A surprising journey from tech support to professional marksman in front of the cameras.Chris Cheng won the title of Top Shot,” a $100,000 cash prize, and a professional marksman contract with the show sponsor, Bass Pro Shops. How did a tech support guy who didn’t shoot a lot of guns beat out seventeen other competitors-including seasoned military veterans, law enforcement officers, and pro marksmen-in History Channel’s Top Shot season 4?An excell...

Chris Cheng won the title of Top Shot,” a $100,000 cash prize, and a professional marksman contract with the show sponsor, Bass Pro Shops. How did a tech support guy who didn’t shoot a lot of guns beat out seventeen other competitors-including seasoned military veterans, law enforcement officers, and pro marksmen-in History Channel’s Top Shot season 4?An excellent guide for beginning shooters, Cheng focuses on the basics and ammunition of pistols, rifles, and shotguns, ma...

This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on rust diseases of cereals.The first chapter provides an overview of the wheat rust pathogen lifecycle and discusses recent integration of basic biological knowledge and genomic-led tools within an epidemiological framework.The second chapter introduces stripe rust and provides an overview of its decimation of crop yields worldwide. The chapter summarises recent advances in identifying stripe rust resista...

本書收錄十二篇學術論文，都是專為紀念林正弘教授（1938-2022）而作。全書分為兩大部分，第一部分「《東吳哲學學報》林正弘教授紀念專刊」共六篇論文，討論主題有以林正弘為樞紐的臺灣哲學家在科學實在論議題上的爭辯、智慧的認知結構、語言行為的規約性分析、思想實驗的認知功能、性別理論定義困境、新的生物機制模型的科學探索等，呈現出多元與跨領域主題的哲學研究。第二部分「林正弘教授逝世週年紀念研討會論文」亦收入六篇論文，有對「白馬非馬」的邏輯重構、荀子批判法家的倫理意涵以及《荀子》名、實、類觀念探究、性傾向定義的探討、孔恩後期科學理性觀點的解析、以及臺灣戰後邏輯學的發展譜系的梳理，以豐富多元的臺灣哲學研究繁景，向林正弘教授致敬。

The key policy challenge for Turkey in the years ahead will be to enhance and consolidate the advances made since the nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union levels. This paper reviews Turkey’s policy performance in terms of growth, inflation, debt, fiscal and financial sector reform, and labor markets. The analysis assesses the effectiveness of macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms since the cr...

Health care utilization routinely generates vast amounts of data from sources ranging from electronic medical records, insurance claims, vital signs, and patient-reported outcomes. Predicting health outcomes using data modeling approaches is an emerging field that can reveal important insights into disproportionate spending patterns. This book presents data driven methods, especially machine learning, for understanding and approaching the high utilizers problem, using the example of a larg...