The Big Book of Makerspace Projects : Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn by Graves, Colleen, Graves, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…33: Building Swing Switches, Fold Switches, and Pressure Sensors -- Project 31: Building a Swing Switch -- Project 32: Building a Fold Switch -- Project 33: Building a Pressure-Sensor Switch -- Project 34: Makey Makey Paper Circuit -- Project 35: Marble Wall Switches -- "Makey Makey Assistive Technology" Challenge -- 9 Coding and Programming Objects -- Project 36: Programming Dash and Dot with Tickle App -- Equilateral Triangle with Dash/Dot -- Right Triangle with Dash and Dot -- Obtuse Triangle with Dash -- Project 37: Programming Triangles with Sphero and Tickle -- Right Triangle with Sphero -- Project 38: Programming Triangles with Sphero and SPRK Lightning Lab -- Project 39: Programming a Robot Dance Party With Tickle -- Project 40: Programming with Hummingbird Robotics and Snap! …”
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Big data, big innovation : enabling competitive differentiation through business analytics by Stubbs, Evan

Table of Contents: “…; Data Science; Value Architecture; The Power of Both; How Do I Get the Right People?; The SMART Model; Art; Magic; Science; How Do I Keep Them?…”
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Category Creation : How to Build a Brand that Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love. by Kennada, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Not Everyone Will Get It Right Away2. Customers Are Initially Interested in Education, Not Your Product; 3. …”
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Crowdfund investing for dummies by Best, Jason W.

Table of Contents: “…Getting Specific about the Problems You Can SolveIdentifying Your Target Market; Noting the Phase Your Business Is In; Crunching Numbers: Figuring Out How Much Money You Need; Getting Real about Whether Crowdfund Investing Is Right for Your Business; Determining Your Company's Valuation; Imagining Your Ideal Exit Strategy; Chapter 6: Focusing on Your People: Building Your Crowd and Your Team; Picturing Your Crowd; Respecting What Crowd Investors Need from You; Finding Talent to Support Your Goals; Chapter 7: Picking a Powerful Crowdfund Investing Platform.…”
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Embarrassment of Product Choices 2 by Millot, Michel

Table of Contents: “…Globalization; 1.1.7. GDP: no longer the right indicator; 1.2. Economic and political approach; 1.2.1. …”
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Design for excellence in electronics manufacturing by Tulkoff, Cheryl, Caswell, Greg

Table of Contents: “…Contributors xxiii; Foreword xxv; Preface xxvii; Acknowledgments xxix; Acronyms xxxi; Introduction iii; 1 Introduction to Design for Excellence; 1.1 Design for Excellence (DfX) in Electronics Manufacturing 1; 1.2 Chapter 2 -- Establishing a Reliability Program 3; 1.3 Chapter 3 -- Design for Reliability (DfR) 3; 1.4 Chapter 4 -- Design for the Use Environment: Reliability Testing; and Test Plan Development 4; 1.5 Chapter 5 -- Design for Manufacturability 5; 1.6 Chapter 6 -- Design for Life Cycle Management 6; 1.7 Chapter 7 -- Root Cause Problem-Solving, Failure Analysis, and Continual Improvement Techniques 1.8 Chapter 8 -- Summary and Bringing It All Together 8; 2 Establishing a Reliability Program; 2.1 Introduction 9; 2.2 Best Practices and the Economics of a Reliability Program 12; 2.2.1 Best in Class Reliability Program Practices 13; 2.3 Elements of a Reliability Program 16; 2.3.1 Reliability Goals 17; 2.3.2 Defined Use Environments 18; 2.3.3 Software Reliability 21; 2.3.4 General Software Requirements 22; 2.4 Review of Commonly Used Probability and Statistics Concepts in Reliability; 2.4.1 Sources of Reliability Data 32; 2.4.2 Reliability Probability in Electronics 35; 2.4.3 Variation Statistics 35; 2.4.4 Reliability Statistics in Electronics 36; 2.5 Reliability Analysis and Prediction Methods 39; 2.6 Summary 45; Bibliography 45; 3 Design for Reliability; 3.1 Introduction 47; 3.1.1 DfR at the Concept Stage 54; 3.2 Specifications (Product and Environment Definitions and Con; cerns) 57; 3.3 Reliability Physics Analysis 61; 3.3.1 Reliability Physics Alternatives 68; 3.3.2 Reliability Physics Models and Examples 71; 3.3.3 Component Selection 77; 3.3.4 Critical Components 79; 3.3.5 Moisture Sensitivity Level 81; 3.3.6 Temperature Sensitivity Level 81; 3.3.7 Electrostatic Discharge 81; 3.3.8 Lifetime 83; 3.4 Surviving the Heat Wave 85; 3.5 Redundancy 89; 3.6 Plating Materials -- Tin Whiskers 91; 3.7 Derating and Uprating 94; 3.8 Reliability of New Packaging Technologies 96; 3.9 Printed Circuit Boards 98; 3.9.1 Surface Finishes 99; 3.9.2 Laminate Selection 107; 3.9.3 Cracking and Delamination 108; 3.9.4 Plated Through Holes- Vias 109; 3.9.5 Conductive Anodic Filament 112; 3.9.6 Strain and Flexure Issues 116; 3.9.7 Pad Cratering 119; 3.9.8 PCB Buckling 120; 3.9.9 Electrochemical Migration 121; 3.9.10 Cleanliness 134; 3.10 Non-Functional Pads 138; 3.11 Wearout Mechanisms 139; 3.12 Conformal Coating and Potting 143; Bibliography 150; 4 Design for the Use Environment: Reliability Testing and Test; Plan Development; 4.1 Introduction 155; 4.1.1 Elements of a Testing Program 157; 4.1.2 Know The Environment 162; 4.2 Standards and Measurements 164; 4.3 Failure Inducing Stressors 165; 4.4 Common Test Types 166; 4.4.1 Temperature Cycling 166; 4.4.2 Temperature-Humidity-Bias Testing 168; 4.4.3 Electrical Connection 169; 4.4.4 Corrosion Tests 169; 4.4.5 Power Cycling 170; 4.4.6 Electrical Loads 170; 4.4.7 Mechanical Bending 171; 4.4.8 Random and Sinusoidal Vibration 172; 4.4.9 Mechanical Shock 176; 4.4.10 ALT Testing 178; 4.4.11 HALT Testing 178; 4.4.12 EMC Testing Dos and Don'ts 181; 4.5 Test Plan Development 182; 4.5.1 The Process 184; 4.5.2 Failure Analysis 186; 4.5.3 Screening Tests 186; 4.5.4 Case Study 1 189; 4.5.5 Case Study 2 192; 4.5.6 Case Study 3 195; Bibliography 198; 5 Design for Manufacturability (DfM); 5.1 Introduction 201; 5.2 Overview of Industry Standard Organizations 207; 5.3 Overview of DfM Processes 212; 5.4 Component Topics 215; 5.5 Printed Circuit Board Topics 234; 5.5.1 Laminate Selection 234; 5.5.2 Surface Finish 235; 5.5.3 Discussion of Different Surface Finishes 236; 5.5.4 Stack-up 240; 5.5.5 Plated Through Holes 242; 5.5.6 Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF) Formation 243; 5.5.7 Copper Weight 244; 5.5.8 Pad Geometries 245; 5.5.9 Trace and Space Separation 247; 5.5.10 Non-Functional Pads 248; 5.5.11 Shipping and Handling 248; 5.5.12 Cleanliness and Contamination 249; 5.6 Process Materials 253; 5.6.1 Solder 253; 5.6.2 Solder Paste 254; 5.6.3 Flux 255; 5.6.4 Stencils 258; 5.6.5 Conformal Coating 259; 5.6.6 Potting 264; 5.6.7 Underfill 266; 5.6.8 Cleaning Materials 267; 5.6.9 Adhesives 267; 5.7 Summary: Implementing DfM 268; Bibliography 269; 6 Design for Life Cycle Management; 6.1 Introduction 271; 6.2 Obsolescence Management 272; 6.2.1 Obsolescence Resolution Techniques 273; 6.2.2 Industry Standards 276; 6.2.3 Asset Security 278; 6.3 Long-Term Storage 280; 6.4 Long-Term Reliability Issues 283; 6.5 Counterfeit Prevention and Detection Strategies 288; 6.6 Supplier Selection 306; 6.6.1 Selecting a Printed Circuit Board Fabricator 309; 6.6.2 Auditing a Printed Circuit Board Fabricator 318; 6.6.3 Selecting a Contract Manufacturer 332; 6.6.4 Auditing a Contract Manufacturer 336; 6.6.5 Summary 342; 7 Root Cause Problem-solving, Failure Analysis and Continual Improvement Techniques; 7.1 Introduction 345; 7.1.1 Continual Improvement 347; 7.1.2 Problem-Solving 348; 7.1.3 Identification of Problems and Improvement Opportunities 348; 7.1.4 Overview of Industry Standard Organizations 352; 7.2 Root Cause Failure Analysis Methodology 357; 7.3 Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS); 7.4 Failure Analysis (FA) 373; 7.4.1 Failure Analysis Techniques 376; 7.4.2 Failure Verification 399; 7.4.3 Corrective Action 400; 7.4.4 Failure Report Closure 401; 7.5 Continuing Education and Improvement Activities 402; 7.6 Summary: Implementing Root Cause Methodology 403; Bibliography 404; 8 Conclusion to Design for Excellence: Bringing It All Together; 8.1 Design for Excellence (DfX) in Electronics Manufacturing 407; 8.2 Chapter 2 -- Establishing a Reliability Program 408; 8.3 Chapter 3 -- Design for Reliability (DfR) 409; 8.4 Chapter 4 -- Design for the Use Environment: Reliability Testing and Test Plan Development; 8.5 Chapter 5 -- Design for Manufacturability 413; 8.6 Chapter 6 -- Design for Life Cycle Management 416; 8.7 Chapter 7 -- Root Cause Problem Solving, Failure Analysis, and; Continual Improvement Techniques 418; Index 421…”
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Handbook of farm, dairy and food machinery engineering by Kutz, Myer

Table of Contents: “…Volumetric Fillers -- 4. Weight Filling -- 5. In-Line or Rotary Fillers -- 6. …”
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Scala Machine Learning Projects : Build real-world machine learning and deep learning projects with Scala. by Karim, Md. Rezaul

Table of Contents: “…Model deployment -- Summary -- Clients Chapter 8: Subscription Assessment for Bank Telemarketing using Deep Neural Networks -- Client subscription assessment through telemarketing -- Dataset description -- Installing and getting started with Apache Zeppelin -- Building from the source -- Starting and stopping Apache Zeppelin -- Creating notebooks -- Exploratory analysis of the dataset -- Label distribution -- Job distribution -- Marital distribution -- Education distribution -- Default distribution -- Housing distribution -- Loan distribution -- Contact distribution -- Month distribution -- Day distribution -- Previous outcome distribution -- Age feature -- Duration distribution -- Campaign distribution -- Pdays distribution -- Previous distribution -- emp_var_rate distributions -- cons_price_idx features -- cons_conf_idx distribution -- Euribor3m distribution -- nr_employed distribution -- Statistics of numeric features -- Implementing a client subscription assessment model -- Hyperparameter tuning and feature selection -- Number of hidden layers -- Number of neurons per hidden layer -- Activation functions -- Weight and bias initialization -- Regularization -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Fraud Analytics Using Autoencoders and Anomaly Detection -- Outlier and anomaly detection -- Autoencoders and unsupervised learning -- Working principles of an autoencoder -- Efficient data representation with autoencoders -- Developing a fraud analytics model -- Description of the dataset and using linear models -- Problem description -- Preparing programming environment -- Step 1 -- Loading required packages and libraries -- Step 2 -- Creating a Spark session and importing implicits -- Step 3 -- Loading and parsing input data -- Step 4 -- Exploratory analysis of the input data -- Step 5 -- Preparing the H2O DataFrame -- Step 6 -- Unsupervised pre-training using autoencoder.…”
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Elementary School : (Hyper)Masculinity in a Feminized Context. by Richardson, Scott

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New perspectives on horned dinosaurs : the Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium

Table of Contents: “…Sankey -- History of horned dinosaur collection. Lost in plain sight : rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops / Darren H. …”
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Fundamentals of Engineering FE Civil All-in-One Exam Guide by Goswami, Indranil

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Materials -- Concrete Mix Design -- Asphalt Mix Design: Volumetric Relationships -- Common Material Tests -- Engineering Materials and Their Properties -- Chapter 10 Fluid Mechanics -- Fluid Properties -- Laminar versus Turbulent Flow -- Static Pressure on Submerged Surfaces -- Fluid Dynamics -- Energy Grade Line and Hydraulic Grade Line -- Fluid Power -- Dynamic Similarity -- Flow Measurement Devices -- Flow Measurement with Weirs -- Chapter 11 Hydraulics and Hydrologic Systems -- Hydrologic Balance -- Precipitation -- Rainfall Intensity -- Hydrograph -- Runoff Estimation by Natural Resources Conservation Service Curve Number -- Procedure for the NRCS Method -- Rational Method for Predicting Runoff -- Water Distribution Systems -- Inflow and Infiltration -- Closed Conduit Hydraulics -- Pipe Networks -- Pumps -- Circular Pipe Head Loss -- Open Channel Flow Fundamentals -- Chapter 12 Structural Analysis -- Structural Determinacy and Stability -- Determinacy and Stability of Trusses, Frames, and Beams -- Load Path and Tributary Area -- Analysis of Trusses -- Load Types -- Deflection -- Introduction to Indeterminate Structural Analysis -- Chapter 13 Structural Design -- Reinforced Concrete Design -- Steel Design -- Chapter 14 Geotechnical Engineering -- Mineralogy -- Soil as a Three-Phase System -- Effective Stress -- Shear Strength (Mohr-Coulomb) -- Standard Soil Tests -- Consolidation -- Soil Classification -- Bearing Capacity -- Lateral Earth Pressure -- Slope Stability -- Permeability of Soils -- Soil Stabilization -- Erosion Control Methods -- Chapter 15 Transportation -- Transportation Planning -- Intersections -- Pavement Design -- Highway Design: Horizontal Curves -- Highway Design: Superelevation -- Highway Design: Spiral Curves -- Highway Design: Vertical Curves -- Sight Distance -- Highway Safety -- Chapter 16 Environmental Engineering -- Main U.S. …”
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Fundamentals of Engineering FE Civil All-in-One Exam Guide by Goswami, Indranil

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Materials -- Concrete Mix Design -- Asphalt Mix Design: Volumetric Relationships -- Common Material Tests -- Engineering Materials and Their Properties -- Chapter 10 Fluid Mechanics -- Fluid Properties -- Laminar versus Turbulent Flow -- Static Pressure on Submerged Surfaces -- Fluid Dynamics -- Energy Grade Line and Hydraulic Grade Line -- Fluid Power -- Dynamic Similarity -- Flow Measurement Devices -- Flow Measurement with Weirs -- Chapter 11 Hydraulics and Hydrologic Systems -- Hydrologic Balance -- Precipitation -- Rainfall Intensity -- Hydrograph -- Runoff Estimation by Natural Resources Conservation Service Curve Number -- Procedure for the NRCS Method -- Rational Method for Predicting Runoff -- Water Distribution Systems -- Inflow and Infiltration -- Closed Conduit Hydraulics -- Pipe Networks -- Pumps -- Circular Pipe Head Loss -- Open Channel Flow Fundamentals -- Chapter 12 Structural Analysis -- Structural Determinacy and Stability -- Determinacy and Stability of Trusses, Frames, and Beams -- Load Path and Tributary Area -- Analysis of Trusses -- Load Types -- Deflection -- Introduction to Indeterminate Structural Analysis -- Chapter 13 Structural Design -- Reinforced Concrete Design -- Steel Design -- Chapter 14 Geotechnical Engineering -- Mineralogy -- Soil as a Three-Phase System -- Effective Stress -- Shear Strength (Mohr-Coulomb) -- Standard Soil Tests -- Consolidation -- Soil Classification -- Bearing Capacity -- Lateral Earth Pressure -- Slope Stability -- Permeability of Soils -- Soil Stabilization -- Erosion Control Methods -- Chapter 15 Transportation -- Transportation Planning -- Intersections -- Pavement Design -- Highway Design: Horizontal Curves -- Highway Design: Superelevation -- Highway Design: Spiral Curves -- Highway Design: Vertical Curves -- Sight Distance -- Highway Safety -- Chapter 16 Environmental Engineering -- Main U.S. …”
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Aeronautical Air-Ground Data Link Communications. by Ben Mahmoud, Mohamed Slim

Table of Contents: “…1.3.4.1. Beyond line of sight communications using HF1.3.4.2. Implementation of data link using HF channels, motivation, access method and expected performances; 1.3.4.3. …”
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No straight lines : four decades of queer comics

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Politics and literature at the turn of the millenium by Keren, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Narrative and memory in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore, Günter Grass's Crabwalk and André Brink's The rights of desire -- 7. The politics of victimhood in John Le Carré's Absolute friends -- 8. …”
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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law Volume 41, 2010 Necessity Across International Law by Dekker, I. F.

Table of Contents: “…Necessity Across International Law -- Necessity across international law - an introduction -- Necessity and the use of force: a special regime -- Necessity in the law of armed conflict and in international criminal law -- State responsibility, necessity and human rights -- A necessity paradigm of ‘necessity’ in international economic law -- Necessity in investment arbitration -- Necessity in international environmental law -- The notion of necessity in the law of the European Union --  Part 2: Documentation -- Classification Scheme -- Netherlands state practice for the parliamentary year 2008-2009 -- Treaties and other international agreements to which the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a party – Conclusions and Developments 2009 -- Netherlands municipal legislation involving questions of public international law, 2009 -- Netherlands judicial decisions involving questions of public international law, 2008-2009.…”
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Belly-Myther of Endor : Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church. by Greer, Rowan A.

Table of Contents: “…""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Rights and Permissions""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Analyses""; ""Some Observations on the Texts Translated:Theological Perspectives""; ""Patristic Rhetoric on Allegory:Origen and Eustathius Put I Kingdoms 28 on Trial""; ""Compositional Analyses""; ""The “Belly-Mytherâ€? …”
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Social Protection and Inclusion : Experiences and Policy Issues. by Office, International Labour

Table of Contents: “…; The Puente Programme, a bridge between the family and its rights; Minimum income and social integration: Institutional arrangements in Europe; Towards universal social security and protection of the "most vulnerable"; Sewa Social Security: Organizing women workers for insurance and health services; China: Towards universal coverage by the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance.…”
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"Multiplication is for white people" : raising expectations for other people's children by Delpit, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Stuff you never would say: successful literacy instruction in elementary classrooms ; Warm demanders: the importance of teachers in the lives of children of poverty ; Skin-deep learning: teaching those who learn differently ; "I don't like it when they don't say my name right": Why "reforming" can't mean "whitening" -- Teaching adolescents. …”
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China's rational entrepreneurs : the development of the new private business sector

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : new opportunities, new sector, new firms / Barbara Krug -- Rationality as a variable in comparative management theory and the possibility of a Chinese version / Gordon Redding -- Entrepreneurship by alliance / Barbara Krug and Judith Mehta -- Emerging markets, entrepreneurship and uncertainty : the emergence of a private sector in China / Barbara Krug and László Pólos -- The role of social capital, networks and property rights in China's privatization process / Hans Hendrischke -- The evolving institutional environment and China's state entrepreneurship / Jane Duckett -- Localism and entrepreneurship : history, identity and solidarity as factors of production / David S.G. …”
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