What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is abso
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 6 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Information Technology for Developing Countries, WCITD 2010 and the IFIP
Alec Schuyler has two immediate problems: what to do with the rest of his life, and what to do about Suze Matheson. She's his date for the Winter Dance. And she's got trouble of her own. The English t
Paolo's plan for August in Orange Grove City is to hire out his little brother to the neighbors. Georgie is six; he needs a manager. But then the family dog, Rufus, is stolen. Overnight, Paolo is
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
This volume collects recent works on weakly dependent, long-memory and multifractal processes and introduces new dependence measures for studying complex stochastic systems. Other topics include the s
Fractional calculus was first developed by pure mathematicians in the middle of the 19th century. Some 100 years later, engineers and physicists have found applications for these concepts in their are
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Since 2002, FoLLI has awarded an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language and Information. This book is based on the PhD thesis of Marco Kuhlmann, joint winner of th
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Living in an apartment house on New York's upper East Side, boy sleuth Piet Potter cleverly solves a difficult million-dollar-inheritance mystery for his neighbor in Apt. 3B
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP. The 47 papers were carefully selected from 157 submissions a
Genetic Programming comprises of proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2010. Topics include novel models, performance enhancements, extensions of genetic programmi
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of eight international workshops held in Ulm, Germany, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Business Process
This two volume set LNCS 5981 and LNCS 5982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2010, held in Tsukuba, Japan
This book describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in the Arctic regions. It considers the present and future potential fo
Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such a
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The book reviews the two features of the variational approach: its use as a universal tool to describe physical phenomena and as a source for qualitative and quantitative methods of studying particula
The book reviews the two features of the variational approach: its use as a universal tool to describe physical phenomena and as a source for qualitative and quantitative methods of studying particula
Now available in paperback, the urgent argument for “saving the futures of female athletes” (USA TODAY). ‧ Controversial and compelling: The Warrior Girls excerpts in The New York Times Magazine and
Proceedings of the14th European Microscopy Congress, held in Aachen, Germany, 1-5 September 2008. Jointly organised by the European Microscopy Society (EMS), the German Society for Electron Microscopy
Trade is the economic life blood of any society. For the past two decades, much of America's productive base has been transferred offshore, mostly to Asia. But America's trade as well as budget defici
T.D. Jakes offers readers of the New York Times bestseller Before You Do, now retitled Making Great Decisions: For a Life Without Limits, a collection of Scripture and quotes that provides the spiritu
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The geometry of modular curves and the structure of their cohomology groups have been a rich source for various number-theoretical applications over the last decades. Similar applications may be expec
Each year, for every winner, there are numerous disappointments, but this novel hopes to illustrate the fights and famines of the Formula One World. In memory of Matthew David Teaters.
13 year old Paul and his 10 year old sister Chaeley wished for nothing more than a carefree summer filled with lots of swimming, boating, and hiking. And they got their wish...sort of. They got to go
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At last, here is what logistics researchers have been waiting for: a book that comprehensively encapsulates for the first time the fundamentals of modeling Logistic Operating Curves for production and
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In the modern world of gigantic datasets, which scientists and practioners of all fields of learning are confronted with, the availability of robust, scalable and easy-to-use methods for pattern recog
Quantitative Neurophysiology is supplementary text for a junior or senior level course in neuroengineering. It may also serve as an quick-start for graduate students in engineering, physics or neurosc
Rich with data, although not always with cash for the players, gambling is an exercise in analysis and risk as much as it is a source of entertainment. This edition includes articles from academics an
"Domain decomposition methods are divide and conquer methods for the parallel and computational solution of partial differential equations of elliptic or parabolic type. They include iterative algorit
For years, Paul Newman and his longtime buddy A. E. Hotchner filled old wine bottles with their homemade salad dressing to give to friends as Christmas gifts. Reasoning that what was good enough for t
The ninth book in the bestselling Humor for the Heart series, Humor for a Boomer's Heart is a collection of fifty original stories that take a humorous look at the ups and downs of all things boomer.
The objective of this work is to present recent advances in the theory of neural control for discrete-time nonlinear systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The results that appear in each
