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Think Python 2nd Edition

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Think Python 2nd Edition

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The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. This way of thinking combines some of the best features of mathematics, engineering, and natural science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computations). Like engineers, they design things, assembling components into systems and evaluating tradeoffs among alternatives. Like scientists, they observe the behavior of complex systems, form hypotheses, and test predictions.

Subject:: Applied Science; Computer Science
Material Type:: Primary Source; Textbook
Provider:: Green Tea Press
Author:: Allen B. Downey
Date Added:: 11/18/2017

Think Raku: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - 2nd edition

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Think Raku: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - 2nd edition

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Think Raku is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for people with little or no experience.

This aim of this book is not primarily to teach Raku, but instead to teach the art of programming, using the Raku language. After having completed this book, you should hopefully be able to write programs to solve relatively difficult problems in Raku, but my main aim is to teach computer science, software programming, and problem solving rather than solely to teach the Raku language itself.

Think Raku is a free book available under a Creative Commons license. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

Subject:: Applied Science; Computer Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Green Tea Press
Author:: Allen B. Downey; Laurent Rosenfeld
Date Added:: 11/18/2021

Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers

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Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers

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Think Stats is an introduction to Probability and Statistics for Python programmers.

*Think Stats emphasizes simple techniques you can use to explore real data sets and answer interesting questions. The book presents a case study using data from the National Institutes of Health. Readers are encouraged to work on a project with real datasets.
*If you have basic skills in Python, you can use them to learn concepts in probability and statistics. Think Stats is based on a Python library for probability distributions (PMFs and CDFs). Many of the exercises use short programs to run experiments and help readers develop understanding.

Subject:: Applied Science; Computer Science; Mathematics; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Green Tea Press
Author:: Allen Downey
Date Added:: 01/01/2014

To Catch the Rain

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To Catch the Rain

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To Catch the Rain is targeted at makers – DIYers looking for practical solutions to water problems for themselves or their communities. The book also provides an excellent overview of rainwater harvesting for students and teachers in environmental science, sustainable design, international development and engineering.

Subject:: Applied Science; Environmental Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Lonny Grafman
Date Added:: 12/03/2019

Traffic Flow Theory: An introduction with exercises

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Traffic Flow Theory: An introduction with exercises

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Traffic processes cause several problems in the world. Traffic delay, pollution are some of it. They can be solved with the right road design or traffic management (control) measure. Before implementing these designs of measures, though, their effect could be tested. To this end, knowledge of traffic flow theory is needed.

Subject:: Applied Science; Engineering
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:: TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Author:: Victor L. Knoop
Date Added:: 03/08/2021

Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice - 2nd Edition

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Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice provides a pivotal learning experience for students transitioning from an associate degree education to a baccalaureate degree. Content includes a broad overview of the nursing profession, the role of accrediting and professional organizations with a strong focus on the American Nurses Association’s foundational documents. The competencies of the Standards of Professional Practice and the Code of Ethics are weaved throughout the text.

Topics covered in this text include professional nursing practice, baccalaureate education, healthcare in the 21st century, autonomy and accountability, nursing philosophy, professional development, communication, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, introduction to evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership and theory.

Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: State University of New York
Provider Set:: Milne Open Textbooks
Author:: Jamie Murphy
Date Added:: 11/18/2021

Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design

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This book is for the beginning level of both architecture and interior design students who learn computer graphic communication software. The author developed multiple tutorials to teach three computer graphic applications, AutoCAD, Revit, and Enscape. AutoCAD is an essential computer drafting software which is 2D drawing software. Revit is a Building Information Modeling software, which is 3D based modeling software. Lastly, Enscape is a real-time rendering, animation, and virtual reality plug-in for users' 4D experiences.

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This book is for the beginning level of both architecture and interior design students who learn computer graphic communication software. The author developed multiple tutorials to teach three computer graphic applications, AutoCAD, Revit, and Enscape. AutoCAD is an essential computer drafting software which is 2D drawing software. Revit is a Building Information Modeling software, which is 3D based modeling software. Lastly, Enscape is a real-time rendering, animation, and virtual reality plug-in for users’ 4D experiences.

Word Count: 33494

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Subject:: Applied Science; Architecture and Design; Arts and Humanities; Career and Technical Education; Computer Science; Graphic Arts; Graphic Design
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Iowa State University
Author:: Yongyeon Cho
Date Added:: 01/05/2021

Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design 2

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Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design 2

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This book is for advanced-level architecture and interior design students who have in-depth knowledge and skills with computer-aided visualization software. The author developed a total of twenty-two chapters to teach practical graphic presentation techniques for architectural presentations. Readers will learn these techniques by following step-by-step tutorials. This book includes multiple exercises for the reader's practice. After completing the tutorials, readers will be able to apply these techniques to their design projects.

Subject:: Applied Science; Architecture and Design; Career and Technical Education; Graphic Design
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Iowa State University
Author:: Yongyeon Cho
Date Added:: 07/29/2022

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Télédétection

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Ce livre d’introduction à la télédétection se veut l’équivalent d’un manuel pour un cours universitaire de premier cycle. Il existe aussi une version en anglais intitulée “Remote Sensing”.

Subject:: Applied Science; Environmental Science; Physical Geography; Physical Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: eCampusOntario
Author:: Anders Knudby
Date Added:: 12/01/2021

USask Open Textbook Authoring Guide - Ver.1.0

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A Guide to Authoring & Adapting Open Textbooks at the University of Saskatchewan

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This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty and post-secondary instructors in Saskatchewan, Canada who are developing, adapting or adopting open textbooks at the University of Saskatchewan. However, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.

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This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty and post-secondary instructors in Saskatchewan, Canada who are developing, adapting or adopting open textbooks at the University of Saskatchewan. However, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.

Word Count: 17157

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Subject:: Applied Science; Information Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: University of Saskatchewan
Author:: University of Saskatchewan Distance Education Unit (DEU)
Date Added:: 03/07/2016

Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals

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Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals

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Diagnostic Imaging principles and concepts are augmented by the presentation of images for common clinical conditions. Guiding principles related to minimizing radiation exposure and requesting the most appropriate imaging examination are addressed.Static images are enhanced by the ability to access images stored and displayed on an Html-5 compatible, Dicom image viewer that simulates a simple Picture Archive and Communication system (PACS). Users can also access other imaging from the Dicom viewer (ODIN), beyond the basic curriculum provided, to further advance their experience with viewing diagnostic imaging pathologies.This book is also available in three other digital formats: ePUB (for Nook, iBooks, Kobo etc.), PDF (regular print), PDF (large print).

Word Count: 81603

ISBN: 978-0-88880-611-6

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Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: University of Saskatchewan
Author:: Brent Burbridge
Date Added:: 09/30/2017

The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles

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The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles

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This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors, and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics research.

Subject:: Applied Science; Computer Science; Linguistics; Social Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Language Science Press
Author:: Michael Cysouw; Steven Moran
Date Added:: 11/13/2018

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the Cyber Domain: Protecting USA's Advanced Air Assets

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Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. They must be protected from hostile intent or use to the same level as any other military or commercial asset involved in US national security. However, from the Spratly Islands to Djibouti to heartland America, the expanding Chinese Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS / Drone) industry has outpaced the US technologically and numerically on all fronts: military, commercial, and recreational.

Both countries found that there were large information security gaps in unmanned systems that could be exploited on the international cyber-security stage. Many of those gaps remain today and are direct threats to US advanced Air Assets if not mitigated upfront by UAS designers and manufacturers. The authors contend that US military / commercial developers of UAS hardware and software must perform cyber risk assessments and mitigations prior to delivery of UAS systems to stay internationally competitive and secure.

The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. This book will fully immerse and engage the reader in the cyber-security considerations of this rapidly emerging technology that we know as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Topics covered include National Airspace (NAS) policy issues, information security, UAS vulnerabilities in key systems (Sense and Avoid / SCADA), collision avoidance systems, stealth design, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms; weapons systems security; electronic warfare considerations; data-links, jamming operational vulnerabilities and still-emerging political scenarios that affect US military / commercial decisions.

Subject:: Applied Science; Engineering
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: New Prairie Press
Author:: Candice Carter; Hans C. Mumm; Julie J.C.H. Ryan; Randall K. Nichols; Wayne D. Lonstein
Date Added:: 09/14/2018

Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Cyber Domain

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Protecting USA's Advanced Air Assets

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Unmanned Aircraft Systems are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. This textbook will fully immerse and engage the reader / student in the cyber-security considerations of this rapidly emerging technology that we know as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The first edition topics covered National Airspace (NAS) policy issues, information security (INFOSEC), UAS vulnerabilities in key systems (Sense and Avoid / SCADA), navigation and collision avoidance systems, stealth design, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms; weapons systems security; electronic warfare considerations; data-links, jamming, operational vulnerabilities and still-emerging political scenarios that affect US military / commercial decisions.

This second edition discusses state-of-the-art technology issues facing US UAS designers. It focuses on counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) – especially research designed to mitigate and terminate threats by SWARMS. Topics include high-altitude platforms (HAPS) for wireless communications; C-UAS and large scale threats; acoustic countermeasures against SWARMS and building an Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) acoustic library; updates to the legal / regulatory landscape; UAS proliferation along the Chinese New Silk Road Sea / Land routes; and ethics in this new age of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (AI).

Word Count: 167103

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Subject:: Applied Science; Engineering
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: New Prairie Press
Author:: Hans C. Mumm; Randall K. Nichols; Wayne D. Lonstein
Date Added:: 11/12/2021

Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning

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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning

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Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning is an openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbook for clinical-based nursing educators covering barriers in urban health and their impact on patient health outcomes. The authors explore perspectives of urban communities, urban patients, and urban healthcare providers to offer insight into how healthcare providers can address disparities in urban healthcare, provide meaningful care with the lived experiences of urban patients in mind, and improve patient-provider communication by moving towards a more solution-driven, team-based care approach. Features include learning activities, exemplars, and case studies.

Subject:: Applied Science; Education; Health, Medicine and Nursing; Higher Education; Social Science; Sociology
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Wayne State University
Author:: Cynthera McNeill; Tara Walker; Umeika Stephens
Date Added:: 11/23/2022

Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals: 1st Canadian Edition

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This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This resource is designed for students in post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing. It may also be useful for graduate students and healthcare providers. This textbook provides information related to clinical practice, including the administration of vaccine, and communication with clients.

Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Ryerson University
Author:: Jennifer English; Kim English; Oona St-Amant
Date Added:: 11/12/2021

Veterinary Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

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Veterinary Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

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The purpose of this textbook is to provide an introductory, yet comprehensive, source of information on epidemiology for veterinary students, researchers, and practitioners. There has not been a textbook that presents analytic epidemiology as a science, basic to veterinary medicine's efforts in health management (herd health) as well as in clinical medicine.

Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Virginia Tech
Provider Set:: VTech Works
Author:: Alan Meek; Wayne Martin
Date Added:: 11/28/2018

Veterinary Histology

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Veterinary Histology is a microscopic anatomy textbook focused on domestic species, including the dog, cat, cattle, horses, swine, and camelids. This digital textbook provides comprehensive, system-specific text as well as high-resolution, annotated images along with chapter-specific glossary of terms and learning objectives.

Word Count: 47684

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Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: Ohio State University
Author:: Christopher Premanandan; Ryan Jennings
Date Added:: 08/22/2017

Veterinary Preventive Medicine

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Goals of preventive medicine are to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death. Veterinary preventive medicine is an important component of veterinary training not only to ensure animal health but also to help veterinary students learn necessary information and skills for participation in global animal and human health challenges and disease prevention.

Word Count: 109562

ISBN: 978-1-946135-82-7

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Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Provider:: University of Minnesota
Author:: Margaret Root Kustritz
Date Added:: 01/01/2022

Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan - 1st Canadian edition

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The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.

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The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement. Boxes with helpful tips are provided throughout the chapters: Technique Tips provide helpful information about measurement techniques, and Points to Consider highlight key points to consider about vital sign measurements and findings.

A Chapter Summary and Printable Flashcards highlighting techniques for each vital sign measurement are provided at the end of each chapter. These printable flashcards are all located together in the textbook’s conclusion chapter.

Learners can review the full textbook or advance to sections that they have identified as areas to work on. The textbook has a self-directed format and provides an interactive and engaging way for learners to develop competence in the measurement of vital signs while integrating knowledge about anatomy and physiology.

Learners will develop knowledge about various vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Measurement of vital signs is a foundational, psychomotor skill for healthcare providers and students in post-secondary health-related programs such as nursing, medicine, pharmacy, midwifery, paramedics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and massage therapy. These measurements provide information about a person’s overall state of health and more specifically about their cardiovascular and respiratory status. These measurements can also reveal changes in a client’s vital signs over time and changes in their overall state of health. Proficiency in vital sign measurement is essential to client safety, care, and management. Measurements can influence clinical decision-making related to therapeutic interventions.

Word Count: 28583

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Subject:: Applied Science; Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Andy Tan; Jennifer L. Lapum; Margaret Verkuyl; Oona St. Amant; Wendy Garcia
Date Added:: 03/06/2019