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Change Management for Semantic Web Services

Springer, 2011

Software automates a wide variety of business processes in modern enterprises. Changes made to software are, in effect, changes made to the business processes themselves that govern and automate the internal and external operations of an organization.Without a proper disciplined approach to change management, enterprises lack a full...

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard

McGraw-Hill, 2011

In the first edition of this book, we focused on what we called the "High Availability Database Administrator." However, that term led G to the question of just what is meant by High Availability? As a term bandied about among database administrators, this can have different meanings depending on who is interpreting it, who has to...

Terrorism, Technology and Apocalyptic Futures

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book centers on the power of mythical narratives and technology in creating the idea of a world that should be purged. The introduction of sin, the fall and other disruptive conflict have led mankind towards a world of scarcity, where suffering and sacrifice prevail. The author analyzes this apocalypse theory, which describes...

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Plume, 1992

Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives. Whether you’re seeking to improve your career or your intimate relationships,...

Long-Life Surfaces for Busy Roads

OECD, 2008

In most countries, the road network constitutes one of the largest community assets and is predominately government-owned. Road administrations must maintain, operate, improve, replace and preserve this asset while, at the same time, carefully managing the scarce financial and human resources needed to achieve these objectives.

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Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ

Apress, 2011

Right now, we as programmers are at an impasse—a transition period between the well-understood world of imperative programming, and a world that is increasingly at odds with this model. In the ’80s, everything was simple: one machine, one thread, no network.

CPUs are now scaling horizontally, adding more and more...

Handbook on Decision Support Systems 1: Basic Themes (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

Springer, 2008

Decision support systems comprise a core subject area of the information systems (IS) discipline, being one of several major expansions that have occurred in the IS field. The decision support system (DSS) area, as a subject of research and practice, continues to grow along ever-widening horizons – often blending with other...

Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition

O'Reilly, 2005

This refreshed edition serves as the most valuable guide yet to the bash shell. It's full of practical examples of shell commands and programs guaranteed to make everyday use of Linux that much easier. Includes information on key bindings, command line editing and processing, integrated programming features, signal handling, and much more!
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The Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Praise for The RIGHT STOCK at the RIGHT TIME

"A fundamentally good time to consider the strategies in this book. Macro-market timing, stock-specific approaches, money management revelations and intermarket analysis. Even better that it is written by someone who has actually done it himself."
–Lindsay Glass,
Global...

Personality and Intellectual Competence

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

After a century of psychometric testing (Binet, 1903), the prediction of
future achievement still remains a relatively unaddressed issue. In applied
settings, workers in organizations and academic institutions are
uncertain about the choice of robust instruments to maximize the prediction
of success and failure. At a theoretical...

Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Industry luminary Robert Pozen offers his insights on the future of U.S. finance

The recent credit crisis and the resulting bailout program are unprecedented events in the financial industry. While it's important to understand what got us here, it's even more important to consider how we should get out. While there is...

Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise

Microsoft Press, 2012

As far back as 1999, some smart guys predicted that mobile would become the primary focus of development in only a few years. Although it has taken a bit more time than expected, the era of mobile software has arrived at last. Why did it take so long? The answer is surprisingly simple: mobile software needed a critical mass of users...

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