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LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Authors: Steven Pritchard, Bruno Pessanha, Nicolai Langfeldt, James Stanger, Jeff Dean
Venue:  (2006)

LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for determining what you need to practice to pass the Linux Professional Institute exams. This book will help you determine when you're ready to take the exams, which are technically challenging and designed to reflect the skills that administrators need in real working environments.As more corporations adopt Linux as the networking backbone for their IT systems, the demand for certified technicians will become even greater. Passing the LPI exams will broaden your career options because the LPIC is the most widely known and respected Linux certification program in the world. Linux Journal recognized the LPI as the best Training and Certification Program. The exams were developed by the Linux Professional Institute, an international, volunteer-driven organization with affiliates in a dozen countries.The core LPI exams cover two levels. Level 1 tests a basic knowledge of Linux installation, configuration, and command-line skills. Level 2 goes into much more depth regarding system troubleshooting and network services such as email and the Web. The second edition of LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell is a thoroughly researched reference to these exams. The book is divided into four parts, one for each of the LPI exams. Each part features not only a summary of the core skills you need, but sample exercises and test questions, along with helpful hints to let you focus your energies.Major topics include:GNU and Unix commandsLinux installation and package managementDevices, filesystems, and kernel configurationText editing, processing, and printingThe X Window SystemNetworking fundamentals and troubleshootingSecurity, including intrusion detection, SSH, Kerberos, and moreDNS, DHCP, file sharing, and other networking infrastructureEmail, FTP, and Web servicesPraise for the first edition: "Although O'Reilly's Nutshell series are intended as 'Desktop Reference' manuals, I have to recommend this one as a good all-round read; not only as a primer for LPI certification, but as an excellent introductory text on GNU/Linux. In all, this is a valuable addition to O'Reilly's already packed stable of Linux titles and I look forward to more from the author." --First Monday
WiMAX Crash Course, 1 edition
Authors: Steven Shepard
Venue:  (2006)

The how and why of WiMAX—the “last mile” technology that’s revolutionizing wireless broadband WiMAX Crash Course offers an accessible overview of the revolutionary solution for wireless delivery of broadband services. Using real-world examples, the book explains how WiMAX works and discusses the business and economic implications of this groundbreaking technology. WiMAX is emerging rapidly, and this book will get you up to speed quickly. The book gives you the ability to ask the right questions of their providers before making infrastructure and service delivery decisions. Soon,WiMAX will be everywhere. By reading this book, you will be ready to take full advantage of everything this innovative technology has to offer.Table of contentsAcknowledgmentsForewordAbout the AuthorChapter 1: Introduction to Wireless and WiMAXChapter 2: WiMAX History and Support OrganizationsChapter 3: How WiMAX WorksChapter 4: WiMAX Applications and ServicesChapter 5: WiMAX Regulatory IssuesChapter 6: WiMAX and Other Broadband Wireless FuturesAPPENDIX A: COMMON INDUSTRY ACRONYMSAPPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF TERMSINDEX
Checking Consistency and Completeness of On-Line Product Manuals
Authors: Carsten Sinz, Wolfgang Küchlin, Dieter Feichtinger, Georg Görtler
Venue: Journal of Automated Reasoning (2006)

As products are growing more complex, so is their documentation. With an increasing number of product options, the diversity in service and maintenance procedures grows accordingly. This trend also holds for large-scale medical devices such as magnetic resonance (MR) tomographs. Siemens Medical Solutions has thus decided against one common on-line service handbook for all its MR tomographs. Instead, they fragment the on-line documentation into small packages, out of which a suitable subset is selected for each individual product instance. Selection of (so-called) help packages is controlled by XML terms encoding Boolean choice conditions. To assure that the set of available help packages is sufficient for all valid product instances, we developed a tool called HelpChecker that provides a transformation of XML terms to propositional logic formulas and then employs BDD-based methods to ascertain completeness of the on-line documentation and to support authors in locating any gaps. Experiments with SAT-Solvers were also made.
PostgreSQL 8 for Windows, 1 edition
Authors: Richard Blum
Venue:  (2007)

The easiest way to set up a PostgreSQL database server on WindowsGet up-and-running on PostgreSQL quickly using this hands-on guide. Filled with real-world examples, PostgreSQL 8 for Windows offers you practical, step-by-step details on installing, configuring, and using PostgreSQL 8--the full-featured, open-source database management system--on Windows platforms. You'll learn to administer, secure, and tune your database and use SQL. You'll also discover how to interface Microsoft Access, Microsoft .NET, Visual C++, and Java with the PostgreSQL database.Install and configure PostgreSQL 8 on Windows Customize your system using the configuration files Work with the utilitiesAdminister your database from the pgAdmin III graphical interface Use the psql command line program to manually execute SQL commandsTake advantage of built-in functions or create your own stored procedures and triggers Implement tested security measuresMaintain optimal database performanceAccess a PostgreSQL database from a Microsoft Access application and migrate Access databases to PostgreSQLCreate .NET, Visual C++, and Java applications that interface with your PostgreSQL serverTable of contentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Installation and AdministrationChapter 1. Why PostgreSQL?Chapter 2. Installing PostgreSQL on WindowsChapter 3. The PostgreSQL Files and ProgramsChapter 4. Managing PostgreSQL on WindowsPart II. Using PostgreSQL in WindowsChapter 5. The psql ProgramChapter 6. Using Basic SQLChapter 7. Using Advanced SQLChapter 8. PostgreSQL FunctionsChapter 9. Stored Procedures and TriggersChapter 10. SecurityChapter 11: PerformancePart III. Windows Programming with PostgreSQLChapter 12. Microsoft Access and PostgreSQLChapter 13. Microsoft .NET FrameworkChapter 14. Visual C++Chapter 14. JavaINDEX
Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7
Authors: Steve Lane, Bob Bowers, Scott Love, Chris Moyer
Venue:  (2004)

Once upon a time, you were an experienced FileMaker user. Now there's an updated version of the software and you feel like you're back at the beginning of the story. Special Edition Using FileMaker 7 can help you get back to "happily ever after" with your database building skills. Frequent tips, case studies and thorough examples create a learning experience as if you were in the same room with the experienced FileMaker developers. Written by The Moyer Group, a leading FileMaker Pro consulting and training organization, this book will show you how to avoid mistakes and save time in developing databases. A CD is included to show you sample files with before-and-after examples, as well as an interface explorer tool that will allow you to prototype interfaces quickly for clients. Special Edition Using FileMaker 7 is sure to keep you from seeing the end of your database building days.
Geometrical, Physical and Text/Symbol Analysis Based Approach of Traffic Sign Detection System
Authors: Yangxing Liu, Takeshi Ikenaga, Satoshi Goto
Venue: IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems (2007)

Traffic sign detection is a valuable part of future driver support system. In this paper, we present a novel framework to accurately detect traffic signs from a single color image by analyzing geometrical, physical and text/symbol features of traffic signs. First, we utilize an elaborate edge detection algorithm to extract edge map and accurate edge pixel gradient information. Then, we extract 2-D geometric primitives (circles, ellipses, rectangles and triangles) efficiently from image edge map. Third, the candidate traffic sign regions are selected by analyzing the intrinsic color features, which are invariant to different illumination conditions, of each region circumvented by geometric primitives. Finally, a text and symbol detection algorithm is introduced to classify true traffic signs. Experimental results demonstrated the capabilities of our algorithm to detect traffic signs with respect to different size, shape, color and illumination conditions.
Information fusion approaches to the automatic pronunciation of print by analogy
Authors: R. I. Damper, Y. Marchand
Venue: Information Fusion (2006)

Automatic pronunciation of words from their spelling alone is a hard computational problem, especially for languages like English and French where there is only a partially consistent mapping from letters to sound. Currently, the best known approach uses an inferential process of analogy with other words listed in a dictionary of spellings and corresponding pronunciations. However, the process produces multiple candidate pronunciations and little or no theory exists to guide the choice among them. Rather than committing to one specific heuristic scoring method, it may be preferable to use multiple strategies (i.e., soft experts) and then employ information fusion techniques to combine them to give a final result. In this paper, we compare four different fusion schemes, using three different dictionaries (with different codings for specifying the pronunciations) as the knowledge base for analogical reasoning. The four schemes are: fusion of raw scores; rank fusion using Borda counting; rank fusion using non-uniform values; and rank fusion using non-uniform values weighted by a measure of prior performance of the experts. All possible combinations of five different expert strategies are studied. Although all four fusion schemes outperformed the single best strategy, results show clear superiority of rank fusion over the other methods.
Mask design compensation for sloped sidewall structures fabricated by X-ray lithography
Authors: Mitsuhiro Horade, Sommawan Khumpuang, Kazuya Fujioka, Susumu Sugiyama
Venue: Microsystem Technologies (2006)

We have investigated and report in this paper the factors influencing the deformation caused by the dependence between the absorbed X-ray energy on the resist and the shape of the absorber on the X-ray mask. Based on the measurement of errors that occurred during the transferring process between the 2-D shape of mask pattern and the resulting wall of the fabricated 3-D structure, we have developed newly useful graphical data on the absorbed X-ray energy, dosage, and shape of a microstructure. As a result, it is being reported as a method for compensation for the deformed shape after the fabrication of a quadruplets-microneedle. We have considered a number of factors affecting the deformation and finally realized that the effect of a dose&#x2013;depth nonlinear curve is the most possible cause. Without the compensation of the mask design, we could observe the deformed shapes of the sloped sidewall on the exposed structures. Polymethylmethacrylate microneedle structures fabricated by X-ray lithography with an additional plane-pattern to cross-section transfers technique are directly influenced by the absorber on the X-ray mask pattern. The sidewall of the microneedle was improved by changing the mask pattern from a double right-triangular pattern to a double semi-circular pattern, modeled by comparing the results from a mask-pattern and the actual structure.
On the specification of multiple models for diagnosis of dynamic systems
Authors: George MacLeod Coghill, Qiang Shen
Venue: AI Communications (2001)

In this paper the issue of utilising multiple models for diagnosis of dynamic systems is explored. Models are defined by their properties; which are selected from the three categories: variables, relations, and structures. Also, Model&dash;based Diagnosis is generally perceived to consist of three tasks: fault detection, fault isolation, and fault identification, dealing with the existence, location, and degree of a fault, respectively. In order to utilise multiple models for diagnosis it is necessary to have a correlation between the model properties and the diagnostic tasks. This provides a coherent means of guiding the switching process according to the task to be performed. A proof of concept of the process is demonstrated with reference to fault identification of a laboratory scale process system rig.
The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management
Authors: Dennis L. Bolles, Darrel G. Hubbard
Venue:  (2007)

Executives in the most forward-thinking businesses are taking project management beyond specific projects in manufacturing, product development, and IT, and adopting its powerful methods company-wide. This book describes in detail the four key functions, also known as the Four Pillars of the EPMO House of Excellence, that are crucial to building an effective Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).
On solving the face recognition problem with one training sample per subject
Authors: Jie Wang, K. N. Plataniotis, Juwei Lu, A. N. Venetsanopoulos
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

The lack of adequate training samples and the considerable variations observed in the available image collections due to aging, illumination and pose variations are the two key technical barriers that appearance-based face recognition solutions have to overcome. It is a well-documented fact that their performance deteriorates rapidly when the number of training samples is smaller than the dimensionality of the image space. This is especially true for face recognition applications where only one training sample per subject is available. In this paper, a recognition framework based on the concept of the so-called generic learning is introduced as an attempt to boost the performance of traditional appearance-based recognition solutions in the one training sample application scenario. Different from contemporary approaches, the proposed solution learns the intrinsic properties of the subjects to be recognized using a generic training database which consists of images from subjects other than those under consideration. Many state-of-the-art face recognition solutions can be readily integrated in the proposed framework. A novel multi-learner framework is also proposed to further boost recognition performance. Extensive experimentation reported in the paper suggests that the proposed framework provides a comprehensive solution and achieves lower error recognition rate when considered in the context of one training sample face recognition problem.
IBM System Storage Tape Library Guide for Open Systems
Venue:  (2006)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents a general introduction to Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology and the implementation of corresponding IBM products. It describes both general LTO technology specifications and specific details of the unique design of IBM Ultrium tape drives and libraries. This sixth edition of the book includes information about the fourth-generation Ultrium drive including Tape Encryption and about the recently announced IBM System Storage™ TS3100, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3400 Tape Libraries. You will find technical information about each of the IBM tape products for Open Systems, including generalized sections about SCSI and Fibre Channel connections, multi-path architecture configurations, and IBM System Storage TS3500 features, such as the Advanced Library Management System (ALMS) and virtual I/O. The book also includes a detailed discussion of tools and techniques for Library Management. This book is intended for anyone who wants to understand more about the general LTO technology specification and its evolution, as well as the IBM implementation of that specification and other IBM Tape products. It is suitable for IBM clients, IBM Business Partners, IBM specialist sales representatives, and technical specialists. If you do not have a background in computer tape storage products, you might need to reference other sources of information. In the interest of being concise, topics that are generally understood are not covered in detail. 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
The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand
Authors: Jay M. Shaffer, Gary Rosenzweig
Venue:  (2004)

Do you find yourself singing in the shower, pretending your shampoo bottle is your microphone and your towel is your guitar? Do you tap out drum rhythms with your pen at work? Now you can channel your musical energy using The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand, the Mac software program that can turn you into a virtual recording star. MacAddict's focused, no-olds-barred approach is evident in this musical tutorial. Learn about pre-recorded loops that enable you to sound like you're singing with a symphony orchestra even if you can't actually play a single instrument. Or, if you are instrumentally-inclined, you will also learn how to hook up your instruments to record your own sound and later use GarageBand to edit and mix it for truly professional results. MacAddict is the authoritative voice in the Mac community and The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand is the only book they endorse. It is sure to become the only book you'll need to learn how to unleash your inner rock star.
Microsoft .NET Kick Start
Authors: Hitesh Seth
Venue:  (2003)

.NET Kick Start is the book for developers interested in making the jump to .NET, working programmers already familiar with another programming language or the previous version of Visual Studio..NET Kick Start speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples and benefits of moving to .NET. The book includes explanations of the .NET Framework, the Visual Studio programming tools, Web Services, mobile .NET, security, enterprise servers, and how to migrate from Visual Studio 6 and COM. Full of code examples, tips and professional insights, this book provides maximum learning with minimum investment of time and effort. 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
Comprehensive and realistic modeling of biological systems
Authors: David Harel
Venue: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation (2006)

In comprehensive modeling the main purpose is to understand an entire biological system in detail, utilizing in the modeling effort all that is known about the system, and to use that understanding to analyze and predict behavior in silico. In realistic modeling the main issue is to model the behavior of actual elements, making possible totally interactive and modifiable realistic executions/simulations that reveal emergent properties. I will address the motivation for such modeling and the philosophy underlying the techniques for carrying it out, as well as the crucial question of when such models are to be deemed valid, or complete. The examples I will present will be from among the biological modeling efforts my group has been involved in: T cell development in the thymus, lymph node behavior, embryonic development of the pancreas, the C. elegans reproduction system and a generic cell model.
Iterative projection methods for computing relevant energy states of a quantum dot
Authors: Heinrich Voss
Venue: Journal of Computational Physics (2006)

A computational technique for computing relevant energy levels and corresponding wave functions of an electron confined by a 3D quantum dot embedded in a semiconductor matrix are studied. Assuming an energy and position dependent electron effective mass approximation this problem is governed by a rational eigenvalue problem. We discuss the application of iterative projection method of Arnoldi and Jacobi-Davidson type. Projected problems of small dimension are solved efficiently by safeguarded iteration.
Rapid and brief communication: Diagonal principal component analysis for face recognition
Authors: Daoqiang Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Songcan Chen
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

In this paper, a novel subspace method called diagonal principal component analysis (DiaPCA) is proposed for face recognition. In contrast to standard PCA, DiaPCA directly seeks the optimal projective vectors from diagonal face images without image-to-vector transformation. While in contrast to 2DPCA, DiaPCA reserves the correlations between variations of rows and those of columns of images. Experiments show that DiaPCA is much more accurate than both PCA and 2DPCA. Furthermore, it is shown that the accuracy can be further improved by combining DiaPCA with 2DPCA.
Apple Pro Training Series: QuickTime Pro Quick-Reference Guide (Apple Pro Training)
Authors: Jem Schofield
Venue:  (2007)

This handy 180-page book offers a great overview of QuickTime Pro, including a fundamental explanation of video encoding and an invaluable look-up guide of video codecs and the QuickTime Pro interface. Includes step-by-step tutorials for the five things people do most with QuickTime Pro: Capturing, editing, using different video tracks, exporting, and scripting QuickTime Pro actions with Automator. Available for both Windows and Mac, QuickTime 6 was downloaded more than 350 million times. Moreover 98% of those downloads were from PC users, at a rate of over 10 million per month. QuickTime Pro is now available and can be downloaded for $29.99.
On some cubature formulas on the sphere
Authors: Jürgen Prestin, Daniela Rosca
Venue: Journal of Approximation Theory (2006)

We construct interpolatory cubature rules on the two-dimensional sphere, using the fundamental system of points obtained by Laín Fernández [Polynomial Bases on the Sphere, Logos-Verlag, Berlin, 2003; Localized polynomial bases on the sphere, Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal. 19 (2005) 84-93]. The weights of the cubature rules are calculated explicitly. We also discuss the cases when this cubature leads to positive weights. Finally, we study the possibility to construct spherical designs and the degree of exactness.