Investigating Sex
Investigating Sex

Author: Jose Pierre

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1844677125

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Are women’s orgasms more intense than men’s? What did André Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire? In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held twelve round table discussions to address these questions. Calling them “researches into sexuality,” their bizarre and humorous conversations are now made available in this new edition in all their surreal and salacious detail. Their research spanned the most critical period for surrealism, a time of bitter political disputes, echoed in the intensity of these meetings and in the range of participants, including André Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves Tanguy, Benjamin Péret and Pierre Naville. Well before the so-called sexual revolution, their erotic exchanges broke sexual taboos and encouraged surrealists to openly share the libidinal themes they explored in their writing and art. In doing so, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in the new introduction, they are revealed as “lovers and prigs, fantasists and humanists, adventurers in mind if not always in flesh—flawed, foolish, brilliant, clangingly sexual human beings.”

Expert Systems
Expert Systems

Author: Cornelius T. Leondes

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-09-26

Total Pages: 2125

ISBN-13: 0080531458

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This six-volume set presents cutting-edge advances and applications of expert systems. Because expert systems combine the expertise of engineers, computer scientists, and computer programmers, each group will benefit from buying this important reference work. An "expert system" is a knowledge-based computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. The primary role of the expert system is to perform appropriate functions under the close supervision of the human, whose work is supported by that expert system. In the reverse, this same expert system can monitor and double check the human in the performance of a task. Human-computer interaction in our highly complex world requires the development of a wide array of expert systems. Expert systems techniques and applications are presented for a diverse array of topics including Experimental design and decision support The integration of machine learning with knowledge acquisition for the design of expert systems Process planning in design and manufacturing systems and process control applications Knowledge discovery in large-scale knowledge bases Robotic systems Geograhphic information systems Image analysis, recognition and interpretation Cellular automata methods for pattern recognition Real-time fault tolerant control systems CAD-based vision systems in pattern matching processes Financial systems Agricultural applications Medical diagnosis

Investigating Sex
Investigating Sex

Author: José Pierre

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1781689547

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Are women's orgasms more intense than men's? What did Andr Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire? In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held twelve round table discussions to address these questions. Calling them "researches into sexuality," their bizarre and humorous conversations are now made available in this new edition in all their surreal and salacious detail. Their research spanned the most critical period for surrealism, a time of bitter political disputes, echoed in the intensity of these meetings and in the range of participants, including Andr Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves Tanguy, Benjamin Pret and Pierre Naville. Well before the so-called sexual revolution, their erotic exchanges broke sexual taboos and encouraged surrealists to openly share the libidinal themes they explored in their writing and art. In doing so, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in the new introduction, they are revealed as "lovers and prigs, fantasists and humanists, adventurers in mind if not always in flesh-flawed, foolish, brilliant, clangingly sexual human beings."

Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education
Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

Author: Harry de Boer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3319422375

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This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly requires governments to change the higher education landscape to achieve their set objectives. Changes can include merger processes, the introduction of a new sector of higher education or a new type of higher education institution or excellence initiative. This book explores the current understanding of how successful such comprehensive reforms have been through an examination of eleven reform cases in European countries. For each reform, the different phases of the policy process – policy objectives, design, implementation, policy tools and evaluation – are systematically described and analysed to provide an overview of the factors that contribute to the success or failure of the reforms.

The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems
The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems

Author: Jay Liebowitz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 0429606974

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The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems is a landmark work dedicated solely to this rapidly advancing area of study. Edited by Jay Liebowitz, a professor, author, and consultant known around the world for his work in the field, this authoritative source covers the latest expert system technologies, applications, methodologies, and practices. The book features contributions from more than 40 of the world's foremost expert systems authorities in industry, government, and academia. The Handbook is organized into two major sections. The first section explains expert systems technologies while the second section focuses on applied examples in a wide variety of industries. Key topics covered include fuzzy systems, genetic algorithm development, machine learning, knowledge representation, and much more.

Bounded Rational Choice Behaviour
Bounded Rational Choice Behaviour

Author: Soora Rasouli

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1784410713

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The book is an attempt to stimulate development in travel behaviour analysis and provide a basic source of reference to the transportation research community. The aim of the book is to give centre stage to some recent innovative approaches to models of bounded rationality, both under conditions of certainty and uncertainty.

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Linear Algebra
Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Linear Algebra

Author: Seymour Lipschutz

Publisher: Erlangga

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9789797815714

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Helps readers use examples to solve problems; brush up before tests; find answers; study effectively; and get the big picture without poring over lengthy textbooks. This guide provides explanations of eigenvalues, eigenvectors, linear transformations, linear equations, vectors, and matrices.

Promoting Research Excellence New Approaches to Funding
Promoting Research Excellence New Approaches to Funding

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9264207465

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This report presents new evidence on how governments steer and fund public research in higher education and public research institutions through research excellence initiatives (REIs).

The Encuentro Book Two
The Encuentro Book Two

Author: Richard David Kennedy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-12-03

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1312727349

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The Encuentro isn't just another novel. A fairy tale in novel form- told as a farce, presented like a play, and executed like a movie, it is indeed "novel" in every way. It is very much as advertised: "A Risque Fairy Tale For Contemporary Adults"- very mature adults. It is also Kennedy as his innovated best- "pulling out all the stops," and turning the medium on its head to make a gut-busting spoof that turns out not to be such a "spoof" after all. So, while the subject matter is bawdy, the humor outrageous and the wit nonpareil, it is, to be sure, a deeply profound exposition of the nature and meaning of life at the end of the day. It is, as he has stated, "probably (my) best symphony yet," and destined to be an instant classic. Where else will you find a novel's author portraying himself in his own book as a "movie director?""