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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

1st Edition
Volume 1
February 1, 1987
P. Nijkamp
English
Hardback
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This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art survey for professional teachers, researchers and advanced (post-) graduate students in these disciplines. In addition to a representative survey of past developments, it also points to new directions and trends within the field.For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier....

Discontinuous Constituency

1st Edition
January 1, 1987
Geoffrey J. Huck + 1 more
English
eBook
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Syntax and Semantics: Discontinuous Constituency is a collection of papers that discusses the role of discontinuous constituency in grammar. One paper proposes a program which combines the key ideas of the categorial theory of grammatical relations with a phrase structure view of syntax. The program provides a direct account of English verb-participle constructions, of extraposed relatives, and of the peculiar distribution of particles in English. Another paper shows that, given certain plausible assumptions about the type of grammar which children are predisposed to acquire, exposure to free word order triggers the postulation of discontinuous constituents. The paper also cites evidence involving the interpretation of reflexive pronouns and quantifiers in Korean grammar that make use of such discontinuous constituents. One paper tackles some issues surrounding the treatment of discontinuity and multidominance in the Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) framework. The task is accomplished through a "phrase marker," a discontinuity and multidominance as ingredients of linguistic description, and a GPSG framework extension. Another paper analyzes extraposition and variations in surface order among syntactic constituents in English. The collection can prove valuable for linguists, students, and academician involved with semantics, syntax, and the philosophy of language.

Psychology's Compositional Problem

1st Edition
Volume 41
January 1, 1987
K. Hillner
English
eBook
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The primary purpose of this book is to document the pervasive ramifications of the compositional problem (the discipline's historical inability to define or give a technical specification to psychological phenomena) for the conduction of academic, experimental psychology at five levels of analysis: methodological, epiphenomenal, explanatory, metaphysical, and normative.

The Adaptive Brain I

1st Edition
Volume 42
January 1, 1987
Stephen Grossberg
English
eBook
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The Adaptive Brain II

1st Edition
Volume 43
January 1, 1987
Stephen Grossberg
English
eBook
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The Roots of Perception

1st Edition
Volume 38
December 1, 1986
U. Hentschel + 2 more
English
eBook
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The subject matter of this book is subliminal perception and microgenetic perceptual processing, two important topics on the interface between perception and personality. It presents a different way of handling these topics, biological in its emphasis on process, humanistic in its focussing on the dynamics of individual experience. The reader will not only find new theoretical perspectives but a host of new, efficient and penetrating methods for analyzing problems of personality and psychopathology. The book is filled with empirical data supporting its theoretical and methodological claims.Main Features: - New perspectives on information processing in relation to personality. - New methods applicable in many fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental and personality psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, education (creativity), etc. - Constructive analysis and critical review of the fields of subliminal perception and microgenesis.

Current Issues in Theoretical Psychology

1st Edition
Volume 40
December 1, 1986
W.J. Baker + 3 more
English
eBook
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation

1st Edition
Volume 20
October 30, 1986
Gordon H. Bower
English
eBook
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The Enzymes

3rd Edition
Volume 17
October 22, 1986
Paul D. Boyer + 1 more
English
eBook
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Human Movement Understanding

1st Edition
Volume 33
October 1, 1986
P. Morasso + 1 more
English
eBook
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The volume applies to the study of the motor system the computational approach developed by David Marr for the visual system. Accordingly, understanding movement is viewed as an information processing problem, centred on the representation of appropriate computational structures. In particular, the book deals with the representation of objects, concurrent parallel processes, trajectory formation patterns and patterns of interaction with the environment.A number of modeling techniques are discussed, ranging from computational geometry to artificial intelligence, integrating very different aspects of movement, especially those which are not directly motoric.

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