Synopsis:
Parenting behaviour, the subject of this volume, is one of the most characteristic features of the class "mammalia". Because this behaviour regulates the care and nourishment necessary for the survival of newborns, modern biological theory looks upon parenting as an evolutionary strategy. Until recently, however, definitive information on the biological bases of parenting was not available. In this volume, the editors bring together a group of researchers who present state-of-the-art findings on the biochemical, neurobiological and behavioural regulation of parental behaviour in mammals. Using a comparative approach, the contributors address the question central to this book: to what extent is parenting in mammals, including humans, biologically regulated? The answer to this question, while incomplete, is that certain common neural and biological mechanisms may regulate parenting in all mammals, and that the specific behavioural responses of the organism are tuned by environmental, genetic and developmental events interacting with biological and anatomical substrates of that species.
Product Description:
The book is a short, concise and complete presentation of constraint programming and reasoning. The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and solve problems with uncertain, incomplete information and combinatorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design and analysis. The theoretically well-founded presentation includes application examples from real life. It introduces the common classes of constraint programming languages and constraint systems in a uniform way. Constraint solving algorithms are specified and implemented in the constraint handling rules language (CHR).This book is ideally suited as a textbook for graduate students and as a resource for researchers and practitioners. The Internet support includes teaching material, software, latest news and online use and examples of the CHR language.
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