Geospatial data is hard to ignore. Nearly every car, phone, or camera has a GPS sensor, and aerial photos, satellite imagery, and data representing political boundaries, roads, rivers, and streams are
A great deal of political and academic responses to the Israel/Palestine conflict have construed the Palestinians as an object of Western and Israeli discourses, rather than their own Palestinian disc
“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from
This practical guide is meant for geoscientists and engineers who are beginners, and will introduce them to the field of seismic data interpretation and evaluation. The exquisite seismic illustr
In a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the object’s strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he reali
This volume expands on statistical analysis of genomic data by discussing cross-cutting groundwork material, public data repositories, common applications, and representative tools for operating on ge
This handbook compiles state-of-the-art empirical studies and applications using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It includes a collection of 18 chapters written by DEA experts. Chapter 1 examines the
Carolin Loos introduces two novel approaches for the analysis of single-cell data. Both approaches can be used to study cellular heterogeneity and therefore advance a holistic understanding of biologi
Dark-haired Victorian beauty Cassandra Seton will finally see her fiance, Miles Markwick, after a separation of nine years. Nine years that have made her an object of pity. Marrying him now would save
Today’s data environment demands more from business analysts than ever before. The volume and types of data sources with which an analyst works reach far beyond the relatively small amount of data enc
The revolution in big data has enabled a game-changing approach to marketing. The asynchronous and continuous collection of customer data carries rich signals about consumer preferences and consumptio
Decoupage (from the French, decoupe, meaning to cut out) entails gluing cut-out pictures to an object and covering with varnish. It's a fun and easy way to decorate just about anything, from small hou
Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and onstructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Monic
Each book in Great Civilisations approaches its subject through a scene-setting spread Who/where were the... then introduces the achievements of the chosen civilisation through 12 structures or object
Features 100 masterpieces of design, those small objects we use daily from tea bags to paperclips to hairpins. This book portrays each object in detail with an informative text on its origin and speci
This book investigates the ways in which these systems can promote public value by encouraging the disclosure and reuse of privately-held data in ways that support collective values such as environmen
"I am the unit of measurement." Fiete Stolte divides the day into twenty-one hours to create a week with eight days, and thereby centres his works on himself as an object of observation and experiment
The object I drew out was dusty and mildewed, and blotched with dark rust-coloured stains. It smelt of time and decay, sour, like old books and parchments. The light from the chapel's stained glass wi
In a world where big data is the norm and near-real-time decisions are crucial, machine learning (ML) is a critical component of the data workflow. Machine learning systems can quickly crunch massive
Quarry, n. An open excavation.Quarry, v. Transitive: To dig or take from. Intransitive: To delve into.Quarry, n. An object pursued or hunted; prey.She was a "Jane Doe," an
SAS users in the Health and Life Sciences industry need to create complex graphs to analyze biostatistics data and clinical data, and they need to submit drugs for approval to the FDA. Graphs used in
Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, socia
Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML, 5th EditionBinder Ready Version by Dennis, Wixom, and Tegarden captures the dynamic aspects of the field by keeping students foc
According to Forbes the object of these Journals is "to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and savages, the annihilations and exterminations consequent on this trade", with the aim of encouraging the
Over the course of a long and distinguished career, psychologist and psychoanalyst Sidney J. Blatt has made major contributions to cognitive-developmental theory, psychoanalytic object relations theor
“A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask—as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object—to clarify modernity’s relationship to h
Handbook of Polymers, Second Edition, presents normalized, up-to-date polymer data in a consistent and easily referenceable layout. This new edition represents an update of the available data, includi
This proceedings volume contains selected papers that were presented in the 3rd International Symposium on Big data and Cloud Computing Challenges, 2016 held at VIT University, India on March 10 and 1
This study examines contracting trends at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It relies on empirical analysis of DoD contracting transaction data from the open-source Federal Procurement Data System
This volume, the 23rd issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems,focuses on information and security engineering. It contains five revised and extended papers selected f
This, the 24th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Datab
The object of this book, first published in 1928, is a study of the ways in which those who were once called ‘primitives’ conceive of their own individuality. The author inquires into the notions they
This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High-Dimensional Data, held in Nyvagar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on sta
This book discusses the role of observatories in supporting evidence-based decision-making. The book focuses on issues of data accessibility, monitoring frameworks and governance processes with regard
This concise textbook examines the fundamental aspects of intelligent computing for surveillance systems, from camera calibration and data capturing, to secure data transmission. The text covers digit
Drawing on a wide range of data, including original protest event data, this book explains how South Korean social movements were able to attain strong political influence and settle as a powerful pla
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December 2015.The 26 revised papers presen
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, CloudCom-Asia 2015, held in Huangshan City, China, in June 2015.The 29 full paper
Blast away summer learning loss and prepare students for the next grade level!Excite and energize students in the summer months with 9 weeks of fun, theme-based units focusing on key skills and object
Where's the frog? Where's the pirate? Where are the ducks? Challenge little ones to spot and name each object on the page while building language skills too. This series of books challenges kids to op
