Searching for Life Across Space and Time
Searching for Life Across Space and Time

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0309463947

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The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, biology, chemistry, and geoscience. In December 2016, the Space Studies Board hosted a workshop to explore the possibility of habitable environments in the solar system and in exoplanets, techniques for detecting life, and the instrumentation used. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

A Time Of Troubles: In Search of the Divine Feminine
A Time Of Troubles: In Search of the Divine Feminine

Author: William Francis Jack

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-08-23

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1312089431

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David Alexander, an American professor of Russian, is called to task about an offhand remark he made concerning Tsar Boris Godunov, an historical figure portrayed as a villain and prince-murderer in history, as well as in literature and opera. David's remark precipitates an academic dispute, and his teaching job is on the line. So is his historical research into Russia's Cult of Sophia, which is part of the religious ideal of The Divine Feminine. His research takes him back to the early 1600's, and he and a Soviet archivist colleague chance upon long-concealed letters written by three Orthodox monks. The hunt is on for the long-suppressed mystical papers to which these monks refer. William Jack has an MA and PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature, with a specialization in Russian literature, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Foraging Theory Applied to Medical Information Searching
Foraging Theory Applied to Medical Information Searching

Author: Mai Dwairy

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1477128034

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Workload and other constraints prevent General Practitioners from accessing medical evidence for clinical decisions. This problem was studied in New Zealand GPs using Optimal Foraging Theory developed in ecology. GPs' information search strategies were modelled as sequential steps associated with costs and benefits measured from logbooks of actual searches. By consulting the most profitable sources, switching sources when unsuccessful, and double checking, GPs seem close to an optimal trade-off between maximizing search success and information reliability, and minimizing searching time. Subsidised training in information searching and provision of a literature search service are two inferred avenues to access medical evidence.

Search Theory
Search Theory

Author: David V. Chudnovsky

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 100094395X

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On the solution of an optimal search problem with an exponential detection function. Covers one- and two-sided detection problems by furnishing continuous and discret time strategies; examines two-sided search strategies with solutions in hide and seek games in many discrete and continuous bounded

Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul In the 21st Century
Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul In the 21st Century

Author: Murray Stein

Publisher: Chiron Publications

Published: 2022-12-10

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1685031196

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Do we, like Jung, need to leave the spirit of the time and follow the spirit of the depths, to call out "my soul, where are you?" through the windows of our now post-modern homes? We live in a digital world of incredible virtual inter-connectedness but at the same time fragmented and divided on many levels, including the psychological. The pace of life is rapid and ever accelerating. The spirit of the time is flux: It twitters. There is no sense of coherence in the whole. The guidance of a transcendent North Star is invisible to the naked eye of consciousness. Our existential crisis is not about the individual alone. It infects the entire human world, like the Covid-19 pandemic. Wars between cultural brothers and sisters, increasingly dire effects of climate change, economic disruptions, hunger, migration-these conditions affect everyone on the planet. Is there a spirit of the depths that can take us through this Inferno, perhaps toward the emergence of a meaningful narrative that can stabilize the global community and provide a collective sense of "supreme meaning?" This is the search for soul in the 21st Century.

Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents
Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents

Author: Toru Ishida

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0585345074

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Autonomous agents or multiagent systems are computational systems in which several computational agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks. These systems may involve computational agents having common goals or distinct goals. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents focuses on extending real-time search algorithms for autonomous agents and for a multiagent world. Although real-time search provides an attractive framework for resource-bounded problem solving, the behavior of the problem solver is not rational enough for autonomous agents. The problem solver always keeps the record of its moves and the problem solver cannot utilize and improve previous experiments. Other problems are that although the algorithms interleave planning and execution, they cannot be directly applied to a multiagent world. The problem solver cannot adapt to the dynamically changing goals and the problem solver cannot cooperatively solve problems with other problem solvers. This book deals with all these issues. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents serves as an excellent resource for researchers and engineers interested in both practical references and some theoretical basis for agent/multiagent systems. The book can also be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Marketing Through Search Optimization
Marketing Through Search Optimization

Author: Alex Michael

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0750683473

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The successful Marketing Manager's tried and tested guide to maximizing and exploiting search engine opportunities.

Motion in Games
Motion in Games

Author: Jan Allbeck

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 3642250904

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Edinburgh, UK, in November 2011. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 8 revised poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on character animation, motion synthesis, physically-based character motion, behavior animation, animation systems, crowd simulation, as well as path planning and navigation.

Social Media Metrics For Dummies
Social Media Metrics For Dummies

Author: Leslie Poston

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1118236025

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Discover how to gauge your online success based on social media metrics With so many social media monitoring and measurement tools available, it can be overwhelming to figure out which tool is right for you when it comes to calculating the success of your social media marketing efforts. This fun and friendly guide helps you determine which tool will serve you best for understanding your online audience. You'll learn to sift through all the information available about social media monitoring and metrics so that you can listen to what is being said about your business, read your analytic dashboard, understand what metrics mean for you, calculate your return on investment (ROI), and apply your findings to future social media marketing campaigns. Helps you wade through the plethora of social media monitoring and metrics to discover what elements are most applicable to your needs Explains the meaning behind the social media metrics tools so that you can understand how to make those results work for you Shares examples of how to calculate both the financial and non-financial return on investment of your social media efforts Includes real-world case studies that demonstrate how small and large businesses are using social media metrics With this helpful book by your side, you will learn how to understand the information you acquire regarding your social media marketing efforts and then put that information to work for your business.