knowledge and perspectives it should contain. Nevertheless, this is not only a story about destruction and trauma, but also one of tenacity and continuity, as the encyclopedia's compilers strove to preserve the heritage of Yiddish culture, to document its near-total extermination in the Holocaust, and to chart its path into the future.

What are the origins of agriculture? In what ways have technological advances related to food affected human development? How have food and foodways been used to create identity, communicate meaning, and organize society? In this highly readable, illustrated volume, archaeologists and other scholars from across the globe explore these questions and more. The Archaeology of Food offers more than 250 entries spanning geographic and temporal contexts and features recent discoveries alongside the results of decades of research. The contributors provide overviews of current knowledge and theoretical perspectives, raise key questions, and delve into myriad scientific, archaeological, and material analyses to add depth to our understanding of food. The encyclopedia serves as a reference for scholars and students in archaeology, food studies, and related disciplines, as well as fascinating reading for culinary historians, food writers, and food and archaeology enthusiasts.

This comprehensive reference volume offers in-depth information on one of the world's most fascinating and misunderstood cultures.Throughout history, Gypsies all over the world have been maligned and rejected.Outcasts of the countries in which they live, these nomads have wandered for years over the face of the earth.

The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: • A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats • 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings • 150 figures and photos • Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries • Back matter consisting of a comprehensive Annotated Bibliography and an appendix utilizing material from African Reflections on the American Landscape, a publication produced by the National Park Service • Signed articles concluding with cross-references