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Advances in Characterization and Analysis of Expansive Soils and Rocks
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume includes a collection of technical papers covering two important research topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the behavior and treatment of expansive soils, and (2) the characterization of rock properties. The twelve studies on expansive soils include investigations into novel stabilization...
Robotics: from Mechanical to Sentient Machines
Thinking Machines, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book is an introduction to Robotics, it aims to introduce the reader to the world of robots, how they work and how science strives to transform them from simple electro-mechanical contraptions into intelligent thinking machines.
The topics of interest this book covers are as follows:
History...
by Simon Monk
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
So Many Fiendishly Fun Ways to Use the Latest Arduino Boards!
Fully updated throughout, this do-it-yourself guide shows you how to program and build fascinating projects with the Arduino Uno and Leonardo boards and the Arduino 1.0 development environment. 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, Second...
by Dhananjay Gadre, Nehul Malhotra
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
CREATE FIENDISHLY FUN tinyAVR MICROCONTROLLER PROJECTS This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to conceptualize, build, and program 34 tinyAVR microcontroller devices that you can use for either entertainment or practical purposes. After covering the development process, tools, and power supply...
by Ron Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
WHIP UP SOME FIENDISHLY FUN PICAXE MICROCONTROLLER DEVICES
"Ron has worked hard to explain how the PICAXE system operates through simple examples, and I'm sure his easy-to-read style will help many people progress with their PICAXE projects." --From the Foreword by Clive Seager, Revolution...
Personhood and Social Robotics
A psychological consideration
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial...
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
A Contextual History
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC—and the earliest hints of writing and number notation—to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative...
by Hyeong Soo Chang, Jiaqiao Hu, Michael C. Fu
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of...
by Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy...
The Spike
How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2001
The rate at which technology is changing our world--not just on a global level like space travel and instant worldwide communications but on the level of what we choose to wear, where we live, and what we eat--is staggeringly fast and getting faster all the time. The rate of change has become so fast...
Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation
From Spaceships to Microchips
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated—first by the authors and subsequently...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Systems theory is often referred as system science. It is interdisciplinary study of systems in common terms. Main goal of such studies is to discover new patterns and elucidating principles. Such principles are meant to be derived from and applied to almost any kind of system in all fields of research....
by Janet H. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Stories define how we think, the way we play, and the way we understand our lives. And just as Gutenberg made possible the stories that ushered in the Modem Era, so is the computer having a profound effect on the stories of the late 20th century. Today we are confronting the limits of books themselves...
Adult Stem Cells
Biology and Methods of Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This is comprehensive overview of a vital area of scientific enquiry, which covers a broad spectrum of issues. With contributions from some of the key researchers in the field, Adult Stem Cells: Biology and Methods of Analysis offers readers a historical perspective as well as unique insights into...