It may be easy to plan a website but when it...

DotNetNuke is an open source Content Management System and web application framework. It has taken the Microsoft world by storm and now at version 5, its community has grown to over 200,000 users. Revised and updated for DotNetNuke 5, this renowned book is your indispensable guide to creating content-rich websites with DotNetNuke, as quickly...

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Medical advances have been occurring at breathtaking speed, with diagnostic and treatment options becoming available for conditions for which none previously existed. However, several aspects of health care remain the same. Patients continue to rely heavily on clinicians for help in understanding the burgeoning evidence in medical research...

Nutritional status is recognized as a major determinant in health and disease. Effective treatment of chronic conditions such as obesity or of diseases of the skin requires the integration of clinical and nutritional management. Nutritional and Clinical Management of Chronic Conditions and Diseases, like its predecessor, Nutritional Aspects...

Russia breathes superlatives: the world’s biggest country; its largest supplier of natural gas and second-largest oil producer; home of the planet’s longest railroads, busiest subway system (Moscow’s), and one of its deepest, biggest, and oldest lakes (Baikal, in Siberia). It even boasts balmy beach resorts (on the Black...

This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies progressive, unilinear evolutionary models of change, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic...

This book grew out of our efforts to provide a balanced coverage of essential elements of machine vision systems to students in our undergraduate and early graduate classes. The field of machine vision, or computer vision, has been growning at a fast face. The growth in this field, unlike most established fields, has been both in breadth and...

The book you have in your possession is the culmination of a lot of work from thousands of people, from the original programmers at Microsoft to the team at Sybex that helped put it together. From the first days of Windows, Microsoft strived to create an easy-to-use and helpful program that would be available and accessible to anyone who...

It is commonly accepted today that optical fiber communications have revolutionized telecommunications. Indeed, dramatic changes have been induced in the way we interact with our relatives, friends, and colleagues: we retrieve information, we entertain and educate ourselves, we buy and sell, we organize our activities, and so on, in a long...

Fewer than three years after Windows Vista was completed, Microsoft finished work on the most significant release of Windows in years. The development of Windows 7 was very different from its predecessor because the development team was under new management: Windows division president Steven Sinofsky. New features were kept secret until a...

State transitions are used as a formal technique for the specification of virtual machines throughout and – in addition...