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  • Learning Apache Apex

    Real-time streaming applications with Apex

    by Thomas Weise, Munagala V. Ramanath, David Yan, Kenneth Knowles, Ananth Gundabattula ...
    Designing and writing real-time streaming applications with Apache ApexKey Features\[\*\] Get a clear, practical approach to real-time data processing\[\*\] Program Apache Apex streaming applications\[\*\] This book shows you Apex integration with the open source Big Data ecosystemBook DescriptionApache Apex is a next-generation stream processing framework designed to operate on data at large ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suicide in Popular Media and Culture

    Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe

    by Janet Clare, Brennan Thomas, Alessandra Seggi, Adam Lauver, Elizabeth Spradley, Robert Tyler Spradley, Gary L. Kreps, Farrokh Alemi, Suzanne Carmack, David Gustafson, Judith Jacobson, Yan Leykin, Priya Nambison, Jack Simons, John Strang, Rediet Woldeselassie, Carla Sofka ...
    Series series Death and Culture
    Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide.This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital platforms, online communities, and more. From news coverage of celebrity suicide to social media interventions with at-risk youth, this wide-ranging ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Trouble at the Bar

    An Economics Perspective on the Legal Profession and the Case for Fundamental Reform

    by Clifford Winston, David Burk, Jia Yan ...
    Deregulating the legal profession will benefit society by improving access to legal services and the efficacy of public policies.Lawyers dominate a judicial system that has come under fire for limiting access to its services to primarily the most affluent members of society. Lawyers also have a pervasive influence throughout other parts of government. This is the first book offering a critical ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream

    Shaping America's Immigration Story

    by Alan M. Kraut, David A. Gerber, Virginia Yans, Deborah Dash Moore, John Bodnar, Barbara M. Posadas, Dominic A. Pacyga, Timothy J. Meagher, Judy Yung0, Eileen H. Tamura1, María Cristina Garcia2, Violet M. Showers Johnson3, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp4 ...
    Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry

    Media, Players, and Society

    by Shaun Anderson, Andrew Baerg, Steve Bien-Aimé, Andy Boyan, Joris Drayer, Brendan Dwyer, Christopher Gearhart, Mark Grabowski, Pamela Wicker, Grace Yan, Andrew Billings, Cody T. Havard, Shaughan A. Keaton, Renee M. Miller, Brody J. Ruihley, Stephen L. Shapiro, Emory S. Daniel Jr., Katherine L. Lavelle, Marie Hardin, Nicholas Watanabe, David Westerman ...
    This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes and teams ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Breath Analysis for Medical Applications

    by David Zhang, Dongmin Guo, Ke Yan ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book describes breath signal processing technologies and their applications in medical sample classification and diagnosis. First, it provides a comprehensive introduction to breath signal acquisition methods, based on different kinds of chemical sensors, together with the optimized selection and fusion acquisition scheme. It then presents preprocessing techniques, such as drift removing and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Neighbourhood Houses

    Building Community in Vancouver

    by David Hulchanski, Miu Chung Yan, Sean R. Lauer ...
    Neighbourhood Houses draws on a five-year study to document and contextualize the neighbourhood house network in Vancouver. Globalization and migration are creating disconnected societies in modern urban cities and urban communities are at risk of becoming fragmented. Nonetheless, the local community is where most aspects of everyday life occur, where people establish their homes and pursue their ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding

    by Manjit Kang, Nourollah Ahmadi, Meike S Anderson, Robyn Anderson, Paolo Annicchiarico, Vivi N Arief, Baffour Badu-Apraku, Surinder S Banga, Jérôme Bartholomé, Kaye E Basford0, Jacqueline Batley1, Dharminder Bhatia2, Darshan S Brar3, Juan Burgueño4, Tuong-Vi Cao5, Hernán Ceballos6, Salvatore Ceccarelli7, Sandeep Chapagain8, Binu Cherian9, José Crossa0, Ian H DeLacy1, M A B Fakorede2, Mahalingam Govindaraj3, Cécile Grenier4, Mehak Gupta5, L A Hunt6, Shailesh Vinay Joshi7, Philomin Juliana8, Anand Kanatti9, M T Labuschagne0, D Lloyd Evans1, Suschismita Modal2, Osval A Montesinos-López3, E Obeng-Bio4, S A Oyekale5, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez6, Wolfgang H Pfeiffer, HarvestPlus, USA7, M Pillay8, K N Rai9, Lovepreet Singh0, Rajveer Singh1, Ravi Prakash Singh2, Prasanta K Subudhi3, A O Talabi4, S N Tchala5, Soodeh Tirnaz6, Parminder S Virk7, Weikai Yan8, Professor David Edwards9, Mônica Furaste Danilevicz0, Cassandria Tay Fernandez1, Gurbachan Singh Miglani2 ...
    Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the field of quantitative genetics, genomics and breeding has changed markedly. In response, only four chapters have been updated for this new edition, and the remaining 16 chapters are entirely new. This book presents state-of-the-art, authoritative chapters on contemporary issues in the broad areas of quantitative genetics, genomics and ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

  • Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment

    by Russell G. Almond, Robert J. Mislevy, Duanli Yan, Linda S. Steinberg, David M. Williamson ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Bayesian inference networks, a synthesis of statistics and expert systems, have advanced reasoning under uncertainty in medicine, business, and social sciences. This innovative volume is the first comprehensive treatment exploring how they can be applied to design and analyze innovative educational assessments.Part I develops Bayes nets’ foundations in assessment, statistics, and graph theory, and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

    by David Luesink, Nicole Nicole Barnes, Shi Yan, William H. Schneider, Yu Xinzhong, Daniel Asen, Gao Xi, He Xiaolian0, Li Shenglan1, Mary Augusta Brazelton2 ...
    Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Computerized Adaptive and Multistage Testing with R

    Using Packages catR and mstR

    by David Magis, Duanli Yan, Alina A. von Davier ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples. Implementation relies on the R packages catR and mstR that have been already or are being developed by the first author (with the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reinventing Mechatronics

    Developing Future Directions for Mechatronics

    Edited by Xiu-Tian Yan, David Bradley, David Russell, Philip Moore ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This book presents the latest research on mechatronic systems engineering. By bringing together the most important papers from the 2018 Mechatronics Forum Conference ‘Reinventing Mechatronics,’ it outlines key trends in research and applications that will define mechatronics for the next 50 years.Mechatronics was established as an engineering discipline over 50 years ago, as the integration of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD