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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and HumanitiesAuthor:
William H. Dutton, Paul W. JeffreysPages:
424Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0262014394Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful and versatile computer-based and networked systems promises to change research activity as profoundly as the mobile phone, the Internet, and email have changed everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible view of the use of these new approaches—called "e-research"—and their ethical, legal, and institutional implications. The contributors, leading scholars from a range of disciplines, focus on how e-esearch is reshaping not only the research process but also, and more important, its outcomes. By anchoring their discussion in specific examples and case studies, they identify and analyze a promising set of practical developments and results associated with e-research innovations.The contributors, who include Tim Berners-Lee, Hal Abelson, Christine Borgman, Geoffrey Bowker, and Paul Edwards, explain why and how e-Research activity can reconfigure access to networks of information, expertise, and experience, changing what researchers observe, with whom they collaborate, how they share information, what methods they use to report their findings, and what knowledge is required to do this. They discuss both the means of e-Research (new research-centered computational networks) and its purpose (to improve the quality of worldwide research). 
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His Last CommandAuthor:
Dan AbnettPages:
191Format:
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1844162389Second in the new Gaunt's Ghosts sequence, The Lost, Dan Abnett presents a whole new adventure for Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only. Returning from a long mission on a Chaos world, Commissar Gaunt finds that his old regiment, nicknamed Gaunt's Ghosts, has been disbanded and redeployed under a charismatic new commander. When the fighting becomes bitter, Gaunt is finally reunited with his men as the Imperial forces make one last desperate attempt to hold the line against the invaders.
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A Treatise On The Differential Calculus with numerous examplesAuthor:
I. (Isaac) TodhunterPages:
442Format:
DjVuLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1112418016Product Description
Originally published in 1878. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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Inorganic membranes for separation and reactionAuthor:
H.P.HsiehPages:
601Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0444816771Books on science and technology of organic polymer membranes are abundant But there has been only one book available today that exclusively addresses inorganic membranes and the book is an edited volume of individually contributed chapters. In addition, the potentially important subject of inorganic membrane reactors was only briefly covered. While an edited book provides useful information of the referenced technology» it generally lacks continuity in the treatment of the subject from chapter to chapter or from article to article. A fully integrated reference book with a more consistent and up-to-date perspective, better organized contents and easier cross referencing seems to be particularly opportune for the emerging field of inorganic membranes.
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Origami HeartsAuthor:
Francis M. Y. OwPages:
119Format:
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0870409573Introduces sixty-six richly varied, original origami heart motifs that are perfect for Valentine's Day, including detailed instructions for such creative and practical designs as rings, boxes, caps, coasters, and frames. Original.
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Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 3rd editionAuthor:
U. Meyer-BaesePages:
774Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
3540726128Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are revolutionizing digital signal processing as novel FPGA families are replacing ASICs and PDSPs for front-end digital signal processing algorithms. So the efficient implementation of these algorithms is critical and is the main goal of this book. It starts with an overview of today's FPGA technology, devices, and tools for designing state-of-the-art DSP systems. A case study in the first chapter is the basis for more than 40 design examples throughout. The following chapters deal with computer arithmetic concepts, theory and the implementation of FIR and IIR filters, multirate digital signal processing systems, DFT and FFT algorithms, advanced algorithms with high future potential, and adaptive filters. Each chapter contains exercises. The VERILOG source code and a glossary are given in the appendices, while the accompanying CD-ROM contains the examples in VHDL and Verilog code as well as the newest Altera "Quartus II web edition" software. This edition has a new chapter on microprocessors, new sections on special functions using MAC calls, intellectual property core design and arbitrary sampling rate converters, and over 100 new exercises.
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Isaac Babel (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)Author:
Harold BloomPages:
111Format:
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EnglishISBN10:
0791075907Critical essays on the work of Isaak Babel, one of a group of poets and novelists whose works were part of a rebirth in Russian literature in the 1920s following the Communist Revolution.
