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Cecil Essentials of Medicine

Saunders, 2003

Medicine has evolved dramatically over the past century from a healing art in which standards of practice were established on the basis of personal experience, passed on from one practitioner to the next, to a rigorous intellectual discipline steeped in the scientific method. The application of the scientific method has led to major advances in the...

Swarm Intelligence in Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2006

Science is a swarm.

To the layperson, the stereotypical scientist is logical, clear-thinking, wellinformed but perhaps socially awkward, carefully planning his or her experiments and then analyzing the resulting data deliberately, with precision. The scientist works alone, emotion-free, searching only for truth, having been well advised...

Landau Lifshitz Equations (Frontiers of Research With the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

This is a comprehensive introduction to Landau Lifshitz equations and Landau Lifshitz Maxwell equations, beginning with the work by Yulin Zhou and Boling Guo in the early 1980s and including most of the work done by this Chinese group led by Zhou and Guo since. The book focuses on aspects such as the existence of weak solutions in multi dimensions,...

Introduction to AutoCAD 2009: 2D and 3D Design

Newnes, 2008

The purpose of writing this book is to produce a text suitable for students in Further and/or Higher Education who are required to learn how to use the CAD software package AutoCAD® 2009. Students taking examinations based on computer-aided design will fi nd the contents of the book of great assistance. The book is also suitable for those in...

Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Water Resources Development and Management)

Springer, 2009

Water is intertwined in the daily life of humans in countless ways. The importance of water as a driver for health, food security, and quality of life and as a pillar for economic development is unique. As water affects human lives, the mankind also effects the hydrological cycle, in all dimensions from the local to the global scale. Food...

The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology)

Springer, 2014

This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance...

Hilary Putnam (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)

Cambridge University Press, 2005

This volume appraises the major philosophical contributions of Hilary Putnam (b. 1926) to the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. Concerned not only with the broad spectrum of problems addressed, it also details the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the...

An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations with MATLAB (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics & Nonlinear Science)

CRC Press, 2013

An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations with MATLAB^®, Second Edition illustrates the usefulness of PDEs through numerous applications and helps students appreciate the beauty of the underlying mathematics. Updated throughout, this second edition of a bestseller shows students how PDEs can...

Visibility Algorithms in the Plane

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A human observer can effortlessly identify visible portions of geometric objects present in the environment. However, computations of visible portions of objects from a viewpoint involving thousands of objects is a time consuming task even for high speed computers. To solve such visibility problems, efficient algorithms have been designed. This...

The Theory of Spinors

Dover Publications, 1981

Describes orthgonal and related Lie groups, using real or complex parameters and indefinite metrics. Develops theory of spinors by giving a purely geometric definition of these mathematical entities. Covers generalities on the group of rotations in n-dimensional space, the theory of spinors in spaces of any number of dimensions and much more....

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. And Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to convince LDCs (less developed...

New Paradigm of Industry 4.0: Internet of Things, Big Data & Cyber Physical Systems (Studies in Big Data)

Springer, 2019

The book provides readers with an overview of the state of the art in the field of Industry 4.0 and related research advancements. The respective chapters identify and discuss new dimensions of both risk factors and success factors, along with performance metrics that can be employed in future research work. They also discuss a...

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