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Anticlerical legacies

The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

By: Elad Carmel

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Anticlerical legacies

The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

By: Elad Carmel

Anticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes’s ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One of the most important English philosophers of all time, Hobbes’s theories have had an enduring impact on modern political and religious thought. This book offers a new perspective on the afterlife of Hobbes’s philosophy, focusing on the readers who were most sympathetic to his critical and radical ideas in the decades following his death. It investigates how Hobbes’s ideas shaped the English anticlerical campaign that peaked in the early eighteenth century and that was essential for the emergence of the early Enlightenment. The book shows that a large number of writers – Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others – were more Hobbesian than has ever been appreciated. Not only did they engage consistently with Hobbes’s ideas, they even invoked his authority at a time when doing so was highly unpopular. Most fundamentally, they carried on Hobbes’s war against the kingdom of darkness and used various Hobbesian weapons for their own war against priestcraft. Analysing the ways in which the deists and freethinkers developed their nuanced theories and conducted their heated dialogues with the orthodoxy, they emerge from this study as sophisticated and valuable theorists in their own right. The case of Hobbes and his successors demonstrates that anticlericalism was a key component of a much larger programme whose primary aim was to secure civil harmony, peace, and stability.

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Manchester University Press

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1526168812

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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

By: David Carmel,Elad Yom-Tov

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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

By: David Carmel,Elad Yom-Tov

Many information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well on average, the quality of results returned for some of the queries is poor. Thus, it is desirable that IR systems will be able to identify "difficult" queries so they can be handled properly. Understanding why some queries are inherently more difficult than others is essential for IR, and a good answer to this important question will help search engines to reduce the variance in performance, hence better servicing their customer needs. Estimating the query difficulty is an attempt to quantify the quality of search results retrieved for a query from a given collection of documents. This book discusses the reasons that cause search engines to fail for some of the queries, and then reviews recent approaches for estimating query difficulty in the IR field. It then describes a common methodology for evaluating the prediction quality of those estimators, and experiments with some of the predictors applied by various IR methods over several TREC benchmarks. Finally, it discusses potential applications that can utilize query difficulty estimators by handling each query individually and selectively, based upon its estimated difficulty. Table of Contents: Introduction - The Robustness Problem of Information Retrieval / Basic Concepts / Query Performance Prediction Methods / Pre-Retrieval Prediction Methods / Post-Retrieval Prediction Methods / Combining Predictors / A General Model for Query Difficulty / Applications of Query Difficulty Estimation / Summary and Conclusions

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Springer Nature

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3031022726

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The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By: Moshe Elad

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The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By: Moshe Elad

The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict goes beyond surface-level analysis, delving into the root causes and deeply entrenched narratives that have hindered the quest for lasting peace. The book explores the territorial disputes, identity struggles, religious tensions, and competing national aspirations that have shaped the conflict's trajectory over the years. Moreover, it dissects the impact of external influences, regional dynamics, and international interventions, providing a nuanced understanding of the broader context in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists. This thought-provoking and meticulously researched book presents a balanced and comprehensive examination of the core issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By shedding light on the complex historical, political, and social factors, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the conflict's multifaceted nature and offers valuable insights into potential paths toward reconciliation.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527575659

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9781527575653

Routine Emergency

The Meaning of Life for Israelis Living Along the Gaza Border

By: Julia Chaitin,Sharon Steinberg,Elad Avlagon,Shoshana Steinberg

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Routine Emergency

The Meaning of Life for Israelis Living Along the Gaza Border

By: Julia Chaitin,Sharon Steinberg,Elad Avlagon,Shoshana Steinberg

This book explores the meaning of life for Israelis from communities bordering the Gaza Strip, whose lives are bound to the intractable conflict between Israel and the Hamas regime. Based on a psychosocial qualitative study of narrative interviews, photographs, YouTube videos, and Facebook posts created by residents, the book presents the life stories of ordinary people, their perspectives of patriotism and Zionism, and their perceptions of the Gazan Palestinians. Routine Emergency captures these perspectives through analyses of residents’ interviews and photographs, the social media materials and poems fashioned from interviewees’ words. The results challenge simplistic notions of what it means to live in this warzone, offering a multi-layered analysis of life in this region, which alternates between being Heaven and Hell. Written in a reader-friendly format, Routine Emergency, offers new theoretical insights into societal beliefs connected to living in an intractable warzone on the personal, family, community and national levels.

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303095983X

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Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture

By: Ami Elad-Bouskila

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Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture

By: Ami Elad-Bouskila

Studies of Palestinian society, economy, and politics are appearing with increasing frequency, but works in English about Palestinian literature, particularly that written in Israel, are still scarce. This book looks at this literature within the political and social context of Palestinian society, with a special focus on literature written during the Intifada "uprising" period (1987-93).

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Routledge

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1135297223

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Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Mediation and the UN, 1947-1949

By: Elad Ben-Dror

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Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Mediation and the UN, 1947-1949

By: Elad Ben-Dror

I swear by all that’s Holy, I will never come anywhere near the Palestine problem once I liberate myself from this trap." Ralph Bunche wrote these lines to his wife in 1949, during the armistice talks on Rhodes. A year later, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his success in ending the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive study of Ralph Bunche’s diplomatic activities on the Palestine question. Bunche was at the centre of the story from the referral of the issue to the United Nations in 1947 until the signing of the armistice agreements that ended the war. He began as advisor to UNSCOP and then headed the secretariat of the commission tasked with implementing partition. Later, after serving as the senior aide to UN mediator Folke Bernadotte, he was appointed to replace the Count after the latter’s assassination. Using extensive archival materials (some of it revealed here for the first time), this book addresses central questions, such as the relationship between Bunche’s African American identity and his diplomatic endeavours, and the complexities of his outlook on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through research and careful analysis, it uncovers how Ralph Bunche managed to bridge the gaps between Israel and Arab states. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle Eastern History, particularly Israeli History, as well as Political Science and Diplomacy.

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1317654692

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Measuring User Engagement

By: Mounia Lalmas,Heather O'Brien,Elad Yom-Tov

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Measuring User Engagement

By: Mounia Lalmas,Heather O'Brien,Elad Yom-Tov

User engagement refers to the quality of the user experience that emphasizes the positive aspects of interacting with an online application and, in particular, the desire to use that application longer and repeatedly. User engagement is a key concept in the design of online applications (whether for desktop, tablet or mobile), motivated by the observation that successful applications are not just used, but are engaged with. Users invest time, attention, and emotion in their use of technology, and seek to satisfy pragmatic and hedonic needs. Measurement is critical for evaluating whether online applications are able to successfully engage users, and may inform the design of and use of applications. User engagement is a multifaceted, complex phenomenon; this gives rise to a number of potential measurement approaches. Common ways to evaluate user engagement include using self-report measures, e.g., questionnaires; observational methods, e.g. facial expression analysis, speech analysis; neuro-physiological signal processing methods, e.g., respiratory and cardiovascular accelerations and decelerations, muscle spasms; and web analytics, e.g., number of site visits, click depth. These methods represent various trade-offs in terms of the setting (laboratory versus ``in the wild''), object of measurement (user behaviour, affect or cognition) and scale of data collected. For instance, small-scale user studies are deep and rich, but limited in terms of generalizability, whereas large-scale web analytic studies are powerful but negate users' motivation and context. The focus of this book is how user engagement is currently being measured and various considerations for its measurement. Our goal is to leave readers with an appreciation of the various ways in which to measure user engagement, and their associated strengths and weaknesses. We emphasize the multifaceted nature of user engagement and the unique contextual constraints that come to bear upon attempts to measure engagement in different settings, and across different user groups and web domains. At the same time, this book advocates for the development of ``good'' measures and good measurement practices that will advance the study of user engagement and improve our understanding of this construct, which has become so vital in our wired world.

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3031022890

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Studies in the Philosophy of Philo

By: Elad Filler

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Studies in the Philosophy of Philo

By: Elad Filler

Why does Philo of Alexandria seem to avoid the open use of dialectic, which was regarded in the ancient world – together with physics and ethics – as one of the three main divisions of philosophy? Has this got anything to do with the tension between proper logic and the sophistic practices of his age? Does Philo’s interpretation of Abraham’s migration from Ur of the Chaldees include a hidden political message? Why, according to Philo, did Jacob mourn the manner of Joseph’s death more than his death itself? These and other questions of the same kind are discussed in the present collection of essays, investigating Philo’s philosophical, historical and cultural background, as well as his relations to Judaism and Christianity. This book attempts to improve our understanding of some of the complexities of Philo’s thought by raising new questions, exploring the ideological aspects of Philo’s approach to Scripture, and attempting to understand the nature of Philo “the Platonist’s” attitude to various issues raised in Plato’s dialogues.

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1527528790

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Anticlerical legacies

The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

By: Elad Carmel

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The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

By: David Carmel,Elad Yom-Tov

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By: David Carmel,Elad Yom-Tov

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Anticlerical legacies

Anticlerical legacies

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Routine Emergency

Routine Emergency

Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture

Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture

Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Measuring User Engagement

Measuring User Engagement

Studies in the Philosophy of Philo

Studies in the Philosophy of Philo

Anticlerical legacies

Anticlerical legacies

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

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