Family trusts : a guide for beneficiaries, trustees, trust protectors, and trust creators by Goldstone, Hartley, Hughes, James E., Whitaker, Keith

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MAKING YOUR CAM JOURNEY EASIER WITH FUSION 360 a learn the basics of turning, milling, laser cutting, and 3D printing by Cimò, Fabrizio

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Real-Time Big Data Analytics. by Gupta, Sumit, Saxena, Shilpi

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Statistics for Data Science. by Miller, James D.

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The only one living to tell : the autobiography of a Yavapai Indian by Burns, Mike, 1865?-1934

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Ghosts and Numbers by Klima, Alan, 1964-

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The solar generation : childhood and adolescence of terrestrial photovoltaics by Wolfe, Philip, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…3.2.4 Other Professional Applications3.2.5 Installing Remote Systems; 3.3 Off-Grid Rural and Residential Development; 3.3.1 Pumping; 3.3.2 Health Clinics; 3.3.3 Lighting; 3.3.4 Rural Community Power; 3.4 Consumer Products; 3.4.1 Solar Calculators; 3.4.2 Watches and Clocks; 3.4.3 Products for Boats and Recreational Vehicles; 3.4.4 Garden Products; 3.4.5 Battery Chargers; 3.5 Grid-Linked Rooftop and Building-Integrated Systems; 3.5.1 Commercial, Industrial, and Agricultural Buildings; 3.6 Rural Electrification and Local Minigrids; 3.7 Utility-Scale Projects.…”
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Tungsten : Properties, Chemistry, Technology of the Element, Alloys, and Chemical Compounds by Lassner, Erik, Schubert, Wolf-Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Tungsten and Tungsten Alloy Products -- 7.1. Lighting Application -- 7.2. Electrical Engineering -- 7.3. …”
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Poetry : a writers' guide and anthology by Huey, Amorak, Kaneko, W. Todd

Table of Contents: “…The elements of poetry [Ambiguity ; Beginnings ; Clarity ; Concision ; Contradiction ; Defamiliarization ; Dicton ; Doorways ; Endings ; Exploration ; Form ; Gate ; Gravity and lightness ; Image ; Inventory ; Language ; Lines ; Lyric ; Metaphor ; Mood ; Movement ; Music ; Narrative ; Observation and interptretation ; Point of view ; Precision ; Punctuation ; Questioning ; Repetition ; Rhythm ; Showing and telling ; Speaker ; Surprise ; Syntax ; Titles ; Value ; Voice; Work]) -- Section three: Practicalities (8. …”


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A kitchen course in electricity and magnetism by Nightingale, David, Spencer, C. (Christopher)

Table of Contents: “…Bulbs; 2.16 Concept of Resistance; 2.17 Ohm ́s Law; 2.17.1 A Graph for Ohm ́s Law; 2.17.2 Experiment: Resistance of a Household Bulb; 2.17.3 What Was Happening; 2.18 Equivalent Definition of Power; 2.19 Lighting the LED; 2.20 The Solar Cell: A (Part-Time) Battery; 2.21 More on pV Cells (Solar Cells or Photodiodes).…”
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Integration of renewable energy sources with smart grid

Table of Contents: “…3.6.2 Distribution Management System -- 3.6.3 Distribution Automation -- 3.6.4 Substation Automation -- 3.6.5 Advanced Metering Infrastructure -- 3.6.6 Geographical Information System -- 3.6.7 Peak Load Management -- 3.6.8 Demand Response -- 3.6.9 Power Quality Management -- 3.6.10 Outage Management System -- 3.6.11 Distribution Transformer Monitoring System -- 3.6.12 Enterprise Application Integration -- 3.6.13 Smart Street Lights -- 3.6.14 Energy Storage -- 3.6.15 Cyber Security -- 3.6.16 Analytics -- 3.7 Case Study: Techno-Economic Analysis -- 3.7.1 Peak Load Shaving and Metering Efficiency…”
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Electronic troubleshooting by Tomal, Daniel R., Agajanian, Aram S.

Table of Contents: “…Troubleshooting residential, commercial, and wireless communication systems -- Fundamentals -- Electric wiring circuit repair -- Lighting and control system repair -- Tv distribution system repair -- Fiber-optic communications repair -- Preventive maintenance -- Self-examination -- Questions and problems -- 6. …”
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Handbook of Iris Recognition by Burge, Mark

Table of Contents: “…4.1 Introduction4.2 Quality Evaluation; 4.2.1 Iris Segmentation Scores; 4.2.2 Interlacing; 4.2.3 Illumination; 4.2.4 Lighting; 4.2.5 Occlusion; 4.2.6 Pixel Count; 4.2.7 Dilation; 4.2.8 Off-Angle; 4.2.9 Blur; 4.3 Performance of Quality Metrics; 4.4 Quality-Based Adaptive Authentication; 4.4.1 Quality of Sample; 4.4.2 Confidence in Scores; 4.4.3 Quality Sample and Template Features; 4.4.4 Experimental Results; 4.4.4.1 Neural Network; 4.4.4.2 QS Evaluation; 4.4.4.3 CS Evaluation; 4.4.4.4 QST Evaluation; 4.5 Conclusions; References; 5 Quality and Demographic Investigation of ICE 2006.…”
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The wind power story : a century of innovation that reshaped the global energy landscape by Owens, Brandon

Table of Contents: “…Preface xi -- 1 The Wind Power Pioneers 1 -- 1.1 Work of the Devil 1 -- 1.2 The Danish Edison 7 -- 1.3 The War of the Currents 12 -- 1.4 The Colorado Connection 14 -- 2 The Age of Small Wind 19 -- 2.1 Networks of Power 19 -- 2.2 An Interesting Twist 22 -- 2.3 The Savior of the Windmills 25 -- 2.4 From the Arctic to Antarctica 27 -- 2.5 Rural Electrification 32 -- 3 The Birth of Big Wind 37 -- 3.1 The High Altitude Turbogenerator 37 -- 3.2 The Soviets Advance 42 -- 3.3 Victory 46 -- 4 Wind Power's Giant Leap 53 -- 4.1 The Winds of Cape Cod 53 -- 4.2 Grandpa's Knob 58 -- 4.3 A Dream Realized 60 -- 4.4 A Lesson in Economics 63 -- 5 Wind Power in the Wake of War 67 -- 5.1 The Wind Power Aerogenerator 67 -- 5.2 The Search for Tomorrow 72 -- 5.3 The British Experiments 73 -- 5.4 The Wind Power Schism 77 -- 6 Wind Power's Invisible Solution 83 -- 6.1 The Death of Windmills 83 -- 6.2 The Return of Johannes Juul 88 -- 6.3 Learning to Stall 91 -- 6.4 Gedser Economics 95 -- 7 The French Connection 101 -- 7.1 The Duke's Invention 101 -- 7.2 The Seeker 106 -- 7.3 The Neyrpic Wind Turbines 110 -- 8 Germany's Timeless Beauty 115 -- 8.1 Wind Power in Wartime 115 -- 8.2 Lighting Neuwerk Island 117 -- 8.3 The Aesthete 119 -- 8.4 The Blade Breakthrough 122 -- 9 Wind Power's Silent Decade 129 -- 9.1 The Pope's Speech 129 -- 9.2 Silent Spring 134 -- 9.3 The Gathering Storm 138 -- 10 America's Next Moonshot 143 -- 10.1 The Energy Crisis 143 -- 10.2 Back to Ohio 148 -- 10.3 The Turning Point 152 -- 11 Denmark Reinvents Wind Power 159 -- 11.1 Feared to Freeze 159 -- 11.2 More Than a Carpenter 162 -- 11.3 Let 100 Windmills Bloom 166 -- 11.4 From Blacksmiths to Businessmen 168 -- 12 The Wind King 175 -- 12.1 Heronemus's Dream 175 -- 12.2 California's Soft Energy Path 180 -- 12.3 This Is the Place! …”
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Statistics for business by Mariappan, Perumal

Table of Contents: “…3.10 Construction of a Continuous Frequency Distribution -- 3.11 Cumulative and Relative Frequencies -- 3.12 Diagrammatic Representation of Data -- 3.12.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Diagrammatic Representation -- 3.12.2 Types of Diagrams -- 3.12.2.1 Bar Diagram -- 3.12.2.2 Pie Diagram -- 3.12.2.3 Histogram, Frequency Polygon, and Frequency Curve -- 3.12.2.4 Frequency Polygon -- 3.12.2.5 Frequency Curve -- 3.12.2.6 Ogive Curve -- 3.12.2.7 Line Diagram -- Exercise 3 -- 4: Measures of Central Tendency (MCT) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 MCT -- 4.2.1 Properties of Best Average -- 4.3 Arithmetic Mean -- 4.3.1 Discrete Data -- 4.3.2 Discrete Data with Frequency -- 4.3.3 Continuous Data with Frequency -- 4.4 Mathematical Properties of Arithmetic Mean -- 4.5 Median -- 4.5.1 Discrete Data -- 4.5.2 Discrete Data with Frequency -- 4.5.3 Continuous Data with Frequency -- 4.5.3.1 Relative Advantages -- 4.5.3.2 Relative Disadvantages -- 4.5.3.3 Property of Median -- 4.5.4 Graphical Method to Find the Median -- 4.6 Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles -- 4.7 Mode -- 4.7.1 Discrete Data -- 4.7.2 Discrete Data with Frequency -- 4.7.3 Continuous Data with Frequency -- 4.7.4 A Graphical Method to Evaluate the Mode -- 4.8 Comparison of Mean, Median, and Mode -- 4.9 Weighted Arithmetic Mean -- 4.9.1 Advantages of the Weighted Mean -- 4.10 Geometric Mean -- 4.11 Harmonic Mean -- Exercise 4 -- 5: Dispersion -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Range -- 5.3 Quartile Deviation (QD) -- 5.4 Coefficient of Quartile Deviation -- 5.5 Mean Deviation -- 5.6 Standard Deviation (SD) -- 5.7 Relative Measures of Dispersion -- Exercise 5 -- 6: Skewness, Moments, and Kurtosis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Dispersion and Skewness -- 6.3 Moments -- 6.4 Kurtosis -- Exercise 6 -- 7: Correlation and Regression Analysis -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Correlation -- 7.2.1 Simple Correlation or Correlation.…”
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Introduction to Communication Networks. by Anttalainen, Tarmo

Table of Contents: “…-- 1.2 Significance of Telecommunications -- 1.3 Historical Perspective -- 1.4 Standardization -- 1.5 Standards Organizations -- 1.5.1 Interested Parties -- 1.5.2 National Standardization Authoriti -- 1.5.3 European Organizations -- 1.5.4 American Organizations -- 1.5.5 Global Organizations -- 1.5.6 Other Organizations -- 1.5.7 Intellectual Property Rights and P -- 1.6 Development of the Telecommunication Business -- 1.7 Problems and Review Questions -- References -- Chapter 2 Networks: An Overview -- 2.1 Telecommunication Network Architecture -- 2.1.1 Transmission -- 2.1.2 Switching and Routing -- 2.1.3 Signaling -- 2.1.4 Basic Network Architecture -- 2.2 Access Network -- 2.3 Core Network -- 2.4 International Networks -- 2.4.1 Public Switched Telephone Network -- 2.4.2 The Internet -- 2.5 Network Categories -- 2.5.1 Network Categories Based on Geogra -- 2.5.2 Public Networks -- 2.5.3 Private or Dedicated Networks -- 2.6 Signaling -- 2.6.1 Tone Dialing -- 2.6.2 Common Channel Signaling (CCS) -- 2.6.3 Session Initiation Protocol -- 2.7 Telephone Numbering -- 2.7.1 International Prefix -- 2.7.2 Country Code -- 2.7.3 Trunk Code, Trunk Prefix, or Area -- 2.7.4 Subscriber Number -- 2.7.5 Operator Number -- 2.7.6 Telephone Call Routing -- 2.7.7 Mobile Telephone Number Portabilit -- 2.8 Internet Addresses -- 2.9 Traffic Engineering -- 2.9.1 Grade of Service -- 2.9.2 Busy Hour -- 2.9.3 Traffic Intensity and the Erlang -- 2.9.4 Probability of Blocking -- 2.9.5 Capacity Planning of Packet-Switch -- 2.10 Network Management -- 2.10.1 Introduction to Network Managemen -- 2.10.2 Who Manages Networks? …”
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Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict

Table of Contents: “…Zwi, Antonio Ugalde and Patricia Richards -- Homicide / Marc Riedel and Danielle Dirks -- Human Nature, Views of / James C. Davies -- Human Rights / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Indigenous Peoples' Responses to Conquest / Franke Wilmer -- Industrial Versus Preindustrial Forms of Violence / Michael Hanagan -- Institutionalization of Non-Violence / Toh Swee-Hin and Virginia Floresca-Cawagas -- Institutionalization of Violence / Rajni Kothari -- Intelligence Agencies and Issues / Cary Adkinson -- International Criminal Courts and Tribunals / Danielle Dirks and Elyshia Aseltine -- International Relations, Overview / Carolyn M. …”
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Unity 2017 Game Optimization - Second Edition. by Dickinson, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Use Mip Maps wisely -- Manage resolution downscaling externally -- Adjust Anisotropic Filtering levels -- Consider Atlasing -- Adjust compression rates for non-square textures -- Sparse Textures -- Procedural Materials -- Asynchronous Texture Uploading -- Mesh and animation files -- Reduce polygon count -- Tweak Mesh Compression -- Use Read-Write Enabled appropriately -- Consider baked animations -- Combine meshes -- Asset Bundles and Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Faster Physics -- Physics Engine internals -- Physics and time -- Maximum Allowed Timestep -- Physics updates and runtime changes -- Static Colliders and Dynamic Colliders -- Collision detection -- Collider types -- The Collision Matrix -- Rigidbody active and sleeping states -- Ray and object casting -- Debugging Physics -- Physics performance optimizations -- Scene setup -- Scaling -- Positioning -- Mass -- Use Static Colliders appropriately -- Use Trigger Volumes responsibly -- Optimize the Collision Matrix -- Prefer Discrete collision detection -- Modify the Fixed Update frequency -- Adjust the Maximum Allowed Timestep -- Minimize Raycasting and bounding-volume checks -- Avoid complex Mesh Colliders -- Use simpler primitives -- Use simpler Mesh Colliders -- Avoid complex physics Components -- Let physics objects sleep -- Modify the Solver Iteration Count -- Optimize Ragdolls -- Reduce Joints and Colliders -- Avoid inter-Ragdoll collisions -- Replace, deactivate or remove inactive Ragdolls -- Know when to use physics -- Summary -- Chapter 6 : Dynamic Graphics -- The Rendering Pipeline -- The GPU Front End -- The GPU Back End -- Fill Rate -- Overdraw -- Memory Bandwidth -- Lighting and Shadowing -- Forward Rendering -- Deferred Rendering -- Vertex Lit Shading (legacy) -- Global Illumination -- Multithreaded Rendering -- Low-level rendering APIs -- Detecting performance issues.…”
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Red Moon The Soviet Conquest of Space by Capaccioli, Massimo

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Daily watch. Life on the frontline of Ukraine's war.

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