High-Performance Scientific Computing

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This book is for programmers and developers who want to improve the performance of their R programs by making them run faster with large data sets or who are trying to solve a pesky performance proble

If you want to learn how to quantitatively answer scientific questions for practical purposes using the powerful R language and the open source R tool ecosystem, this book is ideal for you. It is idea

Improving database performance requires an equal mix of understanding theoretical concepts and working through hands-on examples. You'll find both here. Many of the examples given will be immediately

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Packed with practical examples, this book looks at a different aspect of performance tuning in each chapter and shows you how to apply them to their existing Java applications. Anyone with an interest

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Turbocharge your game play with help from this one-of-a-kind guide. Filled with tweaks for Windows, in-game tips, and ways to improve PC performance, this book will show you how to step up video, soun

Aspects of the interrelated topics of notation and performance examined by Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, Kurt Stone, Charles Wuorinen, Paul Zukofsky, and others.

This book follows a Cookbook style with recipes explaining the steps for penetration testing with WLAN, VOIP, and even cloud computing. There is plenty of code and commands used to make your learning

How America's lost scientific nerve caused its current meltdown . and how to fix it.

Over the past two decades, techniques for advanced computing and enhanced imaging have transformed the ways planners, geographers, surveyors, and others think about and visualize the places, regions,

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K-Pop is bigger than it has ever been. Many new artists debut each year and the industry is at an all-time international high. But how did we get here? Is it something more complex and important than

Stephanie Hosford has a big decision to make. For her 20-year high school reunion, how should she style her hair? Little does she know, in a few months it won't matter - she'll be bald. And huge. What

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Bazerman presents conceptual grounds for a theory of rhetoric he proposes in terms of major schools of contemporary social scientific thought, primarily sociocultural psychology, phenomenological soci

A non-fiction rebuttal to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, based on scientific principles; but written for the layman. Illustrated. 36,500 words.

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1993. Houston. Dr. Wale Olufunmi, lunar rock geologist, has a life most Nigerian immigrants would kill for, but then most Nigerians aren’t Wale?a great scientific mind in exile with galactic ambitions

"Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" is written in a helpful, practical style with numerous hands-on recipes to help you master Apache Solr to get more precise search results and analysis, higher performance, and