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The shape of actions :what humans and machines can do
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions. The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Pol…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) :illustrations
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Service to country :personnel policy and the transformation of Western milita…
Motivated, able, and well-trained military personnel are essential to the success of any military, and personnel policies are crucial to getting and keeping qualified servicemen and women. The transformation of personnel policies is an important element of the broader transformation occurring in Western militaries. Across Europe and North America, nations are embracing plans to change military …
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- 9780262273848
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 499 pages) :illustrations.
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Semi-supervised learning
A comprehensive review of an area of machine learning that deals with the use of unlabeled data in classification problems, this text looks at state-of-the-art algorithms, applications benchmark experiments, and directions for future research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255899
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) :illustrations.
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Self-representational approaches to consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) an…
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The road winds uphill all the way :gender, work, and family in the United Sta…
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- 0585077517
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages)
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Retooling :a historian confronts technological change
A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In …
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- 9780262286299
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- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
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Rethinking rights and regulations :institutional responses to new communicati…
The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post-bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)--traditionally a showcase for the best academic research on this topic--their work combines hard data and deep analysis …
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- 9780262270946
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- 1 online resource (xx, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Restriction and saturation
With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis o…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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Restoring trust in American business
"This book examines the failure of "gatekeepers"--Corporate directors, regulators, auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and business journalists - to stand between corporate misconduct and the public interest. Prominent scholars and corporate leaders argue that market pressures have made gatekeepers too focused on financial self-interest at the expense of the public good. Stronger professiona…
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Representing time in natural language :the dynamic interpretation of tense an…
"A Bradford book."Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent ye…
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