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Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonie

A team of Russian researchers describe the basic elements of current computational technologies that use the algorithmic languages C/C++, with an emphasis on GNU compilers and librarie

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and health sciences. Alternative estimation techniques are first introduced using both the potential outcome model and causal graphs; after which, conditioning techniques, such as matching and regression, are presented from a potential outcomes perspective. For research scenarios in which important determinants of causal exposure are unobserved, alternative techniques, such as instrumental variable estimators, longitudinal methods, and estimation via causal mechanisms, are then presented. The importance of causal effect heterogeneity is stressed throughout the book, and the need for deep causal explanation via mechanisms is discussed.

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and health sciences. Alternative estimation techniques are first introduced using both the potential outcome model and causal graphs; after which, conditioning techniques, such as matching and regression, are presented from a potential outcomes perspective. For research scenarios in which important determinants of causal exposure are unobserved, alternative techniques, such as instrumental variable estimators, longitudinal methods, and estimation via causal mechanisms, are then presented. The importance of causal effect heterogeneity is stressed throughout the book, and the need for deep causal explanation via mechanisms is discussed.

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Over the past four decades, the technology in vibration instrumentation & measurements, signal processing, and analytical simulation using finite element methods has advanced significantly. This b

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In Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy the authors provide examples of original and intelligent approaches and solutions given by medieval astronomers to the problems of their discipline, mostl

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Semantic fields are lexically coherent – the words they contain co-occur in texts. In this book the authors introduce and define semantic domains, a computational model for lexical semantics inspired

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Wolters Kluwer and the ACSM are excited to introduce ACSM’s Research Methods, a vital first edition. This applied approach provides students with a sophisticated look at research methods aimed at buil

This fourth in a suite of five practical guides is an engineer's companion to using numerical methods for the solution of complex mathematical problems. It explains the theory behind current numerical

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This second edition covers the history of United States intelligence, and includes several key features: Chronology Introductory essayAppendixesBibliographyOver 600 cross-referenced entries on key eve

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As the concept of the ‘brain as computer’ (and thus our ability to mimic it technologically) becomes more problematic, artificial intelligence needs redefining, a task this volume supports from varied

Quantitative Intelligence Analysis describes a model-based method of intelligence analysis that explicitly represents the analyst’s mental models of a subject, as well as the analyst’s reasoning proce

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Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but oft