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Technoscience in history :Prussia, 1750-1850
"Thoroughly researched scholarly monograph arguing that technoscience began/formed much earlier than currently agreed in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359474
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An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India
"In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu -- a theorist, with special interest in development economics, and a professor of economics at Cornell University -- discovered the com…
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- 9780262331678
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- 1 online resource (240 pages) :illustrations
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Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048
A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi -- composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331111
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 340 pages) :illustrations.
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Log-Linear Models, Extensions, and Applications
Log-linear models play a key role in modern big data and machine learning applications. From simple binary classification models through partition functions, conditional random fields, and neural nets, log-linear structure is closely related to performance in certain applications and influences fitting techniques used to train models. This volume covers recent advances in training models with l…
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- 9780262351607
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Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key i…
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- 9780262322126
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Productivity and Reuse in Language: A Theory of Linguistic Computation and St…
"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines these stored units on the fly to create a potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language lear…
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- 9780262326803
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- 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) :illustrations
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What Have We Learned?: Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis
Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to rethink basic theory. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate and one of this volume's editors, compares the cr…
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- 9780262323444
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- 1 online resource (vii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
"How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic th…
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- 0262321068
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
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Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
The evolution of a set of fields -- including operations research and systems analysis -- intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262324175
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- 1 online resource (xi, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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