epub | 500.68 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09V9QS8TF | Author: Molly McLain | Year: 2022

epub | 427.44 KB | English | Isbn:‎ 1957524278 | Author: Jessica Wayne, Heather Hildenbrand | Year: 2022

epub | 209.05 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B5KKBMJ8 | Author: Kate Prior | Year: 2022

epub | 1.57 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B14SFL6F | Author: Brittanee Nicole | Year: 2022

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1789146372 | 225 pages | True PDF | 8.32 MB
Sub Culture explores the crucial role of the submarine in modern history, its contribution to scientific progress and maritime exploration, and how it has been portrayed in art, literature, fantasy and film. Ranging from the American Civil War to the destruction of the Kursk, the book examines the submarine's activities in the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, and in covert operations and marine exploration to the present day. Citing the submarine, particularly the nuclear submarine, as both ultimate deterrent and doomsday weapon, Sub Culture examines how its portrayal in popular culture has reinforced, and occasionally undermined, the military and political agendas of the nation states that deploy it.
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epub | 323.28 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09LSKQB8N | Author: Charlie Novak | Year: 2022

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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1118943287 | 627 pages | True PDF EPUB | 51.7 MB
Small Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation This book focuses on the 232 species of the mammalian Order Carnivora with an average body mass < 21.5 kg. Small carnivores inhabit virtually all of the Earth's ecosystems, adopting terrestrial, semi-fossorial, (semi-)arboreal or (semi-)aquatic lifestyles. They occupy multiple trophic levels and therefore play important roles in the regulation of ecosystems, such as natural pest control, seed dispersal and nutrient cycling. In areas where humans have extirpated large carnivores, small carnivores may become the dominant predators, which may increase their abundance ("mesopredator release") to the point that they can sometimes destabilize communities, drive local extirpations and reduce overall biodiversity. On the other hand, one third of the world's small carnivores are threatened or near threatened with extinction. This results from regionally burgeoning human populations' industrial and agricultural activities, causing habitat reduction, destruction, fragmentation and pollution. Overexploitation, persecution and the impacts of introduced predators, competitors, and pathogens have also negatively affected many small carnivore species. Although small carnivores have been intensively studied over the past decades, bibliometric studies showed that they have not received the same attention given to large carnivores. Furthermore, there is huge disparity in how research efforts on small carnivores have been distributed, with some species intensively studied and others superficially or not at all. This book aims at filling a gap in the scientific literature by elucidating the important roles of, and documenting the latest knowledge on, the world's small carnivores.
"This is a book that has been needed for decades. It is the first compendium of recent research on a group of mammals which has received almost no attention before the early 1970s. This book covers a wide range of subdisciplines and techniques and should be considered a solid baseline for further research on this little-known group of highly interesting mammals. As our knowledge regarding how ecosystems function increases, then the valuable role of small carnivores and the necessity for their conservation should be regarded as of paramount importance. The topics covered in this book should therefore be of great interest not only to academics and wildlife researchers, but also to the interested layman."

epub | 188.85 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B6JPY7H6 | Author: Eve London | Year: 2022

English | 2022 | ISBN: 019093770X | 449 pages | True PDF EPUB | 53.1 MB
The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 yearsan impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian trying to unearth the grand strategy of the Roman Empire must, therefore, always remain cognizant of the time scale, in which she is dealing. Although the pace of change in the Roman era never approached that of the modern era, it was not an empire in stasis. While the visible trappings may have changed little, the challenges Rome faced at its end were vastly different than those faced by Augustus and the Julio-Claudians. Over the centuries, the Empire's underlying economy, political arrangements, military affairs, and, most importantly, the myriad of external threats it faced were in constant flux, making adaptability to changing circumstances as important to Roman strategists as it is to strategists of the modern era.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811255776, 978-9811255779 | 198 pages | True PDF | 5.1 MB
This Book Is Intended As A Textbook For A One-Term Senior Undergraduate (Or Graduate) Course In Ring And Field Theory, Or Galois Theory. The Book Is Ready For An Instructor To Pick Up To Teach Without Making Any Preparations. The Book Is Written In A Way That Is Easy To Understand, Simple And Concise With Simple Historic Remarks To Show The Beauty Of Algebraic Results And Algebraic Methods. The Book Contains 240 Carefully Selected Exercise Questions Of Varying Difficulty Which Will Allow Students To Practice Their Own Computational And Proof-Writing Skills. Sample Solutions To Some Exercise Questions Are Provided, From Which Students Can Learn To Approach And Write Their Own Solutions And Proofs. Besides Standard Ones, Some Of The Exercises Are New And Very Interesting. The Book Contains Several Simple-To-Use Irreducibility Criteria For Rational Polynomials Which Are Not In Any Such Textbook. This Book Can Also Serve As A Reference For Professional Mathematicians. In Particular, It Will Be A Nice Book For Phd Students To Prepare Their Qualification Exams.
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epub | 304.98 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B08BZVWT6N | Author: Paige P. Horne | Year: 2020

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1098119738 | 296 pages | True PDF | 6.31 MB
Product management has become a critical function for modern organizations, from small startups to corporate enterprises. And yet, the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product managers are high-flying visionaries who build products that people love. In practice, they're hard-working facilitators who bring clarity and focus to their teams.
In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition, Matt LeMay provides real-world guidance for current and aspiring product managers. Updated for the era of remote and hybrid work, this book provides actionable answers to product management's most persistent and confounding questions, starting with: What exactly am I supposed to do all day?

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811248818 | 276 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.05 MB
This book is about the nature of information. It touches on many core issues of philosophy of the mind, ontology, and epistemology, and draws in several domain-specific concepts from physics, mathematics, thermodynamics, computer science, and biology. The terms used in this book, such as the mind, a conscious agent, meaning, and knowledge are used with very precise meanings because they can be easily misinterpreted. A proper understanding of these terms can be gained from the referenced literature. But more specifically, this book is about the concept of information as physical phenomenon.The book is a unique exposition of the concept of information as physical phenomenon. It provides the detailed analysis and synthesis of the current conceptualizations of information demonstrating the lack of common definition and their incompleteness. The detailed argument is provided why information may be defined as a physical phenomenon and why this type of information may be seen as fundamental to our understanding of this concept.
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epub | 399.65 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09Y7ZPP1J | Author: Leslie Pike | Year: 2022

epub | 304.69 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B6GH9ZR1 | Author: Sierra Cartwright | Year: 2022

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262046792 | 320 pages | True PDF | 14.95 MB
How we can create artificial intelligence with broad, robust common sense rather than narrow, specialized expertise.
It's sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self-driving car to the store to pick up your grocery order. The car is endowed with as much capability as an artificial intelligence agent can have, programmed to drive better than you do. But when the car encounters a traffic light stuck on red, it just sits there—indefinitely. Its obstacle-avoidance, lane-following, and route-calculation capacities are all irrelevant; it fails to act because it lacks the common sense of a human driver, who would quickly figure out what's happening and find a workaround. In Machines like Us , Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque—both leading experts in AI—consider what it would take to create machines with common sense rather than just the specialized expertise of today's AI systems.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032070919, 978-1032070919 | 347 pages | True PDF | 11.59 MB
Moth-Flame Optimization algorithm is an emerging meta-heuristic and has been widely used in both science and industry. Solving optimization problem using this algorithm requires addressing a number of challenges, including multiple objectives, constraints, binary decision variables, large-scale search space, dynamic objective function, and noisy parameters.
Handbook of Moth-Flame Optimization Algorithm: Variants, Hybrids, Improvements, and Applications provides an in-depth analysis of this algorithm and the existing methods in the literature to cope with such challenges.

epub | 2.87 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B01M4MCUAF | Author: Shelby Rhodes | Year: 2022

epub | 367.13 KB | English | Isbn:9781956810066 | Author: Shain Rose | Year: 2022

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9027211507, 978-9027211491 | 263 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.76 MB
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. As a starting-level module, English Sentence Constructions guides students of English or Language at tertiary level through different levels of analysis at the sentence, clause, phrase, and word level.
The book starts with an explanation of different sentence types and structures (Chapters 1 and 2), zooms in on the verb phrase as the central component of any sentence (in Chapters 3 and 4), before zooming in even closer, discussing word classes (Chapter 5) and phrases (Chapter 6). The next two chapters explicate the intricacies of sentence constituents that function as clauses (Chapter 7) and aid students in integrating all chapters by discussing sentence analysis at all levels (Chapter 8). The last chapter (Chapter 9) shows how knowledge about sentence constructions can be applied to effective writing in English.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119813409 | 305 pages | True PDF EPUB | 53.99 MB
EMERGING COMPUTING PARADIGMS A holistic overview of major new computing paradigms of the 21st Century
In Emerging Computing Paradigms: Principles, Advances and Applications , international scholars offer a compendium of essential knowledge on new promising computing paradigms. The book examines the characteristics and features of emerging computing technologies and provides insight into recent technological developments and their potential real-world applications that promise to shape the future.

epub | 5.23 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09K83QWHL | Author: Holly Hepburn | Year: 2022

epub | 708.83 KB | English | Isbn:‎ 1957635045 | Author: H. D. Carlton | Year: 2022

English | 2022 | ISBN: 981124832X | 215 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.59 MB
Secret sharing schemes form one of the most important topic in Cryptography. These protocols are used in many areas, applied mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering. A secret is divided into several pieces called shares. Each share is given to a user of the system. Each user has no information about the secret, but the secret can be retrieved by certain authorized coalition of users.This book is devoted to such schemes inspired by Coding Theory. The classical schemes of Shamir, Blakley, Massey are recalled. Survey is made of research in Combinatorial Coding Theory they triggered, mostly self-dual codes, and minimal codes. Applications to engineering like image processing, and key management of MANETs are highlighted.
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English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811251657 | 323 pages | True PDF EPUB | 25.54 MB
This book examines ultrametric Banach algebras in general. It begins with algebras of continuous functions, and looks for maximal and prime ideals in connections with ultrafilters on the set of definition. The multiplicative spectrum has shown to be indispensable in ultrametric analysis and is described in the general context and then, in various cases of Banach algebras.Applications are made to various kind of functions: uniformly continuous functions, Lipschitz functions, strictly differentiable functions, defined in a metric space. Analytic elements in an algebraically closed complete field (due to M Krasner) are recalled with most of their properties linked to T-filters and applications to their Banach algebras, and to the ultrametric holomorphic functional calculus, with applications to spectral properties. The multiplicative semi-norms of Krasner algebras are characterized by circular filters with a metric and an order that are examined.The definition of the theory of affinoid algebras due to J Tate is recalled with all the main algebraic properties (including Krasner–Tate algebras). The existence of idempotents associated to connected components of the multiplicative spectrum is described.
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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1600589243 | 209 pages | EPUB | 15.68 MB
Learn to create simple, colorful works of art using easy, step-by-step watercolor painting techniques that require minimal time, effort, and only the most basic supplies.
An ideal "first book" for absolute beginners, 15-Minute Painting: Effortless Watercolor uses large brushstrokes and minimal, colorful palettes to help budding artists create light, carefree paintings in practically no time at all. After a quick overview of the basic tools and materials, including papers, brushes, and paints, and a brief introduction to choosing and mixing colors, Effortless Watercolor demonstrates how to use just a few brushstrokes to create lively works of art in a simple, modern style.

epub | 292.02 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0B6Q5C41R | Author: Abby Knox | Year: 2022

epub | 196.63 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09PB1WDC6 | Author: Lynn Cahoon | Year: 2022