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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments
Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-end…
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Peace parks :conservation and conflict resolution
An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zon…
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- 9780262266970
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- 1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Introduction to statistical relational learning
"Index" : an online index is available on the book webpage at http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/index.htm.Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material, tutorials for different proposed approaches, and applications.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256230
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- 1 online resource (ix, 586 pages) :illustrations.
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Service-oriented computing
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a computing paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. Realizing the SOC promise requires the…
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- 9780262273671
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- 1 online resource (vi, 378 pages) :illustrations.
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Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and conn…
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- 9780262273558
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations
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Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expan…
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- 9780262273442
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- 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Concurrent constraint programming
Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on concurrent logic programming and that offer a promising approach for treating thorny issues in the semantics of concurrent, nondeterministic programming languages. Saraswat develops an elegant and…
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- 9780262290975
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- 1 online resource (xl, 486 pages) :illustrations.
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Conditionals
"A Bradford Book."A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282321
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- 1 online resource (246 pages) :illustrations
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Modeling biology :structures, behavior, evolution
Experts examine new modeling strategies for the interpretation of biological data and their integration into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, detailing approaches that focus on morphology, development, behavior, or evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262297011
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- 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital citizenship :the internet, society, and participation
This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280280
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- 1 online resource (x, 221 pages) :illustrations
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