• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 313
• Publication Date: 2005-10-11
• Sales Rank: 90534
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387278028
• EAN: 9780387278025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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Scilab is a free open-source software package for scientific computation. It includes hundreds of general purpose and specialized functions for numerical computation, organized in libraries called toolboxes, which cover such areas as simulation, optimization, systems and control, and signal processing. One important Scilab toolbox is Scicos. Scicos provides a block diagram graphical editor for the construction and simulation of dynamical systems. The objective of this book is to provide a tutorial for the use of Scilab/Scicos with a special emphasis on modeling and simulation tools. While it will provide useful information to experienced users it is designed to be accessible to beginning users from a variety of disciplines. Students and academic and industrial scientists and engineers should find it useful.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part concerns Scilab and includes a tutorial covering the language features, the data structures and specialized functions for doing graphics, importing, exporting data and interfacing external routines. It also covers in detail Scilab numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations. Even though the emphasis is placed on modeling and simulation applications, this part provides a global view of Scilab. The second part is dedicated to modeling and simulation of dynamical systems in Scicos. This type of modeling tool is widely used in industry because it provides a means for constructing modular and reusable models. This part contains a detailed description of the editor and its usage, which is illustrated through numerous examples. All codes used in the book is made available to the reader.

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• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Number Of Pages: 168
• Publication Date: 2005-11-01
• Sales Rank: 316324
• ISBN / ASIN: 0823225410
• EAN: 9780823225415
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
• Studio: Fordham University Press

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• Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd
• Number Of Pages: 64
• Publication Date: 1995-07
• Sales Rank: 858191
• ISBN / ASIN: 1856974693
• EAN: 9781856974691
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Kingfisher Books Ltd
• Studio: Kingfisher Books Ltd

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On library day at school my daughter usually brings home an art book of some kind. Most of the time it was a book by Lee J. Ames. Marissa really wants to draw well but at 8 doesn't understand that you have to work hard at it. I suggested to her that she get a piece of white paper and trace over the drawings and then color them in. She has really made some beautiful drawings using this book.

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• Publisher: R. Schneider
• Number Of Pages: 219
• Publication Date: 1993-03
• Sales Rank: 55684
• ISBN / ASIN: 0936984120
• EAN: 9780936984124
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: R. Schneider
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• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Number Of Pages: 280
• Publication Date: 2004-05
• Sales Rank: 1433668
• ISBN / ASIN: 0271023627
• EAN: 9780271023625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Studio: Pennsylvania State University Press

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To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de'Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity.

Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with techniques from history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

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• Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
• Number Of Pages: 800
• Publication Date: 2005-11-25
• Sales Rank: 29898
• ISBN / ASIN: 1598220039
• EAN: 9781598220032
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
• Studio: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
• Average Rating: 3.5

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Starting with a detailed description of Delphi and C++ languages, this book covers the essential topics such as conditions, loops, strings and arrays, procedures and functions, file I/O, and pointers and gives an introduction to OOP before venturing into

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• Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Number Of Pages: 304
• Publication Date: 2005-10-14
• Sales Rank: 976774
• ISBN / ASIN: 1584885467
• EAN: 9781584885467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Studio: Chapman & Hall/CRC

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Taking a practical approach, Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments presents the most useful design and modeling methods for computer simulations used to study physical systems. The authors introduce the basic concepts of design as well as the concept of Latin hypercube sampling and its modifications. They cover uniform design, measures of uniformity, and their algebraic equations. They also provide various stochastic optimization techniques along with a variety of popular algorithms, such as simulated annealing, stochastic evolutionary, and threshold acceptance. The text includes discussions on special techniques for model interpretation, including generalized ANOVA and the Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test.
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• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Number Of Pages: 300
• Publication Date: 1990-12-03
• Sales Rank: 2692593
• ISBN / ASIN: 0262031671
• EAN: 9780262031677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press
• Studio: The MIT Press

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In most current natural language systems each query is treated as an isolated request for information regardless of its context in dialogue. Sandra Carberry addresses the problem of creating computational strategies that can improve user-computer communication by assimilating ongoing dialogue and reasoning on the acquired knowledge.

Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue critically examines plan recognition - the inference of an agent's goals and how he or she intends to achieve them. It describes significant models of plan inference and presents in detail the author's own model, which infers new goals from user utterances and integrates them into the system's model of the user's plan, incrementally expanding and adding detail to its beliefs about what the information seeker wants to do. Carberry then outlines computational strategies for interpreting two kinds of problematic utterances: utterances that violate the pragmatic rules of the system's world model and intersentential elliptical fragments. She also suggests directions for future research.

Sandra Carberry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue is included in the ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing edited by Aravind Joshi.

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• Publisher: Sams
• Number Of Pages: 648
• Publication Date: 2005-04-20
• Sales Rank: 225168
• ISBN / ASIN: 0672326485
• EAN: 9780672326486
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sams
• Studio: Sams

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If you need to understand how JBoss works, why not learn it from the people who created it? JBoss 4.0 � The Official Guide is the authoritative resource recognized as the official print documentation for JBoss 4.0. The only book for advanced JBoss users, this guide presents a complete understanding to configuring and using JBoss 4.0. It is fully up-to-date with the new features and changes in JBoss 4.0, including those used to integrate development with Eclipse, incorporate Aspect-Oriented Programming and implement J2EE 1.4 functionality months ahead of the commercial competition. Get under the hood and explore everything that JBoss 4.0 can offer you with JBoss 4.0 � The Official Guide.

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Authors: Terry Patten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 25, 1988)
Hardcover: 230 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 052135076X
List Price: $80.00
Amazon Sales Rank: #2,912,902

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An exploration of a new approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically translated into current AI-knowledge representations and efficiently processed by the same knowledge-based techniques currently exploited by expert systems. Thus, the fundamental methodological problem of interfacing specialized computational representations with equally specialized linguisticrepresentations can be resolved. The study provides a detailed discussion of the formal model proposed and of a substantial implementation including a relatively large systemic grammar. It represents a fundamental and productive contribution to the literature of text generation.

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This book is a comprehensive guide to using OpenVPN for building both secure VPNs. The book is written in a very friendly style that makes this complex topic easy and a joy to read. It first covers basic VPN concepts, then moves to introduce basic OpenVPN configurations, before covering advanced uses of OpenVPN. It's suitable for both experienced and new OpenVPN users.
OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption.
This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting. While providing the necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
What you will learn from this book
Chapter 1 looks at what VPNs are, how they evolved during the last decade, why it is necessary to modern Benterprises, how typical VPNs work. The chapter also covers some essential networking concepts.
Chapter 2 explains VPN security issues, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, the SSL/TLS library, and SSL certificates.
Chapter 3 introduces OpenVPN. In this chapter, we learn about the history of OpenVPN, how OpenVPN works, and how OpenVPN compares to IPSec VPN applications.
Chapter 4 covers installing OpenVPN on both Windows, the Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. It covers the installation on Linux from the source code and RPM packages. Installation on Suse and Debian is covered in detail.
Chapter 5. Here an encryption key for OpenVPN is created and it is then used to setup up our first OpenVPN Tunnel between two windows systems in the same network. The key is then copied on a Linux system and this system is connected through a tunnel to the first windows machine.
Chapter 6 shows how to create x509 server and client certificates for use with OpenVPN. easy-rsa which comes with OpenVPN and is available for both Windows and Linux is used.
Chapter 7 reviews the syntax of the command line tool openvpn, which enables building tunnels quickly. The configuration options of openvpn are covered in detail with examples.
Chapter 8 shows how to make the example tunnels created earlier safer and persistent by choosing a reliable combination of configuration file parameters. It then covers how to configure firewalls on Linux and Windows to work with OpenVPN.
Chapter 9 focuses on using xca, the advanced Windows tool with which x509 certificates can be easily managed. Its Linux equivalent, Tinyca2, which can even manage multiple certificate authorities, is also covered.
Chapter 10 covers advanced OpenVPN configurations, including Tunneling through a proxy server, pushing routing commands to clients, pushing and setting the default route through a tunnel, Distributed compilation through VPN tunnels with distcc, and OpenVPN scripting.
Chapter 11 shows how to debug and monitor VPN tunnels. It covers standard networking tools that can be used for scanning and testing the connectivity of a VPN server.
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Network administrators and any one who is interested in building secure VPNs using OpenVPN. It presumes basic knowledge of Linux, but no knowledge of VPNs is required. All basic VPN and relevant security concepts are covered.

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ISBN: 0672311593
Author: Edward Whalen / Steve Adrien Deluca
Publisher: Sams

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Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days is a tutorial that will teach the reader the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. This book focuses on using concrete examples to explain why things should be done in a certain way. The key topics are broken out by week below:Week One Overview of the Oracle8 Architecture; Network Computing Architecture (NCA); Installing Oracle; Planning the Database; How to Administer Users, and How to Manage Processes.Week Two Administering Logs, Control Files, Datafiles, and Tablespaces; Controlling Rolback Segments; Building Tables and Views; Using Indexes and Clusters; and Security.Week Three Effective Backup Techniques; Recovering the Database; Administering Oracle Replication; Tuning and Optimizing the Database; Administering the Oracle Web Server; and Advanced Oracle Options. - This hands-on tutorial teaches the basics of Oracle8 in a short period of time

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A complete guide to set up, configuration and administration
- Understand the OpenCms web publishing process
- Learn how to create your own, complex, OpenCms website
- Develop the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website

A practical guide to creating and managing your own website with this proven Java/JSP based content management system. This book takes you through the process of creating content rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book does not cover extending the operations of OpenCms with Java development. The focus is on OpenCms as a complete CMS platform in itself. It does use some JSP for extensions where required.

Based on customer feedback from the acclaimed first edition "Building Websites with OpenCms", this book concentrates on the process of setting up an OpenCms 6 website, with particular attention to the new features of OpenCms 6. The 120 pages in the previous OpenCms title from Packt that covered set up and administration issues have been updated for Version 6, with over 80 new pages added on new features and broader coverage of OpenCms 6 from a non-developer point of view. If you own the previous edition, and are primarily an administrator or manager of OpenCms websites, then we recommend you buy this edition. If you are primarily a developer then you may want to consider our forthcoming title specifically on OpenCms v6 Development.

This book takes you through the process of creating content rich web sites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease Java developers into getting the most from OpenCms.OpenCms is a professional-level, open source Website Content Management System, with which you can create and manage complex websites. Based on Java and XML technology, it fits into almost any modern IT environment. Now at version 6, OpenCms has blossomed into a mature and proven content management system.

With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with OpenCms, this book is the embodiment of the author's expertise, and the perfect way to master the system. With this book you will master OpenCms, and learn the skills to implement, customize and maintain an OpenCms website.

- Installing OpenCms, and its basic concepts
- Using the OpenCms Workplace to manage and publish your content
- Managing projects, user accounts, databases, and modules
- Working with the VFS and search
- Working with templates and the OpenCms Tag Library
- Understand how OpenCms handles and publishes content to the Web
- Be confident working in the OpenCms environment
- Be able to create your own, complex, OpenCms website

This book is for anyone who wants to get an OpenCMS website up and running as quickly as possible, whether you are a user, administrator, designer or webmaster. You do not have to be a Java developer to benefit from this book, although a working knowledge of Java, JSP, and XML will help you to get the most from OpenCMS, and this book.

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• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Number Of Pages: 208
• Publication Date: 2006-02-28
• Sales Rank: 265528
• ISBN / ASIN: 1904811922
• EAN: 9781904811923
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
• Studio: Packt Publishing

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If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial.

Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.

This book will help you to:
- Learn how to find hosts that offer cPanel with their web hosting packages
- Discover how to access your cPanel account in several different ways, even behind a firewall
- Familiarize yourself with the standard cPanel layout so you can find what you are looking for quickly
- Discover what the information you see on the main cPanel interface means and how to use it to keep track of what is happening with your hosting account
- Create, manage and remove FTP accounts so you (or your web master) can upload, access and remove files from your website
- Set up, manage and learn how to access e-mail accounts, including e-mail aliases (forwarding), web mail access, e-mail quotas, mail filtering, spam blocking and mailing lists
- Create, manage and delete databases from within cPanel
- Learn how to protect and control access to information on your web site using the tools that cPanel provides
- Monitor site traffic using web stats
- Discover how to create an effective backup strategy using cPanel’s web site backup and restore features
- Explore some advanced tools that cPanel offers to help manage your web site
- Learn basic techniques to keep your web site safe from hackers and learn what to do if the worst happens
- Examine some common third-party add-ons and themes that your host may choose to offer
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• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Number Of Pages: 890
• Publication Date: 2005-12-08
• Sales Rank: 182480
• ISBN / ASIN: 0072262095
• EAN: 9780072262094
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

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This comprehensive volume is fully updated for C# 2.0 -- the newest version of Microsoft's revolutionary programming language.The changes found in C# 2.0 bring Java-like power to millions of Windows programmers worldwide. With expertly crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples, this book fully explains every aspect of C# 2.0. Written in the clear, uncompromising style that has made master programming author Herb Schildt the choice of millions, the book covers all the new and existing features of this major programming language.


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• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Number Of Pages: 440
• Publication Date: 1986-07
• Sales Rank: 610235
• ISBN / ASIN: 0201142244
• EAN: 9780201142242
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
• Studio: Addison Wesley

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B> This best-selling guide to Prolog has been fully revised and extended to provide an even greater range of applications, enhancing its value as a stand-alone guide to Prolog, artificial intelligence, or AI programming. Ivan Bratko discusses natural language processing with grammar rules, planning, and machine learning. The coverage of meta-programming includes meta-interpreters and object-oriented programming in Prolog. The new edition includes coverage of: constraint logic programming; qualitative reasoning; inductive logic programming; recently developed algorithms; belief networks for handling uncertainty; and a major update on machine learning. This book is aimed at programmers who need to learn AI programming.

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ISBN: 1578202043
Author: Nels Johnson
Publisher: CMP Books

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Deliver a first-class presentation to your Web, home theater, and desktop video audience with proven strategies for reliable performance and positive user experiences. Culled from a decade of professional software development experience, these illustrated, step-by-step production examples are based on the latest standards (HTML, SMIL, XML, WSC, and JavaScript, among others). Inside you'll find tutorials, recipes, and complete instructions on how to capture, edit, compress, serve, and otherwise present Windows Media 9 Series video files. This book even includes hardware recommendations, tips for equipment setup, descriptions of working delivery systems, and breakdowns of the latest tools and techniques.
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… Expert examples of how to produce high-quality audio and video
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• Publisher: ISTE Publishing Company
• Number Of Pages: 136
• Publication Date: 2002-07-01
• Sales Rank: 4790293
• ISBN / ASIN: 1903996228
• EAN: 9781903996225
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: ISTE Publishing Company
• Studio: ISTE Publishing Company

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Video Data (Innovative Technology Series)
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Book Description
Presents the work of numerous research disciplines on creating efficient storage for large amounts of video data, and making querying and navigation of the data possible.


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• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Number Of Pages: 144
• Publication Date: 1998-12
• Sales Rank: 170015
• ISBN / ASIN: 0393318745
• EAN: 9780393318746
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
• Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
• Average Rating: 5

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In this unique and startling collection of portraits following Naked New York, we see the "beautiful people" of Los Angeles first clothed, then completely naked. The people of Los Angeles are men and women of all shapes, ages, colors, and professions living in a city famed for its Hollywood glamour and perpetual summer. Photographed outdoors we see a magician, screenwriter, trapeze artist, unemployed surfer, filmmaker, casting director, aerospace engineer, and many more. This serious and, at the same time, amusing group of portraits shows the surprising differences and not so surprising similarities we have to one another clothed and unclothed. Unlike traditional nude photography, these portraits don't have erotic or sexual overtones; they are simply real people who reveal both their clothed public selves and their naked private selves. Greg Friedler's work as a documentary photographer is a kind of anthropological survey of people. If clothing is a voluntary choice, unclothed we see people in an involuntary state-we see their bodies as we see their faces, unmasked. These images are at once deeply intimate and refreshingly matter of fact.

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pages: 682 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596003080

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Written especially for those readers coming to VB.NET from an earlier version of Visual Basic, VB.NET in a Nutshell offers a quick language tour as well as a nicely thorough reference to all standard VB objects, methods, and properties. Even if you are a raw beginner, this concise reference is really all you need to get onboard with the new version of the world's most popular programming language.
The first sections of this text zero in on what's new and different in VB.NET. From the basics of the language, centering on data types and object-oriented features, this quick-start guide highlights essential language features that every VB.NET programmer needs to know. There's also material here on the underlying .NET framework, from deployment basics (like .NET assemblies) to built-in namespaces. Coverage of delegates and event handling shows how to process events. The substantially different exception handling model of VB.NET is contrasted with the older ways of handling errors.
The heart of this title has to be its reference material (over 400 pages), primarily on the built-in core VB classes in the new .NET version. While there were rumors that VB.NET changed VB completely, this material should reassure you. By providing APIs that resemble older versions, VB programmers still can leverage common string, date, and time and other functions. Every object, method, and property is described, along with sample code, and differences with VB6. A standout here are "gotchas" when using the new APIs compared to VB6. Besides objects and APIs, there is also coverage of language keywords (for logical, looping, and branching statements), too.
The book closes with several useful reference sections, one of which details all the new features to be found in VB.NET. This is almost a must-read for anyone facing the new VB.NET for the first time. Another appendix here lists VB.NET language APIs. While it's true that you can use many languages with .NET, VB.NET Language in a Nutshell covers the APIs that will give VB.NET its real flavor as a new programming language. Both a quick-start guide and a worthwhile reference to use everyday at your desk, this title is a great way to start using VB.NET in real projects quickly. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: [list] [*]Introduction to VB.NET [*]Variables and data types (including arrays, collections and parameter, and arguments) [*]Object-oriented programming in VB.NET (classes, inheritance, polymorphism and overloading) [*]Overview of the .NET Framework [*]The Common Language Runtime (CLR) [*]Managed execution [*]Assemblies and VB.NET [*].NET namespaces (including the system namespace) [*]Delegates and events [*]Error handling in VB.NET (including exception handling techniques) [*]Comprehensive language reference to VB.NET objects [*]Methods and properties (including sample code, programming tips/gotchas, VB.NET vs. VB6 differences) [*]Reference to what's new in VB.NET [*]Language elements and operators in VB.NET [*]Using the VB.NET command-line compiler [*]Unsupported VB 6 language elements[/list]

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• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Number Of Pages: 416
• Publication Date: 2004-11-16
• Sales Rank: 690619
• ISBN / ASIN: 0787974021
• EAN: 9780787974022
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
• Studio: Pfeiffer

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Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in todays competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies? In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundy -- a pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solving -- has compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the books 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to:

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Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in todays competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies?In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundya pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solvinghas compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the books 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to Generate creative ideas to solve problems Avoid patterned and negative thinking Engage in activities that are guaranteed to spark ideas Use proven techniques for brainstorming with groups

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101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in today's competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies?

In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundy�a pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solving�has compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the book's 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to

• Generate creative ideas to solve problems
• Avoid patterned and negative thinking
• Engage in activities that are guaranteed to spark ideas
• Use proven techniques for brainstorming with groups

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"In today's rapidly changing world, companies cannot afford to rely on old, rigid operating systems to solve their problems. They must adopt a more flexible and innovative approach by creating new ideas. In his latest book, 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving, Dr. VanGundy has compiled the best exercises for you and your team to come up with creative solutions to all sorts of company problems�from personal issues to new product development. This is the 'creativity reference' book every company should have on its shelf."
�Doug Hall, author, CEO-Eureka! Ranch

"Many people in business spend their time imagining all the reasons why something can't be done or why something can't work. Dr. Arthur VanGundy's 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will change this way of thinking. Arthur's inventive thinking techniques will show people creative ways on how to get things done and how to make them work. As a creativity expert, I've reviewed just about all the material on or about creativity in business on the market. This collection is the most comprehensive, practical, and best idea-generating resource available. You can take my word for it."
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Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ - Applications for Finance is a how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VB versus C/C++.
"This book is for anyone who wants to do any application development in Excel. Even for an old hand at Excel development such as myself, a brief skim through reveals valuable nuggets of information. Delving deeper into the text, richer veins are easily found. This book is destined to become an essential reference on Excel development."
Dr. Les Clewlow, Principal, Lacima Group Ltd.
"Programming Excel add-ins using the C API can be complex and difficult. Steve has done a masterful job of demystifying the process. After reading this book you'll be creating XLLs for all purposes with complete confidence. Highly recommended."
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP, President, Application Professionals

Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN: 0470024690
Paperback: 422 pages
Data: December 15, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Excel is the industry standard for financial modelling, providing a number of ways for users to extend the functionality of their own add-ins, including VB. C/C++. Excel Add-in Development in C/C++ - Applications for Finance is a how-to guide and reference book for the creation of high performance add-ins for Excel in C and C++ for users in the finance industry. Author Steve Dalton explains how to apply Excel add-ins to financial applications with many examples given throughout the book. It covers the relative strengths and weaknesses of developing add-ins for Excel in VB versus C/C++.

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• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Number Of Pages: 224
• Publication Date: 2006-03-28
• Sales Rank: 106394
• ISBN / ASIN: 0143036831
• EAN: 9780143036838
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Number Of Pages: 96
• Publication Date: 2000-01-15
• Sales Rank: 202856
• ISBN / ASIN: 0878577254
• EAN: 9780878577255
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Rodale Books
• Studio: Rodale Books

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Dave Barry's humor speaks for itself. Barry on dating: "These are nonstereotypical times we live in, by which I mean that it is the responsibility of the man to ask for the date, and the responsibility of the woman to think up excuses that get progressively more obvious until the man figures out that the woman would rather chew on a rat pancreas." Barry on falling in love: "When two people have been on enough dates, they generally fall in love. You can tell you're in love by the way you feel: your head becomes light, your heart leaps within you, you feel like you're walking on air, and the whole world seems like a wonderful and happy place. Unfortunately these are also the four warning signs of colon disease, so it's always a good idea to check with your doctor." If you think you might be in danger of having a date, falling in love, or getting married, buy this book immediately.

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Syndicated columnist Barry is just as funny here as in his previous humor books, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex and Claw Your Way to the Top. With a jaundiced eye, he comments on dating and marriage: opening lines ("How about that Middle East?"); French kissing "a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails"; Disney World honeymoons "They say 'honeymooning in Florida' because they don't want people to know that the highlight of the whole wild lustful romantic adventure was shaking hands with Goofy"; grounds for divorce "wearing shorts and black knee socks at the same time". In addition to the litany of love-life lunacies, there are O'Brien's 60 entertaining illustrations, including maps, pie charts, cartoons, diagrams and comic strips. A "funny index" not seen by PW. Author tour.
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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 202
• Publication Date: 2006-11-10
• Sales Rank: 858890
• ISBN / ASIN: 1402053339
• EAN: 9781402053337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2005-09-01
• Sales Rank: 935368
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540221476
• EAN: 9783540221470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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Modern cryptology increasingly employs mathematically rigorous concepts and methods from complexity theory. Conversely, current research topics in complexity theory are often motivated by questions and problems from cryptology. This book takes account of this situation, and therefore its subject is what may be dubbed "cryptocomplexity'', a kind of symbiosis of these two areas. This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students of computer science, mathematics, and engineering, and can be used for courses on complexity theory and cryptology, preferably by stressing their interrelation. Moreover, it may serve as a valuable source for researchers, teachers, and practitioners working in these fields. Starting from scratch, it works its way to the frontiers of current research in these fields and provides a detailed overview of their history and their current research topics and challenges.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 164
• Publication Date: 2006-06-01
• Sales Rank: 1729037
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387243631
• EAN: 9780387243634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springe

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The Belgian block cipher Rijndael was chosen in 2000 by the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the successor to the Data Encryption Standard. Rijndael was subsequently standardized as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is potentially the world’s most important block cipher. In 2002, some new analytical techniques were suggested that may have a dramatic effect on the security of the AES. Existing analytical techniques for block ciphers depend heavily on a statistical approach, whereas these new techniques are algebraic in nature.

Algebraic Aspects of the Advanced Encryption Standard, appearing five years after publication of the AES, presents the state of the art for the use of such algebraic techniques in analyzing the AES.

The primary audience for this work includes academic and industry researchers in cryptology; the book is also suitable for advanced-level students.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 313
• Publication Date: 2005-10-11
• Sales Rank: 90534
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387278028
• EAN: 9780387278025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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Scilab is a free open-source software package for scientific computation. It includes hundreds of general purpose and specialized functions for numerical computation, organized in libraries called toolboxes, which cover such areas as simulation, optimization, systems and control, and signal processing. One important Scilab toolbox is Scicos. Scicos provides a block diagram graphical editor for the construction and simulation of dynamical systems. The objective of this book is to provide a tutorial for the use of Scilab/Scicos with a special emphasis on modeling and simulation tools. While it will provide useful information to experienced users it is designed to be accessible to beginning users from a variety of disciplines. Students and academic and industrial scientists and engineers should find it useful.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part concerns Scilab and includes a tutorial covering the language features, the data structures and specialized functions for doing graphics, importing, exporting data and interfacing external routines. It also covers in detail Scilab numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations. Even though the emphasis is placed on modeling and simulation applications, this part provides a global view of Scilab. The second part is dedicated to modeling and simulation of dynamical systems in Scicos. This type of modeling tool is widely used in industry because it provides a means for constructing modular and reusable models. This part contains a detailed description of the editor and its usage, which is illustrated through numerous examples. All codes used in the book is made available to the reader.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 280
• Publication Date: 2005-12-19
• Sales Rank: 1619780
• ISBN / ASIN: 4431241647
• EAN: 9784431241645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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The principles of adaptation to various environments have not yet been clarified. Furthermore, autonomous adaptation remains unsolved and a seriously difficult problem in robotics. Apparently, the adaptation ability shown by animals and that needed by robots in the real world cannot be explained or realized by one single function in a control system and mechanism. That is, adaptation in motion is induced at every level in a wide spectrum from the central neural system to the musculoskeletal system. This book contains the papers selected carefully from the symposium AMAM2003 particularly concerning adaptation in locomotion from the viewpoint of robotics and neurophysiology. Due to this restriction in topics adopted, we expect that this book will efficiently provide good information for scientists and engineers, which is useful to discuss the principles and mechanisms underlying animals' adaptation under unstructured environment .

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 647
• Publication Date: 2005-06-21
• Sales Rank: 152351
• ISBN / ASIN: 038724381X
• EAN: 9780387243818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field. The newer concepts, techniques, and practices of biomedical knowledge management and data mining are introduced and examined in detail. It is the research and applications in these areas that are raising the technical horizons and expanding the utility of informatics to an increasing number of biomedical professionals and researchers.

The book is divided into three major topical sections.

Section I presents the foundational information and knowledge management material and includes topics such as: bioinformatics challenges and standards, security and privacy, ethical and social issues, and biomedical knowledge mapping.

Section II discusses the topics which are relevant to knowledge representations & access and includes topics such as: representations of medical concepts and relationships, genomic information retrieval, 3D medical informatics, public access to anatomic images, and creating and maintaining biomedical ontologies.

Section III examines the emerging application research in data mining, biomedical textual mining, and knowledge discovery research and includes topics such as: semantic parsing and analysis for patient records, biological relationships, gene pathways, and metabolic networks, exploratory genomic data analysis, joint learning using data and text mining, and disease informatics and outbreak detection.

The book is a comprehensive presentation of the foundations and leading application research in medical informatics/biomedicine. These concepts and techniques are illustrated with detailed case studies.

The authors are widely recognized professors and researchers in Schools of Medicine and Information Systems from the University of Arizona, University of Washington, Columbia University, and Oregon Health & Science University. In addition, individual expert contributing authors have been commissioned to write chapters for the book on their respective topical expertise.

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• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Number Of Pages: 300
• Publication Date: 2006-12-22
• Sales Rank: 27853
• ISBN / ASIN: 1904811213
• EAN: 9781904811213
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
• Studio: Packt Publishing

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A fast-paced and practical developer's road map to working with Windows WF, from compilation to the base activity library to runtime services. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a technology for defining, executing, and managing workflows. It is part of the .NET Framework 3.0 and will be available natively in the Windows Vista operating system. Windows Workflow Foundation might be the most significant piece of middleware to arrive on the Windows platform since COM+ and the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The difference is, not every application needs a distributed transaction, but nearly every application does have a workflow encoded inside it. In this book, K Scott Allen, author of renowned .NET articles at www.odetocode.com, provides you with all the information needed to develop successful products with Windows Workflow. From the basics of how Windows Workflow can solve the difficult problems inherent in workflow solutions, through authoring workflows in code, learning about the base activity library in Windows Workflow and the different types of workflow provided, and on to building event-driven workflows using state machines, workflow communications, and finally rules and conditions in Windows Workflow, this book will give you the in-depth information you need. Throughout the book, an example "bug reporting" workflow system is developed, showcasing the technology and techniques used. Fast-paced and to-the-point, this book takes you through the important topics of Windows WF development with clear explanations and practical example code. The book's selection of topics is driven by what the working developer needs to know. It is neither a comprehensive reference to the whole WF architecture, nor a strategy guide to the complete application development lifecycle. It's just what you as a C# developer need to know to use WF in your applications. This book is for .NET developers who want to enhance their applications with flexible workflow capabilities using Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. The author assumes that you have read other texts on the overall architecture of WF and on WF application design strategies, and instead focuses on real-work implementation issues for C# developers.

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by Andrew A. Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, Janis N. Vizulis and Andrei A. Mikhailovsky
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (December 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0072259175
Pages:400
Format:CHM
Size:9.8 MB


Implement bulletproof Cisco security the battle-tested Hacking Exposed way

Defend against the sneakiest attacks by looking at your Cisco network and devices through the eyes of the intruder. Hacking Exposed Cisco Networks shows you, step-by-step, how hackers target exposed systems, gain access, and pilfer compromised networks. All device-specific and network-centered security issues are covered alongside real-world examples, in-depth case studies, and detailed countermeasures. It’s all here--from switch, router, firewall, wireless, and VPN vulnerabilities to Layer 2 man-in-the-middle, VLAN jumping, BGP, DoS, and DDoS attacks. You’ll prevent tomorrow’s catastrophe by learning how new flaws in Cisco-centered networks are discovered and abused by cyber-criminals. Plus, you’ll get undocumented Cisco commands, security evaluation templates, and vital security tools.

Use the tried-and-true Hacking Exposed methodology to find, exploit, and plug security holes in Cisco devices and networks

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Use blackbox testing to uncover data input validation errors, hidden backdoors, HTTP, and SNMP vulnerabilities
Gain network access using password and SNMP community guessing, Telnet session hijacking, and searching for open TFTP servers
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Prevent secret keys cracking, sneaky data link attacks, routing protocol exploits, and malicious physical access .

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ISBN: 1593270070
Author: Jon Erickson
Publisher: No Starch Press
Edition: 1 edition (October, 2003)
Paperback: 264 pages

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A comprehensive introduction to the techniques of exploitation and creative problem-solving methods commonly referred to as "hacking." It shows how hackers exploit programs and write exploits, instead of just how to run other people's exploits. This book explains the technical aspects of hacking, including stack based overflows, heap based overflows, string exploits, return-into-libc, shellcode, and cryptographic attacks on 802.11b.

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 408
• Publication Date: 2006-07-24
• Sales Rank: 61160
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471790095
• EAN: 9780471790099
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

Book Description: )

This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 784
• Publication Date: 2000-05-01
• Sales Rank: 216803
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387989196
• EAN: 9780387989198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Book Description: )

Intended for beginning graduate students, this text takes the reader from the familiar coordinate representation of quantum mechanics to the modern algebraic approach, emphsizing symmetry principles throughout. After an introduction of the basic postulates and techniques, the book discusses time-independent perturbation theory, angular momentum, identical particles, scattering theory, and time-dependent perturbation theory. It concludes with several lectures on relativistic quantum mechanics and on many-body theory

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By: National Research Council (U. S.), Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 030908640X

ISBN-13: 9780309086400
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr - 2002-11
Paperback | 97 Pages

Editorial Description:

The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of all, research universities, profound IT-related challenges and opportunities will emerge in the next decade or so. Yet, there is a sense that some of the most significant issues are not well understood by academic administrators, faculty, and those who support or depend on the institution s activities. This study identifies those information technologies likely to evolve in the near term (a decade or less) that could ultimately have a major impact on the research university. It also examines the possible implications of these technologies for the research university its activities (learning, research, outreach) and its organization, management, and financing and for the broader higher education enterprise. The authoring committee urges research universities and their constituents to develop new strategies to ensure that they survive and thrive in the digital age.

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