This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference on the design and development of diesel engines. It talks about combustion and gas exchange processes with important references to emissions and fuel consumption and descriptions of the design of various parts of an engine, its coolants and lubricants, and emission control...
Today we are in the midst of an electronic business revolution. The growth of the Internet and e−commerce has presented businesses with an opportunity to forge new links with customers and partners by transcending borders and removing geographical barriers. Electronic information exchange and networking poses a greater threat than ever before...
For a sophisticated view of networking design concepts that goes from lofty to granular in the blink of an eye, Network Design and Case Studies is a sure winner. This mammoth entry in Cisco's growing collection of reference books provides equal parts academic theory and practical application.
The 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining
(WISM 2011) was held during September 24–25, 2011 in Taiyuan, China. WISM
2011 received 472 submissions from 20 countries and regions. After rigorous
reviews, 112 high-quality papers were selected for publication in the WISM 2011
proceedings. The...
Current, essential IT networking skills--made easy!
Thoroughly revised to cover the latest technologies, this practical resource provides you with a solid foundation in networking fundamentals. Networking: A Beginner's Guide, Sixth Edition discusses wired and wireless network design, configuration, hardware, protocols,...
The thing about Windows XP Professional is, users love it. It has a slick interface and it behaves far more intelligently and predictably than some of its predecessors. The new system of software registration aside, Windows XP surely is the most highly acclaimed Microsoft...
When you work with a computer, you can do several things at once. You can hear music while
you edit a document in a word processor and read your e-mail. This can be done because
your operating system allows the concurrency of tasks. Concurrent programming is about the
elements and mechanisms a platform offers to have multiple tasks...
Microsoft Exchange is a big, complicated application; it requires more disk storage than Windows NT Server and has several hundred configuration property pages and dialogs. But it is also a very powerful and flexible messaging system. However, knowing that it can be made to do something and understanding how to do it are often worlds apart....
Discover the Greatest Investment Tool of All Time!
The tax breaks and loopholes built into real estate make it one of the most profitable investments in the world. In fact, the real estate tax exchange loophole--known as the 1031 Exchange--is one of the greatest tax loopholes in existence. This loophole allows a real estate...
The tools, or hacks in this book reveal techniques that go well beyond basic management tasks found in most handbooks. Hacks range from those that deal with general administration to more esoteric hacks in the areas of network deployment, patch management, performance, security, and backup and recovery. No matter which Windows Server you use--NT,...
Welcome to Twitter, the Social Networking site that was called “utterly
devoid of any sort of merit” by New Zealand Herald’s Canvas Magazine,
(June 6, 2009) in the same week it appeared on the cover of TIME
Magazine as “a powerful form of communication” and “the future of
American innovation.”...
This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers’ practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective. Examining the similarities and differences between constructivism and Confucianism from both instructional and moral perspectives, it provides a...
