Christopher Flinn presents an introduction to a search & bargaining model that can be used to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes & to determine an 'optimal' minimum wage."The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimizatio…
"Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, tar…
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Syn…
Topik “Kualitas dan Perubahan dalam Pendidikan Guru; Perspektif Barat dan Tiongkok” mengeksplorasi perbedaan dan persamaan pendekatan pendidikan guru antara konteks Barat dan Tiongkok. Kemungkinan besar diskusi ini membahas berbagai aspek seperti pengembangan kurikulum, metodologi pengajaran, filosofi pendidikan, dan integrasi teknologi dalam pelatihan guru. Analisis komparatif ini memberik…
Christopher R. Henke reveals how agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated - and struggled - in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.