Preface This is a preliminary draft of Chapters 1–3 of our forthcoming textbook Introduction to cluster algebras, joint with Andrei Zelevinsky (1953–2013). We expect to post additional chapters in the not so distant future. This book grew from the ten lectures given by Andrei at the NSF CBMS conference on Cluster Algebras and Applications at North Carolina State University in June 2006. The mat...

ion. Abstraction is a way of hiding details by giving things names. Weuse abstraction to manage complexity. Good abstractions hide unnecessary de-tails so they can be used to build complex systems without needing to under-stand all the details of the abstraction at once. We introduce procedural ab-straction in Chapter 4, data abstraction in Chapter 5, abstraction using objects<l...

The first edition of this practical manual, useful both to practitioners and patients, was published by the author in 1925, and the fact that within a period of 8 jrears the book has gone through seven editions speaks volumes for its popularity. The author's object has been to bring the modern treatment of diabetes within the knowledge of diabetic patients so as to enable them to understand and...

BACKGROUND Giving feedback is a core element of medical education, one that is gaining attention but with a thin evidence base to guide medical educators. This review provides a definition of feedback and its purpose, selectively reviews the literature regarding educators' and learners' attitudes toward feedback, and provides an algorithm for giving feedback. DISCUSSION The authors discuss th...

The emergence of web services technology and SOA has introduced several issues and challenges one has to be aware of in early stages of SOA projects. This book attempts to discuss these challenges from IBM perspective thus giving the reader an important insight into IBM architectural style. The book clearly aims at business leaders and high level executives rather than developers and architects...

Preface This book investigates the classical model of cooperative games with trans-ferable utility (TU-games) and models in which the players have the possibility to cooperate partially, namely fuzzy and multichoice games. In a crisp game the agents are either fully involved or not involved at all in cooperation with some other agents, while in a fuzzy game players are allowed to cooperate with...

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Kirkes' well-known Hand-book has, in its fourteenth edition, been to a great extent rewritten by Professor Halliburton: it retains its original form, and has many of the old familiar illustrations; but a large number of the six hundred drawings are new and are a useful addition to the volume, which, excepting in some minor details, is essentially a new one. For many years the older editions hav...

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