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Pattern Drafting for Dressmaking by Pamela C. Stringer
Language: English | 1992 | ISBN: 0713469870 | 192 pages | PDF + DJVU | (74,4 + 47,4) MB
This easy-to-use guide to drafting patterns for individual designs is aimed at anyone who wants to learn how to make patterns, from taking the measurements to constructing the foundations to drafting the actual pattern. The book concentrates on teaching the principles of pattern drafting and will equip the reader with the knowledge to draft any pattern for any design. All the methods can be applied to men, women and children, whatever their shape or size, and the contents include skirts, dresses, bodices, collars, lapels, sleeves, trousers, culottes and shorts.

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Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, and Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets by Hagen Kleinert
Language: English | 2004 | ISBN: 9812381074 | 1504 pages | DJVU | 10 MB
This is the fifth, expanded edition of the comprehensive textbook published in 1990 on the theory and applications of path integrals.

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Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office by David Pressman
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN: 1413317197 | 624 pages | EPUB + MOBI | (10,8 + 12,8) MB
Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents!

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Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communications Technology by National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs
Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 030929312X | 176 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB
Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSOs) address patent disclosures, licensing terms, transfers of patent ownership, and other issues that arise in connection with developing technical standards for consumer and other microelectronic products, associated software and components, and communications networks including the Internet. Attempting to balance the interests of patent holders, other participants in standard-setting, standards implementers, and consumers, the report calls on SSOs to develop more explicit policies to avoid patent holdup and royalty-stacking, ensure that licensing commitments carry over to new owners of the patents incorporated in standards, and limit injunctions for infringement of patents with those licensing commitments. The report recommends government measures to increase the transparency of patent ownership and use of standards information to improve patent quality and to reduce conflicts of laws across countries.

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Patch Clamping by Areles Molleman
Language: English | 2002 | ISBN: 047148685X | 186 pages | PDF | 6,7 MB
Patch clamping is a widely applied electrophysiological technique for the study of ion channels; membrane proteins that regulate the flow of ions across cellular membranes and therefore influence the physiology of all cells.

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Particle Physics at the Year of Astronomy: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics by Studenikin Alexander I
Language: English | 2010 | ISBN: 9814329673 | 472 pages | PDF | 7,8 MB
These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of both theoretical and experimental areas in particle physics.

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Parabolic Geometries I by Andreas Cap and Jan Slovak
Language: English | 2009 | ISBN: 0821826816 | 628 pages | PDF + DJVU | (10,1 + 6,5) MB
Parabolic geometries encompass a very diverse class of geometric structures, including such important examples as conformal, projective, and almost quaternionic structures, hypersurface type CR-structures and various types of generic distributions. The characteristic feature of parabolic geometries is an equivalent description by a Cartan geometry modeled on a generalized flag manifold (the quotient of a semisimple Lie group by a parabolic subgroup). Background on differential geometry, with a view towards Cartan connections, and on semisimple Lie algebras and their representations, which play a crucial role in the theory, is collected in two introductory chapters. The main part discusses the equivalence between Cartan connections and underlying structures, including a complete proof of Kostant's version of the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, which is used as an important tool. For many examples, the complete description of the geometry and its basic invariants is worked out in detail. The constructions of correspondence spaces and twistor spaces and analogs of the Fefferman construction are presented both in general and in several examples. The last chapter studies Weyl structures, which provide classes of distinguished connections as well as an equivalent description of the Cartan connection in terms of data associated to the underlying geometry. Several applications are discussed throughout the text.

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PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide by Larry Ullman
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 0321442490 | 480 pages | PDF | 9,2 MB
With PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language. Leading technology author Larry Ullman guides readers through the new features in PHP 6, focusing primarily on improved support for handling any language in a Web site. Other addressed changes include removal of outdated and insecure features, plus new functions and more efficient ways to tackle common needs. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the technology, and more intermediate users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here-in straightforward language and thorough readily accessible examples.

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PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo! by Shu-Wai Chow
Language: English | 2007 | ISBN: 184719088X | 304 pages | PDF | 10,8 MB
Create PHP projects that grab and mix data from the likes of Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, the Internet UPC Database, not to mention the California Highway Patrol Traffic service! If you feel confident with your PHP programming, familiar with the basics of HTML and CSS, unafraid of XML, and interested in mashing things up, this is the book for you! There are a lot of formats and protocols, web services and web APIs encountered in this book - you do not need to know anything about them or about AJAX; you will find all you need in the book.

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PDE Valuation of Interest Rate Derivatives by Peter Kohl-Landgraf
Language: English | 2007 | ISBN: 3833495375 | 222 pages | DJVU | 1,9 MB
The Libor Market Model and its several extensions can be seen as state of the art in interest rate modeling. However, due to the ever increasing complexity of interest rate products, the high dimensionality of this approach starts to reach its limits from the computational side. This book is mainly concerned with a class of Markovian Yield Curve Models which try to overcome that disadvantage as they enable a low-dimensional deterministic and fast PDE valuation. The objective of this book is thereby threefold: - To illuminate in a compact way the connection between stochastic processes and partial differential equations as well as review the key features of arbitrage-free pricing. - To embed the here analyzed Markovian model class into the entire framework of interest rate models. - To present and implement robust numerical schemes, which enable an efficient computational treatment of risk-neutral product valuation by using PDE methods.

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