“…Travel with water drops and see what route water follows. Learning where we can find waterand have fun experimenting with it…”

“…Travel with water drops and see what route water follows. Learning where we can find waterand have fun experimenting with it…”

“…The Bolivarian Schools Project is intended to respond to problems such as dropping out, educational exclusion, repetition, malnutrition, and loss of local, regional and national identity, and to the search for citizens interested in economic and social transformation…”

“…Recent statistics suggest that fertility in Europe shows signs of recovery after decades of year-on-year drops. This report updates a study on low fertility from 2004 and explores the extent, causes and consequences of the recent recovery…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2 The Effect of Offering a Choice of Modes -- 6.3 Getting People to Respond Online -- 6.4 Sequencing Different Modes of Data Collection -- 6.5 Separating the Effects of Mode on Selection and Reporting -- 6.5.1 Conceptualizing Mode Effects -- 6.5.2 Separating Observation from Nonobservation Error -- 6.5.2.1 Direct Assessment of Measurement Errors -- 6.5.2.2 Statistical Adjustments -- 6.5.2.3 Modeling Measurement Error -- 6.6 Maximizing Comparability Versus Minimizing Error -- 6.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 Mobile Web Surveys: A Total Survey Error Perspective -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Coverage -- 7.3 Nonresponse -- 7.3.1 Unit Nonresponse -- 7.3.2 Breakoffs -- 7.3.3 Completion Times -- 7.3.4 Compliance with Special Requests -- 7.4 Measurement Error -- 7.4.1 Grouping of Questions -- 7.4.1.1 Question-Order Effects -- 7.4.1.2 Number of Items on a Page -- 7.4.1.3 Grids versus Item-By-Item -- 7.4.2 Effects of Question Type -- 7.4.2.1 Socially Undesirable Questions -- 7.4.2.2 Open-Ended Questions -- 7.4.3 Response and Scale Effects -- 7.4.3.1 Primacy Effects -- 7.4.3.2 Slider Bars and Drop-Down Questions -- 7.4.3.3 Scale Orientation -- 7.4.4 Item Missing Data -- 7.5 Links Between Different Error Sources -- 7.6 The Future of Mobile web Surveys -- References -- Chapter 8 The Effects of a Mid-Data Collection Change in Financial Incentives on Total Survey Error in the National Survey of Famil... -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Literature Review: Incentives in Face-to-Face Surveys -- 8.2.1 Nonresponse Rates -- 8.2.2 Nonresponse Bias -- 8.2.3 Measurement Error -- 8.2.4 Survey Costs -- 8.2.5 Summary -- 8.3 Data and Methods -- 8.3.1 NSFG Design: Overview -- 8.3.2 Design of Incentive Experiment -- 8.3.3 Variables -- 8.3.4 Statistical Analysis -- 8.4 Results -- 8.4.1 Nonresponse Error -- 8.4.2 Sampling Error and Costs -- 8.4.3 Measurement Error…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.1 Overview of a DataFrame -- 4.1.1 Creating a DataFrame from a dictionary -- 4.1.2 Creating a DataFrame from a NumPy ndarray -- 4.2 Similarities between Series and DataFrames -- 4.2.1 Importing a DataFrame with the read_csv function -- 4.2.2 Shared and exclusive attributes of Series and DataFrames -- 4.2.3 Shared methods of Series and DataFrames -- 4.3 Sorting a DataFrame -- 4.3.1 Sorting by a single column -- 4.3.2 Sorting by multiple columns -- 4.4 Sorting by index -- 4.4.1 Sorting by row index -- 4.4.2 Sorting by column index -- 4.5 Setting a new index -- 4.6 Selecting columns and rows from a DataFrame -- 4.6.1 Selecting a single column from a DataFrame -- 4.6.2 Selecting multiple columns from a DataFrame -- 4.7 Selecting rows from a DataFrame -- 4.7.1 Extracting rows by index label -- 4.7.2 Extracting rows by index position -- 4.7.3 Extracting values from specific columns -- 4.8 Extracting values from Series -- 4.9 Renaming columns or rows -- 4.10 Resetting an index -- 4.11 Coding challenge -- 4.11.1 Problems -- 4.11.2 Solutions -- Summary -- 5 Filtering a DataFrame -- 5.1 Optimizing a data set for memory use -- 5.1.1 Converting data types with the astype method -- 5.2 Filtering by a single condition -- 5.3 Filtering by multiple conditions -- 5.3.1 The AND condition -- 5.3.2 The OR condition -- 5.3.3 Inversion with ~ -- 5.3.4 Methods for Booleans -- 5.4 Filtering by condition -- 5.4.1 The isin method -- 5.4.2 The between method -- 5.4.3 The isnull and notnull methods -- 5.4.4 Dealing with null values -- 5.5 Dealing with duplicates -- 5.5.1 The duplicated method -- 5.5.2 The drop_duplicates method -- 5.6 Coding challenge -- 5.6.1 Problems -- 5.6.2 Solutions -- Summary -- Part 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.3 Printer Output functions -- 4.3.1 Printer output security -- 4.4 Printers -- 4.4.1 Displaying and changing printer properties -- 4.4.2 Printers and Printer Output tips -- 4.4.3 AS/400 NetServer integration -- 4.4.4 Printer security -- 4.5 Jobs -- 4.5.1 Job properties -- 4.6 Basic Operations hints and tips -- 4.6.1 Dragging and dropping spooled files -- 4.6.2 Sample CL program to create printer device descriptions -- Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building deeper networks with dropout and rectified linear units -- 6.6.1. Dropping neurons for regularization -- 6.6.2. The rectified linear unit activation function -- 6.7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.4 Solar position modeling -- 6.4.1 Solar angle -- 6.4.2 Solar tracking angle -- 6.4.3 Direct normal beam insolation -- 6.5 Design of a parabolic through solar thermal power plant -- 6.5.1 Parabolic through collector design -- Geometric configuration -- Solar energy absorption modeling -- Solar receiver design -- Transfer of heat from the absorber to the heat transfer fluid -- Conduction heat transfer through absorber wall -- Transfer of heat from the absorber to the glass envelope -- Vacuum in annulus (p&lt -- 1 Torr) -- Annulus pressure higher than 1 Torr -- Radiation heat transfer from the absorber to the envelope -- Conductive heat transport through the glass envelope -- Heat transfer from HCE support bracket -- Heat loss from the glass envelope to the atmosphere -- Pressure drops from the piping system -- HTF pump -- 6.6 Design of a solar tower power plant -- 6.6.1 Heliostat field modeling -- 6.6.2 Central receiver modeling -- 6.7 Heat transfer fluid -- 6.7.1 Available heat transfer fluid -- 6.7.2 Correlations for thermophysical property of HTFs -- 6.8 Site selection and mapping -- 6.8.1 Method related to sites selection of solar power plants -- 6.8.2 Evaluation criteria -- 6.8.3 AHP and ANP ranking approach -- 6.8.4 Site selection principle -- 6.8.5 Land selection and site elevation -- 6.9 Design of thermal collector for power plant -- 6.9.1 Flat plate solar collectors -- Convection loss -- Conduction loss -- Radiation loss -- 6.9.2 Evacuated tube collectors -- 6.10 Solar aided power generation -- 6.11 Hybridization of power cycle with solar thermal energy resources -- 6.11.1 Hybridizing with Rankine cycle -- 6.12 Performance analysis -- 6.12.1 Overall efficiency -- 6.12.2 Fuel-based efficiency -- 6.12.3 Solar-to-electric efficiency -- 6.12.4 Solar heat fraction -- 6.12.5 Fuel saving fraction -- References -- 7 - Solar thermal energy storage…”

“…Perhaps even more amazing are total aggregate declines in some recent years coupled with drops in licensing, trips, and vehicle purchases. …”

“…Suggesting an explanation for why fertility rates are dramatically dropping, this book makes a significant contribution to the debate on contemporary motherhood…”

“…A new management algorithm for Meibomian gland dysfunction, therapeutic eye drops and intense pulsed lasers for dry eye disease, and topical and systemic agents for neuropathic ocular pain are proposed in this issue…”

“…All of these health risks and news stories took us by surprise, caused great alarm, and created controversyÑuntil they quietly dropped off our collective radar screens and we forgot about them. …”

“…Increasing fuel efficiency means that fuel-purchase expenditures have dropped, so real revenue generated from these taxes has declined. …”

“…Over time, some themes are dropped, and new concerns incorporated. This makes older and classical texts less relevant, and necessitates a process of selection and reprioritization of themes to meet changing times. …”

“…Once the packets are drawn to the Black Hole, they are then dropped instead of relayed, and the communication of the MANET is thereby disrupted, without knowledge of the other nodes in the network. …”