Like all authors, I hope that this book will find wide readership. At the same time, I believe that good books are intensely personal objects. As readers, we have our favorite books, and this is an emotional statement, laden with context.1 Similarly, writers bring not just their knowledge and their technical skill to the creation of a book, but also their personalities. In writing something whi...

Real-time systems and networks are of increasing importance in many applications, including automated factories, telecommunication systems, defense systems, and space systems. This book introduces the concepts and state-of-the-art research developments of resource management in real-time systems and networks. Unlike other texts in the field, it covers the entire spectrum of issues in resource m...

ion. Abstraction is a way of hiding details by giving things names. Weuse abstraction to manage complexity. Good abstractions hide unnecessarydetails so they can be used to build complex systems without needing to un-derstand all the details of the abstraction at once. We introduce proceduralabstraction in Chapter 4, data abstraction in Chapter 5, the digital abstrac-tion in...

We analyze institutional allocation in initial public offerings (IPOs) using a new dataset of US offerings between 1997 and 1998. We document a positive relation between institutional allocation and day 1 IPO returns: for instance, institutions get under 60% of overpriced issues but about 75% of underpriced issues. The positive relation is partly explained by the practice of giving institutions...

A father beating his wife because he thinks she has been looking at another man while they were out in the pub; a girl being regularly kept off school to babysit her younger siblings; a mother who acknowledges ambivalent feelings towards her children being negatively judged by professionals because she is not all-giving and ever available; a teenage boy drinking daily because, in part, of his p...

Mrs. Chaloner approves the modern manner of answering difficult questions simply and honestly, but warns against perplexing children by giving them more facts than they want, or can use at a particular stage of understanding. Throughout the book she gives examples of the differences in interest and meaning which the same question may have to the two, three, four, and five year old child. The na...

With the continuous development of science and technology, innovation network digital electronic culture has brought a huge impact on traditional book culture, which makes educational means classroom mode in field education constantly change, future will be more scientific technological. Among them, 3D holographic projection is an embodiment. improvement teaching requirements, technology one da...

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A~STRACT FORECASTS OF THE DEMISE OF THE printed book or codex and the associated changes in the academic library foster valid questions about the continuing place of reading and print media in American colleges. This article cites the increasing interest paid to information technologies by higher education, particularly college libraries, and the corresponding competition from radio, television...

Master the latest electronic warfare (EW) techniques and technologies related to on-board military platforms with this authoritative resource. You gain expert design guidance on technologies and equipment used to detect and identify emitter threats, giving you an advantage in the never-ending chess game between sensor guided weapons and EW systems. This unique book offers you deeper insight int...