<p>This richly illustrated book is an exploration of how chance and risk, on the one hand, and meaning or significance on the other, compete for the limelight in art, in philosophy, and in science. In modern society, prudence and probability calculation permeate our daily lives. Yet it is clear for all to see that neither cautious bank regulations nor mathematics have prevented economic crises from occurring time and again. Nicolas Bouleau argues that it is the meaning we assign to an event that determines the perceived risk, and that we generally turn a blind eye to this important fact, because the word "meaning" is itself awkward to explain. He tackles this fundamental question through examples taken from cultural fields ranging from painting, architecture, and music, to poetry, biology, and astronomy. This enables the reader to view overwhelming risks in a different light. Bouleau clarifies that the most important thing in a time of uncertainty is to think of prudence on a higher level, one that truly addresses the various subjective interpretations of the world.</p>
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This book introduces the field of Health Web Science and presents methods for information gathering from written social media data. It explores the availability and utility of the personal medical information shared on social media platforms and determines ways to apply this largely untapped information source to healthcare systems and public health monitoring. Introducing an innovative concept for integrating social media data with clinical data, it addresses the crucial aspect of combining experiential data from social media with clinical evidence, and explores how the variety of available social media content can be analyzed and implemented. The book tackles a range of topics including social media’s role in healthcare, the gathering of shared information, and the integration of clinical and social media data. Application examples of social media for health monitoring, along with its usage in patient treatment are also provided. The book also considers the ethical and legal issues of gathering and utilizing social media data, along with the risks and challenges that must be considered when integrating social media data into healthcare choices. With an increased interest internationally in E-Health, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0 and the recent birth of the discipline of Web Science, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners investigating this emerging topic.
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Transformers Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel by Michael Kelly May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. <i>Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe</i> is the first scholarly effort to explore the delicate interface of religion, science and communism in Cold War Europe. It brings together an international team of researchers who address this relationship from a number of national viewpoints and thematic perspectives, ranging from mysticism to social science, space exploration to the socialist lifecycle, and architectural heritage to pop culture.
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<p>Ever since the serendipitous discovery of planet Uranus in 1871, astronomers have been hunting for new worlds in the outer regions of our solar system. This exciting and ongoing quest culminated recently in the discovery of hundreds of ice dwarfs in the Kuiper belt, robbed Pluto from its ‘planet’ status, and led to a better understanding of the origin of the solar system.</p> <p>This timely book reads like a scientific ‘who done it’, going from the heights of discovery to the depths of disappointment in the hunt for ‘Planet X’. Based on many personal interviews with astronomers, the well-known science writer Govert Schilling introduces the heroes in the race to be the first in finding another world, bigger than Pluto.</p>
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Autor:Datlow, Ellen. Indem Sie ein gut erhaltenes Buch aus zweiter Hand kaufen, unterstützen Sie eine fortlaufende Wiederverwendung sowie die Verbreitung der Liebe zum Buch durch erneutes Lesen und Verwenden.
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Data mining is a very active research area with many successful real-world app- cations. It consists of a set of concepts and methods used to extract interesting or useful knowledge (or patterns) from real-world datasets, providing valuable support for decision making in industry, business, government, and science. Although there are already many types of data mining algorithms available in the literature, it is still dif cult for users to choose the best possible data mining algorithm for their particular data mining problem. In addition, data mining al- rithms have been manually designed; therefore they incorporate human biases and preferences. This book proposes a new approach to the design of data mining algorithms. - stead of relying on the slow and ad hoc process of manual algorithm design, this book proposes systematically automating the design of data mining algorithms with an evolutionary computation approach. More precisely, we propose a genetic p- gramming system (a type of evolutionary computation method that evolves c- puter programs) to automate the design of rule induction algorithms, a type of cl- si cation method that discovers a set of classi cation rules from data. We focus on genetic programming in this book because it is the paradigmatic type of machine learning method for automating the generation of programs and because it has the advantage of performing a global search in the space of candidate solutions (data mining algorithms in our case), but in principle other types of search methods for this task could be investigated in the future.
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✅Ctrl+Alt+Suppr de Bertrand Puard. 👉Ctrl+Alt+Suppr est un roman de science-fiction de Bertrand Puard. Zéphyr hérite d'une entreprise de maroquinerie à la mort de sa grand-mère. Lisa, de son côté, est la fille d'un ministre de l'écologie qui est assassiné lors d'une conférence.
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<p>What constitutes a causal explanation, and must an explanation be causal? What warrants a causal inference, as opposed to a descriptive regularity? What techniques are available to detect when causal effects are present, and when can these techniques be used to identify the relative importance of these effects? What complications do the interactions of individuals create for these techniques? When can mixed methods of analysis be used to deepen causal accounts? Must causal claims include generative mechanisms, and how effective are empirical methods designed to discover them? The <i>Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research</i> tackles these questions with nineteen chapters from leading scholars in sociology, statistics, public health, computer science, and human development.   </p>
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LIVRE SCIENCE FICTION / LE CHASCH / JACK VANCE/ j'ai lu 721 /OCT 1989. État : Comme neuf Service de livraison : Lettre Verte
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<p> <span>„Wehikuł czasu”, powieść science fiction Herberta George’a Wellsa, opowiada o naukowcu, któremu udało się skonstruować maszynę do przenoszenia się w czasie. Dzięki niej odbywa podróż do odległej przyszłości. Na Ziemi żyją wtedy dwie rasy – Ejolowie, mieszkający na powierzchni, oraz Morlokowie, zamieszkujący podziemia. Odkrycie skłania naukowca do refleksji nad kolejami ludzkiej ewolucji.</span></p>
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Titre: Jesuits in Science Fiction: Reason and Revelation on Other Worlds. Auteur: Richard Feist. Contributeur: Richard Feist (Edited by). Série: Series in Philosophy. Type: Sociology. Publisher: Vernon Press.
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<p> <span>Powieść science fiction Herberta George’a Wellsa przedstawia perypetie szalonego naukowca, któremu udaje się wynaleźć sposób na uzyskanie niewidzialności. Niestety eksperyment wymyka się spod kontroli, a jego autor pada ofiarą swojego wynalazku – znika, ale nieszczęśliwie nie potrafi odwrócić zjawiska. Jako niewidzialny człowiek sieje postrach wśród innych ludzi.</span></p>
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Conquistador by Stirling, S. M. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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