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The Multitasking Myth
Handling Complexity in Real-World Operations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite growing concern with the effects of concurrent task demands on human performance, and research demonstrating that these demands are associated with vulnerability to error, so far there has been only limited research into the nature and range of concurrent task demands in real-world settings....
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
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Payer, Provider, Consumer: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs
Industry Confornts Health Care Costs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industry both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of...
Dyslexic and Un-Stoppable
How Dyslexia Helps Us Create the Life of Our Dreams and How You Can Do It Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Does your child have difficulty with reading? Is your child's teacher complaining about behavior or attention issues? Is writing a chore for your child? Could your child be dyslexic? You are in luck. "Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable" is not just another book about dyslexia. It is uniquely designed for...
by Lawrence D. Stone, Johannes O. Royset, Alan R. Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target. It then develops the theory of optimal search for a moving target, providing algorithms for computing optimal plans and examples of their use. Next it develops methods for computing optimal search plans involving...
by Hope S. Warshaw, R.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Here is the most complete and easy-to-use fast-food guide for people with diabetes, heart disease, and weight challenges. Along with nutrition information, this comprehensive book provides the skills and strategies you need to find healthy meals in the most popular fast-food restaurants in America....
Developing Virtual Reality Applications
Foundations of Effective Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Virtual Reality systems enable organizations to cut costs and time, maintain financial and organizational control over the development process, digitally evaluate products before having them created, and allow for greater creative exploration. In this book, VR developers Alan Craig, William Sherman,...
by Bruce M. Bagley, Marten Brienen, Alejandro Chanona
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies....
by R. S. Nickerson, D. N. Perkins, E. E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
War along the Border
The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small...
by R. D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
I do not mean to describe myself. Already I feel that the personal pronoun will appear too often in these pages. Knowing the faults of my character almost as well as my best friends know them, I shall attempt to hide them no more than would those beloved ones. Enough of this: the story I have to tell...
Dune Worlds
How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and appearance elsewhere in the solar system. New developments in knowledge about dunes make for an interesting story – like...
by Wm R. Van Osdol Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
This book is an accumulation of information from those years as a psychologist and as a university professor. The present book is a revised edition from the original copy, which was used as a university textbook. This revision is adapted for the lay public--mother, father, teachers, childrenand designed to give a common sense approach in adult/child relations.