Fr. Paul Marx was een sleutelfiguur en pionier in de wereldwijde pro-life beweging. Met een doctoraat in familiensociologie en vervolgstudies aan vooraanstaande universiteiten, bracht hij aanzienlijk intellectueel gewicht in zijn zaak. Na een toegewijde periode in de academische wereld wijdde hij zich volledig aan de verspreiding van de pro-life boodschap met ongeëvenaarde visie, leiderschap en energie. Marx richtte belangrijke organisaties op en schreef meer dan dertien boeken, waarbij een bijzonder invloedrijk werk dat waarschuwde voor de gevaren van euthanasie meer dan een miljoen keer werd verkocht. Zijn onvermoeibare pleidooi strekte zich uit over ongeveer negentig landen, waardoor hij een centrale stem werd in de verdediging van het leven, van conceptie tot natuurlijke dood.
Focusing on the life of a unique businessman, the narrative explores Jim Rouse's dual identity as a successful capitalist and a practicing idealist. As a real estate developer, he aimed to enhance people's lives by creating enjoyable environments and fostering community care. Rouse understood the necessity of profitability to secure the capital needed for his vision, illustrating the balance between financial success and social responsibility.
The memoir chronicles the life of Paul Marx, a Louisiana music radio pioneer who overcame a childhood of poverty through the support of his grandparents and his experiences in Vietnam. It details his journey to establish a successful life, including a thriving family and a niche radio station aimed at preserving Cajun culture. The book combines elements of personal reflection, business success, and cultural exploration, offering insights into Louisiana roots music and the mysteries beyond perception, all infused with a distinctive Louisiana flavor.
The book explores the impact of insecure temporary employment on political preferences and behaviors in Europe. By integrating perspectives from psychology, political science, and labor market research, it presents innovative theories and empirical evidence that shed light on how such employment influences individuals' political engagement and choices.
Recommender systems (RS) are intended to assist consumers by making choices from a large scope of items. By recommending items with a high likelihood of suiting a consumer’s needs or preferences, they are able to considerably mitigate the information overload problem at the user’s side, thus increasing their trust in, satisfaction with, and loyalty to RS providers, such as online shops, internet music catalogs, and online DVD rental services. However, recommendations are prone to errors and often fail to address consumers’ context specific needs. Explanations of the underlying reasons behind recommendations can allow users to handle algorithmic errors in recommendations and to better judge their suitability for the users’ current decision contexts, thus increasing the choice efficiency and effectiveness. The latter, in turn, increases the users’ acceptance of and satisfaction with RS, as well as it positively affects consumers’ trust in, loyalty to, and credibility of RS providers. However, in order for these benefits of explanation facilities to surface, they should explain the recommendations in such terms that the consumers themselves use when evaluating their choices. The latter sets restrictions upon recommendation algorithms constraining them with respect to how recommendations should be produced and what information they should rely on. This interaction between RS and explanation facilities, however, was not covered by recent research on RS. Therefore, the aim of the current thesis is to narrow this gap and to develop a recommendation technique that accounts for the concurrent objectives of RS, i. e., a method which is capable of providing both accurately predicted recommendations and actionable explanations of the reasons behind them, so that the recommendation process is aligned with the user preference structures.