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Book SynopsisThe Pocket Diary of a SENCO spans a typical school year and includes hopeful and often humorous diary entries that share the authentic aspirations, joys and frustrations of championing inclusion and working in the role of a SENCO. Grounded in real-life experiences and day-to-day practice, Pippa McLean describes the experiences of a SENCO and the reality of SEND provision in school, drawing out the personal characteristics and values that schools can foster to support inclusive practice and nurture positive relationships between children, parents and colleagues. Diary extracts across the months range from Be ready to hit the road', Be gentle on yourself', to Be a culture builder'' and Be an advocate''. Each entry is followed by reflective questions and space for the reader to jot down their own thoughts, as well as monthly musings' to support their own professional development. Written in a truly conversational style, this essential pocket diary cTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTIONSEPTEMBEROCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBERJANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRILMAY JUNEJULYAUGUSTEPILOGUEABOUT THE AUTHORINDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book provides real stories about the South Korean semiconductor community. It explores the lives and careers of six influential semiconductor engineers who all studied at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) under the mentorship of Dr. Kim Choong-Ki, the most influential semiconductor professor in South Korea during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Kimâs students became known as âœKimâs Mafiaâ because of the important positions they went on to hold in industry, government, and academia. This book will be of interest to semiconductor engineers and electronics engineers, historians of science and technology, and scholars and students of East Asian studies.âœThey were called âKimâs Mafia.â Kim Choong-Ki himself wouldnât have put it that way. But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. â Kim was the first professor in South Korea to systematically teach semiconductor engineering. From 1975, when the nation had barely begun producing its first transistors, to 2008, when he retired from teaching, Kim trained more than 100 students, effectively creating the first two generations of South Korean semiconductor experts.â (Source: IEEE Spectrum, October, 2022.)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations. Note on Romanization of Korean. Preface. Introduction. 1. Historical Background: Science and Technology in South Korea, KAIST, and the Semiconductor Industry. Part I Mentor 2. Godfather of the South Korean Semiconductor Community: Kim Choong-Ki. Part II Mentees 3. Teacher, Chip Designer, Patron of Startups, and Spokesperson: Kyung Chong-Min. 4. Mr. NAND Flash: Lim Hyung-Kyu. 5. Exploring New Semiconductor Areas: Cho Byung-Jin. 6. Master of TFT-LCD and OLED: Ha Yong-Min. 7. Treasure of SK Hynix: Park Sung-Kye. 8. Engineer-Entrepreneur: Chung Han. Epilogue: Who Will Become the Next Kim Choong- Ki?. References. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on author's wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries. It provides a clear overview of the development of the SDI concept and SDI worldwide implementation and brings a logical chronological approach to the linkage of GIS technology with SDI enabling data. The theory and practice approach help understand that SDI development and implementation is very much a social process of learning by doing. The author masterfully selects main historical developments and updates them with an analytical perspective promoting informed and responsible use of geographic information and geospatial technologies for the benefit of society from local to global scales.Features Subject matter spans thirty years of the development of GIS and SDI. Brings a social sTable of ContentsGeographical Information Systems: Introduction. 1 Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems. Theory. 2 The Regioinal Research Laboratory Intitiative: An Overview. 3 Data Integration Research: Overview and Future Prospects. 4 Brave New GIS Worlds. 5 Geographic Information: A Resource, a Commodity, an Asset or an Infrastructure. Practice. 6 The Development of Geographic Information Systems in Britain: The Chorley Report in Perspective. 7 The Impact of GIS on Local Government in Great Britain. 8 Information Sharing and Implementation of GIS: Some Key Issues. 9 The Diffusion of GIS In Local Government in Europe. Spatial Data Infrastructures: Introduction. 10 Managing Our Urban Future: The Role of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Theory. 11 All Shapes and Sizes: The First Generation of National Spatial Data Infrastructures. 12 The Future of Spatial Data Infrastructures. 13 What’s Special About SDI Related Research? 14 Changing Notions of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Practice. 15 A European Policy Framework for Geographic Information. 16 Reflections on the Indian National Spatial Data Infrastructure. 17 Geographical Information and the Enlargement of the European Union: Four National Case Studies. 18 Operational SDI: The Subnational Dimension in the European Context. 19 Learning from INSPIRE.

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Book SynopsisUX research, the key to comprehending users'' behaviors, motivations, and preferences for developing delightful experiences, thrives on effective teamwork and collaboration. This comprehensive guide brings together the expertise and insights from seasoned researchers, cross-functional partners, and product leaders in order to transform how you collaborate and unlock the true potential of UX research.Key FeaturesIncludes a comprehensive selection of ready-to-use templatesIncorporates insights and advice from cross-functional stakeholdersOffers a wide range of strategies tailored to various expertise levels, catering to both novice and advanced practitionersPresents universally applicable methodologies and insights, equipping a diverse range of researchers, including consultants, vendors, and in-house professionalsFroTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Who Are (Your) Cross-Functional Partners and Why Is Their Buy-In Important?, 3. Mistakes That UX Researchers Make With Cross-Functional Partnerships, 4. Simple Strategies for Effective Cross-Functional Collaboration, 5. Advanced Strategies for Effective Cross-Functional Collaboration

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Book SynopsisThis book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view. It raises criticalquestions about logic by examining various ways in which logic may be entangled with mathematics and metaphysics.Is logic topic-neutral and general? Can we take the application of logic for granted? This book suggests that we should not be dogmatic about logic but ask similar critical questions about logic as those Kant raised about metaphysics and mathematics. It challenges the Fregean logic-first view according to which logic is fundamental and hence independent of any extra-logical considerations. Whereas Quine assimilated logic and mathematics to the theoretical parts of empirical science, the present volume explores views that stop short of his thoroughgoing holism but instead take logic to be answerable to or entangled with some particular disciplines. The contributions provide views that assign primacy to mathematical reasons, Kantian metaphysical grounds, Husserlian tranTable of ContentsIntroduction to “Critical Views of Logic” 1. Infinity and a Critical View of Logic 2. Dummett’s objection to the ontological route to intuitionistic logic: a rejoinder 3. The entanglement of logic and set theory, constructively 4. Critical Plural Logic 5. Kant on the possibilities of mathematics and the scope and limits of logic 6. The infinite, the indefinite and the critical turn: Kant via Kripke models 7. Husserl on Kant and the critical view of logic 8. Logical pluralism and normativity 9. Disagreement about logic

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Python''s rich history, dynamic features, and its wide-ranging applications in web development, data science, and machine learning. From its installation process to interactive help, readers embark on a journey through Python''s unique characteristics and its distinctions from other programming languages. It lays a solid foundation for beginners and seasoned programmers alike.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

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Book SynopsisFrom the Foreword:The authors of the chapters in this book are the pioneers who will explore the exascale frontier. The path forward will not be easy... These authors, along with their colleagues who will produce these powerful computer systems will, with dedication and determination, overcome the scalability problem, discover the new algorithms needed to achieve exascale performance for the broad range of applications that they represent, and create the new tools needed to support the development of scalable and portable science and engineering applications. Although the focus is on exascale computers, the benefits will permeate all of science and engineering because the technologies developed for the exascale computers of tomorrow will also power the petascale servers and terascale workstations of tomorrow. These affordable computing capabilities will empower scientists and engineers everywhere. Thom H. Dunning, Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University Trade Review"Numerical simulation is now a need in many fields of science, technology, and industry. The complexity of the simulated systems coupled with the massive use of data makes the HPC essential to move towards predictive simulations. Advances in computer architecture have so far permitted scientific advances, but at the cost of continually adapting algorithms and applications. The next technological breaks force us to rethink the applications by taking energy consumption into account. These profound modifications require not only anticipation and sharing but also a paradigm shift in application design to ensure the sustainability of developments by guaranteeing a certain independence of the applications to the profound modifications of the architectures: it is the passage from optimal performance to the portability of performance. It is the challenge of this book to demonstrate by example the approach that one can adopt for the development of applications offering a portability of the performances in spite of the profound changes of the computing architectures."— Christophe Calvin, CEA, Fundamental Research Division, Scalay, France"This comprehensive summary of applications targeting Exascale at the three DoE labs is a must read."— Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan"Three editors, one from each of the High Performance Computer Centers at Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, have complied a very useful set of chapters aimed at describing software developments for the next generation exa-scale computers. Such a book is needed for scientists and engineers to see where the field is going and how they will be able to exploit such architectures for their own work. The book will also benefit students as it provides insights into how to develop software for such computer architectures. Overall, this book fills an important need in showing how to design and implement algorithms for exa-scale architectures which are heterogeneous and have unique memory systems. The book discusses issues with developing user codes for these architectures and how to address these issues including actual coding examples.’ — Dr. David A. Dixon, Robert Ramsay Chair, The University of Alabama, USA"Numerical simulation is now a need in many fields of science, technology, and industry. The complexity of the simulated systems coupled with the massive use of data makes the HPC essential to move towards predictive simulations. Advances in computer architecture have so far permitted scientific advances, but at the cost of continually adapting algorithms and applications. The next technological breaks force us to rethink the applications by taking energy consumption into account. These profound modifications require not only anticipation and sharing but also a paradigm shift in application design to ensure the sustainability of developments by guaranteeing a certain independence of the applications to the profound modifications of the architectures: it is the passage from optimal performance to the portability of performance. It is the challenge of this book to demonstrate by example the approach that one can adopt for the development of applications offering a portability of the performances in spite of the profound changes of the computing architectures."— Christophe Calvin, CEA, Fundamental Research Division, Scalay, France"This comprehensive summary of applications targeting Exascale at the three DoE labs is a must read."— Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan"Three editors, one from each of the High Performance Computer Centers at Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, have complied a very useful set of chapters aimed at describing software developments for the next generation exa-scale computers. Such a book is needed for scientists and engineers to see where the field is going and how they will be able to exploit such architectures for their own work. The book will also benefit students as it provides insights into how to develop software for such computer architectures. Overall, this book fills an important need in showing how to design and implement algorithms for exa-scale architectures which are heterogeneous and have unique memory systems. The book discusses issues with developing user codes for these architectures and how to address these issues including actual coding examples.’ — Dr. David A. Dixon, Robert Ramsay Chair, The University of Alabama, USATable of Contents1. Portable Methodologies for Energy Optimization on Large-Scale Power-Constrained Systems 2. Performance Analysis and Debugging Tools at Scale 3. Exascale Challenges in Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebras 4. Exposing Hierarchical Parallelism in the FLASH Code for Supernova Simulation on Summit and Other Architectures 5. NAMD: Scalable Molecular Dynamics Based on the Charm++ Parallel Runtime System 6. Developments in Computer Architecture and the Birth and Growth of Computational Chemistry 7. On Preparing the Super Instruction Architecture and Aces4 for Future Computer Systems 8. Transitioning NWChem to the Next Generation of Manycore Machines 9. Exascale Programming Approaches for Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy 10. Preparing the Community Earth System Model for Exascale Computing 11. Large Eddy Simulation of Reacting Flow Physics and Combustion 12. S3D-Legion: An Exascale Software for Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion with Complex Multicomponent Chemistry 13. Data and Work_ow Management for Exascale Global Adjoint Tomography 14. Scalable Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement with Complex Geometry 15. Extreme Scale Unstructured Adaptive CFD for Aerodynamic Flow Control 16. Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics and Chroma 17. PIC Codes on the Road to Exascale Architectures 18. Extreme-Scale De Novo Genome Assembly 19. Exascale Scientific Applications: Programming Approaches for Scalability, Performance, and Portability: KKRnano 20. Real-Space Multiple-Scattering Theory and Its Applications at Exascale 21 Development of QMCPACK for Exascale Scientific Computing 22. Preparing an Excited-State Materials Application for Exascale 23. Global Gyrokinetic Particle-in-Cell Simulation 24. The Fusion Code XGC: Enabling Kinetic Study of Multiscale Edge Turbulent Transport in ITER

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Book SynopsisIn view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors, accelerators, and coprocessors, as well as clusters using such computing devices, the development of efficient parallel applications has become a key challenge to be able to exploit the performance of such systems. This book covers the scope of parallel programming for modern high performance computing systems. It first discusses selected and popular state-of-the-art computing devices and systems available today, These include multicore CPUs, manycore (co)processors, such as Intel Xeon Phi, accelerators, such as GPUs, and clusters, as well as programming models supported on these platforms.It next introduces parallelization through important programming paradigms, such as master-slave, geometric Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) and divide-and-conquer.The practical and useful elements of the most popular and important APIs for programming parallel HPC systems areTable of Contents1. Understanding the Need for Parallel Computing 2. Overview of Selected Parallel and Distributed Systems for High Performance Computing 3. Typical Paradigms for Parallel Applications 4. Selected APIs for Parallel Programming 5. Programming Parallel Paradigms Using Selected APIS 6. Optimization Techniques and Best Practices for Parallel Codes Appendix A. Resources Appendix B. Further reading

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Book SynopsisThis book focusses on power quality improvement and enhancement techniques with aid of intelligent controllers and experimental results. It covers topics ranging from the fundamentals of power quality indices, mitigation methods, advanced controller design and its step by step approach, simulation of the proposed controllers for real time applications and its corresponding experimental results, performance improvement paradigms and its overall analysis, which helps readers understand power quality from its fundamental to experimental implementations. The book also covers implementation of power quality improvement practices.Key Features Provides solution for the power quality improvement with intelligent techniques Incorporated and Illustrated with simulation and experimental results Discusses renewable energy integration and multiple case studies pertaining to various loads Combines the power quality Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Mitigation Techniques 3. A Voltage-Controlled DSTATCOM for Power Quality Improvement 4. Power Quality Issues and Solutions in Renewable Energy Systems 5. Review of Control Topologies for Shunt Active Filters 6. Control Topologies for Series Active Filters 7. Control Strategies for Active Filters 8. An Active Power Filter in Phase Coordinates for Harmonic Mitigation 9. Line Harmonics Reduction in High-Power Systems 10. AC–DC Boost Converter Control for Power Quality Mitigation 11. Harmonic and Flicker Assessment of an Industrial System with Bulk Nonlinear Loads 12. LCL Filter Design for Grid-Interconnected Systems 13. Harmonics Mitigation in Load Commutated Inverter Fed Synchronous Motor Drives 14. Power-Quality Improvements in Vector-Controlled Induction Motor Drives

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Book SynopsisData Visualization Made Simple is a practical guide to the fundamentals, strategies, and real-world cases for data visualization, an essential skill required in today's information-rich world. With foundations rooted in statistics, psychology, and computer science, data visualization offers practitioners in almost every field a coherent way to share findings from original research, big data, learning analytics, and more.In nine appealing chapters, the book: examines the role of data graphics in decision-making, sharing information, sparking discussions, and inspiring future research; scrutinizes data graphics, deliberates on the messages they convey, and looks at options for design visualization; and includes cases and interviews to provide a contemporary view of how data graphics are used by professionals across industries Both novices and seasoned designers in education, business, anTrade Review"In the tradition of Edward Tufte’s design strategies for visual and narrative representations that frame our shared reality, Sosulski has artfully crafted a functional guide to design patterns and processes for shaping expressions of data and, most importantly, its usage in real-world organizational contexts. This will be a go-to reference in my library for years to come."—Jason Severs, Chief Design Officer, Droga5Table of Contents1. Becoming Visual 2. The Tools 3. The Graphics 4. The Data 5. The Design 6. The Audience 7. The Presentation 8. The Cases 9. The End

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Book SynopsisAdvanced Problem Solving Using Maple: Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Decision Analysis applies the mathematical modeling process by formulating, building, solving, analyzing, and criticizing mathematical models. Scenarios are developed within the scope of the problem-solving process.The text focuses on discrete dynamical systems, optimization techniques, single-variable unconstrained optimization and applied problems, and numerical search methods. Additional coverage includes multivariable unconstrained and constrained techniques. Linear algebra techniques to model and solve problems such as the Leontief model, and advanced regression techniques including nonlinear, logistics, and Poisson are covered. Game theory, the Nash equilibrium, and Nash arbitration are also included.Features: The text's case studies and student projects involve students with real-world problem soTable of ContentsIntroduction to Problem Solving and Maple. Discrete Dynamical Systems. Single Variable Unconstrained and Constrained Optimization. Multi- Variable Unconstrained and Constrained Optimization. Linear Systems. Advanced Model Fitting.

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Book SynopsisThis easy-to-use, classroom-tested textbook covers the C programming language for computer science and IT students. Designed for a compulsory fundamental course, it presents the theory and principles of C. More than 500 exercises and examples of progressive difficulty aid students in understanding all the aspects and peculiarities of the C language. The exercises test students on various levels of programming and the examples enhance their concrete understanding of programming know-how. Instructor''s manual and PowerPoint slides are available upon qualifying course adoptionTable of ContentsIntroduction to C. Data Types, Variables, and Data Output. Operators, Program Controls. Loops. Arrays. Pointers. Characters. Strings. Functions. Searching and Sorting Arrays. Structures and Unions. Memory Management and Data Structures. Files. Preprocessor Directives and Macros. Writing Large Programs. Introduction to C++. Introduction to Java. Review Exercises. Appendixes: Operator Precedence Table. ASCII Character Set. Standard Library Functions. Hex System.

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Book SynopsisExponential improvement in functionality and performance of digital integrated circuits has revolutionized the way we live and work. The continued scaling down of MOS transistors has broadened the scope of use for circuit technology to the point that texts on the topic are generally lacking after a few years. The second edition of Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design focuses on timeless principles with a modern interdisciplinary view that will serve integrated circuits engineers from all disciplines for years to come. Providing a revised instructional reference for engineers involved with Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit design and fabrication, this book delves into the dramatic advances in the field, including new applications and changes in the physics of operation made possible by relentless miniaturization. This book was conceived in the versatile spirit of the field to bridge a void that had existed between books on trTable of ContentsIntroduction. Fabrication. Semiconductors and p-n Junctions. The MOS Transistor. MOS Gate Circuits. Static CMOS. Interconnect. Dynamic CMOS. Low-Power CMOS. Bistable Circuits. Digital Memories. Input/Output and Interface Circuits. Appendices.

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Book Synopsis'... a very good balance between the theory and practice of real-time embedded system designs.' —Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, Ph.D., Research Laboratory, Internet Initiative Japan Inc., IETF IPv6 Operations Working Group (v6ops) co-chair 'A clTable of ContentsFOREWORD, PREFACE, CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER 2: BASICS OF DEVELOPING FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, CHAPTER 3: EMBEDDED SYSTEM INITIALIZATION, CHAPTER 4: INTRODUCTION TO REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS, CHAPTER 5: TASKS, CHAPTER 6: SEMAPHORES, CHAPTER 7: MESSAGE QUEUES, CHAPTER 8: OTHER KERNEL OBJECTS, CHAPTER 9: OTHER RTOS SERVICES, CHAPTER 10: EXCEPTIONS AND INTERRUPTS, CHAPTER 11: TIMER AND TIMER SERVICES, CHAPTER 12: I/O SUBSYSTEM, CHAPTER 13: MEMORY MANAGEMENT, CHAPTER 14: MODELARIZING AN APPLICATION FOR CONCURRENCY, CHAPTER 15: SYNCHRONIZATION AND COMMUNICATION, CHAPTER 16: COMMON DESIGN PROBLEMS, APPENDIX A: REFERENCES, ABOUT THE AUTHORS, Index

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Book SynopsisThis lucid textbook provides a complete view of data structures and algorithms using the Python programming language, striking a balance between theory and practical application. Diagrams and examples have been extensively used for better understanding. The online supplements package includes lecture slides and a solutions manual.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Data Structure Preliminaries; Chapter 2. Introduction to Algorithm; Chapter 3. Array; Chapter 4. Python Data Structures; Chapter 5. Strings; Chapter 6. Recursion; Chapter 7. Linked List; Chapter 8. Stack; Chapter 9. Queue; Chapter 10. Trees; Chapter 11. Heap; Chapter 12. Graph; Chapter 13. Searching and Sorting; Chapter 14. Hashing.

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Book SynopsisThe benchmark text for the syllabus organized by technology (a week on databases, a week on networks, a week on systems development, etc.) taught from a managerial perspective. OâBrien defines technology and then explains how companies use the technology to improve performance. Real world cases finalize the explanation.

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Book SynopsisHow to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.Most robots are not very friendly. They vacuum the rug, mow the lawn, dispose of bombs, even perform surgery—but they aren't good conversationalists. It's difficult to make eye contact. If the future promises more human-robot collaboration in both work and play, wouldn't it be better if the robots were less mechanical and more social? In How to Grow a Robot, Mark Lee explores how robots can be more human-like, friendly, and engaging.Developments in artificial intelligence—notably Deep Learning—are widely seen as the foundation on which our robot future will be built. These advances have already brought us self-driving cars and chess match-winning algorithms. But, Lee writes, we need robots that are perceptive, animated, and responsive—more like humans and less like computers, more social than mac

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Book SynopsisThe Game Boy Advance platform as computational system and cultural artifact, from its 2001 release through hacks, mods, emulations, homebrew afterlives.In 2002, Nintendo of America launched an international marketing campaign for the Game Boy Advance that revolved around the slogan “Who Are You?”—asking potential buyers which Nintendo character, game, or even device they identified with and attempting to sell a new product by exploiting players' nostalgic connections to earlier ones. Today, nearly two decades after its release, and despite the development of newer and more powerful systems, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance lives on, through a community that continues to hack, modify, emulate, make, break, remake, redesign, trade, use, love, and play with the platform. In this book Alex Custodio traces the network of hardware and software afterlives of the Game Boy Advance platform. Each chapter considers a component of this network—hardware, software

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Book SynopsisA graduate-level textbook that presents a unified mathematical framework for modeling and analyzing cyber-physical systems, with a strong focus on verification.Verification aims to establish whether a system meets a set of requirements. For such cyber-physical systems as driverless cars, autonomous spacecraft, and air-traffic management systems, verification is key to building safe systems with high levels of assurance. This graduate-level textbook presents a unified mathematical framework for modeling and analyzing cyber-physical systems, with a strong focus on verification. It distills the ideas and algorithms that have emerged from more than three decades of research and have led to the creation of industrial-scale modeling and verification techniques for cyber-physical systems.

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Book SynopsisHow computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objects.Most of us think of computer graphics as a relatively recent invention, enabling the spectacular visual effects and lifelike simulations we see in current films, television shows, and digital games. In fact, computer graphics have been around as long as the modern computer itself, and played a fundamental role in the development of our contemporary culture of computing. In Image Objects, Jacob Gaboury offers a prehistory of computer graphics through an examination of five technical objects--an algorithm, an interface, an object standard, a programming paradigm, and a hardware platform--arguing that computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium. Gaboury explores early efforts to produce an algorithmic solution for the calculation of object visibility;

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Book SynopsisA general formal theory of causal reasoning as a logical study of causal models, reasoning, and inference.In this book, Alexander Bochman presents a general formal theory of causal reasoning as a logical study of causal models, reasoning, and inference, basing it on a supposition that causal reasoning is not a competitor of logical reasoning but its complement for situations lacking logically sufficient data or knowledge. Bochman also explores the relationship of this theory with the popular structural equation approach to causality proposed by Judea Pearl and explores several applications ranging from artificial intelligence to legal theory, including abduction, counterfactuals, actual and proximate causality, dynamic causal models, and reasoning about action and change in artificial intelligence.            As logical preparation, before introducing causal concepts, Bochman describes an alternative, s

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Book SynopsisCoding for a purpose: helping young people combine journalism, data, design, and code to make media that makes a difference.Educators are urged to teach “code for all”—to make a specialized field accessible for students usually excluded from it. In Code for What? Clifford Lee and Elisabeth Soep instead ask the question, “code for what?” What if coding were a justice-driven medium for storytelling rather than a narrow technical skill? What if “democratizing” computer science went beyond the usual one-off workshop and empowered youth to create digital products for social impact? Lee and Soep answer these questions with stories of a diverse group of young people in Oakland, California, who combine journalism, data, design, and code to create media that make a difference. These teenage and young adult producers created interactive projects that explored gendered and racialized dress code policies in schools; desig

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Book SynopsisWhy so few African American and Latino/a students study computer science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis and coauthors look at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. They find an insidious “virtual segregation” that maintains inequality. The race gap in computer science, Margolis discovers, is one example of the w

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Book SynopsisHackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to build out democracy into cyberspace.

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Book SynopsisHow to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. The approach generates policy debates, influences civic decisions, and informs design to help ensure that the voices of people represented in the data are neither marginalized nor left unheard.

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Book SynopsisFrom NPR comes the definitive guide to podcasting—featuring step-by-step advice on how to find a unique topic, tell the best stories, and engage the most listeners, as well as the secrets that will take your pod to the next level.Whoever you are, whatever you love, there’s a podcast audience waiting for you, and in today’s booming audio storytelling landscape, it’s never been easier to share your voice with the world. But while the barrier to entry for podcast production is relatively low (just the cost of a mic and a laptop), the learning curve is steep—and quality matters. That’s where NPR comes in.  In NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide, Glen Weldon draws on NPR’s extensive educational materials and army of talent—from recognizable hosts, such as Guy Raz (How I Built This), Gene Demby (Code Switch), Linda Holmes (Pop Culture Happy Hour), and Yowei Shaw (Invisibil

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Book SynopsisUses a contemporary approach to traditional computer concepts learning by integrating text and engaging technologies. Our Digital World connects concepts learning with the way individuals use today's various online technology through a web-centric experience.

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Book SynopsisAn exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are   Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer lan­guages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philoso­pher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the pro­gramming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contribu­tions to instant messaging technology devel­oped for Microsoft and the servers powering Google’s data stores. A lifelong student of the systems that shape our lives—from the psy­chiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its users—Auerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior and that compel us to do the same.  Into this exquisitely crafted, wide-ranging memoir of a life spent with code, Auerbach has woven an eye-opening and searing examina­tion of the inescapable ways in which algo­rithms have both standardized and coarsened our lives. As we engineer ever more intricate technology to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the ma­chine, Auerbach argues, we willingly erase our nuances and our idiosyncrasies—precisely the things that make us human.

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Book SynopsisClustering techniques are increasingly being put to use in the analysis of high-throughput biological datasets. Novel computational techniques to analyse high throughput data in the form of sequences, gene and protein expressions, pathways, and images are becoming vital for understanding diseases and future drug discovery.Table of ContentsPreface xix List of Symbols xxi About the Authors xxiii Part One Introduction 1 1 Introduction to Bioinformatics 3 2 Computational Methods in Bioinformatics 9 Part Two Introduction to Molecular Biology 19 3 The Living Cell 21 4 Central Dogma of Molecular Biology 33 Part Three Data Acquisition and Pre-processing 53 5 High-throughput Technologies 55 6 Databases, Standards and Annotation 67 7 Normalisation 87 8 Feature Selection 109 9 Differential Expression 119 Part Four Clustering Methods 133 10 Clustering Forms 135 11 Partitional Clustering 143 12 Hierarchical Clustering 157 13 Fuzzy Clustering 167 14 Neural Network-based Clustering 181 15 Mixture Model Clustering 197 16 Graph Clustering 227 17 Consensus Clustering 247 18 Biclustering 265 19 Clustering Methods Discussion 283 Part Five Validation and Visualisation 303 20 Numerical Validation 305 21 Biological Validation 323 22 Visualisations and Presentations 339 Part Six New Clustering Frameworks Designed for Bioinformatics 363 23 Splitting-Merging Awareness Tactics (SMART) 365 24 Tightness-tunable Clustering (UNCLES) 385 Appendix 395 Index 409

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