Your resume and cover letter, as well as a digital portfolio, business card and mailers, will function as the first contact and impression you make. These items will work to get your "foot in the door." Ultimately, however, it will be your portfolio book or online portfolio website that will land you the job. The creation of your...

Since the publication of the first edition of The Description Logic Handbook in 2003, the interest in Description Logics (DL) has steadily increased. This applies both to the number of active DL researchers working on DL theory and implementations of reasoning services, and to the number of applications based on DL technology. One...

For half my life—fully 18 of my 36 years—I filled out timesheets, accounting for every minute of my workday to corporations both large and small who valued my time far below my own personal estimations of its worth. Degrees and certifications combined with long hours, hard work, and a can-do attitude produced a...

Sams Teach Yourself Facebook® for Business in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to profit from Facebook’s powerful new business tools: Facebook Pages, Places, Deals, Ads, and...

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This book is for anyone comfortable using a personal computer who needs to collect and manipulate information. Experience with Microsoft Access 2010 or an earlier version of Access is helpful, but not necessary. The book takes the user from the basic techniques on how to use Microsoft Access 2010 to a strong...

I used to think plug-ins were for people who could afford to buy creativity. Then I realized it was for those who had creativity, but were burdened and held back by the process, or lack of tools, for their creativity. After Effects plug-ins are not someone’s project files or templates for you to copy, but rather tools for...

Automatic speech recognition suffers from a lack of robustness with respect to noise, reverberation and interfering speech. The growing field of speech recognition in the presence of missing or uncertain input data seeks to ameliorate those problems by using not only a preprocessed speech signal but also an estimate of its...

Statistics is a frightful subject for most students. This book provides a friendly, logical, step-by-step approach to...

This book will show you how to plan and design your own JIRA implementation. You will learn how to...

A state-of-the-art introduction to the powerful mathematical and statistical tools used in the field of finance The use of mathematical models and numerical techniques is a practice employed by a growing number of applied mathematicians working on applications in finance. Reflecting this development, Numerical Methods in Finance and...

Web developers have been eager for an impartial comparison of leading PHP frameworks so they can make educated decisions about the most effective tool for their needs. This guide uses Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework to solve key problems,...