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This Liber Amicorum was composed in honor of our dear colleague and former Dean of University College Tilburg, Prof. Dr. Alkeline van Lenning, who took emeritus status in March 2023 after an academic career of over forty years at Tilburg University. Alkeline van Lenning was professor of multi-disciplinary education and has expertise in the field of character education, interdisciplinary teaching in higher education, feminist theory, and gender. Close colleagues and friends were invited to sha...

This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT-2023)1, hosted by the 24th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). GITT is set out to focus on genderinclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop brings together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners and language professionals. Also, GITT aims to encourage mu...

Gaat de elektrische auto niet een te groot beslag leggen op de mondiale grondstoffenvoorraad, zeker als het aantal auto’s in de wereld nog gaat verviervoudigen. Dat is namelijk wat er gebeurt als tien miljard aardbewoners even welvarend worden als de gemiddelde EU burger in 2023. Tegelijkertijd zal in dat eerlijke scenario ook het aantal moderne goed geïsoleerde huizen, elektronische apparaten, wasmachines, vaatwassers, airconditioners, vliegtuigen, windturbines, zonnepanelen en noem maar ...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL 2023), hosted by the 24th Annual Con- ference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). This workshop is a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages.

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.

This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...

Have you always wanted to know more about sustainability? And what the next generation thinks we should do?

In this book, written, designed, and published by students you will read everything you have always wanted to know about sustainability, including DIYs, recipes, poems and fictional stories.

In 1985 vormde zich bij mij zich het plan om een proefschrift te gaan schrijven. Dit was gebaseerd op de ervaring dat maar al te vaak irrationele of onbewezen argumenten tot besluiten van groot belang leidden. Mijn bedoeling was om deze besluitvorming van een betere basis te voorzien, zo mogelijk zelfs van een optimale basis. Dit leidde tot de formulering in een proefschrift van alles wat nodig was op tot zo’n optimalisatiemodel te komen. Gaandeweg ontstond de conclusie dat er twee modellen...