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UNINA9910795430103321 |
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Carolan Michael S. |
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Titolo |
A decent meal : the search for empathy in a divided America / / Michael Carolan |
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Stanford, California : , : Redwood Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Social groups - United States - Psychological aspects |
Empathy - Social aspects - United States |
Attitude change - United States - Experiments |
Social psychology - United States |
Right and left (Political science) - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
Attitude (Psychology) - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Journeys to the Heartland -- 2 How Would You Stomach That? -- 3 We’re Being Pulled Apart -- 4 Farming Familiarity -- 5 Working to Respect Those Who Fed Us -- 6 Urban- Rural Food Plans -- 7 Forest to Table -- 8 Final Thoughts and New Trajectories -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create |
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simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds. |
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UNINA9910484980603321 |
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Banerjee Santo <1976-> |
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Fractal Functions, Dimensions and Signal Analysis / / by Santo Banerjee, D. Easwaramoorthy, A. Gowrisankar |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (X, 132 p. 61 illus., 59 illus. in color.) |
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Understanding Complex Systems, , 1860-0840 |
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Nonlinear optics |
Dynamics |
Nonlinear theories |
System theory |
Nonlinear Optics |
Applied Dynamical Systems |
Complex Systems |
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Chapter 1. Mathematical background of deterministic fractals -- Chapter 2. Fractal functions.-Chapter 3. Fractional calculus and generalized fractal functions -- Chapter 4. Signal Analysis -- Chapter 5. Multifractal and wavelet based signal analysis. |
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This book introduces the fractal interpolation functions (FIFs) in approximation theory to the readers and the concerned researchers in advanced level. FIFs can be used to precisely reconstruct the naturally occurring functions when compared with the classical interpolants. The book focuses on the construction of fractals in metric space through various iterated function systems. It begins by providing the Mathematical background behind the fractal interpolation functions with its graphical representations and then introduces the fractional integral and fractional derivative on fractal functions in various scenarios. Further, the existence of the fractal interpolation function with the countable iterated function system is demonstrated by taking suitable monotone and bounded sequences. It also covers the dimension of fractal functions and investigates the relationship between the fractal dimension and the fractional order of fractal interpolation functions. Moreover, this book explores the idea of fractal interpolation in the reconstruction scheme of illustrative waveforms and discusses the problems of identification of the characterizing parameters. In the application section, this research compendium addresses the signal processing and its Mathematical methodologies. A wavelet-based denoising method for the recovery of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals contaminated by nonstationary noises is presented, and the author investigates the recognition of healthy, epileptic EEG and cardiac ECG signals using multifractal measures. This book is intended for professionals in the field of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, helping them broaden their understanding of fractal functions and dimensions, while also providing the illustrative experimental applications for researchers in biomedicine and neuroscience. |
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