Grad’s Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays provides more than 50 successful admissions essays straight from the source—recent Georgetown University graduates making the transition to earning advanced degrees at highly selective graduate programs. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Stanford, Cornell, and Northwestern are just a few of the universities to which these students were admitted. The goal […]
Vor uns liegt die dritte Auflage eines der erfolgreichsten umfassenden Lehrbücher der Kinderorthopädie der vergangenen Jahre, das sich durch seine perfekte Mischung aus historisch entstandenem Grundlagenwissen mit den aktuellen Strömungen der sich rapide entwickelten experimentellen und klinischen Wissenschaft als Standardwerk etabliert hat. Schon wieder hat sich das kinderorthopädische Wissen und Handeln in den vergangenen 8 […]
WebGL is a technology that enables drawing, displaying, and interacting with sophisticated interactive three-dimensional computer graphics (“3D graphicsâ€Â) from within web browsers. Traditionally, 3D graphics has been restricted to high-end computers or dedicated game consoles and required complex programming. However, as both personal computers and, more importantly, web browsers have become more sophisticated, it has […]
From Book 1: Taking the best elements from two of his most outstanding bestsellers, The Gold Coast and The General’s Daughter, Nelson DeMille combines the breathless suspense of an expertly wrought murder mystery with his wry perspective on a peculiarly American social scene to deliver an enthralling and compelling story. Wounded in the line of […]
It is an exciting moment for the Python community. After two decades of careful innovation that saw the language gain features such as context managers, generators, and comprehensions in a careful balance with its focus on remaining simple in both its syntax and its concepts, Python is finally taking off. Instead of being seen as […]
My line comes down from Queen Ada, the sister of Malcolm IV, descended from King Duff, the first king of Scotland. Ada’s holdings encompassed all the land east of the Miglo River in the Valley of the Bran, in what is now the county of Fife. Malcolm’s castle is long gone, but you can still […]
The distribution of wealth is one of today’s most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, as Karl Marx believed in the nineteenth century? Or do […]
Nowadays, “Power Electronics,†basically deals with conversion and control of electrical power using electronic converters based on semiconductor power switches. Historically, the evolution of power electronics has generally followed the semiconductor power device evolution. Power solid-state devices are the heart and soul of modern power electronics equipment. Therefore, the age of power solidstate electronics is […]
Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making […]
If you have ever been chased to the top of Mount Maccrindell by an abominable snowstorm, you will know that it is the best place on the whole Isle of Imbur from which to see Castle Dankhart. It is also an extremely dangerous spot to linger. And unless you are a fully qualified lightning catcher, […]
Features â– Demonstrations. Demonstrations have been a popular feature of this book for many editions. They are integrated into the fl ow of the text and are easy enough to be carried out with little trouble, thereby maximizing the probability that students will do them. Some examples: Becoming Aware of the Blind Spot (Chapter 2); […]
When the b-list Nitro gets in over his head and goes supernova in Stamford, Connecticut, he ends up killing tons of people caught in his blast radius including 60 schoolchildren. Spurred by the mother of one of the victims and Tony Stark’s support, the government passes the Superhuman Registration Act – forcing the heroes of […]