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  • Ageing, justice, and work: alternatives to mandatory retirement
    Halliday, Daniel; Parr, Tom (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
    In this chapter, we assess the case for mandatory retirement. After briefly considering the issue of age discrimination, we examine a couple of influential arguments in defence of mandatory retirement. Drawing on the work ...
  • Border rescue
    Oberman, Kieran (Cambridge University Press - Core, 2019)
    Every year, thousands of refugees and other migrants die trying to cross borders. The dangers are many. Migrants die from exhaustion crossing deserts, freeze on mountain passes, drown at sea. One way states can save lives ...
  • Conceptual versus referential affordance in concept composition
    McNally, Louise, 1965-; Boleda, Gemma (Springer, 2017)
    One of the defining traits of language is its capacity to mediate between concepts in our mind, which encapsulate generalizations, and the things they refer to in a given communicative act, with all their idiosyncratic ...
  • Content processing of music audio signals
    Gouyon, Fabien; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Cano Vila, Pedro; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Loscos, Àlex; Amatriain, Xavier; Serra, Xavier (Logos Verlag, 2008)
    In this chapter, we provide an overview of state-of-the-art algorithms for the automatic description of music audio signals, both from a low-level perspective (focusing on signal characteristics) and a more musical perspective ...
  • Creating civil citizens? The value and limits of teaching civility in schools
    Cormier, Andrée Anne; Brighouse, Harry (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)
    Andrée-Anne Cormier and Harry Brighouse explore the question of whether there are good reasons for schools to try to produce citizens disposed to use, and practiced in, civil discourse and behavior, and if so, what this ...
  • Egalitarian justice, population size and parent's responsibility for the costs of children
    Olsaretti, Serena (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    Theorists of egalitarian justice generally assume that the principles they formulate apply to a group of individuals whose creation and size is taken as given. Yet many of the policies egalitarians favour distribute the ...
  • El desenvolupament de les llengües de signes
    Sánchez Amat, Jordina; Quer, Josep, 1965- (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2018)
  • Equality of opportunity and justified inequalities: how the family can be on equality's side
    Olsaretti, Serena (De Gruyter, 2020)
  • Family and justice in political philosophy
    Olsaretti, Serena (Oxford University Press, 2021)
    Political philosophers´ interest in the family - understood as a unit in which one or more adults discharge a socially and legally recognised role as primary carers of their children – has a long pedigree. But there is no ...
  • Fertility and collective responsibility
    Williams, Andrew, 1963- (Oxford University Press, 2022)
  • Golfos, punkis, indignados: subterraneean traditions of youth in Spain (1960-2015)
    Guerra, Paula; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Springer, 2019)
    This text is an attempt to review some academic work on youth cultures carried out in Spain since the transition to democracy (although some earlier work related to the subject, stemming from the late Franco period, is ...
  • Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards?
    Vlaskamp, Martijn (Springer, 2020)
    Transparency is an organizing principle of the norm of good governance. The EU has adopted a number of policies to promote this norm as a way to address corruption and cronyism in the natural resource sector of many ...
  • Introduction: the idea of distributive justice
    Olsaretti, Serena (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    This chapter introduces the idea of distributive justice. It identifies several different views of what characterizes distributive justice, as opposed to other types of justice and to non-justice-based moral demands. The ...
  • Juventudes fronterizas, ¿juventudes sin fronteras?: identidades juveniles en los bordes del Mediterráneo
    Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Sánchez García, José (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2019)
  • Liberal equality and the moral status of parent-child relationships
    Olsaretti, Serena (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    The family, and in particular the parent-child relationship that constitutes its core, is attracting increasing attention among political philosophers. Contemporary theorists of justice, who, until a couple of decades ago, ...
  • Light and color
    Bertalmío, Marcelo (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)
    Image Processing for Cinema presents a detailed overview of image processing techniques that are used in practice in digital cinema. The book shows how image processing has become ubiquitous in movie-making, from shooting ...
  • Measuring ensemble synchrony through violin performance parameters: a preliminary progress report
    Papiotis, Panagiotis, 1985-; Marchini, Marco, 1984-; Maestre Gómez, Esteban; Pérez Carrillo, Alfonso Antonio, 1977- (Springer, 2012)
    In this article we present our ongoing work on expressive /nperformance analysis for violin and string ensembles, in terms of synchronization in intonation, timing, dynamics and articulation. Our current /nresearch objectives ...
  • Researching transnational gangs as agents of mediation in the digital era
    Fernández Planells, Ariadna, 1983-; Sánchez García, José; Oliver, Maria; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Springer, 2020)
    In the XXI century, the traditional conformation of gangs has been altered for several reasons. The present global economic situation changed the context of gangs, and as a feature of this century, Internet and social media ...
  • Sign languages as resilient endangered languages
    Barberà, Gemma; Cedillo, Pepita, 1964-; Frigola, Santiago; Gelpí Arroyo, Cristina; Quer, Josep, 1965-; Sánchez Amat, Jordina (Eumo Editorial, 2019)
    In this contribution we review and assess the specificities of vitality and revitalization of sign languages in a context of atypical endangerment. The contribution focuses on concrete examples of revitalization measures, ...
  • Spanish foreign policy: navigating global shifts and domestic crises
    Soler i Lecha, Eduard; Barbé, Esther (Springer, 2021)
    Spain’s foreign policy is often seen as the result of three structural changes: Europeanization, democratization and societal modernization. This contribution complements this assessment by analyzing the effects of three ...

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