Leadership is not just about command and control - it is about inspiring your team to...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 17th Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2011) held in Taipei, Taiwan, during January 5–7, 2011. Following the success of the 16 preceding conferences, the 17th MMM brought together researchers,developers, practitioners, and educators in the field of multimedia. Both practical systems and theories...

This is the joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-VI) and the First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems 2006 (ALPS2006). The post-proceedings also contain the papers presented at the Second HPF International Workshop: Experiences and Progress (HiWEP2005) and the...

Have you ever been faced with a new type of query to write, or been asked to create an unfamiliar database object? In such situations, you have probably wanted a good, solid example upon which to build, and instead have been forced into the drudgery of parsing railroad-style syntax diagrams in Oracle's manual set. This book frees you from that...

• Why are developing countries financing the world's richest economy, instead of the other way round?
• How have the markets come...

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Today’s corporate decision makers are more sophisticated buyers than ever before. Whilst most love to buy, all hate being ‘sold to’. They are no longer willing to be pushed, pressurized or otherwise badgered into making a decision to buy what you are offering. Indeed, the harder you push, the more likely it is that they will...