Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies Free eBook download.
Publisher: For Dummies | ISBN: 0764589164 | edition 2005 | PDF | 770 pages | 36,9 mb



Brace yourself—this For Dummies guide is in full, dazzling color! That way you can see how you can lighten, brighten, blur, sharpen, or even age your digital images with Photoshop CS2. Chances are you have Photoshop CS2 and have explored it enough to know that you need a good guide to make the most of all its capabilities and get up to speed fast.


Odds are you’ve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe you’re a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEO’s smile. Maybe you’re a novice and gleefully extracted your ex from old photos and gave yourself a flattering mini-makeover at the same time. Maybe you used it to remove a scratch from a treasured family photo.

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Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods

Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods Free eBook download.
Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0471387347 | 2007-04-06 | 454 pages | PDF | 31 MB



Learn to fully harness the power of Ms Excel to perform scientific and engineering calculations. With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's capabilities to execute the calculations needed to


solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The text begins with two chapters that introduce you to Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which allows you to expand Excel's capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA.
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Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide Free eBook download.
Peachpit Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0321591925 | Pages: 592 | PDF | 14.5Mb



This book covers Flash CS4, including all the features brand new for Flash users. Flash CS4 introduces motion tweening, a new method for animating objects, such as symbols and text fields. Using a new panel, the Motion Editor, Flash developers will find it easier than ever to create sophisticated, lifelike animations.


In addition, inverse kinematics allows animators to create armatures, skeleton-like structures that connect symbols and govern their movement. The animation chapters of the Flash CS4 Visual Quickstart Guide will be fully updated to integrate the new animation techniques with the old and to give beginners some insight into how and when to use which types. Flash CS4 Professional: Visual QuickStart Guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to guide readers along so that they’ll be up and running quickly.

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An Introduction to Computer Graphics and Creative 3-D Environments

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Springer | 2008 | ISBN: 1848000413 | Pages: 480 | PDF | 9.3Mb



This book introduces the fundamentals of 2-D and 3-D computer graphics. Additionally, a range of emerging, creative 3-D display technologies are described, including stereoscopic systems, immersive virtual reality, volumetric, varifocal, and others.

Interaction is a vital aspect of modern computer graphics, and issues concerning interaction (including haptic feedback) are discussed. Included with the book are anaglyph, stereoscopic, and Pulfrich viewing glasses. Topics covered include: - essential mathematics, - vital 2-D and 3-D graphics techniques, - key features of the graphics, - pipeline, - display and interaction techniques, - important historical milestones.
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Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 8th Edition

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Wiley | 2008 | ISBN: 0470176210 | 1328 pages | PDF | 318 MB



No other book on the market today can match the 30-year success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker's Fundamentals of Physics! In a breezy, easy-to-understand the book offers a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and helps readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. This book offers a unique combination of authoritative content and stimulating applications.
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Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 3ed

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McGraw-Hill | 2008 | ISBN: 0071548556 | 312 pages | PDF | 11 MB



This third edition covers elementary concepts in algebra, geometry, etc. and more advanced concepts in differential equations and vector analysis.



It also expands its section on Probability and Statistics and includes a new section on Financial Mathematics to keep up with the current developments in finance studies as well as in the studies of math and the sciences.

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Solving Frontier Problems of Physics: The Decomposition Method

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Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 079232644X | edition 1993 | PDF | 372 pages | 11,6 mb



The Adomian decomposition method enables the accurate and efficient analytic solution of nonlinear ordinary or partial differential equations without the need to resort to linearization or perturbation approaches.


It unifies the treatment of linear and nonlinear, ordinary or partial differential equations, or systems of such equations, into a single basic method, which is applicable to both initial and boundary-value problems. This volume deals with the application of this method to many problems of physics, including some frontier problems which have previously required much more computationally-intensive approaches.
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Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel Free eBook download.
Wiley 2007 | ISBN-10: 0470099518 | 645 Pages | PDF | 19 MB



Three key efforts are essential to effectively transform data into actionable information: retrieving data with SQL, presenting data with Excel, and understanding statistics as the foundation of data analysis. Data mining expert Gordon Linoff focuses on these topics and shows you how SQL and Excel can be used to extract business information from relational databases.
He begins by taking a look at how data is central to the task of understanding customers, products, and markets, and he then goes on to show you how to use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, and summarize important data to produce results. Along the way, he shares stories based on his personal experience in the field, intended to enrich your understanding of why some things work—and others don't.

Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and perform the analysis using SQL and Excel, and what you can expect the results to look like. Throughout the book, critical features of Excel are highlighted, interesting uses of Excel graphics are explained, and dataflows and graphical representations of data processing are used to illustrate how SQL works.
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Fundamentals Of Power Electronics With Matlab

Fundamentals Of Power Electronics With Matlab Free eBook download.
Charles River Media | 2006-08-11 | ISBN: 1584508523 | 400 pages | PDF | 31 MB



Most power electronics textbooks use PSpice for the simulation of circuits, even though MATLAB is a much easier and user-friendly tool. Fundamentals of Power Electronics Using MATLAB teaches students and engineers how to use MATLAB as a simulation and computational tool for power electronics. Designed as a hands-on reference, the scope of the material in the text is not as broad as other reference-style texts, thus making the material less intimidating and more attainable to the reader. Each portion of the text starts with an example based on the section material, followed by a detailed solution.


A conclusion is then drawn to emphasize the "point" of the problem and finally an exercise similar to the example is presented to challenge engineers. This format provides an immediate illustration of how to use the material and an opportunity for students to apply the material on their own. The text also introduces sliding mode control (SMC) of converter circuits where the converter is treated as a variable structure system, in addition to traditional pulse-width-modulation (PWM) control. SMC is a relatively new method of control and is a robust and attractive alternative to PWM. Engineers and students do not need to be proficient in MATLAB to work along with the text because a toolbox is provided on the companion CD-ROM that allows them to use MATLAB and obtain results immediately. The toolbox provides functions to perform power computations, waveform analysis, and power converter circuit design and simulations.
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Professional Cooking 6th Edition Study Guide

Professional Cooking 6th Edition Study Guide Free eBook download.
Publisher: Wiley (May 23, 2006) | 1056 pages | ISBN: 0470047135 | PDF | 36 MB



Key features of this new Sixth Edition include:
* Over 100 new, fully tested recipes
* A brand new chapter on vegetarian cuisine, featuring different types of vegetarian diets
* Expanded and updated information, such as a con-temporary look at presenting and garnishing food and a detailed history of modern food service
* Nearly 1,200 illustrations-including over 100 new photographs-highlight ingredients, step-by-step techniques, and plated dishes in splendid visual detail

* Completely revised, updated, and expanded vegetable chapters feature additional product identification and cooking techniques, as well as new recipes
* Revised and expanded Nutrition chapter features the new USDA nutritional guidelines
* Stunning new design-helpful sidebars and dedicated chapters on menus, recipes, and cost management; cooking with legumes, grains, and pastas; breakfast preparation; dairy; and beverages
* New culinarE-Companion recipe management software features user-friendly navigation and robust content

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Surface Science

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Wiley-VCH | Pages: 258 | 2010-02-22 | ISBN 3527319824 | PDF | 10 MB



Here, top international authors in the field of STM and surface science present first-class contributions on this hot topic, bringing the reader up to date with the latest developments in this rapidly advancing field. The focus is on the nanoscale, particularly in relation to catalysis, involving developments in our understanding of the nature of the surfaces of oxides and nanoparticulate materials, as well as adsorption, and includes in-situ studies of catalysis on such model materials.
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Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance

Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance Free eBook download.
Publisher: Cisco Press | ISBN: 1587052091 | edition 2005 | CHM | 840 pages | 21 mb



Identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks
* Understand the evolution of security technologies that make up the unified ASA device and how to install the ASA hardware
* Examine firewall solutions including network access control, IP routing, AAA, application inspection, virtual firewalls, transparent (Layer 2) firewalls, failover and redundancy, and QoS

* Evaluate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions including IPS integration and Adaptive Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM) configuration
* Deploy VPN solutions including site-to-site IPsec VPNs, remote- access VPNs, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
* Learn to manage firewall, IPS, and VPN solutions with Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM)

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Evolutionary Algorithms and Chaotic Systems

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Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 3642107060 | 560 pages | PDF | 34 MB



This book discusses the mutual intersection of two interesting fields of research, i.e. deterministic chaos and evolutionary computation. Evolutionary computation which are able to handle tasks such as control of various chaotic systems and synthesis of their structure are explored, while deterministic chaos is investigated as a behavioral part of evolutionary algorithms.

This book is targeted for a number of audiences. Firstly, it will be an instructional material for senior undergraduate and entry-point graduate students in computer science, physics, applied mathematics, and engineering, who are working in the area of deterministic chaos and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, researchers who desire to know how to apply evolutionary techniques on chaos control as well as researchers interested in the emergence of chaos in evolutionary algorithms will find this book a very useful tool and starting point. And finally, this book can be viewed as a resource handbook and material for practitioners who want to apply these methods that solve practical problems to their challenging applications.

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Basic Electrical Installation Work: Level 2 City & Guilds 2330 Technical Certificate

Basic Electrical Installation Work: Level 2 City & Guilds 2330 Technical Certificate Free eBook download.
Publisher: Newnes 2008 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0750687517 | PDF | 11 MB



Trevor Linsley's textbooks have helped thousands of students to gain their electrical installation qualifications. In a concise and practical way, Basic Electrical Installation Work supports the City & Guilds 2330 Level 2 Certificate in Electrotechnical Technology.

The fifth edition has been updated in line with the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations so that students can be sure to work to the latest regulations. The structure of the book has been overhauled and it now covers each learning outcome in a dedicated chapter. Learning features, such as key facts, definitions, safety tips and end of chapter questions with answers help students to check their understanding and revise for the exams. The text is highly illustrated and the book is now in full colour.
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Wireless and Mobile Data Networks

Wireless and Mobile Data Networks Free eBook download.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0471670758 | edition 2005 | PDF | 377 pages | 15 mb



Wireless and Mobile Data Networks provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data technologies, including:
* Comprehensive easy-to understand resource on wireless data technologies

* Includes wireless media, data transmission via cellular networks, and network security
* Provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data
* Focuses on wireless data networks, wireless channels, wireless local networks, wide area cellular networks and wireless network security

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Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1

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Apress | ISBN: 1590590880 | edition 2003 | CHM | 480 pages | 14 MB



Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a server-side component model for transaction-aware distributed enterprise applications, written in the Java programming language. Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 details the architecture of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model.

After the authors introduce the component paradigm, they move on to cover EJB architecture basics. Building on the foundation formed in those introductory topics, they discuss the different component types (session-, entity-, and message-driven beans) in detail. This is followed by a comprehensive introduction to the Java Message Service (JMS), so you understand the ideas behind asynchronous and parallel processing provided through message-driven beans. Transactions, security, and the newly introduced timer service round out the book.

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Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines: Advanced Topics

Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines: Advanced Topics Free eBook download.
Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201775824 | edition 2001 | CHM | 200 pages | 15,5 MB



The book focuses on the built-in Java look-and-feel (called Metal). Early sections discuss the philosophy of Java user interfaces, which include excellent support for different languages and accessibility, keeping disabled users in mind.

Much of this text covers Java UI elements offering advice on creating more intuitive interfaces. Sections of the book look at the rudimentary, visual sensibilities needed for using colors and text appropriately, including how to design artwork (like icons and graphics) that fits in with the rest of the JFC interface. One example shows the step-by-step creation of a proper Java icon. Other sections propose standards for the number of pixels that should be used to separate onscreen elements. Sections on mouse, keyboard, and drag-and-drop user operations make clear how your Java programs should handle user actions.
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XML How to Program

XML How to Program Free eBook download.
Prentice Hall | ISBN: 0130284173 | edition 2000 | PDF | 934 pages | 13.9 MB



Welcome to the exciting world of XML! This book is by an old guy and four young guys. The old guy (HMD; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1967) has been programming and/or teaching programming for 40 years. The four young guys (PJD; MIT 1991, TRN; MIT 1992, TML; Carnegie Mellon 2001, PS; Northeastern 2000) have each been programming and/or teaching programming for many years. The old guy programs and teaches from experience; the young guys do so from an inexhaustible reserve of energy. The old guy wants clarity; the young guys want performance. The old guy seeks elegance and beauty; the young guys want results. We got together to produce a book we hope you will find informative, challenging and entertaining.

Today, XML is arguably the hottest technology in the computer industry. Therefore, university professors are eager to incorporate XML into their undergraduate and graduate Internet, Web, e-business and e-commerce curricula. Professionals are eager to use XML in their industrial-strength information-technology applications. Students are highly motivated by the fact that they are learning a leading-edge technology (XML) that will be immediately useful to them as they leave the university environment and head into a world where the Internet and World Wide Web have a massive prominence.

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Programming Challenges

Programming Challenges Free eBook download.
Springer | ISBN: 0387001638 | edition 2003 | PDF | 379 pages | 11,1 mb



An Ideal Resource for Improving Programming Knowledgeenges of problems from international programming competitions are an effective way to improve algorithmic and coding skills and understanding. This book uses international programming competition-type problems to motivate the study of algorithms, programming, and other topics in computer science. It includes more than 100 programming challenges, as well as the theory and key concepts necessary for approaching them. Problems are organized by topic, and supplemented by complete tutorial material. Readers gain a concrete understanding of both algorithmic techniques and advanced coding topics. Unique Features: * Offers a wealth of rich programming problems suitable for self-study -- all with on-line judging at www.programming-challenges.com * Presents practice training for all major programming contests --

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC), International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), and Topcoder Challenge * Serves as a convenient, web-based means of adding a programming component to any algorithms or software engineering course * Contains complete working code for fundamental data structures and graph, string, numerical and geometric algorithms * Provides a brief-yet-thorough treatment of key elements in number theory, geometry, dynamic programming, and graph algorithms * Supports all popular programming languages (C, C++, Pascal, Java) Steven S.

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Managing for Results: Management Extra

Managing for Results: Management Extra Free eBook download.
Pergamon Flexible Learning | ISBN: 0750666854 | edition 2005 | PDF | 96 pages | 11,2 mb



Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. The series fuses key ideas with applied activities to help managers examine and improve how they work in practice.

Management Extra is an exciting, new approach to management development. The books provide the basis for self-paced learning at level 4/5. The flexible learning structure allows busy participants to study at their own convenience, minimising time away from the job.

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English for Accounting (Student's Book+ Audio)

English for Accounting (Student's Book+ Audio) Free eBook download.
Oxford University Press | 2007 | PDF | Pages : 66 | ISBN-10: 0194579093 | WMA 193 kbps | 76.2 MB



English for Accounting is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs to communicate with colleagues and clients about accounting and financial matters. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course of for self-study.
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Algorithms in Java, Part 5: Graph Algorithms

Algorithms in Java, Part 5: Graph Algorithms Free eBook download.
Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201361213| edition 2003 | CHM | 528 pages | 10,3 MB



Text provides a tool set for programmers to implement, debug, and use graph algorithms across a wide range of computer applications. Covers graph properties and types; digraphs and DAGs; minimum spanning trees; shortest paths; network flows; and diagrams, sample Java code, and detailed algorithm descriptions. Softcover.

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Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems

Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems Free eBook download.
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521656028 | edition 1999 | PDF | 405 pages | 56,7 MB



This is an excellent textbook on logic and formal methods which is very suitable for computer science students... discusses the whole range from logic to applications: propositional and predicate logic, temporal logic and more generally



model logic, program verification, model checking, and symbolic model checking using binary decision diagrams ... As any good textbook, this book is not only to be recommended for students but for anyone who is interested in applications of logic in computer science.
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Solutions Manual to accompany Introduction to Operations Research, 7th Edition

Solutions Manual to accompany Introduction to Operations Research, 7th Edition | Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education | 1995 | ISBN: 0072321717 | PDF | 23,3 mb

With each new edition, we have worked toward the goal of meeting the changing needs of new generations of students by helping to define the modern approach to teaching the current status of operations research effectively at the introductory level. Over 33 years, much has changed in both the field and the pedagogical needs of the students being introduced to the field. These changes have been reflected in the substantial revisions of successive editions of this book. We believe that this is true for the current 7th edition as well.
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Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 587: Helicases: Methods and Protocols by Mohamed M. Abdelhaleem

Helicases: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol 587)
Publisher: Humana Press | ISBN: 1603273549 | edition 2009 | PDF | 404 pages |

In recent years, much information has been revealed concerning the essential role of helicases, the enzymes that utilize the energy derived from nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis to unwind the double stranded helical structure of nucleic acids. In Helicases: Methods and Protocols, this topic is explored by leading international scientists who have contributed significantly to our current understanding of helicases and the ways in which they function. Chapters include methods for the production and purification of helicases from different species, as well as detailed studies of helicase activities, including NTP binding and hydrolysis, nucleic acid binding and unwinding, and translocation along nucleic acid substrates. Composed in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each chapter contains a brief introduction, step-by-step methods, a list of necessary materials, and a Notes section which shares tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Wide-ranging and innovative, Helicases: Methods and Protocols is the ultimate guide for researchers, providing the scientific community with comprehensive accounts of the most advanced methods used to study helicases today.

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Handbook of Electric Motors Second Edition by Hamid A. Toliyat

 

Handbook of Electric Motors | Publisher: CRC Press | ISBN: 0824741056 | edition 2004 | PDF | 778 pages | 46,1 mb

Presenting current issues in electric motor design, installation, application, and performance, this second edition serves as the most authoritative and reliable guide to electric motor utilization and assessment in the commercial and industrial sectors. Covering topics ranging from motor energy and efficiency to computer-aided design and equipment selection, this reference assists professionals in all aspects of electric motor maintenance, repair, and optimization. It has been expanded by more than 40 percent to explore the most influential technologies in the field including electronic controls, superconducting generators, recent analytical tools, new computing capabilities, and special purpose motors.

Details the various types of motors and their characteristics, as well as motor selection. Discusses induction-, synchronous-, and direct-current motor analysis and design; testing for performance; and motor insulation, control, and protection.

For this second edition of a handbook for electrical engineers, Toliyat (electrical engineering, Texas A&M University) and Kliman (electrical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) have added new material on high-horsepower motor applications and special-purpose motors, and on recent advances in tools for motor analysis and design, benefits and drawbacks of electronic controls, new methods in failure detection, and the increasing application of microprocessor-based relays and circuit breaker controls. Coverage encompasses controls, protection, environmental and mechanical considerations, reliability, and other topics associated with electric motors. The book will be of use to engineers concerned with the design, selection, specifications, purchasing, testing methods, and maintenance of electric motors. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc.
I believe it is the most comprehensive electric motor handbook available currently, extensively covering all types of motors … . Recommended for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners.
- E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 12, December 2004

Its strong point is that is contains a fantastic wealth of design information on all kinds of motors…It gives the reader a very good understanding of a broad range of modern motor technology…Anyone who designs or works with motors of all types would definitely find this book to be an excellent handbook and guide for understanding the details of motor design and being able to choose the correct motor for a given application.
- IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 3, May/June 2005

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Fundamentals of Financial Management with Brigham Xtra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac College by Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston

Fundamentals of Financial Management | Publisher: South-Western College Pub | ISBN: 0324178298 | edition 2003 (Tenth Edition) | PDF | 928 pages | 16,2 mb

The market leader, Brigham/Houston continues to grow in reputation as the most effective approach for learning basic finance principles, tools, and applications. It is also updated to reflect the latest in theory, research, real-world examples, and use of technology. The seamless, integrated ancillary package - done by the authors - is a hallmark of this package that makes the subject more accessible for learners.

This book/CD-ROM text for a one- or two-term introductory finance course begins with a discussion of financial objectives, then covers the financial environment, financial tools and techniques, and special topics such as derivatives. The CD-ROM includes material from previous versions of the text, plus spreadsheet models. This tenth edition offers updated material on the stock and bond markets. The authors are affiliated with the University of Florida. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Eugene F. Brigham is a Graduate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Brigham received his MBA and PhD from the University of California-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Dr. Brigham held teaching positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Brigham has served as president of the Financial Management Association, and he has written more than the 40 journal articles on the cost of capital, capital structure, and other aspects of financial management. The ten textbooks on managerial finance and managerial economics of which he is the author or co-author are used at more than 1,000 universities in the United States, and they have been translated into 11 languages for worldwide use. He has testified in numerous electric, gas, and telephone rate cases at both the federal and state levels. He has served as a consultant to many corporations and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brigham continues to teach, consult, and do research, plus his continuing work on textbooks. He spends his spare time on the golf course and with his family and two dogs, Geoff (after Geoffrey Chaucer) and Chocolate Chip. He also enjoys outdoor adventure activities and recently returned from a biking trip in Alaska, where he and his daughter biked nearly 300 miles in a week and took a 15-mile, seven-hour hike up a 14,240-foot peak. He was glad

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The latest Edition: Fundamentals of Financial Management (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition) 12th Edition | Hardcover: 752 pages | Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 12 edition (February 6, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0324597703

Count on the renowned author team that's First in Finance to deliver a unique balance of clear concepts, contemporary theory, and practical applications that ensures a thorough understanding of today's corporate finance and financial management. Brigham/Houston's FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E presents a solid, focused foundation in financial basics punctuated with timely actual examples, end-of-chapter applications, and Integrated Cases that make it easier to understand the how and why of corporate budgeting, financing, and working capital decision making. The book's presentation of Time Value of Money (TVM) is repositioned so readers can immediately begin using the concepts after learning them. THOMSON ONE-BUSINESS SCHOOL EDITION accompanies this edition, offering the same financial online database used by professionals on Wall Street every day. FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E also offers APLIA FOR FINANCE, the leading homework solution tool in educational publishing today. Trust the strengths in Brigham/Houston's market-leading FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E for the First in Finance time and time again

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Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics by Hubregt Visser

Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics | Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470871172 | edition 2005 | PDF | 376 pages | 18,5 mb

Reflecting a growing interest in phased array antenna systems, stemming from radar, radio astronomy, mobile communications and satellite broadcasting, Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics introduces the principles of array and phased array antennas. Packed with first-hand practical experience and worked-out examples, this is a valuable learning tool and reference source for those wishing to improve their understanding of basic array antenna systems without relying heavily on a thorough knowledge of electromagnetics or antenna theory.

* Features a general introduction to antennas and explains the array antenna principle through discussion of the physical characteristics rather than the theory
* Explores topics often not covered in antenna textbooks, such as active element pattern, array feeding, means of phase changing, array antenna characterisation, sequential rotation techniques and reactively loaded arrays
* Guides the reader through the necessary mathematics, allowing them to move onto specialist books on array and phased array antennas with a greater understanding of the topic
* Supported by a companion website on which instructors and lecturers can find electronic versions of the figures

An ideal introduction for those without a background in antennas, this clear, concise volume will appeal to technicians, researchers and managers working in academia, government, telecommunications and radio astronomy. It will also be a valuable resource for professionals and postgraduates with some antenna knowledge.

Hubregt J. Visser is a Principal Antenna Engineer at TNO Industrial Technology in The Netherlands and has more than 12 years experience in this field. He has co-chaired and been a member of the organizing panel for a number of antennas and propagation conferences and is a member of the IEE Antennas and Propagation Technical Advisory Panel.
Huib also teaches at Eindhoven University of Technology in Electromagnetics and Antenna Technology and won the 2002 Students Award for Best Lecture Material.

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Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual fifth edition

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual | Publisher: Pogue Press | ISBN: 0596510438 | edition 2007 | PDF | 1021 pages | 17,2 mb

Welcome to Dreamweaver CS3. This new version of the popular web design software offers a rich environment for building professional sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. Moreover, it's now integrated more tightly with Adobe's other products: Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, and their siblings. But with such sophisticated features, the software isn't simple.

So say hello to Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, the fifth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer and author David McFarland. This book helps both first-time and experienced web designers bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. With jargon-free language and clear descriptions, this new edition addresses both beginners who need step-by-step guidance as well as long-time Dreamweaver users who need a handy reference to address the inner-workings of the program.

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual teaches designers how to construct and manage web sites by examining web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities through "live examples". With a complete A-Z guide to designing, organizing, building and deploying a web site for those with no web design experience, this book:

* Takes you through the basics to advanced techniques to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS
* Shows you how to design dynamic database-driven web sites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup forms
* Teaches you how to master your web site, and manage thousands of pages effortlessly

Witty and objective, Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual is a must for anyone who uses this highly popular program, from beginners to professionals. Altogether, it's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS3.
David McFarland has been designing web sites since 1995. He's a professional web designer and educator who has worked with the University of California at Berkeley, Intuit, and Macworld magazine among others. He is a frequent speaker at web-related conferences and teaches web design and development at Portland State University. He is a Macromedia Certified instructor and a member of the Dreamweaver Advisory Council.

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The Hardware/Software Interface Fourth Edition by David A. Patterson

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface 4th Edition | Morgan Kaufmann | 2009 | ISBN: 0123744938 | 912 pages | PDF | 255 Mb

This textbook provides a basic introduction to the fundamentals of current computer designs. As the title suggests, the text skirts the border between hardware and software. After an overview of the subject and a discussion of performance, the book launches into technical matter such as instruction sets, how they are constrained by the underlying processor hardware, the constraints on their design, and more. An excellent critique of computer arithmetic methods leads to a high-level discussion on processor design. Following is a great introduction to pipelining, nice coverage of memory issues, and solid attention to peripherals. The book concludes with a brief discussion of the additional issues inherent in multiprocessing machines. The extremely lucid description is grounded in real-world examples. Interesting exercises help reinforce the material, and each section contains a write-up of the historical background of each idea. Computer Organization and Design is accessible to the beginner, but also offers plenty of valuable knowledge for experienced engineers.

The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Along with its increased coverage of parallelism, this new edition offers new content on Flash memory and virtual machines as well as a new and important appendix written by industry experts covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU (graphics processing unit), the highly parallel, highly multithreaded multiprocessor optimized for visual computing.
The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications. For readers in either category, this classic introduction to the field provides a deep look into the computer. It demonstrates the relationship between the software and hardware and focuses on the foundational concepts that are the basis for current computer design.

Using a distinctive "learning by evolution" approach the authors present each idea from its first principles, guiding readers through a series of worked examples that incrementally add more complex instructions until they have acquired an understanding of the entire MIPS instruction set and the fundamentals of assembly language. Computer arithmetic, pipelining, and memory hierarchies are treated to the same evolutionary approach with worked examples and incremental drawings supporting each new level of sophistication. The design, performance, and significance of I/O systems is also discussed in depth, and an entire chapter is devoted to the emerging architectures of multiprocessor systems.

Special features in each chapter

* Real Stuff provides relevant, tangible examples of how the concepts from the chapter are implemented in commercially successful products.
* Fallacies and Pitfalls share the hard-won lessons of the authors and other designers in industry.
* Big Pictures allow the reader to keep major insights in focus while studying the details.
* Key terms, all fully defined in an end-of-book glossary, summarize the essential ideas introduced in the chapter.

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Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English by Diana Lea

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English | Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0194312437 | 963 pages| PDF | 462 MB

The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English, now in a new edition with CD-ROM. Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential for natural-sounding British and American English. Completely revised and extended, the new edition has over 250,000 collocations and over 75,000 examples

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Thermodynamics of One-Dimensional Solvable Models

Thermodynamics of One-Dimensional Solvable Models | Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2005-09-15 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0521019796 | PDF |

Exactly solvable models are very important in physics from a theoretical point of view and also from the experimentalist's perspective, because in such cases theoretical results and experimental results can be compared without ambiguity. This is a book about an important class of exactly solvable models in physics. The subject area is the Bethe-ansatz approach for a number of one-dimensional models, and the setting up of equations within this approach to determine the thermodynamics of these systems. It is a topic that crosses the boundaries among condensed matter physics, mathematics and field theory. The derivation and application of thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz equations for one-dimensional models are explained in detail. This technique is indispensable for physicists studying the low-temperature properties of one-dimensional substances. Written by the originator of much of the work in the subject, this book will be of great interest to theoretical condensed matter physicists.
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Systems, Techniques and Technology Fifth Edition by Gerard Maral

Satellite Communications Systems: Systems, Techniques and Technology | Publisher: Wiley 2010-02-15 | 742 Pages | ISBN: 0470714581 | PDF | 13 MB

New and updated edition of this authoritative and comprehensive reference to the field of satellite communications engineering.

Building on the success of previous editions, Satellite Communications Systems, Fifth Edition covers the entire field of satellite communications engineering from orbital mechanics to satellite design and launch, configuration and installation of earth stations, including the implementation of communications links and the set-up of the satellite network. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of satellite communications systems engineering and discusses the technological applications. It demonstrates how system components interact and details the relationship between the system and its environment. The authors discuss the systems aspects such as techniques enabling equipment and system dimensioning and state of the art technology for satellite platforms, payloads and earth stations.

New features and updates for the fifth edition include:

* More information on techniques allowing service provision of multimedia content
* Extra material on techniques for broadcasting, including recent standards DVB-RCS and DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting -Return Channel Satellite and -Satellite Version 2)
* Updates on onboard processing

By offering a detailed and practical overview, Satellite Communications Systems continues to be an authoritative text for advanced students, engineers and designers throughout the field of satellite communications and engineering.
Satellite communications refers to the utilisation of geostationary orbiting satellites to relay the transmission received from one earth station to one or more earth stations. They are the outcome of research in the area of communications whose objective is to achieve ever-increasing ranges and capacities with the lowest possible costs.
Since publication of the first edition, satellite communications systems have become increasingly sophisticated. This revised, updated and extended fourth edition covers the entire field of satellite communications engineering from the techniques of orbital mechanics and radio wave propagation to the design of communication links and earth stations.
* Features an improved presentation of satellite applications with regards to services
* Discusses the most recent developments in this evolving field, including MPEG2, concatenated coding, digital TV and examples of transmission of digital telephony
* Practical approach and extensive illustrations are highly valued by student audience
* A single source, comprehensive and thorough reference covering the entire field of satellite communications engineering.
New features include:
* An updated section on the evolution of satellite communications and the deployment of services
* Inclusion of MPEG2, concatenated coding and coded modulation
* Discusses examples for the transmission of digital telephony, digital TV and date, introduction of DVB-s (Digital Video Broadcasting by satellite) standard
* Complete re-organisation of Chapters 5 and 6 resulting in a unique new Chapter 5 entitled 'Service Oriented Satellite Networks'
* Recent developments in deployableantennas
* Lithium batteries
* New launchers such as Atlas 3 and 4
A leading edge resource for advanced students, engineers and designers in the field of satellite and mobile radio communications and also communication engineers.

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Web Publishing with FileMaker and PHP by Jonathan Stark

Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 | Publisher: Sams | ISBN: 0672329506 | edition 2007 | PDF | 263 pages | 14,1 mb

Whether you are a FileMaker developer who is new to web publishing, a web developer who is new to FileMaker, or a complete beginner looking to put your data online, this book is for you.

In Part I, you learn the basics of how web publishing works and how to write your own HTML and PHP. In Part II, you learn how to build a FileMaker database and install and configure the FileMaker Server to host the database. In Part III, you learn how to put it all together to create web pages that talk to your database and allow people to view the data and, if you like, modify it. Throughout the book, publishing a FileMaker Product Catalog to the web is used as an example. Each chapter builds on the previous chapter. When you are done, you will have a working website!

Detailed information on how to…

* Master web publishing
* Read and write basic HTML
* Read and write basic PHP
* Build a FileMaker database
* Install and configure FileMaker Server
* Publish your FileMaker data to the web
* Work with portals and container fields
* Repurpose your FileMaker layouts on the web
Introduction 1
Part I: Basics of Web Publishing
Chapter 1: How Web Publishing Works 7
Chapter 2: Introduction to HTML 17
Chapter 3: Introduction to PHP 31
Part II: Laying the Groundwork
Chapter 4: Building a Simple FileMaker File 49
Chapter 5: Configuring the Server(s) 67
Part III: Publishing FileMaker Data on the Web
Chapter 6: Viewing FileMaker Data 91
Chapter 7: Altering FileMaker Data 115
Chapter 8: Working with Related Data (Portals) 137
Chapter 9: Working withImages 167
Chapter 10: Repurposing a FileMaker Layout on the Web 189
Part IV: More Information
Appendix A: Performance Tuning 213
Appendix B: Security Concerns 217
Appendix C: Error Handling and Prevention 225
Appendix D: FileMaker PHP API Reference 231
Index 239

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Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report by Henry Kellerman, Anthony Burry

Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report | Publisher: Stationary Office | ISBN: 0387713697 | edition 2007 | PDF | 206 pages | 12,9 mb

Since the debut of the original edition, the Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing has been an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. The new Fourth Edition continues in that tradition, taking the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.

As with the previous editions, authors Kellerman and Burry offer a systematic framework for choosing the most relevant material from seemingly overwhelming amounts of test data. Separate chapters offer clear rationales for each component of the report (e.g., cognitive functioning, interpersonal behavior, control mechanisms), and how they relate to one another. Helpful summaries follow each chapter, and tables and charts provide salient facts and findings at a glance.

Features of the updated Fourth Edition: A clear blueprint for writing effective, clinically integrative psychological reports; Emerging areas of interest in testing, including ethnic and language issues; Guidelines for assessing strengths and potential as well as pathology; Review of current diagnostic nomenclature, with discussion of evolving DSM categories and recognized clinical entities outside the DSM system; Brand-new sections on the major standardized intelligence tests; Expanded chapter devoted to testing counselors, teachers and parents; Help for writing–anxiety: overcoming blocks, getting past role conflicts, resisting speculation, and more.

The Handbook makes an elegant student resource by showing how reports can reflect not just the subject’s individuality, but the tester’s as well. All professionals who engage in psychological assessment will find it an invaluable resource as well.

After administering a psychological test, the psychologist must analyze the test data and create a report. This handbook is designed to assist readers in composing psychological reports. This is the only resource available that systematically analyzes both the personality of the patient and the requirements essential for writing test results in relevant, effective reports. All pertinent sectors of the personality are analyzed along with the corresponding sections of the psychodiagnostic report. Each chapter in this book considers a separate aspect of personality so that, as the book unfolds, the report gradually emerges as a precise and meaningful psychological document. By using this book, readers will be better equipped to formulate reports based on the particular needs and conflicts of the patients. For professionals working in the field of psychology.
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Description:This discussion of the various elements involved in psychological assessments emphasizes the analysis of personality, especially anxiety. Previous editions were published in 1997, 1991, and 1981.
Purpose:According to the authors, "this handbook is designed to offer psychology students, as well as professional psychologists, a central resource for the construction and organization of psychological test reports." Its aim is "to help the reader conceptualize the theory of psychological report development by carefully examining the analysis of personality and the logic of effectively communicating such psychological phenomena in the report."
Audience:Psychology students and professional psychologists are the intended audience.
Features:The book presents a step-by-step approach to organizing and writing psychological reports, beginning with the referral question. The authors continue with the clinical interview and give some insight on intellectual functioning. However, as the subtitle suggests, the book emphasizes personality functioning, especially how anxiety influences personality structure, emotional control, and behavior. It deals extensively with defensive functioning and interpersonal behavior and ends with diagnosis and prognosis. The authors teach readers how to incorporate the most important elements of human functioning so the report can communicate clearly and effectively. The chapters are arranged fairly uniformly with summary tables and a summary narrative at the end of each. These tables are very informative and help to bring the materialtogether. The CODA at the end of the book is helpful in providing tips for overcoming difficulties in report writing. In addition, numerous listings of recommended readings refer to specific sections of the report. This book encourages assessing client strengths as well as pathology. It is written from a psychodynamic and/or psychoanalytic standpoint, especially the role of anxiety in personality, and readers from other theoretical persuasions may be slightly disappointed. By design, there are no sample reports, but sample reports would be of great benefit to graduate students or young professionals in the field. Discussion of psychological reports without any examples of narrative is a significant drawback. The lack of references seems odd.
Assessment:This book is helpful for graduate psychology students and young professionals learning how to write good psychological reports, especially the personality section which always is the most difficult to formulate. It is appealing to those who embrace a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theoretical persuasion. The authors note the need for this update because it "covers the newer elements in the development of nomenclature, including the emerging interest in borderline and narcissistic pathologies, the latest revision of the DSM, and references to the latest versions of the classic intelligence tests for children and adults." Since so many things have transpired since 1997 in terms of research and clinical practice, the fourth edition is justified.

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Progress in Brain Research Volume 157: Reprogramming the Brain by Aage R. Moller

Reprogramming the Brain, Volume 157 (Progress in Brain Research) | Publisher: Elsevier Science; 1 edition (December 4, 2006) | ISBN: 0444516026 | Pages: 408 | PDF |

The brain is plastic and it can change its function to adapt to changing demands of various kinds. The brain can also re-organize and change its function to better utilize its resources when parts of the brain have been damaged through injuries and diseases. This means that the brain is not "hard wired" but can be reprogrammed when needed. This book describes different aspects of how the plasticity can become activated and how it can benefit the individual person.

This book provides in-depth coverage of many important aspects of neural plasticity and how it applies to trauma, including strokes and disorders of the central nervous system that affect memory and cognition. The book also discusses how neural plasticity is involved in aphasia, pain and tinnitus. The roles of neural plasticity in motor rehabilitation and in adaptation to prostheses such as cochlear and cochlear nucleus implants are also topics of the book.

* Provides in-depth coverage of many important aspects of neural plasticity and how it applies to trauma, including strokes and disorders of the central nervous system that affect memory and cognition
* Discusses how neural plasticity is involved in aphasia, pain and tinnitus
* Explains the roles of neural plasticity in motor rehabilitation and prosthesis such as cochlear and cochlear nucleus implants

Dr. Møller is currently the M.F. Jonsson Professor of Hearing, University of Texas at Dallas, the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. He was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for 19 years, where he held positions as Research Professor of Otolaryngology and later of Neurological Surgery. From 1988 to 1997 he held the position of Professor of Neurological Surgery. He received his medical education at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also held faculty positions for more than 10 years. Dr. Møller is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Hearing Research.
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poststroke central pain, auditory memory scores, brain disuse, nonclassical auditory pathways, spinal cord plasticity, human umbilical cord blood cells, visual orienting task, cooling deactivation, adult auditory cortex, excitatory synaptogenesis, thalamic principal sensory nucleus, supraspinal plasticity, noisy processing, deaf cats, forepaw representation, hindpaw representation, deafened animals, spinal locomotion, cutaneous pathways, middle suprasylvian sulcus, chronic spinal rats, chronic spinalization, deaf animals, cat primary auditory cortex, bilateral deactivation
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The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications by Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre

Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications | Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201784203 | edition 2003 | CHM | 576 pages |

Business Intelligence Roadmap is a visual guide to developing an effective business intelligence (BI) decision-support application. This book outlines a methodology that takes into account the complexity of developing applications in an integrated BI environment. The authors walk readers through every step of the process--from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases. The book also serves as a single-source guide to the best practices of BI projects.

Part I steers readers through the six stages of a BI project: justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, and deployment. Each chapter describes one of sixteen development steps and the major activities, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities. All technical material is clearly expressed in tables, graphs, and diagrams.

Part II provides five matrices that serve as references for the development process charted in Part I. Management tools, such as graphs illustrating the timing and coordination of activities, are included throughout the book. The authors conclude by crystallizing their many years of experience in a list of dos, don'ts, tips, and rules of thumb. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a complete, customizable work breakdown structure.

Both the book and the methodology it describes are designed to adapt to the specific needs of individual stakeholders and organizations. The book directs business representatives, business sponsors, project managers, and technicians to the chapters that address their distinct responsibilities. The framework of the book allows organizations to begin at any step and enables projects to be scheduled and managed in a variety of ways.

Business Intelligence Roadmap is a clear and comprehensive guide to negotiating the complexities inherent in the development of valuable business intelligence decision-support applications.
This step-by-step guide offers substantial treatment of the many parts of decision-support applications in business intelligence, with selective groupings of the chapters provided for the business representatives, sponsors, project managers, and core and extended team technicians who will be its main audience. The first half of the book is devoted to development, the second to various specific subjects, including human resource allocation, entry and exit criteria, deliverables, activity dependency, task/subtask, and practical guidelines. Both authors are business owners.

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Many organizations are already well equipped to implement successful business intelligence (BI) decision-support applications, such as data warehouses, data marts, and other business analytics applications. However, during our consulting and teaching engagements, we have encountered many ill-equipped organizations as well. We observed some common factors among them, which we address in this book:

* Lack of understanding of the complexity of BI decision-support projects
* Lack of recognizing BI decision-support projects as cross-organizational business initiatives and not understanding that cross-organizational initiatives are different from stand-alone solutions
* Unavailable or unwilling business representatives
* Unengaged business sponsors or business sponsors who have little or no authority due to their low-level positions within the organization
* Lack of skilled and available staff as well as suboptimum staff utilization
* Inappropriate project team structure and dynamics
* No software release concept (no iterative development method)
* No work breakdown structure (no methodology)
* Ineffective project management (only project administration)
* No business analysis and no standardization activities
* No appreciation of the impact of dirty data on business profitability
* No understanding of the necessity for and the usage of meta data
* Too much reliance on disparate methods and tools (the “silver bullet” syndrome)

BI project managers and project teams can use this book to improve their project life cycles. They can also use it to obtain the appropriate recognition for their BI projects from the business community and to solicit the required support from their executive management. BI project team members and the business representatives assigned to them can use this book to gain a better understanding of the development effort required to build and deploy successful BI decision-support applications.

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Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, by Govind P. Agrawal

Fiber-Optic Communication Systems | Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 0471215716 | edition 2002 | PDF | 580 pages | 11,1 mb

The latest edition of a proven bestseller offers comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of fiber-optic communication systems with an emphasis on physical understanding and engineering aspects. The author covers both the systems and components aspects of fiber-optic communication systems with a focus on the physics and technology behind them. The Third Edition has been updated to reflect the current state of the art of lightwave transmission systems, with particular emphasis on the rapid development of the WDM technology and system design issues pertaining to current topics of research. These include new data on lightwave systems design, optical amplification and dispersion-management techniques, multichannel lightwave systems, soliton communication systems, and coherent lightwave systems. Some of the material has been rearranged to facilitate the design of courses in optical communications.

Students and researchers alike will benefit from extensive pedagogical aids including:

* Extensive reference lists for each chapter
* Survey of recent research material for each topic
* Relevant end-of-chapter practice problems for teachers and students
* Solutions Manual available to teachers on request
* System design software on the enclosed CD-ROM

Although intended primarily as a textbook for graduate students of fiber-optic communications, this book is also a valuable resource for undergraduate courses at the senior level and a valuable professional reference for researchers and engineers working in the fields of telecommunications and lightwave technology.
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Fluid Mechanics- Fundamentals & Application by Y. A. Cengel & J. M.Cimbala

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, 7th edition Solution Manual By F. P. Beer, E. R. Johnston Jr., E. R. Eisenberg, & G. H. Staab. TQ

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Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits - L.A. Coldren - S.W

Diode Lasers-An Innovative And Comprehensive Approach. Diode lasers are found in numerous applications in the optoelectronics industry, ranging from readout sources in compact disc players to transmitters for optical fiber communication systems. Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits provides a comprehensive treatment of this technology, its principles and theory, treating students as well as experienced engineers to an in-depth exploration of this fast-growing field. Covering material for a two-semester course of graduate- or advanced senior-level study, this innovative book presents the engineering aspects first-introduces all elementary concepts, provides the necessary detail to accurately solve real problems-and then presents complex physical aspects only after a complete understanding of the operation ofdiode lasers has been achieved. Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits includes:

* Over 270 illustrations
* Extensive appendices that provide both review and advanced material, as well as details of derivations
* Consistent notation throughout all chapters and appendices that allows for a self-contained treatment and varied levels of study
* A series of design examples of relatively complex photonic integrated circuits
* Example problems and a toolbox of techniques to apply to new advanced details as they arise
* Accurate and consistent calculations that illustrate analysis techniques, while agreeing with experimental data
* Complete coverage of matrix multiplication techniques which are more exact, general, and easier to comprehend for modern-day students
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Electrical Properties of Materials by L. Solymar and D Walsh

Electrical Properties of Materials by L. Solymar and D Walsh

Description

The seventh edition of this classic text illustrates the fundamentals of the electrical properties of materials in the context of contemporary engineering applications. Written in an informal, accessible style, it emphasizes the core ideas relevant to understanding the subject and deliberately keeps the mathematical treatment simple. The book presents the simplest model that can display the essential properties of a phenomenon and examines it, showing the difference between ideal and actual behavior. Topics are selected so that the operation of devices having applications (or possible future applications) in engineering can be explained. Problems and worked examples are included throughout.

Features of the Seventh Edition
·Presents a comprehensive treatment of light emitting diodes, which are rapidly replacing classical lighting sources
·Covers new topics such as organic material (including various polymers) and artificial materials (including photonic gap materials and metamaterials)
·Provides insight into cutting-edge fields such as amorphous semiconductors and nanotechnology
·Discusses new devices including nanotube transistors, single electron transistors, magnetic tunnel junctions, quantum cascade lasers, and ferroelectric and superconducting memories
·A solutions manual and illustrations from the text are available for download at: http://www.oup.com/uk/booksites/content/0199267936/

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416 pages; 299 line illus.;ISBN13: 978-0-19-926793-4ISBN10: 0-19-926793-6

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Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job Free eBook download.
Publisher: Sams | ISBN: 0672328011 | edition 2005 | CHM | 336 pages | 22 Mb


There are plenty of books available to teach you how to use the different tools that are a part of Adobe Illustrator CS2. But how many will actually show you how to work with the tools and techniques and apply them to real-world, relevant projects that you encounter every day at work? This one will. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is a project-based guide that will help you complete workplace projects while you learn how to use Illustrator CS2. Detailed, well-explained instructions will help
you accomplish job-related tasks, including:
►Designing and working with logos.
►Designing corporate identity materials.
►Illustrating a poster.
►Designing product packaging.
►Designing a trifold brochure.
►Designing a magazine advertisement.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book

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The Creative Digital Darkroom

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O'Reilly | ISBN: 0596100477 | January 11, 2008 | 432 pages | HQ PDF | 123 MB


This tutorial takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann -- an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator -- offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision.

Co-authored by photographer and teacher Sean Duggan, The Creative Digital Darkroom translates skills, concepts, and nomenclature of the traditional darkroom into digital solutions for photographers who sense that, despite the newness of the technologies at hand, there remains a timeless method for learning and practicing photography the right way. This is not a Photoshop book per se, but it does focus on the photographic aspects of Photoshop, something other books claim to do but rarely have the discipline to accomplish

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Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

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Routledge | ISBN: 0415962617, 0415962625 | 2009-06-03 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB


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McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery

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McGraw-Hill Professional | English | 2009-10-09 | ISBN: 0071606459 | 400 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB


"The authors have clearly succeeded in synthesizing a very practical and reader-friendly manual of 21st-century endocrine surgery. This will be a valuable resource for medical students, surgical residents, fellows, and consulting surgeons alike."--Geoffrey B. Thompson, MD, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic (from the foreword)


This unique, point-of-care book features:
• Succinct, yet comprehensive coverage of the diseases and conditions that affect the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands
• High-yield information on the management of specific endocrine conditions
• Management algorithms within each chapter to speed the decision-making process
• A two-color design with tabbed pages to facilitate on-the-spot look-up
• Content valuable to surgeons, surgical residents, fellows, and faculty
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