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Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

By: Ahmed Azraq,Hala Aziz,Nicolas Nappe,Cesar Rodriguez Bravo,Lak Sri,IBM Redbooks

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Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

By: Ahmed Azraq,Hala Aziz,Nicolas Nappe,Cesar Rodriguez Bravo,Lak Sri,IBM Redbooks

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 2, describes how the Watson Conversation service can be used to create chatbots and user agents that understand natural-language input and communicate with your users simulating a real human conversation. It introduces the concepts that you need to understand in order to use the Watson Conversation service. It provides examples of applications that integrate the Watson Conversation service with other IBM Bluemix® services, such as the IBM IoT Platform, Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and Weather Company® Data, to implement practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738442569

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Principles of Rock Deformation and Tectonics

By: Jean-Luc Bouchez,Adolphe Nicolas

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Principles of Rock Deformation and Tectonics

By: Jean-Luc Bouchez,Adolphe Nicolas

This book originates in the French classic "Principes de Tectonique" (Masson, 1983), written by professor Adolphe Nicolas, and the more recent "Principes de Tectonique" by J.L. Bouchez and A. Nicolas (De Boeck, 2018). This English edition is an up-to-date and augmented version that keeps the concise and rigorous writing of its inspiring predecessors. It is largely based on laboratory and field experience of both authors, with a focus towards hard rocks and magmatic rocks from both the continental crust worldwide and the mantle, principally from the Oman ophiolites. The book includes more than 250 illustrations, most of them original. In addition to classic geological subjects, the book includes elements such as plastic deformation of ice, quartz and olivine, fabric acquisition in rocks and magmas, measurement and orientation of stress, together with basic background information on neotectonics, geophysics and other practical tools such as magnetic fabrics not commonly treated in geological books. Since the targeted readers are present day young students, a few exercises of structural geology are included to improve their abilities. This book aims principally at students of Geology, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. However, due to its numerous illustrations and rather concise writing, anyone interested in rock deformation and/or tectonics will find key answers in this book.

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Oxford University Press

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0192657631

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9780192657633

The Mid-Oceanic Ridges

Mountains Below Sea Level

By: Adolphe Nicolas

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The Mid-Oceanic Ridges

Mountains Below Sea Level

By: Adolphe Nicolas

This book is completely in phase with the 1994 science.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662031361

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Oasis ottomanes

Dakhla et Kharga dans l'Egypte des XVIe-XIXe siecles

By: Nicolas Michel

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Oasis ottomanes

Dakhla et Kharga dans l'Egypte des XVIe-XIXe siecles

By: Nicolas Michel

This book explores the position of the Dakhla and Kharga oases within Ottoman Egypt as well as the whole empire. It intends to contribute to the reflection on the characteristics and limits of Ottomanity as seen by the inhabitants of a region which, from Cairo, seemed remote and isolated. It is based on several sets of private archives, largely unpublished, supplemented by travelogues and by modern literature. Despite their remoteness from the Nile Valley and a unique environment, the Oases were integrated in the same administrative and judicial frame as the rest of Egypt. Taxation was specific as were the primarily agricultural resources. Because of the threat of Beduin raids, the Oases housed a large garrison. The book studies the impact of this military presence upon the Oasian society from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the gradual erasure of Ottoman peculiarities, then of their memory during the nineteenth century.

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242

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IFAO

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2724710274

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Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology

An Illustrated Dictionary

By: Nicolas G. Adrien

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Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology

An Illustrated Dictionary

By: Nicolas G. Adrien

Computational hydraulics and hydrologic modeling are rapidly developing fields with a wide range of applications in areas ranging from wastewater disposal and stormwater management to civil and environmental engineering. These fields are full of promise, but the abundance of literature that now exists contains many new terms that are not always defined. Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology: An Illustrated Dictionary defines more that 4,000 basic terms and phrases related to water conveyance with emphasis on computational hydraulics and hydrologic modeling. Compiled by Nicolas G. Adrien, a noted consulting engineer with three decades of experience, this dictionary includes detailed references to actual modeling studies, nearly 100 illustrations, 150 equations and formulas, and many notations. It also includes a chapter of application examples and another containing more than 6,000 related terms with a list of resources where interested readers can find additional definitions. Other dictionaries and glossaries related to these areas tend to be either dated or much narrower in scope. This dictionary offers broad, practice-based coverage of terms culled directly from the latest texts, references, and actual engineering reports. Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology: An Illustrated Dictionary stands alone in providing ready access to the vocabulary of these subjects.

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CRC Press

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0849318904

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Principles of Rock Deformation

By: A. Nicolas

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Principles of Rock Deformation

By: A. Nicolas

Physicists attempt to reduce natural phenomena to their essential dimensions by means of simplification and approximation and to account for them by defining natural laws. Paradoxically, whilst there is a critical need in geology to reduce the overwhelming field information to its essentials, it often re mains in an over-descriptive state. This prudent attitude of geologists is dictated by the nature of the subjects being consi dered, as it is often difficult to derive the significant parame ters from the raw data. It also follows from the way that geolo gical work is carried out. Geologists proceed, as in a police investigation, by trying to reconstruct past conditions and events from an analysis of the features preserved in rocks. In physics all knowledge is based on experiment but in the Earth Sciences experimental evidence is of very limited scope and is difficult to interpret. The geologist's cautious approach in accepting evidence gained by modelling and quantification is sometimes questionable when it is taken too far. It shuts out potentially fruitful lines of advance; for instance when refu sing order of magnitude calculations, it risks being drowned in anthropomorphic speculation. Happily nowadays, many more studies tend to separate and order the significant facts and are carried out with numerical constraints, which although they are approxi mate in nature, limit the range of hypotheses and thus give rise to new models.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400937431

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A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications

A Conceptual Study

By: Nicolas Laos

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A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications

A Conceptual Study

By: Nicolas Laos

This book covers the following topics: Mathematical Philosophy; Mathematical Logic; the Structure of Number Sets and the Theory of Real Numbers, Arithmetic and Axiomatic Number Theory, and Algebra (including the study of Sequences and Series); Matrices and Applications in Input-Output Analysis and Linear Programming; Probability and Statistics; Classical Euclidean Geometry, Analytic Geometry, and Trigonometry; Vectors, Vector Spaces, Normed Vector Spaces, and Metric Spaces; basic principles of non-Euclidean Geometries and Metric Geometry; Infinitesimal Calculus and basic Topology (Functions, Limits, Continuity, Topological Structures, Homeomorphisms, Differentiation, and Integration, including Multivariable Calculus and Vector Calculus); Complex Numbers and Complex Analysis; basic principles of Ordinary Differential Equations; as well as mathematical methods and mathematical modeling in the natural sciences (including physics, engineering, biology, and neuroscience) and in the social sciences (including economics, management, strategic studies, and warfare problems).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036409791

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Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews

Notes from the Heart

By: Nicolas Southon,Roger Nichols

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Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews

Notes from the Heart

By: Nicolas Southon,Roger Nichols

’He plays the piano well,’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talent but he’s not a genius, and I’m afraid he thinks he is.’ Intelligent though the lady was, she got this one spectacularly wrong. Poulenc has in fact outpaced his colleagues in Les Six by many a mile, as singers and instrumentalists all over the world will attest, and while he would never have accepted the title of ’genius’, preferring ’artisan’, a genius is increasingly what he appears to have been. Part of the answer lay in always being his own man, and this independence of spirit shows through in his writings and interviews just as brightly as in his music, whether it’s boasting that he’d be happy never to hear The Mastersingers ever again, pointing out that what critics condemn as the ’formlessness’ of French music is one of its delights, voicing his outrage at attempts to ’finish’ the Unfinished Symphony, writing ’in praise of banality’ - or remembering the affair of Debussy’s hat. And in every case, his intelligence, humour and generosity of spirit help explain why he was so widely and deeply loved. This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J’écris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols's translation, capturing the very essence of Poulenc’s lively writing style, makes more widely accessible this significant contribution to Poulenc scholarship.

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Routledge

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1317133331

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Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales

By: Louis Nicolas,Réal Ouellet

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Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales

By: Louis Nicolas,Réal Ouellet

A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773538763

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9780773538764

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

By: Nicolas Slonimsky

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

By: Nicolas Slonimsky

This 6-volume set of Bakers covers all musical genres, with entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles of Nicolas Slonimsky. More than 15, 000 biographies span the medieval ages to the present.This work continues the tradition of offering the most comprehensive and authoritative information on the musicians, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world. Bakers remains the most affordable, comprehensive and readable of all music reference works, providing everyone from the student to scholar a one-stop resource for all their music biographical needs. Some of the artists featured include: Louis Armstrong Johann Sebastian Bach The Beatles Ludwig van Beethoven James Brown John Cage Maria Callas Johnny Cash Miles Davis Claude Debussy Marvin Gaye Philip Glass George Frideric Handel Charlie Parker Luciano Pavarotti Arturo Toscanini Tom Waits And many more

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New York : Schirmer Books

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0028655257

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Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

By: Ahmed Azraq,Hala Aziz,Nicolas Nappe,Cesar Rodriguez Bravo,Lak Sri,IBM Redbooks

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Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

By: Ahmed Azraq,Hala Aziz,Nicolas Nappe,Cesar Rodriguez Bravo,Lak Sri,IBM Redbooks

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Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

Principles of Rock Deformation and Tectonics

Principles of Rock Deformation and Tectonics

The Mid-Oceanic Ridges

The Mid-Oceanic Ridges

Oasis ottomanes

Oasis ottomanes

Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology

Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology

Principles of Rock Deformation

Principles of Rock Deformation

A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications

A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications

Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews

Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews

Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

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