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Grid Computing

The Savvy Manager's Guide

By: Pawel Plaszczak,Richard Wellner Jr.

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Grid Computing

The Savvy Manager's Guide

By: Pawel Plaszczak,Richard Wellner Jr.

A decade ago, the corporate world viewed grid computing as a curiosity. Today, it views it as an opportunity--a chance to reduce costs, improve performance, fund new projects, and take advantage of under-utilized capacity. The engineering behind this transformation has been amply documented. Until now, however, little has been written to prepare managers, executives, and other decision-makers to implement grid computing in a sensible and effective way.Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide examines the technology from a rigorous business perspective, equipping you with the practical knowledge you need to assess your options and determine what grid computing approach is right for your enterprise. This book is heavy on real-world experience, distilling from a rich assortment of case studies the best practices currently at work in a variety of industries. Always attentive to grid computing's many competitive advantages, it is also realistic about the challenges of selling the idea to staff and making it a part of your company's culture. - Sketches the history of grid computing, showing how it made the leap from academia to business. - Examines the criteria you'll need to meet to make your network "grid-enabled." - Explains how a grid-based solution can be made to meet key organizational requirements, including security, scheduling, data storage, and fault-tolerance. - Surveys the approaches currently available and helps you choose the one that will best meet your needs, both now and in the future. - Focuses heavily on the competitive advantages you can reap from grid computing, and provides advice on convincing your organization to adopt grid computing and making a successful transition.

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0080470769

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Ceramography

Preparation and Analysis of Ceramic Microstructures

By: Richard E. Chinn

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Ceramography

Preparation and Analysis of Ceramic Microstructures

By: Richard E. Chinn

Ceramography" provides detailed instructions on how to saw, mount, grind, polish, etch, examine, interpret and measure ceramic microstructures. This new book includes an atlas of ceramic microstructures, quantitative microstructural example problems with solutions, properties and data tables specific to ceramic microstructures, more than 100 original photographs and illustrations, and numerous practical tips and tricks of the trade. An excellent reference guide for technicians in quality control and R&D, process engineers in ceramic manufacturing, and their counterparts in engineering firms, national laboratories, research institutes, and universities.

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ASM International

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161503255X

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Practical and Effective Management of Libraries

Integrating Case Studies, General Management Theory and Self-Understanding

By: Richard Moniz Jr.

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Practical and Effective Management of Libraries

Integrating Case Studies, General Management Theory and Self-Understanding

By: Richard Moniz Jr.

Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one's thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager. Most librarians get very little exposure to management issues prior to finding themselves in a management role. Furthermore, most library science students do not expect that they will need to understand management yet they quickly find that there is a need to understand this perspective to be effective at almost any library job. Effective library management is about having some tools to make decisions (such as a basic understanding of management theory and how it applies in the library environment, understanding common traps we all fall into, etc.), knowing yourself, being able to motivate others, fostering a diversity (especially within workgroups), being able to communicate effectively, and having an understanding of one's organizational culture. The book touches on all of these aspects of library management. - Provides a concise understanding of theories from management, psychology, etc. and applies them to practical every day library issues - Contains real world cases for considering how theoretical concepts might apply in real library-related situations - Cuts out much of the extraneous material often found in books of this kind and focuses more on what you actually need

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Elsevier

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1780630239

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Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models

By: Evarist Giné,Richard Nickl

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Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models

By: Evarist Giné,Richard Nickl

In nonparametric and high-dimensional statistical models, the classical Gauss–Fisher–Le Cam theory of the optimality of maximum likelihood estimators and Bayesian posterior inference does not apply, and new foundations and ideas have been developed in the past several decades. This book gives a coherent account of the statistical theory in infinite-dimensional parameter spaces. The mathematical foundations include self-contained 'mini-courses' on the theory of Gaussian and empirical processes, approximation and wavelet theory, and the basic theory of function spaces. The theory of statistical inference in such models - hypothesis testing, estimation and confidence sets - is presented within the minimax paradigm of decision theory. This includes the basic theory of convolution kernel and projection estimation, but also Bayesian nonparametrics and nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation. In a final chapter the theory of adaptive inference in nonparametric models is developed, including Lepski's method, wavelet thresholding, and adaptive inference for self-similar functions. Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award for Mathematics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009022784

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The History of the Study of Landforms Or The Development of Geomorphology

The life and work of William Morris Davis

By: Richard J. Chorley,Robert Percy Beckinsale,Antony J. Dunn

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The History of the Study of Landforms Or The Development of Geomorphology

The life and work of William Morris Davis

By: Richard J. Chorley,Robert Percy Beckinsale,Antony J. Dunn

A volume which is devoted to the study of the life and work of the world's most famous geomorphologists, William Morris Davis (1850-1934).

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Psychology Press

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0416268900

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9780416268904

The Linear Complementarity Problem

By: Richard W. Cottle,Jong-Shi Pang,Richard E. Stone

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The Linear Complementarity Problem

By: Richard W. Cottle,Jong-Shi Pang,Richard E. Stone

A revised edition of the standard reference on the linear complementarity problem.

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SIAM

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0898716861

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9780898716863

Mathematical Theory of Reliability

By: Richard E. Barlow,Frank Proschan

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Mathematical Theory of Reliability

By: Richard E. Barlow,Frank Proschan

This monograph presents a survey of mathematical models useful in solving reliability problems. It includes a detailed discussion of life distributions corresponding to wearout and their use in determining maintenance policies, and covers important topics such as the theory of increasing (decreasing) failure rate distributions, optimum maintenance policies, and the theory of coherent systems. The emphasis throughout the book is on making minimal assumptions - and only those based on plausible physical considerations - so that the resulting mathematical deductions may be safely made about a large variety of commonly occurring reliability situations. The first part of the book is concerned with component reliability, while the second part covers system reliability, including problems that are as important today as they were in the 1960s. The enduring relevance of the subject of reliability and the continuing demand for a graduate-level book on this topic are the driving forces behind its re-publication.

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0898713692

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Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject

A Posthuman Approach

By: Richard S. Lewis

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Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject

A Posthuman Approach

By: Richard S. Lewis

Media literacy is often focused on evaluating the message rather than reflecting on the medium. Bringing together postphenomenology, media ecology, posthumanism, and complexity theory, Richard Lewis’s book offers a method for such a reflection and shows how our everyday media environments constitute us as (post)human subjects: one that is becoming and constitutes through relations – also with our media technologies. An original interdisciplinary effort – including for example the term 'intrasubjective mediation' – and a must-read book for everyone interested in how we become with and through technologies. Prof Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject is a clearly and concisely written book that employs a fruitful transdisciplinary approach. It at once offers an excellent grounding in the literature, whilst simultaneously developing a useful tool for students to reflect deeply and critically upon their own engagement with media. Thoroughly recommended. Alexander Thomas, University of East London What does it mean to be media literate in today’s world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around us? We are immersed in a world mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). From hardware like smartphones, smartwatches, and home assistants to software like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, our lives have become a complex, interconnected network of relations. Scholarship on media literacy has tended to focus on developing the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages without considering or weighing the impact of the technological medium—how it enables and constrains both messages and media users. Additionally, there is often little attention paid to the broader context of interrelations which affect our engagement with media technologies. This book addresses these issues by providing a transdisciplinary method that allows for both practical and theoretical analyses of media investigations. Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology. The author argues persuasively that the increased awareness provided by this posthuman approach affords us a greater chance for reclaiming some of our agency and provides a sound foundation upon which we can then judge our media relations. This book will be an indispensable tool for educators in media literacy and media studies, as well as academics in philosophy of technology, media and communication studies, and the post-humanities.

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Open Book Publishers

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1800641850

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9781800641853

Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes

By: Per K. Andersen,Ornulf Borgan,Richard D. Gill,Niels Keiding

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Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes

By: Per K. Andersen,Ornulf Borgan,Richard D. Gill,Niels Keiding

Modern survival analysis and more general event history analysis may be effectively handled within the mathematical framework of counting processes. This book presents this theory, which has been the subject of intense research activity over the past 15 years. The exposition of the theory is integrated with careful presentation of many practical examples, drawn almost exclusively from the authors'own experience, with detailed numerical and graphical illustrations. Although Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes may be viewed as a research monograph for mathematical statisticians and biostatisticians, almost all the methods are given in concrete detail for use in practice by other mathematically oriented researchers studying event histories (demographers, econometricians, epidemiologists, actuarial mathematicians, reliability engineers and biologists). Much of the material has so far only been available in the journal literature (if at all), and so a wide variety of researchers will find this an invaluable survey of the subject.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461243483

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The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

By: Richard J. Cook,Jerald Lawless

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The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

By: Richard J. Cook,Jerald Lawless

This book presents models and statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent event data. The authors provide broad, detailed coverage of the major approaches to analysis, while emphasizing the modeling assumptions that they are based on. More general intensity-based models are also considered, as well as simpler models that focus on rate or mean functions. Parametric, nonparametric and semiparametric methodologies are all covered, with procedures for estimation, testing and model checking.

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0387698094

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9780387698090

Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

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Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation

By: Kevin T. Pickering,Richard N. Hiscott

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generally hidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% of the Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancient mountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earth scientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbon exploration and production, about many of the important physical aspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authors consider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossil assemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of the underlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity, climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancient deep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and how basinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typical characteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contourite mounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssal plains.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405125780

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9781405125789

Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

Biophysics of Molecular Excitability

By: H. Richard Leuchtag

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Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

Biophysics of Molecular Excitability

By: H. Richard Leuchtag

Voltage-sensitive ion channels are macromolecules embedded in the membranes of nerve and muscle fibers of animals. Despite decades of intensive research under the traditional approach of gated structural pores, the relation between the structure of these molecules and their function remains enigmatic. This book examines physically oriented approaches not covered in other ion-channel books, and it develops a new physics-based approach to the problem of molecular excitability.

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1402055250

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Cytokines and the CNS

By: Richard M. Ransohoff,Etty N. Benveniste

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Cytokines and the CNS

By: Richard M. Ransohoff,Etty N. Benveniste

In Cytokines and the CNS, leading practicing physicians and scientists review the current status of cytokines, with an emphasis on their role in developmental and pathological processes in the central nervous system (CNS). They describe various cytokine families and their receptors, focusing on the delineation of known mechanisms by which ligand-receptor interactions mediate biological effects. The book also emphasizes interactions between cytokines and other biological regulators at the cellular and molecular level, and considers in detail tissue-specific effects exerted on CNS cells by cytokines. Cytokine regulation of CNS development also is discussed. With this background, Cytokines and the CNS then explores how cytokine action may be implicated in various human disease processes, including inflammation, neoplasia, degeneration, and the neurological manifestations of HIV infection. This book features cutting-edge information in this rapidly expanding area of investigation - the result of explosive growth in the understanding of cytokines' role in hematopoiesis, inflammation, and immunity, combined with tremendous advances in the identification and characterization of neurotrophic factors. Cytokines and the CNS contains chapters by practicing researchers from the fields of neurobiology and immunology/hematopoiesis, and presents both practical and conceptual information.

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CRC Press

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0849324521

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9780849324529

Crime on Campus

Legal Issues and Campus Administration

By: Michael Clay Smith,Richard Fossey

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Crime on Campus

Legal Issues and Campus Administration

By: Michael Clay Smith,Richard Fossey

This is the latest edition of Michael Smith's original ACE best-seller, Coping with Crime on Campus. In addition to explaining complicated legal issues so that academic and security administrators call better deal with escalating crime, new chapters specifically cover college liability issues, response to crimes, buildings and crime, and strategies for coping with campus alcohol abuse. Special coverage now includes sex crime and how campuses are affected by it, as well as the latest court rulings and legislation that directly relate to how administrators deal with crime on campus, especially the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. The authors discuss legal precedents drawn from actual court cases, strategies for reducing or preventing crimes, and guidelines and policies regarding search and seizure, theft, vandalism, human sexuality and crime, fraud, and more.

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0897748468

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9780897748469

Book's by Richard Wellner Jr.

Grid Computing

Grid Computing

Ceramography

Ceramography

Practical and Effective Management of Libraries

Practical and Effective Management of Libraries

Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models

Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models

The History of the Study of Landforms Or The Development of Geomorphology

The History of the Study of Landforms Or The Development of Geomorphology

The Linear Complementarity Problem

The Linear Complementarity Problem

Mathematical Theory of Reliability

Mathematical Theory of Reliability

Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject

Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject

Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes

Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes

The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

Deep Marine Systems

Deep Marine Systems

Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

Cytokines and the CNS

Cytokines and the CNS

Crime on Campus

Crime on Campus

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