ACL Graft & Fixation Choices, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, 1e (The Clinics: Orthopedics)

How to Build a Business Rules Engine: Extending Application Functionality through Metadata Engineering

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Business rules engines can make organizations more agile by allowing them to manage diverse sets of operating rules, such as many different contracts for goods and services with different clients. For example, business rules engines can contain interfaces that allow users to define business rules to add specific functionality to software...

Windows Game Programming with Visual Basic and DirectX

Que, 2001

I’ve been fascinated by computer games for years. Some of my first experiences date back to the late 1960s when I was in junior high school. I was allowed to skip math class once a week to use an old teletype terminal. I spent hours punching a tic-tac-toe game written in BASIC onto paper tape so that I could play it when I...

Light and Video Microscopy

Academic Press, 2008

The most comprehensive guide to understanding video and light microscopy

Most information about the nature of living cells is discovered through light microscope observation. The image seen through a microscope is not a magnified point-by-point representation of the object, but is an abstract representation of the object that...

Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony: Second COST 2102 International Training School

Springer, 2010

This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Second COST 2102 International Training School on “Development of Multimodal...

Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought

Dorset House, 1995

Learning the basics of a modeling technique is not the same as learning how to use and apply it. To develop a data model of an organization is to gain insights into its nature that do not come easily. Indeed, analysts are often expected to understand subtleties of an organization's structure that may have evaded people who have worked there...

Sign Language Interpreting and Interpreter Education: Directions for Research and Practice (Perspectives on Deafness)

Oxford University Press, 2005

More the 1.46 million people in the United States have hearing losses in sufficient severity to be considered deaf; another 21 million people have other hearing impairments. For many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, sign language and voice interpreting is essential to their participation in educational programs and their access to public and...