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Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything

O'Reilly, 2013

Big data has more disruptive potential than any information technology developed in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this revealing book, big data can provide unprecedented visibility into the operational efficiency of enterprises and agencies.

Disruptive Possibilities provides an...

Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity (Ancient Textiles Series)

Oxbow Books, 2017

"Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron,...

Food Composition and Analysis: Methods and Strategies

Academic Press, 2014

This book covers methods and strategies related to food composition and analysis. Topics include antioxidant activity of maize bran arabinoxylan microspheres; active packaging based on the release of carvacrol and thymol for fresh food; enzymes for the flavor, dairy, and baking industries; membrane technology in food processing; tenderization...

Home Networking Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

For Dummies, 2011

Fifty years ago, most households had only one television and one telephone. As the price of these technological marvels dropped, families began purchasing additional televisions and telephones — and the home network was born!

Think about it: Your televisions are basically networked together on a cable network. Okay, not a...

Learning Cassandra for Administrators

Packt Publishing, 2013

Understand the immense capabilities of Cassandra in managing large amounts of data and learn how to ensure that data is always available. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through every stage from installation to performance tuning.

Overview

Install and set up a multi datacenter Cassandra

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Financial Simulation Modeling in Excel, + Website: A Step-by-Step Guide (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Regardless of where I work, simulation has crept into my financial career. After nearly a decade of working with it in many capacities I’ve found it to be a mixed blessing. In many investment companies when the term simulation is simply brought up there are a variety of reactions. The two most visible camps of thought...

Currencies, Commodities and Consumption

Cambridge University Press, 2013

Currency values, prices, consumption and incomes are at the heart of the economic performance of all countries. In order to make a meaningful comparison between one economy and another, economists routinely make use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, but while PPP rates are widely used and well understood, they take a lot of...

Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Second Edition (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

MIT Press, 2003

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions for building a Beowulf-type computer, including the physical elements that make up a clustered PC, the software required, and insights on how to organize the code to exploit parallelism.

Use of Beowulf clusters (collections of off-the-shelf commodity computers programmed to act in...

Extraction of Organic Analytes from Food: A Manual of Methods

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005

This book is designed as a laboratory manual of methods used for the preparation and extraction of organic chemical compounds from food sources. It offers ideas on how to facilitate progress towards the total automation of the assay, as well as proposing assays for unknowns by comparison with known methods.

Beginning with an...

Introduction to Parallel Computing, Second Edition

Addison Wesley, 2003

Increasingly, parallel processing is being seen as the only cost-effective method for the fast solution of computationally large and data-intensive problems. The emergence of inexpensive parallel computers such as commodity desktop multiprocessors and clusters of workstations or PCs has made such parallel methods generally...

Cloud Computing Strategies

CRC Press, 2010

Over the last few years daily papers as well as weekly and monthly magazines and the media have been heralding “digital U.S.,” “digital Europe,” and “digital Asia.” America and most countries of the European Union are already wired. They score highly on access to broadband, while Internet has...

Handbook of Herbs and Spices: Volume 2

CRC Press, 2004

Herbs and spices are among the most versatile and widely used ingredients in food processing. As well as their traditional role in flavouring and colouring foods, they have increasingly been used as natural preservatives and for their potential health-promoting properties. The Handbook of Herbs and Spices Volume 2 provides an essential...

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