In 1850, an epidemic swept America—but instead of leaving victims sick with fever or flu, this epidemic involved a rabid craze for the music of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. American showman P. T. Barnum (who would later go on to found the circus now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey), a shrewd marketer and self-made millionaire, is credited with spreading “Lindomania” through a s…
If it were announced on the Manchester Exchange, or among any other large gathering of intelligentmen, that not one in every hundred of them could see correctlythe appearance of the walls or windows about them, it might cause no small amount of surprise,if not disconcert ; yet such is probably the fact. Millions of persons pass through life unconscious of the change that takes place in the appe…
File system analysis examines one volume of a disk respective disk image. The datacontained in the volume is interpreted as a file system. Typically an interpreted filesystem offers a listing of files organized in directories (at least this is true for thefour described file systems in this book). One aim of file system analysis is usuallyrecovering deleted files. In contrast to files that have…
The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows anaverage 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part of the world. Why does this matter? It matters because biodiversity is fundamental to human life on Earth, and…
A Florida-Friendly Landscape is a quality landscape that is designed, installed, and maintained according to the nine Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ principles. The nine principles seek to reduce environmental impact from landscaping by properly applying water, fertilizer, and pesticides, creating wildlife habitat, preventing erosion, recycling yard waste, and employing other practices based o…
Upon waking each morning, you begin thinking—contemplating the tasks that you must complete that day. In what order should you run your errands? Should you go to the bank, the cleaners, or the grocery store first? Can you get these things done before you head to class or will they need to wait until school is done? These thoughts are one example of cognition at work. Exceptionally complex, co…
Finlandia mengejutkan dunia ketika siswa-siswanya yang masih berusia 15 tahun berhasil mencatatkan skor tertinggi di penyelenggaraan pertama PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), pada 2001. Ujian itu meliputi penilaian keterampilan berpikir kritis di Matematika, sains, dan membaca. Hingga kini, negara mungil ini terus-terusan memukau. Bagaimana pendidikan Finlandia yang jam pel…
This textbook contains eleven contens like systems of linear equations and matrices, determinants, vectors in two space and three space, vector spaces, inner product spaces, eigenvalues, linear transformations, apllications, introduction to numerical methods of linear algebra, complex vector spaces, and applications of linear algebra