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The conscious mind
An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech."How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essent…
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- 9780262319300
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- 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages).
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Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as…
A Bradford book.""This book has its origins in a meeting, entitled "Toward replacement parts for the brain: intracranial implantations of hardward models of neural circuitry" that took place in Washington, D.C. in August 1989"--Preface.The continuing development of implantable neural prostheses signals a new era in bioengineering and neuroscience research. This collection of essays outlines cur…
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- 9780262268226
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- 1 online resource (ix, 405 pages) :illustrations
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Children with Specific Language Impairment (Second Edition)
"A Bradford book.""The first edition of this work established Children with Specific Language Impairment as the landmark reference on this condition, considering not only the disorder's history, possible origins, and treatment but also what SLI might tell us about language organization and development in general. This second edition offers a complete update of the earlier volume. Much of the se…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262324021
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations.
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Progress in High-Efficient Solution Process Organic Photovoltaic Devices; Fun…
Dengan pertumbuhan populasi dunia dan upaya untuk meningkatkan standar hidup manusia, energi telah menjadi salah satu tantangan global terbesar. Ketergantungan yang saat ini dominan terhadap bahan bakar fosil tidak hanya mempercepat penipisan sumber daya alam, tetapi juga menyebabkan dampak lingkungan dan iklim yang parah. Di antara semua sumber energi terbarukan, matahari adalah sumber energi …
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- 978-3-662-45509-8
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- Fisika Terapan
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- 621.31 YAN p
Neurophilosophy :toward a unified science of the mind-brain.
Five chapters in the book's first part, "Some Elementary Neuroscience," sketch the history of the science of nervous systems and provide a general introduction to neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology. In the second part, "Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science," chapters place the mind-body problem within the wider context of the philosophy of science. Drawing on recent …
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- 9780262315944
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind
The mainstays of brain imaging techniques have been positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and event-related potentials (ERPs). These methods all record direct or indirect measures of brain activity and correlate the activity patterns with behavior. But to go beyond the correlations established by these techniques and prov…
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- 9780262285735
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- 1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) :illustrations.
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Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China
Accompanying CD-ROM contains appendices.--cf. label.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275484
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 387 pages) :illustrations, maps (some color)
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Eco-business :a big-brand takeover of sustainability
McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Today, big-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual "greenwashing" ef…
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- 9780262313063
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- 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) :illustrations
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Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
The dangers of a United States government plan to abandon its fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military uses of nuclear technology separate.In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military …
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- 9780262268233
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- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) :illustrations
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Uncertain archives :critical keywords for big data
"The ambition of this book is to examine in close detail the whole range of epistemological, political and ethical uncertainties that are being raised by big data in our time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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