This book is designed to help students learn how to analyze and interpret research data with basic
statistics. It is intended to be a supplemental text in an introductory (undergraduate or graduate)
statistics or research methods course in the behavioral sciences or education and it can be used in
conjunction with any mainstream text....
The field of computer networking has evolved significantly over the past four
decades since the development of ARPANET, the first large-scale computer network.
The Internet has become a part and parcel of everyday life virtually worldwide,
and its influence on various fields is well recognized. The TCP/IP protocol
suite and packet...
Back in the old days, working in a chemical
darkroom, I could only have dreamed of a postprocessing
tool as wonderful as Photoshop. But
for me that’s exactly what Photoshop is—a tool.
It’s a tool that helps me as a professional image
creator. The image is what matters, not the tool.
Data communication networks are widely used today and are an integral part of our
daily life. The Internet is a medium for business, personal, and government communication,
and it is difficult to envision today’s society without this essential
infrastructure. The continued success of the Internet is dependent on our ability
to...
The release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services is the beginning
of a new, more accessible era for master data management. Because of price
and complexity, most solutions on the market today are geared toward large
corporations and require dedicated consulting teams to implement. MDS, a feature of
SQL Server Enterprise Edition,...
With the vast development of Internet capacity and speed, as well as wide adoptation
of media technologies in people’s daily life, a large amount of videos have
been surging, and need to be efficiently processed or organized based on interest.
The human visual perception system could, without difficulty, interpret and recognize...
The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management. A considerable research effort has led to the development of new technologies that make it possible to use the Internet for supervision and control of industrial processes.
What will data management technologies look like in ten years? While the future's difficult to predict, this book provides students, researchers and professionals alike with a brief and engaging look at one prescient trend: the convergence of search and database technologies. This convergence has given rise to a new breed of...
The integration of multi-million-gate configurable logic, pre-compiled heterogeneous
hardware components, and on-chip processor subsystems offer high
computation capability and exceptional design flexibility to modern reconfigurable
hardware. Moshe Gavrielov, the recently appointed president and CEO
of Xilinx, which is the largest...
Welcome to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King’s Treasure. Yes, it’s the sequel to LEGO
MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure, but no previous experience with that book is required to use
or enjoy this book. Please be aware that The Mayan Adventure used the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.0
kit which was released in 2006. The LEGO...
For a long time computer scientists have distinguished between fast and slow algorithms. Fast (or good) algorithms are the algorithms that run in polynomial time, which means that the number of steps required for the algorithm to solve a problem is bounded by some polynomial in the length of the input. All other algorithms are slow (or bad)....
As we began to plan this book, we worried that it would become lost in the
hundreds—no, thousands—of volumes that have been written on “Web design,”
HTML, Java, XML, or any of the myriad technologies that must be understood
to build successful Web-based systems and applications (WebApps). To our surprise,
we...
