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On the day Cato came into the world, her mother left it. Cato's dad
has been a mere shadow of a person ever since, and Cato has given
up reaching out to him. When she finds a mysterious card from an
abandoned movie theatre and discovers it has reopened, Cato decides
to go take a look. There appears to be something strange about the
cinema. The movies showing there are no ordinary movies and somehow
the cinema seems to be in connection with the past... Looking for
adventure and the truth about her mother, Cato is swept into a
dangerous journey through time and memories, straight to a place
deep within her heart. A place she had always managed to keep
locked away. And then she faces a choice that will change her life,
and that of her father, forever.
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Carlos the Jackal (DVD)
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour, Talal El-Jordi, …
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Adapted from a five-and-a-half-hour television miniseries, this
three-hour biopic chronicles 20 years in the life of Venezuelan
revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal. Édgar
Ramírez stars in the title role as the ambitious, egotistical, yet
powerfully charismatic man who founded a worldwide terrorist
organisation and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before
finally being captured by the French police.
Yorick Blumenfeld has been writing his whole life. He has travelled
and reported from more than ninety countries as a foreign
correspondent. Over the past few decades he has been examining the
future, both as the General Editor of the series Prospects for
Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson)
This book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to
linear and multilinear algebra. Besides the standard techniques for
linear and multilinear algebra many advanced topics are included.
Emphasis is placed on the Kronecker product and tensor product. The
Kronecker product has widespread applications in signal processing,
discrete wavelets, statistical physics, computer graphics,
fractals, quantum mechanics and quantum computing. All these fields
are covered in detail. A key feature of the book is the many
detailed worked-out examples. Computer algebra applications are
also given. Each chapter includes useful exercises. The book is
well suited for pure and applied mathematicians as well as
theoretical physicists and engineers.
New topics added to the second edition are: braid-like
relations, Clebsch Gordan expansion, nearest Kronecker product,
Clifford and Pauli group, universal enveloping algebra, computer
algebra and Kronecker product.
Machine Translation (MT) is both an engineering technology and a
measure of all things to do with languages and computersa "whenever
a new theory of language or linguistics is offered, an important
criteria for its success is whether or not it will improve machine
translation.
This book presents a history of machine translation (MT) from
the point of view of a major writer and innovator in the subject.
It describes and contrasts a range of approaches to the challenges
and problems of this remarkable technology by means of a
combination of historic papers along with commentaries to update
their significance, both at the time of their writing and now. This
volume chronicles the evolution of conflicting approaches to MT
towards a somewhat skeptical consensus on future progress. Also
included is a discussion of the most recent developments in the
field and prospects for the future, which have been much changed by
the arrival of the World Wide Web.
Machine Conversationsis a collection of some of the best research
available in the practical arts of machine conversation. The book
describes various attempts to create practical and flexible machine
conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted
version of English or some other language. While this book employs
and advances the theory of dialogue and its linguistic
underpinnings, the emphasis is on practice, both in university
research laboratories and in company research and development.
Since the focus is on the task and on the performance, this book
provides some of the first-rate work taking place in industry,
quite apart from the academic tradition. It also reveals striking
and relevant facts about the tone of machine conversations and
closely evaluates what users require. Machine Conversations is an
excellent reference for researchers interested in computational
linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing,
artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces and machine
learning.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer
dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south
seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen,
civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that
sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of
the forces.
Our self-contained volume provides an accessible introduction to
linear and multilinear algebra as well as tensor calculus. Besides
the standard techniques for linear algebra, multilinear algebra and
tensor calculus, many advanced topics are included where emphasis
is placed on the Kronecker product and tensor product. The
Kronecker product has widespread applications in signal processing,
discrete wavelets, statistical physics, Hopf algebra, Yang-Baxter
relations, computer graphics, fractals, quantum mechanics, quantum
computing, entanglement, teleportation and partial trace. All these
fields are covered comprehensively.The volume contains many
detailed worked-out examples. Each chapter includes useful
exercises and supplementary problems. In the last chapter, software
implementations are provided for different concepts. The volume is
well suited for pure and applied mathematicians as well as
theoretical physicists and engineers.New topics added to the third
edition are: mutually unbiased bases, Cayley transform, spectral
theorem, nonnormal matrices, Gateaux derivatives and matrices,
trace and partial trace, spin coherent states, Clebsch-Gordan
series, entanglement, hyperdeterminant, tensor eigenvalue problem,
Carleman matrix and Bell matrix, tensor fields and Ricci tensors,
and software implementations.
Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer
understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels --
syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in
the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of
other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an
artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain
aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program,
Viewgen, that maintains belief structures about the world and other
believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct
evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend
that a plausible model such as this can -- in the best cognitive
science tradition -- shed light on the long-standing philosophical
problem of what belief is. The issues presented here will be of
considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as
those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what
is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics,
psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
'This is a very useful book which helps to understand the concepts
of quantum computing and quantum information by well presented
problems and detailed solutions ... It is highly recommended for
beginners as well as for advanced researchers.'zbMATHQuantum
computing and quantum information are two of the fastest growing
and most exciting research fields in physics. Entanglement,
teleportation and the possibility of using the non-local behavior
of quantum mechanics to factor integers in random polynomial time
have also added to this new interest.This book presents a huge
collection of problems in quantum computing and quantum information
together with their detailed solutions, which will prove to be
invaluable to students as well as researchers in these fields. Each
chapter gives a comprehensive introduction to the topics. All the
important concepts and areas such as quantum gates and quantum
circuits, product Hilbert spaces, entanglement and entanglement
measures, teleportation, Bell states, Bell measurement, Bell
inequality, Schmidt decomposition, quantum Fourier transform, magic
gate, von Neumann entropy, quantum cryptography, quantum error
corrections, quantum games, number states and Bose operators,
coherent states, squeezed states, Gaussian states, coherent Bell
states, POVM measurement, quantum optics networks, beam splitter,
phase shifter and Kerr Hamilton operator are included. A chapter on
quantum channels has also been added. Furthermore a chapter on
boolean functions and quantum gates with mapping bits to qubits is
included.The topics range in difficulty from elementary to
advanced. Almost all problems are solved in detail and most of the
problems are self-contained. Each chapter also contains
supplementary problems to challenge the reader. Programming
problems with Maxima and SymbolicC++ implementations are also
provided.
Margaret Masterman was a pioneer in the field of computational
linguistics. Working in the earliest days of language processing by
computer, she believed that meaning, not grammar, was the key to
understanding languages, and that machines could determine the
meaning of sentences. She was able, even on simple machines, to
undertake sophisticated experiments in machine translation, and
carried out important work on the use of semantic codings and
thesauri to determine the meaning structure of texts. This volume
brings together Masterman's groundbreaking papers for the first
time. Through his insightful commentaries, Yorick Wilks argues that
Masterman came close to developing a computational theory of
language meaning based on the ideas of Wittgenstein, and shows the
importance of her work in the philosophy of science and the nature
of iconic languages. Of key interest in computational linguistics
and artificial intelligence, it will remind scholars of Masterman's
significant contribution to the field.
'This is a very useful book which helps to understand the concepts
of quantum computing and quantum information by well presented
problems and detailed solutions ... It is highly recommended for
beginners as well as for advanced researchers.'zbMATHQuantum
computing and quantum information are two of the fastest growing
and most exciting research fields in physics. Entanglement,
teleportation and the possibility of using the non-local behavior
of quantum mechanics to factor integers in random polynomial time
have also added to this new interest.This book presents a huge
collection of problems in quantum computing and quantum information
together with their detailed solutions, which will prove to be
invaluable to students as well as researchers in these fields. Each
chapter gives a comprehensive introduction to the topics. All the
important concepts and areas such as quantum gates and quantum
circuits, product Hilbert spaces, entanglement and entanglement
measures, teleportation, Bell states, Bell measurement, Bell
inequality, Schmidt decomposition, quantum Fourier transform, magic
gate, von Neumann entropy, quantum cryptography, quantum error
corrections, quantum games, number states and Bose operators,
coherent states, squeezed states, Gaussian states, coherent Bell
states, POVM measurement, quantum optics networks, beam splitter,
phase shifter and Kerr Hamilton operator are included. A chapter on
quantum channels has also been added. Furthermore a chapter on
boolean functions and quantum gates with mapping bits to qubits is
included.The topics range in difficulty from elementary to
advanced. Almost all problems are solved in detail and most of the
problems are self-contained. Each chapter also contains
supplementary problems to challenge the reader. Programming
problems with Maxima and SymbolicC++ implementations are also
provided.
This book provides an extensive collection of problems with
detailed solutions in introductory and advanced matrix calculus.
Supplementary problems in each chapter will challenge and excite
the reader, ideal for both graduate and undergraduate mathematics
and theoretical physics students. The coverage includes systems of
linear equations, linear differential equations, integration and
matrices, Kronecker product and vec-operation as well as functions
of matrices. Furthermore, specialized topics such as spectral
theorem, nonnormal matrices and mutually unbiased bases are
included. Many of the problems are related to applications for
group theory, Lie algebra theory, wavelets, graph theory and
matrix-valued differential forms, benefitting physics and
engineering students and researchers alike. It also branches out to
problems with tensors and the hyperdeterminant. Computer algebra
programs in Maxima and SymbolicC++ have also been provided.
This book provides an extensive collection of problems with
detailed solutions in introductory and advanced matrix calculus.
Supplementary problems in each chapter will challenge and excite
the reader, ideal for both graduate and undergraduate mathematics
and theoretical physics students. The coverage includes systems of
linear equations, linear differential equations, integration and
matrices, Kronecker product and vec-operation as well as functions
of matrices. Furthermore, specialized topics such as spectral
theorem, nonnormal matrices and mutually unbiased bases are
included. Many of the problems are related to applications for
group theory, Lie algebra theory, wavelets, graph theory and
matrix-valued differential forms, benefitting physics and
engineering students and researchers alike. It also branches out to
problems with tensors and the hyperdeterminant. Computer algebra
programs in Maxima and SymbolicC++ have also been provided.
This book provides a comprehensive collection of problems together
with their detailed solutions for Bose, Spin, Fermi systems and
also interacting systems. Supplementary problems are also provided.
Exercises for representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras are
also covered as well as computer algebra implementations. It is the
only book which summarizes these topics from the quantum theory
aspect in the form of exercises and solutions. The book is also
self-contained.Both physicists and mathematicians will benefit from
all the different techniques explained and worked out in detail.
Quantum computing and quantum information are two of the fastest
growing and most exciting research fields in physics. Entanglement,
teleportation and the possibility of using the non-local behavior
of quantum mechanics to factor integers in random polynomial time
have also added to this new interest. This book supplies a huge
collection of problems in quantum computing and quantum information
together with their detailed solutions, which will prove to be
invaluable to students as well as researchers in these fields. All
the important concepts and topics such as quantum gates and quantum
circuits, product Hilbert spaces, entanglement and entanglement
measures, deportation, Bell states, Bell inequality, Schmidt
decomposition, quantum Fourier transform, magic gate, von Neumann
entropy, quantum cryptography, quantum error corrections, number
states and Bose operators, coherent states, squeezed states,
Gaussian states, POVM measurement, quantum optics networks, beam
splitter, phase shifter and Kerr Hamilton operator are included.
The topics range in difficulty from elementary to advanced. Almost
all problems are solved in detail and most of the problems are
self-contained.
Solving problems in quantum mechanics is an essential skill and
research activity for physicists, mathematicians, engineers and
others. Nowadays, the labor of scientific computation has been
greatly eased by the advent of computer algebra packages, which do
not merely perform number crunching, but also enable users to
manipulate algebraic expressions and equations symbolically. For
example, the manipulations of noncommutative operators,
differentiation and integration can now be carried out
algebraically by the computer algebra package.This book collects
standard and advanced methods in quantum mechanics and implements
them using SymbolicC++ and Maxima, two popular computer algebra
packages. Throughout, the sample programs and their outputs are
accompanied with explanatory text of the underlying mathematics and
physics explained in detail. Selected problems have also been
implemented using two other popular packages - Mathematica and
Maple - while some problems are implemented in C++.Modern
developments in quantum theory are covered extensively, beyond the
standard quantum mechanical techniques. The new research topics
added to this second edition are: entanglement, teleportation,
Berry phase, Morse oscillator, Magnus expansion, wavelets, Pauli
and Clifford groups, coupled Bose-Fermi systems, super-Lie
algebras, etc.
Accompanying continued industrial production and sales of
artificial intelligence and expert systems is the risk that
difficult and resistant theoretical problems and issues will be
ignored. The participants at the Third Tinlap Workshop, whose
contributions are contained in Theoretical Issues in Natural
Language Processing, remove that risk. They discuss and promote
theoretical research on natural language processing, examinations
of solutions to current problems, development of new theories, and
representations of published literature on the subject. Discussions
among these theoreticians in artificial intelligence, logic,
psychology, philosophy, and linguistics draw a comprehensive,
up-to-date picture of the natural language processing field.
Accompanying continued industrial production and sales of
artificial intelligence and expert systems is the risk that
difficult and resistant theoretical problems and issues will be
ignored. The participants at the Third Tinlap Workshop, whose
contributions are contained in Theoretical Issues in Natural
Language Processing, remove that risk. They discuss and promote
theoretical research on natural language processing, examinations
of solutions to current problems, development of new theories, and
representations of published literature on the subject. Discussions
among these theoreticians in artificial intelligence, logic,
psychology, philosophy, and linguistics draw a comprehensive,
up-to-date picture of the natural language processing field.
The book presents examples of important techniques and theorems for
Groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras. This allows the reader to gain
understandings and insights through practice. Applications of these
topics in physics and engineering are also provided. The book is
self-contained. Each chapter gives an introduction to the topic.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer
dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south
seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen,
civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that
sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of
the forces.
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