Decades ago Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. " We now live in what has been christened a " new gilded age. " Wealth in the United States is indeed concentrated in the hands of a few— more so than at any time since the 1920s. In this book I examine the rela...

Welcome to this book on configuration systems! The purpose of this book is to expose the reader to a field of Artificial Intelligence that has been successfully integrated and used in the industry for more than 30 years. This book provides configuration-related material for interested readers from the fields of industry, education, and research. 1.1 What Is Configuration? This part of the book ...

The book author, professor Crispin Gardiner, is currently honorary fellow at the physics department of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University, England, and has since been working at various institutes, including the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Over the years, he has made many contributions to the study of Bose–Einstein cond...

surgery have been incorporated in the book. There are 110 admirable woodcuts illustrative of surgical appliances and proceedings, and access to the information contained in the work is rendered easy by means of a full table of contents, italic titles of sections, capital page headings, and a most excellent index. The work commences with a good description of the general treatment of thu wounded...

The interactions between different formal models and biology have a long-standing successful history. Results have been produced on both sides of this process while continuously new models are considered and new biological territories are uncovered. On one hand, biological systems, as cells, have been recognised as complex systems requesting various models to simulate, explain, and verify their...

ali-ibn-e-abbas-al-majusi, well known as haly abbas in the west, a physician, surgeon and psychologist of buyid dynasty era, lived in the 10th century (a.d). he, along with tabari, razi, avicienna, and jorjani, established the foundation of islamic medicine. he authored “kamilu sina’at” or “al-kitab al-maliki” (the royal book), a book on medicine which was used in european universities until th...

From time to time, we need to be reminded that not so long ago information was distributed in the form of words and pictures printed on sheets of paper and bound into what were called journals and books. Although everything is done today in a very different way, the fact that the products of scientific research are still called papers links us to the past. My father once told me that he could r...