Internet books

Ericson, Clifton A., 11. System Safety Primer. Self-published, 2011. Available through Internet book sellers. 

Watters, A., Rossum, G. V., Ahlstrom, J. C. Internet Programming With Python. M T Books, Sebastopol, California, 1996. 

All the methods of obtaining information via the Internet presented above carry one risk - dead links. Although a search term may be found by a search engine in its own website-metadata database, the original link to the website could be broken and the information is lost. In this book a conscious effort has been made to limit the URLs and to reduce the web address to the index page of the seiwer, to avoid this sometimes annoying problem. 

In the first edition of this book I wrote, A major use of the Internet is for electronic mail, but extremely rapid growth is being observed in other areas, particularly the "World-Wide Web" (WWW).... Such a phrase seems an understatement despite the hype, the Internet has certainly made a dramatic impact, not least on the scientific community, where its... 

The effort to clarify and articulate the principles of spectrometry as simply as possible appears to have struck a welcome response among those who use mass spectrometers. The original series was not advertised, but, once it had been discovered outside the Micromass organization, there were inquiries as to how it could be purchased. From the start. Micromass offered the series free in a ring-binder format and later also provided it free on CD ROM and then on the Internet. Updating of the first CD led to over 600 requests for it on the day after its release had been announced on the Internet. Partly because of this response — but mainly because users or potential users frequently like to have a traditional reference book — it was decided to publish the series in this present book form. 

The Internet has become a wonderful source of (sometimes free) software for numerical analysis. Browse through it, and you will soon see that Fortran remains the programming language for serious numerical computation. One excellent book that is currently available without charge is... 

The Internet has become the best source for thermodynamic data. Run a search on something like chemical thermodynamic data on any serious search engine, and you will hnd multiple sources, most of which allow free downloads. The data in the standard handbooks, e.g. Perry s Handbook (see Suggestions for Further Reading section of Chapter 5), are still correct but rather capricious in scope and likely to be expressed in archaic units like those sprinkled here and there in this book. 

In the descriptive domain, the material offered by the numerous data banks, by researching the internet, and that available arising from the obligations on suppliers to provide freely complete safety publications for the user (but which are sometimes open to criticism, as in this book) makes it, it seems to me, superfluous to offer yet another similar contribution of that kind. 

WG Mallard, PJ Linstrom. NIST Chemistry Web-Book, [Internet], URL http //webbook.nist.gov/ chemistry/, accessed 7-20-2000. 

If you do not have a prediction programme available, look on the Internet to see whether you can find freeware or shareware there. Otherwise use tables such as those you will find in the book by Pretsch et al. (see Appendix). 

Each chapter on technique ends with the short section called "Where Do I Go from Here " This includes suggestions for those who wish to investigate a topic further. It is not possible for a book of this nature to cover all issues of implementation for each technique. We assume that those who want to pursue a topic further will have access to library facilities and to the Internet, so no attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive reading list. Regular journal articles provide overviews of research in each area, so the section on applications toward the end of each chapter similarly provides examples of how each method is used rather than a comprehensive review. 

In multi-volume references and other specialist books listed below, the ISBN(13) has been given. The original sources can be traced through Internet sites (e.g., GOOGLE ) using, for example, where appropriate, the ISBN number or by searching the title given in italics. 

In order to reduce the cost of the book, and thereby improve its accessibility, there are no colour reproductions. Many of the illustrations, however, can only properly be appreciated and understood in colour (particularly those in Chapter 20). The colour illustrations can therefore be viewed and downloaded from the following internet site ... 

There comes a time in any literary endeavour when one has to recognize that time has run its course, that a line has to be drawn in the sand, that one simply cannot continue to surf the Internet, that there is an ultimate limit to the recent publications that one can include in the final text. As the Thirteenth century Chinese scholar Tai T ung (The Six Scripts Principles of Chinese Writing) wrote Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished. So, at the beginning of the veritable Twenty-first century, the real Third millenium, it is time to conclude, with all of the regrets which that implies. That perfection could ever be attained in a field which is undergoing such an explosive expansion and development at the present time is quite simply impossible. 

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at http // dnb.ddb.de... 

A significant aid in the preparation of the second edition was the tremendous resources now available on the Internet for searching references to virtually any subject or key word within the scientific literature. For this reason, adding endless references to each chapter probably only would increase the size of the book by hundreds of pages, but add very little real value. Far better is for the reader to make use of pertinent Internet databases to search for key words, structure names, or reagent acronyms which can provide lists of hundreds or even thousands of additional references or links regarding any bioconjugation technique of interest. 

Most of the measurements described in the fifth section have been carried out using a low-power dilution refrigerator. This apparent constraint obliged the authors of the experiments to look for original configurations which are fully discussed in the text. We avoided to make a list of the suppliers of cryogenic equipments as happens in most books, since this type of information is at present easily obtained through internet. 

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. 

If you are interested in learning more about assessment tools for drug problems, there are several great resources to find them. I recommend several books at the end of this chapter that may help. In addition, many assessment tools can be found on the Internet. The best places to look include Web sites for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA http //www.drugabuse.gov) and... 

The files are compressed on the CD in the same form as they are available on the Internet. Information on registering MADONNA is contained in the files. Registration is optional since all the examples in the book can be run with the unregistered version. Registration makes available a detailed manual and is necessary for anyone who wants to develop his or her own programs. 

When can a set of data be regarded as a database Guidelines such as the number of records or the publication medium may not be useful. CODATA values, for example, which are the recommended starting point for any database (or any thermochemical calculation, for that matter), involve only about 150 species. Also, the CODATA reports have been printed in regular scientific journals before the final set was released as a book and later posted on the Internet. Second, we could have distinguished between databases and data compilations. The former involve recalculation of quantities such as standard enthalpies of formation to ensure a consistent set of values (see section 2.5). Databases may also include data assessment, leading to recommended values. Data compilations, on the other hand, are just collections of literature values. Although this distinction is important (see table Bl), a data compilation can be rather useful for the expert user and save many hours of literature search. 

E-book and electronic versions of this book are fully interactive with each of the Internet sites mentioned (clicking on a hyperlink automatically opens your browser to the site indicated). If you are using the hard copy version of this book, you can access a cited Web site by typing the provided Web address directly into your Internet browser. You may find it useful to refer to synonyms or related terms when accessing these Internet databases. NOTE At the time of publication, the Web addresses were functional. However, some links may fail due to URL address changes, which is a common occurrence on the Internet. 

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