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Parallel MIMD computation :the HEP supercomputer and its applications
Experts in high-speed computation agree that the rapidly growing demand for more powerful computers can only be met by a radical change in computer architecture, a change from a single serial processor to an aggregation of many processors working in parallel. At present, our knowledge about multi-processor architectures, concurrent programming or parallel algorithms is very limited. This book d…
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- 9780262256537
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- 1 online resource (411 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond late development :Taiwan's upgrading policies
A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies.In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in m…
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- 9780262267106
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) :illustrations
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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisiti…
This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to o…
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- 0585360723
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- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages).
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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games
The authors describe a new approach to balancing flexibility and commitment in management strategy through the amalgamation of real options and game theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298711
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 488 pages) :illustrations
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Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283707527
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- 1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) :illustrations
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Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300216
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages).
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Financial innovation :too much or too little?
This text, which includes two contributions from Robert Shiller as well as a discussion of Shiller's 'MacroMarkets' tool, considers the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry; the postive potential but also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305495
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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Lee Kuan Yew : the grand master's insights on China, the United States, and t…
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990 has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262312735
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- 1 online resource (xxviiiI, 186 pages).
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Unemployment fluctuations and stabilization policies :a new Keynesian perspec…
A new approach for introducing unemployment into the New Keynesian framework. The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal consistency of dynamic general equilibrium models with such typically Keynesian assumptions as mono…
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- 9780262298797
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- 1 online resource (106 pages) :illustrations.
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The primacy of the subjective :foundations for a unified theory of mind and l…
A proposal that the concept of minimal content--a narrow, first-person, non-phenomenal concept--plays a necessary, pivotal, foundational, and unifying role in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.In this highly original monograph, Nicholas Georgalis proposes that the concept of minimal content is fundamental both to the philosophy of mind and to the philosophy of language. He a…
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- 9780262316279
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages)
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