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Softswitch : Architecture for VoIP (Professional Telecom)

McGraw-Hill, 2002

SOFTSWITCH DISSECTED

SOFT OR HARD? Hardware switches can cost tens of millions and occupy a city block in real estate. Softswitches are a fraction of the cost and the size of a refrigerator. Bypassing big iron can also make for a more efficient development environment, potentially offering more...

Web Information Systems and Technologies: International Conferences WEBIST 2005 and WEBIST 2006, Revised Selected Papers

Springer, 2007

This book contains the best papers from the first two instances of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2005 and 2006), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in collaboration with the OMG (Object Management Group), held in Miami (USA)...

Anorectal Malformations in Children

Springer, 2006

This multiauthor book is an update on the science and surgery of malformations of the rectum and anus. It carries on Douglas Stephens’ book “Congenital Malformations of the Rectum, Anus, and Genito-urinary Tracts” published in 1963. This first book, which deals exclusively with malformations of the lower end of the digestive and...

Controversies in Laparoscopic Surgery

Springer, 2005

There are numerous textbooks detailing almost every aspect of the different laparoscopic procedures. However, in this era of evidence-based medicine, a text focusing on the controversies from the laparoscopic as well as the general surgeon's point of view is missing.

This book is not intended to be yet another textbook of laparoscopy;...

Updates in Diagnostic Pathology (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Springer, 2005

Updates in Pathology provides pathologists, immunologists and pathologists/immunologists-in-training with a current view of basic pathology and immunology and its subdivisions, as well as topics in basic science, research and technology associated with pathology and immunology on all levels. Also discussed are the...

Introduction to Probability with Statistical Applications

Birkhauser, 2007

This book provides a calculus-based introduction to probability and statistics. It contains enough material for two semesters but, with judicious selection, it can be used as a textbook for a one-semester course, either in probability and statistics or in probability alone.

Each section contains many examples and exercises and, in the...

Drugs for Relapse Prevention of Alcoholism (Milestones in Drug Therapy)

Birkhauser, 2005

"The book was a delight to read and the editors must be congratulated on bringing together a diverse group of experts to describe both the pre-clinical and clinical aspects of this topical issue. (...) This book will more than fulfil the requirements of a clinician looking for information about the underlying neurobiology of...

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development

MIT Press, 2001

This is the first broad cross-country assessment of the ties between financial structure -- the mix of financial instruments, institutions, and markets in a given economy -- and economic growth since Raymond Goldsmith's 1969 landmark study. Most studies focus on developed countries and compare bank-based and market-based systems. Debates over the...

Grid Computing: Experiment Management, Tool Integration, and Scientific Workflows (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2007

Grid computing has become a topic of significant interest in the scientific community as a means of enabling application developers to aggregate resources scattered around the globe for solving large-scale scientific problems. This monograph addresses four critical software development aspects for the engineering and execution of applications on...

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis via Ratio and Difference Judgement (Applied Optimization)

Springer, 1999

The point of departure in the present book is that the decision-makers involved in the evaluation of alternatives under conflicting criteria express their preferential judgement by estimating ratios of subjective values or differences of the corresponding logarithms, the so-called grades. Three MCDA methods are studied in detail; the Simple...

Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History

University of California Press, 2005

The burst of scholarship on colonial studies in the last two decades—crossing the disciplinary boundaries of literature, anthropology, and history—has begun to fill one of the most notable blind spots in the Western world’s examination of its history.Yet there is something strange about the timing: scholarly interest in...

Saving Time and Money Using SAS

SAS Institute, 2007

When selecting a technical book for myself I tend to choose one where there are lots of examples and sample code snippets that I can use and adapt for my own development projects. I wanted to write a book that I could use for reference myself, so I have tried to make sure there are code snippets wherever possible.

Instead of licensing...

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