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Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability
A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262312769
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- 1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
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Coding literacy how computer programming is changing writing
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analo…
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- 9780262340236
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- 1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Machine learning for data streams with practical examples in MOA
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346047
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Worried about the wrong things youth risk and opportunity in the digital world
It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online…
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- 9780262339339
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 339 pages) :illustrations.
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Agreement Beyond Phi
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338639
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Building and interpreting possession sentences
A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics."A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning. There is broad agreement in the field that there is some regularity in the way that lexical semantics and syntax are related, so that thematic roles (the d…
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- 9780262336130
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 454 pages)
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Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298537
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- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Changing minds changing tools :from learning theory to language acquisition t…
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition -- often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms -- is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains and well described by associative models. Synthesizing research in d…
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- 9780262346313
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- 1 online resource (viii, 380 pages)
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Native listening :language experience and the recognition of spoken words
An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements…
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- 9780262305457
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Zellig Harris :from American linguistics to socialist Zionism
The intersecting worlds of Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political mentor. In 1995, Robert Barsky met with Noam Chomsky to discuss hiswork-in-progress, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997). Chomsky told Barsky that he shouldfocus his attention instead on midcentury linguist and activist Zellig Harris, who was, Chomsky modestly insisted, more interesting than Cho…
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- 9780262295901
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