• Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
• Number Of Pages: 432
• Publication Date: 1993-01-01
• Sales Rank: 561107
• ISBN / ASIN: 7119002406
• EAN: 9787119002408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press
• Studio: Foreign Languages Press

• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 672
• Publication Date: 2007-01-10
• Sales Rank: 730
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764577042
• EAN: 9780764577048
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

"If one book can help you master Vista, this is it." --Fred Langa, former editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine

"These two know more about Windows than Microsoft does." --Chris Pirillo, editor of Lockergnome.com

Go beyond Microsoft's Help guide and discover the true secrets of Windows Vista that are essential to power users. Written by two of the most recognized Windows authorities, this resource provides you with numerous tips, tricks, and undocumented features that aren't available anywhere else. You'll find extensive screenshots, tables, and illustrations that clearly show how to achieve optimal performance, fix desktop problems, and take advantage of the robust features of Windows Vista.

The Insider's Guide to

• Installing and upgrading your system (see Chapter 2)
• Quickly finding and organizing all of your files (see Chapter 5)
• Taking advantage of new security features (see Chapter 8)
• Creating your own movies and DVDs (see Chapter 12)
• Playing state-of-the-art games with amazing effects (see Chapter 14)
• Going wireless using Windows Vista mobility features (see Chapter 15)
• Managing your schedule with Windows® Calendar (see Chapter 20)

• Publisher: Orchard Publications
• Number Of Pages: 636
• Publication Date: 2007-03-08
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• ISBN / ASIN: 1934404012
• EAN: 9781934404010
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Manufacturer: Orchard Publications
• Studio: Orchard Publications

This text includes the following chapters and appendices: Numbers and Arithmetic Operations, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Fundamentals of Geometry, Fundamentals of Plane Trigonometry, Fundamentals of Calculus, Mathematics of Finance and Economics, Depreciation, Impairment, and Depletion, Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Random Variables, Common Probability Distributions and Tests, Curve Fitting, Regression, and Correlation, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Introduction to MATLAB, The Gamma and Beta Functions and Distributions, Introduction to Markov Chains, The Lambda Index, The Black-Scoles Stock Options Model, The Altman Bankruptcy Z-Score

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This book has several purposes. First, it introduces advanced parts of the C language. It also describes changes in the ANSI standard, which is the only true definition of the C language. In addition, the book contains much of what I have learned (often the hard way) about C programming.


Advanced C is divided into five parts, and each part can be used by itself. Part I gets you started and lays the groundwork for the rest of the book. In Part II, you learn how to manage data and files when programming in C. Part III introduces integrating C with other languages and interfacing with other environments such as database programs. Part IV is a reference section that covers the header files, the intrinsic functions, the preprocessor, and some performance and debugging techniques. Part V Advanced C xxiv (the appendixes) contains an ASCII table, information about different compilers, an introduction to C++, and a cross-reference of functions and their header files. Many chapters contain example programs. In some chapters, a single example program is used to demonstrate several topics in the chapter.

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 912
• Publication Date: 2001-06-26
• Sales Rank: 442667
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471417432
• EAN: 9780471417439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Number Of Pages: 486
• Publication Date: 2004-04-07
• Sales Rank: 53465
• ISBN / ASIN: 1558608192
• EAN: 9781558608191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
• Studio: Morgan Kaufmann

The best one volume book out there, but not perfect

This is the best single volume book on the subject of information visualisation that I've read. Sure, there are other very nice books on diagrams, maps, data analysis, modelling and scientific visualisation. However, none of them have the scope of this book.

And therein lies the problem. For a single volume book Ware's effort tries to cover too much and some of the chapters are quite weak (chapter 0 and 10). Also, the fact that it was written by a psychologist shows in a good and bad way: human visual cognition is correctly the foundation upon which to build visualisation. Unfortunately the examples and the ideas for implementation are often lacking or poor in quality.

The first edition also has typesetting errors, so be sure to get the second edition.

All in all, it's still a book worth getting if you're in any serious way connected with the practise of visualisation. However, don't expect it to be the bible of the field, as such a thing does not exist (yet).

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• Publisher: CRC
• Number Of Pages: 359
• Publication Date: 2006-11-02
• Sales Rank: 40428
• ISBN / ASIN: 0849372534
• EAN: 9780849372537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: CRC
• Studio: CRC

The hard disk drive (HDD) is an excellent example of the practical application of precision mechatronics. Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control describes the control aspects of an HDD, explains difficulties faced by designers, provides solutions, and highlights challenges of future-generation drives. Combining academic interests with practical problems, it provides a problem-oriented approach to the fundamental concepts of control, examines the process involved in the manufacturing of HDDs, and illustrates the application of precision mechatronics in great detail. Mechatronics researchers not working in HDD will find many concepts developed that are useful for problems in their own areas.

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• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 832
• Publication Date: 2005-01-31
• Sales Rank: 7829
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590594614
• EAN: 9781590594612
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

Pro Spring is not a blatant clone of the supplied documentation. Instead...the authors gracefully introduce Spring by adopting a very pragmatic approach based on their real-world experiences with the framework.

� Valentin Crettaz, JavaRanch Bartender

Spring--the open source Java-based framework--allows you to build lighter, better performing applications. Written by Spring insiders Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek, Pro Spring is the only book endorsed by Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework. At over 800 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive book available and thoroughly explores the power of Spring. You'll learn Spring basics and core topics, as well as share the authors' insights and real-world experience with remoting, mail integration, hibernate, and EJB.

From the Foreword: "Rob's enthusiasm for Spring--and technology in general--is infectious. He has a wide range of industry experience and a refreshingly practical, common sense approach to applying it. All those qualities come out in this book. It's evident on nearly every page that it reflects in-depth experience with Spring and J2EE as a whole. Rob is not only an author and open source developer--he is an application developer, like his readers. I firmly believe that the best writing on software development comes out of experience in the trenches, so this is my kind of book.

If you're new to Spring, this book will help you understand its core concepts and the background in areas such as transaction management and O/R mapping that underpins them. If you're already using Spring, you will learn about features you haven't yet seen and hopefully, gain a deeper understanding of those features you're already using."
--Rod Johnson, Founder of the Spring Framework.

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• Publisher: Sams
• Number Of Pages: 336
• Publication Date: 2005-06-08
• Sales Rank: 49841
• ISBN / ASIN: 0672327473
• EAN: 9780672327476
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sams
• Studio: Sam

Take your Java programming skills beyond the ordinary. Java After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work will make Java your playground with ten detailed projects that will have you exploring the various fields that Java offers to build exciting new programs. You'll learn to:

• Create graphics interactively on Web servers
• Send images to Web browsers
• Tinker with Java's Swing package to make it do seemingly impossible things
• Search websites and send e-mail from Java programs
• Use multithreading, Ant and more!

Increase your Java arsenal by taking control of Java and explore its possibilities with Java After Hours.

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• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2002-10-23
• Sales Rank: 485693
• ISBN / ASIN: 0130449296
• EAN: 9780130449290
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
• Studio: Prentice Hall

• Publisher: Sams
• Number Of Pages: 752
• Publication Date: 2002-09-12
• Sales Rank: 495926
• ISBN / ASIN: 0672323990
• EAN: 0752063323991
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sams
• Studio: Sams

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Number Of Pages: 841
• Publication Date: 2006-11-24
• Sales Rank: 1629
• ISBN / ASIN: 1932394885
• EAN: 9781932394887
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Manning Publications
• Studio: Manning Publications

Persistence-the ability of data to outlive an instance of a program-is central to modern applications. Hibernate, the most popular Java persistence tool, provides automatic and transparent object/relational mapping making it a snap to work with SQL databases in Java applications. Hibernate applications are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change. Because it conforms to the new EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence 1.0 standard, Hibernate allows the developer to seamlessly create efficient, scalable Java EE applications.

Java Persistence with Hibernate explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate 3.2 and Java Persistence, working through queries, fetching strategies, caching, transactions, conversations, and more. You'll also appreciate the well-illustrated discussion of best practices in database design, object/relational mapping, and optimization techniques.

In this revised edition of the bestselling Hibernate in Action, authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King-the founder of the Hibernate project-cover Hibernate 3.2 in detail along with the EJB 3.0 and Java Persistence standard.

• Publisher: Wrox
• Number Of Pages: 480
• Publication Date: 2005-04-15
• Sales Rank: 401661
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764583069
• EAN: 9780764583063
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wrox
• Studio: Wrox

Shelley Powers "What Are Syndication Feeds"
O'Reilly | ISBN: 0-596-52697-0 | December 2005 | CHM | 55.2 kB

Syndication feeds have become a standard tool on the Web. But when you enter the world of syndicated content, you're often faced with the question of what is the "proper" way to do syndication. This edoc, which covers Atom and the two flavors of RSS--2.0 and 1.0--succinctly explains what a syndication feed is, then gets down to the nitty-gritty of what makes up a feed, how you can find and subscribe to them, and which feed will work best for you.

Reviewer on O'Reilly's web site:

Though the basics of this shortcut cover some good information, I think it has a little problem with deciding who the intended audience is. Most of the content is more of a definition, description and overview of RSS feeds, which is fitting to the title. But, it takes the time to define the elements of a fee for different feed protocols, etc. which would really only be interesting to someone trying to build a feed by hand. For those sections, if they are intended for a more advanced user, they followed it short.

Though I have been impressed by many of the O'Reilly shortcut titles it for their concise and accurate information provided in a downloadable real time (read that instant gratification) format, this title fell a little bit short. That said, there is some good information here for beginners who want to understand a little bit more about what RSS feeds are, how to use an aggregator, how to subscribe to feeds in general, and things like that.

• Publisher: Que
• Number Of Pages: 456
• Publication Date: 2005-09-15
• Sales Rank: 819372
• ISBN / ASIN: 0789734575
• EAN: 9780789734570
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Que
• Studio: Que

• Publisher: Que
• Number Of Pages: 456
• Publication Date: 2005-09-15
• Sales Rank: 819372
• ISBN / ASIN: 0789734575
• EAN: 9780789734570
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Que
• Studio: Que

• Publisher: Course Technology PTR
• Number Of Pages: 480
• Publication Date: 2003-08-11
• Sales Rank: 404909
• ISBN / ASIN: 1592000738
• EAN: 0082039500737
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
• Studio: Course Technology PTR

If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical Python programming applications and you will learn how these skills can be put to use in real- world scenarios. Best of all, by the time you finish this book you will be able to apply the basic principles you?ve learned to the next programming language you tackle.

• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2003-01-31
• Sales Rank: 1164020
• ISBN / ASIN: 0130666483
• EAN: 0076092023456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
• Studio: Prentice Hall PTR

• Publisher: Sybex
• Number Of Pages: 356
• Publication Date: 2006-11-29
• Sales Rank: 44305
• ISBN / ASIN: 0470084588
• EAN: 9780470084588
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sybex
• Studio: Sybex

Develop the skills you need in the real world

Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of PC Technicians, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a PC Technician's job, including:
* Installing hardware and software
* Maintaining hardware and software
* Installing and upgrading operating systems and networks
* Installing and upgrading security systems

An invaluable study tool

This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its A+ certification candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including:
* Installing or replacing a power supply
* Installing or replacing a laptop hard drive
* Upgrading Windows(r) 2000 to Windows(r) XP
* Scanning for and removing viruses
* Installing printer drivers
* Troubleshooting your network

The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Number Of Pages: 112
• Publication Date: 2004-05-21
• Sales Rank: 1057474
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590184386
• EAN: 9781590184387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Lucent Books
• Studio: Lucent Books
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They are responsible for some of the deadliest diseases, yet they play a vital role in maintaining life on earth. In Bacteria and Viruses, learn about the scientists who found them, how we fight the harmful ones, and how beneficial microbes can be used to improve our lives.

• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 286
• Publication Date: 2000-09-15
• Sales Rank: 3490366
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471872512
• EAN: 9780471872511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Number Of Pages: 568
• Publication Date: 2005-11-10
• Sales Rank: 20117
• ISBN / ASIN: 0321337026
• EAN: 9780321337023
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
• Studio: Peachpit Press

How do you define a serious Illustrator user? How about one who uses Illustrator to produce robust and professional-looking vector graphics but also needs the program to be flexible and efficient in workflow and production cycles. If this describes you or the user you strive to be, then you need this book Filled with the industrial-strength techniques and best practices required to get you up to speed fast on Illustrator CS2 without missing a beat in your production workflow, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the definitive reference for the serious Illustrator user. Thoroughly updated for this version of the software, Illustrator pro Mordy Golding offers a complete guide to the new features such as Live Trace, Live Paint, the Control Palette, Custom Workspaces, and expanded support for Mobile devices, to name a few. You'll also find practical insights on creating type, symbols, graphs, color, effects, Web graphics, and more. Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous illustrations and screen shots included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application. Designers from all fields--illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more--will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator CS2.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 562
• Publication Date: 2004-12-22
• Sales Rank: 3269945
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540214313
• EAN: 9783540214311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies covering such problems as contract or procedure validation and strategic behaviour. This book is about theory, formalization, and proof-of-concept implementation of these and related matters. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art results, the book places this work in the context of nearly twenty years of developments in formal modelling for electronic commerce. A comprehensive bibliography and index are provided.

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070-217 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
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070-229 Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition
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070-297 Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure
070-299 Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
070-300 Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures
070-301 TK's Managing, Organizing, and Delivering IT Projects by Using Microsoft Solutions Framework 3.0
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• Publisher: University of California Press
• Number Of Pages: 250
• Publication Date: 1991-08-26
• Sales Rank: 1604342
• ISBN / ASIN: 0520070593
• EAN: 9780520070592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: University of California Press
• Studio: University of California Press

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• Publisher: Bantam
• Number Of Pages: 352
• Publication Date: 2005-11-29
• Sales Rank: 11365
• ISBN / ASIN: 0553804162
• EAN: 9780553804164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Bantam
• Studio: Bantam

Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough�readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery�and altogether irresistibly odd.

We’re all a little odd beneath the surface. He’s the most unlikely hero you’ll ever meet�an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there’s so much more to any of us than meets the eye�and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead�it’s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he’s got a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.

A childhood friend of Odd’s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether you’re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or he’s already an old friend, you’ll be led on an unforgettable journey through
a world of terror, wonder and delight�to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.

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• Publisher: William Morrow
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2005-08-01
• Sales Rank: 173955
• ISBN / ASIN: 0060734558
• EAN: 9780060734558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: William Morrow
• Studio: William Morrow
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Annabelle is tired of being the lone failure in a family of overachievers. She's endured dead-end jobs and a broken engagement. Even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City's hottest bachelor as her client, and she'll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town. Nothing is going to stand in her way -- not the drunk lying comatose under her car, not her family's disapproval, and certainly not the lingering effects of a broken heart.

With his money green eyes and calculated charm, Heath Champion is the best sports agent in the country. He's wealthy, driven, and gorgeous, so why does he need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she's entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of his success -- the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right?

Thin, rich, utterly fabulous Portia Powers has spent her career making matches for everyone but herself. Her take-no-prisoners attitude has built Power Matches into the top matchmaking agency in Chicago. So what if she has more enemies than friends and she's one breath away from a nervous breakdown? Neither an upstart like Annabelle Granger nor Heath Champion's menacing, but oddly intriguing, bodyguard, will keep her from getting what she wants -- a Power Match for Heath ... the city's very own Jerry Maguire.

Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, right down to Annabelle's overprotective book club. When the matchmaker promises she'll do anything to keep her star client happy ... does she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town -- a man who's beginning to ask himself: Exactly how perfect does perfect have to be?

• Publisher: Avon
• Number Of Pages: 224
• Publication Date: 1993-02-01
• Sales Rank: 899911
• ISBN / ASIN: 0380769387
• EAN: 9780380769384
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Avon

A fulfilling sex life is one of the great joys of life, yet many woman silently wonder why their own sexual pleasure falls short of the romantic fantasies they hear about. Now the secrets of sexual ecstasy are revealed. Seven clearly describes steps to success will tell you:

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 301
• Publication Date: 2005-08-23
• Sales Rank: 3209407
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387276971
• EAN: 9780387276977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The need for natural and effective Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly important due to the prevalence of computers in human activities. Computer vision and pattern recognition continue to play a dominant role in the HCI realm. However, computer vision methods often fail to become pervasive in the field due to the lack of real-time, robust algorithms, and novel and convincing applications. This state-of-the-art contributed volume is comprised of articles by prominent experts in computer vision, pattern recognition and HCI. It is the first published text to capture the latest research in this rapidly advancing field with exclusive focus on real-time algorithms and practical applications in diverse and numerous industries, and it outlines further challenges in these areas. Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction is an invaluable reference for HCI researchers in both academia and industry, and a useful supplement for advanced-level courses in HCI and Computer Vision.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 326
• Publication Date: 2004-11-12
• Sales Rank: 2989601
• ISBN / ASIN: 1852336048
• EAN: 9781852336042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 406
• Publication Date: 2005-04-29
• Sales Rank: 1248852
• ISBN / ASIN: 354024039X
• EAN: 9783540240396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

We live in a noisy world! In all applications (telecommunications, hands-free communications, recording, human-machine interfaces, etc.) that require at least one microphone, the signal of interest is usually contaminated by noise and reverberation. As a result, the microphone signal has to be "cleaned" with digital signal processing tools before it is played out, transmitted, or stored. This book is about speech enhancement. Different well-known and state-of-the-art methods for noise reduction, with one or multiple microphones, are discussed. By speech enhancement, we mean not only noise reduction but also dereverberation and separation of independent signals. These topics are also covered in this book. However, the general emphasis is on noise reduction because of the large number of applications that can benefit from this technology. The goal of this book is to provide a strong reference for researchers, engineers, and graduate students who are interested in the problem of signal and speech enhancement. To do so, we invited well-known experts to contribute chapters covering the state of the art in this focused field.

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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C is the "must-have" book for people who want to develop applications for Mac OS X, and is the only book approved and reviewed by Apple engineers. Based on the Jaguar release of Mac OS X 10.2, this edition of Learning Cocoa includes examples that use the Address Book and Universal Access APIs. Also included is a handy quick reference card, charting Cocoa's Foundation and AppKit frameworks, along with an Appendix that includes a listing of resources essential to any Cocoa developer--beginning or advanced. Completely revised and updated, this 2nd edition begins with some simple examples to familiarize you with the basic elements of Cocoa programming as well Apple's Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder. After introducing you to Project Builder and Interface Builder, it brings you quickly up to speed on the concepts of object-oriented programming with Objective-C, the language of choice for building Cocoa applications. From there, each chapter presents a different sample program for you to build, with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to teach you the fundamentals of Cocoa programming. The techniques you will learn in each chapter lay the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts presented in later chapters. You'll learn how to:

• Effectively use Apple's suite of Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder
• Build single- and multiple-window document-based applications
• Manipulate text data using Cocoa's text handling capabilities
• Draw with Cocoa
• Add scripting functionality to your applications
• Localize your application for multiple language support
• Polish off your application by adding an icon for use in the Dock, provide Help, and package your program for distribution

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 190
• Publication Date: 2004-11-19
• Sales Rank: 4483757
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387233512
• EAN: 9780387233512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications is the essential reference for the most current research on Grid technologies. This first volume of the CoreGRID series addresses such vital issues as the architecture of the Grid, the way software will influence the development of the Grid, and the practical applications of Grid technologies for individuals and businesses alike. Part I of the book, "Application-Oriented Designs", focuses on development methodology and how it may contribute to a more component-based use of the Grid. "Middleware Architecture", the second part, examines portable Grid engines, hierarchical infrastructures, interoperability, as well as workflow modeling environments. The final part of the book, "Communication Frameworks", looks at dynamic self-adaptation, collective operations, and higher-order components. With Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications, editors Vladimir Getov and Thilo Kielmann offer the computing professional and the computing researcher the most informative, up-to-date, and forward-looking thoughts on the fast-growing field of Grid studies.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 194
• Publication Date: 2005-11-17
• Sales Rank: 1032349
• ISBN / ASIN: 1846280354
• EAN: 9781846280351
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The new capabilities of ubiquitous and pervasive computing imply that products, locations, consumers and employees create rich streams of information about themselves, their immediate environment and their use. This book brings together technological and business aspects of conducting commerce using ubiquitous and pervasive computing techniques and also examines its implications for society at large. Individual chapters examine in detail the core technologies that make ubiquitous computing possible, the business standards that must be established to support the envisioned global infrastructures, and the applications in the supply chain and for consumers that can be built today. They also examine business cases where investment in this technology is appropriate as well as the economics mechanisms that must be designed for the effective use of such systems. The implications of ubiquitous and pervasive commerce for the legal system, for employees of retailers and for privacy protection of the public at large are also discussed.

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies covering such problems as contract or procedure validation and strategic behaviour. This book is about theory, formalization, and proof-of-concept implementation of these and related matters. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art results, the book places this work in the context of nearly twenty years of developments in formal modelling for electronic commerce. A comprehensive bibliography and index are provided.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 562
• Publication Date: 2004-12-22
• Sales Rank: 3269945
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540214313
• EAN: 9783540214311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer

• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Number Of Pages: 608
• Publication Date: 2002-11-08
• Sales Rank: 1387771
• ISBN / ASIN: 1587050927
• EAN: 0619472050927
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Cisco Press
• Studio: Cisco Press

Hands-on techniques for securing Windows(r) servers, browsers, and network communications

• Create effective security policies and establish rules for operating in and maintaining a security- conscious environment
• Learn how to harden Windows multi-user platforms, including NT, 2000, and XP
• Understand secure installation options for Windows web servers and how to enhance security on existing web and FTP server installations
• Improve security at the end user's workstation, including web browsers, desktops, and laptops
• Evaluate the pros and cons of installing a certificate server and becoming your own Certification Authority
• Learn the Cisco PIX Firewall and Cisco IOS Firewall architecture and how to apply Cisco standard and extended access lists
• Discover ways to test the current state of security and keep it up to date
• Learn to engage end users as part of the overall network security solution

While the Internet has transformed and improved the way we do business, this vast network and its associated technologies have opened the door to an increasing number of security threats. The challenge for successful, public web sites is to encourage access to the site while eliminating undesirable or malicious traffic and to provide sufficient levels of security without constraining performance or scalability. The more reliant organizations become on the Internet to perform daily jobs or conduct transactions, the greater the impact a breach of network security has. Just as Cisco Systems has been an innovator in using the Internet to conduct business, so too is it a market leader in the development and sale of products and technologies that protect data traveling across the Internet. Yet a network security solution is only as strong as its weakest link. Network attacks can occur at any point, including the network connection, the firewall, the web server, or the client. Hardening the defenses at all these points is key to creating an effective, all-encompassing network security solution.

Web Security Field Guide provides you with hands-on, proven solutions to help patch the most common vulnerabilities of Windows(r) web servers and browsers within the context of an end-to-end network security architecture. Avoiding conceptual discussions of underlying technologies, the book spends little time discussing how each application works. Using plain language and lots of step-by-step examples, the book instead focuses on helping you secure your web servers and prevent the majority of network attacks. Divided into five parts, the book opens with an overview of essential background information and helps you establish working network security rules and policies. Parts II through IV teach you the techniques for hardening the operating system, the web server, and the browser. Part V of the book addresses overall network security, focusing on preventing and controlling access. Topics such as becoming a Certification Authority, Cisco PIX(r) Firewall, Cisco IOS(r) Firewall, access lists, ongoing security maintenance, and testing are all examined in-depth, providing an overall network security plan that can drastically reduce the risk to your business systems and data.

Full of diagrams, screen captures, and step-by-step instructions for performing simple tasks that can radically improve the security of your Internet business solutions, Web Security Field Guide is a practical tool that can help ensure the integrity and security of your business-critical applications.

• This essential reference organizes material into a set of nine stand-alone, task-oriented minibooks that enable readers to understand all aspects of the Fedora OS, the latest release of the most popular Linux distribution
• Each minibook covers a different aspect of Fedora, such as getting users started with Fedora, the various workstations and applications, OpenOffice.org, networking, system administration, security, running Internet servers on a Fedora system, and programming
• More experienced readers can use this desktop reference to look up how to perform specific tasks, such as hooking up to the Internet, using a cable modem, or reading e-mail
• Includes the full Fedora Core distribution with source code on DVD and all of the CD content that comes with Fedora, saving readers hours of download time
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Number Of Pages: 874
• Publication Date: 2004-08-06
• Sales Rank: 828747
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764567934
• EAN: 9780764567933
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: For Dummies
• Studio: For Dummies

• Publisher: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 1922
• Sales Rank:
• ISBN / ASIN: B000NYP2OC
• EAN:
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,
• Studio: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company,

• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Number Of Pages: 203
• Publication Date: 2005-09
• Sales Rank: 188777
• ISBN / ASIN: 1591470498
• EAN: 9781591470496
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Studio: American Psychological Association (APA)

If you suffer from chronic pain, this proven 10-step program brings hope and relief, showing you how gradual changes in specific behaviors can lead to great improvements in your ability to cope. Psychologists Turk and Winters' recommendations are based on solid research that shows what works and on their success with thousands of patients. Unlike the authors of other pain books, they promise no miracle cures, but they do help you learn "not to let your body push you around" so life becomes enjoyable again. The key lessons in this book include • Uncovering some of the myths about pain and the deceptive ways it fools your body into unconstructive behavior • Pacing your activity, so you build strength without overdoing or underdoing it • Learning how to induce deep relaxation so you can begin to enjoy life again • Dealing with disturbed sleep and chronic fatigue • Improving your relations with family and friends, and soliciting support • Changing your habitual behaviors in ways that reduce pain • Combating the negative thinking that often accompanies pain • Regaining your self-confidence and trust in yourself • The power of goal-setting and humor • Dealing with the inevitable relapses and setbacks once improvement has set in Workbook exercises, behavior logs, and suggested readings help you integrate these lessons into your daily life and learn to live well despite pain.

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• Publisher: Academic Press
• Number Of Pages: 450
• Publication Date: 1992-01-15
• Sales Rank: 389049
• ISBN / ASIN: 0123751810
• EAN: 9780123751812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Academic Press
• Studio: Academic Press

This book describes the roles of various intermolecular and interparticle forces in determining the properties of simple systems such as gases, liquids, and solids, of more complex colloidal, polymeric, and biological systems. The book provides a thorough grounding in theories and concepts of intermolecular forces, allowing students and researchers to recognize which forces are important in any particular system and how to control these forces.

Key Features
* Surface-force measurements
* Solvation and structural forces
* Hydration and hydophobic forces
* Ion-correlation forces
* Thermal fluctuation (steric and undulation) forces
* Particle and surface interactions in polymer melts and polymer solutions
* Contains worked examples, discussion topics, and more than 100 problems

The premises behind Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps is that all too often, these differences get in the way of fulfilling relationships and that understanding our basic urges can lead to greater self-awareness and improved relations between the sexes. The Peases spent three years researching their book--traveling the globe, talking to experts, and studying the cutting-edge research of ethnologists, psychologists, biologists, and neuroscientists--yet their work does not read a bit like "hard science." In fact, the authors go to considerable lengths to point out that their book is intended to be funny, interesting, and easy to read; in short, this is a book whose primary purpose is to talk about "average men and women, that is, how most men and women behave most of the time, in most situations, and for most of the past."

• Publisher: Adobe
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date:
• Sales Rank: 1640
• ISBN / ASIN: B000E8JLBW
• EAN: 0718659494759
• Binding: DVD-ROM
• Manufacturer: Adobe
• Studio: Adobe
• Average Rating: 4
• Total Reviews: 2

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• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 2004-09-07
• Sales Rank: 92044
• ISBN / ASIN: 0071446494
• EAN: 0639785388357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
• Studio: McGraw-Hill

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• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.
• Number Of Pages: 656
• Publication Date: 1997-07-01
• Sales Rank: 334223
• ISBN / ASIN: 1578700140
• EAN: 0619472001400
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company.
• Studio: MacMillan Publishing Company.

While all other electronic commerce titles focus on "how to," The Economics of Electronic Commerce is the first to present current issues of electronic commerce from an economics perspective. Everyone involved in building electronic commerce applications and systems, as well as Internet consultants and economists, needs this foundational information for the future of the Internet.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 368
• Publication Date: 2006-07-28
• Sales Rank: 673412
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540301542
• EAN: 9783540301547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Business applications are designed using profound knowledge about the business domain, such as domain objects, fundamental domain-related principles, and domain patterns. Nonetheless, the pattern community's ideas for software engineering have not impacted at the application level, they are still mostly used for technical problems.

This book takes exactly this step: it shows you how to apply the pattern ideas in business applications and presents more than 20 structural and behavioral business patterns that use the REA (resources, events, agents) pattern as a common backbone. If you are a developer working on business frameworks, you can use the patterns presented to derive the right abstractions (e.g., business objects) and to design and ensure that the meta-rules (e.g., process patterns) are followed by the developers of the actual applications. And if you are an application developer, you can use these patterns to design your business application, to ensure that it does not violate the domain rules, and to adapt the application to changing requirements without the need to change the overall architecture. As with patterns in general, this approach allows for both more flexible and more solid software architectures and hence better software quality.

"It's a great book, marvelous in breadth and depth. An impressive achievement. I particularly liked the modeling handbook examples." Bob Haugen, Business Technology Consultant and Contributor to REA standardization in ISO, UN/CEFACT and ebXML, UK

"I enjoyed reading it very much, it gave many new insights into REA and its applications." Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

"This book by Pavel Hruby is destined to become a landmark in business modeling. Pavel heralds the replacement of traditional workflow-oriented modeling with a new breed of approaches that focus on delivering change-resilient and highly reusable business models. I highly recommend this book to you!" Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada]

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 176
• Publication Date: 2005-03-01
• Sales Rank: 2646384
• ISBN / ASIN: 3764372176
• EAN: 9783764372170
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

An important aspect of multi agent systems are agent reasoning techniques for problem solving, either at the level of a single agent or at the level of distributed collaboration amongst multiple agents. Constraint satisfaction problems are significant in the domain of automated reasoning for artificial intelligence. They can be applied to modeling and solving of a wide range of combinatorial applications such as planning, scheduling and resource sharing in a variety of practical domains e.g. transportation, production, supply-chains, network management, and human resource management. In this book we study new techniques for solving constraint satisfaction problems, with a special focus on solution adaptation applied to agent reasoning. Most work in constraint satisfaction has focused on computing a solution to a given problem. In practice, it often occurs that an existing solution needs to be modified to satisfy additional criteria or accommodate changes in the problem. Based on constraint satisfaction problem structures and their symmetries, we develop techniques for adapting solutions in applications and show how these techniques can be used when the agent is situated in dynamic and distributed environments.

This book is addressed to researchers in the artificial intelligence domain who are interested in constraint satisfaction techniques for agent reasoning. Moreover, as these methods are important for many applications such as planning, scheduling, diagnosis and resource allocation, researchers and application engineers in these domains will also benefit from applying the techniques described in this book.

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• Publisher: Charles River Media
• Number Of Pages: 392
• Publication Date: 2002-12-05
• Sales Rank: 197423
• ISBN / ASIN: 1584502703
• EAN: 9781584502708
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Charles River Media
• Studio: Charles River Media

Learn the basics of what makes a great character model and gain new insights to the many issues facing the character animator. Using the tried and proven methods found in Animating Real-Time Game Characters, you'll quickly bring your character animation to the next level. Find detailed coverage on modeling, rigging, and weighting real-time game characters using 3ds max and character studio. Explore effective keyframing techniques that focus on dramatic poses and proper timing. Discover how to work with and adjust motion capture data as well as what to look for when working with mocap studios. Get an inside glimpse at the process of taking a real-time game character from concept to export into a game technology. With the popularity of games like Quake III: Arena, Unreal Tournament, and Warcraft III, real-time gaming is here to stay. Whether you're a working professional or an eager novice, Animating Real-Time Game Characters will absolutely help you improve your character animation skills using 3ds max and character studio.

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Number Of Pages: 320
• Publication Date: 2003-09-26
• Sales Rank: 232436
• ISBN / ASIN: 0321186133
• EAN: 0785342186130
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Description:Capability Maturity Model Integration(SM) (CMMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model(R) (CMM(R)) for Software and the Systems Engineering Capability Model, a team of over two hundred engineering and process improvement experts worked for three years to create this broader, more agile instrument for guiding, integrating, and appraising improvement activities. CMMI provides a single, integrated framework for improving processes throughout an organization, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the organization as a whole.
  
  The CMMI Product Suite is rich in detail and guidance, but correspondingly large and somewhat complex. The sheer volume of information it presents can seem overwhelming. CMMI Distilled reduced that complexity with a fresh and approachable introduction to the key elements of CMMI and integrated process improvement.
  
  This new edition of CMMI Distilled, updated for CMMI version 1.1, includes more material in layman's language to meet a wider variety of reader's needs, but has not lost any of the technical content that made the first edition so successful. Written for those new to model-based process improvement, it also offers insights that can help even battle-scarred process improvement veterans and experienced systems, software and quality engineers perform better. CMMI(R) Distilled, Second Edition is especially appropriate for executives and managers who need to understand why process improvement is valuable, why CMMI is a tool of choice, and how to maximize the return on their efforts and investments.
  
  The three authors have been involved with CMMI since its inception, and they bring a wealth of their own experience and knowledge to this book. They highlight the pitfalls and short cuts that are all too often learned by costly experience. Above all, they provide a context for understanding why CMMI is the fastest growing process improvement framework in the world.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2005-07-11
• Sales Rank: 1107684
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387257446
• EAN: 9780387257440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The last several years have seen significant progress on two related fronts in hardware and software design for electronic systems. The first is the rapid growth in the design of complex System-on-Chip devices (SoC). The second is progress in adding capabilities to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to better support the design of real-time and embedded systems, culminating in the UML 2.0 specification which is nearing final approval. It is thus an excellent time to evaluate the combination of these two topics into a unified theme: UML for SoC design. At DAC 2004, we organized a UML and SoC workshop as a discussion forum to bring hardware, SoC, and UML experts together. For that workshop, we received great international interest and contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The success of the workshop has demonstrated that there is a great interest in both academia and industry to create and investigate joint efforts in SoC design and UML. This book is a collection of the main contributors of the DAC 2004 UML and SoC workshop, providing the first set of papers for such a joint effort. Some additional contributions to the book were made by other experts who did not present at the workshop. The selected chapters present approaches to executable UML, UML translations for FPGA synthesis and SystemC simulation, as well as UML-specific SoC methodologies. They give insights into the current state of the art, and the most recent advances in applying UML to SoC design. They provide a representative overview of current UML activities in SoC design and give an excellent introduction to UML’s application in hardware and hardware/software codesign.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 302
• Publication Date: 2006-07-10
• Sales Rank: 21542
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387270361
• EAN: 9780387270364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
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• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Number Of Pages: 730
• Publication Date: 1999-12-15
• Sales Rank: 308804
• ISBN / ASIN: 1565926420
• EAN: 9781565926424
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
• Studio: O'Reilly Media

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• Publisher: Sams
• Number Of Pages: 800
• Publication Date: 1995-03
• Sales Rank: 827815
• ISBN / ASIN: 0672306557
• EAN: 9780672306556
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sams
• Studio: Sams

Originally titled Developing Your Own 32 Bit Operating System this book shows you how one man built a complete, 32 bit operating system for the Intel processors from scratch, running on processors from the 80386, all the way up to the Pentium III.

If you want to know what it takes to build an operating system, or you want to build your own, you will need this book! It is indespensible, It covers all of the major components that make up a modern micro-kernel operating system. It includes a CD-ROM containing all the heavily commented code. (Intel 32 bit Assembler and C) to show you how one was built (from concept to debugger). (For Intermediate to Advanced Programming Level)

• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 2002-03-15
• Sales Rank: 490716
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471205966
• EAN: 9780471205968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 545
• Publication Date: 2005-05-03
• Sales Rank: 2239112
• ISBN / ASIN: 3211249346
• EAN: 9783211249345
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The papers in this volume present theoretical insights and report practical applications both for neural networks, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation. In the field of natural computing, swarm optimization, bioinformatics and computational biology contributions are no less compelling. A wide selection of contributions report applications of neural networks to process engineering, robotics and control. Contributions also abound in the field of evolutionary computation particularly in combinatorial and optimization problems. Many papers are dedicated to machine learning and heuristics, hybrid intelligent systems and soft computing applications. Some papers are devoted to quantum computation. In addition, kernel based algorithms, able to solve tasks other than classification, represent a revolution in pattern recognition bridging existing gaps. Further topics are intelligent signal processing and computer vision.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 377
• Publication Date: 2006-08-01
• Sales Rank: 623204
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387322000
• EAN: 9780387322001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Partial differential equations (PDEs) and variational methods were introduced into image processing about fifteen years ago. Since then, intensive research has been carried out. The goals of this book are to present a variety of image analysis applications, the precise mathematics involved and how to discretize them.

Thus, this book is intended for two audiences. The first is the mathematical community by showing the contribution of mathematics to this domain. It is also the occasion to highlight some unsolved theoretical questions. The second is the computer vision community by presenting a clear, self-contained and global overview of the mathematics involved in image processing problems. This work will serve as a useful source of reference and inspiration for fellow researchers in Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision, as well as being a basis for advanced courses within these fields.

During the four years since the publication of the first edition, there has been substantial progress in the range of image processing applications covered by the PDE framework. The main goals of the second edition are to update the first edition by giving a coherent account of some of the recent challenging applications, and to update the existing material. In addition, this book provides the reader with the opportunity to make his own simulations with a minimal effort. To this end, programming tools are made available, which will allow the reader to implement and test easily some classical approaches.

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• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Number Of Pages: 480
• Publication Date: 2005-06-01
• Sales Rank: 990197
• ISBN / ASIN: 0262025779
• EAN: 9780262025775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press
• Studio: The MIT Press

The continuing development of implantable neural prostheses signals a new era in bioengineering and neuroscience research. This collection of essays outlines current advances in research on the intracranial implantation of devices that can communicate with the brain in order to restore sensory, motor, or cognitive functions. The contributors explore the creation of biologically realistic mathematical models of brain function, the production of microchips that incorporate those models, and the integration of microchip and brain function through neuron-silicon interfaces. Recent developments in understanding the computational and cognitive properties of the brain and rapid advances in biomedical and computer engineering both contribute to this cutting-edge research.

The book first examines the development of sensory system prostheses -- cochlear, retinal, and visual implants -- as the best foundation for considering the extension of neural prostheses to the central brain region. The book then turns to the complexity of neural representations, offering, among other approaches to the topic, one of the few existing theoretical frameworks for modeling the hierarchical organization of neural systems. Next, it examines the challenges of designing and controlling the interface between neurons and silicon, considering the necessity for bidirectional communication and for multiyear duration of the implant. Finally, the book looks at hardware implementations and explores possible ways to achieve the complexity of neural function in hardware, including the use of VLSI and photonic technologies.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 376
• Publication Date: 2003-01-01
• Sales Rank: 31620
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387954686
• EAN: 9780387954684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 145
• Publication Date: 2005-11-21
• Sales Rank: 1747659
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387276343
• EAN: 9780387276342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

With the ever increasing use of computers for critical systems, computer security that protects data and computer systems from intentional, malicious intervention, continues to attract attention. Among the methods for defense, the application of a tool to help the operator identify ongoing or already perpetrated attacks (intrusion detection), has been the subject of considerable research in the past ten years. A key problem with current intrusion detection systems is the high number of false alarms they produce. Understanding Intrusion Detection through Visualization presents research on why false alarms are, and will remain a problem; then applies results from the field of information visualization to the problem of intrusion detection. This approach promises to enable the operator to identify false (and true) alarms, while aiding the operator to identify other operational characteristics of intrusion detection systems. This volume presents four different visualization approaches, mainly applied to data from web server access logs.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 202
• Publication Date: 2005-04-13
• Sales Rank: 1034709
• ISBN / ASIN: 038723697X
• EAN: 9780387236971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Cross-layer design seeks to enhance the capacity of wireless networks significantly through the joint optimization of multiple layers in the network, primarily the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers. Although there are advantages of such design in wireline networks as well, this approach is particularly advantageous for wireless networks due to the properties (such as mobility and interference) that strongly affect performance and design of higher layer protocols. This unique monograph is concerned with the issue of cross-layer design in wireless networks, and more particularly with the impact of node-level multiuser detection on such design. It provides an introduction to this vibrant and active research area insufficiently covered in existing literature, presenting some of the principal methods developed and results obtained to date. Accompanied by numerous illustrations, the text is an excellent reference for engineers, researchers and students working in communication networks.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Number Of Pages: 336
• Publication Date: 1998-03-20
• Sales Rank: 70545
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471197130
• EAN: 9780471197133
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
• Studio: John Wiley & Sons

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 367
• Publication Date: 2005-12-19
• Sales Rank: 943221
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540265961
• EAN: 9783540265962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudoprimes and primitive elements. Their applications to problems in the real world are one of the main themes of the book. This revised fourth edition is augmented by recent advances in primes in progressions, twin primes, prime triplets, prime quadruplets and quintruplets, factoring with elliptic curves, quantum factoring, Golomb rulers and "baroque" integers.

From reviews of earlier editions –

"I continue to find [Schroeder’s] Number Theory a goldmine of valuable information. It is a marvellous book, in touch with the most recent applications of number theory and written with great clarity and humor.’ Philip Morrison (Scientific American)

"A light-hearted and readable volume with a wide range of applications to which the author has been a productive contributor – useful mathematics outside the formalities of theorem and proof." Martin Gardner

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 204
• Publication Date: 2007-01-23
• Sales Rank: 249262
• ISBN / ASIN: 0470068531
• EAN: 9780470068533
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

• CA has assembled dozens of real-world stories from customers to help readers understand how to use the included software to move all of their songs, pictures, files, and settings over to a new computer or how to back up their files to keep them safe
• Shows what can go wrong and how to use the software to prevent a data disaster
• Straightforward language and simple terms that are low on "tech speak" explain what users need to do to combat potential problems and how to schedule a recurring backup of a PC's DNA in order to restore the desktop in the event of a disaster
• CA will include its complete Desktop DNA Migrator software free with this book, which readers can use to move all their data and settings from an old computer to a new one (valued at $60.00; no renewal needed)

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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• Publisher: friends of ED
• Number Of Pages: 520
• Publication Date: 2007-02-26
• Sales Rank: 3467
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590597338
• EAN: 9781590597330
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: friends of ED
• Studio: friends of ED

• Understand MXML containers


• Create transitions


• Create data-driven applications with XML


• Interface Flex with ColdFusion


• Understand the power of states

• Examine the power of designing layouts using Flex's MXML containers.


• Discover many of the new features of ActionScript 3.0.


• Work your way through a professional case study, building up a complete Flex application.


• Connect Flex to Adobe's powerful ColdFusion application server, and start to work with Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side code.


• Learn how states can smoothly transition your application interfaces between different data displays.

• Chapter 1: Introducing RIAs and Installing Flex Builder 2


• Chapter 2: Introducing Flex and Flex Builder 2


• Chapter 3: Introducing ActionScript 3.0


• Chapter 4: Containers and Components


• Chapter 5: Navigation Containers


• Chapter 6: Flex and XML


• Chapter 7: States


• Chapter 8: Case Study: Part 1


• Chapter 9: The Repeater Component


• Chapter 10: Case Study: Part 2


• Chapter 11: Drag and Drop


• Chapter 12: Flex and ColdFusion


• Chapter 13: Charting


• Chapter 14: Printing


• Chapter 15: Unfinished Symphony

• Publisher: Hungry Minds
• Number Of Pages: 936
• Publication Date: 2000-11
• Sales Rank: 438361
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764546767
• EAN: 0785555023659
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
• Studio: Hungry Minds

With complete coverage of the new Palm wireless and Web capabilities, this one-step reference shows programmers how to create next-generation applications for Palm OS devices using all the latest development platforms and tools. The author has tested the many code samples against all Palm OS versions right up to the new OS 3.5. The value-packed CD-ROM includes development tools, demos, and sample code.

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• Publisher: Sybex
• Number Of Pages: 268
• Publication Date: 2006-06-06
• Sales Rank: 253640
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471918636
• EAN: 9780471918639
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Sybex
• Studio: Sybex

If you thought Photoshop Elements was just for correcting and organizing photographs, this book will turn your head around. It opens up a whole new set of creative possibilities to explore as you learn how to combine images using this versatile program."
�Jan Kabili, author and trainer

Create your own visual composite masterpieces

Combine your digital photos with an artist's flair and create dazzling composites, thanks to Photoshop Elements and this comprehensive guide from an industry expert. Using great photography and expert design sense, author Ted LoCascio clearly shows how it's done, from simple tasks such as swapping an image background, to more advanced ones such as creating an abstract photomontage.

Loaded with fresh ideas, the book mixes clear and helpful narrative instruction, step-by-step tutorials, and hands-on video demonstrations providing the coverage you need to create sophisticated, even gallery-ready compositions.

Inside you'll find:

• In-depth coverage of how to swap, combine, replace, and mix pictureelements to get the most stunning digital images possible
• Over 150 full-color printed photos and more than two hours of video training on the companion CD, so you can see exactly how it's done

Discover how to:

• Use layers effectively, including adding effects, adjusting opacity and blend, and combining layers
• Make use of filters, styles, and textures for added pizzazz
• Apply masks, including using neutral layer masks, combining multiple exposures, and masking with Camera RAW files
• Build a keepsake wedding montage and an abstract photo collage

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Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 766
• Publication Date: 2006-04-11
• Sales Rank: 1385008
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540211519
• EAN: 9783540211518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice, and science of developing large-scale software products needs a believable, professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound practice with the rigour of formal, mathematics-based approaches. Volume 3 is based on the maxim: "Before software can be designed its requirements must be well understood, and before the requirements can be expressed properly the domain of the application must be well understood." This book covers the process from the development of domain descriptions, via the derivation of requirements prescriptions from domain models, to the refinement of requirements into software designs, i.e., architectures and component design. Emphasis is placed on what goes into proper domain descriptions and requirements prescriptions, how one acquires and analyses the domain knowledge and requirements expectations, and how one validates and verifies domain and requirements models. The reader can take an informal route through Vol. 3, and this would be suitable for undergraduate courses on software engineering. Advanced students, lecturers, and researchers may instead follow the formal route through Vol. 3, and in this case Vol. 1 is a prerequisite text. Lecturers will be supported with a comprehensive guide to designing modules based on the textbooks, with solutions to many of the exercises presented, and with a complete set of lecture slides.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 566
• Publication Date: 2005-10-12
• Sales Rank: 539765
• ISBN / ASIN: 038720881X
• EAN: 9780387208817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Average Rating: 4.5

This textbook introduces software engineering to advanced-level undergraduate and graduate students of computer science. It emphasizes a case-study approach whereby a project is developed through the course of the book, illustrating the different activities of software development. The sequence of chapters is essentially the same as the sequence of activities performed during a typical software project. The revised edition updates this sequence for today's standards and adds a valuable chapter on architecture. All activities, including quality assurance and control activities, are described in each chapter as integral activities for that phase of development. Similarly, the author carefully introduces appropriate metrics for controlling and assessing the software process. The text is bolstered by numerous examples, chapter summaries, a helpful bibliography, and good index.

• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 560
• Publication Date: 2006-09-13
• Sales Rank: 15866
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590597117
• EAN: 9781590597118
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress
• Average Rating:
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BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is based on the experiences of many of the most prominent experts in the field. It features over 170 problem-solving recipes for BizTalk developers and administrators.

BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the heritage and core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004, leading to a powerful tool that encompasses the latest Microsoft technologies and industry standards for automating and managing business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 adds incremental value to BizTalk 2004 by improving administration, deployment, and other key areas of the product.

• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 328
• Publication Date: 2005-06-20
• Sales Rank: 98573
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590595009
• EAN: 9781590595008
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

It's nice having a collection of high-quality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the Web for it.

� Meryl K. Evans, meryl.net & Slashdot Contributor

...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights into what I do for a living...

� Thomas Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings

The whole book is fantastic though, and you should absolutely pick it up...in dead tree form.

� Garrett Rooney, Software Engineer and Author

This is a book worth checking out, even if you're not a software developer.

� David Bindel, Tea Total

Frustrated by the lack of well-written essays on software engineering, Joel Spolsky (of www.joelonsoftware.com fame) has put together a collection of his favorite writings on the topic.

With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati.

The Best Software Writing I contains writings from:

• Ken Arnold
• Leon Bambrick
• Michael Bean
• Rory Blyth
• Adam Bosworth
• danah boyd
• Raymond Chen
• Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi
• Cory Doctorow
• ea_spouse
• Bruce Eckel
• Paul Ford
• Paul Graham
• John Gruber
• Gregor Hohpe
• Ron Jeffries
• Eric Johnson
• Eric Lippert
• Michael Lopp
• Larry Osterman
• Mary Poppendieck
• Rick Schaut
• Aaron Swartz
• Clay Shirky
• Eric Sink
• why the lucky stiff

• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 408
• Publication Date: 2006-08-28
• Sales Rank: 143231
• ISBN / ASIN: 0470045841
• EAN: 9780470045848
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Get noticed. Get discovered.

It's YourSpace

There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It's all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.

Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:

• Embedding graphics
• Creating animated images
• Developing your own background
• Building custom cursors
• Changing profile text styles
• Getting kinky with links
• Adding a comments box
• Altering your contact table
• Redesigning the navigation bar
• Making DIV overlays

A companion Web site provides even more tricks and techniques.

Visit www.myspaceismyplace.com to find all code from this book, links to software and featured profiles, a reader forum, and more.


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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 408
• Publication Date: 2001-12-15
• Sales Rank: 163513
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764548859
• EAN: 0785555100800
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

Part of the new Cracking the Code Series, Wireless Programming with J2ME provides a look at the code behind wireless Java applications.

Think of J2ME as a tiny version of Java specifically for mobile devices -- perfect for bringing powerful, robust applications to mobile phone, pagers, PDAs, and other handhelds. Writing applications for handheld and mobile devices is different than regular Java programming. Mobile developers have to deal with limited screen real estate, bandwidth and computing power. This book covers six wireless applications complete with Flow Diagrams and line-by-line code description. It covers all of J2ME including CDC,CLDC and MIDP with an emphasis on practical code.

• Number Of Pages: 268
• Publication Date: 2007-01-29
• Sales Rank: 136808
• ISBN / ASIN: 0470016337
• EAN: 9780470016336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources.

Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability. Data Lifecycles identifies ways to incorporate an intelligent service platform to manage and map the storage of data. The authors give an overview of the latest trends and technologies in storage networking and cover critical issues such as world-wide compliance.

Data Lifecycles:

• Provides a single-source guide to data and storage methodologies, processes, technologies and compliance issues.
• Addresses the need of an encompassing intelligent data and storage management platform for modern businesses.
• Gives an overview of the latest data technologies and concepts such as utility computing and information lifecycle management.
• Clearly defines and describes lifecycle management and strategies to ensure growth of critical business data.
• Shows how to dramatically reduce the total cost of storage ownership and provide rapid return on investment.
• Enables customers to make decisions directed toward the purchase of storage tools and storage management solutions.

This text is an ideal introduction to modern data lifecycle management for network managers, system administrators, storage/system architects, network managers, information management directors as well as CIO/CTOs and their teams, senior IT managers and decision makers, and database administrators.

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• Publisher: CRC
• Number Of Pages: 832
• Publication Date: 2002-10-08
• Sales Rank: 1009107
• ISBN / ASIN: 0824793552
• EAN: 9780824793555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: CRC

Exploring the structure and physical and chemical properties of solutions, dispersions, soft solids, fats, and cellular systems, Physical Chemistry of Foods describes the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods. Coverage progresses from aspects of thermodynamics, bonds and interaction forces, and reaction kinetics, to transport phenomena, polymers, colloidal interactions, nucleation, glass transitions and freezing, and soft solids. This comprehensive volume effectively clarifies the physicochemical processes encountered in food product development.

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• Publisher: AUERBACH
• Number Of Pages: 329
• Publication Date: 2006-12-15
• Sales Rank: 1207968
• ISBN / ASIN: 0849382149
• EAN: 9780849382147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: AUERBACH
• Studio: AUERBACH

This forward-looking reference introduces a new generation of network technologies and architecture that allows the creation, customization, and management of new services and applications deployed dynamically into network nodes. The author outlines the architecture of active and programmable networks, discusses the enabling technologies for network programmability in detail, and introduces several paradigms and prototypes. He then explores packet scheduling, management, routing, and security in active and programmable networks and examines active wireless and mobile networks. The final chapter presents several real-world examples of currently deployed active and programmable networks.

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• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Number Of Pages: 944
• Publication Date: 2000-12-22
• Sales Rank: 295439
• ISBN / ASIN:
• EAN: 9780780360310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Studio: Wiley-IEEE Press

"FOUNDATIONS FOR MICROWAVE ENGINEERING, Second Edition, covers the major topics of microwave engineering. Its presentation defines the accepted standard for both advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on microwave engineering. An essential reference book for the practicing microwave engineer, it features:

• Planar transmission lines, as well as an appendix that describes in detail conformal mapping methods for their analysis and attenuation characteristics
• Small aperture coupling and its application in practical components such as directional couplers and cavity coupling
• Printed circuit components with an emphasis on techniques such as even and odd mode analysis and the use of symmetry properties
• Microwave linear amplifier and oscillator design using solid-state circuits such as varactor devices and transistors

FOUNDATIONS FOR MICROWAVE ENGINEERING, Second Edition, has extensive coverage of transmission lines, waveguides, microwave circuit theory, impedance matching and cavity resonators. It devotes an entire chapter to fundamental microwave tubes, in addition to chapters on periodic structures, microwave filters, small signal solid-state microwave amplifier and oscillator design, and negative resistance devices and circuits. Completely updated in 1992, it is being reissued by the IEEE Press in response to requests from our many members, who found it an invaluable textbook and an enduring reference for practicing microwave engineers.

About the Author

Robert E. Collin is the author or coauthor of more than 150 technical papers and five books on electromagnetic theory and applications. His classic text, Field Theory of Guided Waves, is also a volume in the series. Professor Collin has had a long and distinguished academic career at Case Western Reserve University. In addition to his professional duties, he has served as chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and as interim dean of engineering.

Professor Collin is a life fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). He is a member of U.S. Commission B of URSI and a member of the Geophysical Society. Other honors include the Diekman Award from Case Western Reserve University for distinguished graduate teaching , the IEEE APS Distinguished Career Award (1992), the IEEE Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award (1992), the IEEE Electromagnetics Award (1998), and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 1990 Professor Collin was elected to the National Academy of Engineering."

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 268
• Publication Date: 2005-03-29
• Sales Rank: 1379687
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387240055
• EAN: 9780387240053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Computer Security in the 21^st Century shares some of the emerging important research trends reflected in recent advances in computer security, including: security protocol design, secure peer-to-peer and ad hoc networks, multimedia security, and intrusion detection, defense and measurement.

Highlights include presentations of :

- Fundamental new security

- Cryptographic protocols and design,

- A new way of measuring network vulnerability: attack surfaces,

- Network vulnerability and building impenetrable systems,

- Multimedia content protection including a new standard for photographic images, JPEG2000.

Researchers and computer security developers will find in this book interesting and useful insights into building computer systems that protect against computer worms, computer viruses, and other related concerns.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 188
• Publication Date: 2005-04-01
• Sales Rank: 185423
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387243933
• EAN: 9780387243931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i.e., data composed of continuous, real-time sequence of items. Streaming applications pose new and interesting challenges for data management systems. Such application domains require queries to be evaluated continuously as opposed to the one time evaluation of a query for traditional applications. Streaming data sets grow continuously and queries must be evaluated on such unbounded data sets. These, as well as other challenges, require a major rethink of almost all aspects of traditional database management systems to support streaming applications.

Stream Data Management comprises eight invited chapters by researchers active in stream data management. The collected chapters provide exposition of algorithms, languages, as well as systems proposed and implemented for managing streaming data.

Stream Data Management is designed to appeal to researchers or practitioners already involved in stream data management, as well as to those starting out in this area. This book is also suitable for graduate students in computer science interested in learning about stream data management.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 330
• Publication Date: 2005-06-14
• Sales Rank: 1977560
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387242260
• EAN: 9780387242262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Modern society depends critically on computers that control and manage the systems on which we depend in many aspects of our daily lives. While this provides conveniences of a level unimaginable just a few years ago, it also leaves us vulnerable to attacks on the computers managing these systems. In recent times the explosion in cyber attacks, including viruses, worms, and intrusions, has turned this vulnerability into a clear and visible threat. Due to the escalating number and increased sophistication of cyber attacks, it has become important to develop a broad range of techniques, which can ensure that the information infrastructure continues to operate smoothly, even in the presence of dire and continuous threats.

This book brings together the latest techniques for managing cyber threats, developed by some of the world’s leading experts in the area. The book includes broad surveys on a number of topics, as well as specific techniques. It provides an excellent reference point for researchers and practitioners in the government, academic, and industrial communities who want to understand the issues and challenges in this area of growing worldwide importance.

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 751
• Publication Date: 2000-05-04
• Sales Rank: 291575
• ISBN / ASIN: 0764546848
• EAN: 0785555025370
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Studio: Wiley

The most comprehensive book on the market, Windows Scripting Secrets uncovers the never-before-documented features and hidden system functions that make the new Windows Scripting Host a more powerful tool. The book includes more than 200 ready-to-use scripts, and the CD-ROM contains ready-to-use libraries and examples from the book, as well as numerous scripting tools.

A few of the insights inside include

• Kick-starting WSH and VBScripts
• "Kidnapping" and creating COM objects
• Tweaking your Registry, and monitoring system status
• Powering up with Kodak Imaging
• Running a Windows network with ADSI scripts

Data Structure Through C
By Yashavant P. Kanetkar, Abduln A.P.J. Kalam,

• Publisher: BPB Publications
• Number Of Pages: 616
• Publication Date: 2003-02-28
• Sales Rank:
• ISBN / ASIN: 817656706X
• EAN: 9788176567060
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: BPB Publications
• Studio: BPB Publications
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• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Number Of Pages: 2022
• Publication Date: 2006-07-30
• Sales Rank: 18368
• ISBN / ASIN: 0896893650
• EAN: 9780896893658
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Krause Publications
• Studio: Krause Publications

-American Numismatic Association -- the largest numismatic organization in the world -- boasts a membership of 30,000+

-Sales of Standard Catalog of World Coins annually top more than 20,000 copies

The mammoth Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-Present is worth its weight in information and up-to-date pricing. This one volume covers the past and the present in 50,000+ illustrations and more than one million current prices.

For world coin collectors serious about their collecting, especially in today's active market, this book offers:

-Comprehensive listing of all current Euro coins

-Up-to-date pricing in up to five grades of condition to aid collectors in keeping collections current

-More than 50,000 fully updated obverse and reverse illustrations

-Reference materials such as a currency conversion schedule, sizing chart, guides for translating foreign languages, and bullion value charts

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• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Number Of Pages: 552
• Publication Date: 2002-12-04
• Sales Rank: 467658
• ISBN / ASIN: 0761924086
• EAN: 9780761924081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: SAGE Publications
• Studio: SAGE Publications

"The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on this subject...Essential for all academic and larger public libraries."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL

“It is rare to find a reference volume both as timely and as well done as this effort. Considering the importance of its subject, its global and historical coverage, and its value to researchers, students, the general reader, and law enforcement, this book is a must for every library.�
--REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLY, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

"This outstanding work on terrorism accomplishes something that no other book has. The Encyclopedia of Terrorism is not only comprehensive, but accessible and brilliantly organized. It is the most important reference piece available, on the most compelling topic of our times, written by the foremost no-nonsense expert in the business. A must read for citizen and practitioner alike."
--Professor Brian Levin, Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism California State University, San Bernardino

"Kushner has gathered the type of information for which teen researchers are clamoring: biographies of key individuals, the histories of various terrorist groups both foreign and domestic, and a full discussion of specific incidents. . . . This work is ideal for libraries looking for a one-volume reference on this timely topic."
--SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

The Encyclopedia of Terrorism presents authoritative coverage of what is currently one of the world’s most important topics. With more than 300 articles, the Encyclopedia provides detailed discussions of the who, what, where, when, and why of terrorism. Up-to-date and timely, the articles cover such topics as Al-Qaeda, biological terrorism, extremism, Saddam Hussein, jihad, Zacarias Moussaoui, and suicide bombers. Its concise, readable format and detailed chronology, photographs, maps, and charts make this an essential reference.

An internationally recognized expert on terrorism, Harvey Kushner has studied terrorism for more than three decades. He serves as a consultant on terrorism for an array of governmental and private agencies. In addition, his commentary appears regularly on Fox National News, CNN, the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Voice of America, and in articles in Reuters, The Associated Press, the Washington Post, and other newspapers and magazines worldwide. His expertise ensures that the entries, including contributions by other authorities in the field, are of the highest quality.

Key Features

• More than 300 authoritative, in-depth articles
• Extensive, balanced coverage of terrorist groups (such as the IRA), key events (including September 11), people, terms, and statistics, as well as biographical, historical, and geographical information
• Cross-references to related entries at the end of each article
• Comprehensive, global coverage
• Valuable appendices include: list of government organizations, list of terrorist organizations, list of well known female terrorists, detailed list of further readings

Public, academic, school, government, special, and private/corporate

• Publisher: SAS Publishing
• Number Of Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2003-01-01
• Sales Rank: 329464
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590471415
• EAN: 9781590471418
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: SAS Publishing
• Studio: SAS Publishing

With the advance of computing technology, Monte Carlo simulation research has become increasingly popular among quantitative researchers in a variety of disciplines. More and more, statistical methods are being subjected to rigorous empirical scrutiny in the form of statistical simulation so that their limitations and strengths can be understood. With the combination of powerful built-in statistical procedures and versatile programming capabilities, the SAS System is ideal for conducting Monte Carlo simulation research! SAS for Monte Carlo Studies: A Guide for Quantitative Researchers provides a detailed and practical guide for conducting Monte Carlo studies using the SAS System. Quantitative researchers will find this book attractive for its practicality and for its many hands-on application examples of Monte Carlo research.

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• Publisher: JIST Works
• Number Of Pages: 163
• Publication Date: 2005-03-11
• Sales Rank: 350617
• ISBN / ASIN: 1593571313
• EAN: 9781593571313
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: JIST Works
• Studio: JIST Works

In this busy world, people don't always have the time to prepare for job interviews far in advance. For job seekers who wait until the last minute and need to speed up fast, there is Next-Day Job Interview. This book distills Mike Farr's revolutionary and proven interview advice into eight quick chapters covering self-assessment, company research, key questions, a system for answering any question that might come up, unusual situations, following up after the interview, salary negotiation, and getting more interviews.

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• Publisher: McGraw Hill/Irwin
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 2003
• Sales Rank: 611008
• ISBN / ASIN: 0070529078
• EAN: 9780070529076
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: McGraw Hill/Irwin
• Studio: McGraw Hill/Irwin

FROM THE PUBLISHER Brealey/Myers' Principles of Corporate Finance is the worldwide leading text that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Throughout the book the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. The text is comprehensive, authoritative, and modern and yet the material is presented at a common sense level. The discussions and illustrations are unique due to the depth of detail blended with a distinct sense of humor for which the book is well known and highly regarded. This text is a valued reference for thousands of practicing financial managers.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 186
• Publication Date: 2006-07-28
• Sales Rank: 2202876
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540338683
• EAN: 9783540338680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
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This volume offers a wide spectrum of sample works developed in leading research throughout the world about innovative methodologies of swarm intelligence and foundations of engineering swarm intelligent systems as well as applications and interesting experiences using the particle swarm optimisation. Swarm intelligence is an innovative computational way to solve hard problems. In particular, particle swarm optimization, also commonly known as PSO, mimics the behavior of a swarm of insects or a school of fish. If one of the particle discovers a good path to food the rest of the swarm will be able to follow instantly even if they are far away in the swarm. Swarm behavior is modeled by particles in multidimensional space that have two characteristics: a position and a velocity. These particles wander around the hyperspace and remember the best position that they have discovered. They communicate good positions to each other and adjust their own position and velocity based on these good positions.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 500
• Publication Date: 2006-09-06
• Sales Rank:
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387365907
• EAN: 9780387365909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

• Publisher: Fanpro Llc
• Number Of Pages: 144
• Publication Date: 2004-02
• Sales Rank: 846968
• ISBN / ASIN: 1932564004
• EAN: 9781932564006
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Fanpro Llc
• Studio: Fanpro Llc

Street Smart? New to the sprawl kid? Wise up fast, cuz wiz wires or spell juice alone won't save your ass on the hungry streets. You flash your credstick in the wrong alley, drop a name in the wrong company, or flick out a spur at a gunfight, and your organs will be next up for auction. Reps are built on etiquette and connections, not just chill attitude and piles of corpses. You need to know when to deal and when to wheel, or you'll be just another skidmark on the sprawl streets. The Sprawl Survival Guide details daily life in 2063, from home amenities to nightlife to coffin clubs and cred accounts. It also exposes the ins and outs of the shadowrunners' lifestyle�how they operate, who they deal with and how they survive. This information is essential for both gamemasters and players, detailing the world of Shadowrun and bringing it to life. Also includes expanded rules for lifestyles, travel and fake identities. For use with Shadowrun, Third Edition.

• Publisher: Fasa
• Number Of Pages: 117
• Publication Date: 1990-05
• Sales Rank: 881013
• ISBN / ASIN: 1555601227
• EAN: 9781555601225
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Fasa

A note: If you are playing Third Edition Shadowrun and don't feel like collecting old source material, skip this book completely (it is replaced by a newer sourcebook, as is its companion, Fields of Fire).

That said: Unlike some of the later sourcebooks, most things here are actually useful while not being overpowered. In addition, it gives a better range of items to choose from within a class (for example, you're not limited to only 4 light pistols).

If you are looking for more toys for your compaign, get this book. If you prefer a better idea of how to play a Street Samurai, don't look here. There's almost nothing on tips or hints in this book. Cybertechnology and Fields of Fire are much more useful for the hows and whys of playing street sams.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 394
• Publication Date: 2006-02-10
• Sales Rank: 1492414
• ISBN / ASIN: 1402041322
• EAN: 9781402041327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. They have been used in a large number of applications ranging from astronomy to flight simulators and are becoming increasingly popular in the field of machine-tool industry. This book presents a complete synthesis of the latest results on the possible mechanical architectures, analysis and synthesis of this type of mechanism. It is intended to be used by students (with over 150 exercises and numerous internet addresses), researchers (with over 650 references and anonymous ftp access to the code of some algorithms presented in this book) and engineers (for which practical results, mistakes to avoid, and applications are presented).

Since the publication of the first edition (2000) there has been an impressive increase in terms of study and use of this kind of structure that are reported in this book. This second edition has been completely overhauled. The initial chapter on kinematics has been split into Inverse Kinematics and Direct Kinematics. A new chapter on calibration was added. The other chapters have also been rewritten to a large extent. The reference section has been updated to include around 45% new works that appeared after the first edition.

• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Number Of Pages: 304
• Publication Date: 2004-04
• Sales Rank: 248685
• ISBN / ASIN: 0814472524
• EAN: 9780814472521
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Studio: AMACOM/American Management Association

In 2002, 300,000 vehicles with a total value of $3 billion were sold -- on one Web site. Is it any surprise the site is eBay? For buyers, sellers, dealers, and parts and accessories vendors, there's simply no other marketplace to match the huge selection, broad exposure, and ease of use that are eBay's hallmarks. eBay Motors the Smart Way offers sellers and dealers:

* strategies for setting and getting top price for any vehicle * techniques for creating attention-grabbing auction ads * new ways to add value with superior customer service * valuable tips for using auction management services and other time-saving resources * proven methods for maximizing reputation

Also a valuable tool for buyers, the book shows how to:

* determine a vehicle's value * how find great deals and bargains * arrange an inspection and run a "lemon check" * secure financing for an online vehicle purchase

eBay Motors the Smart Way offers valuable information for all readers on how to avoid fraud and scams, how to properly document your transactions, and how to conform to state vehicle laws -- even when transacting business over state lines.

From Mazerati to MoPed, Acura to Zamboni, if it runs on a motor, it'll take off on eBay!

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• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Number Of Pages: 580
• Publication Date: 2002-06-15
• Sales Rank: 471733
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471215716
• EAN: 9780471215714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
• Studio: Wiley-Interscience

The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
* ".readers searching for a wide ranging and up-date view of fibre optic communication systems would do well to purchase this book."-International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (on the Second Edition)
* This comprehensive, up-to-date account of fiber-optic communication focuses on the physics and technology behind fiber-optic communication systems while covering both the systems and components aspects
* Provides extensive details on the WDM technology and system design issues that have developed since the last edition

* An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

• 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

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

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association; 1st edition (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081440815X
• ISBN-13: 978-0814408155
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches

• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Number Of Pages: 237
• Publication Date:
• Sales Rank: 88896
• ISBN / ASIN: 1411668243
• EAN: 9781411668249
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Lulu Press
• Studio: Lulu Press

A Java/J2EE technical job interview guide for job seekers, promotion seekers, pro-active learners and interviewers. Learn the core concepts and issues relating to Java/J2EE in an easy to understand questions and answers approach . Covering over 220 interview questions and answers on: Java, J2EE, Applet, Servlets, JSP, EJB, JNDI, RMI, JDBC, LDAP, JMS, XML, RUP, UML, STRUTS, SQL, Design concepts & design patterns, JUnit, Ant, CVS, Development process, Emerging technologies/frameworks like AOP, IoC, Hibernate, Spring, JSF and more.

• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Number Of Pages: 592
• Publication Date: 2005-08-17
• Sales Rank: 5337
• ISBN / ASIN: 0321321898
• EAN: 9780321321893
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Adobe Press
• Studio: Adobe Press

If you're ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to "Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!" this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop's most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

• Publisher: A-List Publishing
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2003-09
• Sales Rank: 534065
• ISBN / ASIN: 1931769249
• EAN: 9781931769242
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: A-List Publishing
• Studio: A-List Publishing

A guide to optimizing programs on the PC and Unix platforms, this book covers the expediency of optimization and the methods to increase the speed of programs via optimization. Discussed are typical mistakes made by programmers that lessen the performance of the system along with easily implemented solutions. Detailed descriptions of the devices and mechanism of interaction of the computer components, effective ways of programming, and a technique for optimizing programs, are provided. Programmers will also learn how to effectively implement programming methods in a high-level language that is usually done in assembler with particular attention given to the RAM subsystem. The working principles of the RAM and the way in which it is coupled with the processor as well as a description of programming methods that allows programmers to overclock the memory to reach maximum performance are included.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 478
• Publication Date: 2005-08-08
• Sales Rank: 941398
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540250433
• EAN: 9783540250432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Requirements engineering is the process by which the requirements for software systems are gathered, analyzed, documented, and managed throughout their complete lifecycle. Traditionally it has been concerned with technical goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems. Aurum and Wohlin, however, argue that it is no longer appropriate for software systems professionals to focus only on functional and non-functional aspects of the intended system and to somehow assume that organizational context and needs are outside their remit. Instead, they call for a broader perspective in order to gain a better understanding of the interdependencies between enterprise stakeholders, processes, and software systems, which would in turn give rise to more appropriate techniques and higher-quality systems. Following an introductory chapter that provides an exploration of key issues in requirements engineering, the book is organized in three parts. Part 1 presents surveys of state-of-the art requirements engineering process research along with critical assessments of existing models, frameworks and techniques. Part 2 addresses key areas in requirements engineering, such as market-driven requirements engineering, goal modeling, requirements ambiguity, and others. Part 3 concludes the book with articles that present empirical evidence and experiences from practices in industrial projects. Its broader perspective gives this book its distinct appeal and makes it of interest to both researchers and practitioners, not only in software engineering but also in other disciplines such as business process engineering and management science.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 198
• Publication Date: 2004-09-14
• Sales Rank: 241884
• ISBN / ASIN: 1852338792
• EAN: 9781852338794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students. Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, this book gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. - Explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems - Describes the underlying representations used in system modelling and introduces the UML2 - Considers the relationship between requirements and modelling - Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process - Discusses the key elements of effective requirements management - Explains the important concept of rich traceability - Introduces an overview of DOORS Version 7 - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 476
• Publication Date: 2006-06-02
• Sales Rank: 880807
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387244182
• EAN: 9780387244181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The computer hardware and software industry is committed to using formal methods. As a result, it is crucial that students who take automata theory and logic courses retain what they have learned and understand how to use their knowledge. Yet many textbooks typically emphasize automata theory only, not logic, thus losing a valuable opportunity to tie these subjects together and reinforce learning. In fact, automata theory and logic evolved hand-in-hand, yet this connection was severed in the '70s as separate automata-theory and logic courses became possible. Now, with computer science departments suffering from overcrowded syllabi, it is often possible for undergraduates to get a BS without having had to take a course in mathematical logic!

Today's students want to know how knowledge can work for them -- learning theory as a tool is preferable to learning theory for theory's sake. To prove that theoretical tenents are not only applicable, but also necessary and relevant, useful examples must be presented. This textbook uses interactive tools throughout, such as simple BDD and SAT tools. By providing a blend of theory and practical applications the material is shown to be both inviting and current. Topics are also illustrated in multiple domains so that information is reinforced and students can begin to tie automata theory and logic together. They will also learn multiple uses of fixed-points, including BDD based model checking and understanding context-free productions.

Having used this book, students will not only know and understand automata theory, but also be able to apply their knowledge in real practice.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 524
• Publication Date: 2004-11-23
• Sales Rank: 1552200
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540224807
• EAN: 9783540224808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

This monograph presents a well written and clearly organized introduction in the standard methods of discrete, continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Starting from the basics of Petri Nets the book imparts an accurate understanding of continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Preserving the consistency of basic concepts throughout the text it introduces a unified framework for all the models presented. The book is a scientific monograph as well as a didactic tutorial which is easy to understand due to many exercises with solutions, detailed figures and several case studies. It demonstrates that Petri nets are a deep, practical and alive field important for researchers, engineers and graduate students in engineering and computer science.

Introduction to C Language

• Overview of C
• Running C Programs
• Structure of C Programs
• Keywords, Tokens & Identifiers
• Logical & Bitwise Operator
• Special Operator

Datatypes, Operators & Expressions

• Data Types
• Arithmetic & Relation Operator
• Logical & Bitwise Operator
• Special Statements

Input/Output & Control Statements

• Getchar(), gets(), scanf(), Printf()
• Decision Making Statements
• Looping Statements

Array, Strung & Functions

• One Dimensional and two dimensional arrays
• Implementation of arrays
• Declaring and initialization strings
• String Handling Functions
• Category of C Functions
• Nesting of Functions
• Storage Class

Structures & Pointers

• Defining A Structure
• Initializing of Structure
• Accessing Structure Members
• Defining a Pointer
• Initialization a Pointer
• Structure Pointers

• The Course offers a graphic driven navigation menu enabling quick and easy access to the topics covered

• The entire course is systematically planed with well-defined sections to make the learning process simpler

• The voice over explains every step in detail, acting as your virtual instructor

• The practice session at the end of each chapter helps you check how much you have managed to learn from a given chapter and the skill assessment module helps you test your own knowledge

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Ever need to model a part of the human anatomy but didn't know how? Well now you can learn to model just that, with the medical modeling series.
The first tutorial in this series features the human heart, or a general mammal's heart.

You will learn advanced organic modeling techniques as you build the heart part by part, using High Res Orthographic background images (Included on the DVD).

And when the model is finished you will learn to create the necessary UV Maps for texturing the model with image maps. You can then export the model to your favorite paint program and finish it up.

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Tutorial created in LW 8.5, can be used for 6.0 users and up.

• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Number Of Pages: 592
• Publication Date: 2005-08-17
• Sales Rank: 5337
• ISBN / ASIN: 0321321898
• EAN: 9780321321893
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Adobe Press
• Studio: Adobe Press

If you're ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to "Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!" this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop's most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 358
• Publication Date: 2005-09-14
• Sales Rank: 1445869
• ISBN / ASIN: 1846280214
• EAN: 9781846280214
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

Including easily digested information about fundamental techniques and concepts in software construction, this book is distinct in unifying pure theory with pragmatic details. Driven by generic problems and concepts, with brief and complete illustrations from languages including C, Prolog, Java, Scheme, Haskell and HTML. This book is intended to be both a how-to handbook and easy reference guide. Discussions of principle, worked examples and exercises are presented. All concepts outside introductory programming are explained with clear demarcation and dependencies so the experienced programmer can quickly locate material. Readable in a linear manner, with short mono-thematic to encourage dipping and reference. Also included are sections on open problems in software theory and practice. While little other than a novice programmer's knowledge is explicitly assumed, a certain conceptual maturity, either through commercial programming or academic training is required – each language is introduced and explained briefly as needed.

• Publisher: Blandford
• Number Of Pages: 128
• Publication Date: 1984-01
• Sales Rank: 1337969
• ISBN / ASIN: 0713714905
• EAN: 9780713714906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Blandford
• Studio: Blandford

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 426
• Publication Date: 2006-03-23
• Sales Rank: 292617
• ISBN / ASIN: 1846282977
• EAN: 9781846282973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

This textbook has been written with the dual purpose to cover core material in the foundations of computing for graduate students in computer science, as well as to provide an introduction to some more advanced topics for those intending further study in the area. This book contains an invaluable collection of lectures for first-year graduates on the theory of computation, focusing primarily on computational complexity theory. Topics and features include: Organization into self-contained lectures of 3-7 pages; 41 primary lectures and a handful of supplementary lectures covering more specialized or advanced topics; 12 homework sets and several miscellaneous homework exercises of varying levels of difficulty, many with hints and complete solutions. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and first-year graduates in Computer Science or Mathematics with an interest in the theory of computation and computational complexity, this book provides a thorough grounding the foundations of computational complexity theory.

• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 264
• Publication Date: 2006-10-20
• Sales Rank: 140314
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590597184
• EAN: 9781590597187
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

Have you ever spent hours coding workflow for your applications? If so, the new Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technology will make your life easier. Foundations of WF: An Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation introduces you to using Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Workflow Foundation (part of Windows Vista) to create workflow packages. The book begins by giving you an overview of Windows Workflow Foundation. Then it introduces and shows examples of the various types of workflow that can be created.

You'll discover the power of WF. You'll learn about all the prebuild activities you can include in your workflow, along with how to create your own activities. WF is fully extensible and allows you an unlimited number of options for your workflow. You'll also learn how to use workflow activities to retrieve data, and finally, how to tie an ASP.NET application with a workflow built in WF.

This book, unlike most of the Microsoft WF samples, has code in both VB .NET and C#. All the examples--and there are many--have VB .NET code, and many have the accompanying C# code. This book will allow you to begin creating new workflow applications easily in either VB .NET or C#. Each chapter includes an introduction to one or more activities that make up WF, along with examples of how to use each activity. Many chapters include a final section providing a real world example (a purchase order system). This book will have you using WF to create workflow applications with VB .NET or C# in a short amount of time.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 478
• Publication Date: 2006-07-11
• Sales Rank: 1750749
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540327967
• EAN: 9783540327967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 488
• Publication Date: 2006-10-18
• Sales Rank: 326469
• ISBN / ASIN: 159059620X
• EAN: 9781590596203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

Objective Caml (OCaml) is an open source programming language that allows you to utilize both functional and object-oriented programming. Sporting features such as a robust object system, type safety, and an expansive standard library, OCaml is a language that encourages pragmatic solutions instead of dogmatic ones. Boasting performance on par with the likes of C/C++, and having compilers available for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X, enterprise developers should consider adding this powerful language to their repertoire.

Written for experienced programmers, Practical OCaml teaches OCaml in a code-intensive fashion. Readers are encouraged to follow along with most examples using the OCaml top-level (the interactive interpreter), giving them the opportunity to consider the purpose and syntax of each line. The author's considerable knowledge of the Java, Python, and C++ languages allows him to present the material at a level and perspective that readers hailing from varied programming backgrounds will appreciate.

Language aficionados will be sure to enjoy the occasional digression into tangential topics such as OCaml's impurities from the functional programming perspective, with thoughts about how to overcome them using mutability, references, and classes.

Key topics include

• Primitive and composite types
• Collections
• File and I/O
• Modules and functors
• Ocamllex and Ocamlyacc
• OCamldoc
• Threading
• The Camlp4 preprocessor and pretty printer

In later chapters, you'll put what you've learned to work, building applications capable of performing complex log-file processing, crawling the Web, filtering spam, and even broadcasting audio over a network using the Shoutcast protocol.

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• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Number Of Pages: 240
• Publication Date: 2007-01-10
• Sales Rank: 25882
• ISBN / ASIN: 0735622744
• EAN: 9780735622746
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
• Studio: Microsoft Press

Youre upgrading to the 2007 Microsoft Office systemcongratulations! Now learn the tips and tricks to make Microsoft Office work for you. With this fun, easy-to-read guide, you get step by step instructions for tackling common productivity problems.

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Number Of Pages: 320
• Publication Date: 2004-12-14
• Sales Rank: 77526
• ISBN / ASIN: 0123540518
• EAN: 9780123540515
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
• Studio: Morgan Kaufmann

Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?

This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how to use the Contextual Design process and adapt it to tactical projects with tight timelines and resources.

Rapid Contextual Design provides detailed suggestions on structuring the project and customer interviews, conducting interviews, and running interpretation sessions. The handbook walks you step-by-step through organizing the data so you can see your key issues, along with visioning new solutions, storyboarding to work out the details, and paper prototype interviewing to iterate the designall with as little as a two-person team with only a few weeks to spare!

*Includes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works.
*Covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set up and analyzing collected data. Sample project schedules are also included for a variety of different types of projects.
*Provides examples of how-to write affinity notes and affinity labels, build an affinity diagram, and step-by-step instructions for consolidating sequence models.
*Shows how to use consolidated data to define a design within tight time frames with examples of visions, storyboards, and paper prototypes.
*Introduces CDTools, the first application designed to support customer-centered design.

Digital Color Imaging Handbook
Summary:
The exponential growth in the use of color capture and display devices has made this handbook a must for engineers, scientists, and students in image processing and a range of related disciplines. It provides comprehensive coverage of the field, covering the fundamentals of color perception and measurement, as well as the color and image processing algorithms and technology behind current color input and output devices. It also explores how to improve on the processing of color images, how to calibrate different color devices, and digitally process color images.

Book Info
Provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the science of color imaging. Covers recent innovations in the field of color imaging and image processing. Included are extensive bibliographic references.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 575 pages
• Publisher: CRC (December 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084930900X
• ISBN-13: 978-0849309007
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds

• Publisher: Open-Solutions Consultancy
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 2006-05-30
• Sales Rank: 1683559
• ISBN / ASIN: 0955292905
• EAN: 9780955292903
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Open-Solutions Consultancy
• Studio: Open-Solutions Consultancy

Duncan Steele has a simple choice. Work for the UK Governements elite hacker unit, or spend several years in jail. Digital Force picks up where Z4CK left off, leading the reader through a cyber-thiller that will be appreciated by anyone who enjoys a good read. Unlike films such as 'The Net' and 'Hackers' Digital Force depicts real life hacking and digital insurgence whilst keeping explanations simple, allowing even non-techies to enjoy the book.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 704
• Publication Date: 2005-08-22
• Sales Rank: 3929292
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540256776
• EAN: 9783540256779
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer

The contributions in this volume represent the latest research results in the field of Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Besides the theoretical analysis, papers focus on various application fields as Archaeology, Astronomy, Bio-Sciences, Business, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Insurance, Library Science and Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance.

• Publisher: Thomson PDR
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 1900-01-30
• Sales Rank: 535709
• ISBN / ASIN: 1563635283
• EAN: 9781563635281
• Binding: CD-ROM
• Manufacturer: Thomson PDR
• Studio: Thomson PDR

Today's most trusted drug references - together in one easy-to-use fully integrated database that dramatically speeds diagnosing and prescribing

Over 9,000 pages of today's most trusted medical references can now be accessed on your PC screen at the touch of a button. The PDR Electronic Library on CD-ROM contains the full text of the 2006 PDR, PDR for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements, PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines and PDR Guide to Drug Interactions, Side Effects and Indications. For individual use only.

• 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

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

• 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

For young art lovers

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
• Studio: R. Schneider

Path to Finding Technical Perfection...

and that ain't an easy pathway to find, believe me. I love Barth's insistance on using only the most traditional methods, when there are multiple techniques that could be covered. His instructions are so clearly illustrated and explained that I've actually gotten a grip on a method that I have failed to understand for years and am presently using to cover a walking stick with - traditional style gourd stitch. Most books simply teach the two step method and don't even mention the older, three step method and when they do, their instructions tend to be so confusing that I end up with a stick wrapped in a tangled net of tiny beads and thread. But thanks to Barth, I finally get it!

The other methods he covers, lane stitch, loomwork, diagonal weaving and others, he covers with equal clarity and skill and I'm looking forward to using this book to upgrade my abilities and make my art jewelry better than ever!

• 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

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.

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.

• 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

• 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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• 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

• Generate creative ideas to solve problems.
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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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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 .

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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

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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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• Publisher: New York University Press
• Number Of Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 2000-11-01
• Sales Rank: 442884
• ISBN / ASIN: 0814747337
• EAN: 9780814747339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: New York University Press
• Studio: New York University Press
• Average Rating: 3.5

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Number Of Pages: 416
• Publication Date: 2006-12-30
• Sales Rank: 12032
• ISBN / ASIN: 0465039146
• EAN: 9780465039142
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Basic Books
• Studio: Basic Books
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The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet is redefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popular book revised online by its readers (*New York Times)

There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space. But that's not inevitable either. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies.

• Publisher: The Divine Life Society
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• Publication Date: 1994
• Sales Rank:
• ISBN / ASIN: 8170520983
• EAN:
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The Divine Life Society
• Studio: The Divine Life Society

• Publisher: Aurora Press
• Number Of Pages: 193
• Publication Date: 1983-06
• Sales Rank: 37223
• ISBN / ASIN: 0943358078
• EAN: 9780943358079
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Aurora Press
• Studio: Aurora Pres

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Number Of Pages: 400
• Publication Date: 2007-02-06
• Sales Rank: 62
• ISBN / ASIN: 0316013943
• EAN: 9780316013949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
• Studio: Little, Brown and Company

Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped within one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Bennett--father of ten--is pulled into the fray. As the danger escalates, Michael is hit with devastating news. After fighting for many years, his wife has succumbed to a terrible disease. As New York descends into chaos, he has lost the great love of his life and faces raising his ten devastated children alone--and rescuing 34 hostages. Day after day, Bennett confronts the most ruthless man he has ever dealt with, a man who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him with impunity. As the entire world watches and the tension boils to a searing heat, Bennett has to find a way out--or face responsibility for the greatest debacle in history.

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Number Of Pages: 672
• Publication Date: 2005-02-02
• Sales Rank: 91472
• ISBN / ASIN: 1558606599
• EAN: 9781558606593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
• Studio: Morgan Kaufmann
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Today truly useful and interactive graphics are available on affordable computers. While hardware progress has been impressive, widespread gains in software expertise have come more slowly. Information about advanced techniquesbeyond those learned in introductory computer graphics textsis not as easy to come by as inexpensive hardware.

This book brings the graphics programmer beyond the basics and introduces them to advanced knowledge that is hard to obtain outside of an intensive CG work environment. The book is about graphics techniquesthose that dont require esoteric hardware or custom graphics librariesthat are written in a comprehensive style and do useful things. It covers graphics that are not covered well in your old graphics textbook. But it also goes further, teaching you how to apply those techniques in real world applications, filling real world needs.

* Emphasizes the algorithmic side of computer graphics, with a practical application focus, and provides usable techniques for real world problems.
* Serves as an introduction to the techniques that are hard to obtain outside of an intensive computer graphics work environment.
* Sophisticated and novel programming techniques are implemented in C using the OpenGL library, including coverage of color and lighting; texture mapping; blending and compositing; antialiasing; image processing; special effects; natural phenomena; artistic and non-photorealistic techniques, and many others.
* Code fragments are used in the book, and full blown example programs for virtually every algorithm are available at www.mkp.com/opengl

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Number Of Pages: 432
• Publication Date: 2005-12-21
• Sales Rank: 45957
• ISBN / ASIN: 0072262850
• EAN: 9780072262858
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Studio: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media

• Publisher: Apress
• Number Of Pages: 232
• Publication Date: 2006-10-19
• Sales Rank: 526626
• ISBN / ASIN: 1590597443
• EAN: 9781590597446
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Apress
• Studio: Apress

What is good code? Writing good code is really a question about what the code is trying to solve. (And good code is not to be confused with patterns--because not all pieces of good code are patterns.) We debate about good code because there is not just a single piece of good code, but so many good pieces of code. And each good piece of code depends on the context in which it is used.

How to Code .NET: Tips and Tricks for Coding .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 Applications Effectively provides solutions to certain problems. That is, specific problems. This book provides detailed, authoritative explanations of good .NET coding techniques. It's based on award-winning material that author Christian Gross has previously presented at conferences throughout the US and Europe. What's more, the author is at the forefront of the .NET technology wave and an acknowledged expert on the subject of .NET coding style and techniques.

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone
• Number Of Pages: 366
• Publication Date: 1981-12-10
• Sales Rank:
• ISBN / ASIN: 0485300052
• EAN: 9780485300055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone
• Studio: Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Number Of Pages: 1020
• Publication Date: 2006-09-13
• Sales Rank: 9512
• ISBN / ASIN: 0735619573
• EAN: 9780735619579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
• Studio: Microsoft Press
• Average Rating: 4

In this book, Windows programming legend Charles Petzold covers in parallel the two interfaces that make up the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From the outset, the reader can shift focus seamlessly between Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and C# to see them as flip sides of the same processes. Beginning in the first chapter, Petzold presents the general syntax of the XAML and corresponding programming code with numerous illuminating examples on how the two correspond and interrelate. The book builds on this base, providing the classic Petzold Windows user interface (UI) treatment, to show Windows developers how to create next-generation interfaces for their applications.

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• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Number Of Pages: 480
• Publication Date: 2003-09-15
• Sales Rank: 271464
• ISBN / ASIN: 0131401572
• EAN: 0076092022619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional

• Hardcover: 1408 pages
• Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co; 5th Bk&Cdr edition (August 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 003026961X
• ISBN-13: 978-0030269615
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.8 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.99 pounds

• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Number Of Pages: 695
• Publication Date: 2001-12
• Sales Rank: 805343
• ISBN / ASIN: 1861005555
• EAN: 9781861005557
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Wrox Press
• Studio: Wrox Press

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Number Of Pages: 656
• Publication Date: 2001-10-10
• Sales Rank: 582778
• ISBN / ASIN: 0072193190
• EAN: 0783254037885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Studio: Osborne/McGraw-Hill

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Number Of Pages: 513
• Publication Date: 2003-02-28
• Sales Rank: 825464
• ISBN / ASIN: 0071395865
• EAN: 0639785503774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional

The third edition of this practical, hands-on reference is revised and updated to provide HVAC professionals with complete guidance on the design of effective, efficient HVAC systems. Packed with over 300 clear illustrations and tables, the book reflects the latest technological and procedural developments in HVAC systems and components for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. Readers will find details on the new refrigerants now being used in HVAC equipment--information of new concerns related to indoor air quality--and numerous applications and on-the-job insights that will be helpful in the successful design, operation, and maintenance of peak-performing systems.