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Bio/Recursion: Exploring CS and Bioinformatics in R

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Report copyright infringementby Shawn T. O'Neil (Author)Bio/Recursion introduces topics in programming, computer science, and bioinformatics via examples in the R programming language. While often associated with statistics, Bio/Recursion employs R's algorithmic capabilities to implement and visualize several fascinating methods, ranging from DNA alignment to drawing fractal trees.Recursion (self-reference) provides a central theme, with topics spanning searching, sorting, data structures, pr...

Views Into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby John Preston (Editor), Mark Bishop (Editor)The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. Searle argued that, although machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output as would a mind, machines--unlike minds--lack understanding of the symbols they process. 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to his challenge...

Cognitive Dependability Engineering: Managing Risks in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems under Deep Uncertainty

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Report copyright infringementby Lech Bukowski (Author)The work is a context-oriented analysis and synthesis of complex engineered systems to ensure continuous and safe operations under conditions of uncertainty. The book is divided in four parts, the first one comprises an overview of the development of systems engineering: starting with basics of Systems Science and Single Systems Engineering, through System of Systems Engineering to Cognitive Systems Engineering. The Cognitive Systems Engin...

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Report copyright infringementby Arash Gharehbaghi (Author)Deep learning is an important element of artificial intelligence, especially in applications such as image classification in which various architectures of neural network, e.g., convolutional neural networks, have yielded reliable results. This book introduces deep learning for time series analysis, particularly for cyclic time series. It elaborates on the methods employed for time series analysis at the deep level of their architectur...

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: . . . and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory - Paperback

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by Guy Consolmagno (Author), Paul Mueller (Author)Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet."Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child's drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?" --Pope Francis, May, 2014 Pope Francis posed that question--without insisting on an answer --to provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Benton (Author), Bob Nicholls (Illustrator)Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were--or at least, they didn't look like you thought they did. In this new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton shows how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see these extinct beasts forever. Stunning new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls display the latest and m...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Wood (Author)The Java programming language has been one of the most exciting internet-friendly technologies to emerge in the last decade. Java Programming for Spatial Sciences introduces the subject to those who wish to use computers to handle information with a geographical element. The book introduces object-oriented modeling including key concepts such as abstraction, inheritance and encapsulation. It shows how these ideas can be used to model, process an...

Biosecurity in the Making: The Threats, the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

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Report copyright infringementby Manousos E. Kambouris (Editor)The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience, coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues, from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation, such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect, from...

Brain Computation as Hierarchical Abstraction

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Report copyright infringementby Dana H. Ballard (Author)An argument that the complexities of brain function can be understood hierarchically, in terms of different levels of abstraction, as silicon computing is.The vast differences between the brain's neural circuitry and a computer's silicon circuitry might suggest that they have nothing in common. In fact, as Dana Ballard argues in this book, computational tools are essential for understanding brain function. Ballard shows that the hierarch...

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Report copyright infringementby Scientific American (Author)Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.1 x 5.28 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 08, 2007

Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Dash (Author)Explore the Borderlands... * The charred remains of Helen Conway, whose body "exploded." Was this a case of spontaneous combustion?* Discoveries of 130-foot-long boa constrictors and twelve-foot giant kangaroos. What other species have gone undiscovered?*In England, a town is pelted from the sky by hundreds of tiny rose-colored frogs. Is this a one-time event, an omen, or a bizarre natural phenomenon? Near-death experiences...lake monsters...c...

Countdown to Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration of the End of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Halpern (Author)Inspired by the end of the millennium, celebrated science writer Paul Halpern tackles the fate of human civilization and our planet in this meditation on the end of the world. Beginning with the religious origins of the idea of apocalypse, Halpern shows how science has borrowed the metaphor to describe potential worldwide catastrophes. He spins out various scenarios for destruction, from nuclear war and global warming to a great flood and a...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)Explore the intersection of art and science with John Ruskin's "The Eagle's Nest." This meticulously prepared print edition presents Ruskin's ten lectures delivered at Oxford University in 1872, exploring the fascinating relationship between natural science and artistic creation. Ruskin, a towering figure in art history and aesthetics, delves into how our understanding of the natural world shapes our perception and informs the artistic proce...

Historic Hotels of the World: Past and Present - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Robert B. Ludy (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number o...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Goodall (Author), Phillip Berman (With)From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope. Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity. Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordi...

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Steffanie Strathdee (Author), Thomas Patterson (Author), Teresa Barker (With)A "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Cullingworth (Author), Simin Davoudi (Author), David Webb (Author)Town and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices. This 16th edition has been substantially revised and re-organised to provide an up-to-date overview of the planning systems in the four nations of the UK, supported by analyses, interpretations, illus...

Landfilling of Waste: Leachate - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby T. H. Christensen (Editor), R. Cossu (Editor), R. Stegmann (Editor)This is one of a group of international reference books addressing the problem of landfilling of waste. This book specifically covers the strongly contaminated wastewater developed from landfills.Author BiographyT.H. Christensen is Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. Number of Pages: 540 Dimen...

Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East

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Report copyright infringementby Max D. Price (Author)Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book adopts an evolutionary approach that relies on zooarchaeology and texts to unravel the cultural significance of swine in the Near East from the Paleolithic to the present day. Five major themes ...

Bad Data: Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter - Hardcover

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by Peter Schryvers (Author)Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it.The author, an expert in environmental design and city planning, examines the many ways in which we measure ourselves and our world. He dissects the metrics we apply to health, worker productivity, our children's education, the quality of our environme...

The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space - Paperback

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by Michelle Evans (Author), Joe H. Engle (Foreword by)With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitemen...

Forays into Hyperspace: From Borneo to Berkeley and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Saul-Paul Sirag (Author)"Forays Through Hyperspace" is a romp through mid-20th century culture-from Japanese concentration camps in Java during WWII into the mathematics of hyperspace. Saul-Paul Sirag was raised as a Christian missionary but after graduating from seminary studied pre-med for a year before moving to U.C. Berkeley, where he discovered theater. He hopped a freight train to New York. There he produced an Off-Off-Broadway play. Back in Berkeley, he ...

Becoming Ecological: Navigating Language and Meaning for Our Planet's Future

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Gladwin (Author), Kedrick James (Author)Our lives are profoundly connected to the planet's unfolding ecological crisis, and the language we use--our words, stories, conversations, and beliefs--determines our ability to respond.Becoming Ecological offers a fresh and empowering perspective on the natural world by insisting that our relationship with language can transform issues of sustainability and environmental catastrophe. The book explores how language...

God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos - Hardcover

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by Victor J. Stenger (Author)Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse-a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. Victor Stenger reviews the key developments in the history of science that led to the current consensus view of astrophysicists, taking pains to explain essential concepts and discoveries in accessible terminolog...

A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes)

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Blust (Author)This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC. It fills a critical gap in scholarship on these languages by bringing together a large body of data in one place, and by discussing some of the theoretical issues that arise in analyzing this data. Following an introduction which presents the topic, it includes a crit...

Discovering Australian Flora: An Australian National Botanic Gardens Experience - Paperback

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by Ian Fraser (Foreword by), Fanny Karouta-Manasse (Author)Australia's complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardens across the continent. Through exquisite color photographs taken at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) or during field trips with the National Seed Bank, Fanny Karouta-Manasse celebrates the minute and intriguing details of these plants. This second edition of Discovering Australian Flora explains how plants are displayed in the ANBG a...

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Marion Faber (Editor), Marion Faber (Translator)Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a l...

Off-Grid Solar Power Systems Beginners: A Technical Guide on How to Design, Install and maintain Off Grid & On Grid Systems for Your Home, Tiny House,

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Report copyright infringementby Den Collier (Author)Bring power to your DIY off-grid living by following these 6 simple steps! Ever since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have dominated progress across the whole world, bringing a dramatic shift to how machines operate, how vehicles move, and how people have light in their lives - everything thanks to the power of fossil fuels. Today, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 80% of domestic energy production, as well as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian A. Walmsley (Author)Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost universal shared sensation of vision has led to a fascination with the nature and properties of light across the ages. But the light we see is just a small part of the whole spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, ranging from radio waves to gamma r...

400 Ejercicios Resueltos de Física Universitaria: Práctico para alumnos y profesores - Paperback

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by Gregorio Chenlo Romero (Author)400 Ejercicios Resueltos de Física Universitaria[ALSO IN ENGLISH: "400 Solved Exercises of University Physics"]Excelente manual práctico y de auto ayuda, con ejercicios reales para la inmensa mayoría de las materias impartidas en la asignatura de Física, incluida en el 1er curso de las Carreras Universitarias en las Facultades de Ciencias y en las que ésta es fundamental: Física, Química, Biología, Geología, Matemáticas, Ingenierías, etc.Con el uso de este li...

Multimodal Treatment Approach - Fibromyalgia

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Report copyright infringementby Mohit Rana (Author)Fibromyalgia (FM) is defined as widespread chronic pain for more than three months and the presence of tender points in all the four quadrants of the body. Chronic pain in FM is of muscle origin, in a constant state of pain; pain does no longer fulfill a protective function but represents a pathological condition with devastating effects on quality of life. Several researchers demonstrated the personal effects of their therapeutic techniques....

Your Luck's in Your Hand, or The Science of Modern Palmistry: Chiefly According to the Systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, With Some Account of

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Craig (Created by)Explore the art and science of palmistry through this detailed guide by A. R Craig. Chiefly based on the systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, this book also includes some information on the fascinating history of gypsies.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly...