This book presents the state-of-the-art in supercomputer simulation. It includes the latest findings from leading researchers using systems from the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering ranging from CFD to computational physics and from chemistry to computer science with a special emphasis on industrially relev…
In perusing the lyrics of this play the reader will be distressed by many graceless irregularities of rhythm. A long apprenticeship to the craft of making words fit music has convinced me that the more precisely they follow the musical pattern the more disagreeable they are to read. I trust that the reader whose ear is offended by a line that is too long or by one that slips away tooflowingly w…
THE Speeches and Writings collected together in this volume is an attempt to record the public activities of a great and noble Indian who has for over quarter of a century been unceasingly and unselfishly labouring for the advancement of his Motherland. In the public life of India and in all its varied activities Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya has been occupying a unique place. As a prominent Cong…
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson p…
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Probably no man is better know in Lawrence county than Isaac P. Rose, whose adventures in the Rocky Mountains are here given by Mr. Marsh. Mr. Rose is the oldest school teacher in the county, having taught continuously for 45 winters, without losing a day on account of sickness, and is, at the. time of this writing, engaged in teaching his forty-sixth winter's school, and his pupils, some of wh…
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even our children's toys. Many of these chemicals help us live longer and more comfortable lives, but some of these highly useful chemicals are also persistent, toxic, and dangerous to our health and the environment. For fifty years, the conventional approach to hazard…
"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context, Ensmenger has added hugely to our understanding of how the world of computing and its work practices came to be." Martin Campbell-Kelly, Professor of Computer Science, Warwick University.;"The Comp…