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Learning Bayesian Networks
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In recent years Bayesian networks have attracted much attention in research institutions and industry. This book addresses persons who are interested in exploiting the Bayesian network approach for the construction of decision support systems or expert systems. The theoretical exposition of the book is self-contained and does not require any special mathematical prerequisites. The book includes a PC-diskette with a restricted version of HUGIN. The diskette includes a tool for building Bayesian networks, a library of examples, and a library of proposed solutions to some of the exercises.
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A starting book for Bayesian Network (BN).......2000-05-17
This book serves a good introductory material BN. After introducing the basic definitions and concepts, the author quickly cover most practical methods on model building, evidence propagation, and use of BN in finding explanation and making decisions. Most methods can easily be incorporated into your own applications if you are ready to program. There are plenty of examples that make me understand rules and concepts fast. Occasionally I found notations and proofs are difficult to follow. For reader who haven't become excited about BN, I strongly recommend Pearl's two books "Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems" and "Causations", which will surely entertain researchers from computer science, AI and statistics.
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Advances in technology have enabled the collection of data from scientific observations, simulations, and experiments at an ever-increasing pace. For the scientist and engineer to benefit from these enhanced data collecting capabilities, it is becoming clear that semi-automated data analysis techniques must be applied to find the useful information in the data. Computational scientific discovery methods can be used to this end: they focus on applying computational methods to automate scientific activities, such as finding laws from observational data. In contrast to mining scientific data, which focuses on building highly predictive models, computational scientific discovery puts a strong emphasis on discovering knowledge represented in formalisms used by scientists and engineers, such as numeric equations and reaction pathways.
This state-of-the-art survey provides an introduction to computational approaches to the discovery of scientific knowledge and gives an overview of recent advances in this area, including techniques and applications in environmental and life sciences. The 15 articles presented are partly inspired by the contributions of the International Symposium on Computational Discovery of Communicable Knowledge, held in Stanford, CA, USA in March 2001. More representative coverage of recent research in computational scientific discovery is achieved by a significant number of additional invited contributions.
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This digital document is a journal article from Information Processing and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Bayesian networks, which nowadays constitute the dominant approach for managing probability within the field of Artificial Intelligence, have been applied to Information Retrieval (IR) in different ways during the last 15 years, to solve a wide range of problems where uncertainty is an important feature. In this introductory paper, we first present a short bibliographical review of the works which have applied Bayesian networks to IR. The objective is not to show every approach thoroughly, but rather to provide a brief guide for those researchers who wish to start studying this area. Second, we briefly describe the papers in this special issue, which give a good clue about some of the new trends in the area of the application of Bayesian networks to IR.
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At 9:51 PM on August 31, 1886, William Ashmead Courtenay, the much-respected mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, was relaxing aboard the Etruria, an elite Cunard luxury liner bound for New York from Liverpool. At that same moment, the most powerful earthquake ever to strike the East Coast rolled through South Carolina and devastated Charleston, killing over 150 people and damaging or destroying over 90% of the historic city's masonry buildings within sixty seconds. Within ten minutes, it had spread its terror throughout half the nation, causing panic and damage as far north as Toronto, east to Long Island, south to Cuba, and west to St. Louis. The nation was stunned. No one in Charleston, or anywhere on the East coast, ever thought such an unthinkable catastrophe of such magnitude could possibly strike east of the Mississippi. They were very, very wrong.
City of Heroes: The Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886, is a riveting, heavily illustrated non-fiction book filled with gripping, first-hand accounts of the earthquake, drawn directly from newspapers, personal diaries, journals, and letters of the earthquake survivors. It will also follow the earthquake sleuths who descended upon Charleston to discover what caused the disaster. But above all, it identifies the noble and heartwarming acts of numerous unsung heroes, black and white, inspired and led by Charleston's extraordinary mayor, William A. Courtenay. Working together, they saved numerous lives, nursed the wounded, fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless and enabled Charleston to make a full recovery from the massive disaster within eighteen months.
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Great Present - S.C. Lovers.......2007-04-05
Purchased this book for a gift to an ardent S.C. resident. But read it first. It is informative and detailed - lots of pictures. Also purchased "Red Neck Riviera" - it was great - 5 stars.
Part science, part history, all fascinating..........2007-01-25
Charleston, South Carolina is my favorite city, so it's only natural that I enjoy books that deal with the Holy City. City of Heroes: The Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886 is a fascinating account of this little known event.
Most people know that Charleston has been plagued by hurricanes, fires and wars. But most are not aware that in 1886, the city suffered a devastating earthquake--the worst east of the Mississippi in US history. On a sultry summer evening on August 31st, Charleston and the surrounding areas were rocked by a major quake. Although seismic equipment was not available at the time, geologists have determined that it was probably between 7.3-7.6 on the Richter Scale. Dozens of people died and dozens more were injured. Two-thirds of Charleston's population (40,000 people) were left homeless. The quake also caused many fires and several fatal train wrecks. Overall, the quake "spread a dry tidal wave of destruction throughout 2.5 million square miles of land." Even towns 300 miles away suffered moderate damage. Soldiers who fought in the Civil War agreed that the quake was worse than "the horrors of war." The quake also took away the sense of security enjoyed by Charlestonians because of the many tremors and small quakes that occurred on a daily basis after August 31st. It wasn't until 20 years later that the quakes and tremors finally subsided. For months afterward, they were a daily occurrence.
Cote' provides us with a fascinating look at all aspects of the earthquake including the after effects, the search for ground zero, the rebuilding effort, fundraising, and the many individuals who performed heroic acts. Part of City of Heroes is a story of science. Every time more knowledge became available about earthquakes, scientists went back and restudied the Charleston quake. Many of their discoveries are fairly recent. But most of this book is a story of history, and Cote' provides us with interesting research. When Charleston mayor Courtenay realized the city would receive no federal or state financial aid, he appealed to the rest of the US for help. This triggered "an outpouring of warmth, sympathy, and financial support the likes of which had never been seen before in the South." But more surprisingly, the biggest contributors were from "the heart of the Union" whose "money flowed like water." Much of the money came from former soldiers. Also, when a week-long gala was held to celebrate the completion of rebuilding, the city was laid out in red, white and blue with tens of thousands of American flags. Not a single state flag was on display and only one Confederate flag. It is obvious that both North and South were anxious to put the Civil War behind them--something that generations today can't quite seem to do.
The earthquake is also responsible for the beautiful, historic Charleston that tourists flock to today. After suffering through the Civil War, a cyclone in 1885 and then the earthquake, Charlestonians were too poor to raze the city and rebuild. So they were forced to repair as best they could using earthquake bolts. This allowed thousands of historic buildings to be saved, and those same earthquake bolts can still be seen on almost all buildings that were in existence in 1886.
City of Heroes is Cote's fourth book, and his third with a "Charleston" theme. I think that he's at his best when writing about Charleston, and City of Heroes is his best book to date.
Charleston resident/earthquake fan.......2006-12-09
As a lifelong resident of Charleston SC I have heard of the earthquake since childhood but had found little information. Mr. Cote has put within reach of the everyday person facts that here-to-fore have been inaccessible. He documents the causes, effects, and long term results. Not only does he relate Charleston's history from her birth in 1670 as Charles Towne, but he emphasizes the strength of her people as they overcame epidemics of disease, devastating fires, British invasion and siege in 1781-82, bombardment and occupation by the Union Army in 1863-65, and the unleashed forces of nature in the forms of tornadoes, cyclones, and now her hardest hit -- the Great Earthquake of 1886. Genealogists will find this a useful tool as Mr. Cote records names of injured and killed as well as the ordinary people who became the heroes. He ends on a sober note explaining the devastation, destruction, and loss of life that will occur with the next big one. Those fault lines which erupted in 1886 are still being stressed, the plates are still moving, and the pressure will release when it builds to the point it can no longer be contained. He warns: be prepared, be educated, and above all don't be complacent. The book contains maps, diagrams, informative end notes and bibliography. This is an interesting read and a valuable addition to one's library.
a comprehensive look at disaster recovery that worked.......2006-11-23
In 1886, Charleston, SC got the smackdown. A major earthquake just plain flattened the place, with after-shocks to keep everyone good and nervous. This is the story. Dick Cote always does a good job of research, so that aspect of _City of Heroes_ didn't surprise me at all.
After the disaster came the recovery effort, and that part surprised me quite a bit. It seems that some places, when struck by disaster, just roll over and wave their arms and legs; they expect others to save them, that they need do nothing for themselves. Give me, help me, send me, take me, do it all for me, that's the battle cry. Charleston wasn't like that. It accepted a lot of donations from around the country, got to work, and rebuilt itself. It took charge. It neither had nor needed a FEMA. Civic spirit took the place of government dollars thrown at the problem, because in fact Charleston got few government dollars. The one entity most conspicuous by its non-participation was the Federal government.
Cote rounds the book out with a couple of long discussions (one from the period and one more recent) about the scientific aspects of the quake. Why would one happen in Charleston, seemingly far from subduction zones where such events are more or less expected? They wondered in 1886, and they now have a pretty good handle on it.
Last comes a section I particularly enjoyed: lessons learned. What does a place need to do once it's been knocked flat by Ma Nature? I find it impossible to disagree with his analysis. The results Charleston achieved speak for themselves: within a year the place was nearly back to normal. Evidently they wanted normality badly enough to recreate it for themselves, rather than just lay there screaming to be rescued/saved/paid/fed/etc.
Good for Charleston. I've never been there, but if its people are still like this, good for them. And good for Cote, to have assembled this impressive study on a little-known bit of U.S. history.
Detailing a Little-known Disaster .......2006-09-18
August 31, 1886, was a night of horror in Charleston and Summerville, South Carolina, when faults gave way, destroying buildings and impacting thousands of lives. Richard Côté, in City of Heroes, takes his readers through the terrifying darkness of that night with the sounds and destruction of the earthquake and fires; he then follows the relief and rebuilding efforts of the next months. With admirable fortitude the people of Charleston put their world back together. Without aid from the state and with unimaginably meager federal assistance, the city organized and financed initial relief and repairs with amazing speed and efficiency. The flood of totally private donations, especially those from northern states, left citizens feeling gratifyingly bound to the rest of the country. The author uses many photographs and primary sources, including Charleston's excellent newspaper, the News and Courier, to develop a timeline and to paint portraits of the men who led the city's recovery. The recovery approaches used in 1886 form the basis of Mr. Côté's Charleston Disaster Recovery Model. A particularly interesting aspect of the book is its discussion of the investigative team from the U.S. Geological Survey and their work and conclusions. The book is rigorously documented, highly objective, and readable. Could it happen again? One of the final chapters brings the reader up-to-date on scientific work in the area and provides both Internet and printed sources of earthquake-preparedness information--just in case.
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A complete manual for how to prepare and survive natural disasters. The book highlights the steps you need to take to protect life and property before and after a disaster. Included are details on what you need to do during an earthquake, tornado, or other disastrous events to reduce the risk of injury or death.
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A Great Starter Guide.......2001-01-31
If you are looking for a way to get yourself prepared for an emergency or disaster this book can help you get started. While it's main focus is on earthquakes, it does touch on what one should do to before, during and after tornadoes and hurricanes. Since it offers practical advice much of the information can be applied to any natural disaster or storm. The books main emphasis is that everyone needs to be prepared for the unexpected. It is sure to prove helpful to you in getting your emergency kit put together.
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Earthquake Ready: The Complete Preparedness Guide
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Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards: Preparedness Studies
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Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The human reaction to these disasters has varied widely from one event to the next and the economic and social costs have been immense with damage running into billions of dollars. Having in everyone's mind the Northridge, California (1994) and the Kobe, Japan (1995) earthquakes, the volcanoes in the Philippines, the cyclones and related storm surges in Bangladesh, and the floods in North America and Europe caused by heavy rains, the Symposium attracted more than one hundred papers covering various aspects of these events. The eleven papers included in this volume deal with the scientific and management issues of those earthquakes and atmospheric hazards that occurred during the late 1990s, with emphasis on the preparedness aspects. A summary report of the HAZARDS-96 Symposium and recommendations adopted by the participants is also included.
Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards forms an excellent reference for scientists, students, engineers, the insurance industry, authorities specializing in public safety and natural hazards preparedness and mitigation plans.
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Make you aware of the emergency situations that COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
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Teach you how to survive after the emergency situation until you, your family, home, and community are back to normal.
Chapters include: CRIME PREVENTION, EARTHQUAKES, FIRES, FLOODS, HURRICANES, LIGHTNING-THUNDERSTORMS, NUCLEAR, TORNADOES, TSUNAMI (TIDAL WAVES), VOLCANOES, WINTER STORMS, PERSONAL DISASTER PLAN, SURVIVAL CACHE, SHELTER, WATER, FOOD, FIRST AID TRAINING AND SUPPLIES, UTILITIES, COMMUNICATIONS.
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Preparedness guide for earthquakes and other disasters
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"On Your Own: A Family's Guide to Disaster Preparedness" tells you what to do step by step to ensure your family survives in most any type of disaster or emergency. This comprehensive guide helps you build a family emergency plan that is personalized for your specific needs and likely disaster situations for your locale. The book contains complete lists of emergency supplies, how to build neighborhood emergency response groups, and teaches you practical information such as: how to shut off your water main, how to drain your hot water heater if you need drinking water, what to take to prevent the effects of radiation to your thyroid, how to purify water, and how to build a shelter in place. With this book, you'll learn how to be a survivor instead of a victim.
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This is a good book.......2006-11-05
It covers everyting you need to know about preparing for possible disaste. I feel that the video format may be better.
This book gave me peace of mind for my family's safety.......2006-10-26
This is a must have book for your family and a great gift for everyone you care about! We now have a family safety plan and I am in touch with my children's schools and know their disaster plans as well. The book is easy to read and use and it walks you through everything you need to keep your family safe....from a communications plan, to a grab and go emergency supply kit, to exactly what to do in case of fire or other disaster. Our whole family sat down and read it together. It didn't scare the kids at all. Actually, it made them feel confident and powerful, and they thought the whole thing was very cool. In this day and age, any family that doesn't have an emergency plan is leaving themselves at risk. The book covers far more and teaches you far more than the programs the kids get at school. Highly recommended.
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on January 2, 1995. The length of the article is 574 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: The Professional Insurance Agents of California and Nevada has published a new guide to help insurance agents handle claims in the wake of a natural disaster. The guide, 'Disaster Preparedness and Catastrophe Survival: An Insurance Agent's Guide to Servicing the Customer and Preserving the Agency,' warns insurance agents that they may be targets of abuse by frustrated victims of a natural disaster. The key to functioning in a natural disaster is preparing an agency to continue functioning in both physically and managerially after a disaster occurs.
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Title: Catastrophe guide offers advice to producers. (Disaster Preparedness and Catastrophe Survival: An Insurance Agent's Guide to Servicing the Customer and Preserving the Agency)
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