Authors:Roland Nater, Arthur Reichmuth, Roman Schwartz,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: weighing, terminology, guide, terms, dictionary
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3642020135
ISBN-13: 9783642020131

This Dictionary of Weighing Terms is a comprehensive practical guide to the terminology of weighing for all users of weighing instruments in industry and science. It explains more than 1000 terms associated with weighing technology and related areas; numerous illustrations assist understanding. The Dictionary of Weighing Terms is a joint work of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) (the German Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology) and METTLER TOLEDO, the weighing instruments manufacturer. It contains terms relating to the following topics: Fundamentals of weighing • Definiti

Author: John Broome
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lives, weighing
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2004-10-07
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 019924376X
ISBN-13: 9780199243761

We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people’s lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. We have to choose between the convenience to ourselves of road and air travel, and the lives of the future people who will be killed by the global warming we cause. We make choices that affect how many lives there will be in the future: as individuals we choose how many children to have, and societies choose tax policies that influence people’s choices about having children. How

Author: King Yao
Publisher: Pi Yee Press
Keywords: betting, sports, odds, weighing
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-07-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0935926305
ISBN-13: 9780935926309

Sports betting can be attacked intelligently. Smart sports bettors do not gamble the same way as tourists play roulette or retirees play the slot machines. Instead, smart sports bettors are making bets that they have thought through carefully with supporting logic and/or research. The purpose of this book is to give you tools to succeed at sports betting, to show you how to evaluate, compare and view sports betting from an analytical perspective, not from a gambling perspective. This book by King Yao, author of the widely-acclaimed Weighing the Odds in Hold ’em Poker, should be used as a

Author: David Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: statistics, probability, course, odds, weighing
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2001-09-24
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 052100618X
ISBN-13: 9780521006187

In this lively look at both subjects, David Williams convinces Mathematics students of the intrinsic interest of Statistics and Probability, and Statistics students that the language of Mathematics can bring real insight and clarity to their subject. He helps students build the intuition needed, in a presentation enriched with examples drawn from all manner of applications. Statistics chapters present both the Frequentist and Bayesian approaches, emphasizing Confidence Intervals rather than Hypothesis Test, and include Gibbs-sampling techniques for the practical implementation of Bayesian met

Author: Edwin Danson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: earth, measure, quest, world, weighing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0195181697
ISBN-13: 9780195181692

Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making, written by one of the world’s master surveyors. Edwin Danson, using a similar approach to his earlier best seller, "Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Important Border in America" (Wiley, 2000) takes us on a journey telling the story of this experiment that has not been written about in over two hundred years. National jealousies, commercial and political rivalry were the underlying causes for many of the eighteenth century’s wars but war also provid

Author: Susanne Michaelis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: creole, superstrates, language, library, substrates, contribution, structures, weighing, roots
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027252556
ISBN-13: 9789027252555

Author: Committee on Scientific Assessment of Bullet Lead
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: lead, evidence, bullet, weighing, analysis, forensic
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2004-03-26
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309090792
ISBN-13: 9780309090797

Since the 1960s, testimony by representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in thousands of criminal cases has relied on evidence from Compositional Analysis of Bullet Lead (CABL), a forensic technique that compares the elemental composition of bullets found at a crime scene to the elemental composition of bullets found in a suspect’s possession. Different from ballistics techniques that compare striations on the barrel of a gun to those on a recovered bullet, CABL is used when no gun is recovered or when bullets are too small or mangled to observe striations. "Forensic Analysis