Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for Excel 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools—Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps—Power BI makes self-service business intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap...
The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. It consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few. The collection of papers offers a...
Circadian rhythms are such an innate part of our lives that we rarely pause to speculate why they even exist. Some studies have suggested that the disruption of the circadian system may be causal for obesity and manifestations of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). Shift-work, sleep-deprivation and bright-light-exposure at night are related to...
Ossifi cation of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is no longer only a Japanese
disease. In 2004, 18 papers on OPLL and related conditions were published, and 7 of
those were from countries other than Japan. Major textbooks on spine surgery, such
as The Spine, The Cervical Spine, and Spine Surgery, have devoted chapters to...
The discovery of troponin by Professor Setsuro Ebashi opened a new era for research
into the regulation of striated muscle contraction. This volume is the proceedings of the symposium
held at Okazaki, Japan, in 2005 celebrating the 40th anniversary of that discovery.
Sophisticated interactive maps are increasingly used to explore information - guiding us through data landscapes to provide information and prompt insight and understanding. Geovisualization is an emerging domain that draws upon disciplines such as computer science, human-computer interaction
design, cognitive sciences, graphical...
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Want to get the word out about your library in the most cost-effective way possible? You can achieve this with the effective word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) strategies laid out in this book. Two creative marketers, Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace, bring you sound marketing principles to spread the word about your library within the community...
In mathematics, a certain surprising thing happens again and again.
Someone poses a simple question, a question so simple that it seems
no useful result can come from answering it. And yet it turns out that
the answer opens the door to all kinds of interesting developments, and
gives great power to the person who understands it....
Systems analysis and design (SAND) is an evolving field that still represents the point where business and
technology intersects. As discussed in (Bajaj, Batra, Hevner, Parsons, & Siau, 2005), SAND represents
the core of management information systems (MIS) curricula but is underrepresented in the area of MIS
research. The...
This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
contains the papers presented at the S+SSPR 2010 Workshops, which was the
seventh occasion that SPR and SSPR workshops have been held jointly. S+SSPR
2010 was organized by TC1 and TC2, Technical Committees of the International
Association for Pattern...
After college I went to work for Intel in California and mainland China. Originally my plan was to go back to grad school after two years, but time flies when you are having fun, and two years turned into six. I realized I had to go back at that point, and I didn’t want to do night school or online learning, I wanted to sit on...
