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“Performance Intelligence at Work is the wake-up call every business leader needs. Results come from actions but actions come from your thinking. To perform better you must change your thinking.”
—Mike Davidson, Vice Chairman and Chief Agency...

"The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Health and Medicine" is a comprehensive, four-volume reference perfect for a wide audience - from students to health professionals to lay readers - looking for reliable, accurate, accessible health information. Under direction of the Medical Advisory Review Panel, this authoritative, reference...

In modern science and engineering, laboratory experiments are replaced by high fidelity and computationally expensive simulations. Using such simulations reduces costs and shortens development times but introduces new challenges to design optimization process. Examples of such challenges include limited computational resource for simulation...

This book delivers theoretical and practical knowledge on extension of Genetic Programming (GP) for practical applications. It provides a methodology for  integrating Genetic Programming and machine-learning techniques. The developmentof such tools contributes to the establishment of a more robust evolutionary framework when addressing...

Donald Lobo, Michal Mach, and I started CiviCRM almost six years ago. Back then, open source software had gained traction in the operating system arena, but the idea of an open source application designed from the ground up to meet the needs of non-profits and other civic sector organizations was pretty radical. We were convinced that there...

The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine is a medical reference product designed to inform and educate readers about a wide variety of complementary therapies and herbal remedies and treatments for prevalent conditions and diseases. Thomson Gale believes the product to be comprehensive, but not necessarily definitive. It is intended to...

You’re no dummy, and neither am I. The tongue-in-cheek title of For Dummies used for this book franchise is one of the world’s most successful oxymorons, like military intelligence or boneless ribs. You are smart enough to pick up this book because you know there are gaps in your knowledge. The publisher was smart enough to pay me...

Quicken is a convenient way to keep track of personal finances, but many people are unaware of Quicken's power and end up using only the basic features. Sometimes Quicken raises more questions than it answers: Return of capital from stock? Net worth? What are they and why do you need to know about them? Luckily, Quicken 2009:...