Debunking many of today’s myths about the future prospects and growth of information technology, this book uses a variety of well-accepted economic, technological, and market data to come to the contrary conclusion that IT is poised to shrink and not grow. Discussed is how this conclusion does not imply that companies will slow their use...
A balanced and concise coverage of inorganic polymers
Inorganic polymers contain elements other than carbon as part of their principal backbone structure and are known to exhibit a wide range of composition and structure. Emphasizing physical properties, chemical synthesis, and characterization of inorganic polymers, Inorganic and...
New multidisciplinary approaches that are changing our understanding of infectious diseases
Discover how the application of novel multidisciplinary, integrative approaches and technologies are dramatically changing our understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases and their treatments. Each article...
This book is intended for a very different readership: you should already be comfortable with the basics of programming. Exactly how you have acquired those basics will result in different expectations and problems with learning C++. One of the delights of C++ is its ability to handle the programming paradigms of most of the...
The most authoritative book on data mining with SQL Server 2008
SQL Server Data Mining has become the most widely deployed data mining server in the industry. Business users—and even academic and scientific users—have adopted SQL Server data mining because of its scalability, availability, extensive functionality, and ease of...
"This book is concerned with developing unsupervised learning procedures and building self organizing network modules that can capture regularities of the environment. the book provides a detailed introduction to Hebbian learning and negative feedback neural networks and is suitable for...
XHTML by Example explains the differences in syntax between HTML and XHTML, and the concept of 'well-formedness', which is underused in HTML but crucial and required in XHTML. Further coverage includes authoring guidelines for a smooth transition to XHTML, XML DTDs and Schemas, and how they relate to XHTML, how XHTML modularization provides...
There is almost a fervor in the way that new products, with their rich and dynamic interfaces, are being released to the public-typically promising to make lives easier, solve the most difficult of problems, and maybe even make the world a better place. The reality is that few survive, much less deliver on their promise. The folly? An absence of...
...a useful tool for those who want to know about these new phenomena and understand the physics behind them. -- Prof Franco Bradamante, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
This book deals with the theory and phenomenology of transverse spin effects in high-energy hadronic physics. Contrary to common past...
Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process.
