An R and S-Plus® Companion to Multivariate Analysis (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Introducing Autodesk Maya 2015: Autodesk Official Press

Sybex, 2014

Learn Autodesk Maya from an award-winning insider

Best-selling author, visual effects supervisor, and technical educator Dariush Derakhshani brings you a newly-updated, step-by-step guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market, Autodesk Maya. Introducing Autodesk Maya 2015 includes...

Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Wiley Series in Bioinformatics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

The only single, up-to-date source for Grid issues in bioinformatics and biology

Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial applications, creating a need for the use of Grid computing techniques for large-scale distributed applications. This book successfully presents Grid algorithms and...

Number Theory for Computing

Springer, 2002

There are many surprising connections between the theory of numbers, which is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, and computing and information theory. Number theory has important applications in computer organization and security, coding and cryptography, random number generation, hash functions, and graphics. Conversely, number theorists...

Life And Death In Intensive Care

Temple University Press, 2005

Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions--from comas to terminal illness--are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of moral economies to explain the dilemmas that patients,...

HornetQ Messaging Developer's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Any person involved in the field of software development has used and is comfortable with the expression "big data".

With the rise of the social network paradigm, new types of challenges have raised attention in the developer community. Only to make an example of the numbers involved, let us take a look...

Embodied Minds in Action

Oxford University Press, 2009

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like ours are essentially...