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UNINA9910783667403321 |
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Aucoin James <1952-> |
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The evolution of American investigative journalism [[electronic resource] /] / James L. Aucoin |
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Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, c2005 |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Investigative reporting - United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The tradition of exposure in American journalism -- The reemergence of investigative journalism, 1960-1975 -- Defining the practice, 1960-1975 -- The founding of IRE -- The Arizona project: IRE's unique contribution to American journalism -- IRE and the mainstreaming of investigative journalism -- A social practice. |
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"History of American investigative journalism and the founding of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Discusses the murder of investigative reporter Don Bolles and IRE's subsequent controversial Arizona Project. Applies the social-moral development theory of Alasdair MacIntyre to explain how the IRE contributed to the evolution of American investigative journalism"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910963382903321 |
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Autore |
Baumler Alan <1965-> |
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The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / / Alan Baumler |
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Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
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9780791480755 |
0791480755 |
9781429463768 |
1429463767 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Opium trade - China |
Drug traffic - China |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index. |
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Intro -- The Chinese and Opium under the Republic -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China -- 1. Establishing a Meaning for Opium -- 2. The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West -- 3. The International Campaign against Opium -- 4. Warlords and Opium -- 5. Opium, the Nation,and the Revolution -- 6. Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade -- 7.Purifying the People andDefending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium -- 8. Defining Drugs -- 9. War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
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Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century. |
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UNINA9911047819703321 |
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Tan Ying |
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Advances in Swarm Intelligence : 16th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2025, Yokohama, Japan, July 11–15, 2025, Proceedings, Part I / / edited by Ying Tan, Yuhui Shi |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2026 |
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[1st ed. 2026.] |
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1 online resource (593 pages) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 16011 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Computer science |
Computer engineering |
Computer networks |
Machine learning |
Computer science - Mathematics |
Computational intelligence |
Theory of Computation |
Computer Engineering and Networks |
Machine Learning |
Mathematics of Computing |
Computational Intelligence |
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-- Particle Swarm Optimization. -- An Empirical Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimisation Approaches for Multi-objective Optimisation. -- An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. -- Density-Aware and Particle Swarm Optimized WGAN for Medical Insurance Fraud Detection. -- Application of PSO for Hyperparameter Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network. -- Swarm Optimization Algorithms. -- A GPU Implementation of Multi-Guiding Spark Fireworks Algorithm for Efficient Black-Box Neural Network Optimization. -- TDRSolver: Confidentiality-Preserving Repair of Inconsistent Data in Temporal Knowledge Graphs Using Ant Colony Optimization. -- Cuckoo Search |
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Algorithm for Chaos Control of Two-Dimensional Chaotic Maps. -- Population Initialization of Genetic Algorithms Based on Chaotic Mapping: Diversity Research and Boundary Effect Optimization. -- Wild Hounds Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Population-based Meta-heuristic for Function Optimization. -- A Weighted Binary String Benchmark to Assess the Efficiency of Stochastic Search Processes. -- Enhancing Competitive Swarm Optimization through Time-Adaptive Selection between Adjacency-Guided and Random Strategies. -- Quantum-Enhanced Harris Hawks Optimization: A Next-Generation Metaheuristic. -- Digital Memcomputing with Frog Jumps. -- Swarm of Large Language Models. -- Multi-Scale Swarm of Large Language Models for Python Code Generation. -- SwarmChat: An LLM-Based, Context-Aware Multimodal Interaction System for Robotic Swarms. -- MS-RL-CoT: Multi-Source Feedback for Medical LLMs. -- Extending Pre-trained ASR Models to Cross-modal and Cross-lingual Speech-Text Retrieval. -- Performance Evaluation of Pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks for Diabetic Macular Edema Diagnosis in Retinal Fundus Imaging. -- Agent and Multi-agents. -- Agent: A New Paradigm for Fundamental Units of the Universe. -- The Society of HiveMind: Multi-Agent Optimization of Foundation Model Swarms to Unlock the Potential of Collective Intelligence. -- Quasi-consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with time delay via aperiodically intermittent adaptive control. -- ME-RAG: Multiagent Ecclesia for Retrieval Augmented Generation. -- Prescribed Performance Cooperative Guidance for Multi-vehicle Against Maneuvering Target. -- Vehicle Routing. -- Vehicle Routing for Perishable Food with Freshness Preservation: A Heuristic-Enhanced NSGA-II. -- An Improved Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. -- A Novel Path Planning Method for Underactuated AUV Docking Based on B´ezier Curve and RP-PSO. -- Shipping Time Optimization for Vehicle Rout-ing Problem in Logistic Delivery Industry via Swarm Intelligence. -- A robust region-based controller for an underwater vehicle-manipulator system. -- Thermal-Aware CBS for Multi-AGV Path Planning in Semiconductor Intelligent Warehousing. |
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This two-volume set LNCS 16011 and 16012 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2025, held in Yokohama, Japan, during July 11-15, 2025. The 54 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Particle Swarm Optimization; Swarm Optimization Algorithms; Swarm of Large Language Models; Agent and Multi-agents; Vehicle Routing; Multiobjective Optimization; Approaches for Classification and Feature Selection; Prediction and Detection Algorithms; Machine Learning. |
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UNINA9910955008703321 |
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Autore |
Dalal-Clayton D. B (D. Barry) |
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Rural planning in developing countries : supporting natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods / / Barry Dalal-Clayton, David Dent, and Olivier Dubois |
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London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2003 |
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1-136-54698-7 |
1-136-54699-5 |
1-282-78918-X |
9786612789182 |
1-84977-427-7 |
1-4175-2247-X |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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DuboisOlivier <1957-> |
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Rural development - Environmental aspects - Developing countries |
Natural resources - Developing countries - Management |
Sustainable development - Developing countries |
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Published in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index. |
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Rural Planning in Developing CountriesSupporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, boxes and tables; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Authors' note; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Lessons from experience; Rural planning: perspectives, concepts and the objectives and roles of government; Experience of regional planning; A move to decentralized rural and regional planning; Focus on poverty and rural livelihoods; Sustainable livelihoods; Stakeholders; Land tenure; Security of tenure |
Coordinating tenure incentives and disincentivesRural-urban linkages; Income diversification; Migration; Implications for planning; The dilemma of planning for the urban-rural interface; 2 Conventional, technical planning approaches; Resource surveys for planning; Land |
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evaluation; Land capability classification; The USBR system; FAO framework for land evaluation; Parametric indices; Process models; Financial and economic evaluation; Strategic land evaluation; Land use planning; Sectoral plans; Land allocation procedures; Multiple criteria analysis; Resource management domains |
Land use planning experience in developing countriesFAO guidelines for land use planning; Faith in negotiation; Impact assessment; Decentralized district planning; Some planning responses to the challenge of sustainable development; Techniques; National and regional planning exercises; Sustainable development strategies; National strategies; Sub-national strategies; Local-level strategies; Some common features of existing strategic planning processes; Guidance on strategies for sustainable development; A continual learning approach; Sustainable development indicators |
Pros and cons of conventional approachesCommon limitations of natural resource surveys; Terms of reference; Comprehension; Usefulness; Inappropriate planning methods and inappropriate data: a failure of institutions; 3 Approaches to participation in planning; The need for participation; Perceptions of participation; Horizontal and vertical participation; Participatory learning and action; Participatory planning; Examples of local-level resource planning; Scaling-up and linking bottom-up and top-down planning; Regional rural development; Rapid district appraisal (RDA) |
Participatory approaches in large-scale projectsThe catchment approach; NGOs as catalysts; The gestion de terroir approach in francophone West Africa; Participatory planning in Latin America; Approaches in the forestry sector; Landcare in Australia; Limitations of participation; The quality of information; Costs of participation; Great expectations; Dealing with power; Conclusions; 4 A basis for collaborating; The natural resources battlefield; Constraints and opportunities for collaboration; Concepts and methods in collaborative management of natural resources; Stakeholders |
Donors as stakeholders |
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This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin sustainable local livelihoods. They draw on case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America to present findings relevant throughout the developing world. |
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