Solar Energy: Systems, Challenges, and Opportunities (Energy, Environment, and Sustainability)

Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality (Routledge Sufi)

Routledge, 2009

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes...

Bridging Laboratory and Field Research for Genetic Control of Disease Vectors (Wageningen UR Frontis Series)

Springer, 2006

Contemporary research on genetic control of disease-transmitting insects knows two kinds of scientists: those that work in the laboratory and those known as ‘field people’. Over the last decade, both groups seem to have developed differing research priorities, address fundamentally different aspects within the overall discipline...

The Ultimate HTML Reference

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2008

Sitting at the foundation of every site is HTML. It's the only language that's essential to a web site's very existence. On the surface HTML may seem simple but there's much more to it that meets the eye. With different versions, many infrequently used elements and attributes, and varying ways that browsers interpret the language, only a...

Literature-based Discovery (Information Science and Knowledge Management)

Springer, 2008

When Don Swanson hypothesized a connection between Raynaud’s phenomenon and dietary fish oil, the field of literature-based discovery (LBD) was born. During the subsequent two decades a steady stream of researchers have published articles about LBD and the field has made steady progress in laying foundations and creating an identity. LBD is...

Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization

O'Reilly, 2013

When looking for ways to improve your website, how do you decide which changes to make? And which changes to keep? This concise book shows you how to use Multiarmed Bandit algorithms to measure the real-world value of any modifications you make to your site. Author John Myles White shows you how this powerful class of algorithms can...

AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference

Apress, 2003

This book is for anyone who wants to take full advantage of the VBA programming environment within AutoCAD 2004. Whether you are just trying to automate routine tasks or you want to create sophisticated applications or designs that are generated programmatically, this book will give you the information necessary to start making AutoCAD work...