Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET facilitate the development of a new generation of database applications, including disconnected applications that run on the Web. Mastering Visual Basic .NET Database Programming is the resource you need to thrive in this new world. Assuming no prior experience with...
"...it misses the explanation of why GSM is composed as it is and as a result mostly has value as a reference work." -- IEE Review March, 1999--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Since the publication of the first edition the number of GSM subscribers has...
This text was designed for a one-semester course that covers the essential topics
needed for a fundamental understanding of basic statistics and its applications in
the fields of...
Pedestrian Protection Systems (PPSs) are on-board systems aimed at detecting and tracking people in the surroundings of a vehicle in order to avoid potentially dangerous situations. These systems, together with other Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) such as lane departure warning or adaptive cruise control, are one of the most...
Access to free airways is the first consideration in emergency situations, such as at the
scene of an accident, and respiratory emergencies represent an important part of acute
medicine in general. Respiratory problems also play a crucial part in critical care
medicine and constitute an important share of the numerous...
Takes the reader inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! Movement and the back to nature counterculture of California's North Coast.
Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman...
Database management has evolved from a specialized computer application to a central component of a modern computing environment, and, as a result, knowledge about database systems has become an essential part of an education in computer science. In this text, we present the fundamental concepts of database management. These concepts include...
PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too.
Covers: artificial neurons as models of their real counterparts; the geometry of network action in pattern space; gradient descent methods, including back-propagation; associative memory and Hopfield nets; and self-organization and feature maps.
This book grew out of a set of course notes for a neural networks module given as part of a...
Manage everyday calculations instantly and accurately-saving you time in the design, construction, and maintenance of all types of structures
Covering all aspects of civil engineering calculations in an easy-to-understand format, the new edition of the Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations is now revised and...
Speaker identification is a widely used technique in several security
systems. In remote access systems, speaker utterances are recoded and
communicated through a communication channel to a receiver that performs the
identification process. Speaker identification is based on characterizing each
speaker with a set of features...
Web designers know that their industry changes quickly. Continuous
adaption and development of skills is necessary in order to always stay up
to date. Over the past few years, mobile web usage has increased to a point
that web designers can no longer afford to ignore it. As a result, web
designers have a growing need to be...
