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An Anthropological Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Transformations in Civic and Domestic Life, Labor, and Higher Education Through the Cybernetic Organism (Cyborg) Concept
This essay uses cyborg anthropology to model interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (ai) and highlights potential strengths and weaknesses of airegarding learning and innovation. Informed by Haraway’s emphases on inequalities, we recognize aiis neither a separate nor superior form of intelligence, but a tool that augments human agency. Current examples of aiimplementation in the civic, domestic, labor, and educational domains expose the potential of aifor biases and oppression as a human construct that reflects and affects the sociocultural and ethical values of its creators and users. These examples inform practical and ethical considerations for the development and use of aiin the future, including structured human-aicollaboration, promotion of human-ailiteracy, respect for human dignity and rights, and addressing inherent biases and inequalities.
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CARNIVORE PROTOPARVOVIRUS 1 (PARVOVIRUSES) AT THE DOMESTIC–WILD CARNIVORE INTERFACE IN INDIA
Carnivore protoparvovirus 1 (CP1, earlier called Feline panleukopenia virus) variants such as canine parvovirus (CPV) and feline parvovirus (FPV) are significant, emerging, multihost pathogens of domestic and wild carnivores. The diversity of CP1 variants was studied between 2008 and 2014 in Wayanad, India, where flagship wildlife species such as tigers (Panthera tigris) and leopards (Panthera pardus) coexist alongside domestic carnivores, including dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and cats (Felis catus). Using polymerase chain reaction, FPV and CPV sequences were obtained from the heart blood of a necropsied leopard individual for the first time in the world and from rectal swabs of three sympatric and clinically ill domestic dogs. CP1 amplicons were also detected in a tiger. Cross-species transmission possibilities were identified, as the closest relatives to the leopard FPV sequence were found in domestic cats from a neighboring state.
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Farm animals
\"Learn about farm animals and learn to read along with a grown-up.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor
During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life became a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life was set by their various tables - at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.
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Go sleep in your own bed!
When Pig plops into his sty at bedtime, he finds Cow sleeping there and must send her off to her stall, setting off a chain reaction of animals being awakened to move to their own beds.
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Las formas del matrimonio bantú en Guinea Ecuatorial
Pese a sus reducidas dimensiones, la riqueza étnica y cultural de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial contribuye a que junto a las formas \"oficiales\" de matrimonio convivan manifestaciones consuetudinarias propias de los distintos pueblos que en ella habitan. A las principales formas del matrimonio bantú aún vigentes, se dedica este texto.Podría pensarse que la intensa permeabilidad cultural derivada del fenómeno de la globalización debería haber desplazado las formas más tradicionales de expresión cultural de las distintas etnias, sin embargo, lo cierto es que en gran parte perviven y así ocurre en cuanto al matrimonio se refiere.Sin embargo, existe un riesgo cierto de que algunas de estas manifestaciones lleguen a desaparecer. El abandono de los poblados, junto con la emigración e incluso el desarrollo económico, son factores que contribuyen a ello.
Precisamente en ese riesgo encuentra su principal justificación este texto de Carlota Nsang: solo acudiendo a las fuentes aún vivas y plasmándolo en los oportunos estudios, es posible garantizar la pervivencia y contribuir al mantenimiento de la genuinidad de las distintas manifestaciones del matrimonio bantú en Guinea Ecuatorial.La autora es ejemplo de una generación de mujeres africanas que han compaginado su vida familiar y laboral con el compromiso social y el empoderamiento de la mujer. Fruto de ese compromiso es esta primera obra, que se ha decidido publicar en las tres lenguas francas presentes en el golfo de Guinea: español, francés e inglés, para facilitar su difusión. [Texto de la editorial].
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Once upon a dime : a math adventure
Farmer Worth discovers that a special tree on his farm produces different kinds of money, depending on what animal fertilizer he uses.
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Agricultural Production Assets Transfer and Poverty Upward Mobility in Isolated Areas of Zambia: A Domestic Life Cycle Perspective
In Zambia poverty mitigation programmes based on agricultural production assets transfer constitute social protection and have been implemented to help the poor change their experiences of poverty and transform their social economic relationships. The effect of these programmes in realizing substantial poverty upward mobility has however been hindered by a myriad of factors including failure to understand the poor's poverty situation and consequently misdirecting the poverty interventions. This study aims at clarifying changes in experiences of poverty due to agricultural production assets transfer, and identify potential intrinsic household attributes that could influence effective agricultural assets utilization among households within domestic life cycle stages. Participatory poverty profiling and rapid appraisals were done to respectively identify poverty perceptions and experiences, and elicit household attributes perceived to influence effective asset utilization. Data was collected from 150 randomly selected households. Results indicate that agricultural production assets transfer to poor rural households can help mitigate their poverty, but movement out of poverty does not spontaneously cover all poverty dimensions, and could be affected by intrinsic attributes of a household. Thus, anti-poverty programmes should pay enough attention not only to community age stratification but also to intrinsic household attributes and basic need areas which may respond most to interventions among the domestic life cycle stages.
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