Technology
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Erik Brynjolfsson & McAfee, Andrew [Erik Brynjolfsson]

FIGURE 11.1 Labor Productivity and Private Employment In this chapter, we’ll address three important questions about the future of the bounty and the spread. First, will the bounty overwhelm the ...
( Category: Development & Growth April 13,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Richard G. Lyons

For computational efficiency reasons, to avoid unnecessary arithmetic using the imaginary parts of the complex C values, we might decide to compute Q as Show the validity (the correctness) of ...
( Category: Signal Processing April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Patrick Tucker

The End of Teaching It’s January 2012, the setting is the Ethiopian village of Wenchi, which sits on the rim of a volcanic crater lake some eleven thousand feet above ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics April 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Archibald [Archibald, David]

IRAN Iran, as is well known, is in the process of building its own nuclear weapons capability. It already has the missile delivery systems to mate with those weapons. It ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 3,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:John Gribbin

VON NEUMANN'S SILLY MISTAKE AND BELL'S INEQUALITY Among the great virtues of the two scientific papers that emerged from Bell's trip to the United States were their clarity and simplicity, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1957-10-14 | Author:John Wyndham [Wyndham, John]

* Two or three days later I had a letter telling me that the job I had been angling for in Canada could be mine if I sailed without delay. ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Bill Adair [Adair, Bill]

Jim Hall, the NTSB’s new chairman, had just replaced the retiring Carl Vogt. A short man with sandy hair and a mild Tennessee drawl, Hall was a Vietnam veteran, a ...
( Category: Commercial Aviation March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:James Rodger Fleming

Commercial Cloud Seeding While researchers were struggling for verifiable results, an uncritical, determined, and enthusiastic band of private meteorological entrepreneurs, operating primarily in the West and Midwest, had appropriated the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-22 | Author:Joshua Cooper Ramo [RAMO, JOSHUA COOPER]

* * * In the old days, many problems in international affairs seemed as if they could be understood from the outside in. If you knew, say, how many tanks ...
( Category: History & Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:George Friedman [Friedman, George]

CHAPTER 8 THE RETURN OF RUSSIA The collapse of the Soviet Union appeared to signal Russia’s demise as an international player, but news of that death was premature. A nation ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

(July-August 1971) THE POLITICS The Left: Old and New If you happened to see Sign of the Pagan, a very bad movie recently shown on television, dealing with Attila’s invasion ...
( Category: History & Theory March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Mark Denny

It’s a Gas Across the globe, we currently consume about 31 billion barrels of oil each year. Given the estimated reserves of unconventional oil, the Athabasca tar sands can supply ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Alfred Tarski

37. Model and interpretation of a deductive theory As a result of a consistent application of the principles presented in the preceding section, deductive theories acquire certain interesting and important ...
( Category: Logic March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-03-27 | Author:Gordon, J E [Gordon, J E]

Figure 2. When an aircraft wing is to be tested, it is mounted by its root fitting in a large steel framework. Many hundreds of attachments, distributed over the wing ...
( Category: Strength of Materials March 27,2014 )