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Introducing engineering students to numerical analysis and
computing, this book covers a range of topics suitable for the
first three years of a four year undergraduate engineering degree.
The teaching of computing to engineers is hampered by the lack of
suitable problems for the students to tackle, so much effort has
gone into making the problems in this book realistic and relevant,
while at the same time solvable for undergraduates.
Taking a balanced approach to teaching computing and computer
methods at the same time, this book satisfies the need to be able
to use computers (using both formal languages such as Fortran and
other applications such as Matlab and Microsoft Excel), and the
need to be able to solve realistic engineering problems.
This enlightening new book in the Practical Guides for Librarians
series presents the practicalities of developing, implementing, and
evaluating use-driven acquisition (UDA) in academic and special
libraries, from the multi-dimensional perspectives of collections,
acquisitions, and e-resources. Now that UDA is a proven method of
collection management being utilized by an array of libraries
around the globe, the need for a straightforward, uncomplicated
guidebook is more essential than ever. This book is both a
reference source and a guide for current and future librarians. In
addition to chapters highlighting e-book, print, and article-level
UDA plans, the book will also include considerations for budgeting,
interlibrary loan, consortia UDA, ongoing management and assessment
strategies, and stimulating future trends. Of special interest are
project management cycles detailing each phase and steps of
implementing UDA plans, and relevant case studies involving
librarians and vendors who have established UDA plans in libraries
of various types and sizes. This book provides a practical
methodology for setting up use-driven acquisitions plans to acquire
access to print and e-books for users in academic and special
libraries. Every chapter covers important collection development
and budgeting objectives of the library, and proposes methods to
assess cost and usage of the content received to determine
effectiveness and potential modifications to UDA plans. Practical
features that can be used in day-to-day operations include: *
Project management lifecycle with phases and steps for successful
implementation * Sample reports and executive summaries for
administrators * Marketing and branding strategies * Step-by-step
checklists * Assessment tools and examples * Multiple case studies
of various types of libraries, including budgets and current UDA
policies * Evaluative survey questions * Interview transcripts *
Glossary of terms and acronym explanations
Political Poetry as Discourse examines the works of the political
poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Ebenezer Elliott, drawing
comparisons to contemporary hip hoppers who take their words from
local newspapers and other discursive sources that they read, hear,
and observe. Local presses and news vehicles stand as cultural
material forms that supply poets with words, particularly words
that congeal into patterns of language, allowing the creation of a
poetic discourse. As readers of these poets apply techniques and
theories of discourse analysis, they reveal how poets borrow, lift,
hijack, or resituate words from one or more different genres to use
as tools of political change. Leonard engages with the critical
toolboxes of content analysis, semiosis, and deconstruction to
demonstrate how to critically investigate and interrogate the
images, sounds and words not just of politically engaged poets, but
also of any disseminator of culture and news. Moving beyond theory
into praxis, this book becomes a model of its own transgressive
premise by thinking, analyzing, writing, and teaching against the
grain. Its focus on language as unbounded discourse makes this book
a relevant and insightful demonstration in democratic pedagogy and
in teaching for transformation.
Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs',
Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant
filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. His deeply
personal cinema traces the troubled sentimental lives of couples,
exploring the relationship between art and political struggle. This
study observes the eclecticism of the director's influences,
looking to avant-garde movements such as the Situationists,
Surrealism, Arte Povera and the American Underground, in order to
explore his original body of work. Consideration is also given to
Garrel's relationship with other members of the so-called 'post-New
Wave', including Jean Eustache and Chantal Akerman. The first book
on Garrel's cinema to appear in English, it will appeal to Garrel
enthusiasts as well as to students and lecturers specialising in
film studies or French studies. -- .
Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to
systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial,
social, legal and engineering aspects to address the theoretical
and practical challenges of the service industry and its
economy.
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held
in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2014. The ten full papers
accepted for IESS were selected from 31 submissions and presented
ideas and results related to innovation, service management,
service engineering and service discovery.
CAiSE 2008wasthe20thinthe
seriesofInternationalConferencesonAdvanced Information System
Engineering. This edition continued the success of previous
conferences, a success largely due to that fact that, since its
?rst edition, this series has evolvedin parallelwith the
evolutionofthe importance ofinformation systems in economic
development. CAiSE has been able to follow, and often to
anticipate, important changes that have occurred since 1978 when
the ?rst CAiSE conference was organized by Arne Solvberg and Janis
Bubenko. In all these years, modern businesses and IT systems have
been facing an ever more complex environment characterized by
openness, variety and change. Furthermore, enterprises are
experiencing ever more variety in their business in many
dimensions. In the same way, the explosion of information
technologies is overwhelming with a multitude of languages,
platforms, devices, standards and products. Thus enterprises need
to manage an environment to monitor the interplay of changes in the
business processes, in information technologies, and at the
ontological level, in order to achieve a sustainable development of
their information systems. Enterprises must enter the era of
sustainable information systems to face the important developmental
challenges. During all these years, CAiSE researchers have been
challenged by all these changes,
andtheCAiSEconferencesprovideaforumforpresentinganddebating
important scienti?c results. In fact, CAiSE is positioned at the
core of these tumultuousprocesses, hostingnewemergingideas,
fosteringinnovativeprocesses of design and evaluation, developing
new information technologies adapted to information systems,
creating new kinds of models, but always being subject to rigorous
scienti?c selection
Introducing engineering students to numerical analysis and
computing, this book covers a range of topics suitable for the
first three years of a four year undergraduate engineering degree.
The teaching of computing to engineers is hampered by the lack of
suitable problems for the students to tackle, so much effort has
gone into making the problems in this book realistic and relevant,
while at the same time solvable for undergraduates.
Taking a balanced approach to teaching computing and computer
methods at the same time, this book satisfies the need to be able
to use computers (using both formal languages such as Fortran and
other applications such as Matlab and Microsoft Excel), and the
need to be able to solve realistic engineering problems.
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Object-Oriented Information Systems - 9th International Conference, OOIS 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Dimitri Konstantas, Michel Leonard, Yves Pigneur, Shusma Patel
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The conference on Object Oriented Information Systems (OOIS) is now
an es- blished international conference where innovative ideas,
research, applications, and experiences in the design, development,
and use of object oriented infor- tionsystems,
fromboththeacademicandindustrialenvironments, arepresented. The
ninth OOIS conference was held at the University of Geneva,
September 2-5, 2003. The main theme was the Evolution of Object
Oriented Information Systems. The papers presented ideas and issues
related to the evolution, ad- tability, restructuring, and
?exibility of OOIS. In the context of the conference, ?ve workshops
and four tutorials were organized providing a discussion forum for
new ideas and including in depth presentations on important "hot"
subjects. The three invited speakers of the ninth OOIS conference
provided an - ternative view on OOIS and their evolution. Prof.
John Mylopoulos (Univ- sity of Toronto and VLDB president) gave the
opening presentation entitled "Agent Oriented IS Development," Dr.
Richard Soley (OMG President and CEO) gave the closing presentation
entitled "Model Driven Architecture: The Evolution of
Object-Oriented Systems?" and Prof. Lina Al-Jadir (American U-
versity of Beirut) gave the theme presentation entitled "Once Upon
a Time a DTD Evolved into Another DTD...."
In the remote Bear Paw Mountains of north-central Montana, two
missionaries have gone missing. Their only tracks: a distress
letter written by their daughter, and rumors of a small band of Nez
Perce still hiding in the mountains after the 1877 defeat of their
people in the Battle of the Bear Paws. Deputy Marshal Pete Randers
finds himself roped into the job of going after them. Taking with
him a tenderfoot doctor's son barely saved from the hangman's
noose, Pete journeys into the dangerous wilderness in search of the
truth, the missionaries, and the last hope of a forgotten people.
Finally someone explains how and why the education system in
America works to accomplish that for which it was designed---the
uniquely different behavior of Americans. Dr. Novia uses personal,
professional, and educational experiences to explain in the most
unique fashion the hidden intent of American schools. One intent is
to train us to serve the system by becoming overly mindful of the
"present." Thus, a lack of consciousness for the past and future
prepares us to react to the world in an anti-intellectual manner
which is America's secret strength. The Protestant Ethic is the
source of the secretive nature of our society. It levels us all by
personal performance and then makes us content with our place in
society and the world. This Ethic, also the source of the American
Constitution, is far too deeply ingrained in us Americans to ever
change in any significant way, come all challenges. Ironically,
America is the greatest nation in the world because her very
strength is her weakness. No one has ever put together so
thoughtful and provocative an explanation for American greatness.
This book will make you uncomfortable but will change your life
forever. Dr. Novia is a former teacher and principal. He took his
doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Running the big farm in Hipps Hollow is a bigger challenge than Sam
Bridges expected it to be-especially when old farmhand Jeb Sanders
retires. In the midst of farmwork and the search for a good hand,
Sam's family is growing up before his eyes. With college right
around the corner, Brenda and Amberley must make decisions-about
education, life, and love-that will set the course of their lives,
while Lien faces racial prejudice for the first time and must find
the strength to overcome. But it's an unexpected illness that truly
puts the Bridges family to the test: do they have the faith and
love to trust God even if it means losing that which they hold most
dear? The Big Farm in Old Sodus is Book 3 in the heartwarming
family saga that begins with At Home in Old Sodus and Life in Old
Sodus.
To master Organic Chemistry, it is essential to master mechanism.
This book uses a novel approach to help you better understand the
mechanisms of 80 common organic reactions. Each one is color coded
so that you can clearly see the changes that take place during the
reaction. The electrons involved in the mechanism are color coded,
as are the arrows originating from those electrons and the bonds or
lone pairs formed by them in the intermediates and product. As a
result, you can trace specific pairs of electrons through an entire
transformation. The description of what each mechanistic arrow
means is color coded correspondingly so that it is easy to match up
the text with the relevant portion of a reaction diagram.
The mission of Intermediate Organic Chemistry is to bridge the gap
between introductory Organic Chemistry coursework and
advanced/graduate-level coursework but to do so in a way that
extends the student-centered approach of most modern introductory
Organic Chemistry textbooks. This text makes extensive use of
detailed explanations and color coding to facilitate the learning
process. This text's style is one that is shared by many
instructors of Organic Chemistry: mechanistically driven and
detailed. Extensive use of color coding helps students to learn
mechanism and cogently predict reaction products. The electrons
that are mechanistically involved in each transformation are color
coded. The mechanistic arrows originating from those electrons are
colored identically, as are the bonds and/or lone pairs that result
from the electron flow. This approach, along with detailed verbal
explanations, conveys the narrative of the mechanism.
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