This book provides a historic overview of what is defined as "soft computing" with its techniques: neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and cellular automata.

This book wants to provide an overview of nanomedicine. The book particularly deals with the nanomedical applications (drug delivery, LOCs and bioMEMS) and the positive and negative effects of nanotechnologies on human health.

This book provides a historical background of the monetary system of Bretton Woods, whose conference was held in 1944 in order to establish the rules of the commercial and financial relationships between the main industrialized countries of the world.

This book provides a general overview from the historical and technical point of view of the most known social networks of the Web: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn.

By now, nanotechnologies belong to our daily life. They are used in sport, food, electronics, energy production, and so on. This book wants to describe the way how nanotechnologies can revolutionize the future world.

This book is a point of reference for all those who want to learn the cataloguing technique in a library. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, the concept and the function of the catalogue is defined, with the questions related to its nature and aims, as well as the cataloguing techniques and the management of the same catalogue, making reference to the cataloguing theories of various librarians of our time. The second part analyzes the organization of the information in a li...

This book traces the origin of the evolution giving an overview of the precursors who inspired Darwin's work. It will be analyzed with all its scientific and philosophic implications.

Starting from a definition of e-learning and its historical overview, this book wants to answer two questions. Which criteria has to follow a project of online didactics? Which models and strategies can be applied? Devoted to teacher and students, the book describes the basis for the construction of an e-learning course, with the figures involved.

Google is surely the most important search engine on the Web. But what isGoogle? How was it born? How does it work? This book wants to answer allthese questions through a detailed description of this phenomenon thatcompletely "revolutionized" the history of Internet.

From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns -- such as the law of gravity -- our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But how do we do it?In Probably Approximately Correct, c...

Peterson's Master the PCAT is an in-depth review that offers thorough preparation for the computer-based exam. After learning about the structure, format, scoring and score reporting, and the subtests and question types, you can take a diagnostic test to learn about your strengths and weaknesses. The next six parts of the eBook are focused on detailed subject reviews for each subtest: verbal ability, reading comprehension, biology, chemistry, quantative ability, and writing. Each ...

A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman.The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain."How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how...