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Systems That Learn: An Introduction to Learning Theory for Cognitive and Comp…
A Bradford book. Systems That Learn presents a mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains. It provides the basic concepts and techniques of learning theory as well as a comprehensive account of what is currently known about a variety of learning paradigms.Daniel N. Osherson and Scott Weinstein are at MIT, and Michael Stob at Calvin College."OCLC-licensed vendor bib…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages).
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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace
Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines. A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China—home to the world's largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world's most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspa…
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Systems That Learn: An Introduction to Learning Theory
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262276252
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- 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) :illustrations.
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State and environment :the comparative study of environmental governance
This volume of comparative studies documents the continuing relevance of the state in environmental politics and policy. The book also demonstrates the analytical power of the comparative approach to the study of environmental politics and policy, offering cross-national comparisons of environmental governance in both developed and developing countries. Some chapters are based on qualitative st…
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Our own worst enemy? :institutional interests and the proliferation of nuclea…
An examination of the effectiveness of knowledge nonproliferation programs implemented by the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) :maps.
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Taking Action: Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Intentional Acts
A Bradford book."Recent cognitive neuroscientific research that crosses traditional conceptual boundaries among perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions in an effort to understand intentional acts. Traditionally, neurologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists have viewed brain functions as grossly divisible into three separable components, each responsible for either perceptual, cognitive, …
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- 1 online resource (viii, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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101 Things to Learn in Art School
Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist. What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance bet…
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Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, a…
Today at least twenty-five major U.S. cities have pursued some form of sustainability initiative. Although many case studies and "how-to" manuals have been published, there has been little systematic comparison of these cities' programs and initiatives. In this book Kent Portney lays the theoretical groundwork for research on what works and what does not, and why. Distinguishing cities on the b…
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The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention
How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka. Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate information as the “Arab Spring” began to unfold in 2010. Less well known, but with just as much potential to bring about social change, are ongoing local efforts to us…
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Brain and the gaze :on the active boundaries of vision
A radically integrative account of visual perception, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology. How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements of the eyes, the direction of our gaze, …
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 290 pages) :illustrations
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