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Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics: What the Equations Don’t Say (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)
by Lydia Patton Erik CurielThis book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers who want to keep up to date on front-line scientific research in fluid mechanics and gravitational wave astrophysics will find timely and well-informed analyses of this scientific research and its philosophical significance. These exciting frontiers of research pose deep scientific problems, and raise key questions in the philosophy of science related to scientific explanation and understanding, theory change and assessment, measurement, interpretation, realism, and modeling. The audience of the book includes philosophers of science, philosophers of mathematics, scientists with philosophical interests, and students in philosophy, history, mathematics, and science. Anyone who is interested in the methods and philosophical questions behind the recent exciting work in physics discussed here will profit from reading this book.
Working With Diagrams (Studies in Social Analysis #14)
by Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey Christos LynterisArising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist’s interactions and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and formalization.
Working with Dynamical Systems: A Toolbox for Scientists and Engineers (Series in Computational Biophysics)
by Len PismenThis book provides working tools for the study and design of nonlinear dynamical systems applicable in physics and engineering. It offers a broad-based introduction to this challenging area of study, taking an applications-oriented approach that emphasizes qualitative analysis and approximations rather than formal mathematics or simulation. The author, an internationally recognized authority in the field, makes extensive use of examples and includes executable Mathematica notebooks that may be used to generate new examples as hands-on exercises. The coverage includes discussion of mechanical models, chemical and ecological interactions, nonlinear oscillations and chaos, forcing and synchronization, spatial patterns and waves. Key Features: · Written for a broad audience, avoiding dependence on mathematical formulations in favor of qualitative, constructive treatment. · Extensive use of physical and engineering applications. · Incorporates Mathematica notebooks for simulations and hands-on self-study. · Provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to real-world nonlinear problems. · Features a final chapter dedicated to applications of dynamical systems to spatial patterns. The book is aimed at student and researchers in applied mathematics and mathematical modelling of physical and engineering problems. It teaches to see common features in systems of different origins, and to apply common methods of study without losing sight of complications and uncertainties related to their physical origin.
Working with Numbers: Student Edition, Level B (Steck-Vaughn Working with Numbers Ser.)
by Weatherly Steck-Vaughn StaffA best-selling classic, Working with Numbers is a straightforward series offering solid coverage and extra practice for grade-level math skills. Useful as an alternative curriculum for struggling students or those requiring remediation. Student edition for Level B. Publisher: Harcourt School Format: 142 pages, paperback Grade: 2 ISBN: 9780739891575
Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists
by Charles Livingston Paul S. VoakesWorking With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists will bolster math skills and improve math confidence for journalists at all skill levels. Authors Charles Livingston and Paul Voakes developed this resource book to improve journalistic writing and reporting, enabling journalists to:*make accurate, reliable computations, which in turn enables one to make relevant comparisons, put facts into perspective, and lend important context to stories;*recognize inaccurate presentations, whether willfully spun or just carelessly relayed;*ask appropriate questions about numerical matters;*translate complicated numbers for viewers and readers in ways they can readily understand;*understand computer-assisted reporting; and*write livelier, more precise pieces through the use of numbers.The math is presented in a journalistic context throughout, enabling readers to see how the procedures will come into play in their work.Working With Numbers and Statistics is designed as a reference work for journalism students developing their writing and reporting skills. It will also serve professionals as a useful tool to improve their understanding and use of numbers in news stories.
Working With Numbers (Level E)
by Shea Steck-Vaughn StaffA best-selling classic, Working with Numbers is a straightforward series offering solid coverage and extra practice for grade-level math-skills an ideal alternative curriculum for struggling students or those requiring remediation.
Working with Odoo
by Greg MossLearn how to use Odoo, a resourceful, open source business application platform designed to transform and modernize your business About This Book * Configure, manage, and customize Odoo to fit the needs of your business * Learn about the new Odoo 8 website builder and e-commerce features that are seamlessly integrated with Odoo's business applications * Perform step-by-step configurations of the most important Odoo applications using real-world examples Who This Book Is For This book is perfect for people who have never used Odoo and for those who would like to learn about more advanced features such as creating your own custom modules. In order to get the most out of this book, you should be comfortable with downloading and installing software and understand basic business concepts such as sales, purchasing, inventory management, and basic accounting. What You Will Learn * Configure a functioning customer relationship management system * Set up a purchasing and receiving system for your company that allows you to track inventory, costs, and profit * Implement manufacturing operations and processes using real-world examples that you can put to use in your own company * Discover the capabilities of Odoo's financial accounting and reporting features * Integrate powerful human resource applications that simplify the collection and management of employee information * Utilize Odoo's full featured project management application to organize tasks and track time and costs associated with billable projects * Customize Odoo without writing a line a code In Detail Odoo continues to gain momentum throughout the world in regards to providing the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now with Odoo 8, you have access to a powerful website builder, integrated e-commerce features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover the essential modules to get Odoo up and running for your company. After installing Odoo, you will use its sales management application to enter quotes, create sales orders, and invoice customers. You will then learn how to integrate the CRM application to manage your leads and convert them into lucrative opportunities and sales. Next, you will set up your own purchase management system, assigning products to suppliers and tracking orders with the new warehouse management and routing system. Finally, you will learn how to use analytics to track project expenses and keep your accounts simple and easy to maintain and build an Odoo module to extend its functionality and make it work for you. Working with Odoo covers all the core installation and usage functionalities of this popular tool, helping you to fully implement a working ERP system through practical, advanced, real-world examples. Style and approach This book is a practical guide that uses real-world examples to teach you how to implement Odoo into your business.
Workplace Skills: Applied Mathematics, Student Workbook (Workforce Ser.)
by ContemporaryProvides review and practice opportunities for using mathematical reasoning, critical thinking, and the problem-solving skills that are required in today's workplace.
The Works of Archimedes: Edited In Modern Notation With Introductory Chapters (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Thomas Heath ArchimedesThe complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers an informative introduction with many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporaries. Modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians, and logicians will find this volume a source of timeless fascination.
Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data And The Graphing Calculator
by Allan Rossman Beth L. Chance J. Barr von OehsenWorkshop Statistics emphasizes doing statistics as a way of learning statistics concepts and techniques. Workshop Statistics assumes the use of technology, specifically the TI-83 graphing calculator. The "workshop approach" builds upon analysis of genuine data and provides practical experience. Unique in its format, an extensive series of practical activities and exercises leads students to discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques.
Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator 2nd Edition
by Allan J. Rossman Beth L. Chance J. Barr von OehsenWorkshop Statistics emphasizes doing statistics as a way of learning statistics concepts and techniques. It assumes the use of the TI-83 graphing calculator. The "workshop approach" builds upon analysis of genuine data and provides practical experience. Unique in its format, an extensive series of over 90 practical activities and exercises leads students to discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques. The book is widely praised as being one of the most innovative introductory texts for learning statistics.
The World According to Wavelets: The Story of a Mathematical Technique in the Making, Second Edition
by Barbara Burke HubbardThis best-selling book introduces a broad audience including scientists and engineers working in a variety of fields as well as mathematicians from other subspecialties to one of the most active new areas of applied mathematics and the story of its discovery and development. Organized in hypertext fashion, the book tells a story of scientific dis
World Conference of AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design: 24th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference, TFC 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 6–8, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #736)
by Denis Cavallucci Stelian Brad Pavel LivotovThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design, TFC 2024, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during November 6–8, 2024. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Part I - AI-Driven TRIZ and Innovation Part II - Sustainable and Industrial Design with TRIZ; Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, and Predictive Analytics; Interdisciplinary and Cognitive Approaches in TRIZ; Customer Experience and Service Innovation with TRIZ.
World Conference of AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design: 24th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference, TFC 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 6–8, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #735)
by Denis Cavallucci Stelian Brad Pavel LivotovThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design, TFC 2024, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during November 6–8, 2024. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Part I - AI-Driven TRIZ and Innovation Part II - Sustainable and Industrial Design with TRIZ; Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, and Predictive Analytics; Interdisciplinary and Cognitive Approaches in TRIZ; Customer Experience and Service Innovation with TRIZ.
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives (World Development Report)
by World BankToday’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in the way, ranging from misaligned incentives and incompatible data systems to a fundamental lack of trust. World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. This Report begins by assessing how better use and reuse of data can enhance the design of public policies, programs, and service delivery, as well as improve market efficiency and job creation through private sector growth. Because better data governance is key to realizing this value, the Report then looks at how infrastructure policy, data regulation, economic policies, and institutional capabilities enable the sharing of data for their economic and social benefits, while safeguarding against harmful outcomes. The Report concludes by pulling together the pieces and offering an aspirational vision of an integrated national data system that would deliver on the promise of producing high-quality data and making them accessible in a way that promotes their safe use and reuse. By examining these opportunities and challenges, the Report shows how data can benefit the lives of all people, particularly poor people in low- and middle-income countries. .
World Economic Outlook: Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability
by International Monetary FundThe World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy;consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market;and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.
The World in the Model
by Mary S. MorganDuring the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses that change - both historically and philosophically - using a series of case studies to illuminate the nature and the implications of these changes. It is not a technical book; it is written for the intelligent person who wants to understand how economics works from the inside out. This book will be of interest to economists and science studies scholars (historians, sociologists and philosophers of science). But it also aims at a wider readership in the public intellectual sphere, building on the current interest in all things economic and on the recent failure of the so-called economic model, which has shaped our beliefs and the world we live in.
The World Inequality Report: 2018
by Facundo AlvaredoThe World Inequality Report: 2018 is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of the world’s leading economists of inequality, it presents—with unrivaled clarity and depth—information and analysis that will be vital to policy makers and scholars everywhere. Inequality has taken center stage in public debate as the wealthiest people in most parts of the world have seen their share of the economy soar relative to that of others, many of whom, especially in the West, have experienced stagnation. The resulting political and social pressures have posed harsh new challenges for governments and created a pressing demand for reliable data. The World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, has answered this call by coordinating research into the latest trends in the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth on every continent. This inaugural report analyzes the Lab’s findings, which include data from major countries where information has traditionally been difficult to acquire, such as China, India, and Brazil. Among nations, inequality has been decreasing as traditionally poor countries’ economies have caught up with the West. The report shows, however, that inequality has been steadily deepening within almost every nation, though national trajectories vary, suggesting the importance of institutional and policy frameworks in shaping inequality. The World Inequality Report: 2018 will be a key document for anyone concerned about one of the most imperative and contentious subjects in contemporary politics and economics.
World Inequality Report 2022
by Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel ZucmanProduced by a team of world-leading economists, this is the benchmark account of recent and historical trends in inequality.World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account available of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of world-leading economists, the report builds on the pioneering edition of 2018 to provide policy makers and scholars everywhere up-to-date information about an ever broader range of countries and about forms of inequality that researchers have previously ignored or found hard to trace.Over the past decade, inequality has taken center stage in public debate as the wealthiest people in most parts of the world have seen their share of the economy soar relative to that of others. The resulting political and social pressures have posed harsh new challenges for governments and created a pressing demand for reliable data. The World Inequality Lab, housed at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, has answered this call by coordinating research into the latest trends in the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth on every continent. This new report not only extends the lab’s international reach but provides crucial new information about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.World Inequality Report 2022 will be a key document for anyone concerned about one of the most imperative and contentious subjects in contemporary politics and economics.
World of Business with Data and Analytics (Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing)
by Neha Sharma Mandar BhatavdekarThis book covers research work spanning the breadth of ventures, a variety of challenges and the finest of techniques used to address data and analytics, by subject matter experts from the business world. The content of this book highlights the real-life business problems that are relevant to any industry and technology environment. This book helps us become a contributor to and accelerator of artificial intelligence, data science and analytics, deploy a structured life-cycle approach to data related issues, apply appropriate analytical tools & techniques to analyze data and deliver solutions with a difference. It also brings out the story-telling element in a compelling fashion using data and analytics. This prepares the readers to drive quantitative and qualitative outcomes and apply this mindset to various business actions in different domains such as energy, manufacturing, health care, BFSI, security, etc.
The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics #2)
by Massimo MazzottiThe fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi.She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair of mathematics at the university in Bologna. In later years, however, she became a prominent figure within the Catholic Enlightenment, gave up academics, and devoted herself to the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the homeless. Indeed, the life of Maria Agnesi reveals a complex and enigmatic figure—one of the most fascinating characters in the history of mathematics. Using newly discovered archival documents, Massimo Mazzotti reconstructs the wide spectrum of Agnesi's social experience and examines her relationships to various traditions—religious, political, social, and mathematical. This meticulous study shows how she and her fellow Enlightenment Catholics modified tradition in an effort to reconcile aspects of modern philosophy and science with traditional morality and theology.Mazzotti's original and provocative investigation is also the first targeted study of the Catholic Enlightenment and its influence on modern science. He argues that Agnesi's life is the perfect lens through which we can gain a greater understanding of mid-eighteenth-century cultural trends in continental Europe.
World Population Policies
by John F. MayThis book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links population policies with the theories of the demographic, epidemiological, and migratory transitions. It begins by summarizing the demographic situation around the world, with an emphasis on population policies and their underlying theories. Then, it reviews the early efforts to reduce mortality and fertility in the developing countries. This is followed by a description of the internationalization of the debate on population issues and the transformation of these programs into more formal population policies, particularly in the developing countries. The book reviews also the situation of the developed countries and their specific challenges - sub-replacement fertility, population aging, and immigration - and examines the effectiveness of population policies. It also explores the way forward and future prospects for population policies over the next decades. The book provides numerous concrete examples from all over the world, and show how population policies are actually implemented and what have been their successes as well as their constraints. Above all, the book highlights the importance of understanding underlying demographic trends when assessing the development prospects of any country. The book is recommended for not only demographers, social scientists, and policymakers but also economists and political scientists who are interested in social and demographic change around the world. Demography students and researchers who are interested in applying knowledge on population trends and prospects in designing and evaluating public policies will find this an invaluable reference work.
The World the Game Theorists Made
by Paul EriksonIn recent decades game theory--the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals--has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern's seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory's revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.
The World through the Lens of Mathematics
by Natali Hritonenko Yuri YatsenkoHundreds of meticulously crafted mathematical problems and puzzles in this book are incorporated into fascinating stories about our world. These wor(l)d problems are grouped by their mathematical concepts such that the titles of sections and chapters combine both mathematical and applied terms, hinting at the topics covered. Detailed solutions conclude each section. Following in the success of the authors’ previous book, USA Through the Lens of Mathematics, this text contributes to the novel pedagogical call for a more multidisciplinary approach in education. The various types of questions posed in The World through the Lens of Mathematics are stimulating, entertaining, and educational. Their main objective is to provide a thorough review of the fundamental concepts of algebra and geometry, reduce mathematical anxiety, and emphasize the applicability and versatility of mathematics. Working these problems shatters the barriers between the students and mathematics by encouraging them to look at the subject from a different perspective. Students are simultaneously enriched with new knowledge of historical events, customs, and geography of countries around the world, each one of which is mentioned throughout the pages of this book.
The World-Time Parallel: Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics
by A. A. Rini M. J CresswellIs what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every temporal construction has an exact parallel that requires a language that can refer to worlds, and vice versa. They make precise, in a way which can be articulated and tested, the claim that the parallel is at work behind even ordinary talk about time and modality. The book gives metaphysicians a sturdy framework for the investigation of time and modality – one that does not presuppose any particular metaphysical view.