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7 godz. temu · As an example, economist Jeremiah Dittmar provides new insights employing only one map to illustrate the key points in his 2011 statistical analysis of the spread and impact of the printing press in the 16th century. 14 Scholars in disciplines other than book history have considered “geographies of the book” and “literary geographies.”
7 godz. temu · In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation.. Code-switching is different from plurilingualism in that plurilingualism refers to the ability of an individual to use multiple languages, while code-switching is the act of using multiple languages ...
7 godz. temu · The term engaged Buddhism was coined not by a scholar but by the Vietnamese monastic peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh in the 1960s to describe social activism based on Buddhist principles. 4 While it has been dated to 1963, Hanh dates it to 1964 when he used it as the English translation for a book composed of previously written essays that he published on his return to Vietnam after lecturing ...
7 godz. temu · The word internetted was used as early as 1849, meaning interconnected or interwoven. The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork. Today, the term Internet most commonly refers to the global system of interconnected computer networks, though it may also refer to any group of smaller networks.
1 dzień temu · 06.07.2024 | 14:09 Linguist Karl Pajusalu wins the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award Today 5 July, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna and Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže announced the winner of the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award in Cēsis, Latvia. Awarded for ...
1 dzień temu · The Brooklyn Immersionists were a community of artists, musicians and writers that integrated themselves and their creations into an industrial area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1990s. According to the art historian, Jonathan Fineberg, the movement was devoted to "a richer, more dynamically interacting whole," [1] and explored new forms of ...
1 dzień temu · For two elements a 1 + b 1 i + c 1 j + d 1 k and a 2 + b 2 i + c 2 j + d 2 k, their product, called the Hamilton product (a 1 + b 1 i + c 1 j + d 1 k) (a 2 + b 2 i + c 2 j + d 2 k), is determined by the products of the basis elements and the distributive law. The distributive law makes it possible to expand the product so that it is a sum of ...
