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The process repeats itself: across five decades and eight novels, Thomas Pynchon repeats variations on a theme. In V. a woman is dispersed across space and time, rendered a cyborg ghost of geopolitical spasms. In The Crying of Lot 49 another woman sees her exlover's face emerge from the floating trash of the city streets and hears the cries of untold millions echoing through the telephone wires overhead. The ostensible protagonist of Gravity's...

The task of this thesis will be to demonstrate that there is fine-tuning of nomic behavior for the existence of human life in the universe and, if a multiverse exists, that there is fine-tuning behind the multiverse. The fundamental constants of nature, laws of physics, and the mechanisms needed for bubble universe inflation will serve as evidence for the hypothesis that there is a fine-tuner. It is not the task of this thesis to answer the te...

A new type of celebrity known as a digital influencer has emerged due to the accelerated uptake of social media platforms such as Instagram. To help understand this new type of celebrity this thesis explores the strate gies that digital influencers are implementing on Instagram in order to maintain their fame via different types of loyalty. Further, this thesis explores the way in which the definition of celebrity has changed due to the accele...

Nowadays, in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), data are generated from devices/sensors in the form of text, images, videos, etc. Data from sensors arrive continuously from multiple sources, different environments as data streams [1]. As a result, vast volumes of data can be generated in the cloud over time. Furthermore, data streams are also characterized by non-stationary environments that come from real-world applications [2]. Due to ...

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This survey addresses three important aspects of Caribbean life in the twentieth century -- politics, economics, and race -- and attempts to show their relationship and interaction. Following a geographic, ethnographic, and historical introduction, the author describes the political heritage of the region, characterized by a lack of indigenous political and democratic tradition and by the existence of political fragmentation and political viol...

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