Author: Catja Orford Publisher: Jacana Media ISBN: 9781770092389 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 190
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A compilation of journal entries and e-mails written over a 15-month period while in the jungles of Africa, this collection tells the author's story of tracking gorillas--called BuBu by the BaKa pygmies of the region. Often hilarious and deeply personal, the author's e-mails describe the hot, sweaty days spent in the forest running away from Jonathan the forest elephant, attempting to catch a glimpse of the elusive BuBu, and trying to remain ladylike through it all.
Author: Honghao Gao Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030783030 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 124
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This book discusses recent research and applications about intelligent processing practices and tools for e-commerce data, information and knowledge. The authors first explain how advances in intelligent processing of data, information and knowledge that has wildly been used in e-commerce applications. They then show how this brings new opportunities and challenges for processing e-commerce data, information and knowledge. The book, made up of contributions from both academia and industry, aims to present advances in artificial intelligence to collect, process, and mining Data, information and knowledge, such as new algorithms and techniques in the field, foundational theory and systems, as well as practical e-commerce applications. Some of the topics discussed include AI for e-commerce, such as machine learning, deep learning; personalized service recommendation to e-commerce; modeling, description, and verification for data, information and knowledge; and task scheduling and performance optimization for large-scale concurrency.
Author: Brianna Craft Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1641608617 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 284
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One of Ms. magazine's "Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023" Authentic and inspiring, Everything That Rises personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling our relationship to the planet with the way we interact within our own homes. Nineteen-year-old Brianna Craft is having a panic attack. A professor's matter-of-fact explanation of the phenomenon known as "climate change" has her white-knuckling the table in her first environmental studies lecture. Out of her father's house, she was supposed to be safe. This moment changed everything for Brianna. For her first internship, she jumped at the chance to assist the Least Developed Countries Group at the United Nations' negotiations meant to produce a new climate treaty. While working for those most ignored yet most impacted by the climate crisis, she grappled with the negligent indifference of those who hold the most power. This dynamic painfully reminded her of growing up in a house where the loudest voice always won and violence silenced those in need. Four years later, Brianna witnessed the adoption of the first universal climate treaty, the Paris Agreement. In this memoir that blends the political with the personal, Brianna dives into what it means to advocate for the future, and for the people and places you love, all while ensuring your own voice doesn't get lost in the process. It will take all of us to protect our home.
Author: Sayan Chakraborty Publisher: Redgrab Books pvt ltd ISBN: 8195123473 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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Dr. Anil goon was brutally murdered when Dr. Bennet recovered from a coma. But the mysterious codes were not decoded. The Egyptian procedure of deathlessness, of Tutankhamun's era in 1342 BC, was hidden from the world. But what was lost, will be found. Ibrahim kaskar, a heinous terrorist, who planned to acquire the three invaluable diaries which held the key to immortality. Kaskar's plan included to set free Abu Salem for further terrorism. Jake Jones had to accept the challenge when he realized that was the only option left for him. In this breathless saga Jake must destroy the master mind and recover the chronicle of Tutankhamun.
Author: Miriam Meyerhoff Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 902729075X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 378
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This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
Author: Alan J. Lockett Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3662620073 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 571
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This book examines the mismatch between discrete programs, which lie at the center of modern applied mathematics, and the continuous space phenomena they simulate. The author considers whether we can imagine continuous spaces of programs, and asks what the structure of such spaces would be and how they would be constituted. He proposes a functional analysis of program spaces focused through the lens of iterative optimization. The author begins with the observation that optimization methods such as Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies, and Particle Swarm Optimization can be analyzed as Estimation of Distributions Algorithms (EDAs) in that they can be formulated as conditional probability distributions. The probabilities themselves are mathematical objects that can be compared and operated on, and thus many methods in Evolutionary Computation can be placed in a shared vector space and analyzed using techniques of functional analysis. The core ideas of this book expand from that concept, eventually incorporating all iterative stochastic search methods, including gradient-based methods. Inspired by work on Randomized Search Heuristics, the author covers all iterative optimization methods and not just evolutionary methods. The No Free Lunch Theorem is viewed as a useful introduction to the broader field of analysis that comes from developing a shared mathematical space for optimization algorithms. The author brings in intuitions from several branches of mathematics such as topology, probability theory, and stochastic processes and provides substantial background material to make the work as self-contained as possible. The book will be valuable for researchers in the areas of global optimization, machine learning, evolutionary theory, and control theory.
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