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Offers a unique multidisciplinary overview of how humans interact with soft objects and how multiple sensory signals are used to perceive material properties, with an emphasis on object deformability.
The problem of privacy-preserving data analysis has a long history spanning multiple disciplines. As electronic data about individuals becomes increasingly detailed, and as technology enables ever mor
When she was launched on May 31, 1911, RMS Titanic was the largest movable object on Earth. A crowd of over 100,000 gathered just to watch this 882-foot, 46,000-ton leviathan slide down the slipway.Th
This report shows how the Dutch Data Retention Act works in practice. It provides an overview of the way in which the Retention Act is structured, and of the use of the retained telephone and internet
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One day a fakir leaves his small village in India and lands in Paris. A professional con artist, the fakir is on a pilgrimage to IKEA, where he intends to obtain an object he covets above all others:
Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction. Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Ke
From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the a€?other worlda€? - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in m
A human expedition into deep space encounters a gigantic artifact—a bowl-shaped object with a star at the center, and a habitable area equivalent to many millions of times the Earth’s surface. A landi
This book deals with one of the most novel advances in mathematical modeling for applied scientific technology, including computer graphics, public-key encryption, data visualization, statistical data
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2014, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2014. The 9 revised full pape
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Industrial Conference on Advances in Data Mining, ICDM 2014, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2014. The 16 revised full papers present
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This volume presents theoretical developments, applications and computational methods for the analysis and modeling in behavioral and social sciences where data are usually complex to explore and inve
Kim Russell wishes for a world where she and her family are not oppressed by the upper class Thounanli. After they find out that their enemy has a game changing object in hand, they plan to steal it,
The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpieceThe Blind Owl is the mo
Construct a robust end-to-end solution for analyzing and visualizing streaming dataReal-time analytics is the hottest topic in data analytics today. In Real-Time Analytics: Techniques to Analyze and V
Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range o
To many, the racing bicycle is a cult object, a vehicle of dreams, a marvel of engineering and aesthetic. Spanning over one hundred years of the sport, Bike! is the in-depth history of the 49 greatest
How can you leverage the value of your company's data? Well over a century ago oil drove the development of innovations such as the internal combustion engine, central heating and plastics, changing o
Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate. However, to a great extent the discussion to date has been concerned with fundamental ethical, religious and philosophical questions. By con
The traditional role of evolutionary theory in the social sciences has been to explain the existence of an object in terms of the survival of the fittest. In economics this approach has acted as a jus
"This book presents a philosophical study of statistics via the concept of data approximation. Developed by the well-regarded author, this approach discusses how analysis must take into account that m
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
Big Data is rapidly transforming a number of business functions across many industries. The biggest transformation is in how we market to our customers. This book shows marketers today how to seek sma
If you’re looking for a short, sweet, and simple introduction (or reintroduction) to Hibernate, this is the book you want. Through clear real-world examples, you’ll learn Hibernate and object-relation
"Whilst the 'health sciences' are a broad and diverse area, and includes public health, primary care, health psychology, psychiatry and epidemiology, the research methods and data analysis skills requ
This is one of the first books that will help tool developers, as well as technologists and managers working in data provenance. For example, technologists can decide on the tools to select for a part
Features 11 wild and domestic animals. The Snappy Sounds series are books of colorful fun for toddlers. These bright and colorful board books are bold introductions to matching sound and object
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining, SCDM 2014, held in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, in June 16th-18th, 2014.
Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining
This volume presents the proceedings of the First Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications (ECC 2014), which was hosted by Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Te
Have you ever noticed that the physical world works in certain ways? When you push an object it moves. Skateboarders use force and motion to perform tricks. If you jump up as high as you can, you'll q
Have you ever noticed that the physical world works in certain ways? When you push an object it moves. Skateboarders use force and motion to perform tricks. If you jump up as high as you can, you'll q
This book provides a complete analysis of educational production and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allo
