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Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

By: Mircea Sofonea,Andaluzia Matei

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Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

By: Mircea Sofonea,Andaluzia Matei

A complete introduction to the modelling and mathematical analysis of contact processes with deformable solids.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107606659

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9781107606654

An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters

By: Matei Zaharia

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An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters

By: Matei Zaharia

The past few years have seen a major change in computing systems, as growing data volumes and stalling processor speeds require more and more applications to scale out to clusters. Today, a myriad data sources, from the Internet to business operations to scientific instruments, produce large and valuable data streams. However, the processing capabilities of single machines have not kept up with the size of data. As a result, organizations increasingly need to scale out their computations over clusters. At the same time, the speed and sophistication required of data processing have grown. In addition to simple queries, complex algorithms like machine learning and graph analysis are becoming common. And in addition to batch processing, streaming analysis of real-time data is required to let organizations take timely action. Future computing platforms will need to not only scale out traditional workloads, but support these new applications too. This book, a revised version of the 2014 ACM Dissertation Award winning dissertation, proposes an architecture for cluster computing systems that can tackle emerging data processing workloads at scale. Whereas early cluster computing systems, like MapReduce, handled batch processing, our architecture also enables streaming and interactive queries, while keeping MapReduce's scalability and fault tolerance. And whereas most deployed systems only support simple one-pass computations (e.g., SQL queries), ours also extends to the multi-pass algorithms required for complex analytics like machine learning. Finally, unlike the specialized systems proposed for some of these workloads, our architecture allows these computations to be combined, enabling rich new applications that intermix, for example, streaming and batch processing. We achieve these results through a simple extension to MapReduce that adds primitives for data sharing, called Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs). We show that this is enough to capture a wide range of workloads. We implement RDDs in the open source Spark system, which we evaluate using synthetic and real workloads. Spark matches or exceeds the performance of specialized systems in many domains, while offering stronger fault tolerance properties and allowing these workloads to be combined. Finally, we examine the generality of RDDs from both a theoretical modeling perspective and a systems perspective. This version of the dissertation makes corrections throughout the text and adds a new section on the evolution of Apache Spark in industry since 2014. In addition, editing, formatting, and links for the references have been added.

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141

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Morgan & Claypool

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1970001577

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Variational Inequalities with Applications

A Study of Antiplane Frictional Contact Problems

By: Mircea Sofonea,Andaluzia Matei

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Variational Inequalities with Applications

A Study of Antiplane Frictional Contact Problems

By: Mircea Sofonea,Andaluzia Matei

This book is motivated by stimulating problems in contact mechanics, emphasizing antiplane frictional contact with linearly elastic and viscoelastic materials. It focuses on the essentials with respect to the qualitative aspects of several classes of variational inequalities (VIs). Clearly presented, easy to follow, and well-referenced, this work treats almost entirely VIs of the second kind, with much of the material being state-of-the-art.

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235

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387874607

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9780387874609

Comparison in Anthropology

By: Matei Candea

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Comparison in Anthropology

By: Matei Candea

Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

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407

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Cambridge University Press

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1108474608

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Learning Spark

Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis

By: Holden Karau,Andy Konwinski,Patrick Wendell,Matei Zaharia

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Learning Spark

Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis

By: Holden Karau,Andy Konwinski,Patrick Wendell,Matei Zaharia

This book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. You'll learn how to express parallel jobs with just a few lines of code, and cover applications from simple batch jobs to stream processing and machine learning.--

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276

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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144935906X

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9781449359065

Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

Originally published in French in 2004, Matei Cazacu’s Dracula remains the most authoritative scholarly biography of the Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). Its core is an exhaustively researched reconstruction of Dracula’s life and political career, using original sources in more than nine languages. In addition Cazacu traces Dracula’s metamorphosis, at the hands of contemporary propagandists, into variously a bloodthirsty tyrant, and an early modern “great sovereign.” Beyond this Cazacu explores Dracula’s transformation into “the vampire prince” in literature, film and folklore, with surprising new discoveries on Bram Stoker’s sources for his novel. In this first English translation, the text and bibliography are updated, and readers are provided with an appendix of the key sources for Dracula’s life, in fresh and accurate English translations.

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BRILL

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9004349219

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9789004349216

The Corruption

An Economic and Social Analysis

By: Tudorel Andrei,Ani Matei,Ion Gh Roşca

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The Corruption

An Economic and Social Analysis

By: Tudorel Andrei,Ani Matei,Ion Gh Roşca

Abstract: The current edition in English language turns into account and completes the studies published in the previous edition. Carrying on the research and publication activities on the topic of corruption is based on its novelty and on the special interest for the Romanian language edition. At the same time, we hope that the current volume will provide greater opportunities for foreign access and thus the admittance in the European and international flows of information in this field. The core ideas of the book focus on social perception, modelled through statistic analyses, on the specificity of corruption in the public administration or the public health system in close correlation to the processes of decentralization and performance of health services. The analysis of the corruption topic is in interference with the effects of the European integration processes, globalization, being correlated to adjacent developments concerning the public integrity, national or regional economic free

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Matei Ani

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9737094530

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9789737094537

Spark: The Definitive Guide

Big Data Processing Made Simple

By: Bill Chambers,Matei Zaharia

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Spark: The Definitive Guide

Big Data Processing Made Simple

By: Bill Chambers,Matei Zaharia

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications. Developers and system administrators will learn the fundamentals of monitoring, tuning, and debugging Spark, and explore machine learning techniques and scenarios for employing MLlib, Sparkâ??s scalable machine-learning library. Get a gentle overview of big data and Spark Learn about DataFrames, SQL, and Datasetsâ??Sparkâ??s core APIsâ??through worked examples Dive into Sparkâ??s low-level APIs, RDDs, and execution of SQL and DataFrames Understand how Spark runs on a cluster Debug, monitor, and tune Spark clusters and applications Learn the power of Structured Streaming, Sparkâ??s stream-processing engine Learn how you can apply MLlib to a variety of problems, including classification or recommendation

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603

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491912308

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9781491912300

Corsican Fragments

Difference, Knowledge, and Fieldwork

By: Matei Candea

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Corsican Fragments

Difference, Knowledge, and Fieldwork

By: Matei Candea

The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Today, Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social universe. Starting from an ethnographic study in a Corsican village, Corsican Fragments explores nationalism, language, kinship, and place, as well as popular discourses and concerns about violence, migration, and society. Matei Candea traces ideas about inclusion and exclusion through these different realms, as Corsicans, "Continentals," tourists, and the anthropologist make and unmake connections with one another in their everyday encounters. Candea's evocative and gracefully written account provides new insights into the dilemmas of understanding cultural difference and the difficulties and rewards of fieldwork.

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Indiana University Press

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0253004535

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9780253004536

Five Faces of Modernity

Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

By: Matei Călinescu

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Five Faces of Modernity

Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

By: Matei Călinescu

Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.

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Duke University Press

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0822307677

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9780822307679

Structural Differentiation in Social Media

Adhocracy, Entropy, and the "1 % Effect"

By: Sorin Adam Matei,Brian C. Britt

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Structural Differentiation in Social Media

Adhocracy, Entropy, and the "1 % Effect"

By: Sorin Adam Matei,Brian C. Britt

divThis book explores community dynamics within social media. Using Wikipedia as an example, the volume explores communities that rely upon commons-based peer production. Fundamental theoretical principles spanning such domains as organizational configurations, leadership roles, and social evolutionary theory are developed. In the context of Wikipedia, these theories explain how a functional elite of highly productive editors has emerged and why they are responsible for a majority of the content. It explains how the elite shapes the project and how this group tends to become stable and increasingly influential over time. Wikipedia has developed a new and resilient social hierarchy, an adhocracy, which combines features of traditional and new, online, social organizations. The book presents a set of practical approaches for using these theories in real-world practice. This work fundamentally changes the way we think about social media leadership and evolution, emphasizing the crucial contributions of leadership, of elite social roles, and of group global structure to the overall success and stability of large social media projects. Written in an accessible and direct style, the book will be of interest to academics as well as professionals with an interest in social media and commons-based peer production processes.

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Springer

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3319644254

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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

Cazacu's Dracula offers the most authoritative scholarly biography of Vlad III the Impaler (d. 1476), including how his imagery evolved from contemporary to modern times.

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East Central and Eastern Europ

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Book's by Matei C

Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters

An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters

Variational Inequalities with Applications

Variational Inequalities with Applications

Comparison in Anthropology

Comparison in Anthropology

Learning Spark

Learning Spark

Dracula

Dracula

The Corruption

The Corruption

Spark: The Definitive Guide

Spark: The Definitive Guide

Corsican Fragments

Corsican Fragments

Five Faces of Modernity

Five Faces of Modernity

Structural Differentiation in Social Media

Structural Differentiation in Social Media

Dracula

Dracula

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