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Indefinite objects :scrambling, choice functions, and differential marking
A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; Lopez links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the …
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- 0262305631
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- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) :illustrations.
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Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Jus…
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- 9780262301657
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Greening Berlin :the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin,…
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Certified Programming with Dependent Types: A Pragmatic Introduction to the C…
A handbook to the Coq software for writing and checking mathematical proofs, with a practical engineering focus. The technology of mechanized program verification can play a supporting role in many kinds of research projects in computer science, and related tools for formal proof-checking are seeing increasing adoption in mathematics and engineering. This book provides an introduction to the Co…
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Innovation, dual use, and security :managing the risks of emerging biological…
Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a "dual-use dilemma" because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile purposes. The emerging field of synthetic genomics, for example, can produce custom DNA molecules for life-saving drugs but also makes possible the creation of deadly viral agent…
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Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI
"On September 2, 1971, the chemist Paul Lauterbur had an idea that would change the practice of medical research. Considering recent research findings about the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals to detect tumors in tissue samples, Lauterbur realized that the information from NMR signals could be recovered in the form of images -- and thus obtained noninvasively from a living subje…
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- 9781461939023
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- 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) :illustrations
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Ecstatic worlds :media, utopias, ecologies
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341141
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- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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Blowout in the Gulf :the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in Am…
Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294126
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) :illustrations
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The more we know :NBC news, educational innovation, and learning from failure
"In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia education…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 205 pages) :illustrations
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The practice of light :a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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