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Water and the Future of Humanity: Revisiting Water Security

Springer, 2013

This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water. It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to...

Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F# (Professional Expertise Distilled)

Packt Publishing, 2013

Develop amazing applications for Windows Phone using F#

Overview

Understand the Windows Phone application development environment and F# as a language

Discover how to work with Windows Phone controls using F#

Learn how to work with gestures, navigation, and data access

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Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited (Synthese Library)

Springer, 2019

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years.

Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his first theory of nomic...

For Better or for Worse

Columbia University Press, 2001

The development of an American science establishment -- today an amalgam of scientists, engineers, universities, industrial laboratories, and federal science agencies -- began early in the twentieth century when the federal government began to invest in a national scientific infrastructure. During World War II this investment swelled to colossal...

Indian Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary

Springer, 2007

In 2004, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg published C.P.Khares "Encyclopedia of Indian Medicinal Plants" which contained 400 monographs comprising classical as well as contemporary research findings.

"Indian Medicinal Plants. An Illustrated Dictionary" is the second major one-volume reference work by C.P.Khare which has been...

Analysis of Numerical Methods

Dover Publications, 1994

Excellent advanced-undergraduate and graduate text covers norms, numerical solution of linear systems and matrix factoring, iterative solutions of nonlinear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, polynomial approximation and more. Careful analysis and stress on techniques for developing new methods. Features examples and problems. 1966 edition....

Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications - Volume 15 Advances in Parallel Computing

IOS Press, 2008

ParCo2007 marks a quarter of a century of the international conferences on parallel computing that started in Berlin in 1983. The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of the developments, applications and future trends in high performance computing for all platforms. The conference addresses all aspects of...

Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 23rd International Conference, SSDBM 2011

Springer, 2011

Welcome to the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management held in Portland, Oregon, where it celebrated its 30th birthday. The first incarnation of SSDBM (then called the Workshop on Statistical Database Management) took place in Menlo Park, California, in December 1981. Since...

Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval: Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011

Springer, 2011

IRFC 2011 received 19 high-quality submissions, of which 10 were accepted for presentation at the conference and appear here. Three of these fall into the natural language processing for IR area, one into the distributed computing area, while the remaining six are IR papers.

The IRF Conference provides a multi-disciplinary,...

Systems Biology for Traditional Chinese Medicine

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The application of systems biology methods to Traditional Chinese Medicine

Emphasizing the harmony of the human body with the environment, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has evolved over thousands of years. It is a systemic theory derived from clinical experience, the philosophy of holism and systematology, and the...

Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph

Apress, 2015

Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph helps you build data mining and machine learning applications using the Apache Foundation’s Giraph framework for graph processing. This is the same framework as used by Facebook, Google, and other social media analytics operations to derive business value from vast amounts of...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

W W Norton, 2010

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our...

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