Provides guided activites to introduce students to programming. Each chapter contains instructions for design and code for simple applications, followed by an explanation of how the design and code features work, and exercises to apply or extend the instructions in a different application.

Guided Database Applications: Using Microsoft Visual Basic (Guided Computer Activities)

Computers & Technology

Scott, Anne

Scott, Bernard

Networking & Cloud Computing

Cambridge University Press

The Mask of Herod is enthralling fiction deftly blended into the violent real life events of the past 2000 years. It traces the bloody path of a cursed piece of sculpture created around the time of Christs birth and in defiance of one of Gods Ten Commandments.Most of the books action takes place in the century just concluded and tells the interrelated stories of:* A remarkable American woman forced by horrific circumstances to devote her life to raising a child orphaned by the persecution that followed the infamous Crystal Night in Nazi Germany.* A handsome but ruthless Nazi officer whose survival instinct and lust for wealth make him even more cunning and self-serving than his boss, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering.* A child of the Holocaustvictim of a brutal rapewhose extraordinary courage drives her to overcome huge obstacles and rebuild her life in the newly created Promised Land of Israel.* An ex-Marine whose startling discovery helps him avenge the long ago murder of parents he had never known.The Mask of Herod is a story of the ultimate triumph of love and courage over the forces of unspeakable evil but, as you will read, it was a victory won at an enormous price.

The Mask of Herod

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

iUniverse

An agnostic scientist travels to a remote land to chase down rumors of a primitive tribe said to be wrapped in silence, silent even when they speak. How can this be? His pursuit for answers takes him up a dangerous river and ultimately to Lost Mountain. There he learns the awful secret that afflicts this tribe. When the explorer finds more than he is questing for, the story takes on far deeper significance. Setting science aside, he seeks a way to alleviate their plight. In the end, a series of mysterious events takes matters out of his hands, teaching him something far beyond the realm of natural science.

Secret of Lost Mountain: A Tale for Imaginations of All Ages

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Logos Institute Press

This distinctly Catholic novella comprises a set of free standing pieces that nevertheless make up a whole story. From a sundry cast of characters we see emerge an uncommonly attractive woman, Monica, in a series of corrosive affairs until, finding herself at a moral dead end, she attempts (we learn) to take her life, mercifully without success. Recovering physically, but with a still unsettled conscience, she comes to the attention of a young curate who tries to help her. This young priest has unresolved needs of his own, disclosed when he finds himself inordinately drawn to her, troubling the priest's own conscience. What happens next reveals the action of grace in the most ordinary of circumstances.This is a tale, then, of a grace that mysteriously enters into, and heals, disordered affections of the heart. Interestingly, this healing does not come about by slamming the door on human love just because it is disordered. As we see, there is a blessed lesson to be learned regarding these matters of the heart, one involving an act of holy trust. The author, Bernard Scott, is an award-winning short story writer, anthologized essayist, and published poet. His short adventure/mystery novel, Secret of Lost Mountain, was a finalist in the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction. He is happily married and knows whereof he speaks.

The Heart Hath Its Reasons: Catholic Novella in Sundry Shades of Love (Ordered and Otherwise)

Romance

Collections & Anthologies

This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology. It examines the causes of these problems and, for linguistic, rule-based systems, attributes the cause to language's ambiguity and complexity and their interplay in logic-driven processes. For non-linguistic, data-driven systems, the book attributes translation shortcomings to the very lack of linguistics. It then proposes a demonstrable way to relieve these drawbacks in the shape of a working translation model (Logos Model) that has taken its inspiration from key assumptions about psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic function. The book suggests that this brain-based mechanism is effective precisely because it bridges both linguistically driven and data-driven methodologies. It shows how simulation of this cerebral mechanism has freed this one MT model from the all-important, classic problem of complexity when coping with the ambiguities of language. Logos Model accomplishes this by a data-driven process that does not sacrifice linguistic knowledge, but that, like the brain, integrates linguistics within a data-driven process. As a consequence, the book suggests that the brain-like mechanism embedded in this model has the potential to contribute to further advances in machine translation in all its technological instantiations.

Translation, Brains and the Computer: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation (Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications, 2)

Computer Science

Springer

This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology. It examines the causes of these problems and, for linguistic, rule-based systems, attributes the cause to language’s ambiguity and complexity and their interplay in logic-driven processes. For non-linguistic, data-driven systems, the book attributes translation shortcomings to the very lack of linguistics. It then proposes a demonstrable way to relieve these drawbacks in the shape of a working translation model (Logos Model) that has taken its inspiration from key assumptions about psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic function. The book suggests that this brain-based mechanism is effective precisely because it bridges both linguistically driven and data-driven methodologies. It shows how simulation of this cerebral mechanism has freed this one MT model from the all-important, classic problem of complexity when coping with the ambiguities of language. Logos Model accomplishes this by a data-driven process that does not sacrifice linguistic knowledge, but that, like the brain, integrates linguistics within a data-driven process. As a consequence, the book suggests that the brain-like mechanism embedded in this model has the potential to contribute to further advances in machine translation in all its technological instantiations.

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Guided Database Applications: Using Microsoft Visual Basic (Guided Computer Activities)

The Mask of Herod

Secret of Lost Mountain: A Tale for Imaginations of All Ages

The Heart Hath Its Reasons: Catholic Novella in Sundry Shades of Love (Ordered and Otherwise)

Translation, Brains and the Computer: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation (Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications, 2)

Translation, Brains and the Computer: A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation (Machine Translation: Technologies and Applications, 2)