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Vision science has grown hugely in the past decades, but there have been few books showing readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain. This book explains the computational principles and models of biological visual processing, and in particular, primate vision.

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises urban fringe. This book examines the challenges that planning faces in this no-man's land. It presents problems and solutions, and builds a vision for the urban fringe that is concerned with maximising its potential and with bridging the physical and cultural rift between town and country.

Suitable for researchers in biochemistry, molecular biology, chemistry, biotechnology, biophysics, medicine, translational science and pharmacology, this title concerns nucleic acids that concentrates on aspects of quadruplex structure and historical research. It addresses advances in therapeutic application and targeting strategies.

Presents a snapshot of the UK's relationship with Europe in terms of planning during the last years of the twentieth century. The core material is based on research gathered from six case-study local authorities in Britain.

Looking at the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks how it can also deliver at the local level.

Presents a treatment of the reasons why international organizations have engaged in territorial administration, from the League of Nations in Danzig during the inter-war period, to the UN in East Timor, and Kosovo. This work describes the role of international territorial administration, and analyses the purposes associated with this activity.

Suggesting that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed, this work re-appraises the conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning. It argues that cognition should be understood in terms of probability theory, the calculus of uncertain reasoning, rather than in terms of logic, the calculus of certain reasoning.

Are you concerned about the state of housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? This book addresses fundamental questions about the housing crisis, through examining its history and evolution. It provides students, planners and researchers with an account of the evolving relationship between planning and housing.

This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom.

This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world.