Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela

Pei-Lin Yu

University of New Mexico Press

The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists' urge to be complete." The poems gathered in this bilingual (Chinese/English) edition will be read again and again for their beauty. The works preserve Yu Xuanji's passion, her sharp eye for detail, her often witty variations on familiar Chinese themes, all of which give the poems an immediacy one rarely finds in ancient, translated texts. Poems addressed to Yu Xuanji's husband and to other men (some famous poets) and women give us some sense of her relationships; the book also includes other traditional Chinese forms such as meditations on landscapes and occasional poems commemorating feast days. As noted in the introduction, the poetry also provokes us to think about the act of writing, about the culture and politics of the T'ang Dynasty, and about gender.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Wesleyan University Press

"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid…We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists' urge to be complete." The poems gathered in this bilingual (Chinese/English) edition will be read again and again for their beauty. The works preserve Yu Xuanji's passion, her sharp eye for detail, her often witty variations on familiar Chinese themes, all of which give the poems an immediacy one rarely finds in ancient, translated texts. Poems addressed to Yu Xuanji's husband and to other men (some famous poets) and women give us some sense of her relationships; the book also includes other traditional Chinese forms such as meditations on landscapes and occasional poems commemorating feast days. As noted in the introduction, the poetry also provokes us to think about the act of writing, about the culture and politics of the T'ang Dynasty, and about gender.

Antimicrobial Therapy and Vaccines

Science & Math

WEBER

Raoult

Biological Sciences

Apple Trees Productions

Reproductive System- Reference Guide

Reference

Permacharts

This book presents neuromorphic cognitive systems from a learning and memory-centered perspective. It illustrates how to build a system network of neurons to perform spike-based information processing, computing, and high-level cognitive tasks. It is beneficial to a wide spectrum of readers, including undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers who are interested in neuromorphic computing and neuromorphic engineering, as well as engineers and professionals in industry who are involved in the design and applications of neuromorphic cognitive systems, neuromorphic sensors and processors, and cognitive robotics. 
The book formulates a systematic framework, from the basic mathematical and computational methods in spike-based neural encoding, learning in both single and multi-layered networks, to a near cognitive level composed of memory and cognition. Since the mechanisms for integrating spiking neurons integrate to formulate cognitive functions as in the brain are little understood, studies of neuromorphic cognitive systems are urgently needed. The topics covered in this book range from the neuronal level to the system level. In the neuronal level, synaptic adaptation plays an important role in learning patterns. In order to perform higher-level cognitive functions such as recognition and memory, spiking neurons with learning abilities are consistently integrated, building a system with encoding, learning and memory functionalities. The book describes these aspects in detail.

Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems (Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 126)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer

Credit risk analysis is one of the most important topics in the field of financial risk management. Due to recent financial crises and regulatory concern of Basel II, credit risk analysis has been the major focus of financial and banking industry. Especially for some credit-granting institutions such as commercial banks and credit companies, the ability to discriminate good customers from bad ones is crucial. The need for reliable quantitative models that predict defaults accurately is imperative so that the interested parties can take either preventive or corrective action. Hence credit risk analysis becomes very important for sustainability and profit of enterprises. In such backgrounds, this book tries to integrate recent emerging support vector machines and other computational intelligence techniques that replicate the principles of bio-inspired information processing to create some innovative methodologies for credit risk analysis and to provide decision support information for interested parties.

Bio-Inspired Credit Risk Analysis

Business & Money

Economics

In der Hochindustrialisierungsphase zwischen 1869 und 1914 erlebte das technische Ausbildungswesen auf den Gebieten des Handels, der Industrie und des Handwerks sowie der Kunst in Verbindung mit einer Fachausbildung einen stetigen Wandlungs- und Anpassungsprozess. Die Autorin untersucht den Umwandlungsprozess des beruflichen Ausbildungswesens von der traditionellen Handwerkslehre zum modernen Ausbildungswesen in den drei Bundesstaaten Preußen, Sachsen und Württemberg während der Zeit von 1869 bis 1914. Die Untersuchung trägt dazu bei, einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des niederen und mittleren technischen Schulwesens in Preußen, Sachsen und Württemberg während dieses Zeitraums zu vermitteln. Das heutige duale Ausbildungssystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist das Ergebnis einer langjährigen, tief in den Traditionen der einzelnen Bundesstaaten verwurzelten Entwicklung. Die Studie leistet einen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis des dualen Systems.

Die Entwicklung berufsbildender Schulen in Preußen, Sachsen und Württemberg zwischen 1869 und 1914 (Aktuelle Probleme moderner Gesellschaften / ... of Modern Societies) (German Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Peter Lang

Wolf Children nº 01/03

Comics & Graphic Novels

Hosoda, Mamoru

Manga

Planeta Cómic

Wolf Children nº 02/03

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