Fail U

Author : Charles J. Sykes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781250091765

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Fail U. by Charles J. Sykes Pdf

The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978—four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors—remember them?—rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead handing off their lecture halls to cheaper teaching assistants. So, is it worth it? That’s the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in Fail U., exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrative jobs, the grandiose building plans, and the utter lack of preparedness for the real world that many now graduates face. Fail U. offers a different vision of higher education; one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students—and one that will actually be useful in their future careers and lives.

Author : Marco Bernardo,Valerie Issarny
Publisher : Springer
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642214554

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Formal Methods for Eternal Networked Software Systems by Marco Bernardo,Valerie Issarny Pdf

This book presents 15 tutorial lectures by leading researchers given at the 11th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2011, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2011. SFM 2011 was devoted to formal methods for eternal networked software systems and covered several topics including formal foundations for the inter-operability of software systems, application-layer and middleware-layer dynamic connector synthesis, interaction behavior monitoring and learning, and quality assurance of connected systems. The school was held in collaboration with the researchers of the EU-funded projects CONNECT and ETERNALS. The papers are organized into six parts: (i) architecture and interoperability, (ii) formal foundations for connectors, (iii) connector synthesis, (iv) learning and monitoring, (v) dependability assurance, and (vi) trustworthy eternal systems via evolving software.

Author : Richard M. Pious
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742563391

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Why Presidents Fail by Richard M. Pious Pdf

Presidents are surrounded by political strategists and White House counsel who presumably know enough to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors. Why, then, do the same kinds of presidential failures occur over and over again? Why Presidents Fail answers this question by examining presidential fiascos, quagmires, and risky business-the kind of failure that led President Kennedy to groan after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 'How could I have been so stupid?' In this book, Richard M. Pious looks at nine cases that have become defining events in presidencies from Dwight D. Eisenhower and the U-2 Flights to George W. Bush and Iraqi WMDs. He uses these cases to draw generalizations about presidential power, authority, rationality, and legitimacy. And he raises questions about the limits of presidential decision-making, many of which fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about the modern presidency.

Author : Robert Nieuwenhuis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540448815

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Rewriting Techniques and Applications by Robert Nieuwenhuis Pdf

The refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications, RTA 2003, held in Valencia, Spain in June 2003. The 26 revised regular papers and 6 system descriptions presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. All current aspects of rewriting are addressed.

Author : Andreas Zeller
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780123745156

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Why Programs Fail by Andreas Zeller Pdf

An award-winning guide to faster and easier debugging is now updated with the latest tools and techniques. It demystifies one of the toughest aspects of software programming, showing clearly how to discover what caused software failures, and fix them with minimal muss and fuss.

Author : Jean-Yves Girard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540489597

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Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications by Jean-Yves Girard Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA'99, held in L'Aquila, Italy in April 1999. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 50 submissions. Also included are two invited demonstrations. The volume reports research results on various aspects of typed lambda calculi. Among the topics addressed are noncommutative logics, type theory, algebraic data types, logical calculi, abstract data types, and subtyping.

Author : Zhao Zhang,Lidong Wu,Wen Xu,Ding-Zhu Du
Publisher : Springer
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319126913

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Combinatorial Optimization and Applications by Zhao Zhang,Lidong Wu,Wen Xu,Ding-Zhu Du Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2014, held on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, in December 2014. The 56 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. Topics covered include classic combinatorial optimization; geometric optimization; network optimization; optimization in graphs; applied optimization; CSoNet; and complexity, cryptography, and games.

Author : Ryszard S. Michalski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0792393740

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Multistrategy Learning by Ryszard S. Michalski Pdf

Most machine learning research has been concerned with the development of systems that implememnt one type of inference within a single representational paradigm. Such systems, which can be called monostrategy learning systems, include those for empirical induction of decision trees or rules, explanation-based generalization, neural net learning from examples, genetic algorithm-based learning, and others. Monostrategy learning systems can be very effective and useful if learning problems to which they are applied are sufficiently narrowly defined. Many real-world applications, however, pose learning problems that go beyond the capability of monostrategy learning methods. In view of this, recent years have witnessed a growing interest in developing multistrategy systems, which integrate two or more inference types and/or paradigms within one learning system. Such multistrategy systems take advantage of the complementarity of different inference types or representational mechanisms. Therefore, they have a potential to be more versatile and more powerful than monostrategy systems. On the other hand, due to their greater complexity, their development is significantly more difficult and represents a new great challenge to the machine learning community. Multistrategy Learning contains contributions characteristic of the current research in this area.

Author : Philip Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000114096

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Intermediate Quantities by Philip Peterson Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: Intermediate quantifiers express logical quantities which fall between Aristotle's two quantities of categorical propositions - universal and particular. "Few", "many" and "most" express the most commonly referred to intermediate quantifiers, but this book argues that an infinite number can be understood through a deeper examination of the logical nature of all intermediate quantifiers. Presenting and analyzing the logical and linguistic features of intermediate quantifiers, in a fashion typical of traditional logic, Philip L. Peterson presents an account integrating the logic and semantics of intermediate quantifiers with the two traditional quantities by traditional methods. Having introduced the basic idea of how to approach the task in the first chapter, with heavy emphasis on the linguistic meanings and ordinary uses of English intermediate quantifier expressions, Peterson then undertakes the task of completely integrating the three basic intermediate quantities into traditional logic in the following chapter.

Author : Ralph Erskine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Sermons
ISBN : UOM:39015062985323

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Sermons and Other Practical Works by Ralph Erskine Pdf

Author : Matthew H. Slater,Zanja Yudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199363209

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science by Matthew H. Slater,Zanja Yudell Pdf

This volume of essays will explore the relationship between science and metaphysics, asking what role metaphysics should play in philosophizing about science. The essays will address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and more general methodological investigations. They thereby contribute to an ongoing discussion concerning the future, the limits, and the possibility of metaphysics as a legitimate philosophical project.

Author : M. Anson,J.M. Ko,E.S.S. Lam
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1896 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080526638

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Advances in Building Technology by M. Anson,J.M. Ko,E.S.S. Lam Pdf

This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5568083

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Bulwer's Plays: Being the Complete Dramatic Works of Lore Lytton by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Pdf

Author : James Hardy Wilkinson,C. Reinsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Algebras, Linear
ISBN : UOM:39015021518231

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Linear Algebra by James Hardy Wilkinson,C. Reinsch Pdf

Author : Harish Garg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789811999093

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Advances in Reliability, Failure and Risk Analysis by Harish Garg Pdf

This book collects select chapters on modern industrial problems related to uncertainties and vagueness in the expert domain of knowledge. The book further provides the knowledge related to application of various mathematical and statistical tools in these areas. The results presented in the book help the researchers and scientists in handling complicated projects in their domains. Useful to industrialists, academicians, researchers and students alike, the book aims to help managers and technical specialists in designing and implementation of reliability and risk programs as below: Ensure the system safety and risk informed asset management Follow a proper strategy to maintain the mechanical components of the system Schedule the proper actions throughout the product life cycle Understand the structure and cost of a complex system Plan the proper schedule to improve the reliability and life of the system Identify unwanted failures and set up preventive and correction action