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Friday, December 31, 2010

Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
S/r (2007-07) | ISBN: 3540724230 3540280707 | 538 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Microfinance investment funds are a recent development that will grow in importance. These funds expand the range of opportunities for financing microfinance institutions, enabling them to offer greater outreach and diversity of products for microentrepreneurs and small businesses. Microfinance now spans the range of finance, from the most simple enterprise to the complexity of capital markets. KfW actively promotes microfinance investment funds and other activities that facilitate the growth of microfinance. This book is an expression of KfW's role as information broker and trend setter. The authors who contributed to this collection offer a comprehensive range of perspectives and themes related to microfinance investment and its promotion.

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Islamic Banking and Finance: New Perspectives on Profit Sharing and Risk

Islamic Banking and Finance: New Perspectives on Profit Sharing and Risk
Edward Elgar Publishing (2002-03-31) | ISBN: 1840647876 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Over 200 Islamic banks - including some of the largest multinational banks - now operate in non-Muslim as well as Muslim countries. This work discusses Islamic financial theory and practice, and focuses on the opportunities offered by Islamic finance as an alternative method of financial intermediation. Key features of profit-sharing (as opposed to debt-based) contracts are highlighted, and the ways in which they can facilitate improved efficiency and stability of a financial system are explored.

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Semantic Web Programming

John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, "Semantic Web Programming"
Publisher: W--y | ISBN 10: 047041801X | 2009 | PDF | 648 pages | 6.3 MB

The next major advance in the WebWeb 3.0will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog.

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Ruby on Rails Enterprise Application Development: Plan, Program, Extend

All businesses have processes that can be automated via computer applications, thereby reducing costs and simplifying everyday operations. This book demonstrates that a modern web application framework makes an ideal platform for such applications. It shows how the attributes that make the Rails framework so successful for Internet applications also provide great benefit within a business intranet. These attributes include easy roll-out and update of applications, centralized processing and data handling, simple maintenance, straightforward code development, and scalability.
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications, accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. Often shortened to Rails or RoR, it provides a stack of tools to rapidly build web applications based on the Model-View-Controller design pattern.
This book covers topics such as installing Ruby, Rubygems, and Rails on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X; choosing and installing a database; installing an IDE for Rails development; setting up a Subversion repository to manage your code; creating a new Rails application; understanding Rails models; understanding controllers and views; improving user interfaces with Ajax; using Rails plugins to manage file uploads; using Capistrano to manage application deployment; techniques for scaling Rails applications, such as caching and using Apache to proxy through to the Mongrel server. The example application is straightforward to develop, easy to roll out, and simple to maintain.

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Intervention Architecture: Building for Change

The most recent cyclical monograph, “Intervention Architecture: Building for Change”, describes the 2007 award-winning projects and contains essays by leading thinkers and practitioners on the broader themes and issues discussed during the 10th Aga Khan Award cycle.

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Web Host Manager Administration Guide: Run your web host with the popular WebHost Manager software

Run your web host with the popular WebHost Manager software
Set up your server using WHM's powerful server management features
Learn how to manage standard and reseller accounts
Keep an eye on your server and learn to spot problems before they become serious
Discover numerous tools and add-ons that can help you manage your server and differentiate your hosting from other providers.

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WebHost Manager is a package used by web hosts to manage their servers and the individual user accounts they hold. It is part of the same package as cPanel, so the host uses WebHost Manager while the client uses cPanel. WebHost Manager is at the core of many web hosts' business. Using web host manager, you can keep track of the accounts on your server, monitor their bandwidth and disk space usage, and much more.

What you will learn from this book?
Set up a fast, secure, and effective server with WHM
Work with Apache, PHP, Perl and Databases
Manage standard and reseller accounts and use third-party programs that assist in this process
Keep an eye on what is happening on your server by using tools that WHM provides and some third-party tools
Deal with reseller and non-reseller accounts
Manage DNS, IP and SSL issues using WHM
Manage security on an on-going basis by learning what to look for
Learn how to add useful features to WHM and cPanel
Discover places you can turn to for help if you need it

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Logos Redesigned: How 200 Companies Successfully Changed Their Image

Logos Redesigned: How 200 Companies Successfully Changed Their Image
PDF | ENG | year 2005 | 192 Pages | 27.3 Mb

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Beginning Digital Image Processing: Using Free Tools for Photographers

Beginning Digital Image Processing: Using Free Tools for Photographers
Apress | 2010 | ISBN: 1430228415 | 312 pages | PDF | 13,6 MB

Since the advent of digital photography, we have been able to post-process our pictures. However, to do it properly, we have to become digital art apprentices. Sebastian Montabone is a computer vision expert who wants us to use our cameras and image processing software to come up with works of art. In this book, he teaches image processing techniques of ascending difficulty based on freely available tools. The book teaches you to use the best tools for the job, and it focuses on the techniques, not the environments or toolchains in which they run. Also in this book, you'€™ll learn about the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), which expands the features of some cameras.
What you'll learn
Learn how to process your photos by example.
Save money by using free tools instead of expensive commercial software.
Create unbelievable high-dynamic range (HDR) pictures.
Generate stunning panoramas from ordinary pictures.
Use the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) to expand your camera features.
Make videos and edit them easily using free software.
Who this book is for This book is for anyone who is interested in photography, image processing, or free image editing software, with no exceptions. (edited by author)

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Double Your Money in Americas Finest Companies The Unbeatable Power of Rising Dividends

Double Your Money in America's Finest Companies: The Unbeatable Power of Rising Dividends

Wiley | 2008-12-03 | ISBN: 0470336048 | 238 pages | PDF | 13 MB

A detailed guide to investing in America's Finest Companies Bill Staton has helped thousands of investors increase their wealth with a commonsense approach to investing. It's simple, and it works: Invest in well-run, profitable companies with long histories of rising annual earnings and dividends. Now, in Double Your Money in America's Finest Companies, Staton shows readers how to achieve this goal. He reveals how to screen public companies, scrutinize their earnings history, and invest in those that consistently pay higher yearly cash dividends. Staton's longstanding method of investing allows readers to take charge of their financial future by following an approach that has proven itself time and again.

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Donor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing: (AFP Fund Development Series)

Donor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing: (AFP Fund Development Series)
Wey (2010-10-26) | ISBN: 0470581581 | 538 pages | PDF | 12 MB

A fresh step-by-step guide for identifying your nonprofit's planned giving prospects and inspiring them to give generously Donor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing helps nonprofit organizations move beyond traditional marketing techniques that have historically yielded only modest results and reveals how putting the focus on the donor can produce the best outcomes for all. Here, nonprofits new to gift planning will learn to market effectively from the start while those with established programs will discover ways to enhance their efforts. You will learn about various donor-centered marketing channels and techniques, as well as how to generate internal support for an improved planned gift marketing effort.

Full of useful and proven tips you can implement for immediate results Offers practical tools including forms and checklists Includes a worksheet to help organizations calculate their planned giving potential Sharing the latest research findings, this book shows you how to identify who your planned giving prospects are. You will learn how to effectively focus on them through meaningful communication that ultimately inspires them to give-and give more.

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Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
Tim Wheeler ( (October 6, 2010) | ISBN: 1441872302 | 538 pages | PDF | 12 MB

You believe in a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it, hoping for enthusiastic support. Instead, you get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets. Before you know what’s hit you, your idea is dead, shot down. It doesn’t have to be this way, say John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to protect good ideas and win the support needed to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the unfair attack strategies that naysayers, nitpickers, and handwringers deploy with great success time and time again:

* Death by delay: Endlessly putting off or diverting discussion of your idea until all momentum is lost * Confusion: Presenting so much distracting information that confidence in your proposal dies * Fear mongering: Stirring up irrational anxieties about your idea * Character assassination: Undermining your reputation and credibility Through the device of a fresh and amusing fictional narrative, the authors vividly show how avoiding or attempting to quash attackers doesn’t work. According to their counterintuitive approach, it’s far better to respectfully engage these adversaries and stand your ground with simple, convincing responses that save the day. By “inviting in the lions” to critique your idea, and preparing yourself for what they’ll throw at you, you’ll capture busy people’s attention. You’ll help them grasp your proposal’s value. And you’ll secure their commitment to implementing the solution — winning their minds and hearts. Smart, practical, and brimming with useful advice, Buy-In equips you to anticipate attacks and turn them to your advantage — so your good idea survives to make a positive change.

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The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia v. 2 (Micro Finance Revolution, Volume 2)

The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia v. 2 (Micro Finance Revolution, Volume 2)
World Bank Publications (31 July 2002) | ISBN: 0821349538 | 538 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The revolution occurring in finance for low-income people refers to commercial microfinance - the delivery of financial services to the economically active poor on a large scale through competing, financially self-sufficient institutions. Lessons from indonesia, volume 2 of The Microfinance Revolution, examines in the Indonesian context the principles and practices of commercial microfinance that were explored and analyzed in volume 1. The first country to develop profitable microfinance on a large scale, Indonesia is home to the world's oldest and largest commercial microfinance institutions, as well as many others. The book examines many financial institutions, with a special emphasis on Bank Rakyat Indonesia's microbanking system, which in the mid-1980s was transformed from a failed subsidized credit program to a nationwide commercial financial intermediary that now profitably provides microfinance services - savings and credit - to more than 20 million people. Commercial microbanking remained stable and profitable in Indonesia even as the country's financial system collapsed during the recent crisis.

This volume shows why, and offers crucial lessons for developing countries everywhere.

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Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time-Use and Poverty in Developing Countries

Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time-Use and Poverty in Developing Countries
Palg**ra-ve Macmillan (January 19, 2010) | ISBN: 0230217303 | 538 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

This volume uses unpaid work and time-use survey data (TUS) from across the global South to elucidate the need to incorporate unpaid work into economic analysis in order to better understand poverty and gender (in)equality.

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Theory of Particle and Cluster Emission

Doru S. Delion, "Theory of Particle and Cluster Emission”
S / r | 2010 | ISBN: 3642144055 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Nowadays experimental nuclear physics pushes its limits towards highly unstable nuclei. The theoretical description of proton-rich and neutronrich nuclei or superheavy elements has become an important part of the modern nuclear physics. The main tool to investigate such unstable nuclei concerns radioactive decays, from proton emission to fission processes. We review the main theoretical methods describing decay processes induced by the strong interaction, like Coupled channels method for Gamow resonances, R-matrix theory, Distorted wave approach, Semiclassical approach, Multi step and Two center shell model. Thus, most of the book is addressed to a broad audience within the nuclear physics community. Secondly, this book is an attempt to clarify some fundamental aspects connected with the fine structure or anisotropy in alpha decay and ternary cold fission. Finally, the self consistent microscopic theory of the alpha decay is analyzed.

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Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History

Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History By Lucien X. Polastron
Publisher: In ner Tradi tions 2007 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1594771677 | DJVU | 3 MB

In his acclaimed Double Fold (2001), Nicholson Baker expressed outrage over newspapers and books turned into landfill by librarians who chose microfilm over paper. French historian Polastron picks up where Baker left off, writing with equal passion yet punctuating his pages with wit. A specialist in Chinese and Arab studies, Polastron surveys the annihilation of libraries from ancient Mesopotamia and China to potential problems looming with the cyber contents of today's virtual books.Although Polastron learned of lost libraries while writing a history of paper, it was the 1992 destruction of the National Library in Sarajevo that triggered his desire to explore all nooks and crannies of history in the attic of every civilization.Over the millennia, libraries crumbled to rubble during wars and bombings; theft and storage problems account for more losses. As countless books went up in smoke, others sank to a watery grave during shipwrecks and floods. Lamenting the loss of the ancient Alexandria library, the author covers books that perished during the Inquisition, the French Revolution and in Nazi Germany. Polastron's exhaustive research and vast scope make this detailed, authoritative study a revelatory read.

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Beating Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-Behavioral Self-Help Guide for Adult Sufferers and their Carers

Beating Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-Behavioral Self-Help Guide for Adult Sufferers and their Carers
Cambridge University Press (2010-11-08) | ISBN: 0521739047 | 214 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Do you or does someone you know suffer from an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or a less typical set of symptoms? The most effective, evidence-based treatment for adults with eating disorders is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). This book presents a highly effective self-help CBT programme for all eating disorders, in an accessible format. It teaches skills to sufferers and carers alike. This book is relevant to any sufferer, if: • You are not yet sure about whether to seek help • You are not sure where to find help • Your family doctor or others recommend that you try a self-help approach • You are waiting for therapy with a clinician, and want to get the best possible start to beating your eating disorder

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Smith's General Urology

Emil Tanagho, Jack McAninch, «Smith's General Urology»
McGraw-Hill Professional | ISBN: 0071457372 | 2007 | PDF | 768 pages | 30.7 MB

This is an excellent book due to its timeliness with new material, user friendly style, and the unique way it accommodates medical students, urology residents, and general medicine physicians who have a peripheral interest in urology issues.

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Autonomous Systems Self-Organization, Management, and Control

Autonomous Systems Self-Organization, Management, and Control: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, October 6-7, 2008
Publisher: S-*-*-r | 2008 | ISBN: 1402088884 | PDF | 186 pages | 7.8 MB

The 2008 TUB-SJTU joint workshop on "Autonomous Systems - Self-Organization, Management, and Control" was held on October 6, 2008 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. The workshop, sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technical University of Berlin brought together scientists and researchers from both universities to present and discuss the latest progress on autonomous systems and its applications in diverse areas. Autonomous systems are designed to integrate machines, computing, sensing, and software to create intelligent systems capable of interacting with the complexities of the real world. Autonomous systems represent the physical embodiment of machine intelligence. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to theory and modeling for autonomous systems; organization of autonomous systems; learning and perception; complex systems; multi-agent systems; robotics and control; and, applications of autonomous systems.

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Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Publisher: S/-/-/r; 1 edition | ISBN: 3540692258 | 300 pages | 2007 | PDF | 4.7 Mb

Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications covers a wealth of important theoretical and practical issues in neural networks, including the learning algorithms of feed-forward neural networks, various dynamical properties of recurrent neural networks, winner-take-all networks and their applications in broad manifolds of computational intelligence: pattern recognition, uniform approximation, constrained optimization, NP-hard problems, and image segmentation. By presenting various computational models, this book is developed to provide readers with a quick but insightful understanding of the broad and rapidly growing areas in the neural networks domain.

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Digital Printing of Textiles

At present the textile industry produces the majority of its 34 billion square yards of printed textile fabric by screen printing. However as we move into the digital age developments in digital printing of paper are being adapted more and more for the textile market. Inkjet textile printing is growing while growth in analog textile printing remains stagnant. As digital print technologies improve offering faster production and larger cost-effective print runs, digital printing will grow to become the technology that provides the majority of the world's printed textiles.

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

rain Dynamics: An Introduction to Models and Simulations

Hermann Haken "Brain Dynamics: An Introduction to Models and Simulations (Springer Series in Synergetics)"
Publisher: S----r | 2008-02-01 | ISBN: 3540752366 | 347 pages | PDF | 2.9 MB

Brain Dynamics serves to introduce graduate students and nonspecialists from various backgrounds to the field of mathematical and computational neurosciences. Some of the advanced chapters will also be of interest to the specialists. The book approaches the subject through pulse-coupled neural networks, with at their core the lighthouse and integrate-and-fire models, which allow for the highly flexible modelling of realistic synaptic activity, synchronization and spatio-temporal pattern formation. Topics also include pulse-averaged equations and their application to movement coordination. The book closes with a short analysis of models versus the real neurophysiological system.
The second edition has been thoroughly updated and augmented by two extensive chapters that discuss the interplay between pattern recognition and synchronization. Further, to enhance the usefulness as textbook and for self-study, the detailed solutions for all 34 exercises throughout the text have been added.

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Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology: A Case Based Approach

Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology: A Case Based Approach
Sp-r; 1st Edition. edition (29 Nov 2010) | ISBN: 1441970843 1441970851 | 440 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology: A Case Based Approach presents a collection of interesting cases in liver disease seen at a very busy and large liver transplant center in the United States. These cases cover the full range of pathology that an internist or gastroenterologist may expect to see in a lifetime of taking care of patients with acute or chronic liver disease, before or after liver transplant. Each case is presented as you would see it in a clinical situation where a patient presents a complaint or something is noted on exam or blood work. The question/answer format will help one through the problem of making a diagnosis or in considering a differential diagnosis and also point to the best way to manage each condition. The volume is divided into pre-transplant and post-transplant hepatology. Each case is 3 pages with the first page presenting the case and pertinent lab data and 3-4 questions (i.e. differential diagnosis, tests to order, x-rays/CT required).The second page illustrates the tests, scans, biopsies and asks for the pertinent findings. The third page provides the diagnosis and what may have been expected with other diagnoses. Here is a single source dealing with questions specific for patients with complications of advanced liver disease and also clinical situations seen in transplant hepatology. Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology: A Case Based Approach will have great appeal to anyone in hepatology/transplant hepatology and also to residents/fellows and internists interested in gastroenterology.

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Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth

Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth
Cambridge University Press (June 28, 2010) | ISBN: 052111294X | 510 pages | PDF | 10 MB

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate. This volume, the last in a series of three heliophysics texts, focuses on long-term variability from the Sun's decade-long sunspot cycle and considers the evolution of the planetary system over ten billion years from a climatological perspective. Topics covered range from the dynamo action of stars and planets to processes in the Earth's troposphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their effects on planetary climate and habitability. Supplemented by online teaching materials, it can be used as a textbook for courses or as a foundational reference for researchers in fields from astrophysics and plasma physics to planetary and climate science.

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Infrared Detectors, Second Edition

Infrared Detectors, Second Edition
CRC Press; 2 edition (November 15, 2010) | ISBN: 142007671X | 898 pages | PDF | 46 MB

Completely revised and reorganized while retaining the approachable style of its predecessor, this second edition addresses the latest developments in the science and technology of IR detection. This edition discusses the fundamentals of IR detection, radiometry, and flux-transfer issues needed for IR detector and system analysis as well as major achievements and trends in the development of IR detectors. It covers novel uncooled detectors, such as cantilever, antenna, and optically coupled detectors; type II superlattice detectors; quantum dot IR detectors; and THz arrays and third-generation detectors.

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Microsoft Windows 7 Your Way: Speed Up and Customize Windows

Want to make Windows 7 run faster, smarter, easier, better? Want to personalize Windows to look and act the way you want it to? Want to get
more efficient and ditch all those Windows hassles? You don’t need
a Ph.D in computer science or expensive upgrades. All you need is this book!
Michael Miller makes it easy to tweak Windows so it works just like you
want it to–and runs smooth as silk for years to come. No extreme hacking required: These are simple, step-by-step techniques anyone can perform in minutes–even beginners!

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Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, 3rd Edition

This is a topic that becomes increasingly important every year as the digital age extends and grows more encompassing in every facet of life. Discrete mathematics, the study of finite systems has become more important as the computer age has advanced, as computer arithmetic, logic, and combinatorics have become standard topics in the discipline. For mathematics majors it is one of the core required courses. This new edition will bring the outline into sync with Rosen, McGraw-Hill's bestselling textbook in the field as well as up to speed in the current curriculum. New material will include expanded coverage of logic, the rules of inference and basic types of proofs in mathematical reasoning. This will give students a better understanding of proofs of facts about sets and functions.There will be increased emphasis on discrete probability and aspects of probability theory, and greater accessibility to counting techniques. This new edition features: a counting chapter which will have new material on generalized combinations; a new chapter on computer arithmetic, with binary and hexagon addition and multiplication; and, a new Cryptology chapter including substitution and RSA method. This outline is the perfect supplement to any course in discrete math and can also serve as a stand-alone textbook.

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Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems

Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems
Nova Science Pub Inc (September 30, 2010) | ISBN: 1616680377 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB

The developments of theoretical physics in the field of complex systems and emergence has evidenced that many mathematical methods and traditional approaches can migrate towards biological and social systems. The deep physical explanation of such new vitality is simple in its essence and has to be searched in the universality of the emergence processes typical of the Middle Way suggested by the prophetic works of Anderson, Pines and Laughlin. In particular, the systems based on competition and co-operation and their sustainable dependence on the environment - well-known to the physicists since the Ising classical model - have provided a great deal of conceptual suggestions for the study of biological and social economic processes.

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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective

Raja Jurdak, "Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective”
S / r | 1 edition | 2007 | ISBN: 0387390227 | 266 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective deals with the emerging design trend that transcends traditional communication layers for performance gains in ad hoc and sensor networks. The author explores the current state of the art in cross-layer approaches for ad hoc and sensor networks, providing a comprehensive design resource.

The book offers a structured comparison and analysis of both layered and cross-layer design, providing readers with an overview of the many issues relating to ad hoc and sensor networks. The benefits of these cross-layer approaches are examined through three diverse case studies: a monitoring sensor network using Radio Frequency waves, an ad hoc network that uses Ultra Wide Band Radio, and an acoustic underwater sensor network for environmental monitoring.

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective is interdisciplinary in character, and should be of value to software engineers, hardware engineers, application developers, network protocol designers, graduate students, communication engineers, systems engineers, and university professors.

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Traffic Analysis and Design of Wireless IP Networks

Toni Janevski, "Traffic Analysis and Design of Wireless IP Networks”
Artech House Publishers | 2003 | ISBN: 1580533310 | 390 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Here’s a unique new book that focuses on the future direction in wireless/mobile telecommunications as a standalone concept for building wireless IP systems, including commercial, campus, local, and global networks. It examines the integration of the Internet and mobile networks, which are merging as a result of global demand for seamless mobile communication.

The book presents you with a solid analytical framework for traffic analysis in wireless IP networks and provides valuable analytical tools for network planning, dimensioning, and optimization for wireless IP networks in a multiple classes environment. It provides a novel approach for admission control in wireless IP networks, which considers both call level and packet level. A new approach for micro-mobility and location management helps you solve problems within a given wireless IP network domain, and improving traffic performance at handovers. The book introduces a new scheduling algorithm, which offers an efficient way to solve problems relating to scheduling in multi-class wireless IP networks under the influence of location-dependent bit errors in the wireless channel.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Networking, A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition (Networking Professional's Library)

Bruce Hallberg, “Networking, A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition (Networking Professional's Library)”
M c G r a w - H i l l Osborne Media; 5 ed | 2009 | ISBN: 0071633553 | 448 pages | PDF | 9 MB

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A practical guide to networking fundamentals

Fully up to date with the latest technologies, this introductory handbook covers wired and wireless network design, configuration, hardware, protocols, security, backup, recovery, virtualization, and more. After laying the groundwork, Networking: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition explains, step-by-step, how to install, set up, and administer Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2010, Fedora 10, and Apache. If you're beginning a career in networking or looking to refresh your skills, you need this detailed reference.

* Learn about network cabling, topologies, hardware, and the OSI Model
* Set up a small office and home office (SOHO) wired or wireless network
* Connect LANs and WANs
* Work with network protocols--TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, VoIP, and others
* Enable remote access through a VPN or other methods
* Secure your network and handle backup and disaster recovery
* Install, configure, and administer Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2010, Fedora 10, and Apache
* Understand virtualization technologies, and learn how to set up and use VMware Server
* Learn how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 affects networking and IT professionals

Bruce Hallberg has been involved in IT for more than 25 years and has consulted for Fortune 1000 firms on the implementation of management information and networking systems. He is the bestselling author of more than 20 books.
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Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks

IEEE Std 802.15.4-2003 is designed to address applications with relaxed throughput and latency requirements, while favoring a low-cost and low-power design. These features enable applications in the fields of industrial, agricultural, vehicular, residential and medical sensors and actuators, which cannot make use of current wireless technologies or have to use proprietary solutions. The IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network Standard: Enabling Wireless Sensor Networks has been designed to complement IEEE Std 802.15.4 by presenting an overview of the features that characterize it, the applications that motivate it, and the rationale that dictates several of the design options made in its creation. This book is a companion to the standard for those interested in the field of "simple" wireless connectivity with further focus on wireless sensors and actuators for the industry in general. The material in this book has been divided into three parts: Part I presents an overview of the low-rate wireless personal area technology and IEEE Std 802.15.4. The material focuses on the motivation for the creation of this standard, including the application scenarios that drove the making of it. Part I was designed not only as a technical introduction of the standard, but also to offer marketing and business professionals enough background information onthe technology and the vision behind its conception to plan marketing and business strategies based on it. Part II concentrates on the technical features and components of IEEE Std 802.15.4. In addition, it includes material not covered in the standard related to the network layer functionality for the envisioned applications and the rationale behind the design of several of the components of the standard. Part III focuses on implementation and system design considerations. It includes an analysis of system-level real-world issues that will be important for prospective implementers to consider. The IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network Standard: Enabling Wireless Sensor Networks is a MUST HAVE for anyone who fully wants to understand the inner-workings of the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard!

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Transmission Systems Design Handbook for Wireless Networks

Harvey Lehpamer, "Transmission Systems Design Handbook for Wireless Networks”
Artech House Publishers | 2002 | ISBN: 1580532438 | 640 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This practical new resource gives you a comprehensive understanding of the design and deployment of transmission networks for wireless applications. From principles and design, to equipment procurement, project management, testing, and operation, it’s a practical, hands-on engineering guide with numerous real-life examples of turn-key operations in the wireless networking industry. This book, written for both technical and non-technical professionals, helps you deal with the costs and difficulties involved in setting up the local access with technologies that are still in the evolutionary stage. Issues involved in the deployment of various transmission technologies, and their impact on the overall wireless network topology are discussed. Strategy and approach to transmission network planning, design and deployment are explored.

The book offers practical guidelines and advice derived from the author’s own experience on projects worldwide. You gain a solid grounding in third generation wireless networks with increased capacity requirements, while learning about packet data architecture, and how it will impact future transmission network design and deployment.

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Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R

John Chambers turns his attention to R, the enormously successful open-source system based on the S language. His book guides the reader through programming with R, beginning with simple interactive use and progressing by gradual stages, starting with simple functions. More advanced programming techniques can be added as needed, allowing users to grow into software contributors, benefiting their careers and the community. R packages provide a powerful mechanism for contributions to be organized and communicated. This is the only advanced programming book on R, written by the author of the S language from which R evolved.

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The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences

The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences
Sp-r; 1st Edition. edition (Dec 15 2010) | ISBN: 9048189683 | 165 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour market career, housing accommodation, etc.). People realise that having children will fundamentally change their life and in order to fit this unknown and irreversible adventure perfectly into their life course postponement of the first birth is an easy way out as long as doubts continue and partners try to make up their mind. Modern methods of birth control are of course a very effective help in that period. What is the best moment to have the first child? And to what moment is postponement justified? There are no easy answers to these questions. Best solutions vary per person as they depend on personal circumstances and considerations (the partner may have conflicting ideas; housing accommodation; job; income; free time activities). Existing parental leave and child care arrangements are weighted as well. Unfortunately the biological clock ticks further. And, also unfortunately, assisted reproductive technology (IVF etc.) is unable to guarantee a successful outcome. Several couples end up without children involuntarily and that may lead to sorrow and grief. This interdisciplinary book overviews the process of postponement and its backgrounds in modern Western societies holistically, both at the personal and the societal level. Contributions come from reproductive, evolutionary biological and neurological sciences, as well as from demography, economy, sociology and psychology. It holds not only at women but also at men becoming first time fathers. The discussion boils down to a new policy approach for motherhood and emancipation on how to shape work and family life? It is argued that a public window where one can compose a ‘cafeteria’-like set of supportive arrangements according to personal preferences could lead to a break in the rising age at first motherhood.

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Marketing Today's Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students

Marketing Today's Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students
American Library Association (March 2009) | ISBN: 0838909841 | 192 pages | PDF | 1 MB

In "Marketing Today's Academic Library", Brian Mathews uses his vast experience to speak directly to the academic library practitioner about matching services with user needs. This book proposes new visions and ideas, challenging the traditional way of thinking and providing a framework to target users more precisely. Most library marketing intended for undergraduates promotes the collection, reference and instructional service, and occasional events such as guest speakers or exhibits. The guiding principle of "Marketing Today's Academic Library" is that marketing should focus on the lifestyle of the user, showcasing how the library fits within the daily life of the student. Mathews' personal and compelling presentation will assist readers in: challenging and rethinking their marketing strategies; demonstrating their value through applied relevance; and, focusing on the needs of the student and their expectations. Written in a concise and engaging manner that speaks to popular anxiety points about new marketing techniques, this book is filled with tips and strategies that academic librarians can use to communicate with students, surpassing their expectations of their library experience.

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The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas

The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas
McGraw-Hill (2006-12-18) | ISBN: 0071389970 | 538 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Long-established as a definitive resource by Wall Street professionals, The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas has been revised and updated to reflect the realities of today's options markets. The Second Edition contains a complete listing of virtually every pricing formula_ all presented in an easy-to-use dictionary format, with expert author commentary and ready-to-use programming code.

The Second Edition of this classic guide now includes more than 60 new option models and formulas…extensive tables providing an overview of all formulas…new examples and applications…and an updated CD containing all pricing formulas, with VBA code and ready-to-use Excel spreadsheets.

The volume also features several new chapters covering such things as: option sensitivities, discrete dividend, commodity options, and two chapters on numerical methods covering trees, finite difference and Monte Carlo Simulation.

The new edition of The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas offers quick access to:

* Options Pricing Overview
* Black-Scholes-Merton
* Black-Scholes-Merton Greeks
* Analytical Formulas for American Options
* Exotic Options Single Asset
* Exotic Options on Two Assets
* Black-Scholes-Merton Adjustments and Alternatives
* Trees and Finite Difference Methods
* Monte Carlo Simulation
* Options on Stocks that Pay Discrete Dividends
* Commodity and Energy Options
* Interest Rate Derivatives
* Volatility and Correlation
* Distributions
* Some Useful Formulas: Interpolation, Interest Rates, and Risk-Reward Measures

This all-in-one options pricing guide contains a numerical example or a table with values for each option pricing formula. The book also includes a helpful glossary of notations, as well as an extensive bibliography of related books and articles.

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CIMA Official Exam Practice Kit Enterprise Strategy, Fifth Edition

CIMA Official Exam Practice Kit Enterprise Strategy, Fifth Edition
CIMA Publishing (June 28, 2010) | ISBN: 1856177343 | 306 pages | PDF | 1 MB

HELPING YOU PREPARE WITH CONFIDENCE, AVOID PITFALLS AND PASS FIRST TIME CIMA's Exam Practice Kits contain a wealth of practice exam questions and answers, focusing purely on applying what has been learned to pass the exam. Fully updated to meet the demands of the new 2010 syllabus, the range of questions covers every aspect of the course to prepare you for any exam scenario.

Each solution provides an in-depth analysis of the correct answer to give a full understanding of the assessments and valuable insight on how to score top marks.

- The only exam practice kits to be officially endorsed by CIMA

- Written by leading CIMA examiners, markers and tutors - a source you can trust

- Maps to CIMA's Learning Systems and CIMA's Learning Outcomes to enable you to study efficiently

- Exam level questions with type and weightings matching the format of the exam

- Fully worked model answers to facilitate learning and compare against your own practice answers

- Includes summaries of key theory to strengthen understanding

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Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 3 Edition

Alan L. Rubin MD, "Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, 3 Edition”
For Dummies | 2010 | ISBN: 0470536446 | 392 pages | PDF | 5 MB

The fun and easy way® to eat a well-balanced diabetic diet

Want to create healthy meals that are diabetic friendly? This revised and updated third edition of Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies shows you how easy it can be to manage diabetes through diet, including the latest information on diabetes testing, monitoring, and maintenance, as well as delicious new recipes and nutritional information. This edition also includes a new section that focuses on vegetarian dishes and a new chapter on encouraging a Type 1 diabetic child to eat properly.
Features changes in fat, carbohydrate and protein recommendations that parallel the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association regarding meal plans
Includes new ideas about restaurant eating, including new menu items at fast food locations as well as revised tips on food shopping and setting up the diabetic kitchen
Offers 100+ new and revised diabetic recipes

Complete with ways to involve children in meal planning and preparation, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will help you improve your diet and your health!

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Programming and Customizing the Avr Microcontroller

This book is about the Atmel’s AVR RISC microcontroller series. It covers architecture, design, and usage of this controller in various sample applications. Atmel Corporation (www.atmel.com) is a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs). AVR is the name of a microcontroller series that Atmel produces and that is the subject of this book. RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) is a popular architecture for modern processors (more about RISC in a later chapter).

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Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View-ViewModel

Gary Hall,"Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View-ViewModel"
Apr-ss (12-2010) | PDF | 272 pages | ISBN : 1430231629 | 2.3Mb

WPF and Silverlight are unlike any other user interface (UI) technologies. They have been built to a new paradigm that—if harnessed correctly—can yield unprecedented power and performance. This book shows you how to control that power to produce clean, testable, maintainable code.
It is now recognized that any non-trivial WPF or Silverlight application needs be designed around the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern in order to unlock the technology's full data-binding potential.
However, the knowledge of how to do this is missing from a large part of the development community—even amongst those who work with WPF and Silverlight on a daily basis. Too often there is a reliance on programmatic interaction between controls and not enough trust in the technologies' data-binding capabilities. This leads to a clouding of design values and an inevitable loss of performance, scalability, and maintainability throughout the application.
Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM will show you how to arrange your application so that it can grow as much as required in any direction without danger of collapse.
What you'll learn
# Understand why the separation of an application’s View and its Model is paramount, including the history of Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-Controller.
# Apply WPF and Silverlight’s powerful data-binding model correctly.
# Examine how to organize an application targeting WPF or Silverlight, including unit-testing, source-control, separation of concerns, data serialization, and how to tie everything together with MVVM.
# Develop a full game development application using MVVM by example.
# How to serialize the Model without being invasive, how to implement a plug-in architecture that extends both the View and the Model, and how to handle Exceptions gracefully.

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Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed

Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed gives IT professionals, serious power users, and true geeks the powerhouse Windows 7 tweaks, hacks, techniques, and insights they need: knowledge that simply can’t be found anywhere else. Top Windows expert Paul McFedries dives deep into Windows 7, returning with the most powerful ways to handle everything from networking to administration, security to scripting.
McFedries begins with advanced customization, covering everything from startup/shutdown to the file system. He introduces new ways to tune Windows 7 performance, police Windows via Group Policies, tweak the Registry, make the most of Windows 7s management tools, and control Windows 7 from the command line. You’ll find thorough coverage of securing Windows 7, including detailed guidance on web and email security and hardening both wireless and wired networks. You’ll also discover better ways to troubleshoot devices, networks, and startup; add Macs to Windows networks; and automate Windows administration with state-of-the-art scripting techniques.

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Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks

Sanjeev Goyal, "Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 069112650X | PDF | 302 pages | 1.5 MB

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of the theory of networks has blossomed. At the heart of this research is the idea that the pattern of connections between individual rational agents shapes their actions and determines their rewards. The importance of connections has in turn motivated the study of the very processes by which networks are formed.
In Connections, Sanjeev Goyal puts contemporary thinking about networks and economic activity into context. He develops a general framework within which this body of research can be located. In the first part of the book he demonstrates that location in a network has significant effects on individual rewards and that, given this, it is natural that individuals will seek to form connections to move the network in their favor. This idea motivates the second part of the book, which develops a general theory of network formation founded on individual incentives. Goyal assesses the robustness of current research findings and identifies the substantive open questions. Written in a style that combines simple examples with formal models and complete mathematical proofs, Connections is a concise and self-contained treatment of the economic theory of networks, one that should become the natural source of reference for graduate students in economics and related disciplines.

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Principles of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: and related plasmonic effects

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) was discovered in the 1970s and has since grown enormously in breadth, depth, and understanding. One of the major characteristics of SERS is its interdisciplinary nature: it lies at the boundary between physics, chemistry, colloid science, plasmonics, nanotechnology, and biology. By their very nature, it is impossible to find a textbook that will summarize the principles needed for SERS of these rather dissimilar and disconnected topics. Although a basic understanding of these topics is necessary for research projects in SERS with all its many aspects and applications, they are seldom touched upon as a coherent unit during most undergraduate studies in physics or chemistry. This book intends to fill this existing gap in the literature. It provides an overview of the underlying principles of SERS, from the fundamental understanding of the effect to its potential applications. It is aimed primarily at newcomers to the field, graduate student, researcher or scientist, attracted by the many applications of SERS and plasmonics or its basic science. The emphasis is on concepts and background material for SERS, such as Raman spectroscopy, the physics of plasmons, or colloid science, all of them introduced within the context of SERS, and from where the more specialised literature can be followed.

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