This book is about light, energy, mass, space, time, and gravity: it is through these concepts that we explain the theory of special relativity and the theory of gravity, known as the theory of general relativity. We will use many thought experiments and show how physicists create and solve models. This method is the one used by Einstein himself. He understood the theory through both physical …
Looked for, cannot be seen. Listened for, cannot be heard. Felt for, cannot be touched. The Invisible Fist gives no warning, nor can it be stopped. You cannot hide from it, nor can you escape it. Why is this so? Any decent self-defense class can teach one to draw up his courage in the face of danger, the better to execute one all-out, totally committed, do-or-die technique. This usually resu…
In summer of 2010, the first author (HL) visited the second author (XL) at Lanzhou University, China, and chaired the dissertation defense for XL’s two graduating doctoral students. During the visit, we discussed that a large reliability meeting (MMR2011) was scheduled to be held in Beijing in the summer of 2011 and that the meeting would attract some stochastic inequality people, including…
Risk assessment and management are core issues in social work across a range of settings and contexts. Responding to the risks posed by others, reducing risks to vulnerable persons and managing risks to themselves are all in a day’s work for busy practitioners. Managers and practitioners are routinely confronted with risk decisions, and such decisions are often central to the allocation of re…
The most well-known social software applications are weblogs, wikis, social networking sites and instant messaging. Social networking at a high level is described as the convergence of technologies that make it possible for individuals to easily communicate, share information, and form new communities online. But the big question today is not what social networking is, but rather what it means …
As of this writing, we (Brad, Ozh, and Justin), have publicly released 50 plugins, which have been downloaded nearly one million times, and that ’s not counting private client work. This is a precious combined experience that we are going to leverage to teach you how to code your own plugins for WordPress by taking a hands - on approach with practical examples and real life situations you wi…
This chapter identified SharePoint 2010 as an extremely flexible solution platform that is capable of replacing several legacy document management systems. However, before that can happen, careful planning should take place to ensure that the end user experience is improved, not degraded. Also, the path for migrating content from a legacy solution to SharePoint 2010 should be identified beca…