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Information Retrieval for Music and Motion

Springer, 2007

A general scenario that has attracted a lot of attention for multimedia information retrieval is based on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all documents from a database containing parts or aspects similar to a given data fragment. However, multimedia objects, even though they are similar from a structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal...

Socially Responsible IT Management

Digital Press, 2002

"A recommended read for all IT professionals and a must read for those in management."Tom Molnar, business systems analyst

"The combination of practicality, ease of implementation, and positive return on investment is what makes this book work so well. The easy-to-implement action steps makes dealing with these ten social...

Strategies for Managing Is/It Personnel

IGI Global, 2003

As IT staff shortages are being experienced worldwide, with a huge gap between the number of positions available for IS/IT workers and the number of available qualified workers to fill them. The major factors that have contributed to the IS/IT crisis include lack of understanding of the career orientations of IS personnel; high IS staff...

Introduction to Digital Professional Mobile Radio (Artech House Mobile Communications Library)

Artech House Publishers, 2004

Offering unique insight from the author's years of experience working with this technology, the book presents a comparison of the properties of conventional analogue and new digital PMR systems.

This practical new book is written for mobile communication professionals who are involved in the planning, design, testing,...

The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe

Pantheon, 2003

A major contribution to our understanding of the basic laws of the universe -- from the author of The Book of Nothing.

The constants of nature are the fundamental laws of physics that apply throughout the universe: gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. They encode the deepest secrets of the...

Aspects of Explosives Detection

Elsevier Limited, 2008

Detection and quantification of trace chemicals is a major thrust of analytical chemistry. In recent years much effort has been spent developing detection systems for priority pollutants. Less mature are the detections of substances of interest to law enforcement and security personnel:in particular explosives. This volume will discuss the...

Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide

O'Reilly, 2002

Building Cocoa Applications is an ideal book for serious developers who want to write programs for the Mac OS X using Cocoa. It's a no-nonsense, hands-on text that's filled with examples -- not only simple and self-contained examples of individual Cocoa features, but extended examples of complete applications with enough sophistication...

Knots and Links

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Knot theory is the study of embeddings of circles in space. It is a subject in which naturally occurring questions are often so simple to state that they can be explained to a child, yet finding answers may require ideas from the forefront of research. It is a subject of both depth and subtlety.

The subject started to develop...

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Computer Antivirus Industry

Temple University Press, 2008

Computer security is a technical and social problem. It is just as much about social relationships as it is about computers as tools. Internet security professionals are as concerned with how people use information as they are with how machines manipulate and process that information. This book is a case study of how the knowledge systems...

Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (Routledge Global Security Studies)

Routledge, 2009

This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront of international security...

Algorithms and Computation: 11th International Conference, ISAAC 2000, Taipei, Taiwan

Springer, 2001

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Eleventh Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2000), held on 18{20 December, 2000 at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Previous meetings were held in Tokyo (1990), Taipei (1991), Nagoya (1992),...

Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics, and Life

University of Michigan Press, 2007

?A book that truly speaks to everyone. . . . Always practical, often inspiring, this is more a reference book than a self-improvement text, and a great read for any would-be leader.”
?Roger Penske, owner of Penske Corporation and Penske Racing

?Sound, practical advice driven home with real-world examples. . . . This...

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