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Perl, one of the world's most diffuse programming languages, was born out of the need to resolve the creator's dissatisfaction with what were at the time standard data-parsing solutions. Indeed, since the 1.0 release in 1987, Perl has been heralded for its powerful parsing capabilities and emdash;features that are further enhanced through the thousands of Perl extensions made available through CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Pro Perl Parsing begins with several chapters devoted to key parsing principles, discussing topics pertinent to regular expressions, parsing grammars, and parsing techniques. This material sets the stage for later chapters, which introduce numerous and powerful CPAN parsing modules, and provide an ample supply of example applications. About the Author Christopher Frenz is a bioinformaticist at New York Medical College and is the author of Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET for Scientists and Engineers. Frenz is an expert in Perl and scientific programming, in addition to the .NET platform. Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this...I write and maintain a fair amount of Perl, and matching and parsing patterns is often the largest part of the work. - A.P. Lawrence, Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Parsing and Regular Expression Basics CHAPTER 2 Grammars CHAPTER 3 Parsing Basics CHAPTER 4 Using Parse::Yapp CHAPTER 5 Performing Recursive-Descent Parsing with Parse::RecDescent CHAPTER 6 Accessing Read more...

Note: With 569 Figures and 50 Tables. Visualizing the data is an essential part of any data analysis. Modern computing developments have led to big improvements in graphic capabilities and there are many new possibilities for data displays. This new volume in the series Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics gives an overview of modern data visualization methods, both in theory and practice. There are definitive chapters on modern graphical tools such as mosaic plots, parallel coordinate plots and linked views. There are chapters dedicated to graphical methodology for particular areas of statistics, for example Bayesian analysis, genomic data and cluster analysis, as well as chapters on software for graphics. Specialists from all over the world have contributed papers on their areas of expertise. Table of Contents I. Data Visualization I.1 Introduction II. Principles II.1 A Brief History of Data Visualization II.2 Good Graphics? II.3 Static Graphics II.4 Data Visualization Through Their Graph Representations II.5 Graph-theoretic Graphics II.6 High-dimensional Data Visualization II.7 Multivariate Data Glyphs: Principles and Practice II.8 Linked Views for Visual Exploration II.9 Linked Data Views II.10 Visualizing Trees and Forests III. Methodologies III.1 Interactive Linked Micromap Plots for the Display of Geographically Referenced Statistical Data III.2 Grand Tours, Projection Pursuit Guided Tours, and Manual Controls III.3 Multidimension Read more...

Reading level: Ages 9-12 List: The Spiderwick Chronicles 01 - The Field Guide.pdf The Spiderwick Chronicles 02 - The Seeing Stone.pdf The Spiderwick Chronicles 03 - Lucinda's Secret.pdf The Spiderwick Chronicles 04 - The Ironwood Tree.pdf The Spiderwick Chronicles 05 - The Wrath of Mulgarath.pdf Spiderwick is a series of children's books by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. The story takes place in New England, United States, where nine-year-old twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory have moved to the decrepit Spiderwick Estate. They discover a field guide to Faeries, and quickly realize that the estate is infested with them. Some of the faeries are benign or even friendly, but many more of them are pesky or downright malicious. They discover many new creatures also. The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide is the first book in the Spiderwick Chronicles series, a popular series of illustrated children's fantasy books written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The books are designed for school age and middle school age children. Like the A Series of Unfortunate Events series, volumes of this book are often hardbound and made to look like even older hardbound books. Pen and ink drawings appear throughout the books. The Seeing Stone (ISBN 0689859376) is the second book of The Spiderwick Lucinda's Secret (ISBN 0689859384) is the third book of The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, published in 2003. The Ironwood Tree ( Read more...

This text is designed for the sophomore/junior level introduction to discrete mathematics taken by students preparing for future coursework in areas such as math, computer science and engineering. Rosen has become a bestseller largely due to how effectively it addresses the main portion of the discrete market, which is typically characterized as the mid to upper level in rigor. The strength of Rosen's approach has been the effective balance of theory with relevant applications, as well as the overall comprehensive nature of the topic coverage. Reviews: Summary: Great buy Rating: 5 Purchased for computer science course since it was required. Great price, good book. Summary: A good book Rating: 5 I like this book and use it for teaching my students. As a teacher, you have the opportunity to select similar problems for class activity and homework assignment. Also, you can find not only simple and middle-level problems but also high-level problems to provide a good source for active students. Unfortunately, the author uses the letters "F" and "T" in the truth tables instead of much easier and perspective "0" and "1", which correspond to the real needs, e.g., in computer science. That's the most essential lack, which I've found by this time. Summary: This book is interesting Rating: 4 I like the exclamations and the concepts/problem solving this book teaches. Maybe I am being swayed by the subject because I enjoy it, however, in comparison to other math boo Read more...

The packaging of electronic devices and systems represents a significant challenge for product designers and managers. Performance, efficiency, cost considerations, dealing with the newer IC packaging technologies, and EMI/RFI issues all come into play. Thermal considerations at both the device and the systems level are also necessary. The Electronic Packaging Handbook, a new volume in the Electrical Engineering Handbook Series, provides essential factual information on the design, manufacturing, and testing of electronic devices and systems. Co-published with the IEEE, this is an ideal resource for engineers and technicians involved in any aspect of design, production, testing or packaging of electronic products, regardless of whether they are commercial or industrial in nature. Topics addressed include design automation, new IC packaging technologies, materials, testing, and safety. Electronics packaging continues to include expanding and evolving topics and technologies, as the demand for smaller, faster, and lighter products continues without signs of abatement. These demands mean that individuals in each of the specialty areas involved in electronics packaging-such as electronic, mechanical, and thermal designers, and manufacturing and test engineers-are all interdependent on each others knowledge. The Electronic Packaging Handbook elucidates these specialty areas and helps individuals broaden their knowledge base in this ever-growing field. Review highly recommended Read more...

Computer algebra systems have revolutionized the use of computers within mathematics research, and are currently extending that revolution to the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. But the power of such systems goes beyond simple algebraic or numerical manipulation. In this practical resource Roman Maeder shows how computer-aided mathematics has reached a level where it can support effectively many of the computations in science and engineering. Besides treating traditional computer science topics, he demonstrates how scientists and engineers can use these computer-based tools to do scientific computations. A valuable text for computer science courses for scientists and engineers, this book will also prove useful to Mathematica users at all levels. Covering the latest release of Mathematica, the book includes useful tips and techniques to help even seasoned users. Review "This is an excellent introductory textbook in computer science via Mathematica. I recommend it for use in computer science classes for science and engineering students." Computing Reviews Contents Preface About This Book I Computers and Science 1.1 From Problems to Programs 1.2 Computers 1.3 Programming Languages 1.4 Computer Science 2 Mathematica's Programming Language 2.1 Arithmetic and Logic 2.2 Definitions 2.3 Simple Program Structures 2.4 Structure of Expressions 2.5 Help with Problems 2.6 Exercises 3 Iteration and Recursion 3.1 The Greatest Common Divisor 3.2 The Read more...

This text is one of the first to treat vector calculus using differential forms in place of vector fields and other outdated techniques. Geared towards students taking courses in multivariable calculus, this innovative book aims to make the subject more readily understandable. Differential forms unify and simplify the subject of multivariable calculus, and students who learn the subject as it is presented in this book should come away with a better conceptual understanding of it than those who learn using conventional methods. * Treats vector calculus using differential forms * Presents a very concrete introduction to differential forms * Develops Stokess theorem in an easily understandable way * Gives well-supported, carefully stated, and thoroughly explained definitions and theorems. * Provides glimpses of further topics to entice the interested student About the Author Steven H. Weintraub is a Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has been at LSU since that time, with temporary leaves to UCLA, Rutgers, Oxford, Yale, Gottingen, Bayreuth, and Hannover (Germany).Professor Weintraub is a member of the American Mathematical Society and a former member of the Council of the AMS. He has written more than 40 research papers and two other books: a graduate algebra book and a reserach monograph. Read more...

Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? In this surprising and engaging exploration of men's and women's darker passions, David Buss, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Desire, reveals that both men and women are actually designed for jealousy. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveries in biology, anthropology, and psychology, Buss discovers that the evolutionary origins of our sexual desires still shape our passions today. According to Buss, more men than women want to have sex with multiple partners. Furthermore, women who cheat on their husbands do so when they are most likely to conceive, but have sex with their spouses when they are least likely to conceive. These findings show that evolutionary tendencies to acquire better genes through different partners still lurk beneath modern sexual behavior. To counteract these desires to stray -- and to strengthen the bonds between partners -- jealousy evolved as an early detection system of infidelity in the ancient and mysterious ritual of mating. Buss takes us on a fascinating journey through many cultures, from pre-historic to Read more...

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This text is designed for the sophomore/junior level introduction to discrete mathematics taken by students preparing for future coursework in areas such as math, computer science and engineering. Rosen has become a bestseller largely due to how effectively it addresses the main portion of the discrete market, which is typically characterized as the mid to upper level in rigor. The strength of Rosen's approach has been the effective balance of theory with relevant applications, as well as the overall comprehensive nature of the topic coverage. Reviews: Summary: Great buy Rating: 5 Purchased for computer science course since it was required. Great price, good book. Summary: A good book Rating: 5 I like this book and use it for teaching my students. As a teacher, you have the opportunity to select similar problems for class activity and homework assignment. Also, you can find not only simple and middle-level problems but also high-level problems to provide a good source for active students. Unfortunately, the author uses the letters "F" and "T" in the truth tables instead of much easier and perspective "0" and "1", which correspond to the real needs, e.g., in computer science. That's the most essential lack, which I've found by this time. Summary: This book is interesting Rating: 4 I like the exclamations and the concepts/problem solving this book teaches. Maybe I am being swayed by the subject because I enjoy it, however, in comparison to other math boo Read more...

The packaging of electronic devices and systems represents a significant challenge for product designers and managers. Performance, efficiency, cost considerations, dealing with the newer IC packaging technologies, and EMI/RFI issues all come into play. Thermal considerations at both the device and the systems level are also necessary. The Electronic Packaging Handbook, a new volume in the Electrical Engineering Handbook Series, provides essential factual information on the design, manufacturing, and testing of electronic devices and systems. Co-published with the IEEE, this is an ideal resource for engineers and technicians involved in any aspect of design, production, testing or packaging of electronic products, regardless of whether they are commercial or industrial in nature. Topics addressed include design automation, new IC packaging technologies, materials, testing, and safety. Electronics packaging continues to include expanding and evolving topics and technologies, as the demand for smaller, faster, and lighter products continues without signs of abatement. These demands mean that individuals in each of the specialty areas involved in electronics packaging-such as electronic, mechanical, and thermal designers, and manufacturing and test engineers-are all interdependent on each others knowledge. The Electronic Packaging Handbook elucidates these specialty areas and helps individuals broaden their knowledge base in this ever-growing field. Review highly recommended Read more...

Computer algebra systems have revolutionized the use of computers within mathematics research, and are currently extending that revolution to the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. But the power of such systems goes beyond simple algebraic or numerical manipulation. In this practical resource Roman Maeder shows how computer-aided mathematics has reached a level where it can support effectively many of the computations in science and engineering. Besides treating traditional computer science topics, he demonstrates how scientists and engineers can use these computer-based tools to do scientific computations. A valuable text for computer science courses for scientists and engineers, this book will also prove useful to Mathematica users at all levels. Covering the latest release of Mathematica, the book includes useful tips and techniques to help even seasoned users. Review "This is an excellent introductory textbook in computer science via Mathematica. I recommend it for use in computer science classes for science and engineering students." Computing Reviews Contents Preface About This Book I Computers and Science 1.1 From Problems to Programs 1.2 Computers 1.3 Programming Languages 1.4 Computer Science 2 Mathematica's Programming Language 2.1 Arithmetic and Logic 2.2 Definitions 2.3 Simple Program Structures 2.4 Structure of Expressions 2.5 Help with Problems 2.6 Exercises 3 Iteration and Recursion 3.1 The Greatest Common Divisor 3.2 The Read more...

This text is one of the first to treat vector calculus using differential forms in place of vector fields and other outdated techniques. Geared towards students taking courses in multivariable calculus, this innovative book aims to make the subject more readily understandable. Differential forms unify and simplify the subject of multivariable calculus, and students who learn the subject as it is presented in this book should come away with a better conceptual understanding of it than those who learn using conventional methods. * Treats vector calculus using differential forms * Presents a very concrete introduction to differential forms * Develops Stokess theorem in an easily understandable way * Gives well-supported, carefully stated, and thoroughly explained definitions and theorems. * Provides glimpses of further topics to entice the interested student About the Author Steven H. Weintraub is a Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has been at LSU since that time, with temporary leaves to UCLA, Rutgers, Oxford, Yale, Gottingen, Bayreuth, and Hannover (Germany).Professor Weintraub is a member of the American Mathematical Society and a former member of the Council of the AMS. He has written more than 40 research papers and two other books: a graduate algebra book and a reserach monograph. Read more...

Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? In this surprising and engaging exploration of men's and women's darker passions, David Buss, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Desire, reveals that both men and women are actually designed for jealousy. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveries in biology, anthropology, and psychology, Buss discovers that the evolutionary origins of our sexual desires still shape our passions today. According to Buss, more men than women want to have sex with multiple partners. Furthermore, women who cheat on their husbands do so when they are most likely to conceive, but have sex with their spouses when they are least likely to conceive. These findings show that evolutionary tendencies to acquire better genes through different partners still lurk beneath modern sexual behavior. To counteract these desires to stray -- and to strengthen the bonds between partners -- jealousy evolved as an early detection system of infidelity in the ancient and mysterious ritual of mating. Buss takes us on a fascinating journey through many cultures, from pre-historic to Read more...

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Cleary studied non-sex offenders, in-treatment sex offenders, and never-treated sex offenders to determine whether their behavior reflected the General Theory of Crime. She explored the link between abusive parenting and criminal history and analogous behaviors and opportunity and routine activities in victim selection. Data showed moderate support for the self-control assertion that offenders do not specialize and high support for the generality of deviance. Although in-treatment sex offenders differed in self-control, mixed results were found for the relationship between low self-control and analogous and criminal behaviors among all three groups. Interviews supported the role of opportunity in victim selection; respondents used victims' physical proximity and/or emotional availability to gain access to them. About the Author Shawna Cleary is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Substance Abuse Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, where she won the 2002 Provost's Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Read more...

Examines the bedroom antics of the some of the most powerful men in history. The book ranges from Hitler and the lethal effects he had on his lovers, to the rapacity of Mussolini and Mao Tse Tung, who believed that bathing with young girls would keep him young. From the Author The newest books in my Sex Lives series have a list of all the personalities that appear the books, so you can play "International Daisy Chain". This is a game invented, not by me, but by Truman Capote. Pick any two people from the list and see how many lovers you need to daisy chain between them. The player who joins them with the least lovers wins. Play it at home or in bed - or why not try a game of "Strip Daisy Chain"? Read more...

The First In-Depth, Real-World, Insider's Guide to Powerful Windows Debugging For Windows developers, few tasks are more challenging than debugging--or more crucial. Reliable and realistic information about Windows debugging has always been scarce. Now, with over 15 years of experience two of Microsoft's system-level developers present a thorough and practical guide to Windows debugging ever written. Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat cover debugging throughout the entire application lifecycle and show how to make the most of the tools currently available--including Microsoft's powerful native debuggers and third-party solutions. To help you find real solutions fast, this book is organized around real-world debugging scenarios. Hewardt and Pravat use detailed code examples to illuminate the complex debugging challenges professional developers actually face. From core Windows operating system concepts to security, WindowsR VistaT and 64-bit debugging, they address emerging topics head-on-and nothing is ever oversimplified or glossed over! This book enables you to * Master today's most powerful Windows debugging tools, including NTSD, CDB, WinDbg, KD, and ADPlus * Debug code that wasn't designed or written for easy debugging * Understand debuggers "under the hood," and manage symbols and sources efficiently * Debug complex memory corruptions related to stacks and heaps * Resolve complex security problems * Debug across processes: identity tracking, RPC debugge Read more...

It has taken four years, but with Head First Java the introductory Java book category has finally come of age. This is an excellent book, far more capable than any of the scores of Java-for-novices books that have come before it. Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates deserve rich kudos--and big sales--for developing this book's new way of teaching the Java programming language, because any reader with even a little bit of discipline will come away with true understanding of how the language works. Perhaps best of all, this is no protracted "Hello, World" introductory guide. Readers get substantial exposure to object-oriented design and implementation, serialization, neatwork programming, threads, and Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Key to the authors' teaching style are carefully designed graphics. Rather than explain class inheritance (to cite one example) primarily with text, the authors use a series of tree diagrams that clarify the mechanism far more succinctly. The diagrams are carefully annotated with arrows and notes. Also characteristic of the unique teaching strategy is heavy reliance on exercises, in which the reader is asked to complete partial classes, write whole new code segments and do design work. Though there's little discussion of why the exercises' correct answers are what they are, it's clear that the practice work was carefully designed to reinforce the lesson at hand. If you've waited this long to give Java a try, this book is a great choice. --David Wall To Read more...

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