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The long arm of Moore's law :microelectronics and American science
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short…
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Plantations and protected areas :a global history of forest management
"This book offers a historical perspective on the global proliferation of protected forest areas and productive timber plantations. It argues that a forest management divergence--the separation of wood production from the protection of forests--has occurred during the twentieth century as a result of globalisation. The book shows how plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then underm…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) :illustrations.
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Self-tracking
People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, l…
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- 9780262334693
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- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Here/there :telepresence, touch, and art at the interface
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current ""drone vision"" works.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338240
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) :illustrations.
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Creating language :integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334778
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Crowdsourced health :how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine
Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doct…
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- 9780262334808
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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Preterm babies, fetal patients, and childbearing choices
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United States remains high--even though more women have access to prenatal care now than three decades ago. They also analyze a puzzling paradox: why, e…
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- 9780262330800
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- 1 online resource (x, 215 pages).
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The economics of infrastructure provisioning :the changing role of the state
The complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructures, including empirical research, analytical models, and theoretical insights.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330831
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- 1 online resource (vii, 516 pages).
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Dirty gold :how activism transformed the jewelry industry
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has fund…
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- 9780262337960
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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