Decolonizing One Petition at the Time

The Fourth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations has extensively used the instrument of petitions as a tool of inquiry on Non-Self-Governing Territories (NSGTs).Despite a surge in recent years in the Accessories number of petitioners speaking on behalf of NSGTs, there has been no detailed investigation of the practice accepting pe

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Bimodal Emotion Recognition Model for Minnan Songs

Most of the existing research papers study the emotion recognition of Minnan songs from the perspectives of music analysis theory and music appreciation.However, these investigations do not explore any possibility of carrying out an automatic emotion recognition of Minnan songs.In this paper, we propose a model that consists of four main modules to

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Robert Bellah’s Concept of Civil Religion in America and the Idea of New Religion in Czech Thinking of the Twentieth Century

At the end of the 1960s sociologist Robert Bellah formulated his concept of American civil religion, a concept which has since then provoked considerable reaction among scholars and intellectuals.It identified specific religious features in American public life and traditions, rejected by some, enthusiastically accepted by others.Bellah claims that

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