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Advanced research in VLSI :proceedings of the fifth MIT conference, March 1988
Papers presented at the Fifth MIT Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, organized by the Microsystems Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held in Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 1988.The field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex integrated circuits. The research collected here comes from many disciplines,…
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- 9780262255608
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- 1 online resource (vii, 366 pages) :illustrations
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Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Non…
The global stockpile, continued production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium facilitates proliferation, increases the risk of nuclear terrorism and is an obstacle to achieving irreversible nuclear disarmament. The book explains how these materials are used, describes the histories of fissile material production for weapons, provides an overview of the current global stockpile of …
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- 9780262319188
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- 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) :illustrations, map
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Control : digitality as cultural logic
An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331135
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 211 pages).
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Phrase structure composition and syntactic dependencies
"A Bradford Book."In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally…
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- 9780262273060
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Global environmental governance reconsidered
An examination of three major trends in global governance, exemplified by developments in transnational environmental rule-setting.The notion of global governance is widely studied in academia and increasingly relevant to politics and policy making. Yet many of its fundamental elements remain unclear in both theory and practice. This book offers a fresh perspective by analyzing global governanc…
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- 9780262305709
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages).
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The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences /;The MIT encyclopedia of comm…
"A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis. …
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- 9780262338165
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Human robotics :neuromechanics and motor control
This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach -- which uses the framework of robotics to understand sensorimotor control problems -- offers a more complete and accurate description than either a purely neural computational approach or a purely …
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- 9780262314817
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- 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) :illustrations
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nternational Currency Exposure
Issues in debates about foreign currency exposure -- the denomination of liabilities or assets in foreign currency.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340922
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The price of smoking
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime—including both private costs to the smoker and costs …
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- 9780262283793
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- 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) :illustrations
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New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the…
A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337410
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages).
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