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Comme cela arrive souvent le samedi vers trois heures, les abords de la porte de Bercy étaient encombrés, et sur le quai, en quatre files, les voitures s’entassaient à la queue leu leu : haquets chargés de fûts, tombereaux de charbon ou de matériaux, charrettes de foin ou de paille,...

Extrait : "C'en est fait, je n'irai pas à Paris ! Il faut renoncer à tous nos beaux projets, à tous nos rêves. Les châteaux en Espagne que, pendant nos deux années de rhétorique et de philosophie, nous avons bâtis,en nous promenant dans la cour du collège de Nancy, se sont écroulés comme des...

Ultrasound Physics I Match: A very useful study material, where repeating each match several times, creates the awareness methods of seeking a direct answer. This helps our mind increase the speed of finding the best option available, improving the time it takes to answer the multiple choices offered...

A Professional Learning Community is undeniably one of the most effective processes out there for improving student achievement, as well a school’s overarching culture and climate. With such widespread notoriety, though, there has been a dilution of the true essence of the term. Understanding of...

A practical guide to obtaining, transforming, exploring, and analyzing data using Python, MongoDB, and Apache Spark About This Book Learn to use various data analysis tools and algorithms to classify, cluster, visualize, simulate, and forecast your data Apply Machine Learning algorithms to different...

Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their...

The physical environment--its preservation, protection, and conservation--has become an urgent agenda for international marketers. Many marketing professionals have acknowledged that, in order to succeed, it is crucial that they integrate environmental considerations into their marketing strategies....

The work establishes the design flow for the optimization of linear CMOS power amplifiers from the first steps of the design to the final IC implementation and tests. The authors also focuses on design guidelines of the inductor’s geometrical characteristics for power applications and covers their...

Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to...

This book combines a model reduction technique with an efficient parametrization scheme for the purpose of solving a class of complex and computationally expensive simulation-based problems involving finite element models. These problems, which have a wide range of important applications in several...

This book is intended primarily as a textbook for students studying structural engineering. It covers three main areas in the analysis and design of structural systems subjected to seismic loading: basic seismology, basic structural dynamics, and code-based calculations used to determine seismic loads...

This practical, hands-on book is specifically designed to improve the way you use and work with Oracle database utilities. The material has been carefully selected from Packts fuller Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities title. The full edition of the book covers a number of additional...

Draws together contributions from leading figures in the field of surveillance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of accountability as a means to manage threats to privacy. The first of its kind to enrich the debate about accountability and privacy by drawing together perspectives from experienced privacy researchers and policy makers.

Hunger affects 800 million people, 11% of humankind. However, it is diminishing in absolute numbers and as a percentage of population as a result of slower population growth, economic development, and increasing farm productivity. Current food output is more than enough to feed all humankind and is growing...