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Mark Lewis’ Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala was the first textbook to use Scala for introductory CS courses. Scala continues to gain significance among professional developers, and
Mark Lewis’ Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala was the first textbook to use Scala for introductory CS courses. Scala continues to gain significance among professional developers, and
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Introduction to Probability with Texas Hold’em Examples illustrates both standard and advanced probability topics using the popular poker game of Texas Hold’em, rather than the typical balls in urns.
The book covers the essentials of computational science and gives tools and techniques to solve materials science problems using molecular dynamics and first-principles methods. The new edition expand
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Volume I presents fundamental, classical statistical concepts at the doctorate level without using measure theory. It gives careful proofs of major results and explains how the theory sheds light on t
From this textbook, readers learn how to design and analyze the most common 2D and 3D mechanical systems in terms of motion, speed and force. Using the commercial mathematical software package MATLAB
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This book presents novel methodologies for modeling, simulation and control of gas turbines using ANN (Artificial Neural Networks). Readers will learn how artificial intelligent techniques can be used
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Compressive sensing is a powerful tool that enables data reconstructions using fewer measurements than traditional approaches, and is now being applied to optical signaling and image acquisition for i
This book provides practical knowledge to biomedical researchers using biological and biochemical specimen/samples in order to understand health and disease processes at cellular, clinical, and popula
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A fair question to ask of an advocate of subjective Bayesianism (which the author is) is "how would you model uncertainty?" In this book, the author writes about how he has done it using rea
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This book serves as an introduction to the level design process in Unreal Engine 4. By working with a number of different components within the Unreal Editor, readers will learn to create levels using
