For many years, major software companies like Microsoft and Oracle made previously
unfathomable profits by selling enterprise software that companies would buy and
operate in their own data centers. In the last 20 years, we have seen a gradual transition
to a wide variety of software and services models – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS...
Pro CSS3 Animation will teach you how to use fresh new CSS3 syntax to fully utilize this exciting tool for web design. Using cutting-edge industry standards and drawing on best practices for animation, you will learn how to apply CSS3 animation to transform and bring your page content to life.
Beginning Android Tablet Programming starts off by showing how to get your system ready for Android tablet programming. You won't need any previous Android experience, because you'll learn all about the basic structure of an Android program and how the Android operating system works—and then you'll learn how to...
This best-selling reader is designed to transition students from reading highly controlled elementary-level materials to appreciating authentic literature. Written primarily in the twentieth century by authors from Spain, Latin America, and the United States, the 31 short stories in ALBUM appear in order of increasing difficulty. Many...
This book is an easy-to-understand guide to building Oracle8i (Oracle's "Internet database") Web applications using a variety of tools -- PL/SQL, HTML, XML, WebDB, and Oracle Application Server (OAS). It also covers the packages in the PL/SQL toolkit and demonstrates several fully realized Web applications. This book provides the...
An innovative and analytical approach to Power Electronics!
This book introduces an innovative, highly analytical approach to symbolic, closed-form solutions for switched-mode power converter circuits. This is a highly relevant topic to power electronics students and professionals who are involved in the design and analysis...
Civil 3D was introduced in 2004 as a trial product. Designed to give the then–Land Development desktop user a glimpse of the civil engineering software future, it was a sea change for AutoCADbased design packages. Although there was need for a dynamic design package, many seasoned Land Desktop users wondered how they’d ever make...
This book is meant for adoption in first courses on epidemiology in Medical Schools and Faculties of Public Health in developing and transition countries and in workshops in these countries, taught for example by members of international organizations. It is also suitable for parallel or second reading within curricula in...
Take an in-depth look into the gig economy to see how tech professionals and entrepreneurs can earn a living as freelancers and contractors. Build your own business. The pros and cons of the lifestyle and what to expect from it are discussed.
In this book, author Adam Sinicki explains the impact of the gig economy and...
The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political
power. The personal and external rule of...
Linux is an operating system, just like Windows or Mac OS. If you're looking at this book, you're probably somewhat of a Linux newbie. Maybe you're a Windows refugee--you just can't take it anymore or you want to stop paying through the nose for software and the latest buggy upgrade. Or you just want to try something new.
With reference to absorption spectroscopy,we deal herewith photon absorption by electrons
distributed within specific orbitals in a population of molecules. Upon absorption, one
electron reaches an upper vacant orbital of higher energy. Thus, light absorption would
induce the molecule excitation. Transition from ground to excited...
