Download or read book Engineering Design written by Clive L. Dym and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for introductory courses in engineering design, this text illustrates conceptual design methods and project management tools through descriptions, examples, and case studies.
Download or read book Structural Modeling and Analysis written by Clive L. Dym and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, unified introduction to structural modelling and analysis, with an emphasis on the application of energy methods.
Download or read book Knowledge based Systems in Engineering written by Clive L. Dym and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates the fundamentals of artifical intelligence (AI) approaches to knowledge representation with engineering examples. Its unified treatment makes it an essential tool in this emerging new field. Combining an informed approach to AI with engineering problem solving, this book is suitable for an introductory course on AI/expert systems which is specifically offered to engineers. The text provides an in-depth appreciation of the AI fundamentals underlying knowledge-based systems and covers rule-based, frame-based, and object-oriented representation with many engineering illustrations.
Download or read book Tinsley s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Latin America written by Jordana Dym and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of every size and scale and from a wide variety of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better understand how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that is, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time. The first book to deal with the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin America, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.
Download or read book Linear Algebra in Action written by Harry Dym and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based largely on courses that the author taught at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute. It conveys in a user-friendly way the basic and advanced techniques of linear algebra from the point of view of a working analyst. The techniques are illustrated by a wide sample of applications and examples that are chosen to highlight the tools of the trade. In short, this is material that the author has found to be useful in his own research and wishes that he had been exposed to as a graduate student. Roughly the first quarter of the book reviews the contents of a basic course in linear algebra, plus a little. The remaining chapters treat singular value decompositions, convexity, special classes of matrices, projections, assorted algorithms, and a number of applications. The applications are drawn from vector calculus, numerical analysis, control theory, complex analysis, convex optimization, and functional analysis. In particular, fixed point theorems, extremal problems, best approximations, matrix equations, zero location and eigenvalue location problems, matrices with nonnegative entries, and reproducing kernels are discussed. This new edition differs significantly from the second edition in both content and style. It includes a number of topics that did not appear in the earlier edition and excludes some that did. Moreover, most of the material that has been adapted from the earlier edition has been extensively rewritten and reorganized.
Download or read book Miriam Dym written by Miriam Dym and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Engineering Design written by Clive L. Dym and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts of design to lay a better framework for design research and design education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a substantial body of material concerned with understanding and modeling cognitive processes. This book adopts the vocabulary and a paradigm of AI to enhance the presentation and explanation of design. It includes concepts from AI because of their explanatory power and their utility as possible ingredients of practical design activity. This second edition has been enriched by the inclusion of recent work on design reasoning, computational design, AI in design, and design cognition, with pointers to a wide cross section of the current literature.
Download or read book Wooed and Married written by Rosa Nouchette Carey and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Mathematical Modeling written by Clive Dym and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and engineering students depend heavily on concepts of mathematical modeling. In an age where almost everything is done on a computer, author Clive Dym believes that students need to understand and "own" the underlying mathematics that computers are doing on their behalf. His goal for Principles of Mathematical Modeling, Second Edition, is to engage the student reader in developing a foundational understanding of the subject that will serve them well into their careers. The first half of the book begins with a clearly defined set of modeling principles, and then introduces a set of foundational tools including dimensional analysis, scaling techniques, and approximation and validation techniques. The second half demonstrates the latest applications for these tools to a broad variety of subjects, including exponential growth and decay in fields ranging from biology to economics, traffic flow, free and forced vibration of mechanical and other systems, and optimization problems in biology, structures, and social decision making. Prospective students should have already completed courses in elementary algebra, trigonometry, and first-year calculus and have some familiarity with differential equations and basic physics. - Serves as an introductory text on the development and application of mathematical models - Focuses on techniques of particular interest to engineers, scientists, and others who model continuous systems - Offers more than 360 problems, providing ample opportunities for practice - Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics--from engineering to economics to the sciences - Uses straightforward language and explanations that make modeling easy to understand and apply New to this Edition: - A more systematic approach to mathematical modeling, outlining ten specific principles - Expanded and reorganized chapters that flow in an increasing level of complexity - Several new problems and updated applications - Expanded figure captions that provide more information - Improved accessibility and flexibility for teaching
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Download or read book Kenya written by Shadrack W. Nasong'o and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.
Download or read book Les Flammes sacr es written by Megan Derr and published by Less Than Three Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuf dieux gouvernaient jadis le monde, jusqu'à ce qu'une ultime trahison ne les mène à leur perte. Depuis, le monde se meurt et seul le retour des Dieux disparus pourra le sauver. Les habitants de Pozhar craignent le retour de Zhar Ptitsa, le Dieu des Âmes et de la Résurrection qui, pris d'une colère terrible, a bien failli tous les détruire il y a neuf cents ans. Pour l'empêcher de renaître, le peuple pourchasse et sacrifie les Réceptacles, ceux-là mêmes qui depuis leur naissance possèdent en eux un fragment de l'âme de Zhar Ptitsa. Les Écrits sacrés proclament que mille d'entre eux seront mis au monde et que tous doivent être sacrifiés afin de détruire Zhar Ptitsa une fois pour toute. De nos jours, seuls restent deux fragments, enfouis dans le corps de voleurs bien décidés à ne pas se laisser jeter aux Flammes sans combattre.
Download or read book Yiddish written by S.A. Birnbaum and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike.
Download or read book Design Thinking Research written by Hasso Plattner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design thinking as a user-centric innovation method has become more and more widespread during the past years. An increasing number of people and institutions have experienced its innovative power. While at the same time the demand has grown for a deep, evidence-based understanding of the way design thinking functions. This challenge is addressed by the Design Thinking Research Program between Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany. Summarizing the outcomes of the 5th program year, this book imparts the scientific findings gained by the researchers through their investigations, experiments and studies. The method of design thinking works when applied with diligence and insight. With this book and the underlying research projects, we aim to understand the innovation process of design thinking and the people behind it. The contributions ultimately center on the issue of building innovators. The focus of the investigation is on what people are doing and thinking when engaged in creative design innovation and how their innovation work can be supported. Therefore, within three topic areas, various frameworks, methodologies, mind sets, systems and tools are explored and further developed. The book begins with an assessment of crucial factors for innovators such as empathy and creativity, the second part addresses the improvement of team collaboration and finally we turn to specific tools and approaches which ensure information transfer during the design process. All in all, the contributions shed light and show deeper insights how to support the work of design teams in order to systematically and successfully develop innovations and design progressive solutions for tomorrow.
