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I love my German shepherd
Introduces German shepherds, discussing their history, temperament, physical characteristics, and the care they need as pets.
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Shuffled shepherd optimization method: a new Meta-heuristic algorithm
Purpose
This paper aims to present a new multi-community meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, which is called shuffled shepherd optimization algorithm (SSOA). In this algorithm.
Design/methodology/approach
The agents are first separated into multi-communities and the optimization process is then performed mimicking the behavior of a shepherd in nature operating on each community.
Findings
A new multi-community meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called a shuffled shepherd optimization algorithm is developed in this paper and applied to some attractive examples.
Originality/value
A new metaheuristic is presented and tested with some classic benchmark problems and some attractive structures are optimized.
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German shepherds
\"A photo-illustrated book for early readers about the German shepherd dog breed. Describes this working dog's unique features, social behaviors, the jobs they have, and how they act as pets. Includes a photo diagram, fun facts, table of contents, glossary, and further resources\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The seven ages of death : a forensic pathologist's journey through life
\"Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death. What can death teach us about life? In his career conducting thousands of post-mortems, Dr Richard Shepherd has examined death at every stage of life. From old to young, murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each autopsy is its own unique investigation, revealing secrets about life, mortality, and even about himself. From the author of Unnatural Causes comes a powerful, endlessly fascinating and above all reassuring new book about death - how to understand it, postpone it, and, when our time comes (as it must come), how to embrace it, as our last and greatest adventure\"--Publisher's description.
The Spanish Arcadia
Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.
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