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Internet telephony
Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks, services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to digital data, send it over available networked channels, and then convert it back to voice output. Traditional circuit-switching networks such as telephone lines can be used together with packet-switching networks such …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 395 pages) :illustrations
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Health informatics: A patient-centered approach to diabetes
In this work, experts in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes - a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system - to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289498
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 383 pages) :illustrations
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Discovering complexity: Decomposition and localization as strategies in scien…
"In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of 'choice points' that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic…
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- 9780262289177
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- 1 online resource (liv, 286 pages) :illustrations
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The Warcraft civilization: Social science in a virtual world
From the Publisher: World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hard, no princess to be rescued. WoW contains more than 5,000 possible quests, games within the game, and encompasses hundreds of separate parallel realms (computer serves, each of which can handle 4,000 players simultaneously). WoW is an immerse virtual world in which characters must cope in a dang…
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- 9780262267588
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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Brain fiction :self-deception and the riddle of confabulation
"A Bradford book."Includes information on amnesia, anosognosia, Anton's syndrome, autism, Capgras' syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, denial, emotion, Fregoli's syndrome, hypothalamus, Korsakoff's amnesia, Korsakoff's syndrome, limbic system, lying, memory, mirror image syndome, orbitofrontal cortex, etc.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275477
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- 1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) :illustrations.
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Types and tokens: On abstract objects
A consideration of the distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances, and an argument that types exist. There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. Words come in both types and tokens—for example, th…
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- 9780262259279
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 180 pages) :illustrations
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Inventing American history
American public history—in magazines and books, television documentaries, and museums—tends to celebrate its subject at all costs, even to the point of denial and distortion. This does us a great disservice, argues William Hogeland in Inventing American History. Looking at details glossed over in three examples of public history—the Alexander Hamilton revival, tributes to Pete Seeger and …
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- 9780262254960
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages).
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The Marketplace of Christianity
The Marketplace of Christianity applies the tools of economic theory to illuminate the emergence of Protestantism in the sixteenth century and to examine contemporary religion-influenced issues, including evolution and gay marriage. --From publisher's description.
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People and forests :communities, institutions, and governance
Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships for rural communities by destroying critical stocks of fuel, fodder, food, and building materials. It can also have profound regional and global consequences by contributing to biodiversity loss, erosion, floods, lowered water tables, and climate change. People and Fore…
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- 9780262273800
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Perception, cognition, and language :essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 360 pages) :illustrations
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