During the past decade digital imaging has significantly progressed in
all imaging areas ranging from medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biology to
astrophysics, meteorology and geophysics. The avalanche of digitized
images produced a need for special techniques of processing and
knowledge extraction from many digital images with...
Android is everywhere. Phones. Tablets. TVs and set-top boxes powered by Google TV. Soon, Android will be in cars, in in-flight entertainment systems on planes, and even in
robots!
However, the general theme of Android devices will be smaller screens and/or no
hardware keyboard. And, by the numbers, Android...
The Android mobile platform has quickly risen from its first phone in October 2008
to the most popular mobile operating system in the world by early 2011. The
explosive growth of the platform has been a significant win for consumers with
respect to competition and features. However, forensic analysts and security engineers
have...
Zend Framework is a PHP framework consisting of a growing collection of components.
These components can be combined into a feature-complete MVC stack.
Alternatively, many of them may be used separately or in conjunction with other
frameworks and libraries.
The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive
use of wireless channels and...
Abstract mathematical structures usually have a large number of models. Algorithms
based on operations and laws of such structures therefore have an identical form:
they are generic. This means that for each particular instance of the structure, only
the basic operations have to be adapted, whereas the overall algorithm remains the...
Since being selected as an AdWords Seminar Leader by Google in 2006, I’ve had the
opportunity to teach thousands of businesses and organizations how to use AdWords,
Google’s advertising platform. I believe in the product; if used appropriately, it offers
vast online exposure for advertisers....
Regardless of where I work, simulation has crept into my financial career. After
nearly a decade of working with it in many capacities I’ve found it to be
a mixed blessing. In many investment companies when the term simulation is
simply brought up there are a variety of reactions. The two most visible camps of
thought...
This book is aimed at helping Oracle DBAs understand and use PeopleSoft technology. For the typical DBA, the introduction to PeopleSoft is likely to include some surprises, not all of them agreeable. Many—if not most—DBAs have to deal with many different databases, usually supporting different applications. Often they will want to...
Taking Your iPad to the Max, iOS 5 Edition is written so that anyone can quickly get up to speed on Apple’s latest hit. As bloggers at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com), the authors have the happy privilege of working with Apple products every day, and they'll guide you through all of the perks of being an iPad owner...
Database management systems are the electronic filing cabinets that help individuals
and organizations to manage the mass of information they process each day. With a
well-designed database, information can be easily stored, updated, accessed, and collated.
For example, a freight company can use a database to record...
It has been more than five years since the appearance of the first edition of
Nitric Oxide Protocols. According to Medline, more than 32,500 publications
dealing with nitric oxide have appeared in the primary literature in the intervening
time from 1999 to April 2004. These numbers attest to the continuing
vitality of a field...
