ot long after you graduate with your university degree or college
diploma, you will stare having to write business-oriented emails,
letters, reports, and possibly technical proposals. This book con-
tains numerous examples of informal and semiformal documents, all based
on the unique "pyramid" method for structuring...
FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today’s online media and global business challenges....
Human Machine Interaction, or more commonly Human Computer Interaction, is the study of interaction between people and computers. It is an interdisciplinary field, connecting computer science with many other disciplines such as psychology, sociology and the arts.
The present volume documents the results of the MMI research program...
Wireless ad hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject
as well as a topic of rapid technological progress and large-scale practical development
and application activities. However, a solid foundational and theoretical
background seems still necessary for sensor networking to achieve its full potential....
While still teaching at SUNY at Buffalo, in the late 1960s, I became familiar with the
new program, proposed and run by Jim Kaput, at the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth, called START. The purpose of the program was to help students to overcome,
in their freshman year, deficiencies in Algebra and to help them to proceed...
This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects...
This book models an idealized neuron as being driven by basic electrical elements, the goal being to systematically characterize the logical properties of neural pulses. In order to constitute a system, neurons as pulsating devices may be represented using novel circuit elements as delineated in this book. A plausible brain...
This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance...
This book documents and evaluates the growing consumer revolution against digital copyright law, and makes a unique theoretical contribution to the debate surrounding this issue. With a focus on recent US copyright law, the book charts the consumer rebellion against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act 1998 (US) and the Digital...
All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively...
Project Management for Business, Engineering and Technology, 3rd edition is a direct response to the ever-increasing need for better project management. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, the main bulk of the book is dedicated to the concepts and techniques of practical...
If you've ever wanted to be a User Experience (UX) designer, this book will give you a great head start. It's a comprehensive handbook to the core principles and leads you through design methodologies with many practical examples.
Overview
Get up to speed on the industry standard design...