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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.
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...."
Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care
and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork
really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent
smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining
effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to
the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L.
Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered fifty engaging
first-person narratives provided by people from various health care
professions.
Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork,
capturing the complexity and sometimes messiness of moving from
theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams in
health care. The stories help us understand what it means to be a
team leader and an assertive team member. They vividly depict how
patients are left out of or included on the team and what it means
to bring teamwork training into a particular workplace. Exploring
issues like psychological safety, patient advocacy, barriers to
teamwork, and the kinds of institutional and organizational efforts
that remove such barriers, the health care professionals who speak
in this book ultimately have one consistent message: teamwork makes
patient care safer and health care careers more satisfying. These
stories are an invaluable tool for those moving toward genuine
interprofessional and intraprofessional teamwork."
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.
In a world throttling toward its darkest hour... Ranger, Prince of
Blue, befriends Ariela, a young maiden, not realizing that she is
the daughter of his archenemy. When Ariela discovers her father
Radagon's secret imperial ambitions, she is forced to flee for her
life to the "Islands in Time." Rescued from her evil father by
Ranger and Lam, his archeologist friend, Ariela is taken to the
underground refuge city of Ha-Miqtal where she discovers a secret
that will change her world and the future of Planet Blue. By virtue
of the power of the River flowing through their lives, they
unwittingly set in motion a series of events that moves them one
step closer to the liberation of their planet. A missionary,
pastor, presbyter, church-planter, teacher, author, and most
recently an administrator for a Christian satellite TV channel,
after twenty-two years on the mission field, Michael and his family
answered the call to return to America to stand for truth in their
own country. They bought land, built a cabin, and have begun a new
journey toward an agrarian lifestyle.
Amberley and Brenda Bridges are in their junior year of high
school, and life's challenges are just getting started. Whether
it's working a summer job for the rich and eccentric recluse
Katherine Holloway, feeling the first unforeseen glimmers of
romance, or learning to take responsibility for their futures,
Amberley and Brenda have their hands-and hearts-full. When their
first real fight threatens to tear their friendship apart, it takes
near tragedy in the form of a visit from the past to grow them into
the young women they know God wants them to be-and to create a
place for unexpected heroes. The continuing story of the Bridges
family, Life in Old Sodus is the exciting sequel to At Home in Old
Sodus.
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