Philosophy in the English-speaking world is dominated by analytic approaches to its problems and projects; but theology has been dominated by alternative approaches. Many would say that the current state in theology is not mere historical accident, but is, rather, how things ought to be. On the other hand, many others would say precisely the opposite: that theology as a discipline has been beguiled and taken captive by 'continental' approaches, and that the effects on the discipline have been largely deleterious. The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic philosophers of religion is ripe for exploration. The present volume represents an attempt to begin a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation about the value of analytic philosophical approaches to theological topics. Most of the essays herein are sympathetic toward the enterprise the editors are calling analytic theology; but, with an eye toward balance, the volume also includes essays and an introduction that try to offer more critical perspectives on analytic theology.

About the Author

Oliver D. Crisp is a Lecturer in Theology, University of Bristol.

Pro Flex on Spring is about building rich Internet applications (RIAs) that combine the interactive user experiences of Adobe Flex with the delivery of back-end services through the Spring Framework. You’ll find all the details you’ll need to integrate these two technologies, ranging from building custom reusable Flex components to using an object-relational mapping (ORM) implementation to manage database connectivity. The examples in this book are taken from real-world applications, culminating with a practical, large-scale, complete application that applies all the main concepts covered in the book.

The ultimate goal of this book is to make you a more efficient developer using Flex and Spring to deliver RIAs with a robust server-side implementation. I also detail how to achieve reusability (via components) throughout your Flex applications. I focus on two key ideas: keep it simple and keep it consistent. Along the way, you’ll learn best practices for architecting largescale RIAs with Flex and Spring.

The topics covered include persisting data using Flex’s three protocols (HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject), using Spring BlazeDS Integration (SBI), implementing Spring Security, using ORM solutions with Spring (iBATIS and Hibernate), and working with solid developer frameworks in Flex, such as Cairngorm and PureMVC. You’ll learn how to bring all of the technology together to build integrated applications.

The book is mainly focused on investigating the properties of locally recurrent neural networks, developing training procedures for them and their application to the modelling and fault diagnosis of non-linear dynamic processes and plants.

The material included in the monograph results from research that has been carried out at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering of the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, for the last eight years in the area of the modelling of non-linear dynamic processes as well as fault diagnosis of industrial processes.

Learn good map design techniques for BizTalk Server and you will make huge differences to the processing speed of your implementation, as well as to the scalability and maintainability of your code. Regardless of your experience, expert authors Jim Dawson and John Wainwright ensure you make the right choices to reap the rewards and avoid the potential penalties of poor design.

Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 provides in–depth coverage of all aspects of mapping to enable you to quickly and efficiently incorporate logic that will fulfill your mapping requirements. While the mapping techniques will be useful for all versions of BizTalk Server, the code is tailored toward BizTalk Server 2006 R3 and demonstrates the latest approaches to standard maps, EDI data, and RFID components. You’ll refer again and again to the multiple solutions that will help solve your new mapping challenges, and soon find this is an essential reference for any BizTalk implementation.

What you’ll learn

• Solve complex problems within the mapping engine rather than by resorting to custom programming.
• Become familiar with facets of the EDI standard, such as ASCII X12 and EDIFACT, the types of mapping problems these standards cause, and solutions to those problems.
• Discover a migration path for developers familiar with the Mercator, Gentran, Application Integrator, and other mapping engines to move to the BizTalk engine.
• Reduce the cost of mapping by decreasing the time required to complete and test complex maps.
• Get a clear description of the simpler methods that can be employed to solve seemingly complex problems.

Who is this book for?

This book is suitable for BizTalk developers of any level of experience who are faced with mapping challenges. The material is presented in a clear, concise way to aid understanding by as wide an audience as possible.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

About the Author

Jim Dawson spent his first life in the U.S. Marine Corps, including a tour in Vietnam as an infantry platoon and company commander. Since then, his has gathered more than 25 years’ experience in development, including working as a programmer analyst, systems analyst, EDI analyst, BizTalk integrator, team leader, project manager, and departmental director. He has programmed in C, C++, C#, VB, XSLT, PHP, SQL, HTML, FORTRAN, PL1, and Assembly. He has worked with the BizTalk mapping engine for the last six years, concentrating on applying BizTalk to EDI uses. Jim is currently a managing partner of Second Star Professional Services (SSPS), LLC, a Microsoft Registered Partner that provides expert electronic commerce implementation and integration services related to EDI.

John Wainwright has over 30 years of experience working in information management, holding positions as a programmer analyst, project manager, and IT manager . After 12 years as a software developer, working primarily with manufacturing software systems, he began working as a consultant in EDI, focusing mainly on implementing EDI for supply chain management, transportation, and distribution, and managed a group dedicated to outsourced mapping. He is currently a managing partner of Second Star Professional Services (SSPS), LLC, where he has spent most of his time over the last 6 years doing BizTalk mapping. He’s also had extensive mapping experience with Mercator and Application Integrator. He claims that he’s never seen a purchase order map he didn’t like.

More than 50 years ago the discovery and understanding of radiation led to the idea of a beam of elementary particles. Since then the development of processes for the collection, focusing, and acceleration of such beams has given rise to a growing number of facilities designed to produce a variety of particle beams for a multitude of purposes.

The higher particle energies achieved in accelerators have provided a major stimulus for research into the constituents and nature of matter. Since the 1930s new sciences, from atomic to nuclear to particle physics, have emerged concurrent with newly developed beam probes which allow research to proceed to smaller and smaller sizes, deeper into matter. Fueled by technological innovation and motivated by scientific curiosity, the increase in energy of particle accelerators has been about an order of magnitude every seven years. Present strong focusing synchrotrons can achieve TeV (lo'* eV) energies-six orders of magnitude higher than the MeV (lo6 eV> energies achieved by the cyclotrons of 50 years ago.

The following text evolved out of a series of courses on radio frequency (RF) engineering to undergraduates, postgraduates, government and industry. It was designed to meet the needs of such groups and, in particular, the needs of working engineers attempting to upgrade their skills. Thirty years ago, it appeared as if the fibre optics revolution would relegate wireless to a niche discipline, and universities accordingly downgraded their offerings in RF. In the past 10 years, however, there has been a renaissance in wireless and to a point where it is now a key technology. This has been made possible by the developments in very large-scale integration (VLSI) and CMOS technology in particular. In order to meet the manpower requirements of the wireless industry, there has been a need to upgrade the status of RF training in universities and to provide courses suitable for in-service training. The applications of wireless systems have changed greatly over the past 30 years, as has the available technology. In particular, there is a greater use of digital technologies, and antenna systems can often be of the array variety.

Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional! This book is a practical, step-by-step ASP.NET and SQL Server tutorial that teaches you real-world development practices. Guiding you through every step of the design and build process, this tutorial will teach you how to create high-quality, full-featured, extensible e-commerce web sites.

Over the course of the book, you will develop the necessary skills to get your business up on the Web and available to a worldwide audience. In each chapter, you will implement and test new features of your e-commerce web site, and you will learn the theoretical foundations required to understand the implementation details. The features are presented in increasing complexity as you advance throughout the book, so that your journey will be as pleasant and painless as possible. By the end of the book, you’ll understand the concepts and have the knowledge to create your own powerful web sites.

Owners of previous editions of this book will find that a large part of it has been rewritten and many features have been added, as a result of the developments in the web development scene, and as a result of the extensive feedback we’ve received from the readers of the previous editions. Now you’ll find the book teaches you how to implement search engine optimization, how to implement product attributes, how to use SQL Server’s full-text searching, and many other exciting features.

In electronics manufacture, the expanding range of products and the smaller-and-smaller scale of increasingly integrated components is producing a trend towards complex and fault-susceptible processes. This fact, coupled with shorter production times and the importance of quality assurance necessitates that process technology be more adaptable and open to new procedures than ever before.

Electronics Process Technology is a systemised presentation of new techniques and methods in electronics manufacture. Planning, preparation and execution are interlinked to achieve robust manufacturing processes that realise optimum quality, costs and quantities in the final product.

Topics covered include:

• modelling of manufacturing processes;
• graph-theoretical approach to manufacturing planning;
• process simulation and optimisation including cost optimisation;
• quality assurance and statistical process analysis and control;
• reliability models for electronic products and
• assembly accuracy.

The authors co-ordinate these disparate subjects into a coherent whole that will be of great interest both to manufacturing engineers working in electronics production and to academics studying the manufacturing process. The book will also be a valuable reference for students of electronics manufacturing technology.

'Walecka is a leading nuclear theorist who has been strongly associated with electron scattering work at each of these world-class facilities, and he is undoubtedly uniquely qualified in this field ... the present book is thus long-awaited masterly exposition of the field by its leading international proponent. In all respects this is an impressive and scholarly tome ... it is hard to imagine this work being bettered in the near future, and it will surely now stand as the textbook in the field for many years to come. It deserves to be read by any serious student of the field.' R. F. Bishop, Contemporary Physics

This book examines the motivation for electron scattering and develops the theoretical analysis of the process. It discusses our current theoretical understanding of the underlying structure of nuclei and nucleons at appropriate levels of resolution and sophistication, and summarizes present experimental electron scattering capabilities. Only a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity is assumed, making this a suitable textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.

The scattering of high-energy electrons from nuclear and nucleon targets essentially provides a microscope for examining the structure of these tiny objects. The best evidence we have on what nuclei and nucleons actually look like comes from electron scattering. This book examines the motivation for electron scattering and develops the theoretical analysis of the process. It discusses our current theoretical understanding of the underlying structure of these systems at appropriate levels of resolution and sophistication, as well as summarising present experimental capabilities. Suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers.

About the Author

John Dirk Walecka obtained his PhD in nuclear theory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He was Professor of Physics at Stanford University from 1966 to 1987 and then went on to become Scientific Director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) from 1986 to 1992. He is now Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. His research interests cover theoretical nuclear and sub-nuclear physics, in particular nuclear structure, the relativistic nuclear many-body problem, strong-coupling QCD, and electroweak interactions with nuclei. He has published numerous papers on nuclear physics, and in 1996 the American Physical Society recognized his work with the award of the Bonner Prize. He has lectured on electron scattering throughout the United States and Europe.

Computational chemistry, including electronic structure modeling, is a fast and accurate tool for treating large chemically meaningful systems. Unique among current quantum chemistry texts, Electronic Structure Modeling: Connections Between Theory and Software enables nonspecialists to employ computational methods in their own investigations.

The text illustrates theoretical methods with numerical detail and model calculations. It clarifies what these modeling programs can do, their known pathologies, which ones are suited for specific kinds of projects, and how to reproduce them using the accompanying PC-LOBE bundled software. While elucidating gradient-based molecular structure optimization, the text reviews notable successes and unsolved problems or failures in electronic structure modeling. It also describes the theory and computation of circular dichroism and optical rotation, including magnetically induced optical phenomena.

Offering an accessible introduction to computational methods, Electronic Structure Modeling permits users to practice modeling with a full understanding of the algorithms that support their calculations.

An up-to-date selection of applications of correlation spectroscopy, in particular as far as the mapping of properties of correlated many-body systems is concerned.
The book starts with a qualitative analysis of the outcome of the two-particle correlation spectroscopy of localized and delocalized electronic systems as they occur in atoms and solids. The second chapter addresses how spin-dependent interactions can be imaged by means of correlation spectroscopy, both in spin-polarized and extended systems. A further chapter discusses possible pathways for the production of interacting two-particle continuum states.
After presenting some established ways of quantifying electronic correlations and pointing out the relationship to correlation spectroscopy, the author addresses in a separate chapter the electron-electron interaction in extended systems, and illustrates the ideas by some applications to fullerenes and metal clusters. The last two chapters are devoted to the investigation of the potential of two-particle spectroscopy in studying ordered surfaces and disordered samples.

Throughout the book the material is analyzed using rather qualitative arguments, and the results of more sophisticated theories serve the purpose of endorsing the suggested physical scenarios. The foundations of some of these theories have been presented in a corresponding volume entitled "Concepts of Highly Excited Electronic Systems" (3-527-40335-3).