“…City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose history can be traced back thousands of years in Asia, but is becoming increasingly important everywhere as sustainability and the preservation of the planet are recognized as basic issues, and finally Systems city design, which includes infrastructure and development regulation but also includes computer aided techniques which give designers new tools for managing the complexity of cities. …”

“…And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. …”

“…Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period, not through dry citation of chronological chapter and verse but through a series of brilliant chapters focusing on key ways in which we now view the First World War.For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them, and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper nor more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War-- Presentación del editor…”
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“…Reiki, acupuntura, homeopatía, dianética, bioneuroemoción, programación neorolingüística, flores de Bach... uno a uno, estos saberes y sus pretendidos tratamientos, propios de gurús y chamanes mágicos, resultan refutados, invalidados y reducidos a un absurdo ritual ante la luz que arroja la presente e inapelable crítica…”

“…Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer.What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. …”

“…For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials--from sand to stone to wood to metal. Even as we pare back our consumption of fossil fuels we continue to redouble our consumption of everything else. …”

“…One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. …”

“…But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search. …”

“…Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. …”
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“…Magical Mathematics exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the thirteenth century and the oldest mathematical trick--and much more"--…”

“…With these words, she joined a tradition that goes back to America's founders, who saw America itself as a "great experiment." …”

“…Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that state formation in eighteenth-century Britain was a contested process of interest aggregation, in which common partisan aims helped to negotiate compromises between various irreconcilable public priorities and private interests, within the frameworks provided by formal institutions, which were then collaboratively imposed through overlapping and intersecting networks of formal and informal agents. -- Back cover jacket…”

“…She says that the emergence of #MeToo in 2017 was a breakthrough, but also a continuation of a long struggle dating back to Black women's antirape activism in slave narratives. …”

“…Grasp the fundamentals of web application development by building a simple database-backed app from scratch, using HTML, JavaScript, and other open source tools. …”

“…Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and rejectionist. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…252 -- 10.2.2 The Relationship between Clean and Reverberant Speech Features 254 -- 10.2.3 The Effect of Reverberation on ASR Performance 258 -- 10.3 Approaches to Reverberant Speech Recognition 258 -- 10.3.1 Signal-Based Techniques 259 -- 10.3.2 Front-End Techniques 260 -- 10.3.3 Back-End Techniques 262 -- 10.3.4 Concluding Remarks 265 -- 10.4 Feature Domain Model of the Acoustic Impulse Response 265 -- 10.5 Bayesian Feature Enhancement 267 -- 10.5.1 Basic Approach 268 -- 10.5.2 Measurement Update 269 -- 10.5.3 Time Update 270 -- 10.5.4 Inference 271 -- 10.6 Experimental Results 272 -- 10.6.1 Databases 272 -- 10.6.2 Overview of the Tested Methods 273 -- 10.6.3 Recognition Results on Reverberant Speech 274 -- 10.6.4 Recognition Results on Noisy Reverberant Speech 276 -- 10.7 Conclusions 277 -- Acknowledgment 278 -- References 278 -- Part Four MODEL ENHANCEMENT -- 11 Adaptation and Discriminative Training of Acoustic Models 285 / Yannick Est`eve, Paul Del'eglise -- 11.1 Introduction 285 -- 11.1.1 Acoustic Models 286 -- 11.1.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 287 -- 11.2 Acoustic Model Adaptation and Noise Robustness 288 -- 11.2.1 Static (or Offline) Adaptation 289 -- 11.2.2 Dynamic (or Online) Adaptation 289.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Volum 2008, Conté "Arquitectura": Ser corriente y heroico al mismo tiempo - fragmentos de un viaje ibérico, primavera de 2008 / Stephen Bates ; 27 Viviendas de protección oficial de alquiler para jóvenes en Barcelona / Emiliano López y Mónica Rivera arquitectos ; Museo do Farol de Santa Marta, Cascais / Francisco Aires Mateus y Manuel Aires Mateus ; Casa en Gaüses de Dalt, Vilopriu / Anna & Eugeni Bach arquitectos ; Guardería infantil en Arganda del Rey, Madrid / Rubén Picado y Ma José de Blas ; Vivienda unifamiliar en Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres / Junquera Arquitectos ; Edificio de oficinas Burgo Empreendimiento, Porto / Souto de Moura Arquitectos, Eduardo Souto de Moura ; Edificio de Rectorado de la Universidad San Jorge / Taller Básico de Arquitectura, Javier Pérez. …”

“…These ideas are not new, the date back to the 19th and especially the beginning of the 20th century when the Monarchy tried to overcome the problems with the slogan of Großösterreich (Greater Austria). …”

“…The roots of our history as well as the history of the textile craft reach back to the "dark ages" without written sources, the millennia before the ancient civilisations. …”

“…Les conclusions afirmen que la primera hipòtesis plantejada es compleix en posició 1 a totes les fases de joc i en superioritat numèrica i en posició 1 y 2 en atac posicional i en contraatac. Respecte a la segona hipòtesis es compleix en posició 2 en totes les fases del joc i en contraatac i en posició 1 en atac posicional i en superioritat numèrica…”
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