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UNINA9910300037403321 |
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Marsden Simon |
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The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction : Holy Ghosts / / by Simon Marsden |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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1 online resource (211 pages) |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature, Modern - 21st century |
Film genres |
Contemporary Literature |
Genre Studies |
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1. Introduction: Spectres of the Sacred -- 2. Gothic Heresies -- 3. 'There were some stains that could not be removed': Adam Nevill and the Stain of Sin -- 4. Much Ado About Nothing: Peter Straub and Privation -- 5. William Peter Blatty and the Presence of the Absent Christ -- 6. 'Time to let go of all the old things': Justin Cronin's Radically Orthodox Christology -- 7. Sympathy for the Devil: Gothic Goes to Hell -- 8. The Sense of No Ending: (Re)Reading the Apocalyptic Stephen King -- 9. Conclusion: The Gothic Sacred.<conclusion: the="" fear="" of="" god.-="" bibliography -- . |
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This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively - and often subversively - with theological texts and traditions. This creative engagement is reflected in Gothic fiction's exploration of theological concepts including sin and evil, Christology and the messianic, resurrection, eschatology and apocalypse. Through readings of fiction by Gothic and horror writers including Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, |
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Peter Straub, William Peter Blatty and others, this book demonstrates that Christianity continues to haunt the Gothic imagination and that the genre's openness to the mysterious, numinous and non-rational opens space in which to explore religious beliefs and experiences less easily accessible to more overtly realist forms of representation. The book offers a new perspective on contemporary Gothic fiction that will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Gothic and of the relationship between literature and religion more generally. |
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UNINA9910299954703321 |
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Titolo |
Energy Management—Collective and Computational Intelligence with Theory and Applications / / edited by Cengiz Kahraman, Gülgün Kayakutlu |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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1 online resource (548 pages) |
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Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, , 2198-4182 ; ; 149 |
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Computational intelligence |
Energy policy |
Computational Intelligence |
Energy Policy, Economics and Management |
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This book presents a selection of recently developed collective and computational intelligence techniques, which it subsequently applies to energy management problems ranging from performance analysis to economic analysis, and from strategic analysis to operational analysis, with didactic numerical examples. As a form of intelligence emerging from the collaboration and competition of individuals, collective and computational intelligence addresses new methodological, theoretical, |
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and practical aspects of complex energy management problems. The book offers an excellent reference guide for practitioners, researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students pursuing research on intelligence in energy management. The contributing authors are recognized researchers in the energy research field. |
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UNINA9910580174103321 |
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Autore |
Daniels Reza C |
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How Data Quality Affects our Understanding of the Earnings Distribution / / by Reza Che Daniels |
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2022 |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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1 online resource (xx, 114 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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BUS069000HIS001000MAT029000 |
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Statistics |
Sampling (Statistics) |
Quantitative research |
Statistical Theory and Methods |
Survey Methodology |
Data Analysis and Big Data |
Methodology of Data Collection and Processing |
African Economics |
African History |
Africa Economic conditions |
Africa History |
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Introduction -- A Framework for Investigating Micro Data Quality, with Application to South African Labour Market Household Surveys -- Questionnaire Design and Response Propensities for Labour Income Micro Data -- Univariate Multiple Imputation for Coarse Employee |
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Income Data -- Conclusion: How Data Quality Affects our Understanding of the Earnings Distribution. |
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This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book begins by profiling the post-Apartheid period in South Africa's history when the sampling frame and survey methodology for household surveys was undergoing periodic changes due to the changing geopolitical landscape in the country. This book profiles how different components of error had disproportionate magnitudes in different survey years, including coverage error, sampling error, nonresponse error, measurement error, processing error and adjustment error. The parameters of interest concern the earnings distribution, but despite this outcome of interest, the discussion is generalizable to any question in a random sample survey of households or firms. This book then investigates questionnaire design and item nonresponse by building a response propensity modelfor the employee income question in two South African labour market surveys: the October Household Survey (OHS, 1997-1999) and the Labour Force Survey (LFS, 2000-2003). This time period isolates a period of changing questionnaire design for the income question. Finally, this book is concerned with how to employee income data with a mixture of continuous data, bounded response data and nonresponse. A variable with this mixture of data types is called coarse data. Because the income question consists of two parts -- an initial, exact income question and a bounded income follow-up question -- the resulting statistical distribution of employee income is both continuous and discrete. The book shows researchers how to appropriately deal with coarse income data using multiple imputation. The take-home message from this book is that researchers have a responsibility to treat data quality concerns in a statistically sound manner, rather than making adjustments to public-use data in arbitrary ways, often underpinned by undefensible assumptions about an implicit unobservable loss function in the data. The demonstration of how this can be done provides a replicable concept map with applicable methods that can be utilised in any sample survey. . |
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