Familiarity with Microsoft Excel is a requirement for most jobs today. Workers in every office use Excel to track and report information. Sales reps track leads, prospects, commissions, and travel expenses in Excel. Workers on the factory floor log schedules and quality data in Excel.
Super-fast processors, streamlined Internet access, and free productivity and entertainment apps make Apple’s new iPads the hottest tablets around. But to get the most from them, you need an owner’s manual up to the task. That’s where this bestselling guide comes in. You’ll quickly learn how to import, create,...
Information security has become an extremely important topic for everyone over the past few years. In today’s environment the number of touch points between an organization’s information assets and the outside world has drastically increased: millions of customers can interact via a Web site, thousands of employees and partners may...
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
– Ada-Europe 2011—took place in the John McIntyre Conference Centre,
Edinburgh (UK). Previous editions of the conference were held in Switzerland
(Montreux 1996 and Geneva 2007), United Kingdom (London 1997 and York
2005), Sweden (Uppsala...
This book shows how networking research and quality engineering can be combined to successfully manage the transmission quality when speech and video telephony is delivered in heterogeneous wireless networks. Nomadic use of services requires intelligent management of ongoing transmission, and to make the best of available resources many...
This book details the suite of IP security protocols and their interaction with users, systems, and devices. It includes in-depth descriptions of the various IPSec communications and key management protocols that provide the foundation of secure communications. It presents examples of implementation and real world experience and their comparison...
The Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certifications on the Routing and Switching career track are becoming increasingly popular. These certifications have as their foundation the Cisco Certifed Network Associate (CCNA) certification and these profesional-level certifications form the second...
SuperFractals is the long-awaited successor to Fractals Everywhere, in which the power and beauty of Iterated Function Systems were introduced and applied to producing startling and original images that reflect complex structures found for example in nature. This provoked the question of whether there is a deeper connection between topology,...
"...there existed no book or review paper that would allow a newcomer to get a general knowledge of the state of the art. The book of Graeme Milton fills this gap, and it does the job in a splendid manner that will make it the reference book on composite materials for a long time." Mathematical Reviews
Welcome to the world of developing web software using Node (also known as Node.js). Node is a newly-developed software platform that liberates JavaScript from the web browser, enabling it to be used as a general software development platform in server-side applications. It runs atop the ultra-fast JavaScript engine from the Chrome browser,...
Largely driven by major improvements in the analytical capability of mass spectrometry, proteomics is being applied to broader areas of experimental biology, ranging from oncology research to plant biology to environmental health. However, while it has already eclipsed solution protein chemistry as a discipline, it is still essentially an...
