For financial institutions around the world, the work involved in managing market, credit, and operational risk exposures--as well as the capital required to support such...

The 97 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed AI and multi-agent...

Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW fills a hole in the LabVIEW technical publication range. It is intended for competent LabVIEW programmers, as a general training manual for those new to National Instruments (NI) Vision application development and a reference for more-experienced vision programmers. It is assumed that readers have...

You will discover how to choose and purchase the right laptop for you, how to set up and maintain your laptop,...

Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS) that anyone can download for free (see forge.joomla.org/sf/go/projects.joomla/frs). This makes it an ideal choice for small businesses. Don’t let the price tag fool you, though; Joomla is powerful and robust, and more big organizations are choosing to use open source software...

In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students the software...

• Empowers a highly visual design experience
• Increase productivity and proactive intelligence through operational or ad hoc reports
• Reporting with Microsoft...

• Step-by-step hands-on introduction, perfect for those just getting started in mobile development
• Use the StoneScript scripting language to handle object interactions and game events
• ...

This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, animal trauma, and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques,...