Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: darkly, scanner
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1400096901
ISBN-13: 9781400096909

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user’s brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn’t realize he is narcing on himself.Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick’s industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthrall

Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: scanner, time, ferron, sam
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1587153785
ISBN-13: 9781587153785

An accidental invention of near-miraculous powers: Now the government can peer into the past to solve any crime. . . . And to invade any privacy.

Authors:Robert C. Feenstra, Matthew D. Shapiro,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: research, studies, income, wealth, economic, bureau, data, price, indexes, national, scanner
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0226239659
ISBN-13: 9780226239651

Every time you buy a can of tuna or a new television, its bar code is scanned to record its price and other information. These "scanner data" offer a number of attractive features for economists and statisticians, because they are collected continuously, are available quickly, and record prices for all items sold, not just a statistical sample. But scanner data also present a number of difficulties for current statistical systems.Scanner Data and Price Indexes assesses both the promise and the challenges of using scanner data to produce economic statistics. Three papers present the results of

Author:
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: evaluation, technical, report, technology, scanner, sset, sewer, amp
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 2001-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0784405514
ISBN-13: 9780784405512

Focused on the performance and in-service demonstration of SSET, which involves digital scanning to obtain a flat, ’unfolded image’ of the pipeline’s interior.