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Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn selection. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 2, 2015

Language Across Boundaries

Language Across Boundaries



A selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The boundaries of the title have been widely interpreted, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries, to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learning.




Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 2, 2015

Build Up Your Chess 1

Build Up Your Chess 1



Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.




Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 1, 2015

Biology - Sixth Edition

Biology - Sixth Edition



BIOLOGY is an authoritative majors textbook with evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill has consulted extensively with previous users, noted experts and professors in the field. It is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity.




Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 1, 2015

Combinational Motifs

Combinational Motifs



The author of The Art of Combination presents a selection of 1,205 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Most of the problems that appeared in The Art of Combination are provided, with a better breakdown and improved analysis. Suitable for players rated 1400-2000, both children and adults. In English, Russian and Spanish – all in one volume!




Chủ Nhật, 11 tháng 1, 2015

13 Lectures on Fermats Last Theorem

13 Lectures on Fermats Last Theorem



In the first two lectures, there is a very brief description of the early history, as well as a selection of a few of the more representative recent results. In the lectures which follow, I examine in succession the main theories connected with the problem. The last two lectures are about analogues to Fermat’s theorem.




Thứ Năm, 1 tháng 1, 2015

A Few Good Knots and Bends and Hitches

A Few Good Knots and Bends and Hitches



A small selection of honest Knots, Bends and Hitches, such that our readers may find of use in their travels and wanderings.




Cognition Through Understanding

Cognition Through Understanding



Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge’s essays that use epistemology to illumine powers of mind. The essays focus on epistemic warrants that differ from those warrants commonly discussed in epistemology–those for ordinary empirical beliefs and for logical and mathematical beliefs. The essays center on four types of cognition warranted through understanding–self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection. Burge argues that by reflecting on warrants for these types of cognition, one better understands cognitive powers that are distinctive of persons, and (on earth) of human beings. The collection presents three previously unpublished independent essays, in addition to substantial, retrospective commentary. The retrospective commentary invites the reader to make connections that were not fully in mind when the essays were written.




Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 12, 2014

Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals

Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals



Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals: Applications to H.264 and Beyond captures recent advances in motion compensation for efficient video compression. This book investigates linearly combined motion compensated signals, and generalizes the well known superposition for bidirectional prediction in B-pictures. The number of superimposed signals and the reference picture selection are important aspects of discussion.