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by Jay L. Devore, Kenneth N. Berk
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Modern Mathematical Statistics with Applications, Second Edition strikes a balance between mathematical foundations and statistical practice. In keeping with the recommendation that every math student should study statistics and probability with an emphasis on data analysis, accomplished authors Jay...
Food Safety Management
Implementing a Food Safety Program in a Food Retail Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The goal of this book is to show how to build and manage a food safety department that is tasked with ensuring food safety within a food retail business. The experiences of the author as the head of Food and Product Safety at Chick-fil-A will be used as the model. Specifically, the book will discuss...
Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations: Theory, Algorithms, and Their Applications
In Honor of Professor Raytcho Lazarov's 40 Years of Research in Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
One of the current main challenges in the area of scientific computing is the design and implementation of accurate numerical models for complex physical systems which are described by time dependent coupled systems of nonlinear PDEs. This volume integrates the works of experts in computational...
Advancing Federal Sector Health Care
A Model for Technology Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book focuses on todays attempts to reshape the federal healthcare system. The major strength of the text lies in its use of examples that show how process redesign and the integration of enabling technologies lead to performance improvement and cost reduction. The contributors draw upon their...
Quirky Quantum Concepts
Physical, Conceptual, Geometric, and Pictorial Physics that Didn’t Fit in Your Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Quirky Quantum Concepts explains the more important and more difficult concepts in theoretical quantum mechanics, especially those which are consistently neglected or confusing in many common expositions. The emphasis is on physical understanding, which is necessary for the development of new, cutting...
The Innovation Butterfly
Managing Emergent Opportunities and Risks During Distributed Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple...
Information Technology for Small Business
Managing the Digital Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and knowledge management. Because small and medium...
by Marat Akhmet, Enes Yılmaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book presents as its main subject new models in mathematical neuroscience. A wide range of neural networks models with discontinuities are discussed, including impulsive differential equations, differential equations with piecewise constant arguments, and models of mixed type. These models involve...
Is Science Compatible with Free Will?
Exploring Free Will and Consciousness in the Light of Quantum Physics and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Anyone who claims the right ‘to choose how to live their life’ excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences. For example, when an author of a text expresses his thoughts, he assumes that, in typing the text, he governs the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Significant recent changes in the structure and composition of households make the study of the economic relationships within the household of particular interest for academics and policy-makers. In this context, Household Economic Behaviors, through its focus on theoretical and empirical chapters...
Anticipatory Systems
Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work in theoretical biology.
This...
Learning Analytics
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In education today, technology alone doesn't always lead to immediate success for students or institutions. In order to gauge the efficacy of educational technology, we need ways to measure the efficacy of educational practices in their own right. Through a better understanding of how learning takes...
Digital Creativity
Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
As the use of digital technology has grown, so necessarily has the body of research into its effects at the personal, group and organizational levels, but there is no one book that looks at how digital technology has specifically influenced creativity. Digital Creativity: Individuals, Groups, and...
Bond Graph Modelling of Engineering Systems
Theory, Applications and Software Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The author presents current work in bond graph methodology by providing a compilation of contributions from experts across the world that covers theoretical topics, applications in various areas as well as software for bond graph modeling.
It addresses readers in academia and in industry concerned...