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Everything you need to know to implement and fully leverage RFID technology

RFID Applied is just that—the application of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. The book discusses both the technical and the business issues involved in selecting, developing, and implementing an RFID system.

The book's three parts, plus two appendices, give you everything you need to lead an RFID effort:

Part A, RFID Applied, first gives you the basics of RFID and then the most recent advances and applications of RFID technology.
Part B, Applications in Ten Areas, explores the use of RFID in such areas as the automotive industry, healthcare, retailing, and transportation.
Part C, RFID Activities in Ten Countries, discusses how RFID is used in such countries as China, Germany, and Korea.
Appendix A: Ten Unique Applications, examines some unusual applications, such as tracking gambling habits in casinos and helping parents find lost children in amusement parks.
Appendix B: Ten Useful Websites, lists and provides brief descriptions of ten Web sites that contribute greatly in the sharing of RFID news and information.

As applications of RFID continue to expand, this book helps you fully leverage the latest technology for your own organization.

About the Author

Jerry Banks retired as a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His major area of interest is discrete-event simulation. He teaches short courses in simulation and in supply chain management throughout the world. So much material on RFID made its way into his short course on supply chain management that he decided to explore the opportunity for a book on the topic. You are looking at the result!

David Hanny is the Industry Director for Semiconductor and High Tech for Brooks Software. He has led implementations of RFID, factory automation, and automated material handling systems since 1996. Many teams under his direction deploy products and provide services and support for leading electronics manufacturing companies across the globe.

Manuel A. Pachano is a graduate of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Florida. His role as Chief Technology Officer of four companies has always involved him in the design and implementation of leading-edge technologies, RFID being the latest of these. Manuel has been directly involved in the deployment of RFID solutions in industries such as the healthcare industry, the automotive industry, and others.

Les G. Thompson, a graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in computer science, is the Chief Technical Officer of Lost Recovery Network, Inc. His broad technical background, ranging from wireless device development to large-scale enterprise architecture, led him to the world of RFID. Leveraging his wireless and enterprise expertise, Les has been developing real-world RFID solutions since the beginning of 2004.

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An accessible introduction to fractals, useful as a text or reference. Part I is concerned with the general theory of fractals and their geometry, covering dimensions and their methods of calculation, plus the local form of fractals and their projections and intersections. Part II contains examples of fractals drawn from a wide variety of areas in mathematics and physics, including self-similar and self-affine sets, graphs of functions, examples from number theory and pure mathematics, dynamical systems, Julia sets, random fractals, and some physical applications. Also contains many diagrams and illustrative examples, includes computer drawings of fractals, and shows how to produce further drawings.

Since its original publication in 1990, Kenneth Falconer's Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications has become a seminal text on the mathematics of fractals. It introduces the general mathematical theory and applications of fractals in a way that is accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated. It features much new material, many additional exercises, notes and references, and an extended bibliography that reflects the development of the subject since the first edition.

* Provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the mathematical theory and applications of fractals.
* Each topic is carefully explained and illustrated by examples and figures.
* Includes all necessary mathematical background material.
* Includes notes and references to enable the reader to pursue individual topics.
* Features a wide selection of exercises, enabling the reader to develop their understanding of the theory.
* Supported by a Web site featuring solutions to exercises, and additional material for students and lecturers.

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When you need to find the right SQL keyword or MySQL client command-line option right away, turn to this convenient reference, known for the same speed and flexibility as the system it covers so thoroughly. MySQL is packed with so many capabilities that the odds of remembering a particular function or statement at the right moment are pretty slim. With MySQL in a Nutshell, you get the details you need, day in and day out, in one concise and extremely well organized book.

The new edition contains all the commands and programming information for version 5.1, including new features and language interfaces. It's ideal for anyone using MySQL, from novices who need to get up to speed to advanced users who want a handy reference. Like all O'Reilly Nutshell references, it's easy to use and highly authoritative, written by the editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base at MySQL AB, the creator and owner of MySQL.

Inside, you'll find:

A thorough reference to MySQL statements, functions, and administrative utilities
Several tutorial chapters to help newcomers get started
Programming language APIs for PHP, Perl, and C
Brief tutorials at the beginning of each API chapter to help anyone, regardless of experience level, understand and master unfamiliar territory
New chapters on replication, triggers, and stored procedures
Plenty of new examples of how MySQL is used in practice
Useful tips to help you get through the most difficult subjects

Whether you employ MySQL in a mission-critical, heavy-use environment or for applications that are more modest, this book puts a wealth of easy-to-find information at your fingertips, saving you hundreds of hours of trial and error and tedious online searching. If you're ready to take advantage of everything MySQL has to offer, MySQL in a Nutshell has precisely what it takes.

About the Author

Russell Dyer is a freelance writer specializing in MySQL database software and is the editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base (http://www.mysql.com/network/knowledgebase.html). He is the author of MySQL in a Nutshell (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlian/) and has writen articles for several magazines: Dev Zone (a MySQL publication), Linux Journal, ONlamp.com, The Perl Journal, Red Hat Magazine, SysAdmin Magazine, Tech Republic, Unix Review, and XML.com. He has also finished his first novel, "In Search of Kafka". More information on Russell, along with a list of his published articles with links to them, can be found on his web site at http://russell.dyerhouse.com

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This book is the official guide to Adobe (R) AIR[TM], written by members of the AIR team. With Adobe AIR, web developers can use technologies like HTML and JavaScript to build and deploy web applications to the desktop. Packed with examples, this book explains how AIR works and features recipes for performing common runtime tasks. Part of the Adobe Developer Library, this concise pocket guide explains: What Adobe AIR is, and the problems this runtime aims to solve How to set up your development environment The HTML and JavaScript environments within AIR How to create your first AIR application using HTML and JavaScript Ways to perform an array of common tasks with this runtime Also included is a guide to AIR packages, classes, and command line tools. Once you understand the basics of building HTML- and JavaScript-based AIR applications, this book makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems. It offers a quick introduction to a significant new development technology, which lets you combine the reach and ease of the Web with the power of the desktop.

About the Author

Mike Chambers has spent the last 8 years building applications that target the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, and Ajax. He is currently the senior product manager for developer relations for Apollo. Daniel Dura is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on Apollo and Flash. He is currently based in San Francisco, California.

Before joining Macromedia (which merged with Adobe in 2005) Daniel and his brother Josh founded Dura Media LLC, a Rich Internet Application development company based in Dallas, Texas. While at Adobe, he was a member of the Central and Flex teams, as well as a Product Manager for Developer Relations.

Daniel has have given presentations on Flash, Apollo, and Flex all over the world at user group meetings, conferences, and pretty much anywhere someone is willing to listen. Outside of his day job he enjoys general aviation and is well on his way to earning his Private Pilot license. Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. who likes moving, breaking, blurring and jumping over the lines of conventional technology. He seeks out every opportunity to congregate with other like-minded developers, and exploring how to escape any lines that form a box. Pushing the envelope of what technology can do, and how people perceive and interact with it, is his passion. Dragos Georgita is an engineer in the Adobe AIR Team, leading a group that focuses on the Ajax support in the runtime.

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This book provides concise step-by-step instructions that show you "how" to accomplish a task. Each set of instructions include illustrations that directly correspond to the easy-to-read steps. Also included in the text are timesavers, tables, and sidebars to help you work more efficiently or to teach you more in-depth information. A "Did You Know?" provides tips and techniques to help you work smarter, while a "See Also" leads you to other parts of the book containing related information about the task.

You don't have to read this book in any particular order. We've designed the book so that you can jump in, get the information you need, and jump out. However, the book does follow a logical progression from simple tasks to more complex ones. Each task is no more than two pages long. To find the information that you need, just look up the task in the table of contents, index, or troubleshooting guide, and turn to the page listed. Read the task introduction, follow the step-by-step instructions along with the illustration, and you're done.

About The Author

Steve Johnson has written more than twenty books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Windows XP, Macromedia Director MX and Macromedia Fireworks, and Web publishing. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., which writes and produces software training. When he is not staying up late writing, he enjoys playing golf, gardening, and spending time with his wife, Holly, and three children, JP, Brett, and Hannah. When time permits, he likes to travel to such places as New Hampshire in October, and Hawaii. Steve and his family live in Pleasanton, California, but can also be found visiting family all over the western United States.

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All true craftsmen need the best tools to do their finest work, and programmers are no different. Java Power Tools delivers 30 open source tools designed to improve the development practices of Java developers in any size team or organization. Each chapter includes a series of short articles about one particular tool -- whether it's for build systems, version control, or other aspects of the development process -- giving you the equivalent of 30 short reference books in one package. No matter which development method your team chooses, whether it's Agile, RUP, XP, SCRUM, or one of many others available, Java Power Tools provides practical techniques and tools to help you optimize the process. The book discusses key Java development problem areas and best practices, and focuses on open source tools that can help increase productivity in each area of the development cycle, including:

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

If you are a Java developer, these tools can help improve your development practices, and make your life easier in the process. Lead developers, software architects and people interested in the wider picture will be able to gather from these pages some useful ideas about improving your project infrastructure and best practices.

About the Author

John is a freelance consultant specializing in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organizations optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting (http://www.wakaleo.com), a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development.

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In the aftermath of scandals such as those at Enron and WorldCom, there is a growing suspicion of the corporate world. For this reason it is more important than ever for firms to maintain a good reputation. In Building Reputational Capital, Kevin T. Jackson offers a practical guide to taking the high road--the only path that leads to lasting success. Based on extensive research and real-world experience, Building Reputational Capital reveals basic principles of integrity and fairness with which firms can build an enduring reputation. More than image, a firm's reputation is a form of capital often neglected in the boardroom and overlooked in conventional analyses of financial statements. Speaking directly to the work experience of real people in practical business settings, Jackson couples each principle with straightforward actions that drive management systems, and he provides tested strategies--from downsizing techniques to e-commerce tips--that cultivate the hidden power of a good reputation. He outlines the advantages of a superior reputation (simply put, people want to work for, invest in, and do business with a company or person with integrity), describes the vital role the firm's leader must play, offers ways to build and protect your reputation on the Internet (from defusing Internet rumors to creating an online community), and shows how to rescue your reputation once disaster hits. Perhaps most important, he shows how to strike the right balance of virtues like authenticity, honesty, responsibility, and stewardship of the environment, employees, and the economy. Highlighted with real-life success stories--from giants like Hewlett-Packard to small firms like Thanksgiving Coffee Company (which invests part of its revenues in the Central American villages in which its beans are grown), Building Reputational Capital offers a simple but effective guide for executives, managers, entrepreneurs, legal professionals, and corporate consultants.

About the Author

Kevin T. Jackson is a consultant on business ethics for organizations and leaders worldwide. He is Associate Professor of Legal and Ethical Studies at Fordham University's Schools of Business in New York City. Dr. Jackson has delivered seminars on ethics in the securities industry for the NASD, and has given presentations for executives, dignitaries, and financial services organizations, including LOMA/LIMRA. A frequent commentator in the news media on legal and ethical issues facing corporations, he has been on CBS Evening News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. He lives in New York City.

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Windows 2000's Active Directory provides a single uniform interface to all of the network's resources, including printers, documents, e-mail addresses, databases, and users. It also manages naming, querying, registration, and resolution needs. This book introduces readers to all of Active Directory's capabilities.

Active Directory Services dramatically changes the way IT professionals design, plan, configure and administer their Windows NT networks. The primary benefits of Active Directory Services are its extensibility, scalability, and ease of management as compared to prior generations of Windows NT. If you are a Systems Engineer, you will probably spend much of your time over the next several years planning for and deploying Active Directory Services in many different environments. Don't wait to get ahead of the knowledge curve; Managing Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server provides you with everything you will need to succeed.

Designed for the IT manager discussing Active Directory concepts and implementation. Includes a free membership to Access.Globalknowledge.

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This IBM Redbook discusses various options for scaling applications based on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V5.0. It explores how a basic WebSphere configuration can be extended to provide more computing power by better exploiting the power of each machine and by using multiple machines. It examines a number of techniques:

Using the IBM WebSphere Edge Components' Load Balancer to distribute load among multiple Web servers.
Using the WebSphere Web server plug-in to distribute the load from one Web server to multiple application servers in a server cluster.
Using the WebSphere EJB workload management facility to distribute load at the EJB level.
Using clustering solutions such as HACMP to meet the high availability needs of critical applications.
Using application development best practices to develop a scalable application.
Using the performance tuning options available with WebSphere to adjust the application server configuration to the needs of your application.

This book provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a sample multiple-machine environment. We use this environment to illustrate most of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V5.0 workload management and scalability features.

It is one in a series of handbooks designed to give you in-depth information on the entire range of WebSphere Application Server products.

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Search the extensive U ·X ·L Early Civilizations in the Americas with ease with this cumulative index to the entire set.

Thomson and Star Logo are trademarks and Gale and UXL are registered trademarks used herein under license.

Cumulates indexes for Early civilizations in the Americas. Almanac [and] Early civilizations in the Americas. Biographies and primary sources

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Many American history books begin with the year 1492 and the discovery of the Caribbean Islands by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). For the great civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America, though, 1492 proved to be the beginning of the end of their civilization. The products of thousands of years of history—the cities, the architecture, markets, governments, economic systems, legal systems, schools, books, holy shrines—even the daily prayers of the people—were about to be willfully eliminated by the conquering European nations. The rupture would prove so deep that many aspects of pre-Hispanic American culture and tradition were forever deleted from the human memory. Fortunately, some of the important history of the early civilizations has survived and more is being recovered every day.

The three-volume Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the two regions of the American continents in which two of the world’s first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both cases, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. Recent studies show that the first cities in the Americas may have arisen as early as 2600 B.C.E. in the river valleys of present-day Peru. The earliest evidence of civilization in Mesoamerica dates back to about 2000 B.C.E.

The year 1492 has traditionally been used to mark the division in the American past between history and prehistory. The historic times came after the Spanish arrived in 1492 with their writing systems and began to record events. Prehistory is defined as the time before there was writing to record history. We now know that it is incorrect to use the word“prehistory” for some of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, which developed writing systems long before the Spanish arrived. But the written records left behind by the early civilizations are scarce and often difficult to decipher. Most historians also rely on evidence from the field of archaeology, the scientific recovery and study of artifacts, or objects made or used by humans of earlier times. By examining artifacts, archaeologists have been able to reconstruct parts of the daily lives of the people of early cultures. Analyzed in laboratories, artifacts can be accurately dated and provide a useful timeline for early civilizations.

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Doody Enterprises : "Twenty-four biographies are provided here with an additional article, "Confederate Leaders," which includes brief articles about Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Alexander Stephens and Robert A. Toombs. These articles are long enough to start students on reports about important persons in this time. Encouraging students with carefully created questions will lead to expanded content through broader research."
--Reviewed by Blanche Woolls, Oneota Reading Journal, October 2005

The Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.

Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Biographies examines key figures from the era, such as Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Edwin M. Stanton, Charles Sumner and many others.

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You’ve got a Mac. You’ve got Leopard. And you’ve got iLife, Safari, Mail, iChat…and all the rest.

Now all you need to do is figure out how to get them to work together--so that you can stop thinking about your computer and start thinking about getting things done, having fun, and enjoying everything your Mac has to offer.

This one book is your answer--the answer to any questions you might have today, and the answer to all the questions about Leopard and your Mac that you’re likely to have in the future.

Find out how to...

Get the most enjoyment out of iLife
Find files and documents with Spotlight
Use QuickTime and DVD Player
Use Windows software on Intel Macs
Work with peripheral devices
Surf the Web with Safari
Send email with Mail
Collaborate via iChat
Share your screen, files, and computer securely
Recover from crashes
Back up and restore files with Time Machine

Robyn Ness is a web developer, focusing on issues of usability, information design, and content development. She has contributed to books on Adobe CS3, Dreamweaver, digital media, and digital photography.

John Ray is an award-winning developer and security consultant with more than 17 years of programming and administration experience. He has worked on projects for the FCC, the National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Xerox, and the State of Florida and has written or contributed to more than a dozen books, including Adobe CS3 All in One, Special Edition Using TCP/IP, Mac OS X Unleashed, and Maximum Mac OS X Security.

Category: Macintosh Operating Systems

Covers: Mac OS X Leopard v10.5

User Level: Beginning--Intermediate

About the Author

John Ray is an award-winning developer and security consultant with more than 17 years of programming and administration experience. He has worked on projects for the FCC, the National Regulatory Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Xerox, and the State of Florida. He has written or contributed to more than a dozen books, including Adobe CS3 All in One, Special Edition Using TCP/IP, Mac OS X Unleashed, and Maximum Mac OS X Security. He bought his first Macintosh in 1984 and remains a strong proponent for the operating system that revolutionized computing.

Robyn Ness holds a master’s degree in psychology with a specialization in judgment and decision making from The Ohio State University. She currently works as a web developer, focusing on issues of usability, information design, and content development. In her spare time she tests the bounds of iPhoto by taking a ridiculous number of digital photographs, the best of which can be seen at www.floraphotographs.com.

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, systems of communication are undergoing profound change. Some analysts see this change as revolutionary, comparable with the invention of printing in the west in the fifteenth century, or even of written language itself in the ancient world. Others see it as merely evolutionary, a further application of new technologies to the process of storing, transmitting and communicating information. All agree, however, that there has indeed been great change, symbolised by the development of the global system of communication between computers which we call the Internet. The Internet, however, is only the outward sign; it is the power of the computer itself which really underpins what has happened and what continues to happen, for this is the most powerful tool in history for the handling of information.

For the publishing industry, the development of new media of information storage and transmission represents a particular challenge. Publishers are essentially dealers in knowledge, and hence in the languages and symbols in which knowledge is put into permanent form for present and future use. The printed book – so recently the iconic cultural product of western society – suddenly seems in real danger of displacement not merely as a medium of entertainment and a tool of leisure (where its position has long been under threat), but also in the sphere where it has been almost unchallenged for 500 years as the container and purveyor of learning and ideas.

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Now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's hot new runtime application -- without waiting for the official release. That's right. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you not only get a concise, easy-to-understand introduction to Silverlight 2, but thorough coverage of the CTPs, betas, and RTM releases as they become available. Once you buy this Up-to-Date edition, you'll be able to download free PDFs of all the revisions to Silverlight -- pages that you can print and insert right into the book's unique binder format. Pre-printed updates will also be available for purchase. It combines the the speed of technology with convenience of a book. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you learn to take advantage of Microsoft's cross-browser Silverlight plug-in with tools for animation, vector graphics, and video playback, as well as new .NET support for web services, networking and LINQ (language integrated query). This guide gives you complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight has to offer, along with: Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust and easier to debug and test than what you can achieve on other platforms Scores of tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in your own applications Expert guidance from an author who understands RIA technologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScript Ready to deliver a more complete Web experience? Now there's no reason to wait. Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date offers a whole new world of possibilities.

About the Author

Christian Wenz is an author, trainer, and consultant. His main focus of working and writing is on web technologies and security. Christian has written or co-written over 50 books for various publishers. He works with both open source and closed source web technologies. This leads to the unusual situation that he has both been awarded a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and is listed in Zend's Who is Who of PHP. He is also listed in Mozilla's credits (about:credits) and is considered an expert in browser-agnostic JavaScript.

Apart from writing and working on web projects, Christian also frequently speaks at developer conferences around the globe that cover web technologies. Among them are 2005's Microsoft Tech Ed Europe conference (BOF session) and the 2005 Zend Conference.

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Over the past 15 years donors seeking to advance development and abate poverty have placed growing emphasis on the need for effective public expenditure management and financial accountability systems. Numerous trends explain this evolution, including the realization that aid resources are fungible, the shift toward policy-based adjustment lending, the need to strengthen the links between policymaking and budget preparation, and the recognition of corruption’s destructive effects. As a result many donors have introduced new diagnostic instruments and reports that describe and assess public expenditure and financial accountability laws, systems, and procedures in countries that receive international aid and technical assistance.

These diagnostic instruments contain information on the fiduciary risks facing aid donors and recipients, and are often required by donors before aid is provided. Such information is also valuable to a recipient country as a foundation on which it can craft sustainable reforms in public expenditure and budgeting, and build institutional capacity.

Drawing on a technical mapping of current assessment instruments’ coverage, a review of staff guidelines and sample assessment reports, and interviews with experts from donor agencies and recipient governments, this study recommends a new approach to assessing and reforming public expenditure management.

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Proof technology will become an established field in software engineering. It generally aims at integrating proof processing into industrial design and verifications tools. The origins of this technology lie in the systematic understanding of a fully-fledged, precise notion of proof by mathematics and logics. Using this profound understanding, computer scientists are able to implement proofs, to check and create them automatically and to connect the concepts of proof and programs in a deep way. Via this, connection proofs are used to support the development of reliable software systems. Software engineers have integrated proof processing into industrial development tools, and these implementations are now getting very efficient. The chapters in this book deal with: The benefits and technical challenges of sharing formal mathematics among interactive theorem provers; proof normalization for various axiomatic theories; abstraction-refinement framework of temporal logic model checking; formal verification in industrial hardware design; readable machine-checked proofs and semantics and more.

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Is your data dragging you down? Are your tables all tangled up? Well we've got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases into submission. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory SQL learning experience, Head First SQL has a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.

Maybe you've written some simple SQL queries to interact with databases. But now you want more, you want to really dig into those databases and work with your data. Head First SQL will show you the fundamentals of SQL and how to really take advantage of it. We'll take you on a journey through the language, from basic INSERT statements and SELECT queries to hardcore database manipulation with indices, joins, and transactions. We all know "Data is Power" - but we'll show you how to have "Power over your Data". Expect to have fun, expect to learn, and expect to be querying, normalizing, and joining your data like a pro by the time you're finished reading!

About the Author

Lynn Beighley is a fiction writer stuck in a technical book writer's body. Upon discovering that technical book writing actually paid real money, she learned to accept and enjoy it.

After going back to school to get a Masters in Computer Science, she worked for the acronyms NRL and LANL. Then she discovered Flash, and wrote her first bestseller.

A victim of bad timing, she moved to Silicon Valley just before the great crash. She spent several years working for Yahoo! and writing other books and training courses. Finally giving in to her creative writing bent, she moved to the New York area to get an MFA in Creative Writing.

Her Head First-style thesis was delivered to a packed room of professors and fellow students. It was extremely well received, and she finished her degree, finished Head First SQL, and can't wait to begin her next book.

Lynn loves traveling, cooking, and making up elaborate background stories about complete strangers. She's a little scared of clowns.

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The Second Edition of this well-known Compendium has been considerably expanded and updated. It contains new chapters on test selection administration and preparation of the client; report writing and the informing interview; executive functions; occupational interest and aptitude; and malingering and symptom validity testing. The first four chapters focus on history taking, test selection, profiling of test results, report writing, and informing the client. The remaining thirteen chapters contain nearly all the tests covered in the first edition plus almost the same number of new ones. Some of the new tests are: Kaufman-Brief Intelligence Test, Mini-Mental State Examination, Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Design Fluency Test, California Verbal Learning Test, and Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Test. For each test, the authors provide a thorough description, source and price, instructions for administration, duration, scoring procedures, normative data, and validity information. They also discuss special tests and clinical techniques in examining the functional integrity of brain regions. The volume does not limit itself to the adult age range, but includes all the norms available for pediatric and gerontological populations, as well as neuropsychological tests developed specifically for children.

About the Author

Otfried Spreen, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Esther Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

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Selling is a skill. Selling in the ever-changing world of IT training is an art. Martin Bean is a uniquely gifted master of this art form. Now he shares his wisdom, his experience, and his insider’s perspective on the challenges and the opportunities of the IT training marketplace. Learn how you can develop the skills and strengths that will lead you to your goals. If you ’re serious about succeeding as an IT training sales professional, then let "Selling IT Training" be the reference tool and motivator that leads you to that success!

About the Author

Martin Bean (Anaheim, CA) is CEO of New Horizons, a leader in the delivery of computer-based testing services for academic assessment and IT industry certification. Previously, Mr. Bean was vice president of sales and market development for Novell Education. Under his direction, Novell built a strong, new education infrastructure in fast-growing, emerging global markets.

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Welcome to ONT! In 2006, Cisco Press came to me and told me, albeit very quietly, that there was going to be a major revision of the CCNP certification exams. Then they asked whether I would be interested in working on a command guide in the same fashion as my previous books for Cisco Press: the Cisco Networking Academy Program CCNA Command Quick Reference and the CCNA Portable Command Guide. The original idea was to create a single-volume command summary for all four of the new CCNP exams. However, early on in my research I quickly discovered that there was far too much information in the four exams to create a single volume; that would have resulted in a book that was neither portable nor quick as a reference. So when I jokingly suggested that they let me author four books—one for each exam—who would have expected Cisco Press to agree? Well, you have to be careful for what you wish for, as Cisco Press readily agreed. Realizing that this was going to be too much for one part-time author to handle, I quickly got my colleague Hans Roth on board as a co-author.

This book is the fourth and final volume in a four-volume set that attempts to summarize the commands and concepts that you need to know in order to pass one of the CCNP certification exams—in this case, the Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (ONT) exam. It follows the format of my previous books, which are in fact a cleaned-up version of my own personal engineering journals—a small notebook that can be carried around and that contains little nuggets of information—commands that you forget, the IP addressing scheme of some remote part of the network, and little reminders about how to do something you only have to do once or twice a year, but that is vital to the integrity and maintenance of your network.

With the creation of two brand-new CCNP exams, the amount of new information out there is growing on an almost daily basis. There is always a new white paper to read, a new Webinar to view, another slideshow from a Networkers session that was never attended. The engineering journal can be that central repository of information that won't weigh you down as you carry it from the office or cubicle to the server and infrastructure room in some branch office.

To make this guide a more realistic one for you to use, the folks at Cisco Press have decided to continue with an appendix of blank pages—pages that are for you to put your own personal touches—your own configs, commands that are not in this book but are needed in your world, and so on. That way this book will hopefully look less like the authors' journals, but more like your own.

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The main subject of this book is the fuzzy c-means proposed by Dunn and Bezdek and their variations including recent studies. A main reason why we concentrate on fuzzy c-means is that most methodology and application studies in fuzzy clustering use fuzzy c-means, and hence fuzzy c-means should be considered to be a major technique of clustering in general, regardless whether one is interested in fuzzy methods or not. Unlike most studies in fuzzy c-means, what we emphasize in this book is a family of algorithms using entropy or entropy-regularized methods which are less known, but we consider the entropy-based method to be another useful method of fuzzy c-means. Throughout this book one of our intentions is to uncover theoretical and methodological differences between the Dunn and Bezdek traditional method and the entropy-based method. We do note claim that the entropy-based method is better than the traditional method, but we believe that the methods of fuzzy c-means become complete by adding the entropy-based method to the method by Dunn and Bezdek, since we can observe natures of the both methods more deeply by contrasting these two.

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"Extremely useful as a guide to anyone working on the interface between emotion in speech and speech synthesis. Tatham and Morton offer a far-sighted perspective to this topic and make explicit many issues the developer of synthesis systems might not think about at all. In this sense the book is also a very good example of how the linguist and phonetician can make valuable contributions to speech technology, and that in the end the best results will be obtained if speech technologists and linguists/phoneticians work together."--Linguist List

All human speech has expression. It is part of the 'humanness' of speech, and is a quality listeners expect to find. Without expression, speech sounds lifeless and artificial. Remove expression, and what's left is the bare bones of the intended message, but none of the feelings which surround the message. The purpose of this book is to present research examining expressive content in speech with a view to simulating expression in computer speech. Human beings communicate expressively with each other in conversation: now in the computer age there is a perceived need for machines to communicate expressively with humans in dialogue.

About the Author

Mark Tatham is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He researches the theory of the production and perception of speech within the general theory of linguistics. He has taught phonology, computational modelling, and speech aspects of neuro-psychology at the University of California and the University of Ohio.

Katherine Morton is a Fellow in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. She has published research in modelling speech production and perception within the overall framework of human communication, constrained by linguistic theory. She has taught experimental linguistics/phonetics at the University of Cambridge and the University of California.

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Since the 1970's, there has been a great deal of research effort spent on studying chaotic systems and the properties of the chaotic signals generated. Characterized by their wideband, impulse-like autocorrelation and low cross-correlation properties, chaotic signals are useful spread-spectrum signals for carrying digital information. Spectrum spreading has become one of the most popular modulation techniques for high-speed wireless communications. It makes use of signals of very wide bandwidth to carry information at relatively low data rates, and possesses advantages such as low probability of interception, resistance to jamming, multiple-access capability and mitigation to multipath effect, which are particularly important in a wireless scenario. In addition to enjoying the aforementioned benefits, chaotic signals can be generated using simple circuitries, thus lowering the cost of transceivers.

Early study of chaos-based communication systems was focused on a single-user case. In the past few years, more effort has been put on investigating systems with multiple-access capability, which is a key feature of spread-spectrum communication systems. This book presents a detailed study of some multiple-access schemes used for chaos-based communications, and evaluates their performance. In addition, the effectiveness of the multiuser detection techniques, whose primary objective is to reduce interference between users and hence improve performance, is evaluated in the context of multiple-access digital communication systems.

* Hot research topic
* Describes communication technologies for the future
* Authors among the pioneers researching in chaos-based communications

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Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to:

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

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

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R is revolutionizing the world of statistical computing. Powerful, flexible, and best of all free, R is now the program of choice for tens of thousands of statisticians. Destined to become an instant classic, R Graphics presents the first complete, authoritative exposition on the R graphical system. Paul Murrell, widely known as the leading expert on R graphics, has developed an in-depth resource that takes nothing for granted and helps both neophyte and seasoned users master the intricacies of R graphics. After an introductory overview of R graphics facilities, the presentation first focuses on the traditional graphics system, showing how to work the traditional functions, describing functions that are available to produce complete plots, and how to customize the details of plots. The second part of the book describes the grid graphics system - a system unique to R and much more powerful than the traditional system. The author, who was integral in the development of the grid system, shows, starting from a blank page, how it can be used to produce graphical scenes. He also describes how to develop new graphical functions that are easy for others to use and build on. Appendices contain a brief introduction to the R system in general and discuss how the traditional and grid graphics systems can be combined. Much of the information presented in this book cannot be found anywhere else. Well ahead of the curve, particularly regarding the grid system, R Graphics will have a major impact on the future direction of statistical graphics development.

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The book you have in your hands is the second volume of the eighth edition of Core Java™, fully updated for Java SE 6. The first volume covers the essential features of the language; this volume covers the advanced topics that a programmer will need to know for professional software development. Thus, as with the first volume and the previous editions of this book, we are still targeting programmers who want to put Java technology to work on real projects.

Please note: If you are an experienced developer who is comfortable with advanced language features such as inner classes and generics, you need not have read the first volume in order to benefit from this volume. While we do refer to sections of the previous volume when appropriate (and, of course, hope you will buy or have bought Volume I), you can find the needed background material in any comprehensive introductory book about the Java platform.

Finally, when any book is being written, errors and inaccuracies are inevitable. We would very much like to hear about them should you find any in this book. Of course, we would prefer to hear about them only once. For this reason, we have put up a web site at http://horstmann.com/corejava with an FAQ, bug fixes, and workarounds. Strategically placed at the end of the bug report web page (to encourage you to read the previous reports) is a form that you can use to report bugs or problems and to send suggestions for improvements to future editions.

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to build full-featured production websites using Django, the powerful web development framework based on Python.

Designed for experienced website developers who have at least some familiarity with the Python programming language, this book uses a straightforward, step-by-step approach. Each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of implementing the Django framework on a website from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Django tasks.

Q&As, quizzes, and exercises at the end of each lesson help you test your knowledge.

Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions.

Learn how to…

Install and configure the Django web development framework
Cleanly separate data, logic, and view layers
Implement site interfaces with build templates and views
Utilize templates and views to store, access, and retrieve data
Use the Django forms library
Define custom tags and filters to minimize coding
Secure sites with registration, authorization, logins, and permissions
Manage sessions and cookies
Implement middleware for request and response handling
Create sitemaps to inform search engines of your content
Internationalize your site
Optimize performance with caching
Deploy Django in multiple configurations
Maintain sites with Django’s administrator interface

About the Author

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer in Novell’s Product Development Group. He has 16 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing software from the kernel level through web development. He is the author of several books on server and network management as well as programming languages. When he is not developing software or writing books, he can be found biking, hiking, and/or Jeeping somewhere in the remote regions of the western United States with his wife, DaNae, and four sons.

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Packed with hundreds of detailed illustrations! THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CAM TECHNOLOGY!

The transformation of a simple motion, such as rotation, into linear or other motion is accomplished by means of a cam -- two moving elements mounted on a fixed frame. Cam devices are versatile -- almost any specified motion can be obtained.

If you work with industrial applications where precision is essential, the Cam Design Handbook is a key resource you’ll need handy at all times. You'll find thorough, detailed coverage of cams in industrial machinery, automotive optimization, and gadgets and inventions.

Written with tremendous practical insight by engineering experts, the Cam Design Handbook gathers the information you need to understand cam manufacture and design. Comprehensive in scope and authoritative in nature, the book delivers a firm grasp of:

* The advantages of cams compared to other motion devices
* Computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques
* Numerical controls for manufacturing
* Cam size and profile determination
* Dynamics of high-speed systems

Get comprehensive coverage of:

* Basic curves
* Profile geometry
* Stresses and accuracy
* Camwear life predictions
* Cam system dynamics
* And more!

About the Author

Harold Rothbart (city/state) is a noted consulting engineer, lecturer. He is author of numerous books including the Mechanical Design Handbook. He was formerly Dean of the College of science and Engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

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PUT WiFi TO WORK

With his potent gift for clearly explaining technology, networking guru/author Nathan J. Muller presents a powerful set of tools for making the right decisions, the best moves, and extracting maximum benefits from WiFi in the workplace. In WiFi for the Enterprise, he shares his expertise on equipment, configurations, and features for business environments.

WiFi—WHAT, WHY, AND HOW

If you’re among the 44% of businesses planning on integrating WiFi, you’ve found the best source for solutions. WiFi for the Enterprise helps network managers, integrators, and other interested parties drill down to—
* Authoritative and readable answers, without wading through “engineeringese”
* Business-boosting potentials of different flavors of WiFi
* Choices in product classes that yield performance, security, and scalability
* Coping strategies for a market that features more than 300 certified WiFi products
* Interoperability solutions for WiFi integration with technology you already run
* Design, configuration, and security answers for your WiFi network
* WiFi network troubleshooting, monitoring, and management strategies
* Selecting a WiFi service provider for Internet access

DYNAMIC, WORKING ANSWERS ON THE MOST EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IN NETWORKING

About the Author

Nathan Muller is cofounder and senior consultant of Ascent Solutions Group, which designs and executes innovative sales, marketing, and training support programs for technology providers and users. With 30 years of telecommunications industry experience, Mr. Muller has written extensively on many aspects of computers and communications, having published 25 books--including 6 encyclopedias--and more than 2,000 articles in over 60 publications worldwide. He is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows, association meetings, and customer events. He lives in Sterling, Virginia, and can be reached via e-mail at nmuller@ascent-llc.com.

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High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is an emerging field that has the potential to cause a great scientific and technological impact in the near future. Although new, this field is large and complex, with non-trivial relations to many different areas, such as image synthesis, computer vision, video and image processing, digital photography, special effects among others. For the above reasons,HDRI has been extensively researched over the past years and, consequently, the related scientific literature is vast. As an indication that the field is reaching maturity, tutorials and books on HDRI appeared. Moreover, this new resource has already reached interested practitioners in various application areas. In this book, we do not aim at covering the whole field of high dynamic range imaging and its applications, since it is a broad subject that is still evolving. Instead, our intent is to cover the basic principles behind HDRI and focus on one of the currently most important problems, both theoretically and practically. That is, the reconstruction of high dynamic range images from regular low dynamic range pictures. Table of Contents: Introduction / Digital Image / Imaging Devices and Calibration / HDR Reconstruction / HDRI Acquisition and Visualization / Tone Enhancement / References / Biography

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"This book speaks with experience. It gives you the building blocks for a plan to tackle a difficult code base and the context for techniques like refactoring. It is a sad fact that there are too few of these kinds of books out there, when reengineering is such a common event. But I'm at least glad to see that while there aren't many books in this vein, this book is an example of how good they are."
From the foreword by Martin Fowler

The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point.

Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and upgraded. How can you reduce the complexity of a legacy system sufficiently so that it can continue to be used and adapted at acceptable cost?

Based on the authors' industrial experiences, this book is a guide on how to reverse engineer legacy systems to understand their problems, and then reengineer those systems to meet new demands. Patterns are used to clarify and explain the process of understanding large code bases, hence transforming them to meet new requirements. The key insight is that the right design and organization of your system is not something that can be evident from the initial requirements alone, but rather as a consequence of understanding how these requirements evolve.

Features:
* Describes how to reverse engineer a monolithic system to understand how it really works and how to identify potential problems.
* Includes reengineering patterns that tackle well-known reengineering techniques often encountered in object-oriented programming, such as introducing polymorphism, factoring out common behavior, detecting duplicated code, and understanding design.
* Shows how to build a culture of continuous reengineering for achieving flexible and maintainable object-oriented systems.

About the Author

Serge Demeyer is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He also serves as a technical leader of the FAMOOS esprit project; a project whose goal is to come up with a set of reengineering techniques and tools to support the development of object-oriented frameworks. He has been involved in the organization of several workshops (at ECOOP and ESEC) and one tutorial concerning object-oriented reengineering. Stéphane Ducasse is a post doctoral researcher in the Software Composition Group in Berne, serving as technical leaders of the FAMOOS esprit project; a project whose goal it is to come up with a set of reengineering techniques and tools to support the development of object-oriented frameworks. He has been involved in the organization of several workshops (at ECOOP and ESEC) and one tutorial concerning object-oriented reengineering. Oscar Nierstrasz is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Berne, where he leads the Software Composition Group. He has been active in the object-oriented research community for many years, serving on program committees of among others, ECOOP, OOPSLA and ESEC. He gave several tutorials and invited talks on object-oriented technology at various international conferences and workshops.

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Yusuf Bhaiji, CCIE No. 9305 (R&S and Security), has been with Cisco for seven years and is currently the program manager for Cisco CCIE Security certification. He is also the CCIE Proctor in the Cisco Dubai Lab. Prior to this, he was technical lead for the Sydney TAC Security and VPN team at Cisco.

Filter traffic with access lists and implement security features on switches
Configure Cisco IOS router firewall features and deploy ASA and PIX Firewall appliances
Understand attack vectors and apply Layer 2 and Layer 3 mitigation techniques
Secure management access with AAA
Secure access control using multifactor authentication technology
Implement identity-based network access control
Apply the latest wireless LAN security solutions
Enforce security policy compliance with Cisco NAC
Learn the basics of cryptography and implement IPsec VPNs, DMVPN, GET VPN, SSL VPN, and MPLS VPN technologies
Monitor network activity and security incident response with network and host intrusion prevention, anomaly detection, and security monitoring and correlation
Deploy security management solutions such as Cisco Security Manager, SDM, ADSM, PDM, and IDM
Learn about regulatory compliance issues such as GLBA, HIPPA, and SOX

This book is part of the Cisco CCIE Professional Development Series from Cisco Press, which offers expert-level instruction on network design, deployment, and support methodologies to help networking professionals manage complex networks and prepare for CCIE exams.

Category: Network Security

Covers: CCIE Security Exam

About the Author

Yusuf Bhaiji, CCIE No. 9305 (Routing and Switching and Security), has been with Cisco for seven years and is currently the program manager for the Cisco CCIE Security Certification and CCIE proctor in Cisco Dubai Lab. Prior to this, he was technical lead for the Sydney TAC Security and VPN team. Yusuf’s passion for security technologies and solutions has played a dominant role in his 17 years of industry experience, from as far back as his initial master’s degree in computer science, and has since been reflected in his numerous certifications. Yusuf prides himself in his knowledge-sharing abilities, which are evident in the fact that he has mentored many successful candidates, as well as having designed and delivered a number of Network Security solutions around the globe. Yusuf is an advisory board member of several nonprofit organizations for the dissemination of technologies and promotion of indigenous excellence in the field of internetworking through academic and professional activities. Yusuf chairs the Networkers Society of Pakistan (NSP) and IPv6 Forum Pakistan chapter. Yusuf has also authored a Cisco Press publication titled CCIE Security Practice Labs (ISBN 1587051346), released in early 2004. He has been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He is a frequent lecturer and well-known speaker presenting in several conferences and seminars worldwide.

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Computers: Systems, Terms and Acronyms is THE technical reference for non-technical people who need to understand Information Technology. The book contains narrative coverage of IT concepts and systems written in plain English for non-technical people. It also contains more than 3,700 definitions of generic technical terms and acronyms, and the most common products used in IT. These definitions include the name and URL of the vendor.

This book has been printed annually since 1989. It is now in its 14th Edition and is the companion reference to TechRef, the only online IT database designed specifically for the non-technical professional. TechRef contains more than 14,000 entries and uses the ability of an online system to search for information, build lists of data, and provide new information - 24/7.

About the Author

Susan Hodges has an extensive background in Information Technology and has worked as a programmer, analyst, designer, project manager, and systems manager. She spent many years managing a technical training subsidiary of a large company, which gave her the unique opportunity to remain a generalist while most technologists were forced into specialties. Many of the customers she dealt with requested training for non-technical staff who "don't need to do this stuff, they need to be able to talk with the people who do it." In 1989, Ms. Hodges established SemCo Enterprises, Inc. to answer this need. SemCo provides training and tools for non-technical people who work with IT professionals.

Her background and continuing experience as a technical generalist allow her to follow and incorporate new trends and products into both training seminars and resources. All of SemCo's products are technically correct yet free of jargon – a unique combination. In addition to her work with SemCo, Ms. Hodges is the IT expert on Ask the Experts, and has written numerous articles which have appeared in CIO, NACCB Monitor, Purple Squirrel, The Talent Economy, Techies.com, and IT Translators. She regularly speaks at meetings and conventions including the NACCB Annual Conference and Trade Show, Computerworld's Technical Recruiting Conference and numerous corporate conferences.

Ms. Hodges' reputation as an authority on corporate IT continues to grow as she watches the changing field and translates the technology into an understandable format for business men and women via seminars, literature, and speaking engagements.

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The topic combination of VB .NET and ADO.NET is unbeatable. VB .NET is the most popular language in which to code. And, every developer needs to understand ADO.NET to allow data to be accessed from a Web site. In this book Developers will be shown numerouse code examples that will illustr4ate how to program database driven applications within the .NET Framework. The book is aimed at both established and new VB Developers. Important topics covered include: Visual Studio development environment, ASP.NET applications, Windows Forms application, using VB .NET with ADO.NET, complex queries, security, COM interop., and application deployment.

About the Author

F. Scott Barker holds a bachelor of science in computer science and has worked as a developer in the database field for more than 16 years, first with Clipper, and then with Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access for the past 10 years. Scott has already created and deployed a number of ASP.NET Web sites for his clients.

Working at Microsoft for two years, Scott was a member of the Microsoft Access and FoxPro teams. Since leaving, he has been a contractor with Microsoft developing in-house tools used throughout Microsoft. With his company, Applications Plus, Scott has also been doing contract development for many Fortune 500 companies, developing in ASP.NET, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual Basic/Access/Office, and SQL Server.

Scott has trained for Application Developers Training Company and others all around the U.S. and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, South Asia, and Europe. Through his classes and conferences, Scott has trained thousands of developers.

Scott is a writer for a number of development magazines and is the author of F. Scott Barker's Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming, published by Sams, and Access 97 Power Programming, published by Que.

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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Expression® Web 2

The only EXPRESSION WEB 2 book you need

The successor to the best-selling book on the first release of Microsoft Expression Web, this book provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft Expression Web 2. You’ll learn the basics of Web design and Expression Web 2 and gain valuable insight into Expression Web 2’s advanced features, such as ASP.NET and PHP development. If you’re interested in learning how to design standards-compliant Web sites using Expression Web 2, this is the only book you need.

• Create standards-compliant Web sites with Expression Web 2 that work consistently in all browsers.

• Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web 2.

• Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX without writing any code.

• Learn how to use the new PHP features available in Expression Web 2.

• Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers.

• Design your Web site for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance.

About the Author

Jim Cheshire is the owner of Jimco Software and Books and is the author of several Web design books. In his real job, Jim works as an escalation engineer at Microsoft on the ASP.NET and IIS teams. He has worked on the FrontPage, Visual Basic, ASP, IIS, and ASP.NET teams at Microsoft over the past 10 years.

You can reach Jim by visiting one of his web sites, www.jimcobooks.com or www.jimcosoftware. com.

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This whole book idea started as a bet I had with my editor that we couldn't pick two random techie topics and tie them together in a book. Two darts flew through the air and the topics "Ajax" and "live CDs" ended up being the result. This book could've just as easily been about Blu-ray on Rails or iPod design patterns. So it's just dumb luck that you're picking up a book on Ajax and live CDs.

And if you believe that, maybe I can interest you in helping fund this startup company I've been thinking about launching! The truth is, Ajax and live CDs are surprisingly good bedfellows in that live CDs provide the perfect environment for building and testing Ajax applications. The whole idea of a "live CD" is that it includes a complete operating system on a single CD. Along with a complete operating system, you get to include any applications you want, such as a Web server that can serve up Ajax applications.

One thing that is unique about Ajax applications as compared to purely client-side applications developed solely in JavaScript is that they require something to happen on the server. In other words, the very premise of Ajax is communication between a client and a server. This means you not only need a server, but you need a server that you have a bit of control over. At the very least, you need the ability to quickly install and test server-side scripts that will handle the server-side processing for your Ajax applications. Live CDs fit the bill nicely in terms of giving you an unbelievably customizable platform for building, testing, and hosting Ajax applications.

As cool as live CDs can be, I have to be honest and say that this book is 95% about Ajax. The live CD facet of this book is primarily a convenience due to the fact that Ajax applications are more demanding of their environment than pure client applications.

OK, so the book is primarily about Ajax, but what does that really mean? It means that in a relatively few number of pages you learn how to do the following things with Ajax:

Dynamically load e-book chapters for a Web-based book reader (Chapter 3)
Instantly select and view live stock quotes (Chapter 4)
Turn any Web page into a news aggregator that understands RSS news feeds (Chapter 5)
Add auto-complete functionality to your Web site (Chapter 6)
Validate form data and look up location data in real time (Chapter 7)
Create a "Web 2.0" image viewer to modernize the way your pages handle images (Chapter 8)
Use informational popup windows to dynamically display small nuggets of content (Chapter 9)
Add a live weather condition popup window to any link (Chapter 10)
Calculate shipping charges on the fly with a U.S. Postal Service Ajax request (Chapter 11)
Incorporate an animated five-star rating system into your Web pages (Chapter 12)

These are the kinds of dynamic applications that Ajax makes possible. More importantly, this book uses a construction kit approach to guiding you through adding these features to Ajax applications. Although you will ultimately learn a lot about Ajax as you explore the many examples presented throughout this book, the focus of the book is not on teaching you Ajax. The focus is on showing you how to do cool things with Ajax. Sometimes this requires you to learn something entirely new; other times it simply requires cutting and pasting code. The point is that this book is about doing things.

In my opinion, doing is learning, so you'll ultimately leave this book with a much more thorough understanding of Ajax than when you started. But more importantly, you'll leave it with your own set of Ajax building blocks that you can take with you and apply to your own projects.

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Supercharge and customize your PC

Now you can get the most out of your PC with the fun and practical projects packed inside this easy-to-follow guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to exploit the media, communications, networking, and security features of your PC. You'll also find out how to add powerful hardware and software, improve performance, and expand your computer's capabilities.

Inside, you'll find 24 self-contained projects, clear step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of each project, and hundreds of helpful photos and screenshots. With CNET Do-It-Yourself PC Upgrade Projects, you'll be able to take your PC to peak performance--and beyond.

Transform your PC into a video phone
Add two or more extra monitors so you can see all your work at once
Set up your PC as a recording studio
Create a permanent wireless network or a temporary one
Back up your data safely--and restore it
Digitize your paper documents for safekeeping
Secure your secrets in a virtual locker
And much more

About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis is the author of more than 40 computer books, including CNET Do-It-Yourself iPod Projects, How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Word 2007, and How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Excel 2007.

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Capture stunning photos with your digital camera

Now you can take professional-quality shots every time-no matter what kind of digital camera you're using. Completely updated for the latest technologies, How to Do Everything: Digital Camera, Fifth Edition shows you how to take full advantage of all of your camera's features and settings. You'll learn the fundamentals of photography, composition, lighting, and exposure, and get techniques for different subjects and situations. The book also explains how to use a variety of photo-editing tools and offers expert tips for storing, sharing, and printing your photographs.

Choose the best digital camera and accessories for your needs
Get the most out of a Digital SLR camera and interchangeable lenses
Compose great shots and control lighting and exposure
Master close-ups, action shots, panoramas, and high dynamic range photos
Organize, store, and share photos in JPG, TIF, GIF, and RAW formats
Edit, enhance, correct, repair, and crop your images
Have fun with special effects and photo projects
Print professional-quality photos
Troubleshoot and maintain your digital camera

Although the title is a little overstated, this book does offer a fairly comprehensive introduction to digital photography. Johnson opens by discussing virtually all of the technical essentials of working with one's camera to make correct exposures and then proceeds to address questions about working with digital film and formats and transferring files. He further explains how to compose and edit photographs on one's computer, showing how to improve sharpness and contrast, clean up images, use special effects, and blend text with images. The book concludes with helpful chapters on printing one's photographs and sharing images through e-mail, web pages, and disks. Anyone who works with digital photographs will find this book quite thorough and useful. Recommended for all photography collections in public and academic libraries. Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, IL

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Prepare Early . . . Score Higher

Pre-Test® is the medical student’s most dynamic weapon for mastering the USMLE Step 2.

Great for course review and clinical rotations, too! Neurology: PreTest® asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what’s on the test.

PreTest® is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.

This one-of-a-kind test prep guide helps you:
*Get to know actual material on the exam
*Practice with 500 multiple-choice questions, many with clinical vignettes
*Build confidence, skills, and knowledge
*Learn key facts
*Find references with every answer

There are plenty of answers out there. But only PreTest® delivers USMLE type questions, in USMLE format.

Open this PreTest® for:
*Format that simulates the exam
*500 board-type questions
*Referenced answers and explanations
*Material reviewed by recent USMLE Step 2 test-takers

STUDENT TESTED AND REVIEWED
“The strength of the questions in this book is in the cross-coverage of neurology with the other disciplines.”
-A medical student who recently passed the USMLE

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Your Hands-On Guide to SAP Business Information Warehouse

Give your company the competitive edge by delivering up-to-date, pertinent business reports to users inside and outside your enterprise. SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting shows you how to construct Enterprise Data Warehouses, create workbooks and queries, analyze and format results, and supply meaningful reports. Learn how to use the BEx and Web Analyzers, Web Application Designer, Visual Composer, and Information Broadcaster. You will also find out how to forecast future business trends, build enterprise portals and websites, and tune performance.

Group data into InfoCubes and DataStore Objects and generate reports using queries and workbooks
Work with the BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, and Query Designer
Build queries and reports using the Business Administration Workbench
Add attachments and drill-through using Document Integration and RRI
Format and distribute results using Report Designer and Information Broadcaster
Extend functionality with Enterprise Portal, Data Modeling, and Visual Composer
Deploy charts, maps, diagrams, and unit of measure conversions
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Peter Jones is a platinum consultant at SAP Training/Business Consulting with more than nine years of consulting and educational experience. He regularly speaks at SAP-sponsored events.

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FXRuby is a highly object-oriented toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2001, FXRuby has become one of the most popular GUI choices for Ruby developers. This book is your best resource for rapidly learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your favorite programming language.

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

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

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