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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative …
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization a…
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Democracy and new media
Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse ab…
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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages).
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Analyzing international environmental regimes :from case study to database
Regime theory has become an increasingly influential approach to the analysis of international relations, particularly in the areas of international political economy and international environmental politics. The conceptual appeal of the idea of "governance without government"--in which a combination of different organizations and institutions supply governance to address specific problems--ref…
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- 9780262269230
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) :illustrations.
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Pattern recognition by self-organizing neural networks
Pattern Recognition by Self-Organizing Neural Networks presents the most recent advances in an area of research that is becoming vitally important in the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and neural networks in general. Pattern Recognition by Self-Organizing Neural Networks presents the most recent advances in an area of research that is becoming vitally imp…
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Artificial life IV :proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the S…
Held at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., July 6th-8th, 1994."A Bradford book.""The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and complex adaptive systems. The goal is to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizational principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) o…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Artificial life IX :proceedings of the ninth International Conference on the …
"A Bradford book."Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction. Some of the fundamental questions include:What are the princip…
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- 9780262291392
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 589 pages) :illustrations
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Dynamic faces: Insights from experiments and computation
The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual function with importance for social interaction and communication. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic faces from both biological and computational perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages): illustrations
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Attention and Performance XVII :cognitive regulation of performance, interact…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 814 pages) :illustrations, portrait.
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Control of cognitive processes :Attention and Performance XVIII
"Based on the papers presented at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, held at Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, July 12-18, 1998.""A Bradford book."One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resou…
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Convergent evolution :limited forms most beautiful
An analysis of convergent evolution from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life. Charles Darwin famously concluded On the Origin of Species with a vision of “endless forms most beautiful” continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary biologists see not endless forms but the same, or very similar, forms evol…
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