Dominic: 570 books
by Dominic Rüfenacht
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A key element of any modern video codec is the efficient exploitation of temporal redundancy via motion-compensated prediction. In this book, a novel paradigm of representing and employing motion information in a video compression system is described that has several advantages over existing approaches....
Food Enzymes
Structure and Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Food Enzymes: Structure and Mechanism is the first volume to bring together current information on the structures and mechanisms of important food enzymes. It provides an in-depth discussion of the dynamic aspects of enzyme structures and their relationship to the chemistry of catalysis. The book...
by Emma Preece, Dr Dominic Upton
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within Biological Psychology, presented within a framework designed to help you focus on assessment and exams, and matching the requirements of the BPS.
The text is organised so that the basic principles are outlined first...
by Dr Jonathan Ling, Dr Jonathan Catling, Dr Dominic Upton
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within cognitive psychology, designed to help you focus on assessment and exams. The guide is organised to cater for QAA and BPS recommendations for course content. Sample questions, assessment advice and exam tips drive the organisation...
by Penney Upton, Dr Dominic Upton
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within Developmental Psychology, presented within a framework designed to help you focus on assessment and exams. The guide is organised broadly chronologically, but with a topical focus in tune with the majority of courses. Sample...
The Early Literacy Handbook
Making sense of language and literacy with children birth to seven - a practical guide to the context approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The heart of this book is a new approach to the teaching of language and literacy. Its focus is exemplary classroom practice built on rigorous theory and evidence.The approach combines new theory and dynamic practice in its advocacy for contextualised teaching. This book shows how the teaching of smaller...
Automated Data Collection with R
A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R
Introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL.
Provides basic techniques to query web documents and data sets (XPath and regular...
Worst Things First
The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates...
by Dominic Upton
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What makes someone feel healthy? Why do some people respond differently under stress to others? Why dont people always follow nursing advice?
This second edition of Introducing Psychology for Nurses and Healthcare Professionalsprovides an accessible but thorough introduction to the key psychological...
Qualitative HCI Research
Going Behind the Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) addresses problems of interaction design: understanding user needs to inform design, delivering novel designs that meet user needs, and evaluating new and existing designs to determine their success in meeting user needs. Qualitative methods have an essential role...
by Dominic Roskrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This beautifully presented Little Book is an excellent introduction to the world of rum. It includes the very best product from the Caribbean, UK, and US as well as new and emerging markets. With a fascinating history of the product itself, how it’s made, and details of the world’s best rums,...
Venice in Environmental Peril?
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice’s environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian...
by Dominic Roskrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This beautifully presented Little Book is an excellent introduction to the world of craft beer including the major UK, US, and European microbreweries. It includes a fascinating history of the product, how it’s made, how best to drink it and details of the world’s finest craft beers. The book...
WTO Disciplines on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Balancing Policy Space and Legal Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Does the WTO leave appropriate policy space to its Members to pursue legitimate objectives, such as the economic development of developing countries, the conversion to a greener economy, or recovery in times of a global economic downturn? This legal and normative analysis of the WTO rules on subsidies...