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Quick Photoshop for Research

A Guide to Digital Imaging for Photoshop 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x

By: Gerald Sedgewick

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Quick Photoshop for Research

A Guide to Digital Imaging for Photoshop 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x

By: Gerald Sedgewick

Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging is a step-by-step guide written for those who use Photoshop 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x on Macintosh or Windows platforms. It is intended for the researcher who needs to use the program infrequently, yet energetically, as well as the beginning or intermediate Photoshop user. The manual shows how to use action buttons so that most functions are performed with the click of a button. Templates are also included for two-, three-, four-, six-, and eight-panel figures, which can be made automatically. The book covers only what the researcher needs to know for the production of publication-quality images.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306479389

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9780306479380

Visualization of Scientific Parallel Programs

By: Gerald Tomas,Christoph W. Ueberhuber

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Visualization of Scientific Parallel Programs

By: Gerald Tomas,Christoph W. Ueberhuber

The substantial effort of parallelizing scientific programs is only justified if the resulting codes are efficient. Thus, all types of performance tuning are important to parallel software development. But performance improvements are much more difficult to achieve with parallel programs than with sequential programs. One way to overcome this difficulty is to bring in graphical tools. This monograph covers recent developments in parallel program visualization techniques and tools and demonstrates the application of specific visualization techniques and software tools to scientific parallel programs. The solution of initial value problems of ordinary differential equations, and numerical integration are treated in detail as two important examples.

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328

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540577386

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9783540577386

Information Retrieval Systems

Theory and Implementation

By: Gerald J. Kowalski

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Information Retrieval Systems

Theory and Implementation

By: Gerald J. Kowalski

The growth of the Internet and the availability of enormous volumes of data in digital form have necessitated intense interest in techniques to assist the user in locating data of interest. The Internet has over 350 million pages of data and is expected to reach over one billion pages by the year 2000. Buried on the Internet are both valuable nuggets to answer questions as well as a large quantity of information the average person does not care about. The Digital Library effort is also progressing, with the goal of migrating from the traditional book environment to a digital library environment. The challenge to both authors of new publications that will reside on this information domain and developers of systems to locate information is to provide the information and capabilities to sort out the non-relevant items from those desired by the consumer. In effect, as we proceed down this path, it will be the computer that determines what we see versus the human being. The days of going to a library and browsing the new book shelf are being replaced by electronic searching the Internet or the library catalogs. Whatever the search engines return will constrain our knowledge of what information is available. An understanding of Information Retrieval Systems puts this new environment into perspective for both the creator of documents and the consumer trying to locate information.

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291

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Springer

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058532090X

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9780585320908

Stream System

The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

By: Gerald Murnane

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Stream System

The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

By: Gerald Murnane

Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole) Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories—originally published from 1985 to 2012—offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians. While the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting “Land Deal,” which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to “Finger Web,” which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to “The Interior of Gaaldine,” which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how—and why—we read.

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470

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374717281

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9780374717285

Stephen Leacock

Humour and Humanity

By: Gerald Lynch

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Stephen Leacock

Humour and Humanity

By: Gerald Lynch

From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich ... He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773561676

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9780773561670

Information Storage and Retrieval Systems

Theory and Implementation

By: Gerald J. Kowalski,Mark T. Maybury

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Information Storage and Retrieval Systems

Theory and Implementation

By: Gerald J. Kowalski,Mark T. Maybury

Chapter 1 places into perspective a total Information Storage and Retrieval System. This perspective introduces new challenges to the problems that need to be theoretically addressed and commercially implemented. Ten years ago commercial implementation of the algorithms being developed was not realistic, allowing theoreticians to limit their focus to very specific areas. Bounding a problem is still essential in deriving theoretical results. But the commercialization and insertion of this technology into systems like the Internet that are widely being used changes the way problems are bounded. From a theoretical perspective, efficient scalability of algorithms to systems with gigabytes and terabytes of data, operating with minimal user search statement information, and making maximum use of all functional aspects of an information system need to be considered. The dissemination systems using persistent indexes or mail files to modify ranking algorithms and combining the search of structured information fields and free text into a consolidated weighted output are examples of potential new areas of investigation. The best way for the theoretician or the commercial developer to understand the importance of problems to be solved is to place them in the context of a total vision of a complete system. Understanding the differences between Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval Systems will add an additional dimension to the potential future development of systems. The collaborative aspects of digital libraries can be viewed as a new source of information that dynamically could interact with information retrieval techniques.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306470314

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9780306470318

Information Retrieval Architecture and Algorithms

By: Gerald Kowalski

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Information Retrieval Architecture and Algorithms

By: Gerald Kowalski

This text presents a theoretical and practical examination of the latest developments in Information Retrieval and their application to existing systems. By starting with a functional discussion of what is needed for an information system, the reader can grasp the scope of information retrieval problems and discover the tools to resolve them. The book takes a system approach to explore every functional processing step in a system from ingest of an item to be indexed to displaying results, showing how implementation decisions add to the information retrieval goal, and thus providing the user with the needed outcome, while minimizing their resources to obtain those results. The text stresses the current migration of information retrieval from just textual to multimedia, expounding upon multimedia search, retrieval and display, as well as classic and new textual techniques. It also introduces developments in hardware, and more importantly, search architectures, such as those introduced by Google, in order to approach scalability issues. About this textbook: A first course text for advanced level courses, providing a survey of information retrieval system theory and architecture, complete with challenging exercises Approaches information retrieval from a practical systems view in order for the reader to grasp both scope and solutions Features what is achievable using existing technologies and investigates what deficiencies warrant additional exploration

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312

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441977163

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9781441977168

All for the Regiment

The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862

By: Gerald J. Prokopowicz

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All for the Regiment

The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862

By: Gerald J. Prokopowicz

Despite its important role in the early years of the Civil War, the Army of the Ohio remains one of the least studied of all Union commands. With All for the Regiment, Gerald Prokopowicz deftly fills this surprising gap. He offers an engaging history of the army from its formation in 1861 to its costly triumph at Shiloh and its failure at Perryville in 1862. Prokopowicz shows how the amateur soldiers who formed the Army of the Ohio organized themselves into individual regiments of remarkable strength and cohesion. Successive commanders Robert Anderson, William T. Sherman, and Don Carlos Buell all failed to integrate those regiments into an effective organization, however. The result was a decentralized and elastic army that was easily disrupted and difficult to command--but also nearly impossible to destroy in combat. Exploring the army's behavior at minor engagements such as Rowlett's Station and Logan's Cross Roads, as well as major battles such as Shiloh and Perryville, Prokopowicz reveals how its regiment-oriented culture prevented the army from experiencing decisive results--either complete victory or catastrophic defeat--on the battlefield. Regimental solidarity was at once the Army of the Ohio's greatest strength, he argues, and its most dangerous vulnerability.

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UNC Press Books

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1469620308

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9781469620305

Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

By: David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz

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Deadly Dust

Silicosis and the On-going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health

By: David Rosner,Gerald E. Markowitz

A new and expanded edition of the authors' pivotal examination of the national silicosis crisis

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University of Michigan Press

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0472031104

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9780472031108

Preacher Finds a Corpse

An Evan Wycliff Mystery

By: Gerald Everett Jones

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Preacher Finds a Corpse

An Evan Wycliff Mystery

By: Gerald Everett Jones

The Evan Wycliff series has won nine awards, including both NYC Big Book Gold and Silver in Mystery for this book and the sequel Preacher Fakes a Miracle, winning the top two awards in that competition in the same year. A lapsed divinity student who is fascinated by astrophysics finds his best friend shot dead in a cornfield. It looks like suicide. Having returned to his farm roots near Lake of the Ozarks, Evan works as a skip tracer for the local car dealer. He learns his friend was involved in a dispute over farmland ownership that goes back two centuries - complicated now by plans to make an old weapons facility a tourist attraction. First in a new Mystery-Thriller series. "With its roots firmly grounded in an exceptional sense of place and purpose, Jones has created a murder mystery that lingers in the mind long after events have built to an unexpected crescendo. Murder mystery fans will find it more than a cut above the ordinary." - D. Donovan, Donovan's Bookshelf

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379

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LaPuerta Books and Media

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0996543899

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9780996543897

Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

Essays

By: Gerald Murnane

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Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

Essays

By: Gerald Murnane

This collection of essays leads into the eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award.

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241

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Giramondo Publishing

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192088209X

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9781920882099

Risk Management

Volume I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics

By: Gerald Mars,David T. H. Weir

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Risk Management

Volume I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics

By: Gerald Mars,David T. H. Weir

First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field itself. The collections of essays are both international and interdisciplinary in scope and provide an entry point for investigating the myriad of study within the discipline.

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Routledge

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1000001512

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9781000001518

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

By: David Rosner,Gerald Markowitz

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Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

By: David Rosner,Gerald Markowitz

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization, and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century, those in power have left others behind. Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler. This book underscores that powerful people and institutions have always seen some lives as more valuable than others, and it emphasizes how those who have been most affected by the disparities in rates of disease and death have challenged and changed these systems. Ultimately, this history shows that unequal outcomes are a choice—and we can instead collectively make decisions that foster life and health.

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533

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Columbia University Press

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0231553803

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9780231553803

Guinness Book of Pet Records

By: Gerald L. Wood

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Guinness Book of Pet Records

By: Gerald L. Wood

Presents record-breaking achievements of pets, particularly the warm-blooded varieties.

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Guinness Publishing

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0851122752

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9780851122755

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Quick Photoshop for Research

Quick Photoshop for Research

Visualization of Scientific Parallel Programs

Visualization of Scientific Parallel Programs

Information Retrieval Systems

Information Retrieval Systems

Stream System

Stream System

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock

Information Storage and Retrieval Systems

Information Storage and Retrieval Systems

Information Retrieval Architecture and Algorithms

Information Retrieval Architecture and Algorithms

All for the Regiment

All for the Regiment

Deadly Dust

Deadly Dust

Preacher Finds a Corpse

Preacher Finds a Corpse

Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

Risk Management

Risk Management

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Guinness Book of Pet Records

Guinness Book of Pet Records

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