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Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investiga…
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific…
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- 1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) :illustrations
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Open access
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, a…
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- 9780262301732
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- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages).
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Eco-business :a big-brand takeover of sustainability
McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Today, big-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual "greenwashing" ef…
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- 9780262313063
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- 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) :illustrations
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Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance
The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists.High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid wages and low job mobility to an interaction of high taxes and generous social benefits that may discourage labor force pa…
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- 9780262266864
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :illustrations.
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Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives t…
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- 9780262271684
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages).
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Turks, Jews, and other Germans in contemporary art
"The first book to showcase and analyze the diversity of Germany's contemporary cultural production, while arguing against its myth of homogeneity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262365284
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Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior
"A Bradford book."This text provides an introduction to computational aspects of early vision, in particular, color, stereo, and visual navigation. It integrates approaches from psychophysics and quantitative neurobiology, as well as theories and algorithms from machine vision and photogrammetry. When presenting mathematical material, it uses detailed verbal descriptions and illustrations to cl…
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- 9780262278959
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- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Microprediction :building an open ai network
"The artificial intelligence revolution is leaving behind small businesses and organizations who cannot afford to hire in-house teams of data scientists to build bespoke models. This book explores the nature of repeated quantitative tasks driving business optimization, from the perspective of economics, statistics, decision making under uncertainty, and privacy preserving computation"--OCLC-lic…
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Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and conn…
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- 9780262273558
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