Unconventional

Author : Maggie Harcourt
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781474936460

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Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt Pdf

Lexi Angelo has grown up helping her dad with his events business. She likes to stay behind the scenes, planning and organizing...until author Aidan Green - messy haired and annoyingly arrogant - arrives unannounced at the first event of the year. Then Lexi's life is thrown into disarray. In a flurry of late-night conversations, mixed messages and butterflies, Lexi discovers that some things can't be planned. Things like falling in love... Six conventions, a girl with a clipboard, a boy with two names - and one night that changes everything. 'A gorgeous, one of a kind novel, perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell' Maximum Pop!

Author : Theresa Schubert,Andrew Adamatzky
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789814656870

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Experiencing the Unconventional by Theresa Schubert,Andrew Adamatzky Pdf

This book introduces art projects that resulted from unconventional explorations, curious experiments and their creative translations into sensorial experiences. Using electronic and digital art, bioart, sculpture and installations, sound and performance, the authors are removing boundaries between natural and artificial, real and imaginary, science and culture. The invited artists and researchers come from cutting-edge fields of art production that focuses on creating aesthetic experiences and performative situations. Their artworks create a spatial aesthetic experience for visitors by manifesting themselves in physical space. Experiencing the Unconventional is a unique selection of works by artists not based on formal similarities, but on investigative practices. It offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences into current production of art works at the edge of art, science and technology. Contents:Epistemological Machines and Protocomputing (Mitchell Whitelaw and Ralf Baecker)The Crystal World (Jonathan Kemp)Nigredo: Configuring Human and Technological Bodies (Marco Donnarumma)Sensing Spatial Experiences. The Essential Nature of Things (Sonia Cillari)Perfect Paul: On Freedom of Facial Expression (Arthur Elsenaar)Hacking the Universe (Frederik De Wilde)Mesoscopic Ripples in the Neural Sea (Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand)Vanitas Machine (Verena Friedrich)Interview with Verena FriedrichConnections Continuum: A Life (Saša Spačal)A New State of the Living (Dmitry Bulatov)That Which Lives in Me (Dmitry Bulatov and Alexey Chebykin)Robotics and Design: Towards a New Symbiosis in Gilberto Esparza's Artwork (Reynaldo Thompson and Tirtha P Mukhopadhyay)Pancreas. All Flesh (Candyman)Demons of Art (Interview with Thomas Feuerstein by Hartmut Böhme)Metabodies — Exploring Social Networks on Our Body (Sonja Bäumel and Manuel Selg)Re-Imagining the Biological Membrane (Juan M Castro)Bodymetries. Mapping the Human Body Through Amorphous Intelligence (Theresa Schubert, Michael Markert, Moritz Dreβler, Andrew Adamatzky)The Engineer's Report: "Swarm Cities" and Other Synthetic Companions (Francisco Gallardo and Álvaro Castro-Castilla)Der Zermesser (Leo Peschta)Interview with Leo Peschta Readership: Artists and scientists interested in removing boundaries between their work.Key Features:Brings together established and emerging artists from Europe, the Americas and AsiaProvides in-depth insight and first hand working experiences into art works at the edge of art, science and technologyKeywords:Media Art;Electronic Art;Bioart;Unconventional Computing;Science;Technology;Robotics;Body Sensors

Author : Clarkson C.R.
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323901178

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Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis by Clarkson C.R. Pdf

Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis provides petroleum engineers and geoscientists with the first comprehensive review of rate-transient analysis (RTA) methods as applied to unconventional reservoirs. Volume One—Fundamentals, Analysis Methods, and Workflow is comprised of five chapters which address key concepts and analysis methods used in RTA. This volume overviews the fundamentals of RTA, as applied to low-permeability oil and gas reservoirs exhibiting simple reservoir and fluid characteristics. Volume Two—Application to Complex Reservoirs, Exploration and Development is comprised of four chapters that demonstrate how RTA can be applied to coalbed methane reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, and low-permeability/shale reservoirs exhibiting complex behavior such as multiphase flow. Use of RTA to assist exploration and development programs in unconventional reservoirs is also demonstrated. This book will serve as a critical guide for students, academics, and industry professionals interested in applying RTA methods to unconventional reservoirs. Gain a comprehensive review of key concepts and analysis methods used in modern rate-transient analysis (RTA) as applied to low-permeability ("tight") oil and gas reservoirs Improve your RTA methods by providing reservoir/hydraulic fracture properties and hydrocarbon-in-place estimates for unconventional gas and light oil reservoirs exhibiting complex reservoir behaviors Understand the provision of a workflow for confident application of RTA to unconventional reservoirs

Author : David F. Swensen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743274616

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Unconventional Success by David F. Swensen Pdf

The author of Pioneering Portfolio Management shows individuals how to avoid the for-profit mutual fund industry and get better returns on their money. In Unconventional Success, investment legend and bestselling author David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent “churning” of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including pay-to-play product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges. Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations. In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors. Swensen’s solution: A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, market-mimicking portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual fund managers, investors create the preconditions for investment success. Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor’s financial future. “Reveals why the mutual fund industry as a whole does a disservice to the individual investor.” —Booklist “What he has to say is worth listening to.” —The New York Times

Author : Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300090927

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An Unconventional Family by Sandra Lipsitz Bem Pdf

In 1965, when psychologists Sandra and Daryl Bem met and married, they were determined to function as truly egalitarian partners and to raise their children in accordance with gender-liberated, anti-homophobic, and sex-positive feminist ideals. This book by Sandra Bem, an autobiographical account of the Bems' nearly thirty-year marriage, is both a personal history of the Bems' past and a social history of a key period in feminism's past. It is also a look into feminism's future, because the Bems' children, Emily and Jeremy, now in their early twenties, speak in the book as well.

Author : Caineng Zou
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128122358

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Unconventional Petroleum Geology by Caineng Zou Pdf

Unconventional Petroleum Geology, Second Edition presents the latest research results of global conventional and unconventional petroleum exploration and production. The first part covers the basics of unconventional petroleum geology, its introduction, concept of unconventional petroleum geology, unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, and the origin and distribution of unconventional oil and gas. The second part is focused on unconventional petroleum development technologies, including a series of technologies on resource assessment, lab analysis, geophysical interpretation, and drilling and completion. The third and final section features case studies of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, including tight oil and gas, shale oil and gas, coal bed methane, heavy oil, gas hydrates, and oil and gas in volcanic and metamorphic rocks. Provides an up-to-date, systematic, and comprehensive overview of all unconventional hydrocarbons Reorganizes and updates more than half of the first edition content, including four new chapters Includes a glossary on unconventional petroleum types, including tight-sandstone oil and gas, coal-bed gas, shale gas, oil and gas in fissure-cave-type carbonate rocks, in volcanic reservoirs, and in metamorphic rocks, heavy crude oil and natural bitumen, and gas hydrates Presents new theories, new methods, new technologies, and new management methods, helping to meet the demands of technology development and production requirements in unconventional plays

Author : Frank Camm,James T. Bartis,Charles J. Bushman,Vi-Nhuan Le
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833048653

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Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels by Frank Camm,James T. Bartis,Charles J. Bushman,Vi-Nhuan Le Pdf

The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants. Facing significant uncertainty about the future, it also wants to limit the cost to the public of doing this. This report offers an analytic way to design and assess packages of policy instruments that the government can use to achieve its goal.

Author : Selim G. Akl,Cristian S. Calude,Michael J. Dinneen,Grzegorz Rozenberg,H. Todd Wareham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540735540

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Unconventional Computation by Selim G. Akl,Cristian S. Calude,Michael J. Dinneen,Grzegorz Rozenberg,H. Todd Wareham Pdf

There is a world beyond Turing, as more and more computer researchers are demonstrating, but where would you find out about the current leading edge in unconventional computation? Here, in this fascinating work that is the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, held in Kingston, Canada, in August 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All current aspects of unconventional computation are addressed.

Author : Walter Morris Herd
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786469710

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Unconventional Warrior by Walter Morris Herd Pdf

This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror. Herd argues that conflicting political objectives have muddied the way forward for the on-the-ground commanders and thus threaten the prospect of any real victory in Afghanistan. He uses everyday stories to make his points: "One of the local leaders pointed to his wrist and said to my interpreter, 'the Americans have all the watches but we have all the time.' That made a lasting impression on me." Colonel Herd was one of the highest ranking officers on the ground with a command of some 4,000 elite soldiers from all branches of the U.S. military and five other coalition nations. It was a mission he had trained for all of his life. A sixth-generation soldier, Herd became a master parachutist, a combat scuba diver, a Green Beret and an Army Ranger. He conducted combat missions against the Taliban by using the Special Forces mandate to work by, with and through the local population.

Author : Christian S. Calude,José Félix Costa,Rudolf Freund,Marion Oswald,Grzegorz Rozenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540851936

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Unconventional Computation by Christian S. Calude,José Félix Costa,Rudolf Freund,Marion Oswald,Grzegorz Rozenberg Pdf

(1998) 2. Antoniou, I., Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J. (eds.): Unconventional Models of Computation,UMC2K:ProceedingsoftheSecondInternationalConference.

Author : Hoss Belyadi,Ebrahim Fathi,Fatemeh Belyadi
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128176665

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Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs by Hoss Belyadi,Ebrahim Fathi,Fatemeh Belyadi Pdf

Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs: Theories, Operations, and Economic Analysis, Second Edition, presents the latest operations and applications in all facets of fracturing. Enhanced to include today’s newest technologies, such as machine learning and the monitoring of field performance using pressure and rate transient analysis, this reference gives engineers the full spectrum of information needed to run unconventional field developments. Covering key aspects, including fracture clean-up, expanded material on refracturing, and a discussion on economic analysis in unconventional reservoirs, this book keeps today's petroleum engineers updated on the critical aspects of unconventional activity. Helps readers understand drilling and production technology and operations in shale gas through real-field examples Covers various topics on fractured wells and the exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons in one complete reference Presents the latest operations and applications in all facets of fracturing

Author : American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Government, Resistance to
ISBN : UCBK:C035657902

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Unconventional Warfare by American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research Office Pdf

Author : Alexis Stenfors,Jan Toporowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429627972

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Unconventional Monetary Policy and Financial Stability by Alexis Stenfors,Jan Toporowski Pdf

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of unconventional policies such as quantitative easing, forward guidance, lowering the interest rate paid on bank reserves into negative territory, and pushing up prices of government bonds. Having faced a crisis in its banking sector nearly a decade earlier, Japan was a pioneer in the use of many of these tools. Unconventional Monetary Policy and Financial Stability critically assesses the measures used by Japan and examines what they have meant for the theory and practice of economic policy. The book shows how in practice unconventional monetary policy has worked through its impact on the financial markets. The text aims to generate an understanding of why such measures were introduced and how the Japanese system has subsequently changed regarding aspects such as governance and corporate balance sheets. It provides a comprehensive study of developments in Japanese money markets with the intent to understand the impact of policy on the debt structures that appear to have caused Japan’s deflation. The topics covered range from central bank communication and policymaking to international financial markets and bank balance sheets. This text is of great interest to students and scholars of banking, international finance, financial markets, political economy, and the Japanese economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Natural gas
ISBN : UIUC:30112110794275

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Unconventional Gas Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Avarne White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English language
ISBN : OXFORD:591047317

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An unconventional English grammar by Frederick Avarne White Pdf