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Realism
(Hardcover)
Uwe C Koepke
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The articulation between persistence and change is relevant to a
great number of different disciplines. It is particularly central
to the study of urban and rural forms in many different fields of
research, in geography, archaeology, architecture and history.
Resilience puts forward the idea that we can no longer be truly
satisfied with the common approaches used to study the dynamics of
landscapes, such as the palimpsest approach, the regressive method
and the semiological analysis amongst others, because they are
based on the separation between the past and the present, which
itself stems from the differentiation between nature and society.
This book combines spatio-temporalities, as described in
archeogeography, with concepts that have been developed in the
field of ecological resilience, such as panarchy and the adaptive
cycle. Thus revived, the morphological analysis in this work
considers landscapes as complex resilient adaptive systems. The
permanence observed in landscapes is no longer presented as the
endurance of inherited forms, but as the result of a dynamic that
is fed by this constant dialogue between persistence and change.
Thus, resilience is here decisively on the side of dynamics rather
than that of resistance.
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Grease
(Hardcover)
Raj Shah, Mathias Woydt, Simon C. Tung
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BIG DATA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYSIS SET Coordinated
by Jacques Janssen Data analysis is a scientific field that
continues to grow enormously, most notably over the last few
decades, following rapid growth within the tech industry, as well
as the wide applicability of computational techniques alongside new
advances in analytic tools. Modeling enables data analysts to
identify relationships, make predictions, and to understand,
interpret and visualize the extracted information more
strategically. This book includes the most recent advances on this
topic, meeting increasing demand from wide circles of the
scientific community. Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis
1 is a collective work by a number of leading scientists, analysts,
engineers, mathematicians and statisticians, working on the front
end of data analysis and modeling applications. The chapters cover
a cross section of current concerns and research interests in the
above scientific areas. The collected material is divided into
appropriate sections to provide the reader with both theoretical
and applied information on data analysis methods, models and
techniques, along with appropriate applications.
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations were five meteorological and
scientific monitoring stations constructed at Resolute, Eureka,
Mould Bay, Isachsen, and Alert with the cooperation of the Canadian
Department of Transport's meteorological branch and the United
States Weather Bureau. From 1947 to the early 1970s as few as four
Canadians and four Americans worked and lived at each of the four
satellite stations, observing and collecting scientific data.This
is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather
Stations, a project that profoundly shaped state activates and
scientific inquiry in the Arctic Archipelago. Drawing on extensive
archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews
with former employees, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations analyzes
the diplomatic, scientific, social, military, and environmental
dimensions of the program alongside each station as a nexus of
state planning and personal agency. Contrary to previous
scholarship, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations reveals that
Canadian officials sought-and achieved-a firm policy that afforded
effective control of Canada's Arctic while enjoying the advantages
of American contribution to the joint meteorological program. It
explores the changing ways science was conducted over time and how
the details of everyday life at remote stations, from the climate
to leisure activities to debates over alcohol, hunting, and
leadership, shaped the program's effectiveness. An exploration of
the full duration of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations from
high-level planning and diplomacy to personal interactions in the
stations makes this book an essential exploration of collaborative
polar science in the North American Arctic.
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