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The New Science of Cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.
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- 9780262318235
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The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
"A Bradford Book.""Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 3…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 0262011972
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1290 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 HAN
Graphical models :foundations of neural computation
"A Bradford book."Graphical models use graphs to represent and manipulate joint probability distributions. They have their roots in artificial intelligence, statistics, and neural networks. The clean mathematical formalism of the graphical models framework makes it possible to understand a wide variety of network-based approaches to computation, and in particular to understand many neural netwo…
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- 0262291207
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 421 pages) : illustrations
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- Computational Neuroscience Series
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Green giants? :environmental policies of the United States and the European U…
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of Ameri…
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- 9780262285544
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages)
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- American and Comparative Environmental Policy
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The environment :philosophy, science, and ethics
Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own cond…
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- 9780262301770
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- 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain
"A Bradford book.""The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must have its fundamental co…
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- 9780262320672
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3000.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy;http://www.…
Annotation Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms hav…
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- 9780262269872
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- 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) :illustrations
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Household portfolios
Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant as…
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- 9780262274517
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- 1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations
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- 658 HOU
Image and brain : the resolution of the imagery debate
"A Bradford book."Kosslyn (psychology, Harvard U.) presents a 20-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery -- offering his research as a definitive resolution of the long-standing "imagery debate," which centers on the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. He combines insights and empirical results from computer vision, neurobiology, a…
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- 9780262277488
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- 1 online resource (viii, 516 pages) : illustrations
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In-depth understanding : a computer model of integrated processing for narrat…
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Yale University, 1982).This book describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for understanding complex narrative texts. The theory is implemented as a computer program called BORIS which reads and answers questions about divorce, legal disputes, personal favors, and the like. The system is unique in attempting to understan…
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- 0262256061
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 458 pages).
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- Artificial Intelligence Series
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- 001 DYE i
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