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Fertility and public policy: How to reverse the trend of declining birth rates
Here, experts discuss the appropriateness and effectiveness using public policy to influence fertility decisions. The chapters show that it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of policy interventions such as child-care subsidies, support for women's labour-force participation, and tax incentives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295659
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- 1 online resource (vi, 283 pages) :illustrations.
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Addiction and responsibility
This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors dicuss questions concerning whether or not we are responsible for our own addictions and what responsibilities others have to help.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295635
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations.
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Estimation and Control with Quantized Measurements
In Estimation and Control with Quantized Measurements, Dr. Curry examines the two distinct but related problems of state variable estimation and control when the measurements are quantized. Consideration is limited to discrete-time problems, and emphasis is placed on coarsely quantized measurements and linear, possibly time-varying systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255967
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- 1 online resource (xii, 125 pages) :illustrations.
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A Two-Tiered Theory of Control
"This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and mechanism. Idan Landau argues that control complements divide into two types: In attitude contexts, control is established by logophoric anchoring, while non-attitude contexts it …
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- 9780262327251
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- 1 online resource (x, 114 pages) :illustrations.
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326100
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- 1 online resource (viii, 456 pages) :illustrations.
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Why nuclear disarmament matters /
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
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Neural control engineering: The emerging intersection between control theory …
How powerful new methods in nonlinear control engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advanced medical applications.Over the past sixty years, powerful methods of model-based control engineering have been responsible for such dramatic advances in engineering systems as autolanding aircraft, autonomous vehicles, and even weather forecasting. Over those s…
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- 9780262312080
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Neural networks for control
"A Bradford book.""Based on a workshop held at the University of New Hampshire in October, 1988, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and entitled 'The application of neural networks to robotics and control'"--Preface."Neural Networks for Control brings together examples of all the most important paradigms for the application of neural networks to robotics and control. Primarily concer…
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- 9780262291293
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 524 pages) :illustrations.
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Mechanical sound : Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the T…
'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments.
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A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control
This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …
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- 9780262255615
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) :illustrations.
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