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Play the Player, Squash the Game

By: Ramon Allen Sr

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Play the Player, Squash the Game

By: Ramon Allen Sr

Play the Player is an explicit fictional clandestine narcotics story of Sergeant Maurice LeBlanc and his unheralded crew of nonconforming operatives who relentlessly pursued narcotics violators in the beleaguered community’s back streets and neighborhoods during the tragic era when crack cocaine rose from the depths of the netherworld and proliferated the City of Compton. The inner shadows of the community and dimly lit alleyways were ideal battlements where steel-gated, fortif

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164027474X

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Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design

By: Donald W. Christensen,Ramon Francis Bonaquist,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design

By: Donald W. Christensen,Ramon Francis Bonaquist,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 567: Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design examines whether changes to the recommended Superpave mix design criteria for voids in mineral aggregate, voids filled with asphalt, and air voids content might further enhance the performance and durability of hot-mix asphalt.

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030909867X

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9780309098670

Improved Conditioning and Testing Procedures for HMA Moisture Susceptibility

By: Mansour Solaimanian,Ramon Francis Bonaquist,Vivek Tandon,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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Improved Conditioning and Testing Procedures for HMA Moisture Susceptibility

By: Mansour Solaimanian,Ramon Francis Bonaquist,Vivek Tandon,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Explores whether combining the environmental conditioning system with the simple performance test would provide a superior procedure for determining the moisture susceptibility of hot-mix asphalt (HMA).

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0309099064

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9780309099066

Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice

By: Ramon Francis Bonaquist,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice

By: Ramon Francis Bonaquist,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

TRB¿s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice explores the develop of a practical, economical simple performance tester (SPT) for use in routine hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mix design and in the characterization of HMA materials for pavement structural design with the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.

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0309099382

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9780309099387

Matrix Mathematics

A Second Course in Linear Algebra

By: Stephan Ramon Garcia,Roger A. Horn

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Matrix Mathematics

A Second Course in Linear Algebra

By: Stephan Ramon Garcia,Roger A. Horn

Using a modern matrix-based approach, this rigorous second course in linear algebra helps upper-level undergraduates in mathematics, data science, and the physical sciences transition from basic theory to advanced topics and applications. Its clarity of exposition together with many illustrations, 900+ exercises, and 350 conceptual and numerical examples aid the student's understanding. Concise chapters promote a focused progression through essential ideas. Topics are derived and discussed in detail, including the singular value decomposition, Jordan canonical form, spectral theorem, QR factorization, normal matrices, Hermitian matrices, and positive definite matrices. Each chapter ends with a bullet list summarizing important concepts. New to this edition are chapters on matrix norms and positive matrices, many new sections on topics including interpolation and LU factorization, 300+ more problems, many new examples, and color-enhanced figures. Prerequisites include a first course in linear algebra and basic calculus sequence. Instructor's resources are available.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108945597

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Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959

By: Ramon L. Bonachea

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Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959

By: Ramon L. Bonachea

The Cuban Insurrection is an in-depth study of the first stage of the Cuban Revolution, the years from 1952 to 1959. The volume depicts the origins of the conflict, details the middle years, and ends with Fidel Castro's victorious arrival In Havana on January 8, 1959. Based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished original material, including confidential military reports, letters from various leaders of the insurrection and data gathered from interviews held In Cuba and abroad, the book Is a descriptive historical analysis of the struggle against military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The authors challenge the traditional premise that Cuba's insurrection began in the rural areas and only later expanded into urban areas. Instead they argue that the insurrectionary struggle was based upon combined urban-rural guerrilla warfare against the regular army. Basically, The Cuban Insurrection treats two major movements involved in the struggle—The Directorio Revolucionario and the M-26-7—and examines the growth, ideology, conflicts, and military strategies of their respective rural and urban organizations. The book includes a detailed analysis of combat, strikes, uprisings, and expeditions. Original maps and charts illustrate battles, maneuvers, and guerrilla political structures.

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Routledge

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1351524704

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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics - eBook

By: Kate Curtis,Clair Ramsden,Ramon Z. Shaban,Margaret Fry,Julie Considine

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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics - eBook

By: Kate Curtis,Clair Ramsden,Ramon Z. Shaban,Margaret Fry,Julie Considine

- Expanded editorial team, all internationally recognised researchers and leaders in Emergency Care - Chapter 6 Patient safety and quality care in emergency - All chapters revised to reflect the most up-to-date evidence-based research and practice - Case studies and practice tips highlight cultural considerations and communication issues - Aligns to NSQHSS 2e, NMBA and PBA Standards - An eBook included in all print purchases

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729587193

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9780729587198

Introduction to Interval Analysis

By: Ramon E. Moore,R. Baker Kearfott,Michael J. Cloud

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Introduction to Interval Analysis

By: Ramon E. Moore,R. Baker Kearfott,Michael J. Cloud

An update on the author's previous books, this introduction to interval analysis provides an introduction to INTLAB, a high-quality, comprehensive MATLAB toolbox for interval computations, making this the first interval analysis book that does with INTLAB what general numerical analysis texts do with MATLAB.

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SIAM

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089871771X

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9780898717716

North Korea - US Relations

From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un

By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo

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North Korea - US Relations

From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un

By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo

How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US? Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship under Kim Jong-un culminating in 2017 and subsequent turn towards diplomacy, this book shows how North Korea has constantly learnt from its own experience and the experience of others to evolve and adapt its policy towards the US. This fully revised and expanded second edition draws on interviews and conversations with American, North and South Korean, Chinese and other countries’ policy-makers and experts and North Korean official media stories. It has been updated to include discussion of the post-2012 period when Kim Jong-un replaced his father to become the leader of North Korea, and provides detailed analysis of both presidencies, concluding with a study of the two bilateral summits held with President Donald Trump. Showing how weaker powers can try to achieve their main foreign policy goals with respect to great powers, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of the international relations of East Asia, US Foreign Policy, Korean Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis. It should also prove relevant to those studying international bargaining and negotiation.

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0429522916

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9780429522918

A Journey from 726 Walnut Street

To the Pentagon

By: Ramon Noches

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A Journey from 726 Walnut Street

To the Pentagon

By: Ramon Noches

I began this book not as a planned publication but as an in-depth chronicle of my recollections. It is a very raw and largely unedited and every word I personally wrote. Most of my life's experiences contained in the book cover the years from 1942 to 2001. I did not write it for profit or any notion of self-aggrandizement, but something to pass on to my propensity. In fact, my preference is that sales remain low. It does contain several items of historical note probably not covered in other publications. My reasoning was to convert a very lengthy memo into published form because of a similar effort by my Great Grandfather Marshall George Newman (Son of an Indian Chief) that failed. He composed a very lengthy document about his experiences from 1840s forward. That document passed through many hands and eventually disappeared. I did not want to repeat his experience so I elected to complete it in a book that would probably last for many years. Are there inaccuracies in this book, probably, but very few as I made every effort to be honest, direct, and straightforward in all aspects in developing the final product. Perhaps the biggest issue many would have is how honest I related both the good and bad of my life without the obfuscation we see, read, and hear in everyday life. I know of no other path to take than to be honest and not join in the trampling of the word integrity.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469119382

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Enacting Electronic Government Success

An Integrative Study of Government-wide Websites, Organizational Capabilities, and Institutions

By: J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

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Enacting Electronic Government Success

An Integrative Study of Government-wide Websites, Organizational Capabilities, and Institutions

By: J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT initiatives. However, few of these projects achieve their stated goals and some of them are complete failures. Therefore, understanding e-government success has become very important and urgent in recent years. In order to develop relevant knowledge about this complex phenomenon, researchers and practitioners need to identify and assess what are the main conditions, variables, or factors that have an impact on e-government success. However, before being able to evaluate these impacts, it is necessary to define what e-government success is and what some e-government success measures are. This book presents a review of both e-government success measures and e-government success factors. It also provides empirical evidence from quantitative analysis and two in-depth case studies. Although based on sound theory and rigorous empirical analysis, the book not only significantly contributes to academic knowledge, but also includes some practical recommendations for government officials and public managers. Theoretically, the book proposes a way to quantitatively operationalize Fountain’s enactment framework. Based on the institutional tradition, the technology enactment framework attempts to explain the effects of organizational forms and institutional arrangements on the information technology used by government agencies. According to Fountain (1995; 2001) the technology enactment framework pays attention to the relationships among information technology, organizations, embeddedness, and institutions. This framework is very well known in the e-government field, but is normally used for qualitative analysis and there is no previous proposal of how to use it with quantitative data. The book proposes variables to measure each of the different constructs in this framework and also tests the relationships hypothesized by Fountain’s theory. Finally, using the advantages of the selected quantitative analysis technique (Partial Least Squares), the study also proposes some adjustments and extensions to the original framework in a theory building effort. Methodologically, the book reports on one of the first multi-method studies in the field of e-government in general and e-government success in particular. This study uses a nested research design, which combines statistical analysis with two in depth case studies. The study begins with a statistical analysis using organizational, institutional, and contextual factors as the independent variables. An overall score representing e-government success in terms of the functionality of state websites is the dependent variable. Second, based on the statistical results two cases are selected based on their relative fitness to the model (residuals) and their position in the general ranking of website functionality (which includes four different measures). In order to complement the results of the statistical analysis, case studies were developed for the two selected states (New York and Indiana), using semi-structured interviews and document analysis. In terms of the statistical analysis, the book constitutes one of the first applications of Partial Least Squares (PLS) to an e-government success study. PLS is a structural equations modeling (SEM) technique and, therefore, allows estimating the measurement model and the structural model simultaneously. The use of this sophisticated statistical strategy helped to test the relationships between e-government success and different factors influencing it, as well as some of the relationships between several of the factors, thus allowing exploring some indirect effects too.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461420148

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9781461420149

30 - My Newspaper Life

By: Ramon D. "Ray" Hansen

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30 - My Newspaper Life

By: Ramon D. "Ray" Hansen

Ray Hansen grew up in Depression Nebraska. At the age of seventeen during World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and served with the Seabees on Guam. Immediately after returning home, he entered the University of Nebraska, studied journalism while working nights on the Lincoln Star. He graduated in three years, on D-Day 1949. His career took him promptly to Washington, DC, where he worked ten years and saved $10,000. With that money, he went to Wisconsin, bought his first newspaper, and learned to print it with hot metal via Linotype and a flatbed press. He paid off the mortgage in five years and sold the paper for more than twice what he paid for it. Then came the offset revolution, publishing cold type via new expensive web presses. During those years, he married, raised a family, and bought and sold three more newspapers in Kansas and Arkansas. He concluded his career in upstate New York on the cusp of the twenty-first century. He witnessed the growth and skirmishes of community newspapers over seven decades. Now in his ninety-second year, he has many interesting tales to tell and relates them with flair and honesty in 30—My Newspaper Life.

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1644242249

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9781644242247

Schaum’s Outline of Fundamentals of SQL Programming

By: Ramon Mata-Toledo,Pauline K. Cushman

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Schaum’s Outline of Fundamentals of SQL Programming

By: Ramon Mata-Toledo,Pauline K. Cushman

Standard SQL guarantees that no matter what the database implementation, the features of the language will be applicable across all platforms.Over 200 completely solved problems plus 200 supplementary problems reinforce students’ understanding and skills.Features the syntax used by the most important database developers, Oracle and Microsoft, to familiarize students with this common language.Includes labs and practice tests like those used in database certification exams.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071787534

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Play the Player, Squash the Game

By: Ramon Allen Sr

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Play the Player, Squash the Game

Play the Player, Squash the Game

Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design

Volumetric Requirements for Superpave Mix Design

Improved Conditioning and Testing Procedures for HMA Moisture Susceptibility

Improved Conditioning and Testing Procedures for HMA Moisture Susceptibility

Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice

Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice

Matrix Mathematics

Matrix Mathematics

Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959

Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959

Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics - eBook

Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics - eBook

Introduction to Interval Analysis

Introduction to Interval Analysis

North Korea - US Relations

North Korea - US Relations

A Journey from 726 Walnut Street

A Journey from 726 Walnut Street

Enacting Electronic Government Success

Enacting Electronic Government Success

30 - My Newspaper Life

30 - My Newspaper Life

Schaum’s Outline of Fundamentals of SQL Programming

Schaum’s Outline of Fundamentals of SQL Programming

Play the Player, Squash the Game

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