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Completely revised and edited throughout, includes four new chapters covering electrical distribution systems; motors and drives; building commissioning; and the impact of human behavior on facility energy management. Also updated are chapters on lighting, HVAC systems, web based building automation...

This book is intended for those who want to learn how to use R's capabilities to build models in quantitative finance at a more advanced level. If you wish to perfectly take up the rhythm of the chapters, you need to be at an intermediate level in quantitative finance and you also need to have a reasonable knowledge of R.

INTRODUCTION Population and Sample Observations and Variables Variables and Scales Quantitative or Measurement Variable on Interval Scale Qualitative Variable on Nominal Scale Ranked Variable on Ordinal Scale Frequency Distribution Properties of Frequency Distribution Normal Distribution Properties...

In this fully updated second edition of his popular 2006 book author internet trainer and blogger Michael P. Sauers shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and successfully used by libraries and librarians. Sauers provides a wealth of useful examples and insights from librarian bloggers and...

Project Quick Find is the true story of sea lions trained to help U.S. Navy SEALs. Begun in Hawaii in the late 1960s, the project recruited trainers in Coronado, California, to successfully teach the animals to recover objects from the ocean floor. The program eventually received official navy certification,...

Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;  Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;  Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep

There are trillions of bytes of information within the web, all of it driven by behind-the-scenes data. Vast quantities of information make it hard to find what’s really important. Here’s a practical guide to the future of web-based technology, especially search. It provides the knowledge and skills...

Originally published in 1888, The Secret Doctrine is Madame Blavatsky's two-volume magnum opus, constituting one of the seminal works on esoteric knowledge of their age. Volume 1, "Cosmogenesis," covers the creation of the universe, the evolution of our universe, and how it follows the Hindu cycles of manvantaras (activity) and pralayas (passivity).

When the lust for blood and passion overwhelms where does a vampire find satisfaction?Vampire Dreams by J.P. Bowie tells of an author suffering from writer's block finds inspiration for his vampire novel in the arms of a mysterious young man - or is it all a dream?In More Than Memories by Amber...

A guided tour though the many worlds of a New York Times best-selling master of authentic science fact and riveting science fiction.James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day...

Obedience. Self-restraint Endurance. Silence. . .These are the duties of a Highborn lady, and like the veils, masks and tight-fitting underskirts female Kencyr students are obliged to wear, Jame finds them damnably constricting. Sent here by her brother Torisen, Highlord of the Kencyrath, she has tried...

P. C. Hodgell,'s latest high fantasy novel, is the sequel Seeker's Mask, which in turn follows "God Stalk and Dark of the Moon (collected in the Meisha Merlin omnibus, Dark of the Gods).These are the chronicles of Jamethiel Priest's-bane, otherwise known as Jame, as she struggles to find a place in a...

STRANDEDDEFINITION: adjective•(of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore."a stranded whale"•left without the means to move from somewhere."he offers a lift to a stranded commuter"###The boys in this collection of short stories have most definitely been left STRANDED!They’ve been...

THE KNIGHT IS A SAINT(with a twist!)At least you might think so if you read his curriculum vitae. You would swear in fact that this private eye of the future is honest, paying for what he gets, getting what he's paid for, with somehow a little extra for everybody to go around. Take this case, involving...