How societies change [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel Chirot

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791221403321
• Autore: Chirot Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, 2012
• ISBN: 1-4833-4915-2; 1-4522-3715-8; 1-4522-2446-3
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 165 p.) : maps
• Collana: Sociology for a new century series
• Disciplina: 303.4
• Soggetti: Social change; Social evolution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Evolution and early human societies : Physical and cultural evolution: differences and similarities ; Causes of change in early societies ; From collecting, hunting, and fishing to agriculture -- Agrarian societies : The invention of the state ; Class status, and force: increasing inequality and making it hereditary ; Nomads, migrants, and other raiders ; Great cultures: the moral basis of agrarian civilizations ; The problem of administration and the cycle of political decay and reconstruction ; The conservatism of village life ; The demographic cycle in agrarian societies ; The potential for rapid innovation: the importance of peripheries ; The limits of analogy: societies are not species, and cultural evolution is not biological -- The rise of the West : Europe's ecological advantages ; Religious discordance and political stalemate: the basis for western rationalization ; Science, knowledge, and exploration in China and Western Europe ; The growth of European empires and the transformation of the economy ; Overcoming the agrarian population cycle ; The invention of nationalism and its consequences ; The legitimation of commerce: the ideological basis of the Industrial Revolution -- The Modern era : Industrial cycles ; Internal and international social consequences of modernization and industrial cycles ; Economic class and political power in modern societies ; Political ideologies and protests: two centuries of revolutions ; The ; unending effort to adapt to modernity ; Ecological pressures persist -- Toward a theory of social change : Why change occurs ; The new or the old?: The paradox of institutional resistance to change ; Freedom or control?: The dilemma of the modern era.
• Sommario/riassunto: An exploration of how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved problems which will serve as a major impetus for further social change.

Pakistan journal of plant sciences

• Record Nr.: UNISA996336387703316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Peshawar, Pakistan, : Dept. of Botany, University of Peshawar, [1995]-
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetti: Botany; Botany - Pakistan; Periodicals.; Pakistan
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed; Title from cover.

Algorithmic Learning Theory : 19th International Conference, ALT 2008, Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008, Proceedings / / edited by Yoav Freund, László Györfi, György Turán, Thomas Zeugmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484043803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008
• ISBN: 3-540-87987-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 467 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 5254
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetti: Data mining; Artificial intelligence; Natural language processing (Computer science); Digital humanities; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Digital Humanities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Invited Papers -- On Iterative Algorithms with an Information Geometry Background -- Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations -- Some Mathematics behind Graph Property Testing -- Finding Total and Partial Orders from Data for Seriation -- Computational Models of Neural Representations in the Human Brain -- Regular Contributions -- Generalization Bounds for Some Ordinal Regression Algorithms -- Approximation of the Optimal ROC Curve and a Tree-Based Ranking Algorithm -- Sample Selection Bias Correction Theory -- Exploiting Cluster-Structure to Predict the Labeling of a Graph -- A Uniform Lower Error Bound for Half-Space Learning -- Generalization Bounds for K-Dimensional Coding Schemes in Hilbert Spaces -- Learning and Generalization with the Information Bottleneck -- Growth Optimal Investment with Transaction Costs -- Online Regret Bounds for Markov Decision Processes with Deterministic ; Transitions -- On-Line Probability, Complexity and Randomness -- Prequential Randomness -- Some Sufficient Conditions on an Arbitrary Class of Stochastic Processes for the Existence of a Predictor -- Nonparametric Independence Tests: Space Partitioning and Kernel Approaches -- Supermartingales in Prediction with Expert Advice -- Aggregating Algorithm for a Space of Analytic Functions -- Smooth Boosting for Margin-Based Ranking -- Learning with Continuous Experts Using Drifting Games -- Entropy Regularized LPBoost -- Optimally Learning Social Networks with Activations and Suppressions -- Active Learning in Multi-armed Bandits -- Query Learning and Certificates in Lattices -- Clustering with Interactive Feedback -- Active Learning of Group-Structured Environments -- Finding the Rare Cube -- Iterative Learning of Simple External Contextual Languages -- Topological Properties of Concept Spaces -- Dynamically Delayed Postdictive Completeness and Consistency in Learning -- Dynamic Modeling in Inductive Inference -- Optimal Language Learning -- Numberings Optimal for Learning -- Learning with Temporary Memory -- Erratum: Constructing Multiclass Learners from Binary Learners: A Simple Black-Box Analysis of the Generalization Errors.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2008, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2008. The 31 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning; they address topics such as statistical learning; probability and stochastic processes; boosting and experts; active and query learning; and inductive inference.