They Did It All for the Nookie & the Nookie Is Kicking Their Ass! Xavier has just had the night from Hell when his brother Michael reveals that last night he decided to take a break from his thriving political campaign for night with his wife Debra. The night takes a twist when Debra asks him to do some role-play complete with pink panties, stockings, & high heels for him! After several protests, she seductively convinces him try the idea, figuring no one would find out, until a fire starts forcing him out in his "man panties" & into the arms of a reporter, Theresa Gomez. In the morning, Michael sees an ad for an exposé on his life on Theresa's tabloid show. Figuring the worst, Michael plans to drop out of the race. After laughing his butt off, Xavier embarks on a quest to get the story pulled. While reminiscing about his own sexual mishaps, Xavier learns the truth about the story & discovers Michael's career isn't the only thing on the line if the tape surfaces.
HELL HATH NO FURY ... Chicago 2020 Crime has climbed to an epidemic level especially in schools making teaching the most dangerous profession in America. Industrial Engineer Terry Ross believes he has the solution...MARIAH. MARIAH is an advanced android prototype designed to help make classrooms safer. She has unlimited strength potential, can master any academic subject in minutes, and can experience human emotions such as compassion, sympathy, and love. When Terry prepares to unveil MARIAH to the world, his life spirals into madness when the bodies of the people around him begin to turn up gruesomely murdered. As the clock ticks down and the body count goes up, Terry has to uncover the deadly secret behind his creation before it consumes him.
DEFIANCE IS A GIFT! 1536 Angola Africa Asana, is prince of the Adonje Tribe, the largest in Angola. His father Sefu, the King is a pillar of strength, his mother Kalila, is a warrior queen. Together they reign over a period of peace and prosperity in the tribal lands. This peace becomes threatened when King Ayras of Portugal employs Jonathan Zurko, a ruthless mercenary to travel to Angola to kidnap a workforce of slaves to extend his hand in Brazil. Asana's life is changed forever when he is taken captive and transported to Brazil as a slave. At the Brazilian shore, Asana and a small group of slaves are able to escape into the jungle where Asana is injured near death. A trio of Brazilian Indians find Asana's body and reluctantly took him into their care. When Zurko and his army venture into the murderous Brazilian jungle to kidnap more villagers to fill their quota; Asana and his new family are posed with the question how can a village defy an empire?
HELL HATH NO FURY ... Chicago 2020 Crime has climbed to an epidemic level especially in schools making teaching the most dangerous profession in America. Industrial Engineer Terry Ross believes he has the solution...MARIAH. MARIAH is an advanced android prototype designed to help make classrooms safer. She has unlimited strength potential, can master any academic subject in minutes, and can experience human emotions such as compassion, sympathy, and love. When Terry prepares to unveil MARIAH to the world, his life spirals into madness when the bodies of the people around him begin to turn up gruesomely murdered. As the clock ticks down and the body count goes up, Terry has to uncover the deadly secret behind his creation before it consumes him.
They Did It All for the Nookie & the Nookie Is Kicking Their Ass! Xavier has just had the night from Hell when his brother Michael reveals that last night he decided to take a break from his thriving political campaign for night with his wife Debra. The night takes a twist when Debra asks him to do some role-play complete with pink panties, stockings, & high heels for him! After several protests, she seductively convinces him try the idea, figuring no one would find out, until a fire starts forcing him out in his "man panties" & into the arms of a reporter, Theresa Gomez. In the morning, Michael sees an ad for an exposé on his life on Theresa's tabloid show. Figuring the worst, Michael plans to drop out of the race. After laughing his butt off, Xavier embarks on a quest to get the story pulled. While reminiscing about his own sexual mishaps, Xavier learns the truth about the story & discovers Michael's career isn't the only thing on the line if the tape surfaces.
A day of joy becomes fear, as a family is confined to their home...their death trap. Waters and emotions arise at alarming rates. Who will prevail Mother Nature or human nature?
How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play. Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982–1984) featured competitions among arcade game players; and first-person shooter games of the 1990s became multiplayer through network play. A new development in the world of digital gaming, however, is the emergence of professional computer game play, complete with star players, team owners, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators. In Raising the Stakes, T. L. Taylor explores the emerging scene of professional computer gaming and the accompanying efforts to make a sport out of this form of play. In the course of her explorations, Taylor travels to tournaments, including the World Cyber Games Grand Finals (which considers itself the computer gaming equivalent of the Olympics), and interviews participants from players to broadcasters. She examines pro-gaming, with its highly paid players, play-by-play broadcasts, and mass audience; discusses whether or not e-sports should even be considered sports; traces the player's path from amateur to professional (and how a hobby becomes work); and describes the importance of leagues, teams, owners, organizers, referees, sponsors, and fans in shaping the structure and culture of pro-gaming. Taylor connects professional computer gaming to broader issues: our notions of play, work, and sport; the nature of spectatorship; the influence of money on sports. And she examines the ongoing struggle over the gendered construction of play through the lens of male-dominated pro-gaming. Ultimately, the evolution of professional computer gaming illuminates the contemporary struggle to convert playful passions into serious play.
The Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of human, cultural, historical, and societal influences upon assessment practices, policies, and statistical modeling. With chapters written by experts in the field, this book engages with numerous forms of assessment: from classroom-level formative assessment practices to national accountability and international comparative testing practices all of which are significantly influenced by social and cultural conditions. A unique and timely contribution to the field of Educational Psychology, the Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is written for researchers, educators, and policy makers interested in how social and human complexity affect assessment at all levels of learning. Organized into four sections, this volume examines assessment in relation to teachers, students, classroom conditions, and cultural factors. Each section is comprised of a series of chapters, followed by a discussant chapter that synthesizes key ideas and offers directions for future research. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate that teachers, test creators, and policy makers must account for the human and social conditions that shape assessment if they are to implement successful assessment practices which accomplish their intended outcomes.
A comprehensive overview of high-performance pattern recognition techniques and approaches to Computational Molecular Biology This book surveys the developments of techniques and approaches on pattern recognition related to Computational Molecular Biology. Providing a broad coverage of the field, the authors cover fundamental and technical information on these techniques and approaches, as well as discussing their related problems. The text consists of twenty nine chapters, organized into seven parts: Pattern Recognition in Sequences, Pattern Recognition in Secondary Structures, Pattern Recognition in Tertiary Structures, Pattern Recognition in Quaternary Structures, Pattern Recognition in Microarrays, Pattern Recognition in Phylogenetic Trees, and Pattern Recognition in Biological Networks. Surveys the development of techniques and approaches on pattern recognition in biomolecular data Discusses pattern recognition in primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures, as well as microarrays, phylogenetic trees and biological networks Includes case studies and examples to further illustrate the concepts discussed in the book Pattern Recognition in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques and Approaches is a reference for practitioners and professional researches in Computer Science, Life Science, and Mathematics. This book also serves as a supplementary reading for graduate students and young researches interested in Computational Molecular Biology.
This book contains articles written by experts on a wide range of topics that are associated with the analysis and management of biological information at the molecular level. It contains chapters on RNA and protein structure analysis, DNA computing, sequence mapping, genome comparison, gene expression data mining, metabolic network modeling, and phyloinformatics. The important work of some representative researchers in bioinformatics is brought together for the first time in one volume. The topic is treated in depth and is related to, where applicable, other emerging technologies such as data mining and visualization. The goal of the book is to introduce readers to the principle techniques of bioinformatics in the hope that they will build on them to make new discoveries of their own. Contents: Exploring RNA Intermediate Conformations with the Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm; Introduction to Self-Assembling DNA Nanostructures for Computation and Nanofabrication; Mapping Sequence to Rice FPC; Graph Theoretic Sequence Clustering Algorithms and their Applications to Genome Comparison; The Protein Information Resource for Functional Genomics and Proteomics; High-Grade Ore for Data Mining in 3D Structures; Protein Classification: A Geometric Hashing Approach; Interrelated Clustering: An Approach for Gene Expression Data Analysis; Creating Metabolic Network Models Using Text Mining and Expert Knowledge; Phyloinformatics and Tree Networks. Readership: Molecular biologists who rely on computers and mathematical scientists with interests in biology.
Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the fundamentals of assessment, explanations of its uses, and advice for best application, this concise volume is designed for any education course that includes assessment in the curriculum. It will be indispensable for student researchers and both pre- and in-service teachers alike.
The type and amount of textile products have greatly proliferated over the last decade. Concomitant textile processing to improve the properties and ultimate performance has also undergone dramatic changes. Ready availability of instrumentation, computers, lasers and integration of these advances with similar progress in polymer/material science have led to the need for a unified discussion on these topics. The current book concisely discusses all aspects of textile processing, modification and performance for four major topics: preparation (by fiber type), dyeing and printing (dye type, theory and synthesis; dye classification by structure and application), improving functional and aesthetic textile properties (physical, chemical and physicochemical processes and concepts), and performance (chemical analysis, instrumental methods; physical, chemical, biological, multiple influences and standard tests). A detailed and logical progression from the initial purification of textiles to their performance and care is described. The book will be useful as a text for textile/polymer courses at undergraduate and graduate levels and as a comprehensive source of information for textile scientists, engineers, manufacturers, retailers and others with an interest in textile products.
Modern biological databases comprise not only data, but also sophisticated query facilities and bioinformatics data analysis tools. This book provides an exploration through the world of Bioinformatics Database Systems. The book summarizes the popular and innovative bioinformatics repositories currently available, including popular primary genetic and protein sequence databases, phylogenetic databases, structure and pathway databases, microarray databases and boutique databases. It also explores the data quality and information integration issues currently involved with managing bioinformatics databases, including data quality issues that have been observed, and efforts in the data cleaning field. Biological data integration issues are also covered in-depth, and the book demonstrates how data integration can create new repositories to address the needs of the biological communities. It also presents typical data integration architectures employed in current bioinformatics databases. The latter part of the book covers biological data mining and biological data processing approaches using cloud-based technologies. General data mining approaches are discussed, as well as specific data mining methodologies that have been successfully deployed in biological data mining applications. Two biological data mining case studies are also included to illustrate how data, query, and analysis methods are integrated into user-friendly systems. Aimed at researchers and developers of bioinformatics database systems, the book is also useful as a supplementary textbook for a one-semester upper-level undergraduate course, or an introductory graduate bioinformatics course. About the Authors Kevin Byron is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Katherine G. Herbert is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Montclair State University. Jason T.L. Wang is Professor of Bioinformatics and Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
This research guide includes practical instructions for graduate students and research assistants on the process of research planning and design, data collection and analysis and the writing of results. It also features chapters co-written by advanced research students providing real-world examples.
New features in this edition include listings of modem-friendly campgrounds and RV parks with easy online access, and listings of special music events nationwide. The book profiles more than 15,500 private and public campgrounds, RV service centers, LP gas locations, and tourist attractions.
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