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Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)
Authors: Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag
Venue:  (2006)

As the Web evolves to incorporate new standards and the latest browsers offer new possibilities for creative design, the art of creating?Web sites is also changing. Few Web designers are experiences programmers, and as a result, working with semantic markup and CSS?can create roadblocks to achieving truly beautiful designs using all the resources available. Add to this the pressures of presenting exceptional design to clients and employers, without compromising efficient workflow, and the challenge deepens for those working in a fast-paced environment. As someone who understands these complexities firsthand, author and designer Andy Clarke offers visual designers a progressive approach to creating artistic, usable, and accessible sites using transcendent CSS.In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS. You'll learn to use a new design workflow, build prototypes that work well for designers and all team members, use grids effectively, visualizeï¾ markup, and discover every phase of the transcendent design process, from working with the latest browsers to incorporating CSS3 to collaborating with team members effectively.Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design:Uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniquesIncludes numerous examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their codeOffers early previews of technical advances in new Web browsers and of the emerging CSS3 specification
News 2.0
Authors: John Stanik
Venue: Queue (2007)

The explosion of malware is taxing the capabilities of security software companies. On the one hand, the increasingly large sums of money involved are pushing the creation of high-stakes, precisely targeted attacks on companies or individuals. At the same time, we continue to see criminals spamming the world with more &ldquo;shotgun-style&rdquo; attacks, which usually are less lucrative.
A method for managing access to web pages: filtering by statistical classification (FSC) applied to text
Authors: Jonathan P. Caulkins, Wenxuan Ding, George Duncan, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Nyberg
Venue: Decision Support Systems (2006)

Various entities (e.g., parents, employers) that provide users (e.g., children, employees) access to web content wish to limit the content accessed through those computers. Available filtering methods are crude in that they too often block "acceptable" content while failing to block "unacceptable" content. This paper presents a general and flexible classification method based on statistical techniques applied to text material, that we call, Filtering by Statistical Classification (FSC). According to each individual entity's expressed opinions about what content in a training data set is or is not acceptable, FSC constructs a customized model to represent each individual entity's preferences. FSC then uses this customized model to examine new web content and to block unwanted content. The empirical results suggest that our method has greater predictive power than do a variety of existing approaches.
Exponentially fitted quadrature rules of Gauss type for oscillatory integrands
Authors: M. Van Daele, G. Vanden Berghe, H. Vande Vyver
Venue: Applied Numerical Mathematics (2005)

We consider the construction of N-point exponential fitted quadrature rules. Whereas the classical quadrature rules are constructed upon only polynomial considerations, the newly constructed rules will take into account both polynomial and exponential aspects. This leads to a variety of rules with interesting features. In particular we will investigate the possible application of these rules to highly oscillatory integrands. This is illustrated for N ≤ 4.
Don't Get Burned on EBay: How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals
Authors: Shauna Wright
Venue:  (2006)

Lots of books tell you how to buy and sell on eBay. But what if something goes horribly awry? Do you have to chalk it up to a "lesson learned," lick your wounds and move on? Not a chance. Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer Center. With sharp, witty rhetoric, veteran eBay user Shauna Wright (co-founder of the popular web site WhoWouldBuyThat.com (www.whowouldbuythat.com), shows eBay veterans and newcomers alike how to avoid those nasty scenarios, and how to pull themselves out of the muck if they've already fallen in. Six entertaining (and hair-raising) chapters cover real problems that people have encountered with bidding, payment, shipping, packaging, dealing with other eBayers, and coping with the eBay system. This book is for anyone who's ever used eBay, because even veteran buyers and sellers often don't know the intricacies of eBay's and PayPal's rules. Don't Get Burned on eBay will leave you well-informed and better protected from potential pitfalls. The book's extensive glossary and numerous in-depth sidebars also make the book useful to people who haven't yet taken the plunge into eBay. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Electrostatic potentials of proteins in water: a structured continuum approach
Authors: Andreas Hildebrandt, Ralf Blossey, Sergej Rjasanow, Oliver Kohlbacher, Hans-Peter Lenhof
Venue: Bioinformatics (2007)

Electrostatic interactions play a crucial role in many biomolecular processes, including molecular recognition and binding. Biomolecular electrostatics is modulated to a large extent by the water surrounding the molecules. Here, we present a novel approach to the computation of electrostatic potentials which allows the inclusion of water structure into the classical theory of continuum electrostatics. Based on our recent purely differential formulation of nonlocal electrostatics [Hildebrandt, et al. (2004) Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 108104] we have developed a new algorithm for its efficient numerical solution. The key component of this algorithm is a boundary element solver, having the same computational complexity as established boundary element methods for local continuum electrostatics. This allows, for the first time, the computation of electrostatic potentials and interactions of large biomolecular systems immersed in water including effects of the solvent's structure in a continuum description. We illustrate the applicability of our approach with two examples, the enzymes trypsin and acetylcholinesterase. The approach is applicable to all problems requiring precise prediction of electrostatic interactions in water, such as protein--ligand and protein--protein docking, folding and chromatin regulation. Initial results indicate that this approach may shed new light on biomolecular electrostatics and on aspects of molecular recognition that classical local electrostatics cannot reveal. Contact: anhi@bioinf.uni-sb.de
Word 2003 Personal Trainer (Personal Trainer (O'Reilly))
Venue:  (2005)

As the latest version of the best-selling Microsoft Office word processor, Word 2003 features a host of innovations that add even more muscle to this amazing program. Now you can create, read, and share impressive-looking documents more easily than ever. The bad news is that keeping track of all the improvements on your own can be a timely and daunting task. The good news: the Word 2003 Personal Trainer from O'Reilly details everything for you. As the most complete and engaging tutorial available for Microsoft Word, this invaluable guide can assist users of all expertise levels. You'll work out with Word at your own pace, adding valuable knowledge and skills with each session, and you'll never take on more than you can handle with your Personal Trainer next to you. To launch your training program, the Word 2003 Personal Trainer includes sections on editing text, as well as formatting characters, paragraphs, and pages. It also covers these other Word fundamentals: Templates WordArt Charts Drawings Graphics Forms More seasoned Word users shouldn't feel left out either, as the book examines how to perform mail merges, create web pages, and facilitate document collaboration, among other advanced tasks. To best guide learning, Word 2003 Personal Trainer includes detailed diagrams, dozens of task-oriented lessons, and a fully interactive training simulation CD--everything you need to become a Word pro. Part of O'Reilly's new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Excel 2003 Personal Trainer (Personal Trainer (O'Reilly))
Venue:  (2004)

Every time a new version of Microsoft Excel appears, you're introduced to another batch of powerful features--most of which you'll never understand or use. Even if you're experienced with this spreadsheet program, you'll struggle to keep up with all of the improvements. But if you're a beginner, you probably don't know where to start. Now, with Excel 2003 Personal Trainer, beginners and experts alike can become black belts, quickly and easily. This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and work your way to advance topics through dozens of task-oriented lessons---at your own pace. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively. Excel 2003 Personal Trainer includes sections on editing, formatting, functions, formulas, lists, macros, creating and managing workbooks, and creating and editing charts. You'll also learn data analysis, what-if analysis, pivot tables, how get Excel to work with other programs and the Internet, and advanced topics like using detect and repair. Every chapter includes detailed diagrams and a review at the end to help you absorb and retain all you have learned. If you already use Excel, you can dive right into those topics (and only those topics) that you need or want to learn. Unlike many consumer software tutorials that dumb down the material or present it in a confusing fashion, Excel 2003 Personal Trainer is written in a non-technical and engaging style that you will find fun, easy, and most of all, clear and informative. You don't have to wade through tons of jargon and technical information to become proficient with Excel. Part of our new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Black-box algorithms for sampling from continuous distributions
Authors: Josef Leydold, Wolfgang Hörmann
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

For generating non-uniform random variates, black-box algorithms are powerful tools that allow drawing samples from large classes of distributions. We give an overview of the design principles of such methods and show that they have advantages compared to specialized algorithms even for standard distributions, e.g., the marginal generation times are fast and depend mainly on the chosen method and not on the distribution. Moreover these methods are suitable for specialized tasks like sampling from truncated distributions and variance reduction techniques. We also present a library called UNU.RAN that provides an interface to a portable implementation of such methods.
Design and Implementation of aWorkload Specific Simulator
Authors: Takashi Nakada, Tomoaki Tsumura, Hiroshi Nakashima
Venue: Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation (2006)

This paper proposes a simple but efficient technique for instruction set simulators. Our simulator is made workload specific by a simple process to generate a set of C functions from a workload binary. It is as portable and retargetable as ordinary instruction emulators because the translation targets C code and works well with well-abstracted instruction definitions. The translation is also easy-to-implement without requiring any complicated analysis nor profiling. We also propose a set of simple optimization techniques for cache simulation which cooperates with the workload specific technique. A SimpleScalar-based implementation of these techniques results a significantly large performance improvement. Our evaluations with SPEC CPU95 exhibit that the maximum speedups over sim-fast, sim-cache and sim-outorder are 38-fold, 14-fold and 9.7-fold respectively, while the average numbers are 19-fold, 8.3-fold and 3.8-fold.
Consideration of illumination effects and optimization of window size for accurate calculation of depth map for 3D shape recovery
Authors: Aamir Saeed Malik, Tae-Sun Choi
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2007)

Obtaining an accurate and precise depth map is the ultimate goal for 3D shape recovery. For depth map estimation, one of the most vital parts is the initial selection of the focus measure and processing the images with the selected focus measure. Although, many focus measures have been proposed in the literature but not much attention has been paid to the factors affecting those focus measures as well as the manner the images are processed with those focus measures. In this paper, for accurate calculation of depth map, we consider the effects of illumination on the depth map as well as the selection of the window size for application of the focus measures. The resulting depth map can further be used in techniques and algorithms leading to recovery of three-dimensional structure of the object which is required in many high-level vision applications. It is shown that the illumination effects can directly result in incorrect estimation of depth map if proper window size is not selected during focus measure computation. Further, it is shown that the images need some kind of pre-processing to enhance the dark regions and shadows in the image. For this purpose, an adaptive enhancement algorithm is proposed for pre-processing. In this paper, we prove that without such pre-processing for image enhancement and without the use of proper window size for the estimation of depth maps, it is not possible to obtain the accurate depth map.
Learning JavaScript
Authors: Shelley Powers
Venue:  (2006)

As web browsers have become more capable and standards compliant, JavaScript has grown in prominence. JavaScript lets designers add sparkle and life to web pages, while more complex JavaScript has led to the rise of Ajax -- the latest rage in web development that allows developers to create powerful and more responsive applications in the browser window. Learning JavaScript introduces this powerful scripting language to web designers and developers in easy-to-understand terms. Using the latest examples from modern browser development practices, this book teaches you how to integrate the language with the browser environment, and how to practice proper coding techniques for standards-compliant web sites. By the end of the book, you'll be able to use all of the JavaScript language and many of the object models provided by web browsers, and you'll even be able to create a basic Ajax application.
Efficiently mining crosscutting concerns through random walks
Authors: Charles Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development (2007)

Inspired by our past manual aspect mining experiences, this paper describes a random walk model to approximate how crosscutting concerns can be discovered in the absence of domain knowledge of the investigated application. Random walks are performed on the coupling graphs extracted from the program sources. The ideas underlying the popular page-rank algorithm are adapted and extended to generate ranks reflecting the degrees of "popularity" and "significance" for each of the program elements on the coupling graphs. Filtering techniques, exploiting both types of ranks, are applied to produce a final list of candidates representing crosscutting concerns. The resulting aspect mining algorithm is evaluated on numerous Java applications ranging from a small-scale drawing application, to a medium-sized middleware application, and to a largescale enterprise application server. In seconds, the aspect mining algorithm is able to produce results comparable to our prior manual mining efforts. The mining algorithm also proves effective in helping domain experts identify latent crosscutting concerns.
Linux on IBM Eserver Zseries and S/390: Performance Measurement and Tuning (IBM Redbooks)
Authors: Gregory Geiselhart
Venue:  (2003)

Understanding Linux performance on zSeries z/VM performance concepts Tuning z/VM Linux guests This IBM Redbook examines performance measurement and tuning for running Linux as a z/VM guest on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390 machines. This publication is intended for system administrators and I/T architects responsible for deploying Linux servers running under z/VM. We examine performance concepts and identify tuning parameters that influence system performance. Using examples, we investigate performance and tuning topics for the memory, processor, DASD, and networking subsystems. Performance is analyzed at both the z/VM and Linux level. We provide tuning recommendations and guidance intended to maximize investment in Linux for zSeries. The system used in this writing the redbook is an IBM eServer zSeries 900 running z/VM Version 4.3 in an LPAR. The Linux distributions used in this redbook include Red Hat Version 7.2 for zSeries (based on a Linux 2.4.9 kernel) and SuSE SLES7 (based on a Linux 2.4.7 kernel). The intent of this redbook is to provide guidance on measuring and optimizing performance using an existing zSeries configuration. The examples are intended to demonstrate how to make effective use of your zSeries investment. The workloads used are chosen to exercise a specific subsystem; any measurements provided should not be construed as a benchmark. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Efficient software implementation of embedded communication protocol controllers using asynchronous software thread integration with time- and space-efficient procedure calls
Authors: Nagendra J. Kumar, Vasanth Asokan, Siddhartha Shivshankar, Alexander G. Dean
Venue: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) (2007)

The overhead of context switching limits efficient scheduling of multiple concurrent threads on a uniprocessor when real-time requirements exist. A software-implemented protocol controller may be crippled by this problem. The available idle time may be too short to recover through context switching, so only the primary thread can execute during message activity, slowing the secondary threads and potentially missing deadlines. Asynchronous software thread integration (ASTI) uses coroutine calls and integration, letting threads make independent progress efficiently, and reducing the needed context switches. We demonstrate the methods with a software implementation of an automotive communication protocol (J1850) and several secondary threads.
Apple Training Series: iLife 06 (Apple Training)
Authors: Michael Rubin
Venue:  (2006)

In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife '06, you will be making miracles with iLife within the first few pages. Using real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to your own projects, this book/DVD combo offers a complete, self-paced course in all aspects of iLife '06. Focused lessons take you step-by-step through everything from arranging your iTunes library to creating Hollywood-style movies using motion titles.ï¾ Fully updated to cover all the new features of iLife '06 including the brand new iWeb application, this book will take you from newbie to producer of your own media content in one day! The book is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum of the Apple Training and Certification Program, used by schools and training centers worldwide. An easy, accessible style paired with ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts guarantee that readers will make iLife their life in no time.
Conspace simulation application
Authors: Tarek Zayed
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

Simulation becomes essential in the modern world, especially for construction industry. Simulation principles are used to provide efficient solutions for different construction operations. The use of simulation packages becomes popular in modern construction technologies. Using existing packages involves training on specific applications. In addition, space constraints for different processes are not entirely presented, and when presented, the required computing resources are intense, especially for 3D simulation applications. Therefore, adding space constraints to simulation packages becomes crucial in order to accommodate the dimensions required by various resources as well as the available space in the construction operation. Consequently, Construction Space Simulation Application (CSSA) is designed to provide a solution for this space problem. The CSSA is coded using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Access. It is validated, which shows robust results.
Modeling of individual decision making in mass customization markets
Authors: Zbigniew Pasek
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

The creation of market simulation models is increasingly widespread as it enables better enterprise planning and optimization of product delivery. In case of mass customization approach, which aims to simultaneously target scores of individual customers, understanding customer behavior under growing market stratification conditions is critical. This work describes development of a market simulator in which individual customers are represented as software agents, behavior of which is based on a set of predefined rules. Parameters in those rules can be either fixed or randomly follow some probabilistic distributions. Customers/agents operate in a market which offers them a line of products. These products have a set of customizable features, presumably addressing the needs of customer population. Our work describes in detail the decision process of an agent, market fragmentation design, and presents some sample results which can be used to determine desired variation offering of a product.