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Entropy And Its Physical Meaning

CRC Press, 1996

This text presents a comprehensive approach to entropy, recognizing that it is a concept often misunderstood. Beginning with an historical classical viewpoint, a statistical view then follows to give a more physical picture.

This book is a revised version of my earlier book Entropy and Low Temperature Physics, with here rather less...

Data Quality and High-Dimensional Data Analysis: Proceedings of the DASFAA 2008 Workshops

World Scientific Publishing, 2009

The First International Workshop on Data Quality in Collaborative Information Systems was held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 19-22nd March, 2008, in New Delhi, India. The present volume contains the texts for four accepted papers and two invited papers presented at the workshop,...

Pro Oracle SQL (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

Apress, 2010

Pro Oracle SQL unlocks the power of SQL in the Oracle Database—one of the most potent SQL implementations on the market today. To master it requires a three-pronged approach: learn the language features, learn the supporting features that Oracle provides to help use the language effectively, and learn to think and work in...

Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion: Using Unix and Linux Tools at the Command Line

O'Reilly, 2012

It’s been a long time since we went through the dramatic transition from Mac OS 9 to the more complicated and graphically rich world of OS X. Many of you reading this have never known a Mac interface that wasn’t actually OS X (pronounce that “oh-ess ten” to sound cool). The biggest change...

Project Management: How to Plan & Deliver a Successful Project

Studymates, 2008

Who needs to manage a project? Well, frankly, everyone working in the public or private sector. Yet how many of us get adequately trained in how to do it? This is where this book can help. Written by an experienced practitioner, what lies at the beating heart of this book is the structure of a strategy to ensure that every project is...

How to Lie with Maps

University of Chicago Press, 1991

Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must.

The second...

Hitting the Wall: A Vision of a Secure Energy Future (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and Society)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Hitting the Wall examines the combination of two intractable energy problems of our age: the peaking of global oil production and the overloading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Both emerge from the overconsumption of fossil fuels and solving one problem helps solve the other. The misinformation campaign about climate change is discussed...

Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into homes, businesses, schools, kitchens, hospitals, even the fashion catwalk. The magic happens when you plug a 3D printer into today's mind-boggling digital technologies. Add to that the Internet, tiny, low cost...

Test Driven Development: By Example

Addison Wesley, 2002

Clean code that works - now. This is the seeming contradiction that lies behind much of the pain of programming. Test-driven development replies to this contradiction with a paradox-test the program before you write it.

A new idea? Not at all. Since the dawn of computing, programmers have been...

Real World Enterprise Reports Using VB6 and VB .NET

Apress, 2003

Although reports are frequently overlooked in applications until the end of the development process, they often represent the key selling points to management, as a software application's primary value lies in its output.

Real World Enterprise Reports Using VB6 and VB .NET discusses report writing from a developer's...

I Win, You Win: The Essential Guide to Principled Negotiation

A & C Black Publishers, 2007

Negotiation is an essential skill in all areas of life. It is a series of maneuvers that we move through in order to get the best possible deal for ourselves, our company, or our organization. How far we will go to achieve our goals is where the rub lies. Full of useful exercises, case studies, and accessible advice, this book will...

Robust Motion Detection in Real-Life Scenarios (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

This work proposes a complete sensor-independent visual system that provides robust target motion detection. First, the way sensors obtain images, in terms of resolution distribution and pixel neighbourhood, is studied. This allows a spatial analysis of motion to be carried out. Then, a novel background maintenance approach for robust target...

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