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 Thomas F. Coleman, "Automatic Differentiation in MATLAB Using ADMAT with Applications " English | ISBN: 1611974356 | 2016 | 117 pages | PDF | 3 MB The calculation of partial derivatives is a fundamental need in scientific computing. Automatic differentiation (AD) can be applied straightforwardly to obtain all necessary partial derivatives (usually first and, possibly, second derivatives) regardless of a code s complexity. However, the space and time efficiency of AD can be dramatically improved - sometimes transforming a problem from intractable to highly feasible - if inherent problem structure is used to apply AD in a judicious manner.  Joyce Mao, "Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism" English | ISBN: 022625271X | 2015 | 232 pages | PDF | 1214 KB After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China in 1949―with the Cold War just underway―they had a new object of foreign policy, and as Joyce Mao reveals in this fascinating new look at twentieth-century Pacific affairs, that change would provide vital ingredients for American conservatism as we know it today.  Kwang-Cheng Chen PhD, "Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Robotics " English | ISBN: 8770221189 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 104 MB Robots, autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and smart factories will significantly change human living style in digital society. Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Robotics introduces how wireless communications and networking technology enhances facilitation of artificial intelligence in robotics, which bridges basic multi-disciplinary knowledge among artificial intelligence, wireless communications, computing, and control in robotics. A unique aspect of the book is to introduce applying communication and signal processing techniques to enhance traditional artificial intelligence in robotics and multi-agent systems.  Artificial Intelligence for Business: What You Need to Know about Machine Learning and Neural Networks, 2nd Edition by Doug Rose  Are You Crazy?: 18 Scientific Quizzes to Test Yourself By Andrew N. Williams 2005 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0399531580 | PDF | 3 MB There is a fine line between quirky and out-and-out crazy. With 18 scientifically based quizzes, Andrew N. Williams helps readers decipher whether they're ''normal,'' toeing the line, or far past it. Developed by psychologists to analyze human behavior, the quizzes allow readers to discover if they (or their friends and family) are: - Sex addicts - Obsessive-compulsives - Food freaks - Thrill-seekers - Hypochondriacs - Fetishists - Paranoids - Imposters Plus the book includes descriptions, in layman's terms, of more than 80 specific quirks, illustrated with real life examples. Readers will marvel at stories of people who: - Crave dirt-and eat it by the handful - Are afraid of doughnuts because they can't see what's inside - Lie about deaths in the family-to collect sympathy cards But Are You Crazy? is much more than a party game, offering helpful insights for dealing with other peoples' crazy behavior as well as one's own insecurities and phobias.  Anthropology and Theology By Douglas Davies 2002 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1859735320 | PDF | 1 MB Anthropology and Christian Theology have traditionally interpreted religion in quite different ways and have often been thought of as hostile to one another. In fact, a fundamental concern for human experience lies at the heart of both disciplines. This innovative book takes a new look at key anthropological and theological themes, and explores the intricacies of their interplay throughout history and in the present. Sacrifice, embodiment, ritual, incarnation, symbolism, gift and power are all related in ways that shed new light on religious behaviour and belief. Detailed analysis of fundamental Christian rites shows how they help generate emotional meaning and inspire philosophical ideas, and demonstrates how the body serves as a vehicle for religious beliefs. Through an examination of these issues and much more, Davies reveals how religious rituals help people to become secure in their sense of identity. This accessible foray into new territory is essential reading for anthropologists, theologians, or anyone interested in religion who is seeking new interpretations of familiar themes.  Budi Kurniawan, "Android Application Development: A Beginner's Tutorial" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0992133017 | EPUB | pages: 364 | 2.8 mb Android is the most popular mobile platform today and it comes with a comprehensive set of APIs that make it easy for developers to write, test and deploy apps. With these APIs you can easily show user interface (UI) components, play and record audio and video, create games and animation, store and retrieve data, search the Internet, and so on. This book is a tutorial for experienced Java programmers wanting to learn to develop Android applications. It introduces the fundamentals and provide real-world applications for every topic of discussion. Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Activities Chapter 3: UI Components Chapter 4: Layouts Chapter 5: Listeners Chapter 6: The Action Bar Chapter 7: Menus Chapter 8: ListView Chapter 9: GridView Chapter 10: Styles and Themes Chapter 11: Bitmap Processing Chapter 12: Graphics and Custom Views Chapter 13: Fragments Chapter 14: Multi-Pane Layouts Chapter 15: Animation Chapter 16: Preferences Chapter 17: Working with Files Chapter 18: Working with the Database Chapter 19: Taking Pictures Chapter 20: Making Videos Chapter 21: The Sound Recorder Chapter 22: Handling the Handler Chapter 23: Asynchronous Tasks Chapter 24: Services Chapter 25: Broadcast Receivers Chapter 26: The Alarm Service Chapter 27: Content Providers Appendix A: Installing the JDK Appendix B: Using the ADT Bundle Index
 Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography By F. Kent Reilly III, James F. Garber, Vincas P. Steponaitis 2007 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0292713479 | PDF | 8 MB Between AD 900-1600, the native people of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.  Anatoly Karpov: My 300 best games By Anatoly Karpov 1997 | 277 Pages | ISBN: 9984922901 | DJVU | 10 MB Author's preface: ''I have played a huge amount of tournament and match games during my long chess career, roughly 2,500 altogether. From those games, I have selected only three hundred for this book, - the games I consider my best and most instructive ones. My goal was to represent my most valuable creative achievements of the thirty years that have passed, from 1966 till 1996. The selection was subordinated to the following three criteria: strong opponent, tense fight, and instructive value. Therefore this collection of games can be treated also as a modern chess instruction book, because the games were played mainly in the strongest events of the last thirty years. Under such a strict selection procedure, many interesting and instructive games as well as simply beautiful fragments would have inevitably been missing in this book, if the games had been included into it only entirely. Therefore, the final chapter contains a number of my best combinations and finals which are essential for achieving the abovementioned goal; without them, this work would have been incomplete. I still play a lot and still achieve tournament successes, so it would be premature to accept this book as my final account. I sincerely hope to play a number of good games in upcoming events and to raise my own account of tournament triumphs (I have over 140 of them recently - more than any player in chess history). However, so many chessfriends had expressed their desire to have this book right now that I decided to prepare this sort of an intermediate report on my 30 years in chess. Let reading this work bring you pleasure and improve your understanding of chess inner logic, depth and beauty.''  Advances in Nano Instrumentation Systems and Computational Techniques (Nanotechnology Science and Tec) by K. Kamalanand English | 2019 | ISBN: 1536150193 | 172 Pages | PDF | 6 MB |
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