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Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

In this little but profound volume Robert Kane and Carolina Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Kane introduces and defends libertarianism about free will: free will is incompatible with determinism; we are free; we are not determined. Sartorio introduces and defends compatibilism about free will: free will is compatible with determinism; we can be free even while our actions are determined through and through. Simplifying tricky terminology and complicated concepts for readers new to the debate the authors also cover the latest developments on a controversial topic that gets us entangled in questions about blameworthiness and responsibility coercion and control and much more. Each author first presents their own side and then they interact through two rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include standard form arguments section summaries bolded key terms and principles a glossary and annotated reading lists. Short lively and accessible the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work on free will. As per Saul Smilansky’s foreword Kane and Sartorio present the readers with two things at once: an introduction to the traditional free will problem; and a demonstration of what a great yet very much alive and relevant philosophical problem is like. Key Features: Covers major concepts views and arguments about free will in an engaging format Accessible style and pedagogical features for students and general readers Cutting-edge contributions by preeminent scholars on free will. | Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

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The Routledge Companion to Free Will

The Routledge Companion to Free Will

Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics neuroscience and social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and has implications for so many debates a comprehensive survey needs to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free will from those who are central to the current philosophical debates to non-western perspectives to scientific contributions and to those who know the rich history of the subject. Chapter 37 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138795815_oachapter37. pdf | The Routledge Companion to Free Will

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Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

Feminine Law: Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or gap for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a feminine law we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common besides the word free? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions and more in their wide-ranging often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers. | Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

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Cryogenic Engineering and Technologies Principles and Applications of Cryogen-Free Systems

Cryogenic Engineering and Technologies Principles and Applications of Cryogen-Free Systems

Cryogen-free cryogenics is leading a revolution in research and industry by its significant advantages over traditional liquid helium systems. This is the first overview for the field covering the key technologies conceptual design fabrication operation performance and applications of these systems. The contents cover important topics such as the operating principles of 4 K cryocoolers enabling technologies (including vibration reduction) for cryogen-free systems the cryogen-free superconducting magnet and cryogen-free systems that reach millikelvin. It highlights the wide range of applications in materials science quantum physics astronomy and space science medical sciences etc. Key features:• Introduces technologies and practical know-how employed for cryogen-free systems of using 4 K cryocoolers to replace liquid helium• Addresses state-of-the-art of cryogen-free superconducting magnets subkelvin refrigeration systems of the He-3 sorption cooler adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) and dilution refrigerators (DR)• Discusses applications of cryogen-free systems in modern instruments and equipment | Cryogenic Engineering and Technologies Principles and Applications of Cryogen-Free Systems

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Free Will Responsibility and Crime An Introduction

Free Will Responsibility and Crime An Introduction

In his book philosopher and law professor Ken Levy explains why he agrees with most people but not with most other philosophers about free will and responsibility. Most people believe that we have both – that is that our choices decisions and actions are neither determined nor undetermined but rather fully self-determined. By contrast most philosophers understand just how difficult it is to defend this metaphysical libertarian position. So they tend to opt for two other theories: responsibility skepticism (which denies the very possibility of free will and responsibility) and compatibilism (which reduces free will and responsibility to properties that are compatible with determinism). In opposition to both of these theories Levy explains how free will and responsibility are indeed metaphysically possible. But he also cautions against the dogma that metaphysical libertarianism is actually true a widespread belief that continues to cause serious social political and legal harms. Levy’s book presents a crisp tight historically informed discussion with fresh clarity insight and originality. It will become one of the definitive resources for students academics and general readers in this critical intersection among metaphysics ethics and criminal law. Key features: Presents a unique qualified defense of metaphysical libertarianism the idea that our choices decisions and actions can be fully self-determined. Written clearly accessibly and with minimal jargon – rare for a book on the very difficult issues of free will and responsibility. Seamlessly connects philosophical legal psychological and political issues. Will be provocative and insightful for professional philosophers students and non-philosophers. | Free Will Responsibility and Crime An Introduction

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The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

Recently psychologists and neurobiologists have conducted experiments taken to show that human beings do not have free will. Many including a number of philosophers assume that even if science has not decided the free will question yet it is just a matter of time. In The Experimental Approach to Free Will Katherin A. Rogers accomplishes several tasks. First canvasing the literature critical of these recent experiments (or of conclusions drawn from them) and adding new criticisms of her own she shows why these experiments should not undermine belief in human freedom – even robust libertarian freedom. Indeed many of the experiments do not even connect with any philosophical understanding of free will. Through this discussion she generates a long list of problems – ethical as well as practical – facing the attempt to study free will experimentally. With these problems highlighted she shows that even in the distant future supposing the brain sciences to have advanced far beyond where they are today it will likely be impossible to settle the question of free will experimentally. She concludes that since philosophy has not and science cannot settle the question of free will it is more reasonable to suppose that humans do indeed have freedom. Brings together and adds to criticisms of recent experiments (or conclusions drawn from them) which supposedly show that human beings do not have free will Analyzes recent experiments supposedly related to human freedom through the lens of a philosophically informed portrait of a robust libertarian free choice Develops a long list of problems – both practical and ethical – facing the experimental study of human freedom Proposes a thought experiment set in a distant future of advanced brain science to show that it is likely impossible for science ever to settle the question of free will. | The Experimental Approach to Free Will Freedom in the Laboratory

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Free Print and Non-commercial Publishing Since 1700

Free Print and Non-commercial Publishing Since 1700

This title was first published in 2000: The essays in this collection re-examine the phenomenon of free print in print culture. By focusing on free print the volume offers perspectives in the cultural history of textual transmission from the early-18th century to the mid-20th century. Publishing in the sense of making the print public embraces the free and often unsolicited distribution of religious literature political propaganda and civic and personal gifts. The free print examined here includes gift-books; advertisements and commemorations; the promotion of knowledge institutions and services; commercial and philanthropic lobbying; religious and missionary activity; and political propaganda both official and underground. Broad issues range from the consideration of press finances government intervention and private and institutional patronage to textual familiarity and social ritual. The approach is deliberately comparative. Ten established scholars of book and printing history who look at very different regions and periods test the nature of the alleged authority of print and the apparent value of the commercial tag through the study of print which arrives unbidden in the hands of its consumers. The chapters in this volume are based on papers first given at the Print for Free conference organized by the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust in September 1996. | Free Print and Non-commercial Publishing Since 1700

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Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

Model-free Hedging: A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint focuses on the computation of model-independent bounds for exotic options consistent with market prices of liquid instruments such as Vanilla options. The author gives an overview of Martingale Optimal Transport highlighting the differences between the optimal transport and its martingale counterpart. This topic is then discussed in the context of mathematical finance. | Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

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Academies Free Schools and Social Justice

Academies Free Schools and Social Justice

Academies were introduced by Labour in 2000 and first opened their doors in 2002 but during Labour’s time in power the nature of the Academies changed. At first they were designed to replace existing failing schools but by 2004 the expectation had widened to provide for entirely new schools where there was a demand for new places. From 2010 under the coalition government two new types of Academy were introduced. While the original Academies were based on the idea of closing poor schools and replacing them by dramatically redesigned and restructured ones the 2010 Academies Act allowed existing highly successful state-maintained schools to apply to become Academies as well. Further while Labour had restricted Academy status to secondary schools the Coalition extended it to primary and special schools. The result is that there has been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of Academies. In addition to this the 2010 Act introduced Free Schools wherein groups of parents teachers or other sponsors can apply to start their own state-maintained but officially ‘independent’ schools. These schools can either be completely new or the result of existing private schools applying to become state-maintained. The results of these changes remain under-researched. This book puts forward new research that examines the history and nature of Academies and Free Schools the processes by which they have come into existence and their effects in terms of social justice. The contributors do not all speak with one voice but rather present a diversity of views on these important topics. Included in the collection are the results of research on pupil outcomes and socio-economic segregation; issues of identity and ethos in church academies; the problems of establishing free schools; the history of policy on Academies; and a comparison between Swedish independent schools and Academies and Free Schools. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research Papers in Education. | Academies Free Schools and Social Justice

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Free Will A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism

Free Will A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism

The problem of freedom and determinism is one of the most enduring and one of the best problems in philosophy. One of the best because it so tenaciously resists solution while yet always seeming urgent and one of the most enduring because it has always been able to present itself in different ways to suit the preoccupations of different ages. This book first published in 1980 sets out to defend free will: it elaborates a sober and systematic case for libertarianism in the face of the overwhelming threat that is posed by the scientific study of the brain. | Free Will A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism

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The High Cost of Free Parking Updated Edition

The High Cost of Free Parking Updated Edition

One of the American Planning Association‘s most popular and influential books is finally in paperback with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence rapid urban sprawl extravagant energy use and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices debasing urban design damaging the economy and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking namely charge fair market prices for curb parking use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again. | The High Cost of Free Parking Updated Edition

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Russia's Liberal Media Handcuffed but Free

Russia's Liberal Media Handcuffed but Free

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluating the Russian media system and a historical overview of the development of liberal media in the country. The book focuses on some of Russia’s most influential liberal national news outlets: the deadliest newspaper Novaya Gazeta Russia’s last independent radio station Radio Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy) and US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The fieldwork included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings long interviews with editors and journalists as well as documentary analysis. The monograph makes theoretical contributions to three main areas: 1. Media systems and terms of reference. 2. Journalism: cultures role conceptions and relationship with power culture and society. 3. Mediatisation of conflict and nationhood. | Russia's Liberal Media Handcuffed but Free

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Free Expression in the Age of the Internet Social and Legal Boundaries

Free Expression in the Age of the Internet Social and Legal Boundaries

In Free Expression in the Age of the Internet Jeremy Lipschultz investigates the Internet and its potential for profound change analyzing the use of its technology from social political and economic perspectives. Lipschultz provides new insights on traditional legal concepts such as marketplace of ideas social responsibility and public intere | Free Expression in the Age of the Internet Social and Legal Boundaries

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South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South

South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South

This title was first published in 2000: This work examines the hemispheric diplomacy after the Summits of the America in Miami (December 1994) and Santiago (April 1998) focusing on the strengthening of the South American position in the FTAA negotiations and the Brazilian proposal for a South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA). The book also looks at the implications of the preceding analysis for regional integration theory and international relations theory. The conclusion looks beyond open regionalism and considers three scenarios for US-South American relations after the Santiago Summit. First reassertion of US hegemony and signing of an FTAA agreement on schedule second erosion of US hegemony but continuing negotiations between North and South America for a distant FTAA and finally breakdown of the FTAA negotations and emergence of SAFTA as an alternative to the FTAA. | South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South

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Inclusive Trade in Africa The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective

Inclusive Trade in Africa The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will cover an African market of 1. 2 billion people and GDP of over $2. 5 trillion across all 55 member States of the African Union. Yet trade policy increasingly appreciates that free trade is not enough; trade must also be inclusive to deliver developmental benefits. With contributions from leading trade policy authors across Africa and beyond this book offers insights into the development and implementation of the AfCFTA and serves as a reference for stakeholders interested in trade in Africa more broadly. The contributors assess what important lessons can be drawn from the experiences of regional integration in and beyond Africa including from success stories like ASEAN as well as from failures like the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. An important new work for researchers and policymakers focusing on African trade and economic policy and trade policy more generally. | Inclusive Trade in Africa The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective

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Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia

Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia

Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia offers a close examination of how to treat schizophrenic patients using psychotherapy rather than drugs applying derivatives of psychodynamic principles in treating patients. The author provides real examples throughout of how therapists can resolve patients’ emotional conflicts with better outcomes than by resorting to drugs. She presents methods that allow patients to avoid the neurological damage and obesity that can often result from the use of anti-psychotic drugs. The practical techniques and advice this book offers enable therapists to resolve the chaos of schizophrenia using psychotherapy alone. Theoretically this book can also be useful for work with depressives.

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Free-Standing Tension Structures From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

Free-Standing Tension Structures From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for innovation. Free-standing Tension Structures: From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-strut Systems provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures. Providing a complete background to the underlying structural engineering theories of tensegrity this book will prove invaluable for all architects and engineers working on tensile structures. | Free-Standing Tension Structures From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

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Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin emboldened white supremacy. What kind of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an inflation of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore how do such forms refuse the idea that language can be a performative act from which harm can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and shaped the subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants reproducing new and problematic forms of precarity. These vulnerabilities have been experienced from the sound of rubber bullets in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to UK hate speech legislation to the spontaneous performace of a First Nations war dance on the Australian Rules football pitch. This book identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. | Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

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Free Exercise of Religion and the United States Constitution The Supreme Court’s Challenge

Free Exercise of Religion and the United States Constitution The Supreme Court’s Challenge

The United States is extremely diverse religiously and not infrequently individuals sincerely contend that they are unable to act in accord with law as a matter of conscience. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the free exercise of religion and the United States Supreme Court has issued many decisions exploring the depth and breadth of those protections. This book addresses the Court’s free exercise jurisprudence discussing what counts as religion and the protections that have been afforded to a variety of religious practices. Regrettably the Court has not offered a principled and consistent account of which religious practices are protected or even how to decide whether a particular practice is protected which has resulted in similar cases being treated dissimilarly. Further the Court’s free exercise jurisprudence has been used to provide guidance in interpreting federal statutory protections which is making matters even more chaotic. This book attempts to clarify what the Court has said in the hopes that it will contribute to the development of a more consistent and principled jurisprudence that respects the rights of the religious and the non-religious. | Free Exercise of Religion and the United States Constitution The Supreme Court’s Challenge

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Wesley Whitefield and the 'Free Grace' Controversy The Crucible of Methodism

Wesley Whitefield and the 'Free Grace' Controversy The Crucible of Methodism

When approaching the most public disagreement over predestination in the eighteenth century the ‘Free Grace’ controversy between John Wesley and George Whitefield the tendency can be to simply review the event as a row over the same old issues. This assumption pervades much of the scholarly literature that deals with early Methodism. Moreover much of that same literature addresses the dispute from John Wesley’s vantage point often harbouring a bias towards his Evangelical Arminianism. Yet the question must be asked: was there more to the ‘Free Grace’ controversy than a simple rehashing of old arguments?This book answers this complex question by setting out the definitive account of the ‘Free Grace’ controversy in first decade of the Evangelical Revival (1739-49). Centred around the key players in the fracas John Wesley and George Whitefield it is a close analysis of the way in which the doctrine of predestination was instrumental in differentiating the early Methodist societies from one another. It recounts the controversy through the lens of doctrinal analysis and from two distinct perspectives: the propositional content of a given doctrine and how that doctrine exerts formative pressure upon the assenting individual(s). What emerges from this study is a clearer picture of the formative years of early Methodism and the vital role that doctrinal pronouncement played in giving a shape to early Methodist identity. It will therefore be of great interest to scholars of Methodism Evangelicalism Theology and Church History. | Wesley Whitefield and the 'Free Grace' Controversy The Crucible of Methodism

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Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States The Limits of Toleration

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States The Limits of Toleration

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social equality. Drawing on Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition the author develops a two-tiered framework for free speech analysis that will promote a strategy for combating hate speech. To illustrate how this framework might impact speech rights in the U. S. she looks specifically at hate speech in the context of symbolic speech disparaging speech internet speech and speech on college campuses. Entering into an ongoing debate about the role of speech in society this book will be of key importance to First Amendment scholars and to scholars and students of communication studies media studies media law political science feminist studies American studies and history. | Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States The Limits of Toleration

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Hierarchic Electrodynamics and Free Electron Lasers Concepts Calculations and Practical Applications

Hierarchic Electrodynamics and Free Electron Lasers Concepts Calculations and Practical Applications

Hierarchic Electrodynamics and Free Electron Lasers: Concepts Calculations and Practical Applications presents intriguing new fundamental concepts in the phenomenon of hierarchical electrodynamics as a new direction in physics. Concentrating on the key theory of hierarchic oscillations and waves this book focuses on the numerous applications of nonlinear theory in different types of high-current Free Electron Lasers (FEL) including their primary function in the calculation methods used to analyze various multi-resonant multi-frequency nonlinear FEL models. This is considered the first book to: Completely and systematically describe the foundation of hierarchical electrodynamics as a new direction of physics Fully represent the physics of high-current FEL—and associated models—from the hierarchic oscillation wave perspective Cover the multi-harmonic nonlinear theory of new types of electronic devices such as plasma-beam and two-stream FEL Formulate and substantiate the concept of cluster femtosecond FEL Analyze practical prospects for a new generation of a global Star Wars strategic defense systems These subjects involve a wide range of disciplines. Using numerous real-world examples to illustrate information and concepts the book offers a mathematical foundation to explore FEL applications as well as analyze hierarchic plasma-like electrodynamic systems and femto-second clusters of electromagnetic energy. Assembling fragmented concepts from existing literature the author re-examines classic approaches in order to develop new insights and achieve scientific breakthroughs. | Hierarchic Electrodynamics and Free Electron Lasers Concepts Calculations and Practical Applications

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