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Carefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time synchronization
is vital to a wide spectrum of fields-from air and ground traffic
control, to buying and selling goods and services, to TV network
programming. Ill-gotten time could even lead to the unimaginable
and cause DNS caches to expire, leaving the entire Internet to
implode on the root servers. Written by the original developer of
the Network Time Protocol (NTP), Computer Network Time
Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol on Earth and in Space,
Second Edition addresses the technological infrastructure of time
dissemination, distribution, and synchronization-specifically the
architecture, protocols, and algorithms of the NTP. This system has
been active in one form or another for almost three decades on the
Internet and numerous private networks on the nether side of
firewalls. Just about everything today that can be connected to a
network wire has support for NTP. This book: Describes the
principal components of an NTP client and how it works with
redundant servers and diverse network paths Provides an in-depth
description of cryptographic and other critical algorithms Presents
an overview of the engineering principles guiding network
configuration Evaluating historic events that have taken place
since computer network timekeeping started almost three decades
ago, the author details a number of systems and drivers for current
radio, satellites, and telephone modem dissemination and explains
how we reckon the time, according to the stars and atoms. The
original 16 chapters of the first edition have been rewritten,
updated, and enhanced with new material. Four new chapters cover
new algorithms and previously uncovered concepts, including
timekeeping in space missions. Praise for the first edition: "...
For those that need an exhaustive tome on all of the minutiae
related to NTP and synchronization, this is the source. ...
definitive ... this book should be considered the last word on the
topic." -Ben Rothke on Slashdot.org "... the bible of the
subject... contains enough information to take you just as far as
you want to go....Dr. Mills is the original developer of NTP."
-Books On-Line
Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with
astonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlife
conservation and management challenges. And yet, much of the
applied power of wildlife population ecology remains untapped
because its broad sweep across disparate subfields has been
isolated in specialized texts. In this book, L. Scott Mills covers
the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology, including
genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling, predation,
population projections, climate change and invasive species,
harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal species concepts, and
analyses of connectivity in fragmented landscapes. With a readable
style, analytical rigor, and hundreds of examples drawn from around
the world, "Conservation of Wildlife Populations (2nd ed)" provides
the conceptual basis for applying population ecology to wildlife
conservation decision-making. Although targeting primarily
undergraduates and beginning graduate students with some basic
training in basic ecology and statistics (in majors that could
include wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology,
environmental studies, and biology), the book will also be useful
for practitioners in the field who want to find - in one place and
with plenty of applied examples - the latest advances in the
genetic and demographic aspects of population ecology.Additional
resources for this book can be found at:
www.wiley.com/go/mills/wildlifepopulations.
The Secondary Lenses on Learning professional development materials
were designed to support the efforts of site-based mathematics
improvement teams of mathematics leaders to advance middle and high
school students' mathematics achievement. Participants in the
Secondary Lenses on Learning program will expand their
understanding of the mathematical knowledge and dispositions that
students need to be mathematically literate in today's world and
the learning opportunities that need to be created to make
significant mathematics accessible to all students. The Secondary
Lenses on Learning Participant Book features detailed notes for
each of the six sessions, corresponding readings, handouts, and
assignments. Over the course of the Secondary Lenses on Learning
sessions, participants will: - Explore concepts in middle and high
school algebra - Discuss readings that illuminate the issues in
each session - Reflect on filmed material and written cases -
Examine various leadership tasks and responsibilities that
contribute to an effective mathematics program Multiple copies of
the participant books are available separately to accommodate your
group's specific needs. For the facilitator, the Secondary Lenses
on Learning comprehensive package includes one participant book,
one facilitator's guide, and an accompanying DVD with segments that
correlate to individual sessions.
Introduction to Ethnographic Research streamlines learning the
process of research, speaks to the student at a foundational level,
and helps the reader conquer the apprehensions of mastering
research methods. Written in a conversational style, authors
Kimberly Kirner and Jan Mills use a focus on scaffolding across the
chapters to help the student transition from step to step in the
research process. Case studies and first-hand accounts are also
featured in each chapter, allowing the student to see the early
steps, successes and at times failures that accomplished
researchers experienced in their past. These real examples further
encourage the student that even the best researchers failed along
the way, and more importantly, learned from those mistakes. This
text is designed to be used as a stand alone book, but is enhanced
by the use with the supplemental workbook, Doing Ethnographic
Research by the same authors. This text has call-outs to the
supplemental text, which allow for application and practice of the
material learned.
This workbook is loaded with exercises, how-to sections and
checklists, all designed to serve as a supplemental support for
students to apply the principles and concepts learned from the
textbook it accompanies. With instructions and explanations written
in a conversational style, it will help the student understand why
the assignments are being used, why the skills they are developing
are relevant and how the exercises relate to the textbook content.
This Lenten devotional invites readers to learn more about the
brutal institution of slavery and its impact on Black people in
America and recognize how its evolution and legacy continue to harm
their descendants in the United States today. Each of the forty
devotions includes the testimony of a person who escaped slavery
through the Underground Railroad, a Scripture passage, and a
reflection connecting biblical and historical themes to challenge
modern readers to work for liberation. Reflecting on Lenten themes
of exodus, redemption, discipline, and repentance, readers, both
Black and white, will be empowered for the work of racial justice.
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
This story is about the fun memories and love I have for my Mom.
It's the pain of knowing that my Mother has Dementia. Sometimes
life can bring us so much Joy and Pain. It's how you embrace the
pain to get you to the joy in our life. I pray that this book
touches the hearts of those who are going through some of the same
experiences that I'm going through.
This book is the fifth in a series devoted to the theory and
practice of inelastic light scattering (Raman and Brillouin) as
applied to amorphous and crystalline solids. This volume is
concerned with the investigation by these techniques of artificial
periodic structures prepared by such gas-phase deposition
techniques as Molecular Beam Epitaxy. The phenomena treated involve
phonons, magnons, plasmons, and other electronic excitations. The
book supplies theoretical background, information on modern
experimental techniques such as multichannel detectors, and a
number of experimental results.
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