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Dependable Computing

Auteure: Ravishankar K. Iyer , Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk , Nithin M. Nakka

Nombre de pages: 853

Dependable Computing Covering dependability from software and hardware perspectives Dependable Computing: Design and Assessment looks at both the software and hardware aspects of dependability. This book: Provides an in-depth examination of dependability/fault tolerance topics Describes dependability taxonomy, and briefly contrasts classical techniques with their modern counterparts or extensions Walks up the system stack from the hardware logic via operating systems up to software applications with respect to how they are hardened for dependability Describes the use of measurement-based analysis of computing systems Illustrates technology through real-life applications Discusses security attacks and unique dependability requirements for emerging applications, e.g., smart electric power grids and cloud computing Finally, using critical societal applications such as autonomous vehicles, large-scale clouds, and engineering solutions for healthcare, the book illustrates the emerging challenges faced in making artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications dependable and trustworthy. This book is suitable for those studying in the fields of computer engineering and computer...

AF Manual

Auteure: United States. Department Of The Air Force

Nombre de pages: 650

Aviation Boatswain's Mate H 1 & C.

Auteure: United States. Bureau Of Naval Personnel

Nombre de pages: 152

Economic Uncertainty, Instabilities And Asset Bubbles: Selected Essays

Auteure: Anastasios G Malliaris

Nombre de pages: 373

The compendium of papers in this volume focuses on aspects of economic uncertainty, financial instabilities and asset bubbles.Economic uncertainty is modeled in continuous time using the mathematical techniques of stochastic calculus. A detailed treatment of important topics is provided, including the existence and uniqueness of asymptotic economic growth, the modeling of inflation and interest rates, the decomposition of inflation and its volatility, and the extension of the quantity theory of money to allow for randomness.The reader is also introduced to the methods of chaotic dynamics, and this methodology is applied to asset pricing, the European equity markets, and the multi-fractality in foreign currency markets.Since the techniques of stochastic calculus and chaotic dynamics do not readily accommodate the presence of stochastic bubbles, several papers discuss in depth the presence of financial bubbles in asset prices, and econometric work is performed to link such bubbles to monetary policy.Finally, since bubbles often burst rather than deflate slowly, the last section of the book studies the crash of October 1987 as well as other crashes of national equity markets due to...

The Book of Investing Wisdom

Auteure: Peter Krass

Nombre de pages: 522

Charles H. Dow, Benjamin Graham, George Soros, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, Mario Gabelli, and Donald Trump. You won't find a seminar or lecture anywhere that boasts a panel quite like this-a group of the great stock-pickers and market gurus, both past and present, brought together to instruct you on the art of investing. The Book of Investing Wisdom offers you a unique insight into how these professionals and many others achieved financial success through intelligent investing-all from the comfort of your armchair. Never before have the writings of such a large and diverse group of brilliant investors been collected between the covers of a single book. The Book of Investing Wisdom is an anthology of 46 essays and speeches from the most successful, well-known investors and financiers of our time. In their own words, these legends of Wall Street share their best investment ideas and advice. You'll hear from Bernard Baruch on stock market slumps, Peter Bernstein on investing for the long term, Joseph E. Granville on market movements, John Moody on investment vs. speculation, Otto Kahn on the New York Stock Exchange and public opinion, William Peter Hamilton on the Dow theory, and...

1988 Economic Report of the President

Nombre de pages: 456

Road Scars

Auteure: Robert Matej Bednar

Nombre de pages: 272

Despite the ubiquity of automobility, the reality of automotive death is hidden from everyday view. There are accident blackspots all over the roads that we use and go past every day but the people that have died there or been injured are not marked, unless by homemade shrines and personal memorialization. Nowhere on the planet is this practice as densely actioned as in the United States. Road Scars is a highly visual scholarly monograph about how roadside car crash shrines place the collective trauma of living in a car culture in the everyday landscapes of automobility. Roadside shrines—or road trauma shrines—are vernacular memorial assemblages built by private individuals at sites where family and friends have died in automobile accidents, either while driving cars or motorcycles or being hit by cars as pedestrians, bicyclists, or motorcyclists. Prevalent for decades in Latin America and in the American Southwest, roadside car crash shrines are now present throughout the U.S. and around the world. Some are simply small white crosses, almost silent markers of places of traumatic death. Others are elaborate collections of objects, texts, and materials from all over the map...

17 Days and 17 Miles Apart

Auteure: Donald J. Porter

Nombre de pages: 195

A missing two-cent cotter pin, smaller than a paperclip, can bring down a four-engine airliner and kill hundreds of people. In 1961, only 17 days and 17 miles apart, Trans World Airlines Flight 529 and Northwest Airlines Flight 706 suffered fatal disasters in Illinois. The Lockheed Constellation operated by TWA crashed because of a missing cotter pin, and the Northwest Airlines Lockheed Electra crashed because someone forgot to install a few inches of safety wire. Government officials charged with investigating these crashes reveal why the airlines and their employees took no responsibility for such fatal ineptness. This book tells the story of the ill-fated airliners, how the airlines avoided responsibility, and how the passengers are remembered by next-of-kin after more than 50 years. Readers may discover similarities between the 1961 disasters and the 2019 crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX jetliners that killed 346 people.

Air Controlman 3 & 2

Auteure: United States. Bureau Of Naval Personnel

Nombre de pages: 404

Intersection Negotiation Problems of Older Drivers

Nombre de pages: 224

Reauthorization of the Post-interstate Surface Transportation Programs

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Public Works And Transportation. Subcommittee On Surface Transportation

Nombre de pages: 3510

Critical Analysis of Prototype Autonomous Vehicle Crash Rates

Auteure: Richard Young

Nombre de pages: 251

Will Automated Vehicles be Safer than Conventional Vehicles? One of the critically important questions that has emerged about advanced technologies in transportation is how to test the actual effects of these advanced systems on safety, particularly how to evaluate the safety of highly automated driving systems. Richard Young's Critical Analysis of Prototype Autonomous Vehicle Crash Rates does a deep dive into these questions by reviewing and then critically analyzing the first six scientific studies of AV crash rates.

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Appropriations. Subcommittee On Department Of Transportation And Related Agencies Appropriations

Nombre de pages: 1632

Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Part III

Auteure: Neville Stanton , Steven Landry , Giuseppe Di Bucchianico , Andrea Vallicelli

Nombre de pages: 439

Human Factors and Ergonomics have made a considerable contribution to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems which includes road and rail vehicles and their complementary infrastructure, aviation and maritime transportation. This book presents recent advances in the Human Factors aspects of Transportation. These advances include accident analysis, automation of vehicles, comfort, distraction of drivers (understanding of distraction and how to avoid it), environmental concerns, in-vehicle systems design, intelligent transport systems, methodological developments, new systems and technology, observational and case studies, safety, situation awareness, skill development and training, warnings and workload. This book brings together the most recent human factors work in the transportation domain, including empirical research, human performance and other types of modeling, analysis, and development. The issues facing engineers, scientists, and other practitioners of human factors in transportation research are becoming more challenging and more critical. The common theme across these sections is that they deal with the intersection of the...

The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book

Auteure: Art Baker , Jerry Lozano

Nombre de pages: 486

An authoritative guide to Windows NT driver development, now completely revised and updated. The CD-ROM includes all source code, plus Microsoft hardware standards documents, demo software, and more.

Understanding Time And Space: An Invitation To The Theory Of Relativity For Anyone Who Is Now, Or Has Ever Been, An Inquisitive High School Student

Auteure: Steven E Landsburg

Nombre de pages: 184

Understanding Time and Space is an invitation to the theory of relativity for anyone who is now or has ever been an inquisitive high school student.Relativity can seem violently counterintuitive. It says that different observers can describe the world in very different ways and they can all be correct. It helps to be reminded that you've known this since childhood, when you learned that the direction you call left might be the same as the direction I call right, and we can both be correct. This book illuminates and demystifies the theory of relativity through repeated analogies to that kind of everyday experience. Dozens of drawings, analogous to the maps we all use to navigate through ordinary space, emphasize that relativity is a branch of geometry — the geometry of navigating through that more mysterious venue called spacetime.The reader is assisted by exercises sprinkled throughout, and by 'dangerous curve' sections that identify and combat the most common misunderstandings.Steven Landsburg is a professor at the University of Rochester. He has published widely in mathematics, economics, physics and philosophy. His hobby is answering questions about relativity on the...

Frontiers in Cyber Security

Auteure: Biwen Chen , Xinwen Fu , Min Huang

Nombre de pages: 283

This two-volume set, CCIS 2315 and CCIS 2316, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2024 held in Chongqing, China, during July 26–28, 2024. The 47 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Machine Learning and Differential Privacy; Federated Learning; Privacy-Preserving Services; Blockchain and Distributed System; Public-Key Cryptography; Multi-Party Computation. Part II: Multi-Party Computation; Smart Grid; Authentication and Deduplication.

Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Auteure: Emizet Francois Kisangani

Nombre de pages: 771

This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great Lakes Region and Africa, in particular, as well as its important role in the international environment.. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Highway Capacity and Freight Mobility

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure. Subcommittee On Highways, Transit, And Pipelines

Nombre de pages: 104

American Foreign Policy

Nombre de pages: 1782

Army Aviation Digest

Nombre de pages: 1150

The Plane Truth

Auteure: Roger W. Cobb , David M. Primo

Nombre de pages: 236

Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their lives in automobile accidents every year. Yet plane crashes have a tremendous impact on public perceptions of air safety in the United States. When a crash occurs domestically, media coverage is immediate and continuous. Government teams rush to investigate, elected officials offer condolences and promise to find the cause, and airlines and plane manufacturers seek to avoid responsibility. Regulations are frequently proposed in response to a particular incident, but meaningful change often does not occur. In The Plane Truth, Roger Cobb and David Primo examine the impact of high-visibility plane crashes on airline transportation policy. Regulation is disjointed and reactive, in part due to extensive media coverage of airline disasters. The authors describe the typical responses of various players—elected officials, investigative agencies, airlines, and the media. While all agree that safety is the primary concern in air travel, failure to agree on a definition of safety leads to policy...

American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks

Auteure: Paul Arras

Nombre de pages: 241

This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News—the five most important American television news networks at the time. Though America’s collective memory of the key events of 9/11 have solidified, Paul Arras demonstrates how muddled and chaotic the experience was due to the unique difficulties television journalists faced during the event. By examining that morning’s media coverage, Arras assesses the quality of the live journalism, suggesting key differences in the television experience for audiences watching different networks and observing the consequences of differing styles of communication among anchors and other journalists. Approaching 9/11 as a unique television experience in American history, Arras locates and identifies the building blocks of America’s memory of 9/11 while also revisiting many dramatic television moments that have been forgotten. Ultimately, this book reveals the ways in which television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.

Mad Dogs With Guns

Auteure: Howard Whitehouse , Roderick Robertson

Nombre de pages: 114

In 1919, the US Government declared the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol illegal. America officially became a 'dry' land. That didn't stop people from drinking, however, and the rise of the 'speakeasy' offered huge new opportunities for organized crime. Soon, cities both large and small became battlegrounds as various crime syndicates vied for control of the underground alcohol trade. In Mad Dogs With Guns, players form their own small gangs of fedora-wearing, tommy gun-wielding gangsters and battle it out with their rivals. With numerous different gangs to choose from, including cops and G-men, a fully integrated campaign system, and rules for special situations such as car chases, the game offers a huge variety of tactical challenges. Bribe public officials, attend a gangland funeral, but always watch your back – there is always another gang waiting to poach your territory...

Roswell Incident Exposed

Auteure: Jason M. Doss

Nombre de pages: 174

In 1947 the United States Army sent out an official press release informing the world: Roswell Army Air Field Captures Flying Saucer. One day later, the army claimed the flying saucer was nothing but a weather balloon. In 1994 the U.S. Air Force admitted the weather balloon story was a cover-up. Over the last 71 years the U.S. Government, witnesses, and researchers have issued reports, written books, and filmed documentaries about the infamous UFO incident. Until now, there have been no independent, objective, and non-involved third-party reports released from a licensed investigative source. The Author is Jason M. Doss, who is a licensed, board certified, and nationally recognized private investigator. The book is an investigative report, and essentially brings the 1947 incident into a courtroom, where professional and accepted judicial practices are used to eliminate bias, uncover truth, and finally solve one of the greatest mysteries in history.

Managing the Unexpected

Auteure: Karl E. Weick , Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

Nombre de pages: 231

Improve your company's ability to avoid or manage crises Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions. Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that organizations have faced in recent years, including bank failures, intelligence failures, quality failures, and other organizational misfortunes, often sparked by organizational actions, this critical book focuses on why some organizations are better able to sustain high performance in the face of unanticipated change. High reliability organizations (HROs), including commercial aviation, emergency rooms, aircraft carrier flight operations, and firefighting units, are looked to as models of exceptional organizational preparedness. This essential text explains the development of unexpected events and guides you in improving your organization for more reliable performance. "Expect the unexpected" is a popular mantra for a reason: it's rooted in experience. Since the dawn of civilization, organizations have been rocked by natural disasters, civil unrest, international conflict, and other unexpected...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of DOT's Truck and Bus Safety Program

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure. Subcommittee On Highways And Transit (2007- )

Nombre de pages: 332

Regional Risk and Security in Japan

Auteure: Glenn D. Hook , Ra Mason , Paul O'shea

Nombre de pages: 236

Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an innovative perspective on Japan’s relations with China, North Korea and the US. The book elucidates how risk, potential harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk, it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the study of international relations in three senses. First, the concept helps to break down the boundaries between the international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and benefits of a security policy meant to...

Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Auteure: United States. National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics

Nombre de pages: 1248

Proceedings

Nombre de pages: 960

Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance

Auteure: Michel Banatre

Nombre de pages: 332

Fault tolerance has been an active research area for many years. This volume presents papers from a workshop held in 1993 where a small number of key researchers and practitioners in the area met to discuss the experiences of industrial practitioners, to provide a perspective on the state of the art of fault tolerance research, to determine whether the subject is becoming mature, and to learn from the experiences so far in order to identify what might be important research topics for the coming years. The workshop provided a more intimate environment for discussions and presentations than usual at conferences. The papers in the volume were presented at the workshop, then updated and revised to reflect what was learned at the workshop.

Driver Distraction

Auteure: Michael A. Regan , John D. Lee , Kristie Young

Nombre de pages: 674

Certain activities and events both inside and outside a vehicle can distract drivers and lead to degraded performance. New technologies- such as entertainment, communication, and driver assistance systems- play a significant role in distraction. This unique volume defines driver distraction, discusses various causes, and explains how to measure acceptable and unacceptable levels of distraction. Several chapters address measurement techniques based on performance and epidemiological studies. Most importantly, the text explores ways to mitigate driver distraction as well as countermeasures including vehicle design and effective legislation.

J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism

Auteure: Martin Horn

Nombre de pages: 407

Examines how J.P. Morgan, then the world's leading bank, responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism.

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1984

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Appropriations. Subcommittee On Department Of Transportation And Related Agencies Appropriations

Nombre de pages: 1700

Contesting Development

Auteure: Philip Mcmichael

Nombre de pages: 284

At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the lens of critical struggles of those who experience disempowerment, displacement and development contradictions. In this book, case studies serve as an effective means of teaching key concepts and theories in the sociology of development. This collection of cases, all original, never previously published and with framing essays by Phillip McMichael, has been written with this purpose in mind. An important additional feature is that the book as a whole reveals the limiting assumptions of development and suggests alternate conditions of possibility for social existence in the world today. In that sense, the book pushes the boundaries of "thinking about development" and makes an important theoretical contribution to the literature.