Consilience: The unity of knowledge

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

✍ Erik A. Devereux 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB 👁 1 views

Environmental policy is one of the most dynamic and intellectually diverse fields in contemporary policy analysis, administration, and management. Not only does environmental policymaking span every governmental level from the local to the global, it also transcends a variety of very different juris

THE PARTITION OF UNITY METHOD

✍ I. BABUŠKA; J. M. MELENK 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 403 KB

A new finite element method is presented that features the ability to include in the finite element space knowledge about the partial differential equation being solved. This new method can therefore be more efficient than the usual finite element methods. An additional feature of the partition-of-u

The geography of knowledge: from knowled

The geography of knowledge: from knowledge maps to the knowledge atlas

✍ Patricia Seemann; Don Cohen 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 131 KB 👁 3 views

Using a case study of a successful knowledge-mapping project at a major pharmaceutical ®rm, this paper describes the features and value of a knowledge atlas, which is de®ned as a set of linked knowledge maps that form a rich, contextual picture of complex business processes. The collaborative proces

The Rule of Knowledge

✍ Scott Baker 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Hachette Australia 🌐 en-US ⚖ 279 KB 👁 3 views

When small town high school teacher Shaun Strickland is invited to Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between Space and Time, he thinks this could be the break he s been waiting for. But as he and his wife speed through the cold Carolina night, his car slams hard into someth

The Sword of Knowledge

✍ C. J. Cherryh; Mercedes Lackey; Nancy Asire; Leslie Fish 📂 Fiction 📅 1995;2005 🏛 Baen 🌐 English ⚖ 527 KB 👁 3 views

The Empire of Sabis was falling, besieged by the army of a more powerful empire and by hostile wizards. A small group of philosopher-scientists could reverse the tide if they could convince the rulers of Sabis to build the deadly new weapon that they have invented: the cannon. But when the rulers pr

The Sword of Knowledge

✍ C. J. Cherryh; Mercedes Lackey; Nancy Asire; Leslie Fish 📂 Fiction 📅 1995;2005 🏛 Baen 🌐 English ⚖ 529 KB 👁 3 views

The Empire of Sabis was falling, besieged by the army of a more powerful empire and by hostile wizards. A small group of philosopher-scientists could reverse the tide if they could convince the rulers of Sabis to build the deadly new weapon that they have invented: the cannon. But when the rulers pr