Self-Evolvable Systems

Self-Evolvable Systems

This monograph presents key method to successfully manage the growing complexity of systems where conventional engineering and scientific methodologies and technologies based on learning and adaptability come to their limits and new ways are nowadays required. The transition from adaptable to evolvable and finally to self-evolvable systems is highlighted, self-properties such as self-organization, self-configuration, and self-repairing are introduced and challenges and limitations of the self-evolvable engineering systems are evaluated.

Self-Evolvable Systems

Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Palladium chemistry, despite its immaturity, has rapidly become an indispensable tool for synthetic organic chemists. Heterocycles are of paramount importance in the pharmaceutical industry and palladium chemistry is one of the most novel and efficient ways of making heterocycles. Today, palladium-catalyzed coupling is the method of choice for the synthesis of a wide range of biaryls and heterobiaryls. The number of applications of palladium chemistry to the syntheses of heterocycles has grown exponentially.

Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Truly Nonlinear Oscillations

Truly Nonlinear Oscillations

This unique book provides a concise presentation of many of the fundamental strategies for calculating approximations to the oscillatory solutions of truly nonlinear (TNL) oscillator equations. The volume gives a general overview of the author’s work on harmonic balance, iteration and combined linearization-averaging methods. However, full discussions are also presented on parameter expansion procedures and a first-order averaging technique for TNL oscillators. The calculational basis of each method is clarified by applying them to a set of standard TNL oscillator equations. This allows a dire.

Truly Nonlinear Oscillations

Self-Evolvable Systems

Self-Evolvable Systems

This monograph presents key method to successfully manage the growing complexity of systems where conventional engineering and scientific methodologies and technologies based on learning and adaptability come to their limits and new ways are nowadays required. The transition from adaptable to evolvable and finally to self-evolvable systems is highlighted, self-properties such as self-organization, self-configuration, and self-repairing are introduced and challenges and limitations of the self-evolvable engineering systems are evaluated.

Self-Evolvable Systems

Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones

Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones

This book provides a detailed overview on methods used for the dating of past torrential activity on fans and cones and fosters the discussion on the impact of past and potential future climate change on torrential processes. The book has a clear focus on the practical applications of these methods, complemented by case studies. The limits of each dating method in case of excessive natural and human interventions on fans and cones are shown.

Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

A method of study that will allow beginners to learn the fundamentals of chip carving and help more advanced carvers to hone their skills. This book studies in depth the fundamental techniques of chip carving. It progresses from the easiest to the hardest cuts and includes designs and projects after each exercise.

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

Object-Oriented User Interfaces for Personalized Mobile Learning

Object-Oriented User Interfaces for Personalized Mobile Learning

This book presents recent research in mobile learning and advanced user interfaces. It is shown how the combination of these fields can result in personalized educational software that meets the requirements of state-of-the-art mobile learning software. This book provides a framework that is capable of incorporating the software technologies, exploiting a wide range of their current advances and additionally investigating ways to go even further by providing potential solutions to future challenges. The presented approach uses the well-known Object-Oriented method in order to address these challenges.

Object-Oriented User Interfaces for Personalized Mobile Learning

Key Chiral Auxiliary Applications, Second Edition

Key Chiral Auxiliary Applications, Second Edition

Asymmeric synthesis is extremely important for many applications, especially in industrial chemistry. When a reaction forms a chiral molecule, the two possible enantiomeric products can have very different properties; one may be a beneficial drug and the other may be toxic. It is therefore very important to be able to make a pure enantiomer. For example the drug thalidimide was used in the 1950s by women to reduce the discomfort of pregnancy; unknown at the time, it was a mixture of enantiomers of the same molecule. One enantiomer was therapeutic, the other was later found to be toxic, but had already resulted in many cases of birth defects, particularly in Japan and Europe. Chiral molecules are also involved in dyes and pigments, fragrances, flavors and many other commercial applications. One alternative to using a chiral auxiliary to make a pure enantiomer is to make both enantiomers and then purify out the desired one but this method is wasteful in terms of chemicals used, expensive and time consuming.

Key Chiral Auxiliary Applications, Second Edition

Chip Carving Nature

Chip Carving Nature

Craig Stevens creates images from nature by using carved shapes and patterns rather than outlining the subject. Craig shares his method with other carvers, going step-by-step through the carving process. Every carving step for the main project is illustrated with a clear color photograph and a concise description. The patterns and a gallery of variations and applications are included.

Chip Carving Nature

Nietzsche

Nietzsche

Continuum’s Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that readers find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the best known and most widely read of philosophers, whose work and ideas have proved influential to leading figures in all areas of cultural life. Yet his ideas are also among the most challenging regularly encountered by students. His method and language can seem obscure and oblique, forcing the reader to struggle on his or her own and reflecting Nietzsche’s desire that his readers form answers for themselves.

Nietzsche

Swaynes Advanced Degree in Hold em

Swaynes Advanced Degree in Hold em

Featuring new mathematical strategies and an in-depth analysis of the psychological aspects of Texas Hold’em, this poker textbook focuses on advanced skills for experienced and professional-level players. The result of years of study, this new method of step-by-step poker techniques and strategies helps players consistently beat the odds and play winning games. Every aspect of the game is analyzed and reported on in never-before-published approaches that are designed for all forms of Hold’emonline, electronic, and conventional table games.

Swaynes Advanced Degree in Hold em

Building UIs with Wijmo

Building UIs with Wijmo

Written with an example-based approach, Building UIs with Wijmo leads you step by step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources. Reference tables of each configuration option, method, and event for each component are provided, alongside detailed explanations of how each widget is used.Building UIs with Wijmo is targeted at readers who are familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery, and have a basic understanding of web development. Although knowledge of jQuery UI is not mandatory, it would be a bonus as it is quite similar to Wijmo. Only the last chapter of the book on extending Wijmo requires advanced CSS and JavaScript knowledge.

Building UIs with Wijmo

Mossbauer Analysis of the Atomic and Magnetic Structure of Alloys

Mossbauer Analysis of the Atomic and Magnetic Structure of Alloys

The nuclear gamma resonance method or the Mossbauer effect, is one of the most powerful methods of examining the structure of matter and substances. The monograph indicates the key problems that have to be solved for the further development of the Mossbauer methods for analysis of the nuclear and magnetic structure of alloys, and offer solution variants for some of these problems based on the generalised results of a wide range of theoretical and experimental investigations, including original work by the author of the book and his

Mossbauer Analysis of the Atomic and Magnetic Structure of Alloys

Quantum Theory of Solids

Quantum Theory of Solids

Quantum Theory of Solids presents a concisely-structured tour of the theory relating to chemical bonding and its application to the three most significant topics in solid state physics: semiconductors, magnetism, and superconductivity–topics that have seen major advances in recent years. This is a unique treatment that develops the concepts of quantum theory for the solid state from the basics through to an advanced level, encompassing additional quantum mechanics techniques, such as the variational method and perturbation theory. Written at the senior undergraduate/masters level, it provides an exceptional grounding in the subject.

Quantum Theory of Solids

Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition

Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition

A modern computer system that’s not part of a , is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing a network and getting it to perform well can still be a problem.Managing NFS and NIS, in a new edition based on , 8, is a guide to two tools that are absolutely essential to distributed computing environments: the Network Filesystem (NFS) and the Network Information System (formerly called the ‘yellow pages’ or YP).,

The Network Filesystem, developed by Sun Microsystems, is fundamental to most Unix networks. It lets systems ranging from PCs and Unix workstations to large mainframes , each other’s files transparently, and is the standard method for sharing files between different computer systems.

Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours

C# has quickly established itself as one of the world’s most widely used , languages. The newest version, Visual C# 2010, includes several important new features, including Silverlight, the Entity Framework, tighter integration with version 4.0 of the , Framework, and full support for programming , 7 and Office. The proven Sams Teach Yourself method will help all newcomers to C# 2010 get up to speed quickly, no matter whether you’ve had experience with previous versions of Visual C# or not. You are taken step by step through the process of software development, learning elements as you build a sample application so that the material is framed in a real world approach.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours

Ruby Pocket Reference

Ruby Pocket Reference

Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can’t remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby’s core components, from operators to reserved words to data structures to method syntax, highlighting those key features that you’ll likely use every day when coding Ruby.

Ruby Pocket Reference

RESTful Java with JAX-RS

RESTful Java with JAX-RS

Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in , using RESTful architectural principals and the JAX-RS specification in Java EE 6. With this hands-on reference, you’ll focus on implementation rather than theory, and discover why the RESTful method is far better than technologies like CORBA and SOAP.,

It’s easy to get started with services based on the REST architecture. RESTful Java with JAX-RS includes a technical guide that explains REST and JAX-RS, how they work, and when to use them. With the RESTEasy workbook that follows, you get step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and running several working JAX-RS examples using the JBoss RESTEasy implementation of JAX-RS.

RESTful Java with JAX-RS

Python Pocket Reference, 5th Edition

Python Pocket Reference, 5th Edition

Updated for both Python 3.4 and 2.7, this convenient pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job quick reference. You’ll find concise, need-to-know information on Python types and statements, special method names, built-in functions and exceptions, commonly used standard library modules, and other prominent Python tools. The handy index lets you pinpoint exactly what you need.,

Written by Mark Lutz – widely recognized as the world’s leading Python trainer – Python Pocket Reference is an ideal companion to O’Reilly’s classic Python tutorials, Learning Python and , Python, also written by Mark.

Python Pocket Reference, 5th Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services

Analyze tabular data using the BI Semantic Model (BISM) in , , , 2012 Analysis Services – and discover a simpler method for creating corporate-level BI solutions. Led by three BI experts, you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and query a BISM tabular model with step-by-step guides, examples, and best practices. This hands-on book shows you how the tabular model’s in-memory database enables you to perform rapid analytics – whether you’re a professional BI developer new to Analysis Services or familiar with its multidimensional model.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services