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Artificial Chemistries
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
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- 9780262329460
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- 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational …
An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question …
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- 9780262259071
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) :illustrations.
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Philosophy, technology, and the environment
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337991
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- 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
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Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice
An analysis of the role & influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative & implementation stages of environmental policy making, Keller draws on political theory & on empirical evidence from scientific reports, news coverage Congressional hearings & interviews.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258982
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- 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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Radio Frequency Source Coding Made Easy
Buku ini memperkenalkan Radio Frequency Source Coding kepada khalayak luas. Penulis memadukan teori dan praktik untuk memberikan pemahaman terkini kepada pembaca tentang konsep-konsep utama, prinsip-prinsip dasar, dan aplikasi praktis komunikasi nirkabel. Presentasi ini dirancang agar mudah diakses, meminimalkan matematika, dan memaksimalkan visual.;;; Memberikan pengantar yang ringkas dan muda…
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- 978-3-319-15609-5
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342728
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation
Mark Brown draws on canonical & contemporary political & scientific theory, from Machiavelli to Latour, to throw light on how scientific expertise may be brought into a representative democracy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258647
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages)
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