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In recent years, national and subnational law-makers and policy-makers have increasingly adopted measures to stimulate decentralised renewable energy generation, turning local and rural communities into prominent actors in the energy transition. The recast of the EU Renewable Energy Directive follows this trend, prompting all EU Member States to adopt measures to spearhead community energy. Yet to date, only a handful of ‘pioneer’ EU Member States – most saliently Denmark, Germany and the UK ...

First paragraph: SHEPHERD. … Just suppose yoursel speakin to some stranger or ither frae England, come to see Embro' – and astonish the weak native. NORTH. Stranger! wilt thou take us for thy guide … thou shalt have the history of many an ancient edifice — tradition after tradition, delightful or disastrous — unforgotten tales of tears and blood, wept and shed of old by lungs and princes and nobles of the land ? … Or threading our way through the gloom of lanes and alleys shall we touch your ...

Text mining and information visualisation techniques applied to large-scale historical and literary document collections have enabled new types of humanities research. The assumption behind such efforts is often that trends will emerge from the analysis despite errors for individual data points and that noise will be dominated by the signal in the data. However, for some text analysis tasks, the technology is unable to perform as well as domain experts, perhaps because it does not have suffic...

Traditionally, immersion and defamiliarization have been seen as describing opposing phenomena. Immersion has been conceived of as transparently directing attention toward what Marie-Laure Ryan referred to as the "language-independent reality" presented by a fictional text, while Uri Margolin has conceived of defamiliarization as directing the reader's attention to the artificial nature of the construction of the fictional world. In this article we set out to show that it is productive to dis...