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Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector - supporting the work...

Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology's impact on society and our lives. Presents the first complete, authoritative reference work...

Introducing "THE AI REVOLUTION" - WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).This comprehensive book explores the key concepts and applications of AI, from machine learning and deep learning to natural language processing and robotics.But "THE AI REVOLUTION" goes beyond just the technical aspects...

The IPCC has completed its sixth climate change assessment cycle consisting of seven reports in total, collectively known as "AR6." A team of eight scientists, in addition to several anonymous expert reviewers, from the Clintel network, have analyzed several claims from the Working Group...

Filtering and system identification are powerful techniques for building models of complex systems. This 2007 book discusses the design of reliable numerical methods to retrieve missing information in models derived using these techniques. Emphasis is on the least squares approach as applied to the...

This is a reprint of the 1944 War Department manual on diving. It contains over 80 pages of full color period drawings and information on parts, uniforms, equipment, assembly and accessories related to military diving during the Second World War. Notable sections include dive...

Author: Scott KlososkyISBN-10: 0996964975ISBN-13: 9780996964975Publisher: Future Point of View, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2016Pages: 348Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

The Future of Business explores how the commercial world is being transformed by the complex interplay between social, economic and political shifts, disruptive ideas, bold strategies and breakthroughs in science and technology. Over 60 contributors from 21 countries explore how the business landscape will...

This essential handbook provides specific and concise instructions for creating new technologies, building innovation, obtaining funding, protecting ideas, and much more. It includes detailed outlines of SBIR/STTR grants, business plans, operating agreements, investor presentations, research studies, and FDA regulatory pathways, thereby saving tremendous time...

This work traces the history and background of the once great American consumer electronics manufacturing industry, an industry that was plagued and finally destroyed by an American-Japanese cartel subverting enforcement of our traditional trade laws. The work is not a Japan-bashing diatribe, but a...

There are many how-to books on scientific and technical writing, and most of them devote a chapter or two to the subject of gathering information. The Elements of Information Gathering is the first to describe in detail the necessary steps in gathering scientific and...

A self-study tutorial which presents the fundamental principles and rigorous numerical validations of a major contemporary branch in frequency-domain computational electromagnetics.Author: Konada UmashankarISBN-10: 0890065993ISBN-13: 9780890065990Publisher: Artech House PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1993Pages: 732Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.94lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.33w x 2.05d

A text for senior undergraduate or beginning graduate students, as well as practicing engineers, that bridges the gap between specialist papers and the use of GTD in practical problems. It introduces the principal results and concepts, their various parameters, and applications to a wide...

An opportunity to impress, Communication is easy isn't it? Well it may seem so, but consider honestly when was the last time you were involved in a breakdown of communications? And how long ago was one such a veritable derailment? For most people and...

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to masters or doctoral research work. Professor Balian's unique presentation was written with the student in mind and helps dispel the mystique and trepidations of graduate level research work. The text is clearly presented and facilitates...

Advances in technology have always had a significant impact on sport. This book surveys the next generation of emerging technologies and considers how sport managers, governing bodies and officials can meet the challenges that they pose for sport competition, participation and events. It explores...

During the latter half of the twentieth century, federal funding in the United States for scientific research and development increased dramatically. Yet despite the infusion of public funds into research centers, the relationship between public policy and research and development remains poorly understood.How does...

Samar Najm Abul Huda's translation of Ahmad ibn Yusuf al Tifaschi's study of gems. Born in 1184, Al Tifaschi first learned about gems from his father, and augmented his knowledge through readings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Pliny, as well as through extensive travels to...

Based on ideas from Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Learning To Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines presents a new approach to generating text classifiers from examples. The approach combines high performance and efficiency with theoretical understanding and improved robustness. In particular, it is highly...

This book describes an orderly and science-based process of highway accident investigation, reconstruction and causation, beginning with the collection and interpretation of physical evidence, through the qualitative and quantitative reconstruction, to the determination of accident causation, with the ultimate goal of guiding the development...

The book is a survey of 40 years of whimsical self-illustrated inventions created by the author as a personal sideline artistic and creative endeavor. The book includes over 400 illustrations of ludicrous, whimsical or marginally-plausible inventions relating to the automobile, as well as to...

Improve It is a collection of essays from SharePoint community thought leaders about how to get the most out of SharePoint. It shares the latest thoughts on SharePoint's continual evolution and how organizations can improve the value and impact of their intranet. With multiple...

Feaver Fever in Spillage Village is a tale about a young alligator named Archie. Archie is passionate about science and engineering and loves to use his expertise to address challenges that often occur in his village. In this Tale of Whoa, Archie's village is...

The Neolithic saw the spread of the first farmers, and the formation of settled villages throughout Europe. Traditional archaeology has interpreted these changes in terms of population growth, economic pressures and social competition, but in "The Domestication of Europe" Ian Hodder works from a...

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this...

Webplicity and is a great a resource for those in the process of or thinking about implementing a new web site or web based tool. Author Bill Young brings real world experience guiding clients through the difficult process of launching a well-designed web presence....

This book covers Budgeting and accounting for IT services based on clause 6.4 of ISO/IEC 20000. It introduces financial terms that may be unfamiliar to service management specialists, which will help with understanding the requirements and recommendations. It also covers the relationship between budgeting,...

Gravity is one of the most inexplicable forces of nature, controlling everything, from the expansion of the Universe to the ebb and flow of ocean tides. The search for the laws of motion and gravitation began more than two thousand years ago, a quest...

James Friedman provides a thorough survey of oligopoly theory using numerical examples and careful verbal explanations to make the ideas clear and accessible. While the earlier ideas of Cournot, Hotelling, and Chamberlin are presented, the larger part of the book is devoted to the...

The fifth volume of this definitive edition centres around Newton's Lucasian lectures on algebra, purportedly delivered during 1673-83, and subsequently prepared for publication under the title Arithmetica Universalis many years later. Dr Whiteside first reproduces the text of the lectures deposited by Newton in...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Dieses Buch enthalt eine Sammlung von Dialogen des bekannten Mathematikers Serge Lang mit Schulern. Serge Lang behandelt die Schuler als seinesgleichen und zeigt ihnen mit dem ihm eigenen lebendigen Stil etwas vom Wesen des mathematischen Denkens. Die Begegnungen zwischen Lang und den Schulern sind...

The legacy of Galois was the beginning of Galois theory as well as group theory. From this common origin, the development of group theory took its own course, which led to great advances in the latter half of the 20th cen- tury. It was...

Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great...

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the position of the world's first...

This book is about how in less than one lifetime we have experienced the destruction of the manufacturing sectors in our western societies. and the significant loss of national prosperity, and why the imperative for western economies must be to ....Take Back Manufacturing!The globalized...

The book Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020 is the second book published by MDPI on the topic.It highlights the most recent internationally/nationally funded projects on Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts, providing readers with an overview of the most...

For a sustainable future, the need to use renewable sources to produce electricity is inevitable. Some of these sources-particularly the widely available solar power-are weather-dependent; therefore, utility-scale energy storage will be more and more important. These solar and wind power fluctuations range from minutes...

With the Internet of Things and various information and communication technologies, a city can manage its assets in a smarter way, constituting the urban development vision of a smart city. This facilitates a more efficient use of physical infrastructure and encourages citizen participation. Smart...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Supply Chains.- Chapter 2. Supply Chain Management.- Chapter 3. Supply Chain Dynamics.- Chapter 4. Basic models for SC dynamics.- Chapter 5. The effect of the quality of information in SCD.- Chapter 6. Enriching SC models.- Chapter 7. Closed Loop Supply...

"This publication delves into how virtual technology has evolved to create remote offices and remote teaming in Health, Education, Engineering, and other business solutions, exploring culture in businesses and how individuals may interface, communicate, and collaborate in past, current, and future business models"--Author: Joseph...

Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft. In one extreme case, a $2.2 billion B-2 Spirit bomber crashed soon after takeoff and was...

New quantitative methodology and the development of corpus and experimental linguistics tools have recently made researching lexical comprehension and production more accessible. While several tools and data sets are available in English (Coh-metrix, CELEX) and a few other languages, the development of resources and...

Since the first works introducing the aluminum intercalated clay family in the early 1970s, interest in the synthesis of Pillared InterLayered Clays (PILC) has increased tremendously, especially research into their properties and energetic and environmental applications. After our comprehensive reviews and book on the...

The investigation of rail vehicle running dynamics plays an important role in the more than 200 year development of railway vehicles and infrastructure. Currently, there are a number of new requirements for rail transport associated with the reduced environmental impact, energy consumption and wear,...

The development of modern numerical methods has led to significant advances in the field of fatigue and fracture, which are pivotal issues in structural integrity. Because of the permanent tendency to shorten time-to-market periods and the development cost, the use of the finite element...

Germanium (Ge) chalcogenides are characterized by unique properties that make these materials interesting for a very wide range of applications from phase change memories to ovonic threshold switches and from photonics to thermoelectric and photovoltaic devices. In many cases, their physical properties can be...

Photonic jets (PJs) are important mesoscale optical phenomena arising from electromagnetic waves interacting with dielectric particles. PJs have applications in super-resolution imaging, sensing, detection, patterning, trapping, manipulation, waveguiding, signal amplification and high-efficiency signal collection, among others. This reprint provides an overview of the field...

Practical Chlorine Dioxide is a comprehensive book for those who want to use ClO2 safely and effectively. The subject matter includes safety, environmental, reaction chemistry, generation chemistry and equipment, analytical, and materials of compatibility. In addition, there is a "Frequently Asked Questions" chapter which...