Power Analysis for Experimental Research: A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences

Risk Management for IT Projects: How to Deal with Over 150 Issues and Risks

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006

The rate of failure of IT projects has remained little changed in survey after survey over the past 15-20 yearsover 40-50%. This has happened in spite of new technology, innovative methods and tools, and different management methods. Why does this happen? Why cant the situation be better? One reason is that many think of each IT effort as unique....

Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XV (v. 15)

Springer, 2002

This volume contains the papers and poster abstracts presented at the 25th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, during 15-19 October 2001. This ITM was jointly organized by the University of Aveiro, Portugal (Pilot country) and by the Catholic University of...

Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g: Maximum Performance for your Database (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

Apress, 2011

Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g is about the one database structure at the heart of almost all performance concerns: the index. Database system performance is one of the top concerns in information technology today. Administrators struggle to keep up with the explosion of access and activity driven by the proliferation of...

Business Data Communications and Networking: A Research Perspective

IGI Global, 2006

Research in the area of data communications and networking is well and alive as this collection of contributions show. The book has received enhanced contributions from the authors that published in the inaugural volume of the International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (http://www.idea-group.com/ijbdcn). The chapters are...

Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Springer Professional Computing)

Springer, 2004

The study of elliptic curves by algebraists, algebraic geometers and number theorists
dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century. There now exists an extensive literature
that describes the beautiful and elegant properties of these marvelous objects. In
1984, Hendrik Lenstra described an ingenious algorithm for factoring...

Game On: Energize Your Business with Social Media Games

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

A never-before published look at the many possibilities of social game development

As one of the few entrepreneurs in the world with expertise building both social media and games, author Jon Radoff brings a one-of-a-kind perspective to this unique book. He shows that games are more than a profitable form of...