Atoms, Molecules and Photons

Atoms, Molecules and Photons

This introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics explains how our present model of atoms and molecules has been developed over the last two centuries, both by many experimental discoveries and, from the theoretical side, by the introduction of quantum physics to the adequate description of micro-particles. It illustrates the wave model of particles by many examples and shows the limits of classical description. The interaction of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and molecules and its potential for spectroscopy is outlined in great detail and, in particular, lasers as modern spectroscopic tools are discussed thoroughly. Many examples and problems with solutions are offered to encourage readers to actively participate in applying and adapting the fundamental physics presented in this textbook to specific situations.

Atoms, Molecules and Photons

Eyewitness Car

Eyewitness Car

A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to today’s high-performance racing cars.

Eyewitness Car

Mobile Computer Usability

Mobile Computer Usability

This book explains how mobile computer usability is shaped by the increasing integration of personal circumstances in organization. It represents an attempt to conceptualize an alternative model of mobile computer usability. It is motivated by the authors conviction that we do not yet have an adequate understanding of this concept because we have not taken seriously the transformation of human personality by the co-evolution of organization and ICTs. The author argues that the transformation has resulted in a human personality whose personal and organizational activities are characterized by strong continuities between them. This characterization reflects a new kind of personality of the worker, and is a critical determinant of mobile computer usability. The word organizational is used to describe this kind of personality hence an alternative organizational personality perspective on mobile computer usability. This perspective suggests that a mobile computer is more usable to a person than another one because of its satisfaction of both his personal and organizational motives, which are in turn shaped by the co-evolution of organization, technology and personality.

Mobile Computer Usability

Adobe Flex 4,Volume 1

Adobe Flex 4,Volume 1

Adobe Flex: Training from the Source is the best-selling and most trusted resource for learning about Adobe Flex. Written by a team of authors with practical experience as consultants, mentors and developers of courseware, this book/CD uses project-based tutorials, and is designed to teach beginning Flex developers the details of building and architecting real-world rich internet applications using Flash Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. The book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. This latest edition includes complete coverage of New Flex 4 features such as the Spark Component model, Advanced Skinning, Component Creation, and much more.

Adobe Flex 4,Volume 1

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

Before students can start writing their first draft, they need to get their ideas together and organize them. Prewriting graphic organizers and planning sheets can help! Standards-based lessons introduce students to the prewriting stage of the writing process and model how to use the graphic organizers and planning sheets in this book. Includes acrostic, cause and effect, imaging, recall, sketch and label, story map, timeline, and more. For use with Grades 3-5.

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches

Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches

One of the most common problems for spinal cord injury patients is urinary system dysfunction. The book Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches introduces how to solve this problem using multi-disciplinary approaches. From animal model studies to surgical techniques as well as successful case reports, six kinds of surgery are presented in separate chapters. This up-to-date monograph will be a valuable resource for surgeons, urologists and neurologists caring for spinal cord injury patients. The contributors are a group of surgeons working in the fields of orthopaedics and microsurgery. Editor Chunlin Hou is Professor in Changzheng Hospital, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches

The Mathematics of Logic

The Mathematics of Logic

This undergraduate textbook covers the key material for a typical first course in logic, in particular presenting a full mathematical account of the most important result in logic, the Completeness Theorem for first-order logic. Looking at a series of interesting systems, increasing in complexity, then proving and discussing the Completeness Theorem for each, the author ensures that the number of new concepts to be absorbed at each stage is manageable, whilst providing lively mathematical applications throughout. Unfamiliar terminology is kept to a minimum, no background in formal set-theory is required, and the book contains proofs of all the required set theoretical results. The reader is taken on a journey starting with Knig’s Lemma, and progressing via order relations, Zorn’s Lemma, Boolean algebras, and propositional logic, to completeness and compactness of first-order logic. As applications of the work on first-order logic, two final chapters provide introductions to model theory and nonstandard analysis.

The Mathematics of Logic

Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences, Ninth Edition

Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences, Ninth Edition

Based on over 30 years of successful teaching experience in this course, Robert Pagano’s introductory text takes an intuitive, concepts-based approach to descriptive and inferential statistics. He uses the sign test to introduce inferential statistics, empirically derived sampling distributions, many visual aids and lots of interesting examples to promote student understanding. One of the hallmarks of this text is the positive feedback from students-even students who are not mathematically inclined praise the text for its clarity, detailed presentation, and use of humor to help make concepts accessible and memorable. Thorough explanations precede the introduction of every formula-and the exercises that immediately follow include a step-by-step model that lets students compare their work against fully solved examples. This combination makes the text perfect for students taking their first statistics course in psychology or other social and behavioral sciences.

Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences, Ninth Edition

Systemic Functional Grammar in Natural Language Generation

Systemic Functional Grammar in Natural Language Generation

This volume deals with the computational application of systemic functional grammar (SFG) for natural language generation. In particular, it describes the implementation of a fragment of the grammar of German in the computational framework of KOMET-PENMAN for multilingual generation. The text also presents a specification of explicit well-formedness constraints on syntagmatic structure which are defined in the form of typed feature structures. It thus achieves a model of systemic functional grammar that unites both the strengths of systemics, such as stratification, functional diversification.

Systemic Functional Grammar in Natural Language Generation

Reactive Kripke Semantics

Reactive Kripke Semantics

This text offers an extension to the traditional Kripke semantics for non-classical logics by adding the notion of reactivity. Reactive Kripke models change their accessibility relation as we progress in the evaluation process of formulas in the model. This feature makes the reactive Kripke semantics strictly stronger and more applicable than the traditional one. Here we investigate the properties and axiomatisations of this new and most effective semantics, and we offer a wide landscape of applications of the idea of reactivity. Applied topics include reactive automata, reactive grammars, reactive products, reactive deontic logic and reactive preferential structures.

Reactive Kripke Semantics

Education and Career Choice

Education and Career Choice

Education and Career Choice reports on a research project that offers a new perspective on post-sixteen transitions. Using an approach that combines a synthesis of secondary data with the collection and analysis of narrative accounts it describes how young people in the UK make choices at the end of their compulsory schooling. It presents a dynamic model of decision-making that is unconstrained by currently fashionable theoretical concepts and provides a thorough critique of the current state of research in this area.

Education and Career Choice

Windows Phone 8 in Action

Windows Phone 8 in Action

Windows Phone 8 represents a major shift in Microsoft’s mobile operating system strategy and in the way mobile applications are conceived, developed and sold. Windows Phone 8 in action shows you how to create games and mobile applications using Visual Studio and Windows Phone SDK. XAML allows great visual effects to be combined with the simplicity of the C# language. XAML for Windows Phone has been enriched with navigation services and a new execution model to better satisfy mobile requirements.

Windows Phone 8 in Action

Linked Data

Linked Data

Linked Data is a standards-driven model for representing structured data on the Web that gives developers, publishers, and information architects a consistent, predictable way to publish, merge and consume data. It’s been adopted by many well-known institutions, including Google, Facebook, IBM, Oracle, and government agencies, as well projects such as Drupal and WordPress.

Linked Data

Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences

Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences

The integration of the 3rd dimension in the production of spatial representation is largely recognized as a valuable approach to comprehend our reality, that is 3D. During the last decade developments in 3D Geoinformation (GI) system have made substantial progress. We are about to have a more complete spatial model and understanding of our planet in different scales. Hence, various communities and cities offer 3D landscape and 3D city models as valuable source and instrument for sustainable management of rural and urban resources. Also municipal utilities, real estate companies benefit from recent developments related to 3D applications.

Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Updated from the 2004 edition, modeling lets designers predict the performance of water distribution systems to solve a wide variety of design, operational, and water quality problems. This basic primer manual provides distribution engineers and operators with information on developing and using computer hydraulic models of water distribution systems. Chapters take the reader from basics through data collection, model design, calibration, and applications. The fourth edition provides new, expanded information on key topics and recent changes. (Replaces ISBN 9781583213452)

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Division Algebras, Lattices, Physics, Windmill Tilting

Division Algebras, Lattices, Physics, Windmill Tilting

Complex numbers, quaternions, octonions, integral domains, laminated lattices, the Leech lattice, with applications to theoretical physics, including the Standard Model of quarks and leptons with spinors and gauge groups.

Division Algebras, Lattices, Physics, Windmill Tilting

Computational Prospects of Infinity - Part 2

Computational Prospects of Infinity - Part 2

This volume is a collection of written versions of the talks given at the Workshop on Computational Prospects of Infinity, held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences from 18 June to 15 August 2005. It consists of contributions from many of the leading experts in recursion theory (computability theory) and set theory. Topics covered include the structure theory of various notions of degrees of unsolvability, algorithmic randomness, reverse mathematics, forcing, large cardinals and inner model theory, and many others. Book jacket.

Computational Prospects of Infinity - Part 2

The W3 Algebra

The W3 Algebra

‘W’ algebras are nonlinear generalizations of Lie algebras that arise in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theories when one explores higher-spin extensions of the Virasoro algebra. They provide the underlying symmetry algebra of certain string generalizations which allow the extended world sheet gravity. This book presents such gravity theories, concentrating on the algebra of physical operators determined from an analysis of the corresponding BRST cohomology. It develops the representation theory of ‘W’ algebras needed to extend the standard techniques which were so successful in treating linear algebras. For certain strings corresponding to ‘W’N gravity we show that the operator cohomology has a natural geometric model. This result suggests new directions for the study of ‘W’ geometry.

The W3 Algebra

Variational and Potential Methods for a Class of Linear Hyperbolic Evolutionary Processes

Variational and Potential Methods for a Class of Linear Hyperbolic Evolutionary Processes

The book presents variational methods combined with boundary integral equation techniques in application to a model of dynamic bending of plates with transverse shear deformation. The emphasis is on the rigorous mathematical investigation of the model, which covers a complete study of the well-posedness of a number of initial-boundary value problems, their reduction to time-dependent boundary integral equations by means of suitable potential representations, and the solution of the latter in Sobolev spaces.

Variational and Potential Methods for a Class of Linear Hyperbolic Evolutionary Processes

Pro Active Record

Pro Active Record

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of the Rails Model-View-Controller framework. It’s an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Pro Active Record