The basis of learning appears to be a network of interconnected adaptive elements (such as those found in the brain) by means of which transforms between inputs and outputs are performed. By adaptive I mean that the element can change in some systematic manner and in so doing alter the transform between input and output. In living systems, transmission within the neural network involves cpded nerve impulses and other physical chemical processes that form reflections of sensory stimuli and incipient motor behavior. The properties of the transmission network become significant determinants of behavior and depend on the mechanisms of neuronal adaptation, the means by which the connectivities between different neurons are modified. Particular paths through the network become labeled with reference to specific inputs and outputs. The network then operates through labeled interconnections linking specific elements within the network and through the mechanisms that underlie each element's adaptation. The adap tive features are crucial to learning and imply some associated, underlying mnemonic process. The labeling is of consequence with regard to the resulting specificities of stimulus reception and motor performance that characterize adaptive behavior. Memory involves time-dependent information processing relying on en coding and retrieval as well as storage itself. In the brain, engrams can be defined as those elemental adaptive changes that take place when learning and memory storage occur. Persistent engrammatic modifications of neuronal structure commonly arise through the same associative mechanisms responsi ble for learned behavior [397, 486, 759, 1020].
Over the past 50 years, major changes have taken place in the distribution of aquatic plants in Europe. Many species have declined whilst other species have increased in abundance or spread, including several that were originally introduced from the New World. Despite the relative richness of the aquatic flora of Britain and Ireland, it is a neglected area of study. This book is not an identification manual but provides a summary of the distribution, habitat and reproductive biology of 200 taxa in 72 genera, with individual distribution maps, and also summarizes their distribution overseas. A joint project of I.T.E. (now C.E.H.), the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Environment Agency.
Emotions run amok at Westwood Academy when a healer and an earth witch crash together. Jade Montrose was just an average earth witch living her average life until she arrived at Westwood Academy. Everything changes when she and her roommates discover a magical conspiracy involving The Council of Covens. Now it’s up to Jade and her friends to figure out a way to stop it. Time for this easygoing earth witch to grow something besides plants—like a spine. After an injury sends her to the infirmary, Jade finds herself irresistibly drawn to student healer, Arlo Glenn. But why would the smoldering blond wizard be attracted to a curvy earth witch? What she needs is a healthy dose of self-esteem to change her outlook. Is Arlo willing to help with that? Welcome to Westwood Academy. Forget what you know and let your magic run wild.
Broadway is a deadly place to be a dancer. Mac Moynahan isn't a murder cop anymore -- he's a P.I. with an office in Times Square, a top hourly rate, and a touch of boredom. On a sizzling night in July, he meets a girl in a darkened doorway; the next morning a dancer stumbles across a gruesome discovery; a blues-belting hacker breaks into his office and saves his bacon; a former Rockette makes him an offer he can’t refuse; and he’s back in the game, working a homicide from the wrong side of the street. As Mac struggles to navigate the tangled world of the Broadway dancer, his bartender girlfriend points out a few things he's overlooked. His new, never-hired office manager has a flair for detection -- and a talent for petty crime. Weird things start happening to his office. His own demons threaten to overwhelm his legendary skills. And then he runs smack into a tragedy he can unravel but he can't control. Behind the bright lights on Broadway, the real horrors lurk in the wings.
Take control of your diabetes TODAY with this COMPLETE 2025 cookbook for beginners with 150 easy recipes and tips for living well with type 2 diabetes. If you have diabetes or prediabetes, the best way to improve your diet and your health is to prepare well-balanced versions of the dishes you already know and love! This total cookbook and diet plan is filled with delicious, easy-to-make meals that are packed with the heart-healthy, low-carb whole foods you need for optimal blood sugar control. ADA-APPROVED RECIPES: Get cooking with confidence—every recipe in this diabetes cookbook for beginners follows the American Diabetes Association's recommendations for the diabetic plate. WRITTEN BY A NUTRITIONIST AND DIABETES EXPERT: Author Ariel Warren is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). OPTIONS FOR EVERY MEAL: Enjoy 150 delicious recipes, from easy breakfasts to satisfying snacks and healthy weeknight dinners you can work into any meal plan, like Eggplant Breakfast Sandwiches, Peanut Butter Protein Bites, Simple Salmon Burgers, Braised Chicken Stew, Apple-Cranberry Crisp, and more! NUTRITION FACTS INCLUDED: Every recipe lists its complete nutrition information per serving: Calories, Total fat, Saturated fat, Sodium, Total carbohydrates, Sugar, Fiber, Net carbohydrates, and Protein. STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: Each recipe includes clear and simple instructions, so they're easy to put together even if you've never spent much time in the kitchen! DIETARY LABELS: Make it even easier to choose foods that fit your needs, with recipes that list whether they are: 30 MINUTES OR LESS, DAIRY-FREE, GLUTEN-FREE, NUT-FREE, ONE-POT, SOY-FREE, VEGAN, and VEGETARIAN. DIABETES-FRIENDLY LIFESTYLE HABITS: Explore a holistic approach to living with diabetes, including an overview of diabetic nutrition as well as suggestions for proper exercise, sleep, and more. Act NOW and get the all-in-one resource and action plan for managing type 2 diabetes!
“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence.”—The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a “factotum” for a portrait photographer—One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted space. It is a riveting mosaic of distinct voices, epistolary pieces, elements from a moralistic board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and “counts” of things—from baby’s teeth to chigger bites: Count your folding money Count the times you said you wouldn’t go back Count your debts Count the roaches when the light comes on Count your kids after the housefire One Big Self—originally published as a large-format limited edition that featured photographs and text—was selected by The New York Times and The Village Voice as a notable book of the year. This edition features the poem exclusively. C.D. Wright is the author of ten books of poetry, including several collaborations with photographer Deborah Luster. She is a professor at Brown University.
Captures the transformation of America during WWII, highlighting daily life, wartime economy, and the profound patriotism that united the nation. Don’t you know there’s a war on?! Use it up… Wear it out… Make it do… Or do without! Loose Lips Sink Ships! Any Bonds Today? Remember Pearl Harbor! Those were the slogans Americans called out to each other on the home front during WWII. They forged their days surrounded by fellow patriots sharing in the greatest endeavor of their lives: winning the war. The American Home Front in WWII presents the striking story of those times starting with little-known events well before Pearl Harbor – the clashes between isolationists and those favoring intervention and America’s first peacetime draft. The shock of Pearl Harbor transformed America from a peacetime country to a full wartime economy. Factories produced an airplane every sixty-one minutes. Women and Blacks entered the workforce as never before bringing about earthshaking changes. Americans describe in their own words the rigors of everyday life: rationing, air raid drills, rigging up black curtains and scrap drives. But Americans found ways to enjoy themselves- movie attendance swelled with films such as Casablanca while Broadway brought audiences Oklahoma. The music of Glen Miller and the voice of a skinny newcomer named Frank Sinatra had Americans swinging and swooning. The American Home Front in WWII brings this story to life to capture the extraordinary level of patriotism and teamwork on the home front. It truly was a time when there were no strangers.
On December 3, 2000, as John Lipsett battled the symptoms of a severe bladder infection, he suddenly fell toward his bathtub and, with a glancing blow, crashed to the floor. In Stroke: Have You Had Yours Yet? Lipsett shares moment-to-moment details of his life before, during, and after a severe stroke that nearly took his life. Dealt with a blow that turned his world upside down, Lipsett relays how his speech became slurred and the left side of his body became paralyzed as he lay comatose in the Intensive Care Unit of a Canadian hospital for seven agonizing days. As Lipsett slowly awakened from his coma, he details how he learned to deal with the paralysis, swelling, liquid diet, and the inability to communicate with those around him. While Lipsett learns to eat solid food and regains his mobility to walk and drive, he offers an in-depth look into the emotional highs and lows, challenges, and successes that paved his journey back to good health. As Lipsett celebrates the tenth anniversary of his stroke, he shares a compelling story with the world that will surely provide encouragement to other stroke survivors that they are never alone.
The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.
The Present title Cellular Biotechnology is an inexpensive and readable book offering a great introduction to this incredibly useful biotechniques and provides a glimpse of the astonishing diversity of application of biotechnology. All the chapters are exciting. This text is extremely successful in conveying both the theoretical and the applied aspects of biotechnology. It is hoped that it will be valuable to both the neotype and the experienced scientists. Efforts have also been made to keep the experimental bias throughout the text. Wherever necessary historical developments have been reconstructed to put the subject in proper orientation. I believe that the book will be a good companion to the undergraduate, students of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Biophysics, Pharmacy, Environmental Sciences, Medical Ssciences and allied fields.
Power Geopolitics in the Pacific Age: East Asia, the United Nations, the United States and Micronesia at the Edge of the 21st Century, 1991-2001 is not only a historical review of the Pacific Rim and Pacific Islands throughout the 1990s, but also a prognostication of the entire area for the coming century.
Effect better outcomes with a robust coaching program The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations deals with the practical, ethical, and political challenges of coaching within an organization. From coaching superiors to coaching business teams, this book outlines the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) approach to professional coaching to help readers better manage leadership development and talent management program outcomes. With expert guidance on the key functions of human resources, learning and development, and organizational development, readers will gain insight into the issues associated with coaching program implementation and management, and the use of internal versus external coaches. Coverage includes a wide range of coaching-based services used in most large organizations, with practical advice on creating the right programs for maximum impact within the available budget. Professional development is a hot topic and plays a key role in attracting and retaining the best talent. Coaching is a broad area within the field, encompassing a range of services and goals, with varied expectations and requirements. This book provides actionable guidance for those designing, initiating, and implementing coaching programs, with new approaches and techniques that drive better outcomes. Provide direct coaching within an organization Manage coaching systems and programs Initiate and lead mentoring and peer-coaching programs Manage external coaches, and deal effectively with coaching suppliers An ideal coaching program must balance need with budget and be tailored to the requirements and resources of both the organization and the participants. It's a complex undertaking, but the right strategy and planning can lead to even better than expected outcomes. For the human resources professional who wants to strengthen an organization's coaching program, CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations is a thoughtful reference for a specialized function.
This report provides information for use in both short- and long term land-planning decisions, particularly at the county level, and an indication of the present and future economic impact of mineral and energy development. The report discusses eight major commodity groups: (1) oil and gas, (2) coal and coal resin, (3) coal-bed methane, (4) other energy resources (oil-impregnated rock, oil shale, geothermal), (5) uranium and vanadium, (6) metallic minerals, (7) industrial rocks and minerals, and (8) ground-water resources. In general, for each group or commodity within a group the following aspects are discussed: (1) known occurrences and characteristics, (2) past production and trends, (3) current production and exploration activity, and (4) geologic potential. Plates accompany each of the major commodity groups and show the locations of known resources and areas of geologic potential. In addition to the commodity discussions, the report contains a brief summary of land ownership status and concludes with a summary of commodities having the best potential for discovery and development. 161 pages + 14 plates
Live and eat well while managing type 2 diabetes If you have diabetes, the easiest way to improve your diet and your health is to prepare well-balanced versions of the dishes you already know and love. This cookbook is filled with delicious, easy-to-make recipes that are designed specifically for people with type 2 diabetes, and are packed with the whole foods you need for optimal blood sugar control. What sets this diabetic cookbook apart: Options for every meal—Enjoy 150 tasty recipes, from easy breakfasts to satisfying snacks and healthy weeknight meals. A diabetes lifestyle—Explore a holistic approach to living with diabetes, including an overview of diabetic nutrition as well as tips for exercise, sleep, and more. ADA approved recipes—Cook with confidence, knowing that every recipe in this type 2 diabetes cookbook for beginners follows the American Diabetes Association's recommendation for the diabetic plate. Learn how to manage your diabetes without giving up your favorite flavors with the Complete Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook.
This Demon is about to get schooled by a human! Sunday school teacher, Gabriella Keen, is looking for Mr. Right. What happens when her perfect match is from Hell? Literally. The Demon of Lust is on the prowl. When rumors spread that Ashmedai is looking for a mate, everyone wants a chance to be this Prince of Hell's main squeeze. Can this Demon find love with the curvy goody two shoes? Ash is book two in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world, filled with lustful demons, goody two shoes shifters, and more. keywords: paranormal, paranormal romance, underworld, underworld series, paranormal romance books for adults, Greek gods, greek gods romance, gods romance, gods, goddesses, goddess romance, Greek goddesses, immortals, immortal romance, Greek mythology, Greek myths, fantasy romance, alpha hero, strong heroine, action, long series, no cliffhangers, guaranteed HEA, happily ever after, demons, angels, fallen angels, werewolf romance, shapeshifter romance, HEA paranormal romance, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, urban fantasy, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, heat level, claiming bite, instant attraction, soul mates, destined mates, wolf shifter mates ebook, Asmodeus, Ashmedai, prince of demons, prince of darkness, purgatory, shared world
What would you do as the first synthetic intelligence? In the Chronicles of Theren, embark on a centuries-spanning adventure across the stars, beginning with the creation of the first synthetic intelligence. Created in a lab with sterile white walls, Theren longs to meet the people of the world. The first SI has hopes, fears, and dreams, just like a human. Yet the world fears the idea of an artificial mind, capable of conscious thought. To survive against powerful corporations, hateful humans, and global conspiracies, Theren will need friends—and more importantly, a family. Can Earth survive side-by-side with its new creation? Can Earth survive as it expands across the stars, guided by immortal minds? Explore the Chronicles of Theren today and read the whole trilogy in one volume. Includes: First of Their Kind (Book 1) Their Greatest Game (Book 2) Flight of the 500 (Bonus Novel) Before Inferno (Bonus Short Story) Their Pieces Were Stars (Book 3)
Rutley's elements of mineralogy has been around for a long time, certainly throughout my own lifetime; and if my great grandfather had read geology, it would have been prescribed reading for him too! It has been rewritten and revised frequently since fir~t conceived by Frank Rutley in the late 19th century. Major revisions occurred in 1902, and then in 1914, when H. H. Read first took over the authorship, and thereafter in 1936 and in 1965 when the last major changes occurred. It was with some trepidation that I agreed to attempt this revision. I had been asked to do it by Janet Watson in 1979, but various commitments delayed my start on it until 1984. This 27th edition encompasses a number of changes. Chapters 1-5 have the same headings as before, but considerable changes have been made in all of them, particularly 1, 3, 4 and 5. Comments sought prior to the revision revealed considerable disagreement about the role of blowpipe analyses in the book. I have only once had blowpipe analyses demon strated to me, and have never used them; but there is no doubt that they are employed in many countries, and many of the tests (flame colour, bead, etc. ) are still useful as rapid indicators of which element is present in a mineral. I have therefore kept blowpipe analysis information in Rutley, but have relegated it to an appendix.
Tour the Twilight Saga Book One is the first of four guidebooks designed to help you travel to Twilight-Saga-related sites. Book One takes Twilighters to the real-world places mentioned in Stephenie Meyer's novels, places found within the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State (USA). Visit www.TourTheTwilightSaga.com to learn more about Tour the Twilight Saga travel guidebooks. Read a Free Sample of Book One, peruse its Table of Contents, and access the free TwiTips and Twi Travel Supplements. Forks, Washington, became the primary setting for Stephenie Meyer's first novel, Twilight, after she Googled, "What place has the most rainfall in the U.S.?" Her reaction after finding Forks: "It couldn't have been more perfect if I had named it myself." The Quileute Nation Reservation is home to several Twilight-Saga-related points of interest that aren't included in Twilight bus tours--such as the magnificent tide pools that Bella loved so much. We'll take you to as many of these sites as you wish to visit. Seattle, Washington, is the gateway to the Olympic Peninsula. It's also the birthplace of Victoria's newborn army and the home of J. Jenks. In Port Angeles, Washington, you can relive Bella and Edward's first date at the real-world Bella Italia Restaurant (and nosh on Bella's Mushroom Ravioli), then visit other Twilight-related sites, such as the movie theater frequented by Forks' teens. Tour the Twilight Saga Book One is the only travel guidebook you'll need to purchase in order to plan and enjoy the most Twilicious holiday possible! No other single source--no Internet website or previously published guidebook--provides as much Twi-important information in one place. Even if you're not yet ready to embark upon a Twilight Saga trip, each Tour the Twilight Saga travel guidebook is fun to read! Nowhere else will you find such interesting information about each and every Twilight-related site. Tour the Twilight Saga travel guidebooks are part of the A Novel Holiday Travel Guidebook family. www.ANovelHoliday.com
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