You are a father or mother, a son or daughter, husband or wife, a significant other, a rock climber, a kite-flyer, a bicycle enthusiast, a marathon runner, a collector of old movies, a secret novelist, a boxing fan. You are the center of your universe. On the picture collage from the...

We wrote this book because we love games. We also love sound and music, and we love what they can bring to games to make them thrilling, involving, and moving. We want you to be able to try out your sound and your music in a real game. For a book whose examples are based exclusively around one piece of software, it may appear...

IT’S NOT ENOUGH these days to have a website. As a business or individual in today’s technology landscape, you must be able to adapt and change with new emerging technologies that seemingly pop up every day. There are thousands of solutions and implementation to consider, but only a select few are worth your precious time....

Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs, first published in 1980, has become the classic introduction to the field. This new Annals edition continues to convey the message that intersection graph models are a necessary and important tool for solving real-world problems. It remains a stepping stone from which the reader may embark on one...

When it comes to HDR, only three key ingredients are needed: hardware, software, and post-processing technique. Hardware is simple—there are only a few things you need to set up and shoot an HDR series. Software is vastly improved, making it easier for anyone to create an HDR image. The hard part is the post-processing technique. There...

Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure are two sizeable platforms unto themselves. SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s leading server productivity platforms—a collaborative platform for the enterprise and the web. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s operating system in the cloud. Separately, they have their own strengths, market...

The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational data mining (EDM). The primary goal of EDM is to use large-scale educational data sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process. Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...

• Learn design guidelines that show how to deploy server farms in highly available and scalable environments
• Plan site performance capacity with discussions of server farm architectures and their real-life...

Additives are added to food to perform different technological functions, for example, to increase shelf life (preservatives), or to protect against rancidity (antioxidants). The use of additives in food is controlled by separate legislation relating to, for example, colours in food, sweeteners, miscellaneous additives (other than...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was carried out between 2001 and 2005 to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and to establish the basis for actions needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being. The MA was originally conceived as a...