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All students taking laboratory courses within the physical sciences and engineering will benefit from this book, whilst researchers will find it an invaluable reference. This concise, practical guide brings the reader up-to-speed on the proper handling and presentation of scientific data and its inaccuracies. It covers all the vital topics with practical guidelines, computer programs (in Python), and recipes for handling experimental errors and reporting experimental data. In addition to the essentials, it also provides further background material for advanced readers who want to understand how the methods work. Plenty of examples, exercises and solutions are provided to aid and test understanding, whilst useful data, tables and formulas are compiled in a handy section for easy reference. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? What could drive a person to blow a family fortune at the blackjack tables? Or have you ever pondered what might make Mr. Right leave his beloved at the altar, why hypocrisy seems to be rampant, or even why, every once in awhile, even you are secretly tempted, to lie, cheat, or steal (or, conversely, help someone you never even met)? This book answers these questions and more, and in doing so, turns the prevailing wisdom about who we are upside down. Our character, argue psychologists DeSteno and Valdesolo, isn’t a stable set of traits, but rather a shifting state that is subject to the constant push and pull of hidden mechanisms in our mind. And it’s the battle between these dueling psychological forces that determine how we act at any given point in time. Drawing on the surprising results of the clever experiments concocted in their own laboratory, DeSteno and Valdesolo shed new scientific light on so many of the puzzling behaviors that regularly grace the headlines. For example, you’ll learn: • Why Tiger Woods just couldn’t resist the allure of his mistresses even though he had a picture-perfect family at home. And why no one, including those who knew him best, ever saw it coming. • Why even the shrewdest of investors can be tempted to gamble their fortunes away (and why risky financial behavior is driven by the same mechanisms that compel us to root for the underdog in sports). • Why Eliot Spitzer , who made a career of crusading against prostitution, turned out to be one of the most famous johns of all time. • Why Mel Gibson , a noted philanthropist and devout Catholic, has been repeatedly caught spewing racist rants, even though close friends say he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. • And why any of us is capable of doing the same, whether we believe it or not! A surprising look at the hidden forces driving the saint and sinner lurking in us all, Out of Character reveals why human behavior is so much more unpredictable than we ever realized. Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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The very best business isn’t born out of hunches, macho tactical skirmishing or simply ‘being busy’, but is the product of careful calculation and understanding customers’ needs, wants and aspirations. Marketing Strategy Masterclass is a ‘how to’ book of marketing strategy focused on doing what our customers want us to do, how they want it done. Included throughout are the wise words of a choice selection of history’s masters, depicted on the book’s front cover. Aimed at professional marketing managers, business development managers and students, this real and practical masterclass is an indispensable reference for use on its own or alongside Marketing Strategy, 3rd edition, also published by Butterworth-Heinemann. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paul Fifield has been extensively involved in strategic marketing training and education since 1980. His professional assignments have ranged from marketing strategy development for some of the UK’s largest companies through to projects in market segmentation and branding to top level in-company strategy development programmes and workshops. He has advised clients in a wide range of industries including aviation, banking, brewing, business services, computing and software, construction, economic development, housing, hotels and catering, insurance, publishing, retailing, household appliances, telecommunications, tourism and utilities. Paul is also Visiting Professor of Marketing at the University of Southampton and at the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. . Preparing for marketing strategy – what you need to know before you start . Developing the marketing strategy . Coordinating your strategic stance – creating the right strategic ’spine’ (the basics) and then organising your strategic ‘defence’ and ‘offence’ to match . Implementing the strategy . The 100 questions you need to answer to develop and implement your marketing strategy . Templates that can be used to create real plans as you work through the SCORPIO strategy model approach . Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on each and every element of marketing strategy to stimulate and support the development of your own strategy Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Leverage all of the powerful features available in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine using the proven techniques inside this Oracle Press guide. Written by Oracle experts, Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata shows you how to take full advantage of this complete, optimized package of software, servers, and storage. Best practices for enterprise deployments, high availability, administration, backup and recovery, data warehousing, online transaction processing, consolidation, and migration are included in this authoritative resource. Take advantage of the tightly integrated hardware and software in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Work with Oracle Exadata software features, including Smart Scans, Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, storage indexes, Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and I/O Resource Manager Understand Oracle Exadata Database Machine balanced hardware architecture Architect, administer, and monitor Oracle Exadata Storage Servers Deploy data warehouses on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Run online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Consolidate databases with and migrate databases to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Download Here If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Lauren Barnholdt – Sometimes It Happens Publisher: Simon Pulse | ISBN: 144241314X | July 19, 2011 | EPUB/PDF | 320 pages | 1 Mb/1 Mb On the last day of her junior year, Hannah’s boyfriend Ryan dumped her. Facing a summer of loneliness, Hannah turns to her best friend Ava for comfort. Ava does what BFFs do: she stays by Hannah’s side…until it’s time for Ava to head up to Maine for the summer. Also left behind is Ava’s boyfriend, Noah, who’s such a great guy he gets Hannah a job at the diner he waits tables at.
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George Perry, “Perry’s Arcana: with a Collation and Systematic Review: A Fascimile Edition with a Collation and Systematic Review (Arcana, Or Museum of Nature)” Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S | ISBN 10: 1439901953 | 2009 | PDF | 576 pages | 30.9 MB
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Hans-Rüdiger Etzold, “So wird’s gemacht. Pflegen – warten – reparieren: So wird’s gemacht, Bd.69, Ford Fiesta von 4/89 bis 12/95, Fiesta Classic von 1/96 bis 7/96″ Publisher: Delius Klasing; Auflage: 10. Auflage | 1995 | ISBN: 3768806677 | PDF | 272 pages | 50.4 MB
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TTC Video – Medieval Heroines in History and Legend English | AVI | XviD | 640×432 | 29.97 fps | MP3, 128 kbps | ~24×30 min | 4.2 GB
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Mia Consalvo, “The Handbook of Internet Studies (Handbooks in Communication and Media)” Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | 2011 | ISBN: 1405185880 | PDF | 512 pages | 2.3 MB
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Robert J. Matthews, “The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Their Attribution” Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199211256 | 2007 | PDF | 248 pages | 3 Mb The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behavior. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behavior. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing.
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