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Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, Third Edition
by Marsha Ann TateThe World Wide Web has undergone tremendous growth since the first edition of Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web was conceived and written in the mid to late 1990s. The phenomenal global expansion of the internet, together with the increasing sophistication of online technologies and software applications, requires us to be more savvy Web users, especially given the growing complexity of Web-based information. This new edition of Web Wisdom covers key issues that users and creators of Web resources need to know regarding reliable and useful information on the Web, including social media content. Written in a straightforward and accessible format, the book also provides critical evaluation techniques and tools to enhance Web-based research and the creation of high quality content. Features Includes checklists comprised of basic questions to ask when evaluating or creating web resources Provides an expanded discussion of copyright, trademark, and other related issues with specific reference to web authoring Contains a chapter devoted exclusively to social media applications and their unique evaluation challenges Presents a new section that addresses the evaluation challenges that are related to combining traditional and social media content Offers a new section focused on computer-generated text and its allied evaluation challenges Introduces a revised and expanded companion website that provides a variety of supplemental materials related to the evaluation and creation of web content as well as links to additional examples This book demonstrates how to adapt and apply the five core traditional evaluation criteria (authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage) originally introduced in the first edition, to the modern-day Web environment.
Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution
by Amanda CassattTHE ESSENTIAL WEB3 MARKETING BOOK For a limited time, claim an NFT with a copy of your book! Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution is the essential book for anyone looking to understand the next era of the internet and start building. Beyond the sensational hype and headlines around crypto and NFTs, a real revolution is taking place: new technologies for owning, moving, and organizing value spell the overdue end of an internet where a few huge companies hoard data and power, and open a new frontier for products, services, and applications in which ownership and control belongs to creators, builders, and users. As former CMO of ConsenSys then Founder and CEO of top web3 marketing firm Serotonin—Amanda Cassatt is in a unique position to tell this story, and delivers a remarkably clear, nontechnical guide to the history, key concepts, and still-evolving landscape of Web3. Cassatt explains how Web3 transforms time-tested approaches to marketing and brand-building, including how to build a Web3 community. This book is a must-read for professionals at any level in their Web3 careers—already working or investing in Web3, exploring what it means for their business, or considering a jump into something new—and for anyone who wants to understand the next internet revolution.
Webb's Physics of Medical Imaging (Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering)
by M A FlowerSince the publication of the best-selling, highly acclaimed first edition, the technology and clinical applications of medical imaging have changed significantly. Gathering these developments into one volume, Webb's Physics of Medical Imaging, Second Edition presents a thorough update of the basic physics, modern technology and many examples of cli
WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)
by Rifaat Abdalla Marwa EsmailThis book aims to help students, researchers and policy makers understand the latest research and development trends in the application of WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response. It is designed as a useful tool to better assess the mechanisms for planning, response and mitigation of the impact of disaster scenarios at the local, regional or national levels. It contains details on how to use WebGIS to solve real-world problems associated with Disaster Management Scenarios for the long-term sustainability. The book broadens the reader understanding of the policy and decision-making issues related to Disaster Management response and planning.
Webinare – alles ganz anders hier!: So gestalten Sie wirkungsvolle und nachhaltige Webinare (essentials)
by Winfried KriegerWebinare sind eine Legierung mit Bestandteilen aus Lehr-Lern-Formaten, aus Genres der Massenkommunikation und aus analogen Seminaren. Die Stärke von Webinaren liegt darin, diese Elemente zu einem neuen Format mit neuen Chancen und digitalen Mehrwerten zu verschmelzen. Dafür müssen technologische Rahmenbedingungen stimmen, Inhalte didaktisch aufbereitet und alle Aktivitäten teilnehmerorientiert ausgerichtet sein. Dieses essential vermittelt Ihnen komprimiert und sofort umsetzbar alles Notwendige, damit Ihre Webinare erfolgreich werden – mit Teilnehmern und Teilnehmerinnen, die aufmerksam und interessiert dabeibleiben sowie mit Inhalten, die nachhaltige Veränderungswirkungen entfalten.
Webservices: Theory and Practice
by Hrushikesha Mohanty Prasant Kumar PattnaikThis book focuses on web service specification, search, composition, validation, resiliency, security and engineering, and discusses various service specification standards like WSDL, SAWSDL, WSMO and OWLS. The theory and associated algorithms for service specification verification are detailed using formal models like Petrinet, FSM and UML. The book also explores various approaches proposed for web service search and composition, highlighting input/output, parameter-based search, and selection of services based on both functional and non-functional parameters. In turn, it examines various types of composite web services and presents an overview of popular fault handling strategies for each of these types. Lastly, it discusses the standards used for implementing web service security on the basis of a case study, and introduces the Web Service Development Life Cycle (WSDLC), which defines co-operation between several industry partners to develop web services in a more structured way.
Wechselstromschaltungen: Analyse und Berechnung mit vielen Beispielen
by Ismail KasikciDieses Buch befasst sich mit der Berechnung von Wechselstromschaltungen. Die Erzeugung, Umwandlung, Übertragung und Verbrauch von elektrischer Energie basiert auf dem Prinzip der Wechselstromtechnik. Der Wechselstrom ändert seine Richtung in regelmäßiger Wiederholung, bei der positive und negative Augenblickswerte entstehen. Wechselspannung lässt sich einfach erzeugen und transformieren. Vom Gebäude bis hin zu größeren elektrischen Anlagen wird heute Wechselstrom eingesetzt. Zunächst werden die sinusförmigen Wechselströme mit Zeigerdiagrammen und komplexen Rechnungen dargestellt. Darauf folgen die Grundgesetze der Wechselstromtechnik mit unterschiedlichen Berechnungsmethoden wie Knotenpunktsatz und Maschensatz. Weiterhin wird das Verfahren zur Berechnung von Netzwerken behandelt, in denen komplexe Spannungs- und Stromteilerregel, Überlagerungsgesetz, Netzumformung und Ersatzquellen ausführlich beschrieben werden. Zum Schluss wird das Thema Schwingkreise und praktische Anwendungen der Frequenzabhängigkeit der Induktivität und Kapazität näher untersucht und erläutert. Das Thema setzt mathematische Grundkenntnisse und die Grundlagen der elektrischen und magnetischen Felder voraus.
Wechselstromtechnik für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Michael Felleisen»Wie leicht zu sehen ist, folgt?!« ? dieser Ausspruch sorgt in Vorlesungen stets für Verwirrung. Meist sind für diese vermeintlich leicht zu sehenden Schritte jedoch mehrere Zeilen mit mathematischen Gleichungen erforderlich. Doch keine Sorge: Dieses Buch ist anders! Michael Felleisen führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch alle Herleitungen und Berechnungen. Dabei werden alle mathematischen Grundgesetze, die Sie zum Verständnis der Wechselstromtechnik beziehungsweise zum Lösen der Übungsaufgaben benötigen in einem Vorspann ausführlich erklärt. Von den besonderen Eigenschaften von Widerstand, Spule und Kondensator an sinusförmigen Wechselgrößen über spezielle Filterschaltungen bis zur Drehstromtechnik ist alles dabei. Auch die praktische Umsetzung der genialen Ideen von Elektropionieren wie Tesla, Gauß, Steinmetz und Bode kommen nicht zu kurz.
Weed Control: Sustainability, Hazards, and Risks in Cropping Systems Worldwide
by Nicholas E. Korres Nilda R. Burgos Stephen O. DukeIn light of public concerns about sustainable food production, the necessity for human and environmental protection, along with the evolution of herbicide resistant weeds, call for a review of current weed control strategies. Sustainable weed control requires an integrated approach based on knowledge of each crop and the weeds that threaten it. This book will be an invaluable source of information for scholars, growers, consultants, researchers and other stakeholders dealing with either arable, row, cash, vegetables, orchards or even grassland-based production systems. The uniqueness of this book comes from the balanced coverage of herbicide effects on humans and environment in relation to best weed control practices of the most important cropping systems worldwide. Furthermore, it amalgamates and discusses the most appropriate, judicious and suitable weed control strategies for a wide range of crops. It reviews the available information and suggests solutions that are not merely feasible but also optimal.
Weed Control Methods for Public Health Applications
by E.O. GangstadThis volume includes measures of control of aquatic vegetation that harms human health, since water-related diseases exist in this environment. Although malaria has receded internationally due to the combined chemotherapeutic-insecticidal programs, recently it has resisted both medicines and insecticide control. Active malaria cases in the U.S. were fewer than a dozen before the Vietnam War, but in 1973 the figure was ab out 700, almost all traceable to returning military personnel. The disease could again become prevalent. Other diseases exist whose transmission is indirectly affected by aquatic weed conditions including filariasis, and various trematodiases, especially from the schistosomes, Chinese liver fluke, cattle liver fluke, Guinea worm, giant intestinal fluke, Asiatic lung fluke, and broad tapeworm. Waterweeds also support disease-pest arthropods, i.e., snipe flies, tabanids (horse, gad, deer, and greenheads), Clear Lake gnats, Mayflies, black flies, sandflies, and sewage flies.Ecosystem studies of impounded water research and development of herbivorous fish, and utilization of herbivorous fish in China, are also included in this volume.
Weed Control Methods For Recreation Facilities Management
by Edward O. GangstadIt is the purpose of this volume to survey and assess the management problems of recreation waters and to present case problems from the field in which the technical data, published literature, and the operations mechanics are given in sufficient detail to provide a format for practical analysis and application. Special emphasis has been given to measures of control of Eurasian watermilfoil.The primary and secondary uses of a body of water determine the need, frequency, and kind of aquatic plant control required to meet the needs of a specific situation. That is to say, a given body of water may be used primarily, or even exclusively for such activities as fishing, boating, or swimming, and the water itself may be used for domestic (potable water), industrial production, and/or agriculture. These uses may seem to be incompatible in themselves, but it is incumbent upon management to supply the optimum conditions for total water use.
Weed Control Methods for Rights of Way Management
by Edward O. GangstadThis volume describes in detail methods of control and related data including (1) all vegetation on industrial sites, paved highways, and railroad ballast, (2) woody vegetation along roadsides, utility lines, and fire breaks, and (3) aquatic vegetation on rivers and stream banks, waterways, ponds, reservoirs, irrigation, and drainage channels.
Weed Control Methods for River Basin Management
by E.O. GangstadAquatic plants continue to create problems associated with navigation, flood control, agriculture, irrigation and drainage, values of lands, conservation of wildlife and fisheries, and water resource supply. While much research is being done to find more effective and economic control measures, there is now a great need to apply known facts to achieve a measure of control by the means available. It is the purpose of this volume to provide a scientifically documented treatise of the known facts as they apply to the control of aquatic weeds in river basins and their allied waterways with particular emphasis on alligator weed and water hyacinth.
Weed Control on Vine and Soft Fruits
by Commission of the European CommunitiesThis book demonstrates the common problems faced by fruit growers throughout the Community and shows the importance of weeds in fruit crops. It summarizes a list of the worst weeds in vine and soft fruits in each European Country.
Weed Physiology: Volume I: Reproduction and Ecophysiology
by Stephen O. DukeWeeds are plants existing at places and/or times at which they are considered undesirable by man. Thys, man‘s primary interest in weeds is in dinging methods for eliminating their presences. Understanding the physiology of weeds and how it differs from that of crop plants is becoming increasingly important in discovering new chemical, genetic, and cultural methods of controlling weeds. The two volumes of this book will aim to discuss the following; the physiology of weed production the ecophysiology of weeds, the mechanisms of herbicide action, and the mechanisms of herbicide resistance and tolerance.
Weed Science and Weed Management in Rice and Cereal-Based Cropping Systems, 2 Volumes
by Aurora M. Baltazar Surajit K. De DattaThe book presents discussions on: Biology and ecology of major troublesome weeds infesting rice, wheat, corn, soybean, focusing on different cropping patterns in both tropical and temperate cropping systems and science-based weed management practices involving chemical, non-chemical, biological, integrated methods. Herbicides used, with their most recent classification, identification of new target sites, mechanisms and modes of action and how and why weeds evolve resistance to herbicides. New concepts, new paradigms and new technologies to manage evolution of resistance to herbicides including weed genomics, bioherbicides and allelochemicals. Highly recommended for students, teachers, researchers, agronomists, horticulturists, crop physiologists, and crop protection specialists in tropical and temperate agricultural systems, particularly in areas where major tropical weeds are posing potential threats to temperate agricultural systems.
Weed Science - A Plea for Thought - Revisited
by Robert L. ZimdahlWeed scientists are confident of increasing production through agricultural technology, including herbicides, but do not must ask if the moral obligation to feed people is sufficient justification for the benefits and harms achieved. A continuing, rigorous examination of the science's goals that leads to appropriate change is advocated. Weed scientists have a research consensus - a paradigm - Weeds must be controlled. Herbicides are the best control technology. Agriculture's practitoners should discuss the necessity and risks of their technology. Discussion must include scientific evidence and value-laden arguments.
Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America
by Alan MeyerThe inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation.In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a white, male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high skill levels, that celebrated facing and overcoming risk, and that encouraged fierce personal independence.The Second World War proved an important turning point in popularizing private aviation. Military flight schools and postwar GI-Bill flight training swelled the ranks of private pilots with hundreds of thousands of young, mostly middle-class men. Formal flight instruction screened and acculturated aspiring fliers to meet a masculine norm that traced its roots to prewar barnstorming and wartime combat training. After the war, the aviation community's response to aircraft designs played a significant part in the technological development of personal planes. Meyer also considers the community of pilots outside the cockpit—from the time-honored tradition of "hangar flying" at local airports to air shows to national conventions of private fliers—to argue that almost every aspect of private aviation reinforced the message that flying was by, for, and about men. The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.
Wege aus dem Schullüftungsfiasko: Wie die Atemluft in Schulen gesünder werden kann (essentials)
by Peter MüllerHunderttausende Kinder und Lehrer werden auch in diesem Winter frieren, weil aus Hygienegründen die Fenster geöffnet werden müssen. Aber nicht nur das COVID-19-Virus ist Ursache für die Schullüftungsproblematik. Auch die Belastung der Atemluft durch weitere Luftinhaltstoffe, insbesondere durch CO2, kann negative Folgen für die Gesundheit haben und Konzentrationsmängel und Müdigkeit verursachen.
Wege zur Dorferneuerung: praktisches Fachwissen zur Bildung von Agro-Energiewirtschaften (SDG - Forschung, Konzepte, Lösungsansätze zur Nachhaltigkeit)
by Bernhard Adler Martin Dykstra Michael WintersteinVorliegendes Buch ist für Landwirte und die Bevölkerung des ländlichen Raumes konzipiert. Die Landwirte bekommen derzeit für die landwirtschaftlichen Produkte nicht den preislichen Gegenwert für ihre geleistete Arbeit. Die Bevölkerung im ländlichen Raum leidet unter der Abwanderung junger Leute und dem Zusammenbruch der Infrastrukturen. Beide Gruppen können durch eigenständiges Handeln diese Situation selbstständig und nachhaltig verbessern, denn die Ackerfläche bietet das Potenzial für zukünftige neue Produkte für die Energieversorgung. Dazu offeriert das Buch Strategien, Nahrungsmittel und Energien in Agro-Energiekomplexen zu gewinnen. Hierfür werden Synergismen bei der Produktion in der Pflanzen- und Energieproduktion auch unter dem Aspekt eines klimabedingten, temporären Wassermangels diskutiert sowie die Vorteile des Klarwassereinsatzes zur Bewässerung der Ackerböden. Nicht unerheblich scheint auch die Nutzung von Phosphat- und Ammoniumionen als Vollwertdüngemittel aus dem Abwasserrecycling. Beide obengenannten Zielgruppen erreichen eine spürbare Verbesserung ihrer Lebensverhältnisse durch die Bildung von Anbau- und Nutzergemeinschaften.
Weight Function Methods in Fracture Mechanics: Theory and Applications
by Xue-Ren Wu Wu XuThis book provides a systematic and standardized approach based on the authors’ over 30 years of research experience with weight function methods, as well as the relevant literature. Fracture mechanics has become an indispensable tool for the design and safe operation of damage-tolerant structures in many important technical areas. The stress intensity factor—the characterizing parameter of the crack tip field—is the foundation of fracture mechanics analysis. The weight function method is a powerful technique for determining stress intensity factors and crack opening displacements for complex load conditions, with remarkable computational efficiency and high accuracy.The book presents the theoretical background of the weight function methods, together with a wealth of analytical weight functions and stress intensity factors for two- and three-dimensional crack geometries; many of these have been incorporated into national, international standards and industrial codes of practice. The accuracy of the results is rigorously verified, and various sample applications are provided. Accordingly, the book offers an ideal reference source for graduate students, researchers, and engineers whose work involves fracture and fatigue of materials and structures, who need not only stress intensity factors themselves but also efficient and reliable tools for obtaining them.
Weighted and Fuzzy Graph Theory (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing #429)
by Sunil Mathew John N. Mordeson M. BinuOne of the most preeminent ways of applying mathematics in real-world scenario modeling involves graph theory. A graph can be undirected or directed depending on whether the pairwise relationships among objects are symmetric or not. Nevertheless, in many real-world situations, representing a set of complex relational objects as directed or undirected is not su¢ cient. Weighted graphs o§er a framework that helps to over come certain conceptual limitations. We show using the concept of an isomorphism that weighted graphs have a natural connection to fuzzy graphs. As we show in the book, this allows results to be carried back and forth between weighted graphs and fuzzy graphs. This idea is in keeping with the important paper by Klement and Mesiar that shows that many families of fuzzy sets are lattice isomorphic to each other. We also outline the important work of Head and Weinberger that show how results from ordinary mathematics can be carried over to fuzzy mathematics. We focus on the concepts connectivity, degree sequences and saturation, and intervals and gates in weighted graphs.
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
by Karen OlssonA New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick"A wonderful book." --Patti Smith"I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesAn eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life.Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.
Weird Inventions (Anything But Ordinary)
by Jennifer KaulHumans are ingenious when it comes to meeting challenges. We invent all sorts of useful contraptions from the wheel to the can opener. But some of the things people have come up with are truly odd. Who came up with grass sandals, and why? Have you ever heard of a portable radio hat? Not many people have, but someone invented it. Get the inside scoop on these odd contraptions and many more weird inventions.
Weird Tales from the Inventors' Hall of Fame
by Liz HuyckHave you ever wondered how war machines were created? Or the origin of beauty salons? Or maybe even how rubber is used in tires, and rubber shoes? Learn more about these renowned inventors and how their inventions helped shape modern life into the way we know it now!