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Noise! noise! noise! / by Sommer, Carl,1930-(CARDINAL)375613; James, Kennon,illustrator.(CARDINAL)635140;
Two mice are unhappy with living in the forest, until they move to a farmhouse and discover how good things had been before.500LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Animals; Contentment; Mice;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Noise, noise, noise! / by Grey, Jerry.(CARDINAL)141222;
Bibliography: page 101.
Subjects: Noise.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Noise [videorecording] / by Bean, Henry.; Robbins, Tim,1958-; Moynahan, Bridget,1972-(CARDINAL)341229; Hurt, William.;
Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan.When a man can no longer tolerate the sound of car alarms, he proclaims himself "The Rectifiier" and it becomes his mission to destroy cars when the owner does not turn off the alarm.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD.
Subjects: Crime films.; Comedy films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Comedy films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Vigilantes; Crime; Noise;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Noise / by Kosko, Bart.(CARDINAL)361631;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-231) and index.THE WAR ON NOISE: Noise is an unwanted signal -- The noise-signal duality: one person's signal is another person's noise -- Information theory made a science out of the war on noise -- Channel noise randomly flips bits -- Noise limits channel capacity -- Noise can sometimes help -- NOISE IS A NUISANCE: Noise is a private nuisance if it substantially and unreasonably interferes with someone's use and enjoyment of land -- Noise is a public nuisance if it substantially interferes with a right common to the public -- E-mail spam counts as a cyber-noise nuisance -- THE NUISANCE THAT DEFERS: Noise-induced hearing loss is a common health hazard -- Noise can damage the inner ear's frequency detectors -- Noise increases stress -- Noise can harm simpler animals -- WHITE NOISE AIN'T SO WHITE: White noise is independent in time and has a flat spectrum, and so is physically impossible -- There are infinitely many types of white noise -- Most noise is impulsive -- Chaos and fuzz can produce white noise -- Real noise is colored noise because its frequency spectrum is not flat -- Thermal noise fills the universe -- Even black holes emit noise, and die -- FIGHTING NOISE WITH NOISE: The ideal low-pass filter resembles wideband noise in digital sampling -- Noise helps shape the spectrum of signals -- Noise cancellers learn noise patterns to annihilate them -- Delilah's secret: wireless signals can hide in noise -- THE ZEN OF NOISE: STOCHASTIC RESONANCE: many physical and biological systems display a stochastic resonance noise benefit because they are nonlinear systems -- The "forbidden interval" theorem: model neurons benefit from noise if the average noise lies outside the "forbidden interval" -- Noise can benefit nanosystems and the molecular motors of life.
Subjects: Simmonds, Martha; Simmons, Elizabeth,; Noise.; Noise; Signal processing.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Noise [videorecording]. by Baldwin, William,1963-; Ballesteros, Maria; Brennan, Gabrielle,1996-; Hurt, William,1950-; Levieva, Margarita,1985-; Moynahan, Bridget,1972-(CARDINAL)341229; Robbins, Tim,1958-(CARDINAL)844769;
A man loves his neighborhood in New York City, but can't stand the noise around him. He becomes a vigilante and goes after everyone from the next door neighbor to the mayor in order to get some peace and quiet. MPAA Rating: not ratedDVD
Subjects: City sounds; Comedy films. ; DVDs; Noise; Vigilantes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Noise : based on a true story / by Raymundo, Kathleen,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)816995;
"An introverted girl who just wanted to be left alone. A talkative little boy with a very important wish. Based on a true story, Noise is the heartwarming tale of finding joy in unexpected places."--Amazon.comAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Didactic fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Introversion; Introversion; Kindness; Kindness; Parent and child; Parent and child;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 9
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Noise : a flaw in human judgment / by Kahneman, Daniel,1934-2024,author.(CARDINAL)519674; Sibony, Olivier,author.; Sunstein, Cass R.,author.(CARDINAL)201957;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-438) and index.I. Finding noise: Crime and noisy punishment ; A noisy system ; Singular decision -- II. Your mind is a measuring instrument: Matters of judgment ; Measuring error ; The analysis of noise ; Occasion noise ; How groups amplify noise -- III. Noise in predictive judgment: Judgments and models ; Noiseless rules ; Objective ignorance ; The valley of the normal -- IV. How noise happens: Heuristics, biases, and noise ; The matching operation ; Scale ; Patterns ; The sources of noise -- V. Improving judgments: Better judges for better judgments ; Debiasing and decision hygiene ; Sequencing information in forensic science ; Selection and aggregation in forecasting ; Guidelines in medicine ; Defining the scale in performance ratings ; Structure in hiring ; The mediating assessments protocol -- VI. Optimal noise: The costs of noise reduction ; Dignity ; Rules or standards?Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Decision making.; Reasoning (Psychology); Judgment.; Cognitive styles.;
Available copies: 39 / Total copies: 50
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Noise [large print] : a flaw in human judgment / by Kahneman, Daniel,1934-2024,author.(CARDINAL)519674; Sibony, Olivier,author.; Sunstein, Cass R.,author.(CARDINAL)201957;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-655).Introduction: Two kinds of error -- Part I: Finding noise. Crime and noisy punishment -- A noisy system -- Singular decisions -- Part II: Your mind is a measuring instrument. Matters of judgment -- Measuring error -- The analysis of noise -- Occasion noise -- How groups amplify noise -- Part III: Noise in predictive judgments. Judgments and models -- Noiseless rules -- Objective ignorance -- The valley of the normal -- Part IV: How noise happens. Heuristics, biases, and noise -- The matching operation -- Scales -- Patterns -- The sources of noise -- Part V: Improving judgments. Better judges for better judgments -- Debiasing and decision hygiene -- Sequencing information in forensic science -- Selection and aggregation in forecasting -- Guidelines in medicine -- Defining the scale in performance ratings -- Structure in hiring -- The mediating assessments protocol -- Part VI: Optimal noise. The costs of noise reduction -- Dignity -- Rules or standards? -- Review and conclusion: Taking noise seriously -- Epilogue: A less noisy world -- Appendix A: How to conduct a noise audit -- Appendix B: A checklist for a decision observer -- Appendix C: Correcting predictions.Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Large print books.; Decision making.; Reasoning (Psychology); Judgment.; Cognitive styles.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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White noise / by DeLillo, Don.(CARDINAL)724305;
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 20
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Signal & noise / by Griesemer, John.(CARDINAL)663241;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Transatlantic cables; Americans; Children; Spiritualists; Engineers; Telegraph; Children.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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