An evil meal of evil [[electronic resource] /] / Kehbuma Langmia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791443403321
• Autore: Langmia Kehbuma
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-19806-1; 9956-715-88-3; 9786613198068; 9956-715-05-0; 9956-615-10-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (62 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.914
• Soggetti: Avarice; Witchcraft - Africa; Vampires - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Dedication -- Foreword -- Act I -- Scene 1. Njukebim, Sunyin's father is in his "Talih" -- Scene 2. Sunyin has been married for over a year now -- Scene 3. The members of "Nda Saah" -- Scene 4. Dohbani and Sunyin are on stage -- Scene 5. Dohbani is brought in, dead -- Act II -- Scene 1. Following the death of Dohbani -- Scene 2. Sunyin lies in her homestead, legs out-stretched -- Scene 3. Njukebim and Nadoh are at home.
• Sommario/riassunto: An Evil Meal of Evil is a play about greed and its consequences. Set in the traditional African village of 'Ntisong', the play exposes the complexities of unravelling the issue of Death. Sunyin, the young wife of Dohbani epitomizes what is wrong with coerced marriages. A group of blood thirsty vampires popularly known in the village as members of 'Nda Saah' superstitiously kill targeted individuals purposely to enrich themselves. Sunyin, the protagonist in the play suffers from a premature widowhood simply because her father Njukebim forced her into marrying Dohbani. As the play unravels with

Writing for computer science / / Justin Zobel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298972803321
• Autore: Zobel Justin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Springer London, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 9781447166399; 1-4471-6639-6
• Edizione: [Third edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages)
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetti: Computer science; Escrits científics i tècnics - Redacció; Informàtica - Investigació; Popular Computer Science; Computer Science, general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- Getting Started -- Reading and Reviewing -- Hypotheses, Questions and Evidence -- Writing a Paper -- Good Style -- Style Specifics -- Punctuation -- Mathematics -- Algorithms -- Graphs, Figures and Tables -- Other Professional Writing -- Editing -- Experimentation -- Statistical Principles -- Presentations.– Ethics -- Afterword -- Exercises -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: All researchers need to write or speak about their work, and to have research that is worth presenting. Based on the author's decades of experience as a researcher and advisor, this third edition provides detailed guidance on writing and presentations and a comprehensive introduction to research methods, the how-to of being a successful scientist. Topics include: · Development of ideas into research questions; · How to find, read, evaluate, and referee other research; · Design and evaluation of experiments, and appropriate use of statistics; · Ethics, the principles of science, and examples of science gone wrong. Much of the book is a step-by-step guide to effective communication, with advice on: · Writing style and editing; · Figures, graphs, and tables; · Mathematics and ; algorithms; · Literature reviews and referees’ reports; · Structuring of arguments and results into papers and theses; · Writing of other professional documents; · Presentation of talks and posters. Written in an accessible style, and including handy checklists and exercises, Writing for Computer Science is not only an introduction to the doing and describing of research, but is a valuable reference for working scientists in the computing and mathematical sciences.