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Laser Focus World Magazine, March 2008

Laser Focus World Magazine, March 2008
English | 129 pages | PDF | 16 MB

For over 40 years, Laser Focus World Magazine has been the international resource for technology and applications in the global photonics industry and offers our readers greater technical depth, through the world's most experienced team of science editors and writers, than any other publication in the field.

It is the leading monthly magazine for engineers, researchers, scientists, and technical professionals in this worldwide market. Each month, the magazine analyzes the latest developments and significant trends in both technology and business.

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Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges

Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges
The World Bank | 2003 | ISBN 0821357123 | English |124Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB

In 1996, the World Bank made a commitment to become a global knowledge bank. The Bank’s stated intention was to develop a world-class knowledge management system and to improve and expand the sharing of development knowledge with clients and partners. The objectives of this commitment were to improve the quality of Bank operations and enhance the capacity of clients to achieve development results.

Since FY97, the Bank has spent some US$220 million for corporate, network, and Regional knowledge-sharing activities and more than US$60 million for its three main global knowledge initiatives, the Development Gateway, the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), and the Global Development Network (GDN). These programs and activities have sparked a lot of innovation, with potentially significant benefits for the scaling up of effective Bank interventions and for empowering clients to improve development outcomes. But new knowledge-sharing programs and activities need to be much better integrated into the Bank’s core business processes to achieve the initiative’s broad objectives. For this, senior management must provide greater strategic direction and oversight to corporate, network, and Regional units.

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FAA 2008-2012 Flight Plan: Charting the Path for the Next Generation

FAA 2008-2012 Flight Plan: Charting the Path for the Next Generation
Federal Aviation Administration | ISBN: 0684813505 | 2008 | English | 60 pages | PDF | 2.6 MB

These are basic truths: aviation is safer than ever, capacity must expand to meet demand, and we must be good environmental stewards. The FAA’s plan to redesign America’s aviation system supports each of these in a way that will keep things running smoothly to 2025 and beyond. We must continue the productive relationships we have forged with our international partners. And we must continue to provide all Americans the best possible value for their investment. The tax dollars we spend must benefit everyone.

Our skies are safe. They are so safe that we now monitor incidents and accidents that didn’t happen. Working in partnership with the aviation industry, we have achieved an incredibly low rate of commercial fatal accidents.

In the last 10 years, the commercial fatal accident rate has dropped 57 percent. No other mode of transportation has a safety record that meets our high standard, domestically or abroad. We have also achieved significant reductions in general aviation accidents across the country.

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EMS SQL Manager 2007 for MySQL v4.323

EMS SQL Manager 2007 for MySQL v4.323 | 39 MB

EMS SQL Manager for MySQL is a high performance tool for MySQL Database Server administration and development. SQL Manager for MySQL works with any MySQL versions from 3.23 to 5.2 and supports all of the latest MySQL features including views, stored procedures and functions, InnoDB foreign keys and so on. It offers plenty of powerful tools for experienced users to satisfy all their needs.
SQL Manager for MySQL has a new state-of-the-art graphical user interface with well-described wizard system, so clear in use that even a newbie will not be confused with it.

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AdvancED ActionScript Components: Mastering the Flash Component Architecture by Antonio De Donatis

AdvancED ActionScript Components: Mastering the Flash Component Architecture by Antonio De Donatis
Publisher: friends of ED (February 27, 2006) | ISBN: 1590595939 | PDF | 7,8 Mb | 584 pages

Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired. This can save you an enormous amount of time during application development and help you improve the quality of your code.
What's more, the source code is included, so if you can't find the component you need within the component architecture, you can just modify existing components to create your own! Expert Flash developer and author Antonio De Donatis gives you everything you need to master Flash components. In the first part, he shows you how the architecture works, how to create effective component-based applications, and how to create your own custom components from what's already provided. The second part shows how XML can be used to effectively describe and dynamically create not only single component instances, but whole applications based on any number of components. The last part of the book is a comprehensive reference to using all of the components already available in the Macromedia Component Architecture. It includes a specific chapter dedicated to each of the UI components like basic usage, component management, customization, and practical examples showing usage of each component.

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The Art of Modeling in Science and Engineering

by Diran Basmadjian "The Art of Modeling in Science and Engineering"
CRC | Pages: 688 | 1999-06-28 | ISBN: 1584880120 | PDF | 9 Mb

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Introduction. The Setting Up of Balances. More About Mass, Energy and Momentum Balances. Ordinary Differential Equations. The Laplace Transformation. Special Topics. Partial Differential Equations: Classification, Types, and Properties; Some Simple Transformations and Solutions. Vector Calculus: Generalized Transport Equations. Solution Methods for Partial Differential Equations

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The Cancer Handbook

Providing a comprehensive overview of scientific and clinical information in all major areas of cancer biology and medicine, The Cancer Handbook stands out from existing oncology textbooks and reference works in that it bridges the gap between the molecular biology of cancer and clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Covering a wide range of subjects - from basic cell biology to the systemic oncology of all major organs and tissues - the content of The Cancer Handbook has been organised into six major sections:

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The Molecular Basis of Cell and Tissue Organisation
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The Causation and Prevention of Cancer
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Diagnostic Imaging and Image-Guided Intervention
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Systemic Oncology
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Pre-Clinical Models for Human Cancer
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The Treatment of Human Cancer

It is an indispensable resource for medical and life science students, and all scientists, clinicians and researchers working in the cancer field and related biomedical areas.

* 106 chapters in 2 volumes
* Over 200 contributors
* Approximately 800,000 words
* 750 illustrations in black and white and in colour, plus numerous tables and figures
* 32 detailed colour plates
* Extensive index and article cross-referencing
* A comprehensive glossary of terms
* Further reading lists for each article

The Cancer Handbook will be launching on Wiley's dynamic online content service, Wiley InterScience, in early 2005.

Supported by the powerful search engine, intuitive navigation and extensive linking features Wiley InterScience delivers, this Handbook will be an invaluable online resource for medical researchers and practitioners seeking definitive cancer information at their fingertips. Sophisticated 'All Product Searching' will allow the user to search across the extensive range of cancer and oncology Journals, OnlineBooks, Reference Works and Databases available on Wiley InterScience, including Cancer, Cancer Cytopathology, The Cochrane Library, TNM Online and many, many more.

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Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours | ISBN-10: 067232959X | 528 pages | 20.3 Mb

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

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

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

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

Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions.

Learn how to…

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

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Nullsoft Winamp Pro 5.531 Multilingual

Nullsoft Winamp Pro 5.531 Multilingual | 12.9 Mb

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Changes in Winamp 5.53:
* Improved: Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
* Improved: New 'Refine Search' feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog
* Improved: Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
* Improved: [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
* Improved: [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
* Improved: [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
* Improved: [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
* Improved: [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
* Improved: [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
* Improved: [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
* Improved: [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
* Fixed: Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
* Fixed: Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
* Fixed: [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
* Fixed: [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
* Fixed: [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
* Fixed: [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
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The World of the JINN & DEVILS

Dr. Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar "The World of the JINN & DEVILS"
ISBN 1891540025 | 262 Pages | PDF | 2.5 Mb

From the Author:

"Some people think that writing this topic is writing about a topic that is from the periphery of knowledge. They approve of humans going over this topic in the quickest of fashions and not giving it too much thought. They think that the benefits that accrue from such a study are very limited. Furthermore, they believe that being ignorant of this topic is not harmful at all. However, I am not delving into something distant. Humans today spend billions of dollars with which they could build cities or countries and end poverty in the farthest reaches of the world -- and, instead, they spend that money on research to discover if there is life or if life is possible on nearby planets. Scientists spend a great deal of their time and resources on such a question. What about an existence that is known to be living and thinking, and that lives right here with us on our earth? They live in our houses and they eat and drink with us. In fact, they even spoil our thoughts and our hearts. They drive us to destroy our own selves and to spill each others' blood. No price can be put on the importance of the texts of the Qur'an and authentic hadith that have reached us, giving us knowledge of this matter. Those texts uncover for us the secrets of that existence: the world of the jinn."

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A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

B.G. Sidharth "A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century"
Springer | 2008-04-02 | ISBN: 1402043597 | 207 pages | PDF | 7,3 Mb

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.
The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.

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Understanding IPv6

Joseph Davies ,"Understanding IPv6"
Publisher: Microsoft Press | ISBN: 0735612455 | 544 pages | 2003 | English | CHM | 1.13 MB

This book is a straightforward discussion of the concepts, principles, and processes of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and how IPv6 is supported by the Microsoft Windows .NET Server 2003 family of operating systems. It is primarily a discussion of protocols and processes rather than a discussion of planning, configuration, deployment, and management. It is also mostly about IPv6 rather than the specifics of the implementation for the Windows .NET Server 2003 family. Therefore, this book does not contain in-depth implementation details of the IPv6 protocol for the Windows .NET Server 2003 family, such as structures, tables, buffers, or coding logic. These details are highly guarded Microsoft intellectual property that is of interest only to a relative handful of software developers.

The purpose of this book is to provide an educational vehicle that will enable one to learn IPv6 to a fair technical depth—the terms, the addresses, the protocols, and the processes. This is not intended to be a breezy marketing overview of IPv6 and how it "provides integrated and interoperable technologies to enable exciting new scenarios for personal and enterprise computing.".

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Financial Handbook for SMEs

Financial Handbook for SMEs
ACE | 2007 | 0500285217 | English | 27 pages | PDF | 5.4 MB

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are an important part of Singapore’s economy. They comprise 99% of all the establishments and employ more than half of the workforce.

The SME criteria for schemes administered by SPRING Singapore as follows:

* At least 30% local equity;
* Fixed assets not exceeding S$15 million; and
* Employment size not exceeding 200 for services companies

In recent years, financial institutions in Singapore are placing greater emphasis on meeting the financing needs of SMEs.

Each financial institution has its own definition of SMEs and its own dedicated relationship managers, innovative treasury and lending products, and personalised services to cater to the needs of this segment. These services and product information are available on the websites of the financial institutions.

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A Guide to Starting Your Business

A Guide to Starting Your Business
Bank of Ireland | 2005 | ISBN: 9780471324546 | English | 20 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

Bank of Ireland recognises Small Businesses as a key sector in the Irish Economy and appreciates their importance to economic growth and employment creation.

Our nation-wide team of business banking specialists and our Enterprise Support Unit are at the centre of a comprehensive network of services, to help new business get off to the best start possible.

Other Group companies such as Bank of Ireland Finance (Asset Finance and Invoice Finance) and International Banking (Trade Finance), also play an essential role in the ongoing successful financing and managing of small business.

We understand that starting a new business is an exciting prospect, but we also appreciate that it can be a bit daunting. If you’re thinking about starting your own business, we can offer help and expertise in more areas then you think, ensuring that you get the most out of the opportunities ahead.

We have a wealth of experience in helping new businesses become a success. Our business start-up package is designed to help you every step of the way with exclusive offerings and savings for start-up businesses.

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Linknot: Knot Theory by Computer

Slavik Jablan, Radmila Sazdanovic “Linknot: Knot Theory by Computer"
World Scientific Publishing Company | 2007-11-16 | ISBN: 9812772235 | 500 pages | PDF | 6,3 Mb

LinKnot Knot Theory by Computer provides a unique view of selected topics in knot theory suitable for students, research mathematicians, and readers with backgrounds in other exact sciences, including chemistry, molecular biology and physics. The book covers basic notions in knot theory, as well as new methods for handling open problems such as unknotting number, braid family representatives, invertibility, amphicheirality, undetectability, non-algebraic tangles, polyhedral links, and (2,2)-moves. Hands-on computations using Mathematica or the webMathematica package LinKnot and beautiful illustrations facilitate better learning and understanding. LinKnot is also a powerful research tool for experimental mathematics implementation of Caudron's ideas. The use of Conway notation enables experimenting with large families of knots and links. Conjectures discussed in the book are explained at length. The beauty, universality and diversity of knot theory is illuminated through various non-standard applications: mirror curves, fullerens, self-referential systems, and KL automata.

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The Business of Sustainability

Ulrich Steger “The Business of Sustainability"
Palgrave Macmillan | 2004-08-21 | ISBN: 1403933960 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb

Most academics and certainly most sustainability managers agree that research on the "business case" for sustainability has been very inconclusive. In fact many have simply decided that the business case for sustainability is elusive. This book goes further than ever before in trying to be more specific about the economic rationale for corporate sustainability, by approaching this issue on an industry-specific level. To do this, empirical evidence was gathered from managers in nine industries, along with their stakeholders, during an extensive and ambitious research project. The book gives a detailed and representative insight of the business case in the nine sectors but also a unique cross-industry perspective on this issue.

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Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century

David Howie “Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century"
Cambridge University Press | 2002-08-26 | ISBN: 0521812518 | 274 pages | PDF | 1,7 Mb

This book is a study of the concept of probability as it has been used and applied across a number of scientific disciplines from genetics to geophysics. Probability has a dual aspect: sometimes it is a numerical ratio; sometimes, in the Bayesian interpretation, a degree of belief. David Howie examines probabilistic theories of scientific knowledge, and asks how, despite being adopted by many scientists and statisticians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bayesianism was discredited as a theory of scientific inference during the 1920s and 1930s. Through a close examination of a dispute between two British scientists, the author argues that a choice between the two interpretations of probability is not forced by pure logic, or the mathematics of the situation, but depends on the experiences and aims of the individuals involved, and their views of the correct form of scientific inquiry.

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thics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics

Michael Smith “Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics"
Cambridge University Press | 2004-09-06 | ISBN: 0521007739 | 400 pages | PDF | 1,5 Mb

This volume includes a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. The long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Michael Smith's essays written over a period of fifteen years and will be of interest to students in philosophy and psychology.

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Circuit Cellar Magazine March 2008

Circuit Cellar Magazine March 2008
English | 19 MB | PDF

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Handbook of Transportation Engineering

by Anthony J. Pansini "Handbook of Transportation Engineering"
McGraw-Hill Professional | Pages: 1000 | 2003-11-28 | ISBN: 0071391223 | PDF | 10 Mb

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This is a comprehensive, problem-solving engineering guide on the strategic planning, development, and maintenance of public and private transportation systems. Covering all modes of transportation on land, air, and water, the Handbook shows how to solve specific problems, such as facility improvement, cost reduction, or operations optimization at local, regional, national, and international levels.

* Extensive sections on road construction and maintenance, bridge construction and repair, and mass transit systems
* Examines airline traffic control systems, airline schedule planning, and airline ground operation
* Covers marine, rail, and freight transportation

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Circuit Cellar Magazine April 2008

Circuit Cellar Magazine April 2008
English | PDF | 15 MB

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Robot Builder's Cookbook: Build and Design Your Own Robots

Owen Bishop, "Robot Builder's Cookbook: Build and Design Your Own Robots"
Publisher: Newnes | Number Of Pages: 384 | 2007-07-31 | ISBN: 0750665564 | PDF | 10 Mb

Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used by students and design engineers worldwide.

This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined into a wide range of fascinating robots.

· Full step-by-step instructions for 5 complete self-build robots
· Introduces key techniques in electronics, programming and construction - for robust robots that work first time
· Illustrations, close-up photographs and a lively, readable text make this a fun and informative guide for novice and experienced robot builders

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JavaScript Application Cookbook by Jerry Bradenbaugh (Author)

JavaScript Application Cookbook by Jerry Bradenbaugh (Author)
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (October 11, 1999) | ISBN-10: 1565925777 | PDF | 2,5 Mb | 478 pages

There is a serious information gap for Webmasters learning client-side JavaScript skills and trying to solve common Web-related problems. Knowing the syntax is one thing, being able to build a useful application is another. And while there are dozens of "how- to" JavaScript books available, few literally hand the Webmaster a set of ready-to-go, client-side JavaScript applications with thorough documentation that enable the reader to fully understand and extend those applications. By providing such a set of applications, JavaScript Application Cookbook allows Webmasters to immediately add extra functionality to their Web sites.
This book targets readers with two different skill sets. The primary target is JavaScript-knowledgeable Webmasters and designers who can immediately begin constructing their own versions of the applications. The secondary target is those with little or no JavaScript experience. The included applications are ready for immediate use and require little customization. This book explores both the code and the techniques that are centered around core JavaScript functionality, a functionality that will not become incompatible or obsolete. The source file design of most applications and libraries will help modularize reader Web sites and facilitate easier site management and coding practices.

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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide

Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide
O'Reilly Media, Inc. | 492 pages | 0596514115 | March 17, 2008 | CHM | 14 Mb

This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008. Inside, you'll find step-by-step procedures for using all of the major components, along with discussions on complex concepts such as Active Directory replication, DFS namespaces and replication, network access protection, the Server Core edition, Windows PowerShell, server clustering, and more. All of this with a more compact presentation and a tighter focus on tasks than you'll find in bulkier references. Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide takes a refreshing approach. You won't find the history of Windows NT, or discussions on the way things used to work. Instead, you get only the information you need to use this server. If you're a beginning or intermediate system administrator, you learn how the system works, and how to administer machines running it. The expert administrators among you discover new concepts and components outside of your realm of expertise. Simply put, this is the most thorough reference available for Windows Server 2008, with complete guides to: Installing the server in a variety of different environments File services and the Windows permission structure How the domain name system (DNS) works Active Directory, including its logical and physical structure, hierarchical components, scalability, and replication Group Policy's structure and operation Managing security policy with predefined templates and customized policy plans Architectural improvements, new features, and daily administration of IIS 7 Terminal Services from both the administrator's user's point of view Networking architecture including DNS, DHCP, VPN, RADIUS server, IAS, and IPSec Windows clustering services ---applications, grouping machines, capacity and network planning, user account management Windows PowerShell scripting and command-line technology With Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide, you to come away with a firm understanding of what's happening under the hood, but without the sense that you're taking a graduate course in OS theory. If you intend to work with this server, this is the only book you need.

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The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020

The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020
IPT | 2008 | ISBN: 9781931003193 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 5.3 MB

The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020 guide is an investor education and protection teaching guide. It was developed for high school teachers, however its content lends itself to all kinds of investor education and protection initiatives including college courses, work place education, after school programs, seminars for adults and seniors, etc.

The Basics guide is entirely focused on investor education and protection. Based on our research of current financial curriculums, the focus on investing and the inclusion of an entire unit on investor protection makes The Basics guide unique among the national curriculums available today.

The Basics guide is divided into four units plus an appendix. The four unit titles are: Getting Started, Introduction to Financial Markets, Making a Financial/Investment Plan, and Investment Fraud.

Investor Protection Trust President Don Blandin said: “State securities agencies are leaders in investor education on a statewide basis as well as nationally through such organizations as the Investor Protection Trust. ‘The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020’ is entirely focused on investor education and protection. Rather than ‘re-inventing the wheel,’ IPT has attempted to pare away the generic ‘financial literacy’ materials that are widely available from other sources in order to zero-in on our mission of investor education and protection. The focus on investing and the inclusion of an entire unit on investor protection makes the ‘Basics’ guide unique among the teaching curriculums that are available today. We encourage educators everywhere to check out this excellent new resource.”

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NASA and the Environment: The Case of Ozone Depletion

NASA and the Environment: The Case of Ozone Depletion
NASA | 2005 | ISBN: 9780160749469 | English | 74 pages | PDF | 2.3 MB

While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely perceived as a space agency, since its inception NASA has had a mission dedicated to the home planet. Initially, this mission involved using space to better observe and predict weather and to enable worldwide communication.

Meteorological and communication satellites showed the value of space for earthly endeavors in the 1960s. In 1972, NASA launched Landsat, and the era of earth-resource monitoring began.

At the same time, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the environmental movement swept throughout the United Sates and most industrialized countries. The first Earth Day event took place in 1970, and the government generally began to pay much more attention to issues of environmental quality.

Mitigating pollution became an overriding objective for many agencies. NASA’s existing mission to observe planet Earth was augmented in these years and directed more toward environmental quality.

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Project Management JumpStart

Project Management JumpStart
Jossey-Bass; 1 edition | 0782142141 |400 pages | April 18, 2003 | CHM | 2 Mb

Prepare for a Project Management Career—Fast!
Project Management JumpStart gives you the solid grounding you need to approach a career in project management with confidence.
The basic skills of a successful project manager
Creating project schedules and determining project budgets
Winning the support of department managers
Monitoring project progress, resources, and budgets
Communication and negotiation skills
Tips for motivating people who don't work for you
Effective documentation skills for essential project management documents

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Programming Cameras and Pan-Tilts: with DirectX and Java

Programming Cameras and Pan-Tilts: with DirectX and Java by Ioannis Pavlidis (Author), Vassilios Morellas (Author), Pete Roeber (Author)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; Pap/Cdr edition (December 19, 2002) | ISBN-10: 1558607560 | PDF | 3 Mb | 288 pages

The rapid rise of PC-based cameras has lead to the enormous growth of software applications that use real-time video programming. These applications include video conferencing, computer games, scientific research, automated security and surveillance, industrial inspection, and Web cameras. Previously, developers had to search through manufacturer manuals or research papers in computer vision or image processing to learn how to program devices for these applications.

Programming Cameras and Pan-Tilts with DirectX and Java is the first book to offer practical tools and techniques for those struggling to gain an in-depth understanding of programming computer vision applications with live camera streams and pan-tilt devices. It shows how to build DirectShow filters from scratch and introduces computer vision concepts as needed to understand the code. Special emphasis is devoted to DirectShow programming and popular computer vision applications such as segmentation and tracking.
*Describes programming methods proven in industrial and research settings that can be used with any camera that connects to a PC through a DirectShow-compliant frame grabber.
*Provides easy-to-understand explanations of the underlying concepts of the code examples suitable for those studying computer vision, image processing, or multimedia.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s And 30s

[b]Sarah Young Fisher Susan Shelly" The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s And 30s"
Publisher: Alpha | Number Of Pages: 352 | 1999-03-19 | ISBN: 0028624157 | PDF | 8 Mb

You're no idiot, of course. You're financially independent: You pay rent, utilities, and loans all out of your own paycheck. You realize that your parents had to cut the cord sooner or later, and you're proud of how well you've adjusted. But when it comes to saving money for the long haul, you feel like an astronaut whose oxygen cord has been cut. Don't drift into a financial black hole yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s gives you an edge so you can get through financial hardships now, invest for the future, and even afford a luxury item once in a while. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

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Usability of Speech Dialog Systems: Listening to the Target Audience

Thomas Hempel “Usability of Speech Dialog Systems: Listening to the Target Audience "
Springer | 2008-05-01 | ISBN: 3540783423 | 175 pages | PDF | 1,5 Mb

Many technical issues like speech recognition and signal processing have to be addressed for the design of speech communication systems. However, before designing a speech application starts, 3 key questions that have to be answered: who will use it, why and how often? Only if the designer is clear about these questions, he is able to provide a maximum of target group orientation.
This book gives focuses on these high-level questions and gives a criteria when and how to design speech systems. After an introduction, the state of the art in modern voice user interfaces is displayed. The following parts of the book evolve criteria for designing and evaluating successful voice user interfaces. In the last chapter, outlines and trends of this fast growing area are displayed.

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Effects-Based Operations: Change in The Nature of Warfare

Effects-Based Operations: Change in The Nature of Warfare
AEF | 2001 | ISBN: 9780521677851 | English | 40 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

The Gulf War air campaign introduced profound changes in the planning and conduct of warfare. The results were dramatic in that they changed the expectations of modern warfare. Today and in the future, armed conflict is expected to be short, decisive, and accomplished with a minimum of casualties.

Much of the success achieved by the US and its allies in Desert Shield/Desert Storm is rightfully attributed to advances in technology—the combination of greater precision in weapons with the access enabled by stealth, along with more rapid dissemination of knowledge through information technologies.

Over a decade has elapsed since the Desert Storm turning point in the conduct of conventional war. The security environment has changed and the tools of warfare have been improved, but what is yet to be fully understood and incorporated into our security planning is another critical element of what enabled success of the Gulf War air campaign: the effects-based approach to its planning and execution.

In this essay, Brigadier General Dave Deptula updates an earlier work, and explains the essence of effects-based operations. Describing how it was used as the basis of air campaign planning in the Gulf War, he goes on to suggest that the US security establishment incorporate effects-based operations as the foundation of its security strategy as we move into the future.

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