The main purpose is to consider the internal resonances from the general point of view and to elucidate their role in applied nonlinear dynamics by using an efficient approach based on introducing the complex representation of equations of motion (together with the multiple scale method). Considered here are autonomous and nonautonomous discrete two-degree-of-freedom systems, infinite chains of particles, and continuous systems, including circular rings and cylindrical shells. Specific attention is paid to the case of one-to-one internal resonance in systems with cubic nonlinearities. Steady-state and nonstationary regimes of motion, interaction of the internal and external resonances at forced oscillations, and bifurcations of steady-state modes and their stability are systematically studied.

* Recording and playing back streaming audio and video in VP6 and H.264 formats
* Using the new Flash Media Encoder to stream and record video
* Camera and microphone settings
* Non-persistent client-side remote shared objects
* Two-way audio-video communications
* Broadcasting and server-side bandwidth control
* Working with server-side files: the file class
* Server-side shared objects
* Server-side streams
* Setting up a software load handler using FMS3’s new server-side NetStream
* Bringing in data and working with configuration files

At the heart of every chapter is a core set of code that shows the minimum requirements needed for different procedures. Beyond that, Learning Flash Media Server 3 provides you with plenty of options for using FMS3’s different versions — the full-feature server, the streaming-only server, and the limited-user development server. It’s a whole new world of media, and this book puts you right at the doorstep.

Volume II includes new sections on the StAX API, JDBC 4, compiler API, scripting framework, splash screen and tray APIs, and many other Java SE 6 enhancements. In this book, the authors focus on the more advanced features of the Java language, including complete coverage of

* Streams and Files
* Networking
* Database programming
* XML
* JNDI and LDAP
* Internationalization
* Advanced GUI components
* Java 2D and advanced AWT
* JavaBeans
* Security
* RMI and Web services
* Collections
* Annotations
* Native methods

Do you have an idea for a commercially viable software product or already have a product with the potential for dream financial rewards? Would–be software entrepreneurs must consult From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product, written by software developer and entrepreneur Rocky Smolin, for an indispensable roadmap to creating a commercially successful software product. Smolin shares insights from his own experience and covers topics you may never anticipate but are vital to success, like pricing, documentation, licensing, and tracking customers.

* Create standards-compliant Web sites with Expression Web 2 that work consistently in all browsers.
* Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web 2.
* Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX without writing any code.
* Learn how to use the new PHP features available in Expression Web 2.
* Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers.
* Design your Web site for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance.

To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one — a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That’s why this Missing Manual isn’t shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough — and which are duds. With it, you’ll learn how to:

* Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars
* Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together
* Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature
* Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word’s Publishing Layout View
* Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel’s Ledger Sheets
* Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery
* Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage’s Project Center
* Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs
* Customize each program with power-user techniques

With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

No matter which development method your team chooses, whether it’s Agile, RUP, XP, SCRUM, or one of many others available, Java Power Tools provides practical techniques and tools to help you optimize the process. The book discusses key Java development problem areas and best practices, and focuses on open source tools that can help increase productivity in each area of the development cycle, including:

* Build tools including Ant and Maven 2
* Version control tools such as CVS and Subversion, the two most prominent open source tools
* Quality metrics tools that measure different aspects of code quality, including CheckStyle, PMD, FindBugs and Jupiter
* Technical documentation tools that can help you generate good technical documentation without spending too much effort writing and maintaining it
* Unit Testing tools including JUnit 4, TestNG, and the open source coverage tool Cobertura
* Integration, Load and Performance Testing to integrate performance tests into unit tests, load-test your application, and automatically test web services, Swing interfaces and web interfaces
* Issue management tools including Bugzilla and Trac
* Continuous Integration tools such as Continuum, Cruise Control, LuntBuild and Hudson

Ruby lies at the foundation of Rails, and we’ll teach you the Ruby language from the beginning by building on your existing foundation of PHP. We’ll explore Ruby through parallel code examples that illustrate the differences between the languages, and help you understand the Ruby idioms and how they differ from popular PHP code and style.

You’ll then learn the Rails framework by iteratively building a complete application, starting from the home page through to a finished product. Along the way, you’ll build your skills as a Rails developer by learning the Rails fundamentals such as MVC structure, domain modeling, and testing.

In addition to serving as a guide to learning both Ruby and Rails from a PHP developer’s perspective, this book includes two extensive reference chapters. They map the most common PHP tasks to their equivalents in the Ruby and Rails world, giving you at-a-glance information that you’ll refer to often.

If you’re one of the last holdouts still connected to the Internet by a wire, The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition is the book for you. You’ll learn how to set up your own home (or small office) wireless network and how to use public wireless networks, safely and securely. This plain-English guide demystifies configuring and using wireless networks-everything from shopping for parts to securing your network. Learn how to:

# Select and configure hardware and software for your Wi-Fi network and configure access points to minimize interference
# Discover open networks and maintain your privacy while surfing in public
# Use VoIP over a wireless connection to talk on the phone for next to nothing
# Evaluate wireless data services based on cost, speed, and coverage
# Extend your network to give your neighbors free wireless Internet access

Analysis of Biological Networks is a self-contained introduction to this important research topic, assumes no expert knowledge in computer science or biology, and is accessible to professionals and students alike. Each chapter concludes with a summary of main points and with exercises for readers to test their understanding of the material presented. Additionally, an FTP site with links to author-provided data for the book is available for deeper study.

This book is suitable as a resource for researchers in computer science, biology, bioinformatics, advanced biochemistry, and the life sciences, and also serves as an ideal reference text for graduate-level courses in bioinformatics and biological research.

Part of the Adobe Developer Library, this concise pocket guide explains:

* What Adobe AIR is, and the problems this runtime aims to solve
* How to set up your development environment
* The HTML and JavaScript environments within AIR
* How to create your first AIR application using HTML and JavaScript
* Ways to perform an array of common tasks with this runtime

Also included is a guide to AIR packages, classes, and command line tools. Once you understand the basics of building HTML- and JavaScript-based AIR applications, this book makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems. It offers a quick introduction to a significant new development technology, which lets you combine the reach and ease of the Web with the power of the desktop.

The authors cover the technologies new to Windows 2008, such as IPv6, Network Access Protection (NAP), Network Policy Server (NPS), Terminal Services Remote Programs, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Hyper-V virtualization, and more! This book doesn’t just describe the features and functions included in Windows 2008–there are notes throughout the book explaining how organizations have successfully used the technologies to fulfill core business needs. Tips, tricks, and best practices share lessons learned from hundreds of implementations of Windows 2008 in real-world environments.

If you’re a newcomer to GUI programming, this book will introduce you to the basics of FXRuby programming by leading you through building a GUI application with FXRuby from start to finish. If you’re an experienced software developer who just needs to get up to speed on FXRuby and what it can do for you, this book will help you put FXRuby to work in your Ruby-based applications. Along the way, you’ll learn how to leverage FXRuby’s vast collection of user interface elements to build visually rich user interfaces. You’ll see how FXRuby uses the concept of sending messages between objects to implement event-driven applications, and how you can most effectively use layout managers to construct flexible user interfaces.

Go beyond the basics with proven, practical knowledge and techniques for developing real-world GUI programs in Ruby.

Techniques
The latest and greatest techniques:
- Hollywood poster effects
- Paint digital portraits
- Top ten Photoshop problems solved

Creative Tutorials
Challenging & inspiring Masterclasses inc:
- Expert lighting techniques
- Illustrations with impact
- Create a Victorian street scene
Also featured;
- Type art explored
- Behind the scenes at design studios
- Interview with Simon Plant

This book looks at connectedness, models of communication and the barriers to communication. No amount of technology can compensate for a poorly structured message; indeed, the technology itself can eventually become a barrier. As instant communications are now the norm, do we need to spend more time focusing on the message and our audience?

It looks in detail at meetings, written communications, presentations and interviews. Introducing elements of communication theory and including activities to practice skills. Franklin D. Roosevelt said about public speaking Be sincere; be brief; be seated. This book is underpinned by the three themes captured in Roosevelts words.

* being yourself * focusing on whats important for your audience * knowing when to stop *

* Provides a range of activities to help evaluate organisational communication systems and the importance of knowledge management;
* Develops skills for leading and participating in meetings; produce clear written communications; plan and deliver effective presentations; explore and use a range of interviewing techniques.

* Covers all key features of the Facebook API
* Explains the API languages FQL and FBML
* Teaches by example, with useful code and tips you can use in your own applications

Among them there are two papers by Bob: (i) a retrospective view of his research lines, and (ii) a proposal for future studies in the area of the automatic program derivation. The book also includes some papers by members of the IFIP Working Group 2.1 of which Bob was an active member. All papers are related to some of the research interests of Bob and, in particular, to the transformational development of programs and their algorithmic derivation from formal specifications. “Automatic Program Development” offers a renewed stimulus for continuing and deepening Bob’s research visions.

A familiar touch is given to the book by some pictures kindly provided to us by his wife Nieba, the personal recollections of his brother Gary and some of his colleagues and friends.

* Creating and strengthening their business websites with Google Page Creator, Google Analytics, and Google Checkout.

* Improving communication with clients and co-workers using Google Talk, Google SMS, and Google Groups.

* Marketing themselves to prospective customers using Google AdWords, AdSense, and Google directory placement.

* Improving their visibility by creating business blogs with Blogger.

Complete with information on research tools like Google Local, Google News, and Google Alerts, this is the ultimate guide for businesses of every size.

Packed with realistic examples and in-depth advice, this is the book Trolltech uses to teach Qt to its own new hires. Extensively revised and expanded, it reveals today’s best Qt programming patterns for everything from implementing model/view architecture to using Qt 4.3’s improved graphics support. You’ll find proven solutions for virtually every GUI development task, as well as sophisticated techniques for providing database access, integrating XML, using subclassing, composition, and more. Whether you’re new to Qt or upgrading from an older version, this book can help you accomplish everything that Qt 4.3 makes possible.

* Completely updated throughout, with significant new coverage of databases, XML, and Qtopia embedded programming

* Covers all Qt 4.2/4.3 changes, including Windows Vista support, native CSS support for widget styling, and SVG file generation

* Contains separate 2D and 3D chapters, coverage of Qt 4.3’s new graphics view classes, and an introduction to QPainter’s OpenGL back-end

* Includes new chapters on look-and-feel customization and application scripting

* Illustrates Qt 4’s model/view architecture, plugin support, layout management, event processing, container classes, and much more

* Presents advanced techniques covered in no other book—from creating plugins to interfacing with native APIs

* Includes a new appendix on Qt Jambi, the new Java version of Qt

Learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP’s Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications. Master the c:out tag, and get a handle on exactly what’s changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don’t just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you’ll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately.

Head First Servlets and JSP doesn’t just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain. You’ll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you’re through with the book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

With its unique visually rich format, this book pulls together the hard lessons learned by expert software developers over the years. You’ll gain essential information about each step of the software development lifecycle — requirements, design, coding, testing, implementing, and maintenance — and understand why and how different development processes work.

With Head First JavaScript, you learn:

* The basics of programming, from variables to types to looping
* How the web browser runs your code, and how you can talk to the browser with your code
* Why you’ll never have to worry about casting, overloading, or polymorphism when you’re writing JavaScript code
* How to use the Document Object Model to change your web pages without making your users click buttons

This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned “word of mouth” becomes hypergrowth.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how:

* Flickr, a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value
* Google made money with a model based on free search, and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage of

This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Ubuntu. You’ll learn how to set up a workstation or a server, and you’ll find complete details on Ubuntu’s easy-to-use desktop and productivity software.

Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed includes a range of coverage: From the software you need in your everyday work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, to how to configure your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more.

For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the X Window system, Linux programming, web server administration, and network administration.

* Install and configure Ubuntu
* Get all your system’s devices and peripherals up and running
* Configure and use the X Window System
* Manage Linux services and users
* Run a printer server
* Connect to a local network and the Internet
* Set up and administer a web server with Apache
* Secure your machine and your network from intruders
* Learn shell scripting
* Share files with Windows users using Samba
* Get productive with OpenOffice.org
* Play games on Linux
* Use Linux multimedia programs
* Create and maintain a MySQL database
* Configure a firewall
* Set up an FTP server
* Use Ubuntu’s development and programming tools
* Tune your Ubuntu system for maximum performance
* Learn to manage and compile the kernel and modules

This book gives focuses on these high-level questions and gives a criteria when and how to design speech systems. After an introduction, the state of the art in modern voice user interfaces is displayed. The following parts of the book evolve criteria for designing and evaluating successful voice user interfaces. In the last chapter, outlines and trends of this fast growing area are displayed.

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Text presents the basics of optical communications. Topics include explanations of how and why light travels along a fiber; transmission and specialty fibers; reasons why so many competent types are needed, and descriptions of equipment needed for performance testing. Softcover. DLC: Optical communications.

Sample questions (and answers!) and practice tests reinforce what you’ve learned in areas such as vectors, mechanics (forces), motion, and thermodynamics. CliffsAP Physics B & C also covers the following areas:
Momentum, energy, work and power
Waves, geometric optics, fluid mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics (B Exam only)
Electric fields and forces, including electrostatics, electric potential, Coulomb’s Law, Gauss’ Law, conductors and capacitors, and more
DC circuits, including current, Ohm’s law, potential difference and DC circuits
Magnetic fields and forces, including Biot-Savart’s Law, solenoid, Faraday’s law of Induction, important formulas included in Maxwell’s Equations

This comprehensive guide offers a thorough review of key concepts and detailed answer explanations. It’s all you need to do your best — and get the college credits you deserve.

The renowned authors stress the universal aspects in their description of the phonon or magnon low-energy excitations in the amorphous metals, e.g. concerning the remarkable consequences of the properties of these excitations for the thermodynamics at low and intermediate temperatures. Tunneling excitations - another universal aspect of amorphous systems and responsible for many of their properties - is also intensively treated. Although the book is focused on analytical approaches, it also describes the numerical calculation of the atomic structure, the electronic excitations, and the itinerant magnetic properties of amorphous metallic alloys, while considering modern applications.

While both theorists and experimentalist interested in amorphous metals will profit from this book, it will also be useful supplementary reading in courses on solid-state physics and material sciences.

This self-teaching guide first explains basic concepts such as linear, nonlinear, and multivariable equations, geometry, and coordinate systems. Then you’ll move on to logarithms, exponential functions, trigonometry, Boolean algebra, vectors, and single-variable calculus. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will teach you how to solve technical math problems in no time.

Control Theory of Multi-fingered Hands presents a comprehensive insight into the intelligence and dexterity of robotic multi-fingered hands from both the physical and control- theoretic viewpoints.

The book:
focuses on the problem of how to control dexterous movements of fingers interacting with an object in the execution of everyday tasks;
clarifies what kinds of sensory-motor coordinated signals are necessary and sufficient for realising stable grasping and/or object manipulation, in particular, the synergistic choices of control gains in co-activation signals for finger muscles and tendons crucial in realising secure pinching motions;
derives a mathematical model of the dynamics of a complicated mechanism of multiple fingers with multiple joints physically interacting; and,
considers the problem of how to recreate the function of “blind grasping”.

Control Theory of Multi-fingered Hands will be a useful reference for postgraduate students and researchers in this field, as well as engineers and roboticists.

Does CMOS technology have a real problem?
Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials?
What is to come after semiconductors?
Superconductors or molecular conductors?
Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography?
Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution?
Quantum Computing, Spintronics?
Where is the printable plastic electronics proposed 10 years ago?
Are carbon nanotube transistors the CMOS of the future?

In this book the authors introduce unfoldings, an approach to model checking which alleviates the state explosion problem by means of concurrency theory. They offer a gentle introduction to the basics of the method, and in particular they detail an unfolding-based algorithm for model checking concurrent systems against properties specified as formulas of linear temporal logic (LTL). Self-contained chapters cover transition systems and their products; unfolding products; search procedures for basic verification problems, such as reachability and livelocks; and model checking LTL. The final chapter summarizes the results of the book, and points the reader to tools and case studies.

The book will be of value to researchers and graduate students engaged in automatic verification and concurrency theory.

The book and all contributions are dedicated to Arrigo Cellina and James A. Yorke on their 65th anniversary. Their remarkable scientific career covered all the above areas and was one of the main driving forces behind the work of many of the authors and the editor of this volume.

For researchers and graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering, the material in this book will be a valuable resource, and a tool for everyone working in differential equations, chaos and variational problems. It brings the reader to the frontiers of research in the areas mentioned above and will stimulate further research.

- moduli of coherent sheaves;
- principal bundles and sheaves and their moduli;
- new insights into Geometric Invariant Theory;
- stacks of shtukas and their compactifications;
- algebraic cycles vs. commutative algebra;
- Thom polynomials of singularities;
- zero schemes of sections of vector bundles.

The main purpose is to give “friendly” introductions to the above topics through a series of comprehensive texts starting from a very elementary level and ending with a discussion of current research. In these texts, the reader will find classical results and methods as well as new ones. The book is addressed to researchers and graduate students in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and singularity theory. Most of the material presented in the volume has not appeared in books before.