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A Manager's Guide to Strategic Retirement Plan Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Managing retirement plans is an ongoing process. Regardless of the type of plan you manage—from profit sharing to traditional defined benefit program—you have to familiarize yourself with the rules of the plans as well other issues including investment risk and legal requirements.

Managing retirement plans can be a...

Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities

National Academy Press, 2010

Biometric recognition--the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic--is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of access to physical facilities and financial accounts, and increase the efficiency of access to services and their utilization. Biometric...

How to Do Everything with Your iMac, 4th Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2004

The original idea of How to Do Everything with Your iMac was a simple one. The iMac is a complete computer with a wonderful bundle of applications that enable you to do just about anything you need a computer to do. So, I wanted my book on the iMac to be as comprehensive as possible, teaching the reader how to be productive while enjoying...

Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security

Syngress Publishing, 2007

A senior database manager at one of the world’s largest banks once told me that the best way to secure Oracle is to unplug it from the wall…and he is probably right. In fact, this holds true for nearly every networked application. Unfortunately, for many of us turning off the database is not an option; we must find another way to...

Visual Data Mining: Techniques and Tools for Data Visualization and Mining

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Business intelligence solutions transform business data into conclusive, fact-based, and actionable information and enable businesses to spot customer trends, create customer loyalty, enhance supplier relationships, reduce financial risk, and uncover new sales opportunities. The goal of business intelligence is to make sense of change-to...

Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives is a fundamental breakthrough in the business and technology perspectives of service oriented architecture (SOA). A valuable resource to help you understand and realize the benefits of SOA in today's companies, this guide will show you how to plan, implement, and achieve SOA value....

Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008

Apress, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces new geography and geometry spatial datatypes that enable the storage of structured data describing the shape and position of objects in space. This is an interesting and exciting new feature, with many potentially useful applications.

Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008 covers everything you need...

Handbook on Information Technology in Finance (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

Springer, 2008

This Handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance. Included are recent trends and challenges, IT systems and architectures in finance, essential developments and case studies on management information systems, service...

Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems: Practical Methods for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Advances in Industrial Control)

Springer, 2009

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer an incomparable means of gathering intelligence and carrying out missions without needing an onboard human pilot. The benefits are considerable in terms of cost, efficiency, and reduced pilot risk.

In order to complete a mission efficiently and with a high level of safety and security, the following key...

Environmental Assessment of Estuarine Ecosystems: A Case Study (Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment)

CRC Press, 2009

With contributions from international experts, this reference covers all aspects of estuaries from the physiological to the economical. Using a comparative case study of two French estuaries, the text demonstrates the state-of-the-art science required to assess the estuary paradox. The two estuaries detailed here provide a full-spectrum of chemical...

Air Quality, Fourth Edition

CRC Press, 2003

...succeeds in giving a lucid overview of the most important principles...
-The Science of the Total Environment

We can only hope it will become a bible for thousands of students over the next few years.
-ENVIRON

Ozone-destroying chemicals, greenhouse gases, and...

Wireless Broadband: Conflict and Convergence (IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

"This is as comprehensive a book on wireless broadband as I have seen. The authors address the most important issues facing the players in the wireless ecosystem in great detail and provide a very thoughtful analysis."

—Steve Elfman, President, Sprint Nextel

"An insightful book that takes a...

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