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The Handbook for Reluctant Database Administrators

Apress, 2001

Feeling reluctant? The Handbook for Reluctant Database Administrators provides you with a solid grasp of what you'll need to design, build, secure, and maintain a database. Author Josef Finsel writes from an understanding point of view; he also crossed over from programming to database administration....

Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing: Second International Conference, GPC 2007, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007, Proceedings

Springer, 2007

GPC 2007 provided a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers and developers from industry and academia to report on the latest scientific and technical advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest systems in merging grid computing and the pervasive computing field.

This year, a total of 217 high-quality...

Molecular Pathology (Modules in Life Sciences)

Taylor & Francis, 1997

Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this book is an invaluable introductory guide for students studying chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. Provides a simple description of how aspects of molecular patholgy affect diseases.

It is my pleasure to acknowledge the enthusiasm and expertise of the chapter authors who...

Managing knowledge in the construction industry (Spon Research)

Taylor & Francis, 2009

Knowledge management presents a new way of understanding organizations and companies, and is especially suited to sophisticated and highly technical firms and operations such as those in the construction industry.

This new book draws on hard data from three separate research programs in Sweden and shows how the concept of knowledge can...

Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment (Spon Research)

Taylor & Francis, 2009

Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21^st century has turned this...

Statistics for Business

Taylor & Francis, 2011

Statistical analysis is essential to business decision-making and management, but the underlying theory of data collection, organization and analysis is one of the most challenging topics for business students and practitioners. This user-friendly text and CD-ROM package will help you to develop strong skills in presenting and interpreting...

New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing: From Systems to Brains (Neural Information Processing)

MIT Press, 2006

Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influenced many disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Research now shows that each has much to teach the other, as we see highly sophisticated kinds of signal processing and elaborate hierachical levels of neural computation...

Applications of Silicon-Germanium Heterostructure Devices (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics)

Taylor & Francis, 2002

The authors have certainly identified a gap in the literature … Overall, the book is very informative and provides a strong foundation for work in this active research area.
-K. Alan Shore, Optics and Photonics News

The most significant feature of this work is that it combines three distinct topics - technology, device...

Depression, the Mood Disease (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

The Johns Hopkins University, 2006

Depression is a mood disorder that affects one in ten Americans in any given year. At one time too stigmatized to be mentioned in polite conversation, depression is now discussed frankly in the media, and advertisements for drug therapy appear everywhere. The third edition of this widely acclaimed book reflects changes in how mood disorders...

Integrated Life Cycle Design of Structures

Taylor & Francis, 2001

Traditionally the process of design has concentrated on the construction phase itself, with the primary objective being to optimize efficiency and minimize costs during development and construction. With the move towards more sustainable development comes the need for this short-term approach to be expanded to encompass the entire service life of...

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

Taylor & Francis, 2008

Here is philosophy of science the way it should be. In these pages some of the very best philosophers working today grapple with the big issues of metaphysics, language, and epistemology as they relate to science. This volume is a true introduction to a

This new edition is an introduction to design and graphic techniques...

Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, Second Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

"In this book, Andy Baxevanis and Francis Ouellette . . . have undertaken the difficult task of organizing the knowledge in this field in a logical progression and presenting it in a digestible form. And they have done an excellent job. This fine text will make a major impact on biological research and, in turn, on progress in biomedicine. We...

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