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Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
California Finfish and Shellfish Identification Book
Author: The Tree Identification Book
Author: George Wellington Dillingham SymondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is divided into two sections, Pictorial Keys and Master Pages. The Keys section provides an easy visual comparison of details to narrow the identification of a tree to one of a small group--the family or genus. The Master Pages then further narrow the differences within a family group to determine the exact species of the tree. More than 1500 photographs, many shown in actual size, are used to provide details such as, leaves, fruit, etc.
Identification for Prediction and Decision
Author: Charles F. ManskiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674033665
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book is a full-scale exposition of Charles Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers first ask what can be learned from data alone, and then ask what can be learned when data are combined with credible weak assumptions. Inferences predicated on weak assumptions, he argues, can achieve wide consensus, while ones that require strong assumptions almost inevitably are subject to sharp disagreements. Building on the foundation laid in the author's Identification Problems in the Social Sciences (Harvard, 1995), the book's fifteen chapters are organized in three parts. Part I studies prediction with missing or otherwise incomplete data. Part II concerns the analysis of treatment response, which aims to predict outcomes when alternative treatment rules are applied to a population. Part III studies prediction of choice behavior. Each chapter juxtaposes developments of methodology with empirical or numerical illustrations. The book employs a simple notation and mathematical apparatus, using only basic elements of probability theory.
Baby Bird Identification
Author: Linda Tuttle-AdamsPublisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
ISBN: 9781501762857
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"A comprehensive resource for identification of nestlings, fledglings, and precocial chicks of North America. Includes over 400 species accounts, 335 illustrations, 66 photographs, an illustrated glossary, and a systematic process to identify and assess the age of a baby bird"-
The Art of Identification
Author: Rex FergusonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271091371
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex chimera. The Art of Identification examines how such processes are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation. Against the backdrop of an unstable modernity and the rapid rise and expansion of identificatory techniques, this volume makes the case that identity and identification are mutually imbricated and that our best understanding of both concepts and technologies comes through the interdisciplinary analysis of science, bureaucratic infrastructures, and cultural artifacts. With contributions from literary critics, cultural historians, scholars of film and new media, a forensic anthropologist, and a human bioarcheologist, this book reflects upon the relationship between the bureaucratic, scientific, and technologically determined techniques of identification and the cultural contexts of art, literature, and screen media. In doing so, it opens the interpretive possibilities surrounding identification and pushes us to think about it as existing within a range of cultural influences that complicate the precise formulation, meaning, and reception of the concept. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothy Butchard, Patricia E. Chu, Jonathan Finn, Rebecca Gowland, Liv Hausken, Matt Houlbrook, Rob Lederer, Andrew Mangham, Victoria Stewart, and Tim Thompson.
The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification
Author: James Michael LampinenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136247122
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification. The book starts with the perspective that there are a variety of conceptual and empirical problems with eyewitness identification as a form of forensic evidence, just as there are a variety of problems with other forms of forensic evidence. There is then an examination of the important results in the study of eyewitness memory and the implications of this research for psychological theory and for social and legal policy. The volume takes the perspective that research on eyewitness identification can be seen as the paradigmatic example of how psychological science can be successfully applied to real-world problems.
Identity Crisis
Author: Jim HarperPublisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 193399536X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The advance of identification technology-biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers-threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the name of security have increased. In this insightful book, Jim Harper takes readers inside identification-a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about. Using stories and examples from movies, television, and classic literature, Harper dissects identification processes and technologies, showing how identification works when it works and how it fails when it fails. Harper exposes the myth that identification can protect against future terrorist attacks. He shows that a U.S. national identification card, created by Congress in the REAL ID Act, is a poor way to secure the country or its citizens. A national ID represents a transfer of power from individuals to institutions, and that transfer threatens liberty, enables identity fraud, and subjects people to unwanted surveillance. Instead of a uniform, government-controlled identification system, Harper calls for a competitive, responsive identification and credentialing industry that meets the mix of consumer demands for privacy, security, anonymity, and accountability. Identification should be a risk-reducing strategy in a social system, Harper concludes, not a rivet to pin humans to governmental or economic machinery.
Hawaiian Reef Fish
Author: Casey MahaneyPublisher:
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Category : Coral reef fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Idea of Identification
Author: Gary C. WoodwardPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486478
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
A volume in the SUNY series in Communication Studies Dudley D. Cahn, editor
Strategies of Identification
Author: Walter PohlPublisher: Brepols Pub
ISBN: 9782503533841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
How were identities created in the early Middle Ages and when did they matter? This book explores different types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: historiography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology, sermons and letters. Thus, it sets out to widen the horizon of current debates on ethnicity and identity. The Christianization and dissolution of the Roman Empire had provoked a crisis of traditional identities and opened new spaces for identification. What were the textual resources on which new communities could rely, however precariously? Biblical models and Christian discourses could be used for a variety of aims and identifications, and the volume provides some exemplary analyses of these distinct voices. Barbarian polities developed in a rich and varied framework of textual 'strategies of identification'. The contributions reconstruct some of this discursive matrix and its development from the age of Augustine to the Carolingians. In the course of this process, ethnicity and religion were amalgamated in a new way that became fundamental for European history, and acquired an important political role in the post-Roman kingdoms. The extensive introduction not only draws together the individual studies, but also addresses fundamental issues of the definition of ethnicity, and of the relationship between discourses and practices of identity. It offers a methodological basis that is valid for studies of identity in general.
