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Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems

IGI Global, 2007

Information systems have five main areas of research and practice in which humans relate to information and communications technology. Typically isolated from one another, these areas are: the nature of computers and information, the creation of information technologies, the development of artifacts for human use, the usage of information systems,...

Analog Circuit Design: Scalable Analog Circuit Design, High-Speed D/A Converters, RF Power Amplifiers

Springer, 2002

This tenth volume of Analog Circuit Design concentrates on 3 topics: 1. Scalable Analog Circuits, 2. High-Speed D/A Converters, and 3. RF Power Amplifiers. Each topic is covered by 6 papers, written by international recognized experts on that topic. These papers have a tutorial nature aimed at improving the design of analog circuits....

Managing and Mining Uncertain Data (Advances in Database Systems)

Springer, 2009

Uncertain data management has seen a revival in interest in recent years because of a number of new fields which utilize this kind of data. For example, in fields such as privacy-preserving data mining, additional errors may be added to data in order to mask the identity of the records. Often the data may be imputed using statistical methods...

The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations

Apress, 2015

The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. According to standard personality testing assessments, most people are introverts and no group is more introverted than technical professionals. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking with fear and loathing, yet making...

Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice

Idea Group Publishing, 2003

This text describes how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment. It also describes work in the field of knowledge management, with a specific focus on the management of knowledge .

Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice contributes to the understanding of how more...

The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First

Encounter Books, 2005

Takes the reader inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! Movement and the back to nature counterculture of California's North Coast.

Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman...

Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy

Newleaf, 2002

Many people suggested that I write a book on Viktor Schauberger, the extraordinary natural scientist, inventor and philosopher. Already in the 1920s he forewarned us, in speeches and articles, of the environmental crisis in which we are now caught and from which we seem to have little hope of escaping. In his lifetime he met mostly resistance and...

Semiconductors and the Information Revolution: Magic Crystals that made IT Happen

Academic Press, 2009

This book sets out to explain the development of modern electronic systems and devices from the viewpoint of the semiconductor materials (germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide and many others) which made them possible. It covers the scientific understanding of these materials and its intimate relationship with their technology and many applications....

Programmable Logic Controllers

Career Press, 2010

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) continue to evolve as new technologies are added to their capabilities. The PLC started out as a replacement for hardwired relay control systems. Gradually, various math and logic manipulation functions were added. Today PLCs are the controller of choice for the vast majority of automated...

Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers

Oxford University Press, 2007

This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth...

Aptana Studio Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2013

Aptana Studio 3 is a powerful web development IDE based on the Eclipse platform and provides many innovative technologies and features for developing effective, modern hi-standard web-applications. Aptana has been around since 2008 and it provides language support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, and many others by using...

The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Comedia)

Routledge, 2013

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.

Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics...

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