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Pattern Matching Algorithms

Oxford University Press, 1997

Issues of matching and searching on elementary discrete structures arise pervasively in computer science and many of its applications, and their relevance is expected to grow as information is amassed and shared at an accelerating pace. Several algorithms were discovered as a result of these needs, which in turn created the subfield of Pattern...

Kinetics of Chemical Reactions: Decoding Complexity

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

This second, extended and updated edition presents the current state of kinetics of chemical reactions, combining basic knowledge with results recently obtained at the frontier of science.

Special attention is paid to the problem of the chemical reaction complexity with theoretical and methodological concepts illustrated...

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders

Apress, 2008

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the...

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos

World Scientific Publishing, 2004

Lincoln's humor and personal tales do much to convey the flavor of modern particle physics research. -- Symmetry

The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and...

Geeks On Call Security and Privacy: 5-Minute Fixes

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Bringing order to the lawless frontier

Almost daily, the boomtown growth of online activity generates more opportunities for cybercrime, identity theft, loss of data, and invasion of your privacy. To this lawless high-tech frontier comes the cavalry, mounted on (or in) blue PT Cruisers—Geeks On Call. Now they're...

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (International Year of Planet Earth)

Springer, 2010

Man’s intensifying use of the Earth’s habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced ‘geo-prediction systems’ that accurately locate subsurface resources and forecast the timing and magnitude of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and land subsidence.

As advances in the earth sciences lead to...

Microscale Diagnostic Techniques

Springer, 2005

The fields of micro- and nanotechnology have emerged over the past decade as a major focus of modern scientific and engineering research and technology. Driven by advances in microfabrication, the investigation, manipulation and engineering of systems characterized by micrometer and, more recently, nanometer scales has become...

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

O'Reilly, 2013

Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library...

After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion)

Baylor University Press, 2013

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language that will describe our new future and discuss its ethics. After the Genome brings...

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Oxford University Press, 2008

"Six-Legged Soldiers is an excellent account of the affect arthropod-borne diseases have had on warfare...This book will inspire readers to understand...threats and prepare new methods to combat them."--Nature, November 2008

"Both science and military history buffs will learn much from Lockwood, a self-described skeptic...

Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That is Revolutionizing Sports

Chelsea House Publications, 2019

An integrated and personalized approach to health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset

There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the...

Beginning Java and Flex: Migrating Java, Spring, Hibernate and Maven Developers to Adobe Flex

Apress, 2009

Over the past few years, the now open source Adobe Flex Framework has been adopted by the Java community as the preferred framework for Java RIAs using Flash for the presentation layer. Flex helps Java developers to build and maintain expressive web/desktop applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating...

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