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Experiments in the machine interpretation of visual motion
If robots are to act intelligently in everyday environments, they must have a perception of motion and its consequences. This book describes experimental advances made in the interpretation of visual motion over the last few years that have moved researchers closer to emulating the way in which we recover information about the surrounding world. It describes algorithms that form a complete, imp…
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- 9780262280372
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- 1 online resource (236 pages) :illustrations.
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Explaining behavior: reasons in a world of causes
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271967
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- 1 online resource (xi, 165 pages)
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Exploring Science: The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes
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- 9780262277228
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazi…
A great deal of research has focused on the role of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups in promoting environmental ideologies. Researchers and activists have generally assumed antienvironmental and antiregulatory stances on the part of corporations. Exporting Environmentalism is the first book to examine industry's transnational promotion of environmental ideas and p…
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- 9780262273541
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages).
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Fair division and collective welfare
The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distribu…
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- 9780262280297
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- 1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) :illustrations
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Fairness in adaptation to climate change
Interdisciplinary scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change does not place unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266819
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) :illustrations
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A few good men from Univac
In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday of early computing, the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestone computer systems as the Univac and the Naval Tactical Data System the exploits of CDC's top designer Seymour Cray, and the gradual corporate shift from the exciting and technically interesting world of computer des…
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- 9780262256599
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- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Financial policies in emerging markets
An overview of the financial vulnerability of emerging market economies and how the impact of exchange rate regimes affects this vulnerability.The 1994-1995 Mexican crisis was the first in a succession of financial crises to hit emerging markets in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey. In almost all these cases, problems in the banking sector played …
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- 9780262268691
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- 1 online resource (vi, 259 pages) :illustrations
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Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present
Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding gap in the existing literature on technology-driven industrial development, discussing the interaction of finance and technological innovat.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277884
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- 1 online resource (1 volume)
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The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious …
Recent advances in the study of visual cognition and consciousness have dealt primarily with steady-state properties of visual processing, with little attention to its dynamic aspects. The First Half Second brings together for the first time the latest research on the dynamics of conscious and unconscious processing of visual information, examining the time-course of visual processes from the m…
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- 9780262316293
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- 1 online resource (vii, 410 pages) :illustrations
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