As an editor, I am always looking for references for
all the publications I have been doing, and after
some years I came to the conclusion that there is
just one place to look for all I need: the web. And you
got to know how I ? look for things, not to waste your
precious hours to find the references you need. This
book...
Moai SDK is a fast, minimalist, open-source Lua mobile framework for pro game developers. Moai is built around Lua, a common programming language for games, and offers a single open-source platform for both the front-end elements seen by consumers and the back-end infrastructure.
Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK will guide you...
The vision of a world in which privacy persists and security is ensured but the full potential of the technology is nevertheless tapped guides this work. It is argued that security and privacy can be ensured using technical safeguards if the whole RFID system is designed properly. The challenge is immense since many constraints exist for...
I became interested in investing in biotech in the late 80s while I was a
Ph.D. candidate in the Biochemistry Department at the University of
California, Riverside, in an adjunct molecular endocrinology laboratory of
UCLA School of Medicine. After I finished the doctoral degree, I moved to
New York in 1993 and worked at the...
This book is written for the students and practitioners who are looking for a single introductory Excel-based resource that covers three essential business and analytical skills—Data Analysis, Business Modeling, and Simulation of Complex Problems. The focus of the book is clearly on analysis of problems for decision making, yet detailed...
Everyone wants privacy and security online, something that most computer users have more or less given up on as far as their personal data is concerned. There is no shortage of good encryption software, and no shortage of books, articles and essays that purport to be about how to use it. Yet there is precious little for ordinary users who...
Let me introduce you to algebra. This introduction is somewhat like what would happen if I were to introduce you to my friend Donna. I’d say, “This is Donna. Let me tell you something about her.” After giving a few well-chosen tidbits of information about Donna, I’d let you ask more questions or fill in more details....
When we wrote the first edition of Financial Management: Theory and Practice, we
had four goals: (1) to create a text that would help students make better financial
decisions; (2) to provide a book that could be used in the introductory MBA
course, but one that was complete enough for use as a reference text in follow-on
case...
AT RECX we’ve been involved in the world of IT Security for more than a decade. We were
involved in some of the fi rst penetration tests performed in the UK, where large organizations and
government departments allowed ethical hackers into their networks to determine the risk they
faced from what are now known as cyber attacks....
Nutrition research commenced more than 200 years ago in the dawn of the chemical
revolution. The “golden age of nutrition” began in the early 1910s and continued
into the 1940s when nutritional sciences focused primarily on diseases
associated with single nutrient deficiencies. This led to the formulation of the...
Cyber security is big business today. Smart Grid is big business today. Therefore let’s put the
two together and write a book? Well, surely there will be some individuals that may make that
assumption as to the motivation behind the publication of this book. The real motivation behind
the development of this book is because...
Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After providing an introduction to this phenomenon in an historical perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides ll case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries-the UK, US, the Netherlands,...
