“…Throughout history, advances in technology have come in spurts. A single great idea can often spur rapid change as the idea takes hold and is propagated, often in totally unexpected directions. …”

“…"Applying the 12 basic principles of animation introduced by animation legends Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas is now easier than ever. With great relevance for today's digital workflows, Richard Lapidus presents innovative 3ds Max controls to the classical principles of animation like squash and stretch, anticipation, staging and more. …”

“…High temperature superconductors have received a great deal of attention in recent years, due to their potential in device and power applications. …”

“…Since the previous edition's publication, great advances have been made in the field of data mining. …”

“…Learn how to make calls and play songs by voice control, take great photos, keep track of your schedule, and much more with complete step-by-step instructions and crystal-clear explanations by iPhone master David Pogue. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data analysis -- Sentiment analysis in time -- Sentiment by weekday -- Comments in time -- Number of comments by weekday -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Next Great Technology - Trends Mining on GitHub -- Scope and process -- Getting the data -- Rate Limits -- Connection to GitHub -- Data pull -- Data processing -- Textual data -- Numerical data -- Data analysis -- Top technologies -- Programming languages -- Programming languages used in top technologies -- Top repositories by technology -- Comparison of technologies in terms of forks, open issues, size, and watchers count -- Forks versus open issues -- Forks versus size -- Forks versus watchers -- Open issues versus Size -- Open issues versus Watchers -- Size versus watchers -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Scraping and Extracting Conversational Topics on Internet Forums -- Scope and process -- Getting the data -- Introduction to scraping -- Scrapy framework -- How it works -- Related tools -- Creating a project -- Creating spiders -- Teamspeed forum spider -- Data pull and pre-processing -- Data cleaning -- Part-of-speech extraction -- Data analysis -- Introduction to topic models -- Latent Dirichlet Allocation -- Applying LDA to forum conversations -- Topic interpretation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Demystifying Pinterest through Network Analysis of Users Interests -- Scope and process -- Getting the data -- Pinterest API -- Step 1 - creating an application and obtaining app ID and app secret -- Step 2 - getting your authorization code (access code) -- Step 3 - exchanging the access code for an access token -- Step 4 - testing the connection -- Getting Pinterest API data -- Scraping Pinterest search results -- Building a scraper with Selenium -- Scraping time constraints -- Data pull and pre-processing -- Pinterest API data -- Bigram extraction -- Building a graph -- Pinterest search results data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 2 What's Wrong With Corporate Culture? -- The Great Reductions -- Reduction #1: The Problem in MBA Programs -- Outdated Theory, Problematic Assumptions, Leaps of Faith, and Anecdotes -- The Big Assumption: Culture Drives Business Performance -- Reducing Culture to a Dependent Variable -- Academic Myopia: Drawing From Too Few Wells -- Reduction #2: Dumbing Down for Business -- Reduction by Conflation: Culture as Employee Engagement and Well-Being -- Reduction by Compartmentalization: Culture as Employee Behavior -- Reduction by Coaching: Culture as What Leaders Should Do -- The Manager's Dilemma -- A Better Way -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Where Culture Comes From -- Deep Structure -- The Cognitive Science of Culture: Executive Summary -- Culture Comes From Grounded Meaningful Experience -- It's "Meaningful" Because It Worked -- Culture in the Brain, the Body, and the World -- Evidence From Neuroscience -- Evidence From Developmental Psychology -- Physiological and Kinesthetic Evidence -- Evidence From Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology -- Socio-Cultural Evidence -- Culture Is Shared Knowledge -- Shared Dominant Logics: Transforming Experience into Basic Units of Culture -- Evidence for Schemas -- Shared Dominant Logics -- Making Sense: How SDLs Ground Culture -- From SDLs to Culture: Models for Making Sense -- Pervasive Forms: SDLs for Sense-Making and Structure -- We Think in Analogies -- Where Corporate Culture Comes From -- Doing Meaningful and Habitual Things: The Grounds for Culture -- Professionalization -- Shared Task Solutions -- Differentiated Core Purpose -- Functionally Grounded Cultures -- The Reference System -- Practices and Adaptations -- Visible Culture -- Discrete Signatures -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Invisible Hands, Invisible Walls -- The Reference System in Action -- New Company, Old Grounding -- Trailblazing…”

“…Why take months to learn every button in 3ds Max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Utilize the tool of choice, 3ds Max 2015, for generating realistic environments, seamless CG effects, and jaw dropping games in a matter of hours. …”

“…Next up you'll receive a thorough introduction to the canvas element, which teaches you how to draw objects within the browser with great ease. Once the basics are covered you’ll move on to the more advanced features of canvas, including image and video manipulation. …”

“…So you have a great game idea for iPhone or iPad, but Objective-C just seems a bit daunting. …”

“…This book reveals all you'll need to design great web sites that are standards-compliant, usable, and aesthetically pleasing, but it won't overwhelm you with waffle, theory, or obscure details! …”

“…When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE -- CERTIFICATION -- TEACHER KNOWLEDGE: CONTENT -- TEACHER KNOWLEDGE: PEDAGOGY -- Pedagogical Knowledge of Teaching -- Pedagogical Knowledge of Content -- The Role of Theory -- Continued Professional Development -- THE TEACHING PROFESSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- References -- 24 Biology Teacher Training: Preparing Students for Tomorrow -- References -- 25 Standards for the Preparation and Certification of Biology Teachers -- INTRODUCTION -- USES OF TEACHER PREPARATION AND CERTIFICATION STANDARDS -- THE GREAT DEBATE -- IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS -- NSTA'S PROGRAM TO CERTIFY INDIVIDUAL SCIENCE TEACHERS -- ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS-GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS -- QUO VADIS? …”

“…Essential reading for students and researchers in addiction research and in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind and psychology and ethics, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction will also be of great interest to those in related fields, such as medicine, mental health, social work, and social policy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The National Research Council and the Chicago World's Fair -- Committees on Drug Addiction -- National Research Council Studies in Geophysics and Physics -- Changes in the Organization of International Science -- 11 The Academy During the Great Depression -- WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL (1931-1935) -- Reorganization of the National Research Council -- Borderland Science -- Washington Biophysical Institute -- Engineering and Industrial Research -- 12 The New Deal and the Science Advisory Board -- Creation of the Science Advisory Board -- Organization and Activities of the Science Advisory Board -- Recovery Program of Science Progress -- A New Executive Order Expanding the Science Advisory Board -- The National Planning Board and Its Successors -- Division within the Academy Over the Science Advisory Board -- Failure of Compton's "National Program -- FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1935-1939) -- Expiration of the Science Advisory Board -- 13 The Academy in World War II -- FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT (1939-1947) -- The Potentialities of Nuclear Fission -- Vannevar Bush and the National Defense Research Committee -- Academy and Research Council Committees Under NDRC -- The Office of Scientific Research and Development -- The NRC and the Committee on Medical Research -- Other Academy and Research Council Advisory Committees -- The Question of an Atomic Bomb -- The OSRD Office of Field Service -- Planning for Postwar Science -- 14 The Postwar Organization of Science -- Research Board for National Security -- The First Kilgore Bill -- Science, the Endless Frontier -- Hearings on Science Legislation -- Atomic Energy Legislation -- New Science Legislation -- The Dispersal of OSRD -- The Steelman Report -- A Restatement of Academy Policy -- 15 The Years Between the Wars -- ALFRED NEWTON RICHARDS (1947-1950) -- The Loyalty Issue -- Establishment of the National Science Foundation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A Very Brief and Hopefully Not Boring History of Cases -- Defining Teaching Cases Today -- What Do I Need to Know to Write Cases? -- Great Case Writers -- Why Write Cases? -- Let's Begin the Case Writing Adventure! …”

“…This book presents an overview of the exciting, truly multidisciplinary research by neuroscientists and systems engineers in the emerging field of cognitive systems, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of this cutting-edge area of scientific research. This is a great example of where research in very different disciplines touches to create a new emerging area of research. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding file type -- JPEG: The imaging (and web) standard -- HEIF (the one you can ignore, mostly) -- Raw: The purist's choice -- Final JPEG versus Raw recommendations -- Adjusting the Image Quality setting -- Setting the Photo Aspect Ratio -- Adding Flash -- Setting the flash to fire (or not) -- Adding Red-Eye Reduction -- Reviewing Advanced Flash Options -- Adjusting flash output with Flash Exposure Compensation -- Locking the flash exposure -- Investigating other flash options -- Chapter 3 Taking Great Pictures, Automatically -- Using Scene Intelligent Auto Mode (A+) -- Taking a picture in A+ mode -- Exploring A+ Assist features -- Adjusting results with Creative Assist -- Exploring the Creative Assist lineup…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hamiltonian Systems -- E. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes -- F. The 2014-2015 Ebola Epidemic -- G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- ...but there is evidence of unequal growth over time and within places... -- There is great potential in the activation of the rural labour force -- Opportunities and support for innovation in Scotland are abundant... -- ...however, more can be done to support rural entrepreneurs -- Social innovation plays an increasingly critical role in delivering services to rural communities -- Next steps for innovation in Scotland -- Key recommendations -- Delivering services for innovation and entrepreneurship in rural Scotland -- Improving delivery of innovation programmes in rural Scotland -- Co-ordination initiatives to improve innovation systems -- Social innovation -- 1 Assessment and recommendations -- Assessments -- There is potential for greater labour force participation and skills matching in rural areas -- The share of the population in remote rural areas of Scotland is slowly declining, while the share in accessible rural areas is growing... -- ...and individuals in non-metropolitan regions are older -- Women are as engaged in the active labour force as men in rural areas but have lower employment rates -- Labour productivity growth is strong in rural Scotland but there is some evidence of unequal growth -- Labour productivity growth was primarily driven by a "catching-up" effect, yet also resulted in growing inequalities between firms within rural areas -- Challenges in innovation still exist in rural areas within Scotland -- Older firms have a higher share of the rural economy -- Smaller businesses have a higher share of the rural economy -- Small and older firms employ fewer individuals in rural areas…”