As data grows exponentially day-by-day, extracting information becomes a tedious activity in itself. Technologies like Hadoop are trying to address some of the concerns, while Solr provides high-speed faceted search. Bringing these two technologies together is helping organizations resolve the problem of information extraction from Big Data...

Sure, your photos are nice, but why settle for ordinary pictures when you can create extraordinary images with a little help from Photoshop Elements 12 and For Dummies? This fun and easy Elements reference is perfect for...

Scientific medicine in Miettinen’s conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20^th century.  To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science.  He delineates the nature of that...

Anything can be measured. This bold assertion is the key to solving many problems in business and life in general. The myth that certain things can't be measured is a significant drain on our nation's economy, public welfare, the environment, and even national security. In fact, the chances are good that some part of your life...

With a design-centric approach, this textbook bridges the gap between fundamental analog electronic circuit textbooks and more advanced RF IC design texts. The major issues that must be taken into account when combining analog and digital circuit building blocks are covered, together with the key criteria and parameters that are used to...

• Provides an introduction to the APEX architecture and is a step-by-step guide to setting up the APEX environment on Weblogic
• Integrations of the reports with the most popular reporting technologies and generation of...

The Oracle database is the industry-leading relational database management system (RDMS) used from small companies to the world’s largest enterprises alike for their most critical business and analytical processing. Oracle 12c includes industry leading enhancements to...

• Implement Spark's interactive shell to prototype distributed applications
• Deploy Spark jobs to various clusters such as Mesos, EC2, Chef, YARN, EMR, and so on
• Use Shark's SQL query-like syntax with...

The logic for determining the significance of model numbers for the various Canon DSLR models can appear nonexistent. By inference, we've concluded that the EOS ID series—with its various alphabetic suffixes and Mark qualifiers—is the top-of-the-line professional DSLR body. Other single-digit D- series DSLR bodies are...

• Dig deep into Simulink
• No unnecessary theory - start modelling right away
• Complex concepts made easy through examples
• Packed with illustrations and detailed step-by-step...

Learn Design for iOS Development is for you if you're an iOS developer and you want to design your own apps to look great and be in tune with the latest Apple guidelines. You'll learn how to design your apps to work with the exciting new iOS 7 look and feel, which your users expect within their latest apps.
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