Iron is of fundamental importance to the growth, development and well-being of almost all living organisms. Multiple biological systems have evolved for the uptake, utilisation, storage, and homeostasis of iron in microbes, plants and mammals. Both iron deficiency and iron overload are found extensively in humans; the intimate links between...
The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computation power, storage, and even entire software application suites. On the other hand, service customers demand competitive pricing, service level...
This book exclusively surveys the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy logic have enthusiastically contributed their best research results into five theoretical, philosophical and fundamental sub areas and nine distinctive applications, including two PhD...
Our job as information security professionals is to evaluate risks against our critical assets and deploy safeguards to mitigate them. We work in various roles as firewall engineers, penetration testers, auditors, management, and the like. The common thread is risk: It is part of our job description.
Although web standards-based websites can scale effectively—and basic CSS will give you basic results—there are considerations and obstacles that high traffic websites must face to keep your development and hosting costs to a minimum. There are many tips and tricks, as well as down-to-earth best practice information, to make sure...
This book is for the SEO who already knows the basics of SEO and wants
to take this knowledge to the next level so that they can make more money.
In the SEO industry, the best way I have found to do this is to do SEO
consulting.
Tips, tricks, and little-known methods used by professional SEO consultants to rank in some of...
CERT® Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments. CERT-RMM distills years of research into best practices for managing the security and survivability of people, information, technology, and facilities. It...
I hate management books. I do. People give them to me all the time saying:
“You should read this one, it changed my life!” These books are all
about 150 pages. They have 14 point type, double-spaced. They have lots
of pictures. They have titles like: Open Locker Management, Management
by not Managing, First Clean All The...
In the past decade, the movement to lighter-weight and increasingly agile methods
has been the most significant change to affect the software enterprise since the
advent of the waterfall model in the 1970s. Originated by a variety of thought and
practice leaders and proven in real-world, successful experiments, the methods
have proven...
Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is
broadly used for all kind of data manipulation, such as migrating data between applications
or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do
you need quick solutions to the problems you face while...
The Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives is the outcome
of various debates, discussions, investigations and actions into a vital topic of today – Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) -based business activities and the environment. This handbook draws
on thoughts, insights,...