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The future of Europe : reform or decline
Includes index.A provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266949
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- 1 online resource (x, 186 pages) :illustrations
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- 330 ALE f
Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…
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- 9780262281355
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations.
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- 340 PEL g
Gaussian processes for machine learning
"Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, tar…
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- 9780262256834
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations.
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- 510 RAS g
Gene regulation and metabolism : postgenomic computational approaches
As exciting as the new field of genomics is, it has not yet produced a basic conceptual change in biology. The fundamental problems remain: the origin of life, cell organization, the pathways of differentiation, aging, and the molecular and cellular capabilities of the brain. What has occurred is an explosion of molecular information obtained by genomic sequences, which will soon be followed by…
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- 9780262270649
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- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations.
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- 570 GEN
Generating language-based environments
"An MIT Press classic."Facsim. of ed. originally published: ?1984.This book addresses a fundamental software engineering issue, applying formal techniques and rigorous analysis to a practical problem of great current interest: the incorporation of language-specific knowledge in interactive programming environments. It makes a basic contribution in this area by proposing an attribute-grammar fra…
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- 0262256851
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- 1 online resource (138 pages)
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Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the inte…
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280129
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- 1 online resource (xv, 347 pages)
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- 302 MON g
Generational policy
How generational policy affects the sustainability of a government's fiscal policy.In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of genera…
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- 9780262277532
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages).
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- 330 KOT g
The generative lexicon
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning…
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- 9780262281966
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- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages).
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The genesis of animal play : testing the limits
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral organization, and psychology. Is play essential to development? Is it the driving force behind human and animal behavior? What is the proper place for the study of play in the cognitive, behavioral…
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- 9780262269551
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations
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Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation
"Dahlem Workshop reports"--Cover."Report of the 90th Dahlem Workshop on Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Berlin, June 23-28, 2002."The latest interdisciplinary research on the evolutionary models of cooperation.Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that…
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- 9780262274821
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 485 pages) : illustrations
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- 330 GEN
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