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Heredity produced : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500…
The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations. Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individu…
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- 9780262280334
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- 1 online resource (x, 496 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
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- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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- 580 HER
Heterogeneous agent systems
Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans, software agents act autonomously with prescribed backgrounds, beliefs, and operations. Systems of agents can access and manipulate heterogeneously s…
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- 9780262284561
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 580 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 SUB h
Heuristics and the law
"Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--Page ii.Series from jacket.Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273824
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 485 pages) : illustrations.
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- Dahlem Workshop Reports
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- 340 HEU
Principles of neural design
"Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to…
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- 9780262327312
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 542 pages) :illustrations
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High-level motion processing : computational, neurobiological, and psychophys…
"A Bradford book."Motion perception is fundamental to survival. Until recently, research on motion perception emphasized such basic aspects of motion as sampling and filtering. In the past decade, however, the emphasis has gradually shifted to higher-level motion processing--i.e., processing that takes place not only in the primary visual cortex but also in the "higher" or more complicated part…
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- 9780262285841
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- 1 online resource (xi, 417 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 HIG
High-level vision : object recognition and visual cognition
"A Bradford book."In this book, Shimon Ullman focuses on the processes of high-level vision that deal with the interpretation and use of what is seen in the image. In particular, he examines two major problems. The first, object recognition and classification, involves recognizing objects despite large variations in appearance caused by changes in viewing position, illumination, occlusion, and …
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- 9780262285353
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 412 pages) : illustrations
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- 006 ULL h
Genetic influences on addiction :an intermediate phenotype approach
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific genetic variables linked to risk or resilience remain elusive. Understanding how genetic factors co…
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- 9780262314541
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- 1 online resource (x, 386 pages) :illustrations
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The philosophical challenge from China
Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262323628
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 393 pages)
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The evolving role of China in the global economy
Title from title screen.Experts analyze four factors in China's economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investments, monetary policy, and foreign direct investments. China is now the world's second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world's largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a "socialist-market economy," su…
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- 9780262305860
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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Going alone :the case for relaxed reciprocity in freeing trade
An analytic and empirical study of unilateral trade liberalization agreements, from the nineteenth century to the present.Since the end of World War II, the freeing of trade has been most visible in reciprocal liberalization agreements negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, and through increasing bilateral and plurilateral agreements. There has also, however, been…
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- 9780262268455
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- 1 online resource (xii, 586 pages) : illustrations
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