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Since 1965, Advances in Magnetic and Optical Resonance has provided
researchers with timely expositions of fundamental new developments
in the theory of, experimentation with, and application of magnetic
and optical resonance.
Physicians in most developed countries are at a great disadvantage
when confronted with geographic and tropical diseases. They may be
faced with prevention for patients who are outward bound or with
diagnosis and treatment on their return. The practitioners'
difficulties relate to inade quate teaching in medical schools and
to the infrequency with which they are confronted with these exotic
diseases. It is quite surprising to realize the extent of travel by
Americans to areas where the tropical diseases abound: in 1979
there were 3 million trips by U. S. residents to Central and South
America and almost 1 million to Africa and Asia. I Further, the
influx from the tropics to the United States in 1978 involved 4. 5
million visitors and more than half a million immigrants. I The
single most danger ous ofthese infections is malaria, which is now
averaging about 500 cases yearly in the United States; it is
important to realize that infection with one species of this
organism (Plasmodium falciparum) can be lethal within a few days of
the onset of fever. Highly contagious infections such as the newly
discovered and extremely lethal Lassa and Ebola fevers may be
imported to our shores, plus cholera, antibiotic-resistant
bacillary dys entery, and amebic dysentery and liver abscess.
Chronic worm infections such as schistosomiasis, although rarely
lethal, may have severe conse 2 quences such as paraplegia or
hematemesis."
This exciting new text reveals both the evolution of this
programming paradigm since its inception and the impressively broad
scope of current research in the field. The contributors to this
book are all leading world experts in Logic Programming, and they
deal with both theoretical and practical issues. They address such
diverse topics as: computational molecular biology, machine
learning, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, planning,
numerical computing and dynamical systems, database systems, an
alternative to the "formulas as types" approach, program semantics
and analysis, and natural language processing. XXXXXXX Neuer Text
Logic Programming was founded 25 years ago. This exciting book
reveals both the evolution of this programming paradigm and its
impressively broad scope of current research. The contributions by
leading computer scientists deal with both theoretical and
practical issues. They address diverse topics such as:
computational molecular biology, machine learning, mobile
computing, multi-agent systems, numerical computing and dynamical
systems, database systems, program semantics, natural language
processing, and promising future directions.
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Logic Programming - 25th International Conference, ICLP 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 14-17, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Patricia M Hill, David S. Warren
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 25th International
Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009). The conference took
place in Pasadena, Ca- fornia during July 14-17, 2009. The ICLP
series of conferences is aimed at p- viding a technical forum for
presenting and disseminating innovative research results in the
?eld of logic programming.
Theconference,whichwasco-locatedwiththeInternationalJointConference
on Arti?cial Intelligence (IJCAI), featured technical
presentations, tutorials, - vited talks, and a number of special
events, including: - The 5th ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium - The
Second Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing
Paradigms (ASPOCP) - The 6th International Workshop on Constraint
Handling Rules (CHR) - The 9th International Colloquium on
Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems
(CICLOPS) - The 4th International Workshop on (Constraint) Logic
Programming and Software Engineering (CLPSE) - The First Workshop
on Commercial Users of Logic Programming (CULP) - Workshop on ISO
Prolog - WG17 - The 19th Workshopon Logic-basedmethods in
ProgrammingEnvironments (WLPE) Since the ?rst conference held in
Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the p- miere international
conference for disseminating research results in logic p- gramming.
The present edition of the conference received 69 submissions in
three categories:application, system and tool, and technical
papers. From these, the ProgramCommittee selected 29 papers for
presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. In addition, the
committee selected nine short papers describing on-going research
work, PhD theses and research project overviews for poster
presentations and inclusion in the proceedings.
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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages - 10th International Symposium, PADL 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 7-8, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Paul Hudak, David S. Warren
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th
International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative
Languages, PADL 2008, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in January
2008, colocated with POPL 2008, the Symposium on Principles of
Programming Languages.
The 20 revised full papers presented together with the abstract
of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44
submissions. The papers address all current aspects of declarative
programming and feature original work emphasizing novel
applications and implementation techniques for all forms of
declarative concepts, including functions, relations, logic, and
constraints.
This volume was motivated by the Year of Prolog initiative,
launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the emergence of
Prolog through the work of Alain Colmerauer’s team in Marseille.
The volume editors, authors, and scientific advisors and reviewers
have been the leading researchers and programmers in this field
over decades, and the book represents an excellent overview of the
field, its successes, and its future.After a first chapter that
gently introduces the Prolog programming language using examples,
the next 7 papers discuss general views of the language, possible
extensions for the future, and how Prolog can generally be used to
solve problems; the next 5 papers explore ideas and experiences of
teaching Prolog programming and then 2 papers discuss technology
that has been developed for help in that teaching; the next 3
papers describe new languages based on Prolog which show future
directions for logic programming; the next 5 chapters explain the
applications that were the finalists for the 2022 Alain Colmerauer
Prize; and the final 8 papers describe applications developed using
the Prolog language, demonstrating the language’s range.
This compilation of seminal essays introduces students to the most
exciting scholarship and writing on the environmental history in
the United States. With primary documents that illustrate the
conditions, perception, and influences of environmental issues from
the pre-Columbian era to the present, the book invites students to
analyze not only the connections between people and nature, but
popular ideas of the environment in American history. Subjects
include the changing American landscape, virgin soil epidemics and
biological invasions, the impact of colonialism and industrial
development, conservation, and the environmental movement and the
backlash against it.
An editorial introduction and headnotes for each chapter add
scholarly value to the readings and documents. Students and
instructors of American environmental history will find this an
ideal collection for their courses and research.
This programmed book aims to teach students to design organic
syntheses for themselves. Almost all available books on synthesis
describe methods and syntheses already carried out by others. This
book confronts the student with the problem of synthesizing
molecules given nothing but their structure. The synthon approach
is used: disconnections breaking the molecule into useable
fragments (synthons) are introduced to the student who then teaches
himself how to use them by solving a series of problems of steadily
increasing difficulty. Though the book has the form of a programme
it is not a conventional programmed text. There are no multiple
choice questions. Instead, the student has a planned sequence of
problems designed to demonstrate the use of each new concept and to
test his understanding of it. Each problem is followed by possible
solutions and full explanations, so that if the student fails to
solve a problem he will still understand the answer better for
having attempted the problem himself. The student therefore has the
possibility of continuous self-assessment through the use of a
large number of problems.
Against the backdrop of thousands of gawking and disorderly
onlookers, a Franklin County Sheriff, oversees the public hanging
of the Coley brothers for the murder of a Jewish peddler. On humid
July, Friday the 13th, 1884 in Louisburg, North Carolina, Tom and
Calvin Coley meet their death at the end of a rope on the front
lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse. Later they were carried by
wagon to a little hamlet called Wood about 20 miles away to be
buried where they were born. Originally published in 1984 by the
late W. F. Shelton, The Day the Black Rain Fell is part whodunit,
part courtroom drama and a vivid re-telling of crime and punishment
a hundred or so years ago. Shelton, a former mayor, municipal
judge, theater operator and accountant, brings to life that balmy
day when honorable men, obligated to uphold the "rule of law," mete
out a horrific punishment.
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