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Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 4th edition
Authors: Paul R. Gray, Robert G. Meyer, Paul J. Hurst, Stephen H. Lewis
Venue:  (2001)

:A comprehensive treatment of analog integrated circuit analysis and design starting from the basics and through current industrial practices. The authors combine bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS analog integrated-circuit design into a unified treatment that stresses their commonalties and highlights their differences.
On the expressive power of planning formalisms
Authors: Bernhard Nebel
Venue: Logic-based artificial intelligence (2000)

The notion of "expressive Power" is often used in the literature on Planning. However, it is usually only used in an informal way. In this paper, we will formalize this notion using the "compilability framework" and analyze the expressive power of some variants of STRIPS allowing for conditional effects and arbitrary Boolean formulae in preconditions. One interesting consequence of this analysis is that we are able to confirm a conjecture by Backstrom that preconditions in conjunctive normal form add to the expressive power of propositional STRIPS. Further, we will show that STRIPS with conditional effects is incomparable to STRIPS with Boolean formulae as preconditions. Finally, we show that preconditions in conjunctive normal form do not add any expressive power once we have conditional effects.
Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Dan Rahmel
Venue:  (1998)

:Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours takes a straight forward, no-nonsense approach to teaching Visual Basic database programming. The book will focus on five primary areas of database programming: The Fundamentals of Visual Basic 6 and the database capabilities built into the programming environment; The concepts and practices that are applicable to multiple user and group access situations; Connecting to remote database servers; Database solutions for the Internet and intranets; and The future of databases and Visual Basic programming. Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours does not try to be a compendium of all the questions any person may ever have, rather, the book focuses on teaching the reader how to use Visual Basic for database applications.
Multiplier Spaces for the Mortar Finite Element Method in Three Dimensions
Authors: Chisup Kim, Raytcho D. Lazarov, Joseph E. Pasciak
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

We consider the construction of multiplier spaces for use with the mortar finite element method in three spatial dimensions on globally or locally quasi-uniform meshes. A set of abstract conditions is given for the multiplier spaces which are sufficient to guarantee a stable and convergent mortar approximation. Three examples of multipliers satisfying these conditions are presented. The first one is a dual basis example, while the remaining two are based on finite volumes. Finally, the results of computational examples illustrating the theory are reported.
TCP/IP Companion: A Guide for the Common User
Authors: Martin R. Arick
Venue:  (1993)

:A user-friendly guide explaining step-by-step what you need to know in order to connect to and use networks such as Internet. Each chapter describes how to use a different service--rlogin, telnet, rcp, rsh, tftp, ftp, e-mail and network services.
Testing Basic Boolean Formulae
Authors: Michal Parnas, Dana Ron, Alex Samorodnitsky
Venue: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2003)

We consider the problem of determining whether a given function $f:{\{0,1\}}^n\to{\{0,1\}}$ belongs to a certain class of Boolean functions $\cal F$ or whether it is far from the class. More precisely, given query access to the function f and given a distance parameter $\epsilon$, we would like to decide whether $f \in \cal F$ or whether it differs from every $g\in \cal F$ on more than an $\epsilon$-fraction of the domain elements. The classes of functions we consider are singleton ("dictatorship") functions, monomials, and monotone disjunctive normal form functions with a bounded number of terms. In all cases we provide algorithms whose query complexity is independent of n (the number of function variables), and linear in $1/\epsilon$.
A modified score function estimator for multinomial logistic regression in small samples
Authors: Shelley B. Bull, Carment Mak, Celia M. T. Greenwood
Venue: Computational Statistics Data Analysis (2002)

Logistic regression modelling of mixed binary and continuous covariates is common in practice, but conventional estimation methods may not be feasible or appropriate for small samples. It is well known that the usual maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the log-odds-ratio parameters are biased in finite samples, and there is a non-zero probability that an MLE is infinite, i.e., does not exist. In this paper, we extend the approach proposed by Firth (Biometrika 80 (1993) 27) for bias reduction of MLEs in exponential family models to the multinomial logistic regression model, and consider general regression covariate types. The method is based on a suitable modification of the score function that removes first order bias. We apply the method in the analysis of two datasets: one is a study of disease prognosis and the other is a disease prevention trial. In a series of simulation studies in small samples, the modified-score estimates for binomial and trinomial logistic regressions had mean bias closer to zero and smaller mean squared error than other approaches. The modified-score estimates have properties that make them attractive for routine application in logistic regressions of binary and continuous covariates, including the advantage that they can be obtained in samples in which the MLEs are infinite.
Basis Administration for SAP
Authors: Johan Marneweck, Kay Tailor, Victor Wood, Robert Parkinson
Venue:  (1999)

:This book covers SAP Basis topics such as strategies for managing logon IDs, performance monitoring, backup management, and other hub activities. Written by a proven Fortune 50 Basis consultant, this book is indispensable for all administrators, managers, and consultants working with SAP Basis.
Bijections Between Group Rings Preserving Character Sums
Authors: Mariko Hagita, Bernhard Schmidt
Venue: Designs, Codes and Cryptography (2001)

Generalizing an idea in [13], we exhibit some, in general nonhomomorphic, bijections between finite groups which preserve the absolute value of character sums. As a consequence, the existence of a single difference set, relative difference set, building set etc. in certain groups implies the existence of such objects in many other groups.
The Big Basics Book of Windows 98, 1998th edition
Authors: Joe Kraynak, Que Corporation
Venue:  (1998)

:The Big Basics Book of Windows 98 is a comprehensive book for new and casual computer users. Its highly visual presentation helps new and casual users get over the learning curve quickly and gain confidence. Each book features three main sections:Value packed book provides all the information, tips, techniques and procedures that can save new and casual Windows 98 users time, money and frustrationThe Big Basics book s large format, heavily illustrated, task-oriented approach has been designed specifically for new and casual usersNo other book provides new and casual users more problem solutions these books provide the most content among books that present information at the same pace and detail
Personal Information Management: Tools and Techniques for Achieving Professional Effectiveness
Authors: Barbara Etzel, Peter J. Thomas
Venue:  (1999)

:In this handbook, written for the office of the twenty-first century, Barbara Etzel and Peter J. Thomas provide guidance for those struggling to manage the growing volume of mail, memos, e-mail messages, and electronic documents that arrive daily. Personal Information Management details the skills professionals need to process this information, save time, and work more effectively. Etzel and Thomas present common organizational difficulties and concrete techniques for overcoming them. They guide the reader through a variety of computer software and hardware products, paper-based information products, and personal time-management techniques, helping the reader to develop an individually tailored "Personal Information Management Strategy." Technologies covered include accounting and business software, word processors, databases, personal organizers, e-mail programs, tracking and storing packages, personal digital assistants, CD-ROMs, computer backup devices, scanning devices, voice mail, cellular phones, pagers, and fax machines, to name only a few.
WordPerfect 6 for Windows
Authors: Patricia Shepard, Carole Boggs Matthews
Venue:  (1993)

:We all forget a command, function, or menu item now and then. Never fear, with this handy little Pocket Reference to WordPerfect for Windows, you'll quickly find the steps you need to complete the task. Provides the answers you need to locate WordPerfect for Windows essentials as quickly as possible Use the alphabetical command reference section to find the task you need to complete Follow the numbered steps and you'll complete your task in no time. Provides a brief overview section on some general WordPerfect for Windows topics such as creating, editing, and printing documents
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002
Authors: Randy Byrne, Sue Moser
Venue:  (2001)

:With its built-in mail client, scheduling and organizing capabilities, and integration with each of the applications in Office XP, the Microsoft Outlook Version 2002 messaging and collaboration client can help anyone get the most from Office XP. Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002 provides the information, strategies, and sample applications you need to take advantage of the power of the Web Storage System in Exchange 2000 and the new tools in Office XP to develop dynamic, feature-rich collaborative applications for all types of clients, from WAP phones to rich Outlook-based clients. The companion CD-ROM contains all the source code and files necessary to create and use the sample applications in the book.
Software Development: A Legal Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: Stephen Fishman
Venue:  (1997)

:For people inthe software industry, failure to understand the tangle of complex rules governing software development and protection can cost thousands of dollars. This book is their salvation -- it covers everything they need to know about: copyright trademark secret and patent protection employment agreements working with independent contractors and employees development, publishing and consulting agreements multimedia development Includes the step-by-step instructions and forms needed to register a software copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office. All contracts, agreements and legal forms are provided on CD-ROM.
Finance and E-Commerce: The Online Legal Environment, 1st edition
Authors: Roger LeRoy Miller, Gaylord A. Jentz
Venue:  (2001)

:Students examine the basic legal environment topics relating to finance in this dynamic, new module. Content is drawn from the exciting new text, Law for E-Commerce, which helps students recognize the legal issues related to maintaining and conducting business on the World Wide Web.
Bringing the web to the network edge: large caches and satellite distribution
Authors: Pablo Rodriguez, Ernst W. Biersack
Venue: Mobile Networks and Applications (2002)

In this paper we discuss the performance of a document distribution model that interconnects Web caches through a satellite channel. During recent years Web caching has emerged as an important way to reduce client-perceived latency and network resource requirements in the Internet. Also a satellite distribution is being rapidly deployed to offer Internet services while avoiding highly congested terrestrial links. When Web caches are interconnected through a satellite distribution, caches end up containing all documents requested by a huge community of clients. Having a large community of clients connected to a cache, the probability that a client is the first one to request a document is very small, and the number of requests that are hit in the cache increases. In this paper we develop analytical models to study the performance of a cache-satellite distribution. We derive simple expressions for the hit rate of the caches, the bandwidth in the satellite channel, the latency experienced by the clients, and the required capacity of the caches. Additionally, we use trace driven simulations to validate our model and evaluate the performance of a real cache-satellite distribution.
Interaction Design, 1st edition
Authors: Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp
Venue:  (2002)

:Accomplished authors, Preece, Rogers and Sharp, have written a key new textbook on this core subject area. Interaction Design deals with a broad scope of issues, topics and paradigms that has traditionally been the scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID). The book covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface paradigms and the role of theory in informing design. The topics will be grounded in the design process and the aim is to present relevant issues in an integrated and coherent way, rather than assembling a collection of chapters on individual HCI topics. KEY FEATURES: · This truly integrated approach to HCI provides students with background information from psychology, sociology, anthropology, information systems and computer science · Provides principles and skills for designing any technology through the use of many interesting and state of the art examples · The author supported, highly interactive Web Site provides resources that allow students to collaborate on experiments, participate in design competitions, collaborate on design, find resources and communicate with others · The accompanying Web Site also features examples, step-by-step exercises and templates for questionnaires CONTENTS: Preface 1. What is interaction design? Interview with Gitta Saloman 2. Understanding and conceptualizing interaction Interview with Terry Winograd 3. Understanding users 4. Understanding and designing for collaboration and communication Interview with AbigailSellen 5. Understanding how interfaces affect users 6 The process of interaction design Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith 7 Identifying needs and establishing requirements Interview with Suzanne Robertson 8 Design, prototyping and construction 9 User-centered approaches to interaction design Interview with Karen Holtzblatt 10 Introducing evaluation 11 A framework for evaluation 12 Observing users Interview with Sara Bly 13 Asking users and experts Interview with Jakob Nielsen 14 Testing and modeling users Interview with Ben Shneiderman 15 Doing design and evaluation in the real world: communicators and advisory systems Epilogue Glossary
An Algorithm for Computing Fekete Points in the Triangle
Authors: M. A. Taylor, B. A. Wingate, R. E. Vincent
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

On the line and its tensor products, Fekete points are known to be the Gauss--Lobatto quadrature points. But unlike high-order quadrature, Fekete points generalize to non-tensor-product domains such as the triangle. Thus Fekete points might serve as an alternative to the Gauss--Lobatto points for certain applications. In this work we present a new algorithm to compute Fekete points and give results up to degree 19 for the triangle. For degree d > 10 these points have the smallest Lebesgue constant currently known. The computations validate a conjecture of Bos [ J. Approx. Theory, 64 (1991), pp. 271--280] that Fekete points along the boundary of the triangle are the one-dimensional Gauss--Lobatto points.
Mobile Point Controls Versus Locally Distributed Ones for the Controllability of the Semilinear Parabolic Equation
Authors: Alexander Khapalov
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2001)

It is well known now that a rather general semilinear parabolic equation with globally Lipschitz nonlinear term is both approximately and exactly null-controllable in L2 (\Omega)$, when governed in a bounded domain by the locally distributed controls. In this paper we intend to show that, in fact, in one space dimension ($\Omega= (0, 1)$) the very same results can be achieved by employing {\em at most} two mobile point controls with support on the curves properly selected within an arbitrary subdomain of QT = (0,1) &times; (0,T). We will show that such curves can be described by a certain differential inequality and the explicit examples are provided. We also discuss some extensions of our main results to the superlinear terms and to the case of several dimensions.
Performing With Microsoft Excel 2002
Authors: Iris Blanc, Cathy Vento, Thompson Steele
Venue:  (2001)

:This new series by renowned authors Iris Blanc and Cathy Vento teaches Microsoft Excel 2002 skills by having the learner assume the role of working in a business.
Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Now
Authors: Michael Halvorson
Venue:  (1999)

:A friendly, modern, integrated development environment; Visual Basic has been widely praised as a first programming language, and Learn Visual Basic 6.0 Now shows the way. Learn Visual Basic 6.0 Now updates the bestselling Learn Visual Basic NowThe latest version includes a fully-working model of Visual Basic 6.0. Power users, and other first-time, self-motivated learners can work through exercises appropriate to their level of previous programming experience, then pursue hobbyist projects or move up to an intermediate book..
Networking lessons in delivering 'Software as a Service': part II
Authors: David Greschler, Tim Mangan
Venue: International Journal of Network Management (2002)

In part I of this paper, we described the origins and evolution of Software as a Service (SaaS) and its value proposition to Corporate IT, Service Providers, Independent Software Vendors and End Users. SaaS is a model in which software applications are deployed, managed, updated and supported on demand---like a utility---and are served to users centrally using servers that are internal or external to the enterprise. Applications are no longer installed locally on a user's desktop PC; instead, upgrades, licensing and version control, metering, support and provisioning are all managed at the server level. In part we examine the lessons learned in researching, building and running an SaaS service.
The E-Privacy Imperative: Protect Your Customers' Internet Privacy and Ensure Your Company's Survival in the Electronic Age
Authors: Mark S. Merkow, James Breithaupt
Venue:  (2001)

:Internet privacy is a concern for everyone who uses the Web, and companies have begun to realize that it's a major business challenge as well. Any company with an Internet presence has a serious responsibility to protect its own and its customers' privacy. Selling e-mail lists and personal data, or operating an insecure site where credit card or competitive pricing information can be stolen, can cause customer backlash and huge decreases in sales. Plus, the book is packed with process checklists, standards for privacy rights and practices, and lists of privacy advocates. If online customers don't feel safe, they'll be gone with one mouse-click. The E-Privacy Imperative helps companies implement workable solutions to protect their customers -- and themselves.
Quick Course in Microsoft Outlook 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Online Press Inc
Venue:  (1999)

:Topics covered by Quick Course in Microsoft Outlook 2000 include introducing Outlook 2000 - creating, editing, organizing, moving, and deleting notes, switching views, and customizing the window; contacts - creating your own contact form and using the Address Book; E-mail - composing and addressing messages, adding files, and sending, retrieving, forwarding, deleting, and organizing messages; managing your schedule; keeping a to-do list; using Outlook Today and Journal and archiving; and accessing the Internet. 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
Professional XML Databases
Authors: Kevin Williams, Michael Brundage
Venue:  (2000)

:While this book will discuss some conceptual issues, its focus is on development and implementation. This is a book for programmers and analysts who are already famaliar with both XML and relational databases.OVERVIEW: In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data. By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at the developer's XML toolbox, discussing associated technologies and strategies that will help us in describing, processing, and manipulating data. We also discuss common techniques for data access, data warehousing, transmission, and marshalling and presentation, giving working examples in every chapter. Whether you are using XML for storage, as an interchange format, or for display, this book looks at some of the key issues you should be aware of when structuring, processing, accessing, and storing your documents. Author Biography: The authors are a multi-author Wrox writing team of professional developers.
A resource management framework for priority-based physical-memory allocation
Authors: Kingsley Cheung, Gernot Heiser
Venue: Australian Computer Science Communications (2002)

Most multitasking operating systems support scheduling priorities in order to ensure that processor time is allocated to important or time-critical processes in preference to less important ones. Ideally this would prevent a low-priority process from slowing the execution of a high-priority one. In practice, strict prioritisation is undermined by a lack of suitable allocation policy for resources other than CPU time. For example, a low priority process may degrade the execution speed of a high-priority process by competing with it for physical memory. We present the design of a flexible resource management framework which prioritises memory allocation, and examine a prototype implementation for the Mungi single-address-space operating system.
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: Ron Soukup, Kalen Delaney
Venue:  (1999)

:A must-read for developers and IT professionals who need tounderstand Microsoft SQL Server from the inside out. Written bya Microsoft SQL Server guru, this comprehensive guide providesupdated, authoritative advice for installing, administering, andprogramming with version 7.0. The CD contains productevaluation documentation, sample code and scripts, white papers,and a benchmarking kit.
Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide (includes CD-Rom), 1st edition
Authors: David A. Shank, Tamra Myers, Mark Roberts
Venue:  (1999)

:This reference comes packed with practical, roll-up-your-sleeves resources to help maximize your productivity with the integrated development tools and services in Office 2000, including the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 6.0 development system. Use this coverage to build on what you know and accomplish everything from automating individual tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications." "Each chapter presents dozens of code examples that illustrate the discussion. Plus, the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now - helping you focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than constructing rudimentary code.