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Disaster robotics
This book acts as a guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. After an overview of rescue robotics in the context of emergency informatics, it provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots…
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- 9780262321303
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- 1 online resource (xvl, 224 pages) :illustrations.
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Borges and memory :encounters with the human brain
Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305877
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- 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) :illustrations
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A guide for the young economist
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model for what he advocates--William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presen…
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- 0585387907
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 330 THO g
HAL's legacy : 2001's computer as dream and reality
I became operational... in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative, nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the areas of computer science critical to the des…
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- 9780262284455
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 001 HAL
Ham radio's technical culture
Decades before the Internet, ham radio provided instantaneous, global, person-to-person communication. Hundreds of thousands of amateur radio operators—a predominantly male, middle- and upper-class group known as "hams"—built and operated two-way radios for recreation in mid twentieth century America. In Ham Radio's Technical Culture, Kristen Haring examines why so many men adopted the tech…
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- 9780262274968
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations.
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- 380 HAR h
A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African…
Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a r…
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- 0262162253
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations
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The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
"A Bradford Book.""Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 3…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 0262011972
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1290 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 HAN
Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition
A new edition of the essential resource on using functional neuroimaging techniques to study the neural basis of cognition, revised with the student in mind; thoroughly updated, with new chapters on fMRI physics, skill learning, emotion and social cognition, and other topics. This essential resource on neuroimaging provides an accessible and user-friendly introduction to the field written by le…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262316323
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- 1 online resource (x, 492 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
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- Cognitive Neuroscience
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- 610 HAN
Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteent…
An analysis of the intersection of science and music in nineteenth-century Germany: how music provided physicists with a venue for experiments as well as a cultural resource, and how physics assisted musicians in their art and musical instrument makers in.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276153
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- 1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : illustrations music.
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- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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- 700 JAC h
Head direction cells and the neural mechanisms of spatial orientation
"A Bradford book."Head direction cells -- neurons that fire only when an animal orients its head in a certain direction -- are found in several different brain areas, with different neurons selective for different head orientations; they are influenced by landmarks as well as motor and vestibular information concerning how the head moves through space. These properties suggest that head directi…
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- 9780262286169
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 480 pages) : illustrations.
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- 150
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