What information do these data reveal?" "Is the information correct?" "How can I make the best use of the information?" The widespread use of computers and our reliance on the data generated by them have made these questions increasingly common and important. Computerized data may be in either digital or analog form and may be relevant to a wide range of applications that include medical monitoring and diagnosis, scientific research, engineering, quality control, seismology, meteorology, political and economic analysis and business and personal financial applications. The sources of the data may be databases that have been developed for specific purposes or may be of more general interest and include those that are accessible on the Internet. In addition, the data may represent either single or multiple parameters. Examining data in its initial form is often very laborious and also makes it possible to "miss the forest for the trees" by failing to notice patterns in the data that are not readily apparent. To address these problems, this monograph describes several accurate and efficient methods for displaying, reviewing and analyzing digital and analog data. The methods may be used either singly or in various combinations to maximize the value of the data to those for whom it is relevant. None of the methods requires special devices and each can be used on common platforms such as personal computers, tablets and smart phones. Also, each of the methods can be easily employed utilizing widely available off-the-shelf software. Using the methods does not require special expertise in computer science or technology, graphical design or statistical analysis. The usefulness and accuracy of all the described methods of data display, review and interpretation have been confirmed in multiple carefully performed studies using independent, objective endpoints. These studies and their results are described in the monograph. Because of their ease of use, accuracy and efficiency, the methods for displaying, reviewing and analyzing data described in this monograph can be highly useful to all who must work with computerized information and make decisions based upon it. The reader will learn methods for easily increasing the speed and accuracy of reviewing data that are relevant to many diverse fields of endeavor This will reduce the drudgery associated with reviewing the data and simultaneously improve the reliability of the interpretations that result from the review This increased efficiency of review will make it easier to provide "full disclosure" of the data to all those responsible for making decisions based on any actionable information that might be contained in the data
Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrelating the more than 1,200 characters in Faulkner’s novels, short stories, and sketches. The book will help even experienced readers make their way through the labyrinth of Faulkner’s style and plots and distinguish the interconnections between all of Faulkner’s writings. The guide is constructed as follows: The novels from Soldiers’ Pay (1926) to The Reivers (1962) are listed by title in the order of their publication. Under each title, all of the named characters who appear or are mentioned in the work are listed alphabetically, together with the number of every page on which the character’s name occurs. A concise account of the actions of each character is given, together with a description of that character’s salient personality features. The name under which a character is listed in the guide is often supplied in brackets when a nickname, maiden name, or other variant is used in the sketches. Major characters in each novel are indicated by boldface type. Immediately following the section devoted to the novels appear the named characters in all of Faulkner’s short stories and sketches, which are also treated in the order of their publication. Carryover characters who are handled inconsistently by Faulkner are marked with an asterisk and treated further by the authors in the appendix. The authors have also included genealogical charts of the Sartoris, Burden, and McCaslin-Beauchamp-Edmonds families, as well as a map of Yoknapatawpha County. Finally, an alphabetically arranged master index of characters lists every work in which their names occur. Specific bibliographical information concerning editions is given, together with other editions, American and British, with the same pagination. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
This provocative book offers a revisionist history of the transdenominational initiatives of English evangelicals from 1965 to 2000. Warner provides an authoritative theological analysis and a constructive sociological critique. This is an invaluable study for all those--in the academy, the church, and wider society--who want a fuller understanding of the social and religious significance and the evolutionary dynamics of this influential and diversifying religious tradition.
Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.S. General Services Administration. This struggle began almost from the time the National Archives lost its independence in 1950 and culminated during the tenure of Robert Warner as sixth Archivist of the United States. The story is important to the history of the National Archives but also to those interested in the political process, especially as it applies to educational and cultural institutions. The lobbying, overt and covert, the interplay of professional organizations and archivists, librarians, and historians with the executive and legislative branches of the American government are examined in fascinating detail in this often very personal story. It is a study of high drama, bitter disappointments, and ultimate success.
This newly updated book offers a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering work, taking a rigorous but common sense approach to the solution of engineering problems. The text follows the planning, modelling and design phases of engineering projects through to implementation or construction, explaining the conceptual framework for undertaking projects, and then providing a range of techniques and tools for solutions. It focuses on engineering design and problem solving, but also involves economic, environmental, social and ethical considerations. This third edition expands significantly on the economic evaluation of projects and also includes a new section on intractable problems and systems, involving a discussion of wicked problems and soft systems methodology as well as the approaches to software development. Further developments include an array of additional interest boxes, worked examples, problems and up-to date references. Case studies and real-world examples are used to illustrate the role of the engineer and especially the methods employed in engineering practice. The examples are drawn particularly from the fields of civil and environmental engineering, but the approaches and techniques are more widely applicable to other branches of engineering. The book is aimed at first-year engineering students, but contains material to suit more advanced undergraduates. It also functions as a professional handbook, covering some of the fundamentals of engineering planning and design in detail.
Providing students with a commonsense approach to the solution of engineering problems and packed full of practical case studies to illustrate the role of the engineer, the type of work involved and the methodologies employed in engineering practice, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering. It outlines a conceptual framework for undertaking engineering projects then provides a range of techniques and tools for solving the sorts of problems that commonly arise. Focusing in particular on civil engineering design, problem solving, and the range of techniques and tools it employs, the authors also explore: creativity and problem solving, social and environmental issues, management, communications and law, and ethics the planning, design, modelling and analysis phases and the implementation or construction phase. Designed specifically for introductory courses on undergraduate engineering programs, this extensively revised and extended second edition is an invaluable resource for all new engineering undergraduates as well as non-specialist readers who are seeking information on the nature of engineering work and how it is carried out.
Annie Droid is a story taken from the Watcher Chronicals by Robert James Warner, the author, who was privileged to present this story to the world public as a fiction story. The Watchers are a human race from deep space who found earth and conquered it without spilling one drop of earther blood, telling the world that they were on earth only to 'watch' and study the peoples of earth. The Watchers are a tall, bald headed, telepathic people who have achieved remarkably high levels of expertise in medicine, science, and high tech machines which include, among many others, teleportation and robots and androids. The earthers find out that the Watchers will help them with their personal problems at times, although most of the requests for help are refused, the Watchers saying, "We are here only to watch." Tom and Cindy Smith, man and wife, have a problem: Cindy insists fanatically, though she is not pregnant at the time, that her body is hers to do with as she decides including a baby in her womb, if she decides to have an abortion, whether the father agrees or not, even though the father has supplied 'one half' of the life force of the baby. Tom insists that the father has as much right to decide the fate of a baby in the womb as the mother has, pointing out that there are 'two' principles involved in any pregnancy: conception: the fertilization of the female egg by the male sperm, and incubation: the growth of the baby in the womb, the female incubator, which a female has by an accident of birth. Tom becomes fed up with Cindy's illogical and stupid sexist altitudes about a baby in the womb so he divorces her and goes to the Watchers, asking them if they can help him have a baby without using the womb of an earther woman. The Watchers, intrigued by such a request, agree to help Tom so they can study the effects of a baby grown in a non-human incubator on the peoples of earth. They give Tom an a beautiful android they name Annie Droid, who is so much like a human woman it is hard to tell she is not a human woman, who has a womb and will be the mobile incubator where Tom's baby will be grown until it is born. Tom and Annie will live as husband and wife until the baby is born, then a young earther woman, Sally North, will be its wet nurse and help Tom raise the baby. Annie Droid returns to the Watchers after the birth of Tom's baby, her job done, but there is a very big problem: Tom has fallen hopelessly in love with Annie Droid and after she leaves he slowly sinks in to the gutter with a broken heart because he can not live with a female android as man and wife, the Watchers can not allow that, and he can not live without her! Meanwhile, Cindy, very angry at Tom for divorcing her, but feeling very guilty, goes to the Watchers too, asking them if they will make her pregnant with Tom's sperm which they decide to do. Cindy will give Tom the new baby. The Watchers decide to give Cindy an android too, a male android they name Andy Droid, who is big, blond, and beautiful, so they can study the effect of a male android lover on an earther female. Cindy falls hopelessly in love with Andy and then the trouble starts: The Watchers tell Cindy that she must return Andy to them. The Watchers can not allow her to live any longer with an android, which Cindy refuses to accept!
* While the promise of Java has always been "Write Once, Run Anywhere," SWT and JFace make it a reality. Write it once but run on all different platforms. * Major revision of Eclipse 3.0 is coming out (probably April or May, 2004)– this book will be up to date (3.0) with no "time bomb" shelf life. Covers SWT 3.0 (in development) and 2.1. * Eclipse is free and open source and will become even more important over next year or so/ Eclipse will be the editor of choice for all developers going forward – the standard IDE for open source development. * Offers GUI designers an alternative to developing with Swing.
Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and used. Written by a computer scientist and a legal scholar, The Privacy Fix proposes a set of evidence-based, practical solutions that will help solve this problem. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. Bridging the gap between computer scientists, economists, lawyers, and public policy makers, this book provides theoretically and practically sound public policy guidance about how to preserve privacy in the onslaught of surveillance. It emphasizes the need to make tradeoffs among the complex concerns that arise, and it outlines a practical norm-creation process to do so.
Tales From The Web is a collection of jokes and 'sayings' the author received from friends and family via emails over a period of a couple of years. The author is a writer of fiction and non-fiction books, 39 to date, so he decided to make a joke book of the jokes and 'sayings' he got from his friends and family from the net. Tales From The Web is the result. The jokes and 'sayings' in Tales From The Web give us a look into the mind of Americans from all walks of life and from all over America, showing us the humor, ribald and spicy at times, cutting and disparaging at times, sexist at times, but almost always funny and laughable except for some sadness and heartache at times deeply felt by the Americans who wrote these jokes and 'saying's. Tales From The Web also contains some poetry, philosophy, and some tongue-in-cheek advice from men and women who speak with humor and wit. If you want a lot of laughs, a few tears, some penetrating philosophy, some rather wild advice, and some poetry, you will enjoy Tales From The Web! The jokes and 'sayings' in Tales From The Web is Americana at its craziest, funniest, jokingest, poetically, and philosophically best and therefore the jokes and 'sayings' belong to the American people because the authors of the jokes and 'sayings' in Tales From The Web are almost all unknown, there are a few authors listed, which makes Tales From The Web belong to all Americans everywhere. The author had a great time collecting these tales and making a book of them and considers it an honor to collect them and to present them to the public! Enjoy!
This book of poems is written from God's heart through the heart of the author and will rest upon your heart as you experience the joy of fellowship, encouragement and assurance found in its pages.
Going beyond current books on privacy and security, Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security proposes specific solutions to public policy issues pertaining to online privacy and security. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. The authors—two renowned experts on computer security and law—explore the well-established connection between social norms, privacy, security, and technological structure. This approach is the key to understanding information security and informational privacy, providing a practical framework to address ethical and legal issues. The authors also discuss how rapid technological developments have created novel situations that lack relevant norms and present ways to develop these norms for protecting informational privacy and ensuring sufficient information security. Bridging the gap among computer scientists, economists, lawyers, and public policy makers, this book provides technically and legally sound public policy guidance about online privacy and security. It emphasizes the need to make trade-offs among the complex concerns that arise in the context of online privacy and security.
The wave of data breaches raises two pressing questions: Why don’t we defend our networks better? And, what practical incentives can we create to improve our defenses? Why Don't We Defend Better?: Data Breaches, Risk Management, and Public Policy answers those questions. It distinguishes three technical sources of data breaches corresponding to three types of vulnerabilities: software, human, and network. It discusses two risk management goals: business and consumer. The authors propose mandatory anonymous reporting of information as an essential step toward better defense, as well as a general reporting requirement. They also provide a systematic overview of data breach defense, combining technological and public policy considerations. Features Explains why data breach defense is currently often ineffective Shows how to respond to the increasing frequency of data breaches Combines the issues of technology, business and risk management, and legal liability Discusses the different issues faced by large versus small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Provides a practical framework in which public policy issues about data breaches can be effectively addressed
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