Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics
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Macworld - June 2009
May 4, 2009Macworld - June 2009
Macworld - June 2009 / US
100 pages | English | PDF | 38.44 MB
100 pages | English | PDF | 38.44 MB
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SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server)
SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server)
SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)
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SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled presents a direct trouble–shooting methodology for identifying poorly performing stored procedures and queries, isolating the causes of that poor performance, and fixing the underlying problems. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the top causes of poorly performing queries and shows methods for identifying and dealing with the problems in that chapter’s domain. Emphasis is always put upon or placed upon practical methods that you can put to immediate use in your day–to–day work. SQL Server 2008 functionality, tips, and tricks are emphasized in each subject area.
- Emphasizes the practical. Does not bury readers in theory.
- Gives readers practical techniques to immediately apply in their daily work.
- Dedicates a chapter to each of the most common, performance–related problem areas.
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Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics
Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics
Vector analysis is relatively young in the history of mathematics, however, in the short period of its existence it has become a powerful and central tool in describing and solving a wide range of geometric problems, many, of which, arise in computer graphics. These may be in the form of describing lines, surfaces and volumes, which may touch, collide, intersect, or create shadows upon complex surfaces.
Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics provides a complete introduction to vector analysis, especially within the context of computer graphics. The author shows why vectors are useful and how it is possible to develop analytical skills in manipulating the vector algebra. Each topic covered is placed in the context of a practical application within computer graphics.
The book is divided into eleven chapters covering the mathematical foundations of vector algebra and its application to lines, planes, intersections, rotating vectors, vector differentiation, projections, rendering and motion.
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Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
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Many important advances in designing earthquake-resistant structures have occurred over the last several years. Civil engineers need an authoritative source of information that reflects the issues that are unique to the field. Comprising chapters selected from the second edition of the best-selling Handbook of Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design provides a tightly focused, concise, and valuable guide to the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of earthquake engineering. In chapters contributed by renowned experts from around the world, this book supplies the latest concepts, design methodologies, and analytical techniques for mitigating the effects of seismic damage to structures.
It discusses the fundamentals of earthquake engineering, explaining the causes of earthquakes and faulting, measurement of earthquakes, and characterization of seismicity. Subsequent chapters discuss the various types of earthquake damage to structures including recent improvements in earthquake performance, seismic design of buildings and bridges considering various types of construction materials, and performance-based seismic design and evaluation of building structures. The book introduces probabilistic approaches to performance-based methodologies as well as an application example of performance-based design. Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design offers practical tools gathered together in a convenient reference for immediate implementation. It is an ideal resource for civil and structural engineers specializing in earthquake engineering.
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies
Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies
Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies provides a detailed and example-driven tutorial on how to build and use .NET assemblies. The authors focus on building assemblies in C#, but also provide the equivalent VB .NET code in the supplied code download.Assemblies are not a complete replacement for T-SQL stored procedures and triggers; rather, they’re enhancements, to be used at the right place and right time. This book examines the ins and outs of assemblies&emdash;when they should and should not be used, what you can do with them, and how you can get the most out of them.
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What Architects & Industrial Designers Can Teach Each Other About Managing the Design Process
What Architects & Industrial Designers Can Teach Each Other About Managing the Design Process
What Architects & Industrial Designers Can Teach Each Other About Managing the Design Process
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Nowadays, the script of life is for a large part written by architects and designers. Urban planning decides how we spread our activities geographical. The design of modern residential districts determines for a large part how we communicate with each other. The design of shopping centers determines how we acquire our food.
Designers for means of transport decide how we move ourselves and kitchen designers decide how we cook. All this has to do with the mechanisms of technology diffusion which will be elaborated on in this publication. The main issues discussed are the contemporary inter-relationship of industrial design and architecture and a confrontation of contemporary design practice in both domains with academic theory and education. The cases used for this publication provide several examples of the various characters of design processes. The subjects of the cases discussed in Design Processes are design processes in general, visualization as a design tool, project management, social complexity collaboration, decision making and technology diffusion.
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Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers II
Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers II
Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers II
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Transactions on HiPEAC aims at the timely dissemination of research contributions in computer architecture and compilation methods for high-performance embedded computer systems. Recognizing the convergence of embedded and general-purpose computer systems, this journal publishes original research on systems targeted at specific computing tasks as well as systems with broad application bases. The scope of the journal therefore covers all aspects of computer architecture, code generation and compiler optimization methods of interest to researchers and practitioners designing future embedded systems.
This second issue contains 15 papers carefully reviewed and selected out of 31 submissions and is divided into two sections. The first section contains extended versions of the top five papers from the 2nd International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC 2007) held in Ghent, Belgium, in January 2007. The second section consists of ten papers covering topics such as microarchitecture, memory systems, code generation, and performance modeling.
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Pro Flex on Spring (Expert’s Voice in Web Development)
Pro Flex on Spring (Expert’s Voice in Web Development) 
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Pro Flex on Spring (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
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This book is well suited for those with some experience with Flex and Spring who are looking for development design patterns and practical RIA architecture integration techniques.
What you’ll learn
- Explore best practices on architecting enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Spring.
- Discover how Flex applications interface with Spring services.
- Understand how to persist data, end–to–end, using Flex data communication protocols with Spring and its interactions with iBATIS, Hibernate, and JDBC.
- Work with solid frameworks, Cairngorm and Pure MVC, to build Flex applications.
- Build a practical application that demonstrates real experience in delivering enterprise RIAs.
- See how Spring Factories play a key role in routing calls to Spring classes from Flex clients.
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Artificial Evolution: 8th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2007 Tours, France, October 29-31, 2007
Artificial Evolution: 8th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2007 Tours, France, October 29-31, 2007
Artificial Evolution: 8th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2007 Tours, France, October 29-31, 2007
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2007, held in Tours, France in October 2007.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers cover all aspects of artificial evolution: genetic programming, swarm intelligence, combinatorial and multi-objective optimization, theory in genetic algorithms and evolutionary systems, as well as applications of evolutionary algorithms.
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GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems
GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems
GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems
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Professionals involved in the planning, design, operation, and construction of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need to understand the productivity-enhancing applications of GIS. Inspired by an ASCE-sponsored continuing education course taught by the author, GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems focuses on the practical aspects of software and data tools that enable GIS applications. The book documents and analyzes effective use of GIS, demonstrating how you can apply the technology to make tasks easier to perform, saving time and money for your organization.
The book first describes GIS, detailing its importance and explaining how to avoid potential pitfalls via a needs analysis study. It then describes GIS-related technologies that are crucial in applications development: remote sensing; DEM data; GPS; Internet applications; and mobile GIS. The final ten chapters focus on the “Four Ms” of the water industry-Mapping, Monitoring, Modeling, and Maintenance-applications that define the most important activities for efficient management of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems.
Promoting a performance- (or outcome-) based style of learning, each chapter first states learning objectives and later concludes with a chapter summary and questions. The text encourages more effective and natural inductive study by first presenting case studies, then explaining procedures. This volume supplements the text with numerous maps, tables, and illustrations.
· Focuses on the practical aspects of software and data tools that enable productivity-enhancing GIS applications
· Incorporates the recommendations of ABET and ASCE’s Excellence in Civil Engineering Education program
· Includes models, software, examples, and case studies derived from projects managed by the author and other GIS experts
· Discusses GIS applications useful for protecting water and wastewater systems from terrorist attacks
· Presents a collection of recent case studies from around the world
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Foundations of Computational Intelligence: Volume 6: Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Foundations of Computational Intelligence: Volume 6: Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Foundations of Computational Intelligence: Volume 6: Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
- Hardcover: 402 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 23, 2009)
- Language: English
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Computer and Information Science 2009 (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Computer and Information Science 2009 (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Computer and Information Science 2009 (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
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The purpose of the 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2009) to be held on June 1-3, 2009 in Shanghai, China is to bring together scientist, engineers, computer users, students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information Science; and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them.
The conference organizers selected 27 outstanding papers from ICIS 2009, all of which you will find in this volume of Springer’s Studies in Computational Intelligence.
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Trade Options Online
Trade Options Online
Trade Options Online
Description: In this fully updated book, options trading innovator George Fontanills arms you with the knowledge and skills youneed to unleash the phenomenal power of your computer to become a successful online options trader. Following a concise review of the basics of online trading–including hardware and software requirements and essential online resources–Fontanills cuts to the chase with step-by-step coverage of proven managed risk option trading strategies. Specifically designed for online traders, these tested off-floor techniques provide you with a sure-fire method for consistently building up your trading account.
Drawing upon his years as a leading international options educator, Fontanills makes it easy for you to master online options trading by walking you through a series of hypothetical trades that demonstrate how to compute the maximum risk, maximum profit, breakevens, and exit alternatives for each strategy. Trade Options Online also includes a comprehensive guide to fundamental and technical analysis methodologies, a detailed list of the best financial resources, websites analyzed from the point of view of an online options trader, and a review of the most popular online brokerages. Trade Options Online is your complete guide to earning a living and making a killing as an online options trader.
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
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Thomas L. Friedman is one of our brave new worlds bravest thinkers. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and perpetually bestselling author of such paradigm-shifting books as The World Is Flat and Longitudes and Attitudes, Friedman has explored the perils and potential of our increasingly globalized world with a prophets fervor and insight.
In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, hes taking on one of Earths most pressing problemsthe climate crisisand arguing that in saving the world, America can also save itself. In this illuminating account, Friedman explains how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the unprecedented connectivity and commerce enabled by the Internet have brought climate and energy issues to the forefront like never before. But the Green Revolution needed to harness these forces for the good of the planetand our economyhas yet to ignite. Calling for a World War II-level mobilization to create the clean technology breakthroughs that will power America throughout the rest of the century, Friedman appeals for the birth of the Greenest Generationlest this hot, flat, crowded world get hotter still.
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Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile 3G Networks with IMS: Converging NGN and 3G Mobile
Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile 3G Networks with IMS: Converging NGN and 3G Mobile
Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile 3G Networks with IMS: Converging NGN and 3G Mobile
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Focusing on the future network architecture and its main principles, Converging NGN Wireline and Mobile 3G Networks with IMS provides a comprehensive view of the methods, functions, network elements, and the interfaces among them that enable the building of a service agnostic and access agnostic session control layer based on the IMS standards.
After an introduction to IMS principles with market trends, technological innovations, migration issues, and global standards, the book describes converged session control and multimedia handling with ID management, service profiles, and event and applications triggering as well as admission procedures for different types of access networks. Subsequent chapters tackle the all-important aspects of IP charging mechanisms, service-based quality of service, security, border control, and legacy services, enabling a thorough appreciation of the full network requirements. Wherever possible, the author points out the convergence of standards and details different specifications and terminology for TISPAN and 3GPP.
Delivering deep insight into the role of IMS in fixed line and mobile networks, this book explains the new technologies from concepts to detailed techniques to give a clear understanding of how the next generation of converged communication can be achieved with managed quality, security, and chargeability.
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Advanced Biosignal Processing
Advanced Biosignal Processing
Advanced Biosignal Processing
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Through 17 chapters, this book presents the principle of many advanced biosignal processing techniques. After an important chapter introducing the main biosignal properties as well as the most recent acquisition techniques, it highlights five specific parts which build the body of this book. Each part concerns one of the most intensively used biosignals in the clinical routine, namely the Electrocardiogram (ECG), the Elektroenzephalogram (EEG), the Electromyogram (EMG) and the Evoked Potential (EP).
In addition, each part gathers a certain number of chapters related to analysis, detection, classification, source separation and feature extraction. These aspects are explored by means of various advanced signal processing approaches, namely wavelets, Empirical Modal Decomposition, Neural networks, Markov models, Metaheuristics as well as hybrid approaches including wavelet networks, and neuro-fuzzy networks.
The last part, concerns the Multimodal Biosignal processing, in which we present two different chapters related to the biomedical compression and the data fusion.
Instead organising the chapters by approaches, the present book has been voluntarily structured according to signal categories (ECG, EEG, EMG, EP). This helps the reader, interested in a specific field, to assimilate easily the techniques dedicated to a given class of biosignals. Furthermore, most of signals used for illustration purpose in this book can be downloaded from the Medical Database for the Evaluation of Image and Signal Processing Algorithm. These materials assist considerably the user in evaluating the performances of their developed algorithms.
This book is suited for final year graduate students, engineers and researchers in biomedical engineering and practicing engineers in biomedical science and medical physics.
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New Trends on Human-Computer Interaction: Research, Development, New Tools and Methods
New Trends on Human-Computer Interaction: Research, Development, New Tools and Methods
New Trends on Human-Computer Interaction: Research, Development, New Tools and Methods
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This book comprises a collection of chapters concerning novel research on Human-Computer Interaction. Chapters correspond to high-quality selected papers from Interaccion 2007, the 8th annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction held in Zaragoza, Spain, as part of the II CEDI; the second edition of the Spanish Conference on Informatics, the biggest and most important in Spain.
This book is particularly aimed at researchers, advanced HCI students and practitioners. It includes promising works that range from cutting edge paradigms such as Semantic Web Interfaces, Natural Language Processing and Mobile Interaction to new trends and interface-engineering techniques such as User-Centred Design, Usability, Accessibility, Development Methodologies and Emotional User Interfaces. It also provides a specialized learning reference for advanced lectures, involving topics such as Human Factors, Collaborative User Interfaces and Model-based User Interface Design.
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