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Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests
The controversial subject of this book is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of emotional attachments, that make them unique among species. Although other animals can think, suffer, and have needs, the interests of members of the human species should triumph over comparable interests of member…
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Magnetic Circuits and Transformers: A First Course for Power and Communicatio…
"This is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is one of the three techniques thus far developed for efficient communication over noisy channels with an arbitrarily low probability of error. A principal result of information theory is that if properly coded information is transmitted over a noisy channel at a rat…
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Magnetohydrodynamic Shock Waves
"Machine Models of Music brings together representative models ranging from Mozart's "Musical Dice Game" to a classic article by Marvin Minsky and current research to illustrate the rich impact that artificial intelligence has had on the understanding and composition of traditional music and to demonstrate the ways in which music can push the boundaries of traditional Al research. Major section…
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Making A Middle Landscape
"Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a systematic foundation of musical knowledge. This book explores the technology of implementing musical processes such as segmentation, pattern process…
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Data-parallel programming on MIMD computers
Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates that architecture-independent parallel programming is possible by describing in detail how programs written in a high-level SIMD programming language may be compiled and efficiently executed-on both shared-memory multiprocessors and distributed-memory multicomputers.MIMD computers are notoriously difficult to program. Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates…
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De Lingua Belief
"A Bradford book."An investigation into the beliefs speakers have about language-their de lingua beliefs-that examines the genesis of these beliefs and the central explanatory role they play in the use and understanding of language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology
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Intervention in the Brain: Politics, Policy, and Ethics
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics
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How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design
An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games
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Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled
Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a ""middle landscape"" between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia - complete with theoretical underpinnings…
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