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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 11:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387950494
Paperback: 530 pages
Data: October 16, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Current graphics software and hardware combine to allow multiple-level functionality and open up new application areas for scientists of all disciplines, and for computer scientists and engineers in particular. This integrated guide explains and lists readily available and widely used graphics software tools and their applications, while also serving as a shortcut to graphics theory and programming. It grounds readers in fundamental concepts and helps them use visualization, modeling, simulation, and virtual reality to complement and improve their work. Features: * Comprehensive and practical coverage of software graphics tools * Provides a uniquely categorized compendium of 265 3-D graphics software tools * Concise listings of platforms and pricing, applications, examples, functions, and related Web resources * Shortcut to practical graphics principles and methods * Includes a CD-ROM with extensive collection of source code and executables * Extensive pointers to websites and other proven helpful sources * Combines theory and OpenGL programming with an accessible approach Readers will find the book an authoritative and useful catalogue of practical, working software tools and methods. About the author: Jim Chen is director of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at George Mason University and editor of the visualization column, and the Visualization Portal (website), for the IEEE magazine, Computing in Science and Engineering.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 9:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1931836418
Paperback: 464 pages
Data: April 12, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: This book shows everyday computer users how to become cyber-sleuths. It takes readers through the many different issues involved in spying on someone online. It begins with an explanation of reasons and ethics, covers the psychology of spying, describes computer and network basics, and takes readers step-by-step through many common online activities, and shows what can be done to compromise them. The book's final section describes personal privacy and counter-spy techniques. By teaching by both theory and example this book empowers readers to take charge of their computers and feel confident they can be aware of the different online activities their families engage in.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 7:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387366105
Paperback: 144 pages
Data: January 25, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: No statistical model is "true" or "false," "right" or "wrong"; the models just have varying performance, which can be assessed. The main theme in this book is to teach modeling based on the principle that the objective is to extract the information from data that can be learned with suggested classes of probability models. The intuitive and fundamental concepts of complexity, learnable information, and noise are formalized, which provides a firm information theoretic foundation for statistical modeling. Inspired by Kolmogorov's structure function in the algorithmic theory of complexity, this is accomplished by finding the shortest code length, called the stochastic complexity, with which the data can be encoded when advantage is taken of the models in a suggested class, which amounts to the MDL (Minimum Description Length) principle. The complexity, in turn, breaks up into the shortest code length for the optimal model in a set of models that can be optimally distinguished from the given data and the rest, which defines "noise" as the incompressible part in the data without useful information.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 6:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0130878278
Paperback: 274 pages
Data: May 17, 2000
Format: PDF
Description: Addresses every component of e-commerce success: content, navigation, applications, information architecture, visual design, technology, and more. Presents 17 rules that every site must follow to attract profitable customers.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 5:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0824703707
Paperback: 456 pages
Data: February 9, 2000
Format: DJVU
Description: This text describes the design and implementation of high-performance feedback controllers for engineering systems. It emphasizes the frequency-domain design and methods based on Bode integrals, loop shaping and nonlinear dynamic compensation. The book also supplies numerous problems with practcal applications, illustrations and plots, together with MATLAB simulation and design examples.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 4:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0122004000
Paperback: 2432 pages
Data: January 15, 1992
Format: CHM
Description: "This attractively illustrated and comprehensive work will complement the scientific reference shelf of many types of library...As a dictionary, this work has no up-to-date rivals."
--MEDICAL REFERENCES SVC QUARTERLY
"Has a place on all reference shelves...Outstanding...Easy to use...The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology captures the terminology of today and gives modern definitions...Highly recommended."
--BOOKLIST/REFERENCE BOOKS BULLETIN
"This will now be the dictionary of choice for up-to-date terminology...Important for research level reference collections."
--CHOICE
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 3:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Language: English
ISBN: 0471983233
Paperback: 267 pages
Data: March 1999
Format: DJVU
Description: The study of nonlinear dynamics is one of the most active fields in modern science. It reaches across the whole range of scientific study, and is applied in fields as diverse as physics, engineering, biology, economics and medicine. However, the mathematical language used to describe nonlinear dynamics, and the proliferation of new terminology, can make the use of nonlinear dynamics a daunting task to the non-specialist. In addition,the simultaneous growth in the use of nonlinear dynamics across different fields, and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different disciplines, mean that names and methods used and developed in one field may be altered when 're-discovered' in a different context, making understanding the literature a difficult and time-consuming task. The Illustrated Dictionary of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos addresses these problems.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 2:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0309063515
Paperback: 520 pages
Data: October 8, 1997
Format: PDF
Description: Helps you understand the basic concepts of this relatively new arm of science. Drawing from mathematics, physics and statistics, this book provides a toolkit for readers, including, vectors, phase space, Fourier analysis, timeseries analysis, and autocorrection.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 1:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0521808413
Paperback: 252 pages
Data: October 14, 2002
Format: DJVU
Description: This book provides a broad introduction to the subject of dynamical systems, suitable for a one or two-semester graduate course. In the first chapter, the authors introduce over a dozen examples, and then use these examples throughout the book to motivate and clarify the development of the theory. Topics include topological dynamics, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, hyperbolic dynamics, one-dimensional dynamics, complex dynamics, and measure-theoretic entropy. The authors top off the presentation with some beautiful and remarkable applications of dynamical systems to areas such as number theory, data storage, and internet search engines.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 12:00pm CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language: English
ISBN: 1576752828
Paperback: 250 pages
Data: February 2004
Format: CHM
Description: Firms that take ideas seriously take their employees’ thinking seriously, and employees who think are employees who are alive. Thus argue Robinson and Schroeder, management academics and corporate creativity consultants. Ideas are the life force of corporations, they say, and managers who recognize this can increase profits and avoid budget cuts and layoffs. Kill employee ideas and what you have is a carcass of a company, a firm mired in bureaucracy and rote processes with a staff of dulled zombies. But ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. The key to a successful company, argue Robinson and Schroeder, is encouraging a corporate culture that swiftly recognizes and implements improvements. With that in mind, the authors focus on ideas as the catalyst of corporate change rather than the end itself. This book is thoroughly researched, with convincing facts and data (Toyota’s success, they say, is the result of an idea culture that takes one million ideas per year from its employees). It also lays out a blueprint for a corporate idea program from inspiration to implementation, along with some unexpected caveats (e.g., rewarding ideas tends to stifle them as people focus on the award rather than on the idea, and small ideas—leading to continuous, incremental improvement—are more valuable than large ones). For any manager interested in jolting a moribund workforce out of complacency, this is a clever, pragmatic guide to awakening both the front line and the bottom line.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 11:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: IGI Global
Language: English
ISBN: 1591404363
Paperback: 279 pages
Data: November 15, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: This book provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems an
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 10:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 1591405335
Paperback: 259 pages
Data: December 31, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Using database-driven web pages or web content management (WCM) systems to manage increasingly diverse web content and to streamline workflows is a commonly practiced solution recognized in libraries to-day. However, limited library web content management models and funding constraints prevent many libraries from purchasing commercially available WCM systems. And, the lack of much needed technical expertise in building in-house WCM systems presents a great challenge for libraries of all types. Content and Workflow Management for Library Websites: Case Studies book provides practical and applicable web content management solutions through case studies. It contains successful database-to-web applications as employed in a variety of academic libraries. The applications vary in scope and cover a range of practical how-to-do-it examples from database-driven web development, locally created web content management systems, systems for distributing content management responsibilities, dynamic content delivery, to open source tools, such as MySQL and PHP to manage the content. Issues and challenges associated with the development process are discussed. Authors will also discuss detours, sand traps, and missteps necessary to a real learning process.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 9:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2nd ed. edition
Language: English
ISBN: 157675247X
Paperback: 224 pages
Data: January 9, 2003
Format: CHM
Description: Business consultant Chaleff points out that most of us at different times are both leaders and followers. Many books, he notes, have explored and analyzed the former role but almost none the latter. Following is often stigmatized, he argues, as docility, weakness or failure to excel. His handbook shows that a courageous follower can be an enormous asset to a leader, and he pinpoints five dimensions in which that courage can be demonstrated: assuming responsibility, serving, challenging, participating in transformation and, given the worst-case scenario, leaving. The book should be of value for those working in businesses where "committeemanship," or team playing, is now the rule in executive ranks.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 8:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0071413332
Paperback: 64 pages
Data: November 26, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Think about the managers who most influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees--and organizations--with passion for work and motivation to achieve. 24 Ways to Motivate Every Employee provides two dozen creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 7:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1592001556
Paperback: 904 pages
Data: November 8, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Software engineering leads to better software products. This book teaches readers how to develop games according to a design and follow a standardized approach to game development. It provides a multitude of exercises that show just how software engineering practices can improve your game. All the basic categories of software engineering are covered. Programmers, designers, architects, generalists, software engineers, and game developers seeking knowledge about standard frameworks for games and their relative merits will find this text more than satisfying. Three frameworks (function, object-oriented, and patterned) are presented, contrasted, and fully described through design documents.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 5:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0201882981
Paperback: 904 pages
Data: June 7, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Navigating the intricacies of a full-featured Web site design and management tool like Adobe GoLive 6 without a roadmap can leave even an advanced designer in the dark. That's why you need Real World GoLive 6. Revised to cover all the new features in GoLive 6 (including built-in tools to put database content directly in pages and the new Adobe Web Workgroup Server for collaborative site building), this industrial-strength guide provides the information you need to tap the true power of this popular development tool.
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 3:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Cisco Press
Language: English
ISBN: 1587050021
Paperback: 432 pages
Data: November 10, 2000
Format: CHM
Description: A practical guide to understanding, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-enabled VPNs
* In-depth analysis of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture
* Detailed discussion of the mechanisms and features that constitute the architecture
* Learn how MPLS scales to support tens of thousands of VPNs
* Extensive case studies guide you through the design and deployment of real-world MPLS/VPN networks
* Configuration examples and guidelines assist in configuring MPLS on Cisco® devices
* Design and implementation options help you build various VPN topologies
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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 1:00am CET by Ice Zero
Publisher: Apress
Language: English
ISBN: 1590598822
Paperback: 476 pages
Data: August 24, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Get started with PL/SQL, the built-in language that every Oracle developer and database administrator must know, in Beginning PL/SQL, a fast-paced and example-filled tutorial. Learn from author Don Bales' extensive experience to discover the most commonly used aspects of PL/SQL without wasting time with obscure and obsolete features.
Author Don Bales takes his 20+ years of experience and a wealth of statistics he's gathered on PL/SQL usage over those years and applies the 80/20 rule &emdash; cover what's most needed and used by PL/SQL professionals and avoid what's not necessary! The result is a book that covers all the key features of PL/SQL without wasting your time discussing esoteric and obsolete parts of the language. Learn what really matters, so that you can get to work feeling confident with what you know about PL/SQL.
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