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Administration and operations of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representative... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight

Defining and meeting the needs of Native American elders : applied research on their current status, social service needs, and support network operation by John, Robert

Geodetic leveling data used to define historical height changes between Tonopah Junction and Las Vegas, Nevada by Gilmore, Thomas D.

The new public health Third edition. by Tulchinsky, Theodore H., Varavikova, Elena

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Oka : a convergence of cultures and the Canadian Forces by Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977-

This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics

The Princeton companion to mathematics by Princeton University

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Sources in the development of mathematics : infinite series and products from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century by Roy, Ranjan, 1948-

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Cloudonomics : the business value of cloud computing by Weinman, Joe, 1958-

Contents: “…-- Economies of Scale -- Competitive Advantage and Customer Value -- Cloud Ecosystem Dynamics -- IT Spend -- Issues with the Cloud -- Summary -- Notes -- What Is a Cloud? -- Defining the Cloud -- On-Demand Resources -- Utility Pricing -- Common Infrastructure -- Location-Independence -- Online Accessibility -- Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership -- Cloud Criteria and Implications -- Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword -- Summary -- Notes -- Strategy and Value -- Access to Competencies -- Availability -- Capacity -- Comparative Advantage, Specialization of Labor, and Core versus Context.…”
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Computer graphics : principles and practice Third edition. by Hughes, John F., 1955-

Contents: “…Introduction : A brief history ; An illuminating example ; Goals, resources, and appropriate abstractions ; Some numbers and orders of magnitude in graphics ; The graphics pipeline ; Relationship of graphics to art, design, and perception ; Basic graphics systems ; Polygon drawing as a black box ; Interaction in graphics systems ; Different kinds of graphics applications ; Different kinds of graphics packages ; Building blocks for realistic rendering: a brief overview ; Learning computer graphics -- Introduction to 2D graphics using WPF : Overview of the 2D graphics pipeline ; The evolution of 2D graphics platforms ; Specifying a 2D scene using WPF ; Dynamics in 2D graphics using WPF ; Supporting a variety of form factors -- An ancient renderer made modern : A Dürer woodcut ; Visibility ; Implementation ; The program ; Limitations -- A 2D graphics test bed : Details of the test bed ; The C♯ code ; Animation ; Interaction ; An application of the test bed -- An introduction to human visual perception : The visual system ; The eye ; Constancy and its influences ; Continuation ; Shadows -- Introduction to fixed-function 3D graphics and hierarchical modeling : Introducing mesh and lighting specification ; Curved-surface representation and rendering ; Surface texture in WPF ; The WPF reflectance model ; Hierarchical modeling using a scene graph -- Essential mathematics and the geometry of 2-space and 3-space : Notation ; Sets ; Functions ; Coordinates ; Operations on coordinates ; Intersections of lines ; Intersections, more generally ; Triangles ; Polygons -- A simple way to describe shape in 2D and 3D : "Meshes" in 2D: polylines ; Meshes in 3D -- Functions on meshes : code for barycentric interpolation ; Limitations of piecewise linear extension ; Smoother extensions ; Functions multiply defined at vertices ; Application: texture mapping -- Transformations in two dimensions : Five examples ; Important facts about transformations ; Translation ; Points and vectors again ; Why use 3 x 3 matrices instead of a matrix and a vector? …”

Spatial accuracy assessment in natural resources and environmental sciences : second international symposium by Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Contents: “…[et al.] -- Incorporating soil variability into a spatially distributed model of percolate accounting / Andrew S. …”

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Foundations of data intensive applications : large scale data analytics under the hood by Kamburugamuve Loku Acharilage, Supun Madhushanka Kamburugamuva, Ekanayake, Saliya

The global economics of sport