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The land that could be :environmentalism and democracy in the twenty-first ce…
"In this book environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating …
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- 9780262283618
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- 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages).
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Labor and the environmental movement :the quest for common ground
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
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- 9780262280938
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages).
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 9780262282314
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge engineering and management :the CommonKADS methodology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283236
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge-based neurocomputing
Looking at ways to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise knowledge within a neurocomputing system.Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of simple interconnected processing elements corresponding to neurons. These methods derive their power from the collective processing of artificial neurons, the chief advantage being that such systems…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge and mind :a philosophical introduction
"A Bradford book."This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the …
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- 0585184178
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) :illustrations.
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Kinetics of high-temperature processes
"The MIT Press."A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which presents a record of recent efforts to understand the field and apply this understanding to complex systems.Title from vendor webpage (IEEE Xplore; viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which pr…
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Kernel methods in computational biology
"A Bradford book."Modern machine learning techniques are proving to be extremely valuable for the analysis of data in computational biology problems. One branch of machine learning, kernel methods, lends itself particularly well to the difficult aspects of biological data, which include high dimensionality (as in microarray measurements), representation as discrete and structured data (as in DN…
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- 0262256924
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- 1 online resource (ix, 400 pages) :illustrations.
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Ken Hale :a life in language
The essays in this collection celebrate Ken Hale's lifelong study of underdocumented languages and their implications for universal grammar. The authors report their latest research in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and phonetics.ContributorsElena Anagnostopoulou, Noam Chomsky, Michel DeGraff, Kai von Fintel, Morris Halle, James Harris, Sabine Iatridou, Roumyana Izvorski, Michael Ken…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 480 pages) :illustrations.
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