On a quiet weekend out on Cape Cod, three teenagers enjoy their spring break vacation. A theater troupe, the three young women rehearse their lines to Edgar Allen Poe’s the Raven while enjoying the quiet beaches around them.
Aug
07
Big Data Analytics and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are helping to drive the management of data and usage of the extraordinary increase of computer processing power provided by Cloud Data Centres (CDCs). SDN helps CDCs run their services more efficiently by enabling managers to configure, manage, secure, and optimize the network resources very quickly. Big-Data Analytics in turn has entered CDCs to harvest the massive computing powers and deduct information that was never reachable by conventional methods.
This book gives a brief history of the development of Alloy 625 and a detailed account of its physical, mechanical, and corrosion properties. It also addresses different types of microstructural changes the Alloy 625 undergoes at intermediate temperatures; provides details of properties deterioration due to such microstructural changes; assesses the alloy damage during the in-service inspection of plants; and provides criteria for the damage evaluation for various destructive and non-destructive testing. It combines the industrial data and literature together in one place for damage assessment of service exposed Alloy 625 components. This book serves as a guide to practicing engineers in the industry interested in the use of Alloy 625 and in academia for students pursuing advanced courses in materials science. Alloy 625 is a versatile nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy known for its unique combination of high strength, excellent fabricability and weldability, and outstanding corrosion resistance.
Power System Frequency Control: Modeling and Advances evaluates the control schemata, secondary controllers, stability improvement methods, optimization considerations, microgrids, multi-microgrids, and real-time validation required to model and analyze the dynamic behavior of frequency in power systems.
This monograph addresses problems of
• nonlinear control, estimation and filtering for robotic manipulators (multi-degree-of freedom rigid-link robots, flexible-link robots, underactuated, redundant and cooperating manipulators and closed-chain robotic mechanisms); and• nonlinear control, estimation and filtering for autonomous robotic vehicles operating on the ground, in the air, and on and under water, independently and in cooperating groups.
Tough Tony gets whacked, but some twerp won’t let him into Heaven until he plays guardian angel… and teams him with Joe Doggs, who Tony’s already wrapped in cement. Then Tony tries to save Sam, the Boss’ gorgeous hacker, but the fox eats a slug and is whisked up into Celestial Accounting. And this is only the beginning.
Aug
07
Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about family. Less about football. What the homeless teen knows are the streets and projects of Memphis. Well-to-do Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) knows little about his world. Yet when she and Michael meet, he’s found a home. And the Tuohys have found something just as life-changing: a beloved new son and brother. This real-life story of family and of Michael’s growth into a blue-chip football star will have you cheering with its mix of gridiron action and heartwarming emotion. Share the remarkable journey of the college All-American and first-round NFL draft pick who was a winner before he ever stepped onto the playing field.
Aug
07
A little girl tries to save her adoptive parents, opposing the forces of evil in otherworldly Petersburg.
Aug
07
A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Aug
07
Dorothy Gale’s journey began in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” 125 years ago. Through numerous adventures and reimaginings since, she’s evolved into a cultural icon.
Aug
07
Hazel is an intensely agoraphobic true crime podcaster who is forced to confront her trauma amidst a particularly bad drug trip that brings her nightmares to life in this surreal horror-drama.
