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Software studies :a lexicon
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273343
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations.
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Natural experiments :ecosystem-based management and the environment
This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278010
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) :maps.
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Mining the biomedical literature
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305167
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- 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages) :illustrations.
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Standard Basque :a progressive grammar
Vol. 2: by Rudolf P.G. de Rijk and Armand De Coene.The first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two volumes: Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials.A pre-Indo-European language with no known relatives, the Basque language survives in the Basque region of Spain and France, with about half a m…
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- 9780262271356
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes) :map.
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Social modeling for requirements engineering
Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements en…
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- 0262289830
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- 1 online resource (vi, 736 pages) :illustrations.
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Origins of human communication
"A Bradford book.""In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285070
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) :illustrations.
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Minimum wages
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increas…
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- 9780262280563
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- 1 online resource (377 pages) :illustrations
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Biomedical signal analysis :contemporary methods and applications
"Biomedical signal analysis has become one of the most important visualization and interpretation methods in biology and medicine. Many new and powerful instruments for detecting, storing, transmitting, analyzing, and displaying images have been developed in recent years, allowing scientists and physicians to obtain quantitative measurements to support scientific hypotheses and medical diagnose…
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- 9780262259248
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Algorithmic program debugging
Productively combines elements of programming languages, environments, logic, and inductive inference to produce effective debugging aids. Its use of the PROLOG language provides an efficient implementation of the debugging algorithms.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262256967
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages).
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Algebraic semantics of imperative programs
Algebraic Semantics of Imperative Programs presents a self-contained and novel "executable" introduction to formal reasoning about imperative programs. The authors' primary goal is to improve programming ability by improving intuition about what programs mean and how they run. The semantics of imperative programs is specified in a formal, implemented notation, the language OBJ; this makes the s…
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- 0262288451
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- 1 online resource (vii, 228 pages) :illustrations.
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