Science & Math
mobi |eng | 2009-10-29 | Author:Alex Pentland

7 SENSIBLE SOCIETIES The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with Instruments, and as it were, the adding of artificial ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bernoff, Josh; Schadler, Ted

how prevalent is do-it-yourself technology in the workplace? In the same online survey we used to examine the behavior of people as consumers, we asked people to tel us about ...
( Category: Business & Money December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Zachary Karabell

8 WHERE’S WALDO? And now we return to the question posed at the beginning of the book: What if you were told that one of the core assumptions that we ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Steve Lohr

What’s wrong with that? Let the machines do more and more of the work. The march of automation, after all, is a common theme in the economic history of the ...
( Category: Databases & Big Data December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Stuart Firestein

Getting comfortable with ignorance is how a student becomes a scientist. How unfortunate that this transition is not available to the public at large, who are then left with the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Gordon Cameron

We have combined the basic and advanced methods for solving technical and physical contradictions into a single Algorithm for solving contradictions (inventive problems). It is a simplified form of ARIZ. ...
( Category: Engineering December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:David Quammen

After a year in Sarawak, Alfred Wallace shifted onward in the Malay Archipelago to find new hunting grounds, beyond the range of previous British travelers and collectors. He caught a ...
( Category: Evolution December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Sven Beckert

Famine victims, probably 1899, India (Credit 11.12) — Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Nirmalya Kumar & Phanish Puranam

The Death of Distance? Not Quite, but . . . Students and seminar audiences often ask us, somewhat skeptically, just how widely applicable the global delivery model really is. By ...
( Category: Business & Money December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:George Marshall [Marshall, George]

25 Polarization Why Polar Bears Make It Harder to Accept Climate Change It’s a gray autumn Sunday afternoon and I am following Aurora, a giant animatronic polar bear, the size ...
( Category: Earth Sciences December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:David J. Hand [Hand, David J.]

Selection Bias in Science The law of selection manifests itself in science in what is called “selection bias,” which I mentioned in chapter 2. For example, in the late eighteenth ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Ryan, Eric & Lowry, Adam [Lowry, Adam]

ERROR AUTOPSY: WIPEOUT The idea of launching wipes never sat well with us. Like its cousin, the paper towel, the wipe is a convenient form of everyday domestic life, but ...
( Category: Home Improvement & Design December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Christian Terwiesch & Karl Ulrich

TABLE 6-1 Historical probability of success (POS) at each clinical milestone for a historical sample of compounds submitted to a regulatory body for approval. Indication/disease Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Mark Schatzker

TWO MONTHS later I visited one of this continent’s more storied fried chicken spots, a Memphis joint that has been dunking breasts and drumsticks into batter and then hot fat ...
( Category: Diets & Weight Loss December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Harvard Business Review

broadband boosts well-being as effectively as a robust economy A 10-percentage-point increase in broadband penetration produces the same lift in the population’s subjective well-being as a 2.89% increase in GDP ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )