Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop

By: Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, Laura Bowden
publisher: ESRI Press
year: 2010, pages: 597
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Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI’s leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS® Desktop including ArcMap™, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog™, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder™, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex spatial analysis problems.

Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make this book an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own.

A data CD for working through the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial ArcGIS® Desktop 10 software is included.

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Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies

By: Janet MacDonald, Linda Creanor
publisher: Gower
year: 2010
PDF 3.5 Mb

Blended and online learning is nowadays widespread, with students from both campus based and distance universities and colleges facing the prospect of online study either for part or a whole of their course of study. Online study is no longer the preserve of 'techie' enthusiasts, but is often integral to student life in further and higher education, and needs to take its place as an essential part for students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Online study imposes many unforeseen demands on students and they are often taken aback at the differences to conventional study. This book will provide a practical introduction for students who are contemplating or undertaking online study. It will also be of interest to practitioners and staff developers who wish to read about the online student experience

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PDF For HTML5 Solutions

Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers
By: Marco Casario, Peter Elst, Charles Brown, Nathalie Wormser, Cyril Hanquez
publisher: Apress,
Date: 2011
pages: 360
PDF 16 Mb

HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics directly on a web page without the need for a plugin. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong.HTML5 Solutionsprovides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems.

Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project. What you'll learn Real-world solutions for everyday HTML development, saving hours of frustration. Problems covered include: Sending multi-bitrate videos to different devices Creating custom video components Programming a custom video controller Designing a canvas with custom gradients Capturing and drawing images Storing data offline using the Web SQL Databases Dragging data from the desktop into the browser Creating HTML5 WebSockets Who this book is for Web developers and designers seeking practical advice on making HTML5 sites work.

Table of Contents HTML5 Page Structures HTML5 Markup Structural and Semantic Elements HTML5 Forms HTML5 Media Elements: Audio and Video HTML5 Drawing APIs HTML5 Canvas HTML5 Communication APIs HTML5 WebSockets HTML5 Geolocation API HTML5 Local Storage HTML5 Accessibility

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E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards

By: Anastasius Moumtzoglou
publisher: IGI Global
year: 2010, pages: 399,

Healthcare professionals and patients hold fundamentally different views with respect to the content of quality in healthcare as related to the reliability of systems and services. E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards addresses the reason, principles and functionality of health and health care systems and presents a novel framework for revealing,

understanding and implementing appropriate management interventions leading to qualitative improvement. It also provides evidence on the quality and reliability of telemedicine and reviews standards and guidelines for practicing medicine at a distance.

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How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator CS4

Author :Sue Jenkins |McGraw-Hill Osborne Media |
Number Of Pages :337 Pages | ISBN: 0071603107 | PDF | 8.5 MB

Maximize the power of the number-one vector graphics program. This full-color guide is perfect for designers and artists looking to master the most powerful graphics program available.

Whether new to the software or upgrading from an earlier version, you will learn how to use the most important features of the latest version and create print, Web, and motion graphics.

The examples in the book demonstrate how to develop logos, editorial and book illustrations, page layouts, magazine ads, business graphs and charts, and more.

The book takes you step-by-step through the process of creating various types of illustrations, and demonstrates professional techniques, shortcuts, and solutions.

About the Author

Sue Jenkins is a Web and graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, photographer, and artist. She is an Adobe Certified Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor, and the author of several Web design books.

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Linear Model Methodology

Author : André I. Khuri
562 pages Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 1 edition (October 21, 2009)
Language: English ISBN-10: 1584884819
Type: PDF | Size: 3.53 MB

Given the importance of linear models in statistical theory and experimental research, a good understanding of their fundamental principles and theory is essential.

Supported by a large number of examples, Linear Model Methodology provides a strong foundation in the theory of linear models and explores the latest developments in data analysis.

After presenting the historical evolution of certain methods and techniques used in linear models, the book reviews vector spaces and linear transformations and discusses the basic concepts and results of matrix algebra that are relevant to the study of linear models.

Although mainly focused on classical linear models, the next several chapters also explore recent techniques for solving well-known problems that pertain to the distribution and independence of quadratic forms, the analysis of estimable linear functions and contrasts, and the general treatment of balanced random and mixed-effects models.

The author then covers more contemporary topics in linear models, including the adequacy of Satterthwaite’s approximation, unbalanced fixed- and mixed-effects models, heteroscedastic linear models, response surface models with random effects, and linear multiresponse models. The final chapter introduces generalized linear models, which represent an extension of classical linear models.

Linear models provide the groundwork for analysis of variance, regression analysis, response surface methodology, variance components analysis, and more, making it necessary to understand the theory behind linear modeling.

Reflecting advances made in the last thirty years, this book offers a rigorous development of the theory underlying linear models.

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Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot

by: Mark Fitzgerald
368 pages |Publisher: Wiley (February 9, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470389869
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If you’re a photographer on the go and want the ability to edit your photos wherever the shoot takes you, then this book is for you. Whether you’re on location, in a coffee shop, on vacation, or on a business trip, you’ll find everything you need in this 6" x 9" guide that fits easily into your camera bag or laptop case.

But, don’t be fooled by the book’s size. Within it are over 300 full-color pages walks you through the workflow, editing, and organizing tasks found in this after-capture software programs— Photoshop CS4. Additionally, numerous practice files are available online, so you can download them from wherever you happen to be.

Topics include:

Getting organized in Adobe Bridge
Working with raw files
Understanding Photoshop CS4’s updated, more intuitive user interface
Using different techniques for tonal and color adjustments
Creating black & whites, and sepia tones
Working with selection and retouching tools
Using the new Masking and Adjustments panels to add creative effects
Demystifying resolution and sizing
Creating elegant panoramas from multiple photos
Printing at home or at the lab
Building slideshows and uploading Web galleries easily using the new Adobe Output Module
This easy-to-read book breaks this powerful program down into bite-sized pieces so you can quickly develop a consistent workflow that gives you quality results with every photo. It’s exactly what every photographer needs After the Shoot.

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The Digital Photographer's Guide For Photoshop CS4 Workflow

By: Tim Grey
400 pages |Publisher: Sybex (November 17, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0470381280
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Photoshop CS4 Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide is one of the best Photoshop primers I've read. The author works through image adjustments in a very logical progression. He begins with very simple edits and works his way up to more complex fine-tuning. The instructions are both step-by-step and very clear.

He also does an excellent job of explaining the "big picture" of why you want to make these adjustments and does not just turn you into a mouse clicker following steps by rote.
While no one book is going to tell you everything you could ever want to know about Photoshop, this is a fairly comprehensive tome. The entire workflow process is covered beginning with downloading files and sorting them in Bridge, all the way through printing. I would suggest using the "Look Inside" function to check the Table of Contents if you're interested in a complete list of the specific steps covered. The good news is that all the most common bases are covered, and covered well. If I could add one thing to this book, it would be a chapter or two on the basics of making adjustments in the LAB color space

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Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks For Photoshop CS4

by: Lynette Kent
288 pages Publisher: Visual (February 9, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470442549
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I bought Lynette's Photoshop CS3 book, and recommended it to the Community College classes I teach. This book is equally as concise, visual, and focused on the important things anyone would want to do in PhotsShop. Now that my campus is upgrading, I will be recommending this title as well!

Any book like this is great if it has one good tip and this book has several. But some tips are not CS4 tips but require nick software, which is expensive. I think the tips on sharpening and noise reduction should use the tools available in CS4.

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Total Training For Photoshop CS4 Extended Essentials [Video Training] (DVD-Rom)

by: Presenter: Geoff Blake
Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
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ASIN: B001IEETYU
Item model number: TPS CS4
Running Time: 6 Hrs, 1 DVD | 850MB

As someone who knows a little about Photoshop I still managed to learn a few little neat tricks. Geoff goes in depth about the majority of the tools in photoshop and all the different ways to access them. One cool trick I can mention is holding Ctrl and SpaceBar and then clicking and dragging a square to zoom to that square(you can also just single click on the canvas). Previously i would press Ctrl + a few times to zoom and then pan to the location.

Little things like that are through out the whole DVD. Following along with the project files make learning Photoshop so much easier than reading a book. If you have two monitors watch the DVD on one and then follow along in Photoshop on the other.

The structure of the DVD is great and you can even skip lessons and go to only what you need to know with an easily accessible menu. As an intermediate user of Photoshop i found some lessons a little boring and some things get repeated a few times. I can't wait to get my hands on the "Advanced" DVD. If you're new to Photoshop i highly recommend giving this a go. You will not regret it.

I wish i knew about the Total Training DVD's years ago when i was learning Photoshop.

This DVD is suited for MAC and WINDOWS users. Geoff alternates between a WINDOWS and MAC machine every lesson. Whenever he presses ctrl he makes sure to mention for MAC users to press command and vice versa. The reason i gave 4 stars is because i wanted a little more for what i paid. I didn't want the lessons to end.

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Photoshop User

Single Issue Magazine
Publisher: KW MEDIA GROUP (September 15, 2008)
ASIN: B001FB5LD4
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Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

By Roland Pfau
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Number Of Pages: 385
File Size : 4.1 Mb
File Type : Rar pdf

To be sure, this book could have been written without the input, feedback, and support from linguists and friends – but it would have been much harder and less inspiring, and the result would certainly look different. I am therefore grateful to all the people who helped me shape and develop my ideas by providing invaluable feedback, be it through electronic or personal correspondence.

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By Jan van Eijck, Christina Unger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 405, Date: 2010-10-31
ISBN-10 : 0521757606, rared HQ PDF, 1.51 MB

Computational semantics is the art and science of computing meaning in natural language. The meaning of a sentence is derived from the meanings of the individual words in it, and this process can be made so precise that it can be implemented on a computer.

Designed for students of linguistics, computer science, logic and philosophy, this comprehensive text shows how to compute meaning using the functional programming language Haskell.

It deals with both denotational meaning (where meaning comes from knowing the conditions of truth in situations), and operational meaning (where meaning is an instruction for performing cognitive action).

Including a discussion of recent developments in logic, it will be invaluable to linguistics students wanting to apply logic to their studies, logic students wishing to learn how their subject can be applied to linguistics, and functional programmers interested in natural language processing as a new application area.

The book starts without any presuppositions. Nothing is assumed beyond common sense: no programming skills, no knowledge of syntax,no knowledge of semantics, no knowledge of natural language processing of any sort. The book begins by introducing the basics of Haskell, the programming language that is used throughout.

Haskell is a member of the family of functional programming languages and suitable for the theoretical purposes of this book because of its exceptional transparency. The use of Haskell in an introduction to computational semantics is a departure from the widespread use of Prolog in introductions to symbolic natural language processing.

The authors motivate this choice by pointing out that much of symbolic computational linguistics consists, like so many other types of computational problems, in defining the right data structures and the right functions that map one data structure (the one that presents the problem) into another (the one that presents its solution). Indeed, the first applications that are shown in the book are non-linguistic, and chosen solely for the purpose of giving the reader a good grasp of how Haskell works and what can be done with it. From these first applications there is a gradual progress, via applications that involve elementary forms of language processing (such as word counts in texts), to applications that belong to computational semantics proper. One important benefit of this way of easing into the subject is that it makes the reader aware of how much language processing has in common with problem solving and data processing tasks that do not involve language...

Although the book starts from scratch, and presupposes nothing beyond common sense, it nevertheless manages to penetrate into some of the more advanced areas of computational semantics: the final chapters present continuation semantics, discourse representation theory, and a system of dynamic epistemic logic that serves as a first step in the direction of a full-fledged computational theory of verbal communication.

And yet, this wide span notwithstanding, the book complies with current demands on texts in computational linguistics in that it presents for every bit of theory that it introduces a Haskell implementation, which the reader can run herself and play with, if she downloads the relevant, freely available supporting software. The same goes for the numerous implementation-related exercises.

This means that the diligent student of this book will, by the time she gets to the end of it, have not only learned a good deal about syntax and semantics, but have also acquired much of that which distinguishes the computational from the theoretical linguist.

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Basic English for Computing: Student's + Teacher's Book + Audio

By: Eric Glendinning and John McEwan
Publisher: Oxford, Date: 2002 Pages: 130 + 100
ISBN: 0194573966 Size: 127.87 Mb, PDF + MP3

This course is intended for students of computing and information technology with an English level of beginner plus to lower-intermediate. In particular, targeted readers are secondary school and technical college students of 16+ who have studied general English for three years or more.

The book is also intended for professionals who have not studied English formally for some time, and wish to refresh their knowledge of the language within the context of their specialism.

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Djvu For Algorithmics for Hard Computing Problems

 Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization, Randomization, Approximation, and Heuristics

By Juraj Hromkovic, Publisher: Springer

Pages: 492, Publication Date: 2001-06-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540668608
Djvu, 4.48 MB, 400 dpi, OCR'ed, pages 14-15 missing

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This book is an introduction to the methods of designing algorithms for hard computing tasks. This area has developed very dynamically in the last years and is one of the kernels of current research in algorithm and complexity theory.

The book mainly concentrates on approximate, randomized and heuristic algorithms, and on the theoretical and experimental comparison of these approaches according to the requirements of the practice.

There exist several monographs specializing in some of these methods, but no book systematically explains and compares all main possibilities of attacking hard computing problems. Since the topic is fundamental for the university study in computer science and essential for the transfer of formal methods to the practice, the aim of the book is to close this gap by providing at once a textbook for graduate students and a handbook for practitioners dealing with hard computing problems.

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HTML5: Up and Running

By Mark Pilgrim
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages: 240, Date: 2010-08-25
ISBN-10 : 0596806027, pdf 5.56 MB

If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5's new elements and attributes.

Even though work on HTML5 is ongoing, browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, Opera, and Chrome already support many of its features -- and browsers for smart phones are even farther ahead, especially iPhone's MobileSafari browser. With HTML5: Up & Running, you'll learn how this new version enables browsers to interact with JavaScript much more easily than before. You'll also learn how HTML5 can help you develop applications that:

* Display video directly in the browser, without having to rely on plugins
* Work even when a user is offline, by taking advantage of HTML5's persistent storage
* Offer a drawing canvas for dynamically generated 2-D graphics

This concise guide is the most complete and authoritative book you'll find on the subject. Author Mark Pilgrim writes the weekly digest for the HTML5 Working Group, and represents Google at conferences on HTML5's capabilities. Stay ahead of the curve. Order a copy of this book today

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Handbook on Business Information Systems

By Angappa Gunasekaran
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Pages: 960, Date: 2010-04-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9812836055, PDF 7.32 MB

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This handbook covers the vast field of business information systems, focusing particularly on developing information systems to capture and integrate information technology together with the people and their businesses.

Part I of the book, Health Care Information Systems , focuses on providing global leadership for the optimal use of health care information technology (IT). It provides knowledge about the best use of information systems for the betterment of health care services. Part II, Business Process Information Systems , extends the previous theory in the area of process development by recognizing that improvements in intra-organizational business processes need to be complemented by corresponding improvements in inter-organizational processes. Part III deals with Industrial Data and Management Systems and captures the main challenges faced by the industry, such as the changes in the operations paradigm of manufacturing and service organizations. Finally, Part IV, Evaluation of Business Information Systems , discusses the empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies and the security pattern of the business systems along with the mathematical models.

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iPad Programming

By Daniel H Steinberg, Eric T Freeman
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 248, Date: 2010-10-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934356573, PDF 3.4 Mb

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Hold an iPad in your hands and you'll know what the fuss is all about. Select an app and the device disappears as you find yourself immersed in the experience--the iPad defines a new category for devices. iPad Programming shows you how to build apps for the iPad that people will love to use.

This quick-start guide will have you writing iPad apps right away using a combination of the familiar iPhone APIs along with the new APIs and additional templates designed specifically for creating iPad applications.

The iPad has a display that's more than seven times as big as the iPhone. The metaphors are different; the application design is different. Users will be able to interact with your iPad app in new ways. In this book you'll learn to take advantage or the additional real estate and functionality.

Every time you turn around it seems as if there's another ten thousand apps added to the App Store for the iPhone. If you're building iPad-specific apps, it's a brand new day with plenty of opportunity. In this book we don't just teach you to write apps that run on an iPad, we teach you to create apps that delight users because they wouldn't make sense running on any other device.

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Exact Exponential Algorithms (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

By Fedor V. Fomin, Dieter Kratsch
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 203, Date: 2010
ISBN-10 : 364216532X, PDF ~3.19 MB

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Today most computer scientists believe that NP-hard problems cannot be solved by polynomial-time algorithms. From the polynomial-time perspective, all NP-complete problems are equivalent but their exponential-time properties vary widely. Why do some NP-hard problems appear to be easier than others? Are there algorithmic techniques for solving hard problems that are significantly faster than the exhaustive, brute-force methods? The algorithms that address these questions are known as exact exponential algorithms.

The history of exact exponential algorithms for NP-hard problems dates back to the 1960s. The two classical examples are Bellman, Held and Karp’s dynamic programming algorithm for the traveling salesman problem and Ryser’s inclusion–exclusion formula for the permanent of a matrix. The design and analysis of exact algorithms leads to a better understanding of hard problems and initiates interesting new combinatorial and algorithmic challenges. The last decade has witnessed a rapid development of the area, with many new algorithmic techniques discovered. This has transformed exact algorithms into a very active research field. This book provides an introduction to the area and explains the most common algorithmic techniques, and the text is supported throughout with exercises and detailed notes for further reading.

The book is intended for advanced students and researchers in computer science, operations research, optimization and combinatorics.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » Algorithms - Branching - Combinatorics - Dynamic programming - Exact algorithms - Exponential algorithms - Hard optimization - Operations research - Optimization - Satisfiability - Vertex

Related subjects » Mathematics - Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics - Theoretical Computer Science

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Problem Solving Handbook in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

By Lenwood S. Heath, Naren Ramakrishnan
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 347, Date: 2010
ISBN-10 : 0387097597, PDF ~6.7 MB

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Bioinformatics is growing by leaps and bounds; theories/algorithms/statistical techniques are constantly evolving. Nevertheless, a core body of algorithmic ideas have emerged and researchers are beginning to adopt a "problem solving" approach to bioinformatics, wherein they use solutions to well-abstracted problems as building blocks to solve larger scope problems.

The Problem Solving Handbook for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics is an edited volume contributed by world renowned leaders in this field. This comprehensive handbook with problem solving emphasis, covers all relevant areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. Web resources and related themes are highlighted at every opportunity in this central easy-to-read reference.

Designed for advanced-level students, researchers and professors in computer science and bioengineering as a reference or secondary text, this handbook is also suitable for professionals working in this industry.

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