In early 2011, while browsing the internet, I accidentally came across the online versionof aNewYorkTimesarticle titled “Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes.”1At that point,I too held the view that continues to dominate the humanities literature. According tothis view,hysteria was“written out of current medicine”during the twentieth century.2Itthushadno“placeintheseriousreachesofco…
The first 1000 days refers to the time needed for a child to grow from conception to the second birthday. It is a time of rapid change. During this period, the architecture of the developing brain is very open to the influence of relationships and experiences (Shonkoff et al., 2016). Early experiences affect the nature and quality of the brain’s developing architecture by reinforcing some syn…
By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa’s Efuru was the first internationally published novel in English by a female African writer (Nwapa 1966). With the establishment of Tana Press in 1977, Flora Nwapa also became the first fe…
The contributions gathered in this open access book focus on modern methods for data science and classification and present a series of real-world applications. Numerous research topics are covered, ranging from statistical inference and modeling to clustering and dimension reduction, from functional data analysis to time series analysis, and network analysis. The applications reflect new analy…
In the fashion field, the reputation-related crises are the most common, where some-times economic-related crises can also be involved. As Sábada et al. [7: 10] assure: “Infashion, reputation is a business, an asset as long as it is good. This means that brandsthat have favorable reputation have more loyal customers that are more dedicated andthat buy a broader range of products”. In gener…