Look Ahead Look Back

Author : Annette Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Georgia
ISBN : 0984810102

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Look Ahead, Look Back by Annette Laing Pdf

It's big news in boring Snipesville when a skeleton is found in the park. But to reluctant time travelers Hannah, Alex, and Brandon, the discovery is a shocking omen of adventures to come. The Professor, their mentor, has disappeared. And if she s not the skeleton, who is? Soon, the three land in the distant year of 1752. Some people they meet, like ruthless planter Mr. Gordon, trust their own smarts to bring success. Others, like Sukey, a slave, think that what happens to them is pure luck. But Hannah, Alex, and Brandon quickly learn that for everyone in the 1700s, fortune s wheel is constantly turning. And at a time when ghosts, witches, little folk, and dreams can seem as real as slavery, greed, and cruelty, their choices, too, are very few indeed.

Author : Manuel Enrique Burmudez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Programming languages (Electronic computers)
ISBN : UCSC:32106007106419

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Regular Look-ahead and Look-back for LR Parsers by Manuel Enrique Burmudez Pdf

Author : Helen Harris Perlman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-11-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226660370

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Looking Back to See Ahead by Helen Harris Perlman Pdf

In over sixty years of involvement in social work—as practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and author—Helen Harris Perlman has become all but a legend. She has served on national policy committees, lectured around the world, and participated in pioneering social work programs and research. Her wide-ranging experiences enrich her vision of the social work profession: typically she is able to see the forest and the trees. Grounded in psychodynamic and social theory, lucid, forthright, and compassionate, her writings serve to inspire and guide experienced practitioners, teachers, and present-day students. Looking Back to See Ahead offers pieces chosen for their centrality to Perlman's thinking on some of the major problems of social work practice and education. To each essay she has added her current, informal comments. Refreshingly original is the section "After Hours," in which she captures, in sketches and verse, the humor and heartache that are inevitable in any profession that deals with hurt and troubled people.

Author : John C. Maxwell
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455518210

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The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell Pdf

In this inspiring guide to successful leadership, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares his tried and true principles for maximum personal growth. Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . . The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others This third book in John Maxwell's Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up."

Author : Srečko Kosovel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Slovenian poetry
ISBN : 1933254548

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Look Back, Look Ahead by Srečko Kosovel Pdf

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Slovenian by Barbara Siegel Carlson and Ana Jelnikar. LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD is the first American edition of Kosovel's selected poetry. "To read him is like watching Van Gogh's last paintings, to stare at Celan's last drops of life. And yet, he's the threshold, the triumphal arch to this small nation's destiny, the eternal poet of the total existence"--Tomaz Salamun.

Author : Sara Manzoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540317333

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AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Sara Manzoni Pdf

This volume collects the papers selected for presentation at the IX Congress of the Italian Association for Arti?cial Intelligence (AI*IA), held in Milan at the University of Milano–Bicocca (September 21–23, 2005). On the one hand this congress continues the tradition of AI*IA in organizing its biannual s- enti?c meeting from 1989; on the other hand, this edition is a landmark in the involvement of the international community of arti?cial intelligence (AI), directly involving a broad number of experts from several countries in the P- gramCommittee. Moreover,the peculiar nature of scienti?c researchin arti?cial intelligence (which is intrinsically international) and several consolidated int- national collaborations in projects and mobility programs allowed the collection and selection of papers from many di?erent countries, all around the world, enlarging the visibility of the Italian contribution within this research ?eld. Arti?cial intelligence is today a growing complex set of conceptual, theor- ical, methodological, and technological frameworks, o?ering innovative com- tational solutions in the design and development of computer-based systems. Within this perspective, researchers working in this area must tackle a broad range of knowledge about methods, results, and solutions coming from di?erent classical areas of this discipline. The congress was designed as a forum allowing researchers to present and discuss specialized results as general contributions to AI growth.

Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722353X

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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by Ning Yu Pdf

This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.

Author : John Mason
Publisher : Insight International, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1890900125

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Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them by John Mason Pdf

Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them contains 101 "Nuggets of Truth" to help you break through barriers, reach new heights and live your dreams.

Author : Sura College of Competition
Publisher : Sura Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8172541554

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Idioms and Phrases by Sura College of Competition Pdf

Author : Kenneth Holmqvist,Marcus Nyström,Richard Andersson,Richard Dewhurst,Halszka Jarodzka,Joost van de Weijer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191625428

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Eye Tracking by Kenneth Holmqvist,Marcus Nyström,Richard Andersson,Richard Dewhurst,Halszka Jarodzka,Joost van de Weijer Pdf

We make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in helping us deal with the vast amounts of information we encounter in our everyday lives. In recent years, thanks to the development of eye tracking technology, there has been a growing interest in monitoring and measuring these movements, with a view to understanding how we attend to and process the visual information we encounter Eye tracking as a research tool is now more accessible than ever, and is growing in popularity amongst researchers from a whole host of different disciplines. Usability analysts, sports scientists, cognitive psychologists, reading researchers, psycholinguists, neurophysiologists, electrical engineers, and others, all have a vested interest in eye tracking for different reasons. The ability to record eye-movements has helped advance our science and led to technological innovations. However, the growth of eye tracking in recent years has also presented a variety of challenges - in particular the issue of how to design an eye-tracking experiment, and how to analyse the data. This book is a much needed comprehensive handbook of eye tracking methodology. It describes how to evaluate and acquire an eye-tracker, how to plan and design an eye tracking study, and how to record and analyse eye-movement data. Besides technical details and theory, the heart of this book revolves around practicality - how raw data samples are converted into fixations and saccades using event detection algorithms, how the different representations of eye movement data are calculated using AOIs, heat maps and scanpaths, and how all the measures of eye movements relate to these processes. Part I presents the technology and skills needed to perform high-quality research with eye-trackers. Part II covers the predominant methods applied to the data which eye-trackers record. These include the parsing of raw sample data into oculomotor events, and how to calculate other representations of eye movements such as heat maps and transition matrices. Part III gives a comprehensive outline of the measures which can be calculated using the events and representations described in Part II. This is a taxonomy of the measures available to eye-tracking researchers, sorted by type of movement of the eyes and type of analysis. For anyone in the sciences considering conducting research involving eye-tracking, this book will be an essential reference work.

Author : Andy Hopkins,Jocelyn Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0582297370

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Look Ahead Intermediate by Andy Hopkins,Jocelyn Potter Pdf

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

Author : Rina Dechter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080502953

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Constraint Processing by Rina Dechter Pdf

Constraint satisfaction is a simple but powerful tool. Constraints identify the impossible and reduce the realm of possibilities to effectively focus on the possible, allowing for a natural declarative formulation of what must be satisfied, without expressing how. The field of constraint reasoning has matured over the last three decades with contributions from a diverse community of researchers in artificial intelligence, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics. Today, constraint problems are used to model cognitive tasks in vision, language comprehension, default reasoning, diagnosis, scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning. In Constraint Processing, Rina Dechter, synthesizes these contributions, along with her own significant work, to provide the first comprehensive examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms. Throughout, she focuses on fundamental tools and principles, emphasizing the representation and analysis of algorithms. Examines the basic practical aspects of each topic and then tackles more advanced issues, including current research challenges Builds the reader's understanding with definitions, examples, theory, algorithms and complexity analysis Synthesizes three decades of researchers work on constraint processing in AI, databases and programming languages, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics

Author : Marshall W. Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139436076

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Rethinking Performance Measurement by Marshall W. Meyer Pdf

Performance measurement remains a vexing problem for business firms and other kinds of organisations. This book explains why: the performance we want to measure (long-term cash flows, long-term viability) and the performance we can measure (current cash flows, customer satisfaction, etc.) are not the same. The 'balanced scorecard', which has been widely adopted by US firms, does not solve these underlying problems of performance measurement and may exacerbate them because it provides no guidance on how to combine dissimilar measures into an overall appraisal of performance. A measurement technique called activity-based profitability analysis (ABPA) is suggested as a partial solution, especially to the problem of combining dissimilar measures. ABPA estimates the revenue consequences of each activity performed for the customer, allowing firms to compare revenues with costs for these activities and hence to discriminate between activities that are ultimately profitable and those that are not.

Author : Maurizio Gabbrielli,Gopal Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540292081

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Logic Programming by Maurizio Gabbrielli,Gopal Gupta Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Logic and Programming, ICLP 2005, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2005. The 25 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 7 abstracts of a poster session of a doctoral consortium were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers cover all issues of current research in logic programming. Extra attention is given to novel applications of logic programming and work providing novel integrations of different areas.

Author : Holden Karau,Mika Kimmins
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781098119836

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Scaling Python with Dask by Holden Karau,Mika Kimmins Pdf

Modern systems contain multi-core CPUs and GPUs that have the potential for parallel computing. But many scientific Python tools were not designed to leverage this parallelism. With this short but thorough resource, data scientists and Python programmers will learn how the Dask open source library for parallel computing provides APIs that make it easy to parallelize PyData libraries including NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn. Authors Holden Karau and Mika Kimmins show you how to use Dask computations in local systems and then scale to the cloud for heavier workloads. This practical book explains why Dask is popular among industry experts and academics and is used by organizations that include Walmart, Capital One, Harvard Medical School, and NASA. With this book, you'll learn: What Dask is, where you can use it, and how it compares with other tools How to use Dask for batch data parallel processing Key distributed system concepts for working with Dask Methods for using Dask with higher-level APIs and building blocks How to work with integrated libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and PyTorch How to use Dask with GPUs