Download or read book Massively Small written by Stelios Pamfilis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massively Small takes you on a fascinating journey through cutting-edge science-from particle physics to astrophysics-unifying today's incompatible theories with a surprisingly simple idea from the dawn of science itself. For as long as human beings have had self-consciousness, we have wondered about the origins of the universe. Today, we use science to make sense of the world around us. Yet, despite the paradigm-shifting work of such pioneers as Isaac Newton, Max Plank, and Albert Einstein, among many others, modern theories such as photons, gravitons, motion, matter, space, and time all have major inconsistencies. Written for the general public, Massively Small identifies and articulates the anomalies plaguing the current physics. And by presenting new ideas in a novel framework-a framework drawn from ancient conceptualizations of the fundamental structure of reality-it boldly begins the process of shifting the paradigm yet again. From quantum mechanics to relativity, from theories of time, light, gravity, and mass to the cosmological theory of the big bang, this book shows how every question in physics can be answered by viewing the microstructures of the universe in a particular way. The ultimate goal is to reach a large-scale unified theory by beginning at the smallest scale.
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Download or read book Advances in Sustainable Humidification Dehumidification Thermal Desalination Systems written by Majid Amidpour and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Sustainable Humidification-Dehumidification Thermal Desalination Systems: 4E Analysis, Process Integration, and Materials presents the newest developments in humidification–dehumidification (HDH) systems and improvements in their applications for reducing energy usage. This book is split into three parts, first outlining principles, analysis, and optimization of HDH technology, its economy, its impacts on the environment, and a multistage approach for maximizing energy efficiency. This is followed by practical guides on implementing sustainable HDH systems within a variety of hybridization scenarios. Finally, this book provides an evaluation of different packing materials for HDH desalination units. Showing how the major advances in this technology impact the energy requirements of fresh-water production, Advances in Sustainable Humidification-Dehumidification Thermal Desalination Systems: 4E Analysis, Process Integration, and Materials takes readers from fundamental principles to sustainable real-world applications of HDH thermal desalination systems. Presents the fundamentals, principles, and technological overview of HDH desalination systems for lowering energy expenditure Details the modeling, application, and integration of HDH desalination systems in a variety of scenarios, as well as material evaluation/selection Employs a mixture of methods, analysis, and applications to ensure readers not only understand the fundamentals but can also apply these across a range of real-world scenarios Provides a guide to implementing the possibilities of HDH desalination through renewable and low-grade energy sources for a sustainable future
Download or read book LOL at the GOP Volume 6 Orange Is the New Crazy written by Craig Rozniecki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you cross an elderly overgrown Oompa Loompa with a child on steroids? The 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Trump has taken his party and the country by storm as he smooth-talked his way past sixteen other candidates in the GOP primary by calling Mexicans rapists, mocking disabled reporters, and basically telling his next-door neighbors they're going to pay for a fence he wants to place around his own backyard. In this book, you'll read all about: Which state believes dentists provide abortions in addition to cleanings; whether or not Ben Carson thinks the Middle East includes the states of North Carolina and Virginia; why Ted Cruz appears to understand basketball about as well as sloths understand speed walking; as well as anything and everything that is Donald J. Trump. Yes, orange might be the new black in the world of Netflix, but orange has become the new crazy in the world of politics.
Download or read book Incerto written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 1873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark five-book series--all together in one boxed set The Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don't understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions, in non-overlapping volumes that can be accessed in any order. The main thread is that while there is inordinate uncertainty about what is going on, there is great certainty as to what one should do about it. This boxed set includes: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS THE BLACK SWAN THE BED OF PROCRUSTES ANTIFRAGILE SKIN IN THE GAME
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Download or read book Small Scale Fisheries in Europe Status Resilience and Governance written by José J. Pascual-Fernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of the status and dynamics of people participating in the small-scale fisheries (SSF) of Europe. It covers the situation of SSF in 25 coastal countries, thereby providing a portrait of almost every coastal country on the continent and analyzing the recent evolution of the sector. Small-scale fisheries are argued to be extremely important in Europe, as they provide employment and welfare, while increasing food sovereignty and maintaining communities in coastal areas. The recent worldwide focus on SSF derives from their environmental sustainability, which distinguishes many of their activities from those of large-scale fisheries. This book analyses the diversity of SSF and shows how fishing communities have sometimes developed successful governing models, demonstrating social and economic resilience. While the book emphasizes the strengths of SSF and the synergies that occur with other marine sectors, it also presents cases of failure, in which collective action and policy have actually contributed to a weakening of the sector. In this context, the book shows how governmental policies toward SSF vary considerably from country to country, in a way that is not entirely consistent with European policies.
Download or read book Making Massive Small Change written by Kelvin Campbell and published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookbuilders of Boston Winner -- Professional, Illustrated Category The key to fixing our broken patterns of urban development does not lie in grand plans or giant projects; rather, it lies in the collective wisdom and energy of people harnessing the power of many small ideas and actions to make a big difference. We call this making "Massive Small" change. In an increasingly complex and changing world where global problems are felt locally, the systems we use to plan, design, and build our urban neighborhoods are failing. For three generations, governments the world over have tried to order and control the evolution of cities through rigid, top-down action. Yet, master plans lie unfulfilled, housing is in crisis, the environment is under threat, and the urban poor have become poorer. The system is not broken: it was built this way. And governments alone cannot solve these problems. But there is another way--the Massive Small way--a concept developed by Kelvin Campbell, the innovative founder of Urban Initiatives, an internationally recognized urban design practice based in London, and curator of Smart Urbanism [Massive Small], one of the largest LinkedIn communities in the field of online urbanism. Making Massive Small Change, the first truly comprehensive sourcebook to come out of this work, showcases cities as they really are--deeply complex, adaptive systems. As such, it offers an alternative to our current highly mechanistic model of urban development. With roots in the work of great urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and E. F. Schumacher, Making Massive Small Change integrates this thinking with Complexity Theory and a scientific understanding of sustainability and resilience in cities. It sets out the enabling protocols, conditions, and behaviors that deliver Massive Small change in our neighborhoods. It describes and illustrates the ideas, tools, and tactics being used to help engaged citizens, civic leaders, and urban professionals to work together to build viable urban society, and it will show how effective system change can be implemented. Highly illustrated with stunning graphics and photographs of cityscapes and urban life, this essential toolkit for the future can be called the next Whole Earth Catalog for twenty-first century urban planning and development.
Download or read book Such Small Hands written by Andrés Barba and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.
Download or read book Optimisation of Massively Parallel Neural Networks written by Michael Oldroyd and published by Fultus Corporation. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Description: Most current artificial neural networks exist only within software simulators running on conventional computers. Simulators can provide great flexibility, but require immensely powerful and costly hardware for even very small networks. An artificial neural network implemented as a custom integrated circuit could operate many thousands of times faster than any simulator as each neuron can operate simultaneously. A significant problem with implementing neural networks in hardware is that larger networks require a great deal of silicon area, making them too costly to design and produce. In this book, I test the effectiveness of a number of algorithms that reduce the size of a trained neural network while maintaining accuracy. Author Biography: Michael Oldroyd is a software development veteran who started progamming professionally back in 1992. He is now development manager at AES Data Systems. He has worked as a consultant and software developer for a number of international organisations including Mobil Oil, The European Commission, Deutsche Bank, Compaq Computer, and the Cabinet Office. He has developed several bespoke AI trading and decision support tools used on trading floors in the currency, stock and energy markets. He is a professional member of the IEEE and the Computational Intelligence Society.
Download or read book Programming Massively Parallel Processors written by David B. Kirk and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Third Edition shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture, exploring, in detail, various techniques for constructing parallel programs. Case studies demonstrate the development process, detailing computational thinking and ending with effective and efficient parallel programs. Topics of performance, floating-point format, parallel patterns, and dynamic parallelism are covered in-depth. For this new edition, the authors have updated their coverage of CUDA, including coverage of newer libraries, such as CuDNN, moved content that has become less important to appendices, added two new chapters on parallel patterns, and updated case studies to reflect current industry practices. Teaches computational thinking and problem-solving techniques that facilitate high-performance parallel computing Utilizes CUDA version 7.5, NVIDIA's software development tool created specifically for massively parallel environments Contains new and updated case studies Includes coverage of newer libraries, such as CuDNN for Deep Learning
Download or read book Programming Massively Parallel Processors written by Wen-mei W. Hwu and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach shows both students and professionals alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture. Concise, intuitive, and practical, it is based on years of road-testing in the authors' own parallel computing courses. Various techniques for constructing and optimizing parallel programs are explored in detail, while case studies demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs. The new edition includes updated coverage of CUDA, including the newer libraries such as CuDNN. New chapters on frequently used parallel patterns have been added, and case studies have been updated to reflect current industry practices. Parallel Patterns Introduces new chapters on frequently used parallel patterns (stencil, reduction, sorting) and major improvements to previous chapters (convolution, histogram, sparse matrices, graph traversal, deep learning) Ampere Includes a new chapter focused on GPU architecture and draws examples from recent architecture generations, including Ampere Systematic Approach Incorporates major improvements to abstract discussions of problem decomposition strategies and performance considerations, with a new optimization checklist
Download or read book Large Scale Computational Physics On Massively Parallel Computers written by Hans J Herrmann and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-12-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents:A Lattice Solid Model for the Nonlinear Dynamics of Earthquakes (P Mora & D Place)Vectorized and Parallelized Algorithms for Multi-Million Particle MD-Simulations (W Form et al)Green-Function Method for Electronic Structure of Periodic Crystals (R Zeller)Parallelization of the Ising Simulation (N Ito)A Nonlocal Approach to Vertex Models and Quantum Spin Systems (H G Evertz & M Marcu)The Static Quark-Antiquark-Potential: A ‘Classical’ Experiment on the Connection Machine CM-2 (K Schilling & G S Bali)Determination of Monopole Current Clusters in Four-Dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics (A Bode et al)QCD Calculations on the QCDPAX (K Kanaya)UKQCD — Recent Results and Future Prospects (R Kenway)Programming Tools for Parallel Computers (K J M Moriarity & T Trappenberg)Workstation Clusters: One Way to Parallel Computing (M Weber)APE100 and Beyond (R Tripiccione)and other papers Readership: Computational physicists. keywords:
Download or read book Algorithms and Parallel VLSI Architectures III written by M. Moonen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-03-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the current evolution of research in algorithms, architectures and compilation for parallel systems is provided by this publication. The contributions focus specifically on domains where embedded systems are required, either oriented to application-specific or to programmable realisations. These are crucial in domains such as audio, telecom, instrumentation, speech, robotics, medical and automotive processing, image and video processing, TV, multimedia, radar and sonar. The book will be of particular interest to the academic community because of the detailed descriptions of research results presented. In addition, many contributions feature the "real-life" applications that are responsible for driving research and the impact of their specific characteristics on the methodologies is assessed. The publication will also be of considerable value to senior design engineers and CAD managers in the industrial arena, who wish either to anticipate the evolution of commercially available design tools or to utilize the presented concepts in their own R&D programmes.
Download or read book Massively Multi Agent Technology written by Nadeem Jamali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the joint AAMAS 2006 International Workshops on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, MMAS 2006, and on Large scale Multi-Agent Systems, LSMAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, and of the International Workshop on Coordination and Control in Massively Multi-Agent Systems, CCMMS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 as associated event of AAMAS 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from the presentations made at the 3 workshops fall in 4 broad categories, presenting a snapshot of current research. Included are implementation strategies addressing coordination in the space of spatial and temporal distributed systems; approaches to deal with complexity to make decisions such as task allocation and team formation efficiently, by creating implicit or explicit encapsulations; and finally, a diverse range of applications to which these approaches may be applied, from large-scale agent based simulations to managing different types of networks to image segmentation.
Download or read book Beyond the Cascade written by A. H. Jessup and published by AH Jessup. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling quest for a lost language, the brilliant, driven Suzannah Grant is thrust into adventures she had not counted on, and discoveries beyond her wildest imagining. The physical dangers of her trek into remote African mountains are surpassed only by the power of her discoveries about language, the human spirit, and the unbounded dimensions of her own nature.
