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Cultural politics of user-generated encyclopaedias: comparing Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike
Published 2015“…By comparing two major Chinese online encyclopaedias, Baidu Baike and Chinese Wikipedia, this thesis investigates whether the Internet overcomes, shifts, or reinforces boundaries among Chinese language users. …”
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The Wikipedia news network: understanding collective response to current events through the internet’s encyclopaedia
Published 2021“…Its modernised notion of the encyclopaedia is a widely accessible and rapidly updatable record for both historical knowledge and current events. …”
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Theology and university: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Hagenbach, and the project of theological encyclopaedia in nineteenth-century Germany
Published 2014“…<p>This study examines the rise, development, and crisis of theological encyclopaedia in nineteenth-century Germany. As introductory textbooks for theological study in the university, works of theological encyclopaedia addressed the pressing questions facing theology as a ‘science’ (<em>Wissenschaft</em>), a rigorous, critical discipline deserving of a seat in the modern university. …”
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The Early Britannica
Published 2017“…<br/> The <em>Encyclopaedia britannica</em> is a familiar cultural icon, but what do we know about the early editions that helped shape it into the longest continuously published encyclopedia still in existence? …”
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On the notion of structure
Published 1990“…Anthropological notions of structure are examined concisely, in the manner of an encyclopaedia entry. From an abstract/logical point of view a structure usually exhibits constant relationships between elements which make up a whole but vary in their content. …”
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Substrates and physiological functions of secretase rhomboids proteases
Published 2016“…Here we aim to summarise all that has been published on secretase rhomboids in a concise encyclopaedia of the enzymes, their substrates, and their biological roles. …”
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Notable encyclopedias of the late eighteenth century
Published 2017“…Arner, Thomas Dobson’s American edition of the <em>Encyclopaedia Britannica</em> <br/> III. Other European-language successors <br/> 8. …”
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The digital knowledge economy index: mapping content production
Published 2019“…We propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, quantified by way of measuring content creation and participation through digital platforms, namely the code sharing platform GitHub, the crowdsourced encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and Internet domain registrations and estimating a fifth sub-index for the World Bank Knowledge Economy Index for year 2012. …”
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Al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana and the size of knowledge
Published 2020“…Modern reception has often dehistoricized it by viewing it only as criticism, but book studies suggest broader contexts of interpretation. Looser than “encyclopaedia,” the notion of the “big book,” like those by al-Āmidī’s contemporaries and neighbours Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and al-Tanūkhī, fits well with al-Muwāzana. …”
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Either (Nietzsche) / or (Aristotle)? Macintyre’s modernity and the enduring relevance of Kierkegaard
Published 2022“…The essay shows that MacIntyre's reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or fails to register that in important respects Kierkegaard's counterpoint of rival perspectives in Either/Or bears striking resemblance to the scenario of mutual antagonisms that MacIntyre identifies among the genres of genealogy, encyclopaedia, and tradition-informed moral enquiry. …”
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Robert Burton and the problems of polymathy
Published 2014“…The third section examines Burton's relationship to another model of disciplinary multifariousness: the encyclopaedia, understood by Burton not as a genre, but as an ethos. …”
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Long-range regulation of alpha globin gene expression during erythropoiesis.
Published 2008“…RECENT FINDINGS: Completion of the Human Genome Project and the associated encyclopaedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) project confirmed that human gene expression is commonly controlled by long-range, cis-acting elements. …”
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Measuring the contours of the global knowledge economy with a digital index
Published 2016“…We thus propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, which will additionally account for capacities and skills that are quantifiable via measuring content-creation and participation directly through digital platforms, such as the code-sharing platform GitHub, encyclopaedia Wikipedia and domain name registrations. …”
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In the hall of mirrors: the Arab Nahda, nationalism, and the question of language
Published 2012“…It covers a series of primary understudied sources: Busta̅ni̅'s enunciative <em>Nafi̅r Su̅riyya</em> pamphlets that he wrote in the wake of the 1860 civil wars of Mount Lebanon and Damascus: his translation of Robinson Crusoe, dictionary, and encyclopaedia. As well as Shidya̅q’s fictional autobiography, linguistic essays and treatise, and travel writings on Europe. …”
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Sophoclean scholarship as a tool to interpret eighteenth-century England
Published 2019“…The first attempt to gather the Theban plays together, it reflects the encyclopaedia-like nature of eighteenth-century scholarship. …”
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Preventing history: a lexicographical learning-curve
Published 2010“…How do you draw the line between a good dictionary and a bad encyclopaedia? Is the inclusion of examples a counsel of perfection or an admission of failure to define clearly? …”
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Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles
Published 2016“…Here, we explore a novel method to quantify cultural interest in all extant reptile species using Wikipedia- a large, open-access online encyclopaedia. We analysed all page views of reptile species viewed during 2014 in all of Wikipedia’s language editions. …”
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Moscow - Berlin - Paris: Walter Benjamin's intercultural spaces of comparison
Published 2024“…</p> <p>To do so, this research engages with a variety of archival material, reintroducing different figures, institutions and media from Benjamin’s orbit that have remained largely neglected: various Russian, French and German journals and associated emerging visual culture and infographic material; Benjamin’s contribution to the <em>Great Soviet Encyclopaedia</em>; Western travelogues on the USSR; friendship societies and cultural as well as academic mediators. …”
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