“…Intended for undergraduate and graduate students in environmental sciences, the book is also valuable for researchers, engineers, and policy makers interested in algal systems for waste management…”

“…The importance of computational modeling to advance current superconductor research cannot be overlooked, especially given the enormous benefits provided by superconductors in many human endeavours, including energy generation, medical treatments, and future electrical technologies.Aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners in different fields of applied superconductivity, this book consists of four chapters. …”

“…Omitting calculuscompletely, the book is suitable for any graduate or undergraduate course inbusiness, economics, and other faculties. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The least developed country category: criteria for inclusion and graduation -- Annex B. Financing sustainable development in least developed countries -- Development and well-being indicators: Least developed countries versus other developing countries -- Least developed countries' financing for sustainable development landscape: an overview -- Financing for sustainable development: LDCs versus other country groupings -- External finance in LDCs -- Development finance in LDCs -- References -- Notes -- Annex C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 13.2 Historical Perspective and Current Patterns of Access to Higher Education -- 13.3 Social, Demographic, and Economic Structures and Tertiary Enrollment -- 13.4 Public and Private Investment in Education -- 13.5 Cost and Financial Sources of Tertiary Education -- 13.6 Share of National Wealth Spent on Education -- 13.7 Tertiary Enrollment and Graduation -- 13.8 Transition to Work and Employment -- 13.9 Conclusions -- References -- 14 Understanding the Relative Value of Alternative Pathways in Postsecondary Education: Evidence From the State of Virginia -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Conceptual Framework and Relevant Literature -- 14.3 Data and Descriptive Statistics -- 14.4 Methodology -- 14.5 Results -- 14.5.1 Overall Returns to Credits and Credentials -- 14.6 Returns by Subject Area…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Services for databases -- Playfab in Unity -- Downloading the SDK from the website -- Importing and setting the SDK in Unity for databases -- Creating a login system for your users -- Exchanging data -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Graduating Your Project to Completion -- Finishing the application -- Optimizing the project for a mobile platform -- Processing the power -- For 2D games -- For 3D games -- Other considerations -- Test, test, and test again -- Don't have access to many devices? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Organizing folders -- Creating subfolders -- Making changes to a folder's content -- Synchronizing folders -- Using collections to organize images -- The Quick Collection -- Collections -- Smart collections -- Stacking images -- Applying keyword tags -- Viewing keyword tags -- Adding keyword tags -- Working with keyword sets and nesting keywords -- Searching by keywords -- Using flags and ratings -- Flagging images -- Assigning ratings -- Working with color labels -- Adding metadata -- Storage of metadata -- Using the Painter tool -- Finding and filtering files -- Using the Filter bar to find photos -- Using the Metadata filter -- Using the filters in the Filmstrip -- Reconnecting missing files and folders -- Review questions -- Review answers -- 6 DEVELOPING AND EDITING -- Getting started -- Importing images into the library -- Quick Develop -- The Develop module -- Cropping and rotating images -- Undoing, redoing, and remembering changes -- Using the Undo and Redo commands -- The History panel -- Creating snapshots -- Changing the Before image -- Creating virtual copies -- Removing spots -- Applying basic color corrections -- Adjusting the white balance and the tonal range -- About white balance -- Adjusting contrast using the tone curve -- Sharpening detail and reducing noise -- Correcting lens effects -- Adding effects -- Updating the process version -- Making discrete color adjustments -- Understanding hue, saturation, and luminance -- Adjusting colors selectively -- Converting an image to black and white -- Split toning -- Synchronizing settings -- Local corrections -- Using the Graduated Filter tool -- Using the Adjustment Brush tool -- Working with an external image editor -- Review questions -- Review answers -- 7 CREATING SLIDESHOWS -- Getting started -- Importing images into the library -- Playing an impromptu slideshow…”

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“…The book is an ideal source of information on aeroacoustics for researchers and graduate students in engineering, physics, or applied math, as well as for engineers working in this field. …”

“…Methods and Applications of Longitudinal Data Analysis equips both graduate students and professionals to confidently apply longitudinal data analysis to their particular discipline. …”

“…The book is written with researchers and post graduate students in mind"--…”

“…Taking a multidisciplinary approach for using AI, this book provides a single comprehensive reference resource for undergraduate, graduate, business professionals, and related disciplines"--…”

“…The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate engineering students taking Flight Dynamics and Flight Control courses. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Part I: Understanding the Project Management Landscape -- Part II: Traditional Project Management -- Part III: Complex Project Management -- Appendices -- Unique Value Propositions -- Co-Manager Model -- Integrated Continuous Improvement Process -- Requirements Elicitation -- Scope Triangle -- Project Set-up Phase -- Project Scope Bank -- Probative Swim Lanes -- Bundled Change Management -- Vetted Portfolio -- The Rationale for This Organization -- A Bottom-Up Learning Experience -- Learning about Process Groups -- Learning How Process Groups Form Life Cycle Processes -- Learning Effective Life Cycle Management Strategies -- Learning How to Adapt to the Realities of Projects -- Learning to Be a Thinking Project Manager -- How to Use This Book -- Introductory (Chapters 1-10) -- Intermediate (Chapters 6-15) -- Advanced (Chapters 11-15) -- Who Should Use This Book -- Practicing Professionals -- Undergraduate, Graduate, and Adjunct Faculty -- Corporate Trainers -- What's on the Website -- Slide Presentation -- Individual, Team, and Class Exercises -- Case Studies -- Putting It All Together -- EPM8e Logo -- Part I Understanding the Project Management Landscape -- Chapter 1 What Is a Project? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interacting with other repositories -- The centralized workflow -- The peer-to-peer or forking workflow -- The maintainer or integration manager workflow -- The hierarchical or dictator-and-lieutenants workflow -- Managing remote repositories -- The "origin" remote -- Listing and examining remotes -- Adding a new remote -- Updating information about remotes -- Support for triangular workflows -- Chain of trust -- Content-addressed storage -- Lightweight, annotated, and signed tags -- Signed commits -- Merging signed tags (merge tags) -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Publishing Your Changes -- Transport protocols and remote helpers -- Local transport -- Smart transports -- Legacy (dumb) transports -- Offline transport with bundles -- Remote transport helpers -- Credentials/password management -- Publishing your changes upstream -- Pushing to a public repository -- Generating a pull request -- Exchanging patches -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Advanced Branching Techniques -- The purpose of branching -- Isolation versus integration -- The path to production release -- Long-running and short-lived branches -- Visibility of branches -- Alternatives to branching -- Visibility without integration -- Branching patterns -- Integration patterns -- Release engineering -- Other branching patterns involving long-lived branches -- Other types of short-lived branches -- Branching workflows and release engineering -- The release and trunk branches workflow -- The graduation branches workflow -- The topic branches workflow -- git-flow - a successful Git branching model -- Ship/Show/Ask - a modern branching strategy -- Fixing a security issue -- Interacting with branches in remote repositories -- Upstream and downstream -- Remote-tracking branches and refspec -- Fetching and pulling versus pushing…”

“…Direct Methods for Stability Analysis of Electric Power Systems presents a comprehensive theoretical foundation of the method and its numerical implementation. This book provides graduate students, researchers, and practitioners with theoretical foundations of direct methods, energy functions, and the BCU method as well as the group-based BCU method and its applications. …”

“…Applied Underwater Acoustics meets the needs of scientists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and graduate students solving problems in, and preparing theses on, topics in underwater acoustics. …”

“…Now in color and updated to reflect the latest standards, theories, and methodologies, this book provides the fundamentals on risk assessment, with practical applications, for undergraduate and graduate students and employed safety, health, and environmental professionals who recognize that they are expected to have risk assessment capabilities. …”

“…It is intended for first-year graduate students who have some familiarity with probability and random variables, though not necessarily of random processes and systems that operate on random signals. …”

“…Focusing on Bayesian approaches and computations using analytic and simulation-based methods for inference, Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference, Second Edition integrates mainstream approaches for time series modeling with significant recent developments in methodology and applications of time series analysis. It encompasses a graduate-level account of Bayesian time series modeling, analysis and forecasting, a broad range of references to state-of-the-art approaches to univariate and multivariate time series analysis, and contacts research frontiers in multivariate time series modeling and forecasting. …”