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 Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and DevelopmentIntellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education, and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behavior of... | | Interest Rate Modelling (Finance and Capital Markets)Growth in the derivatives markets has brought with it an ever-increasing volume and range of interest rate dependent derivative products. To allow profitable, efficient trading in these products, accurate and mathematically sound valuation techniques are required to make pricing, hedging and risk management of the resulting positions possible.
... | | Access Denied in the Information AgeIt was to be expected that a new millennium should bring with it a flurry of observers claiming that we stand on the threshold of a new society. We have not been disappointed. The media excitement at the fantastic financial speculation on the high-tech and internet stock market is but one instance cited to support this claim. This new society is... |
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Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 2: Diachronic DatabasesA range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might... | | Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 1: Synchronic DatabasesA range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might... | | How to Program Using C++Welcome to a book about learning to program.
Before we go any further, you need to be absolutely clear about what it is that you are holding in your hand. This is possibly a book with the name of a programming language in the title that is unlike any book with the name of a programming language in the title that you have encountered... |
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Advanced Graphics with the Sinclair Z. X. SpectrumThis book is intended for Spectrum owners who are competent BASICprogrammers, but who are complete beginners in computer graphics. It contains the elementary ideas and basic information about pixel and 2-D graphics that need to be understood before the more involved concepts of character and 3-D graphics can be mastered. A software cassette... | | How to Program Using JavaHi. Welcome to the book. We hope you like it.
If you’re a student just starting out on your first programming course, this book is for you. This book contains what we think you’ll need to know as you go through your course. We very much hope you’ll enjoy reading it and come to enjoy programming.
Because... | | Metaphors For God's Time in Science and ReligionMetaphors for God's Time in Science and Religion examines the exploratory work of metaphors for time in astrophysical cosmology, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Stephen Happel claims that the Christian God is intimately involved at every level of physical and biological science. He compares how scientists and... |
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| | The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third GenerationThe aim of this book is to investigate the prospects for mobile communications in the new millennium. In effect, this boils down to a key issue: Will the so-called third generation of mobile (alternatively, wireless or cellular) technology turn out to be a success or a failure? This is no minor issue since telecommunications is one of the... | | Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies“From blogs to video games, from living rooms to internet café’s, from Africa to Canada, Growing up Online has it all. Transcending the hype and moral panic that typically pervade adult discourses about youth and media, the essays in this collection deconstruct the complexities of young people’s relationship with a... |
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