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On the syntactic composition of manner and motion
Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, and Romance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286657
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- 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) :illustrations.
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Computationalism: New Directions
A new computationalist view of the mind that takes into account real-world issues of embodiment, interaction, physical implementation, and semantics. Classical computationalism—-the view that mental states are computational states—-has come under attack in recent years. Critics claim that in defining computation solely in abstract, syntactic terms, computationalism neglects the real-time…
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- 9780262283106
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- 004 SCH c
Sidewalks :conflict and negotiation over public space
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses--from the right to sit to the right to parade--have been negotiated.Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade aft…
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- 9780262255462
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- 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Constraint-Based Reasoning
"A Bradford book."Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, volume 58, numbers 1-3, 1992.Constraint-based reasoning is an important area of automated reasoning in artificial intelligence, with many applications. These include configuration and design problems, planning and scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning, defeasible and causal reasoning, machine vision and language understanding, quali…
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- 9780262288446
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- 1 online resource (403 pages) :illustrations
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Advances in neural information processing systems 14 :proceedings of the 2001…
"This volume contains the papers presented at the fifteenth annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, held in British Columbia, Canada from Dec 3 through 8, 2001--Preface."A Bradford book."The proceedings of the 2001 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference.The annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is the flagship conference on ne…
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- 9780262271738
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes (1594 pages)) :illustrations
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Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems :a component-based pers…
Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and hete…
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- 9780262257138
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Culture and Subjective Well-Being
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).
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- 9780262316194
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- 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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At a distance :precursors to art and activism on the Internet
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for…
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- 9780262270144
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations.
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Human footprints on the global environment: Threats to sustainability
"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of resea…
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- 9780262259163
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- 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) :illustrations
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Firms in the International Economy :Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Bu…
International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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