Apple turned the computing world on its ear when it introduced the iPad. This small wonder, which weighed less than a pound and a half,...

• Learn how to create simple to complex functional apps quickly and easily with the Kivy framework
• Bend Kivy according to your needs by customizing, overriding, and bypassing the built-in...

Simply put, this book is designed to empower and excite the...

'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy serves a wide...

This work covers sequence-based protein homology detection, a fundamental and challenging bioinformatics problem with a variety of real-world applications. The text first surveys a few popular homology detection methods, such as Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based methods, and then describes a novel...

This book describes recent theoretical findings relevant to bilevel programming in general, and in mixed-integer bilevel programming in particular. It describes recent applications in energy problems, such as the stochastic bilevel optimization approaches used in the natural gas industry. New algorithms for solving linear and mixed-integer...

Programming Smalltalk is particularly suited for readers with no prior programming...

• Create animated and interactive plots to help you communicate and explore data
• Utilize various R packages to generate graphs, manipulate data, and create beautiful presentations
• Learn...

You won’t find any technical jargon, bloated samples, drawn out history lessons, or witty stories in this...