Название: Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions
Автор: Martin F. Price, Alton C. Byers
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importance of mountains is recognized particularly because they provide critical resources, such as water, food and wood; contain high levels of biological and cultural diversity; and are often places for tourism and recreation and/or of sacred significance. This major revision of Larry Price’s book Mountains and Man (1981) is both timely and highly appropriate. The past three decades have been a period of remarkable progress in our understanding of mountains from an academic point of view. Of even greater importance is that society at large now realizes that mountains and the people who reside in them are not isolated from the mainstream of world affairs, but are vital if we are to achieve an environmentally sustainable future.

Название: The Hogeye Clovis Cache
Автор: Michael R. Waters, Thomas A. Jennings
Издательство: Texas A&M University Press
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 185 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millennia, deposition buried the cache several meters below the surface. The entombed artifacts lay undisturbed until 2003. A circuitous path brought thirteen of the original thirty-seven Clovis bifaces and points through many hands before reaching the attention of Michael Waters at Texas A&M University. At the site of the original cache, Waters and coauthor Thomas A. Jennings conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried.

Название: Стенография. Учебное пособие для учащихся IX-X классов
Автор: Лимончикова Т.В., Кочеткова Е.А., Частухина Т.Т., Крайнева Т.А.
Издательство: М.: Просвещение
Год: 1981
Cтраниц: 207
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

Пособие написано в соответствии с программой МП РСФСР для средних общеобразовательных школ и последним, усовершенствованным вариантом стенографической системы. В книге приводятся правила стенографического письма, сократительные приемы. В конце пособия дан краткий словарь, в приложении — стенографические тексты для чтения.

Название: Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy, 4th Edition
Автор: Roger A McCain
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 548
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 11.8 MB

As with the previous editions, this fourth edition relies on teaching by example and the Karplus Learning Cycle to convey the ideas of game theory in a way that is approachable, intuitive, and interdisciplinary. Noncooperative equilibrium concepts such as Nash equilibrium, mixed strategy equilibria, and subgame perfect equilibrium are systematically introduced in the first half of the book. Bayesian Nash equilibrium is briefly introduced. The subsequent chapters discuss cooperative solutions with and without side payments, rationalizable strategies and correlated equilibria, and applications to elections, social mechanism design, and larger-scale games. New examples include panic buying, supply-chain shifts in the pandemic, and global warming.

Название: Chemical Technicians: Good Laboratory Practice and Laboratory Information Management Systems (de Gruyter Textbook)
Автор: Mohamed Elzagheid
Издательство: Walter De Gruyter Inc
ISBN: 3111191109
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 138
Размер: 32,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book for chemical technicians contains a variety of skills that chemical technicians and technicians who work in chemical plants should develop as part of their successful experience. Many of these competencies were unintentionally addressed in other resources in a dispersed way across chapters in various textbooks and internet resources, but many others were not.

Название: Power, State and Space: Conceptualizing, Measuring and Comparing Space Actors
Автор: Marco Aliberti, Ottorino Cappelli, Rodrigo Praino
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 3031328701
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 237
Размер: 16,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book explains on what basis a nation can claim the status of space power, what are the criteria differentiating a space power from “lesser” space actors, and how their spacepower can be empirically measured and assessed.

Название: Basic Mathematical Programming Theory
Автор: Giorgio Giorgi, Bienvenido Jimenez, Vicente Novo
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 443
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 33.5 MB

It is quite superfluous to stress that mathematical optimization is a cornerstone of not only several scientific subjects, such as Economic Analysis, Operations Research, Management Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, but also Biology and other Social Sciences. The subject of (static) optimization, called also mathematical programming, is, besides its various applications, one of the most important and wide branches of modern mathematics, with deep and beautiful theoretical results. This book presents a unified, progressive treatment of the basic mathematical tools of mathematical programming theory. The authors expose said tools, along with results concerning the most common mathematical programming problems formulated in a finite-dimensional setting, forming the basis for further study of the basic questions on the various algorithmic methods and the most important particular applications of mathematical programming problems. This book assumes no previous experience in optimization theory, and the treatment of the various topics is largely self-contained. Prerequisites are the basic tools of differential calculus for functions of several variables, the basic notions of topology and of linear algebra, and the basic mathematical notions and theoretical background used in analyzing optimization problems. The book is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in mathematical programming problems but also those professionals who use optimization methods and wish to learn the more theoretical aspects of these questions.

Название: Elementary Statistics: A Step By Step Approach, 11th Edition
Автор: Allan G. Bluman
Издательство: McGraw Hill
Год: 2023
Страниц: 912
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 39.5 MB

Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach was written as an aid in the beginning statistics course to students whose mathematical background is limited to basic algebra. The book follows a non-theoretical approach without formal proofs, explaining concepts intuitively and supporting them with abundant examples. The applications span a range of topics, including problems in business, sports, health, architecture, education, entertainment, political science, psychology, history, criminal justice, the environment, transportation, physical sciences, demographics, and travel. The text is strengthened by its offering in ALEKS, now featuring Custom Question Authoring, Video Assignments, interactive tools, and more! ALEKS is a course assistant that helps math instructors forge Constructive Learning Paths for their students – blending personalized modules with instructor-driven assignments to ensure every student always has another block to build on their knowledge base.

Название: Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition
Автор: Mark H. Holmes
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 563
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

This textbook provides an introduction to numerical computing and its applications in science and engineering. The topics covered include those usually found in an introductory course, as well as those that arise in data analysis. This includes optimization and regression-based methods using a singular value decomposition. The emphasis is on problem solving, and there are numerous exercises throughout the text concerning applications in engineering and science. The essential role of the mathematical theory underlying the methods is also considered, both for understanding how the method works, as well as how the error in the computation depends on the method being used. All of the codes used in the computational examples in the text are available from the author’s GitHub repository. This new edition includes material necessary for an upper division course in computational linear algebra. The MATLAB codes used to produce almost every figure,and table with numerical output, in this text are available from the author’s website as well as from Springer-Link. In other words, the MATLAB codes for all of the methods considered, and the examples used, are available. These can be used as a learning tool. This also goes to the importance in computational-based research, and education, of providing open source to guarantee the correctness and reproducibility of the work.

Название: Chemical Reaction Engineering: A Computer-Aided Approach (de Gruyter Textbook), 2nd Edition
Автор: Tapio Salmi, Johan Wärna, Jose Rafael Hernandez Carucci
Издательство: De Gruyter
ISBN: 3110611600
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 265
Размер: 57,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book illustrates how models of chemical reactors are built up in a systematic manner, step by step. The authors also outline how the numerical solution algorithms for reactor models are selected, as well as how computer codes are written for numerical performance, with a focus on MATLAB and Fortran.