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Category : Haryana (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Census of India, 1991: Tables B-19(F), B-20(F), and B-21(F) pts. A & B
Author: Census of India, 1991: Tables B-17(F), B-18(F), B-19(F), B-20(F), B-21-(F) pts. A & B, B-22(F), B-23(F) and B-24(F)
Author: Paper Machines
Author: Markus KrajewskiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262297272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a “universal paper machine” that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.
Tropical Woody Rubiaceae
Author: E. RobbrechtPublisher: Balogh Scientific Books
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Category : Rubiaceae
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research
Author: A. T. RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
Advances in Nutrition and Cancer 2
Author: Vincenzo ZappiaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475732309
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This volume includes contributions presented at the Second International Sym posium on Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples, Italy, in October 1998 at the National Tumor Institute "Fondazione Pascale." During the Conference, experts from different disciplines discussed pivotal and timely subjects on the interactions between human nutrition and the development of malignancies. Comparing the themes of this Meeting with those discussed at the First Sympo sium in 1992, the major scientific advancements certainly derive from the extensive use of molecular approaches to perform research in nutrition. Moreover, the fundamental observation of R. Doll and R. Peto (1981), which suggested that at least 35% of all cancers (with large differences among different tumors) might be prevented by dietary regimens, has been definitively confirmed by epidemiological studies. On the other hand, the relationships between diet and cancer are quite intricate and complex; it is difficult, and at the same time not methodologically correct, to reduce them to simple terms. Metabolic and hormonal factors, contaminants and biological agents, and deficiency of specific protective nutrients are all pieces of the same puzzle.
Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994
Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Russia in the European Context, 1789–1914
Author: S. McCaffrayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403982260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This volume surveys Nineteenth-century Russian society and economy and finds that Russian institutions, practices and ideas fit the general European pattern for that period of rapid change. Even apparently distinctive Russian features deepen our understanding of 'Europeaness'. In the Nineteenth-century there were still many different ways to be European, and excessive generalization based on the experiences of one or two countries obscures the great diversity that still characterized European civilization. Moreover, these essays bring to light several points at which Russian legislation and thinking provided models and examples for others to follow. The authors focus on key elements of how Russians envisaged and constructed their economy and society. This is an important contribution that increases understanding of Russian history at a time when Russia's relationship with the 'West' is again debated.
Education in Ancient India
Author: Hartmut ScharfePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047401476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of education in India, both in the oral and written traditions. Chronologically it covers everything from the Vedic period upto the Hindu kingdoms before the establishment of Muslim rule. If relevant, the reader will regularly find sidesteps to modern continuities. The role of the oral tradition and the techniques of memorization are discussed, the education in small private tutorials and the development of large monasteries and temple schools approaching university character. Professional training, the role of the teacher and of foreign languages are dealt with, and the impact of the peculiar features of Indian education on Indian society. The full documentation facilitates quick access to the original sources scholarly literature on Indian education. A true reference work.
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