The decreasing costs of consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras and digital camcorders,
along with the ease of transportation facilitated by the Internet, has lead to a phenomenal rise in the
amount of multimedia data. Now multimedia data comprising of images, audio, and video is becoming
increasingly common. Given that...
Textile chemical processing today, particularly the pre-treatment processes require a highly sophisticated technology and engineering to achieve the well known concepts of "Right first time, Right everytime and Right on time" processing and production. Chemical pre-treatment may be broadly defined as a procedure mainly concerned...
A Packt Compendium is a book formed by drawing existing content from
several related Packt titles. In other words, it is a mashup of published Packt content – Professional Expertise Distilled in the true sense. Such a compendium of Packt's content allows you to learn from each of the chapters' unique styles and Packt...
Once every decade or so, a technology comes along that is so revolutionary that it
fundamentally alters the way we approach everything we do. The world itself has
changed. As I think back to 1995 when I first started developing Internet applications,
our data needs were relatively simple. For the next 10 years,...
Praised for providing an engaging balance of complete examples and explanatory discussion, Absolute Java, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive and accessible book available to both the novice and intermediate Java programming reader. Best-selling author Walt Savitch delivers concepts and techniques in a clear and...
Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook is filled with many advanced recipes to effectively and efficiently configure and manage Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
This book intends to serve as a quick reference for consultants and administrators to quickly address and resolve common problems...
The clear, friendly, visual guide to using and personalizing Windows 7 - 100% focused on what you really want to do with Windows 7!
Full-color, step-by-step tasks teach you how to do what you want, find what you need, run media like a breeze, connect with anyone, and make your whole computing...
OSX Lion and iOS5 now offer an application memory management mechanism called
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). In short, ARC makes memory management the
job of the compiler rather than the programmer, which quite often increases
performance significantly.
In Chapters 2 and 3, you see just how powerful ARC is....
Thank you for choosing 18 Steps to Starting Your Business as
the tool to help you start your new business or to use as a textbook
in your entrepreneurial classes. I hope that it will prove to be of
great help to you.
It has often been said that, “You can run your business by the seat
of your...
SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in Archaeology ‘Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology’ (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the world’s greatest experts in the field of...
Within the pages of this book you will find a comprehensive introduction to the
methods, philosophy, and procedures of the AutoCAD MEP software. AutoCAD
MEP is an advanced and powerful engineering design and documentation software
package covering the disciplines of HVAC, Plumbing, Piping and Electrical design.
By following the...
Our main aim in writing this book is to make the concepts of pattern recognition clear
to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the subject. We will not deal with
pre-processing of data. Rather, assuming that patterns are represented using some
appropriate pre-processing techniques in the form of vectors of numbers, we will...
