Author: Philip J. Koopman Jr.
Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd , Publisher
Keywords: computers, series, applications, horwood, wave, new, stack, ellis
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 1989-04-01
ISBN-10: 0138379238
ISBN-13: 9780138379230

Published in 1989, this was the first book to explore the new breed of stack computers led by the introduction of the Novix NC4016 chip. The author commences with an overview of how stacks are used in computing, and a taxonomy of hardware stack support which includes a survey of approximately 70 stack machines past and present. Detailed descriptions, including block diagrams and instruction set summaries, are given for seven new stack processors from Harris Semiconductor, Novix, Johns Hopkins University/APL, MISC, WISC Technologies, and Wright State University. Major topics covered also includ

Author: Jean-Louis Racine
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: central, asia, europe, eastern, quality, competitiveness, harnessing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2011-05-05
ISBN-10: 0821385097
ISBN-13: 9780821385098

Standards are everywhere, yet go mostly unnoticed. They define how products, processes, and people interact, assessing these entities' features and performance and signaling their level of quality and reliability. They can convey important benefits to trade, productivity, and technological progress and play an important role in the health and safety of individual consumers and the environment. Firms' ability to produce competitive products depends on the availability of adequate quality-support services. A "national quality infrastructure" denotes the chain of public and private services (stan

Author: The Council of Economic Advisers of the President
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: president, report, economic
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2010-02-12
ISBN-10: 1441413413
ISBN-13: 9781441413413

The Economic Report of the President for 2010 is written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation’s economic progress with text and extensive data appendices. For more than sixty years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how Administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions. This year’s volume has attempted to stay tr

Author: George Reisma
Publisher: TJS Book
Keywords: economics, treatise, capitalism
Number of Pages: 1096
Published: 1996-11-01
ISBN-10: 0915463733
ISBN-13: 9780915463732

Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the Britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page--Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics is the philosophically and intellectually strongest and most comprehensive book in the defense of laissez-faire capitalism that can be found anywhere in the world at the present time. It is state of the art in economic theory and political philosophy. The intelligent, open-minded reader who seeks to understand the economics and politics of the modern world (along with much of its closely related history and social and cultural phe

Author: David J. Eck
Publisher: Ebookdb.org/Unknown
Keywords: java, using, programming, introduction
Number of Pages: 734
Published: 2011-01-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB135010

ntroduction to Programming Using Java is a free textbook on programming in the Java programming language. It can be used on line or downloaded at http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/. More information is available there. This printed version is for the convenience of people who would like a nicely bound copy. It does not include some features that are available on-line: answers to exercises and quizzes, source code files, and a glossary. Contents Preface    Chapter 1:  Overview: The Mental Landscape  •Section 1.1  The Fetch and Execute Cycle: Machine Langua

Author: Organization for Economic
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel
Keywords: energy, agency, international, china, coal, cleaner
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-04-30
ISBN-10: 9264048146
ISBN-13: 9789264048140

China’s rapid economic growth has aroused intense interest around the world. Policy makers, industrialists, investors, environmentalists, researchers and others want to better understand the issues that this populous nation faces as it further develops an already thriving economy largely fuelled by coal. This study sheds light on the Chinese coal supply and transformation sectors.China’s coal, mined locally and available at a relatively low cost, has brought enormous benefits to energy consumers in China and to those outside the country who enjoy the products of its coal-ba

Author: William E. Shotts Jr.
Publisher: No Starch Pre
Keywords: introduction, complete, line, command, linux
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2012-01-14
ISBN-10: 1593273894
ISBN-13: 9781593273897

You’ve experienced the shiny, point-and-click surface of your Linux computer—now dive below and explore its depths with the power of the command line. The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell. Along the way you’ll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and more. In addition to that practical knowledge, author William Shotts