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Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present

UCL Press, 2017

The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today’s principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe ‘if it’s not online, it doesn’t exist.’ While this statement is not...

Sampling Algorithms (Springer Series in Statistics)

Springer, 2006

This book is based upon courses on sampling algorithms. After having used scattered notes for several years, I have decided to completely rewrite the material in a consistent way. The books of Brewer and Hanif (1983) and H´ajek (1981) have been my works of reference. Brewer and Hanif (1983) have drawn up an...

Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications

Springer, 2011

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are population-based, stochastic search algorithms that mimic natural evolution. Due to their ability to find excellent solutions for conventionally hard and dynamic problems within acceptable time, EAs have attracted interest from many researchers and practitioners in recent years. This book...

An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms

Birkhauser, 2001

In 1994 Peter Shor [65] published a factoring algorithm for a quantum computer that finds the prime factors of a composite integer N more efficiently than is possible with the known algorithms for a classical com puter. Since the difficulty of the factoring problem is crucial for the se curity of a public key encryption system,...

Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R (Use R!)

Springer, 2006

The study of the evolution of life on Earth stands as one of the most complex fields in science. It involves observations from very different sources, and has implications far beyond the domain of basic science. It is concerned with processes occurring on very long time spans, and we now know that it is also...

User-Centered Agile Method

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Agile development methods began to emerge around 20 years ago. However, it was not until the early 2000s that they began to be widely used in industry. This growth was often due to the advent of Internet services requiring faster cycles of development in order to heighten the rate at which an ever-greater number of functionalities...

Learning Perl Student Workbook

O'Reilly, 2006

This workbook is an additional set of exercises to supplement those already in Learning Perl, Sixth Edition. The chapter and page references apply only to that edition. Additionally, unless I denote otherwise, Learning Perl without qualification means the sixth edition. That book already contains some exercises, and I try to cover...

Building Django 2.0 Web Applications: Create enterprise-grade, scalable Python web applications easily with Django 2.0

Packt Publishing, 2018

Go from the initial idea to a production-deployed web app using Django 2.0.

Key Features

A beginners guide to learning python's most popular framework, Django

Build fully featured web projects in Django 2.0 through examples.

Deploy web applications in...

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: Creating Neural Networks with Python

Apress, 2018

Discover the concepts of deep learning used for natural language processing (NLP), with full-fledged examples of neural network models such as recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory networks, and sequence-2-sequence models.

You’ll start by covering the mathematical prerequisites...

International Climate Agreements under Review: The Potential of Negotiation Linkage between Climate Change and Preferential Free Trade (Energiepolitik ... Energy Policy and Climate Protection)

Springer, 2019

Given the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Anja Zenker examines the potential of free trade benefits as an incentive mechanism for an effective and stable climate change cooperation of states. She addresses the question of how the specific policy design affects the success of the agreement, market and trade outcomes, as well as the...

The Social Meaning of Extra Money: Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities (Dynamics of Virtual Work)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, sexcamming, and more generally the economic...

Economics and Ageing: Volume III: Long-term Care and Finance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers,...

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