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World Population: Past, Present, & Future

By: Julio A Gonzalo,Manuel Alfonseca,Felix-fernando Munoz Perez

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World Population: Past, Present, & Future

By: Julio A Gonzalo,Manuel Alfonseca,Felix-fernando Munoz Perez

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously. The authors from the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid (Spain), professors Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca, and Félix-Fernando Muñoz, point out that the recent pronounced growth in world population (accompanied by an even more pronounced growth in agricultural production) was due mainly to the increase of life expectancy and not to the (inexistent) growth in fertility rate. Using a 'rate equations' approach for the first time, they describe population trends and forecast the possibility of steps up (or down) in population rather than the exponential growth predicted by UN demographers around 1985 and thereafter. This book provides a new perspective that our planet is not overpopulated and could, in fact, house a considerably larger population.

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World Scientific

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9813141018

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9789813141018

Intelligible Design

A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo,Manuel M. Carreira

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Intelligible Design

A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo,Manuel M. Carreira

This is an in-depth study of one of the most important and prominent Hua-ch''iao (Overseas Chinese) of twentieth-century Southeast Asian and China OCo Tan Kah-kee (1874OCo1961).For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee''s case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for sixteen years. He was the only Hua-ch''iao of his generation to have led the Chinese in South-East Asia to help China to resist the Japanese invasion in a concerted and coordinated manner. Moreover, he was the only Hua-ch''iao leader to have played both Singapore and China politics and affairs in close quarters, rubbing shoulders with British governors, Chinese officials and commanders. Finally, it is important to point out that Tan Kah-kee was the only Hua-ch''iao in his times to have combined his Pang, community and political power and influences for the advancement of community, regional and national goals.This is an in-depth study of not just Tan Kah-kee per se but also the making of a legend through his deeds, self-sacrifices, fortitude and foresight. This revised edition sheds new light on his political agonies in Mao''s China over campaigns against capitalists and intellectuals. Moreover, it analyses more comprehensively the varied legacies of Tan Kah-kee, including his successors, the style of his non-partisan political leadership, his educational strategy for nation-building, social change and OC the Spirit of Tan Kah-keeOCO, currently in vogue in his home province, Fukien.

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296

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World Scientific

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9814447617

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9789814447614

A Practical Guide to Hybrid Natural Language Processing

Combining Neural Models and Knowledge Graphs for NLP

By: Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez,Ronald Denaux,Andres Garcia-Silva

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A Practical Guide to Hybrid Natural Language Processing

Combining Neural Models and Knowledge Graphs for NLP

By: Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez,Ronald Denaux,Andres Garcia-Silva

This book provides readers with a practical guide to the principles of hybrid approaches to natural language processing (NLP) involving a combination of neural methods and knowledge graphs. To this end, it first introduces the main building blocks and then describes how they can be integrated to support the effective implementation of real-world NLP applications. To illustrate the ideas described, the book also includes a comprehensive set of experiments and exercises involving different algorithms over a selection of domains and corpora in various NLP tasks. Throughout, the authors show how to leverage complementary representations stemming from the analysis of unstructured text corpora as well as the entities and relations described explicitly in a knowledge graph, how to integrate such representations, and how to use the resulting features to effectively solve NLP tasks in a range of domains. In addition, the book offers access to executable code with examples, exercises and real-world applications in key domains, like disinformation analysis and machine reading comprehension of scientific literature. All the examples and exercises proposed in the book are available as executable Jupyter notebooks in a GitHub repository. They are all ready to be run on Google Colaboratory or, if preferred, in a local environment. A valuable resource for anyone interested in the interplay between neural and knowledge-based approaches to NLP, this book is a useful guide for readers with a background in structured knowledge representations as well as those whose main approach to AI is fundamentally based on logic. Further, it will appeal to those whose main background is in the areas of machine and deep learning who are looking for ways to leverage structured knowledge bases to optimize results along the NLP downstream.

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281

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Springer Nature

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3030448304

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9783030448301

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

An Introductory Survey

By: Peter Manuel

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Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

An Introductory Survey

By: Peter Manuel

Emphasizing stylistic analysis and historical development, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western music styles, from reggae and salsa to the popular musics of non-Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195063341

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9780195063349

Book's by Manuel Alfonseca

World Population: Past, Present, & Future

World Population: Past, Present, & Future

Intelligible Design

Intelligible Design

A Practical Guide to Hybrid Natural Language Processing

A Practical Guide to Hybrid Natural Language Processing

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

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