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The Turing test :verbal behavior as the hallmark of intelligence
"A Bradford book.""The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture - it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play Breaking the Code to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Compu…
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- 0262256975
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- 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages)
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Music and probability
Exploring the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling techniques to musical issues, including the perception of key and meter.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262257077
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- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) :illustrations, music
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Fundamental tax reform :issues, choices, and implications
Papers presented at a conference held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, in Apr. 2006.In this work, experts on tax policy examine the complex issues involved in fundamental tax reform, including the relative merits of income-based and consumption-based taxation. Other papers consider topics such as the effect of tax reform on businesses, especially on thei…
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- 9780262271707
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- 1 online resource (xx, 546 pages) :illustrations
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Far-fetched facts :a parable of development aid
Translated from the German.This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255035
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 235 pages) :illustrations.
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Food and the mid-level farm :renewing an agriculture of the middle
Discussing strategies for reviving an 'agriculture in the middle' and creating a food system that works for midsize farms and ranches, this book considers the ways midsize farms can regain vitality by scaling up aspects of small farms' operations to connect with consumers and develop food supply chains that preserve farmer identity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278751
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Locality in vowel harmony
This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280570
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- 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Hypothesis A-Hypothesis B :Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlm…
Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology. Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by the work of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as the founder (with Paul Postal) of Relational Grammar, but he has…
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- 9780262258807
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- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 491 pages) :illustrations.
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Progress in bioethics :science, policy, and politics
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- 9780262322560
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- 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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Environmental justice in Latin America :problems, promise, and practice
Issues of environmental justice form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. This work investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that exaime both the promise and the limits of the movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Psychological agency :theory, practice, and culture
A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience. Agency is a central psychological phenomenon that must be accounted for in any explanatory framework for human action. According to the diverse group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have contributed chapters to this book, p…
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- 9780262273220
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- 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages)
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