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The effect of fluid shear stress on ICAM-1 expression of rat brain microvascular endothelial cells
Authors: Xiaoyan Song, Yanjun Zeng, Hongmei Yu, Jinlin Hu, Yanlei Hao
Venue: Technology and Health Care (2001)

Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is an adherence molecule that is an important factor in many pathophysiological processes such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis and inflammation. It is secretion of endothelial cells by a variety of biochemical stimulations. But hemodynamic forces can also induce various functional changes in vascular endothelium. Some researches have proved that shear stress can modulate the expression of ICAM-1. But most of them examine the regulation of expression of ICAM-1 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. There is no detail on the effect of shear stress (SS) on ICAM-1 expression of microvascular endothelial cells (RBMECs). In this experiment, we use cultured rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (RBMECs). By using the parallel plate flow chamber method, we give two magnitudes of lamminar shear stresses (0.2 dyn/cm$^2$, 0.4 dyn/cm$^2$) for different perieods of time on the slides of cells. Immunostaining method and image analysis shows a specific upregulation in ICAM-1 expression on RBMECs, which is different from endothelial cells of other species or vascular beds. Expression of ICAM-1 is increased 0.5h after the onset of SS, and reached its highest level 4h after onset of SS, then declines after that. The effect is time-dependent, not force magnitude-dependent. Endothelial cell surface expression of ICAM-1 in the supernatants of RBMECs exposed to SS was not modified excluding the possibility that RBMECs exposed to SS synthesize factors that upregulate ICAM-1. The experiment data are relevant to the current understanding of basic mechanisms that explain the signal transudation pathway occurring inside the endothelial cells under the effect of SS.
Computers in Forestry: Use of Spreadsheets
Authors: Roy Lorrain-Smith
Venue:  (1993)

:Forestry management is a numerate discipline which lends itself well to spreadsheet applications. This practical book introduces the basic concepts of spreadsheets and explains how to use them to calculate profit in forestry, how to compare one option with another and how to deal with the basic data needed for silvicultural decisions. It also enters the environmental debate, showing how to calculate the economic effects of proposals to alter forestry management in the pursuit of environmental gain. All the instructions given can easily be adapted to suit any make of spreadsheet and the models are also available from the author on disk. 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
Advanced dBASE IV Programming, 1st edition
Authors: Philip J. Pratt, Mary Z. Last
Venue:  (1993)

:Advanced dBASE IV Programming provides comprehensive coverage of those skills necessary to program effectively in dBASE IV. It applies consistent database theory to practical business situations, stressing structured analysis and programming principals throughout. Here are some highlights: uses a building-block approach, combined with a comprehensive case scenario, to tie design concepts to a realistic business application. Provides exposure to additional major programming projects (not just small program segments) so as to develop true mastery of the material; utilizes a realistic business problem-solving approach, with special emphasis on meeting system-user requirements; includes coverage of multiple file processing; provides a detailed overview of user-defined functions (UDFs), complete with examples and exercises, so as to build confidence in using this powerful programming feature; and provides advanced coverage of the on-line debugger and error trapping techniques.
View relevance driven materialized view selection in data warehousing environment
Authors: Satyanarayana R Valluri, Soujanya Vadapalli, Kamalakar Karlapalem
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th Australasian database conference - Volume 5 (2002)

A data warehouse uses multiple materialized views to efficiently process a given set of queries. These views are accessed by read-only queries and need to be maintained after updates to base tables. Due to the space constraint and maintenance cost constraint, the materialization of all views is not possible. Therefore, a subset of views needs to be selected to be materialized. The problem is NP-hard, therefore, exhaustive search is infeasible. In this paper, we design a View Relevance Driven Selection (VRDS) algorithm based on view relevance to select views. We take into consideration the query processing cost and the view maintenance cost. Our experimental results show that our heuristic aims to minimize the total processing cost, which is the sum of query processing cost and view maintenance cost. Finally, we compare our results against a popular greedy algorithm.
Fast generation of order statistics
Authors: Wolfgang Hörmann, Gerhard Derflinger
Venue: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) (2002)

Generating a single order statistic without generating the full sample can be an important task for simulations. If the density and the CDF of the distribution are given, then it is no problem to compute the density of the order statistic. In the main theorem it is shown that the concavity properties of that density depend directly on the distribution itself. Especially for log-concave distributions, all order statistics have log-concave distributions themselves. So recently suggested automatic transformed density rejection algorithms can be used to generate single order statistics. This idea leads to very fast generators. For example for the normal and gamma distributions, the suggested new algorithms are between 10 and 60 times faster than the algorithms suggested in the literature.
Mastering COM and COM+, 1st edition
Authors: Ash Rofail, Yasser Shohoud
Venue:  (1999)

:COM (Component Object Model) is Microsoft's specification for building distributed applications that work across networks and the Internet. It is a highly complex and mysterious topic, which ties in to everything Microsoft is doing with Windows. In this book aimed at experienced programmers, Ash Rofail unlocks the secrets of programming COM, writing in the classic Mastering style. This is no theoretical treatise but a practical exploration of how to do real things with COM, including creating COM objects, working with the Registry, reusing components, and getting the most out of ActiveX controls. Includes coverage of DCOM and COM+, Microsoft's latest version of the standard for Windows 2000.
Internet Economics
Authors: Lee W. McKnight, Joseph P. Bailey
Venue:  (1998)

: "The Internet raises new questions about the economics of networks and forces us to re-examine old questions in a new light. As such, the papers assembled here constitute some of the seminal contributions to a new economic sub-field, by the scholars who were among the first to notice and investigate these new questions. This book also explores issues which are central to the current policy debate surrounding the current re-write of this country's communications laws. The material presented is extremely relevant to a broad audience, including in particular policy-makers, as well as the many business audiences which have a stake in the evolution of communication networks. This work is an extremely significant contribution." -- Fran&ccedil;ois Bar, Assistant Professor of Communication, Stanford University The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts to establish such metrics. The chapters, which developed out of a 1995 workshop held at MIT, include architectural models and analyses of Internet usage, as well as alternative pricing policies. The book is organized into six sections: 1) Introduction to Internet Economics, 2) The Economics of the Internet, 3) Interconnection and Multicast Economics, 4) Usage Sensitive Pricing, 5) Internet Commerce, and 6) Internet Economics and Policy. Contributors: Loretta Anania, Joseph P. Bailey, Nevil Brownlee, David Carver, David Clark, David W. Crawford, Ketil Danielsen, Deborah Estrin, Branko Gerovac, David Gingold, Jiong Gong, Alok Gupta, Shai Herzog, Clark Johnson, Martyne M. Hallgren, Frank P. Kelly, Charlie Lai, Alan K. McAdams, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Lee W. McKnight, Gennady Medvinsky, Liam Murphy, John Murphy, B. Clifford Neuman, Jon M. Peha, Joseph Reagle, Mitrabarun Sarkar, Scott Shenker, Marvin A. Sirbu, Richard Jay Solomon, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Dale O. Stahl, Hal R. Varian, Qiong Wang, Martin Weiss, Andrew B. Whinston.
Specifying and implementing the operational use of constraints in object-oriented applications
Authors: Bart Verheecke, Ragnhild Van Der Straeten
Venue: Proceedings of the Fortieth International Conference on Tools Pacific: Objects for internet, mobile and embedded applications (2002)

The design of software applications largely amounts to capturing constraints, representing the domain under study. Current case-tools do not provide an unambiguous way to represent constraints and ignore most of the constraints when moving to code. In this article constraints are expressed in the Object Constraint Language (OCL) on class diagrams of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). We present a framework assisting the developer in making the transition from constraints on detailed design level to implementation. This framework defines a structure representing the issues related to turning declarative constraints into operational code. Our approach exploits the object-oriented paradigm by representing constraints as explicit classes in the implementation. The points in the code where the constraints must be checked are automatically deduced using the model and by performing path analysis on declarative constraint expressions. An improved code generator is built and integrated in the Argo/UML case-tool. This framework enables developers to exploit the high levels of information that are available in UML/OCL models.
Rewiring Organizations for the Networked Economy: Organizing, Managing, and Leading in the Information Age
Authors: Stanley M. Herman
Venue:  (2002)

:In Rewiring Organizations for the Networked Economy a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series OD expert Stan Herman and a stellar group of contributors have written a definitive resource book for OD practitioners that focuses on the effects of information technology on organizing, managing, and leading people within organizations. Throughout the book, you'll learn what new structures, processes, and attitudes are needed if organizations are to succeed in the new economy. The contributors Mary E. Foley, Bill Bruck, Jeremey S. Lurey, Richard Hames, Carol Willett, Roland L. Sullivan, Linda K. Fairburn, William J. Rothwell, Perry Nelson, and Jana Markowitz are experts in the field who have years of experience working with or within organizations that have been directly impacted by the changes brought on by the information age. You will find Rewired for a Networked Economy * Offers practical tools and approaches for organizations who must respond to the demands of the information age * Reveals the powerful potential for connectedness within an organization that instant information handling provides * Shows how to respond to unanticipated opportunities and challenges * Illustrates through numerous real-life case, models, and techniques how the networked economy really works within organizations * Includes a comprehensive array of basic information technology resources * Shows how technical and human organizational skills are being combined in new and unexpected ways In addition, the book includes much-needed information about strategy, collaboration, virtual teaming, globalization, and the impact ofinformation technology on human resources.
The ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field
Authors: Allison Rossett
Venue:  (2002)

:E-learningthe delivery of training and performance support directly to employees' desktopsis exploding in growth and complexity. The 2002 ASTD E-Learning Handbook gives readers the very juiciest,most practical,most recent articles and reference information from leading experts and gurus. Covering E-Learning best practices and useful reviews of the literature,the book gives guidance on getting better results for dollars committed to E-Learning and provides a directory of contact information for key E-Learning organizations,sources,conference schedules,and more.
Mastering Quicken 99
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (1998)

:With 250 pages more than any other title, "Mastering Quicken" is one of the most comprehensive books about the product. It includes coverage of tracking of investments and using Quicken in a small business, plus a complete glossary of financial terms. 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
Self-similarity in the web
Authors: Stephen Dill, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. Mccurley, Sridhar Rajagopalan, D. Sivakumar, Andrew Tomkins
Venue: ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) (2002)

Algorithmic tools for searching and mining the Web are becoming increasingly sophisticated and vital. In this context, algorithms that use and exploit structural information about the Web perform better than generic methods in both efficiency and reliability.We present an extensive characterization of the graph structure of the Web, with a view to enabling high-performance applications that make use of this structure. In particular, we show that the Web emerges as the outcome of a number of essentially independent stochastic processes that evolve at various scales. A striking consequence of this scale invariance is that the structure of the Web is "fractal"---cohesive subregions display the same characteristics as the Web at large. An understanding of this underlying fractal nature is therefore applicable to designing data services across multiple domains and scales.We describe potential applications of this line of research to optimized algorithm design for Web-scale data analysis.
Introduction to Computer Science: Programming, Problem Solving and Data Structures, Alternate Edition, 3rd edition
Authors: Thomas L. Naps, Douglas W. Nance
Venue:  (1995)

:Alternate version of Nance, Naps Introduction to Computer Science with Pascal for the CS1 and CS2 sequence. Pascal Programming (first half of the text) is reorganized to stress earlier coverage of procedures, parameters, and functions (Ch. 3) before loops and conditional statements, and at a faster pace. The first half [Nance, Pascal 3rd Alt. Edition (04361-6)] and second half [Naps, Program Design and Data Structures (93308-5)] of this text are available in paperback.
ResEdit Complete: The Bestselling Guide to Tweaking Your MAC, 2nd edition
Authors: Peter Alley, Carolyn Strange
Venue:  (1993)

:-MacUser "ResEdit Complete's excellent explanations and detailed procedures can get readers started well in the joyous art of ResEdit hacking." -MacUser "...The best guide to understanding and tinkering with ResEdit and resources..." -MacWorld P
SAS Software Roadmaps: Your Guide to Discovering the SAS System
Authors: Laurie Burch, SherriJoyce King
Venue:  (1994)

:If you are wondering just how the SAS System fits into your workplace and the specific advantages it can bring, this book is a must read. In this book, industry experts share their winning strategies for using SAS software across a wide variety of industries and environments using a diversity of applications. Example code, output, and specific products for each application are provided. You will benefit from techniques and procedures presented by leaders in the following fields: marketing, quality improvement, biostatistics, survey processing and analysis, executive information systems, and graphics.
On the Sensitivity Analysis of Hoffman Constants for Systems of Linear Inequalities
Authors: D. Azé, J.-N. Corvellec
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

Relying on a general variational method developed by the authors and Lucchetti [Nonlinear Anal., to appear] (the origin of which goes back to Ioffe [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 251 (1979), pp. 61--69]), we give a formula for the best Hoffman constant $\sigma=\inf_{x\notin P_{A,b}}\frac{\|(Ax-b)^+\|_\infty}{d(x,P_{A,b})}$, where $P_{A,b}=\{x:Ax\le b\}$ is a nonempty polyhedron in ${\mathbb R}^n$. We also sharpen some results of Luo and Tseng [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 15 (1994), pp. 636--659] by characterizing the continuity set of some Hoffman constants and by pointing out their locally Lipschitzian character. We apply these results to the study of the behavior of the solution set of a linear program $\inf_{Ax\le b}u^{\scriptscriptstyle T}x$ with respect to (A,b,u).
Computational Experience with an Interior Point Cutting Plane Algorithm
Authors: John E. Mitchell
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

There has been a great deal of success in the last 20 years with the use of cutting plane algorithms to solve specialized integer programming problems. Generally, these algorithms work by solving a sequence of linear programming relaxations of the integer programming problem, and they use the simplex algorithm to solve the relaxations. In this paper, we describe experiments using a predictor-corrector interior point method to solve the relaxations. For some problems, the interior point code requires considerably less time than a simplex based cutting plane algorithm.
Information Technologies and the Future of Land Warfare
Authors: Brian Nichiporuk, Carl H. Builder
Venue:  (1995)

:This report documents and expands on the principal findings of a two-day RAND workshop conceived and sponsored by TRADOC, the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, to explore the potential impacts of the rapidly expanding information technologies upon the future of land warfare. It describes changes in the information technologies, speculates on their implications for the Army's environment, and explores new concepts for Army operations and organizations. The report should be of interest to Army leaders, to developers of Army doctrine and systems, and, more generally, to military analysts and planners. This report is a product of research being done in a quick-response project for TRADOC. The research was conducted in the Force Development and Technology program of RAND's Arroyo Center, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the United States Army.
Java 2 Exam Prep: Exam: 310-025 with Cdrom
Authors: William B. Brogden, Bill Brogden
Venue:  (1999)

:Helps programming professionals gain knowledge that directly applies to the Sun Microsystems exam for Java. Covers all the curriculum objectives established by Sun Education that are needed to successfully pass the Java exam. Serves as an essential resource to the programmer who wants to learn Java quickly; it builds on the reader's knowledge of C++ by spending less time on programming fundamentals and more time on topics that are unique or difficult in Java. Gartner Research estimates that there will be market demand for over 1 million Java programmers by the year 2000. Covers two development environments, Sun's JavaWorkShop and IBM's VisualAge and relates objectives in the chapter material to required topics on the certification exam. Includes all topics required for successful completion of the Java Programmer Certification Exam, as well as covering additional topics essential to using Java in business situations. Written by Sun-certified programmers who use Java in a professional setting. Features a unique exam simulation program designed especially for Certification Insider Press that includes two complete interactive practice tests, allowing readers to measure their skills and build confidence before taking the actual certifcation exam. Although the questions are formatted like those encountered on the actual exam, they are based on the book's content to reinforce critical concepts and their practical applications.
MCSE Guide to Designing Microsoft Windows 2000 Security: Exam #70-220 with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Conan Kezema, Stanley Reimer
Venue:  (2000)

:MCSE Guide to Designing Microsoft Windows 2000 Security is designed to prepare you for the challenges you will face as a networking professional responsible for designing Windows 2000 security solutions -- skills that are in high demand in today's business environment.
Logical Clock Requirements for Reverse Engineering Scenarios from a Distributed System
Authors: C. E. Hrischuk, C. M. Woodside
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2002)

To reverse engineer scenarios from event traces, one must infer causal relationships between events. The inferences are usually based on a trace with sequence numbers or timestamps corresponding to some kind of logical clock. In practice, there is an explosion of potentially causal relationships in the trace, which limits one's ability to extract scenarios. This work defines a more parsimonious form of causality called scenario causality that concentrates on certain major causal relationships and ignores more subtle potentially causal links. The influence of an event is restricted to the particular scenario it is part of. An event which is not a message reception is defined to be caused by the previous event in the same software object, while a message reception is caused by a sending event in another object. The events are ordered to form a scenario event graph where typed nodes are events and the typed edges are certain causal relationships. Intuitively, we might say that most logical clocks, which identify events which ¿happened before¿ a given event and, thus, are potentially causal, give an upper bound on the set of causal events; scenario causality identifies a lower bound. The much smaller lower bound set makes it possible to reverse engineer and automate the analysis of scenarios.
The comparative programming languages course: a new chain of development
Authors: W. Douglas Maurer
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

The programming language concepts which ought to be presented in the comparative programming languages course (either graduate or undergraduate) are all covered by choosing C++, Java, Perl, and Python as the languages to be compared. These include dynamic typing, object orientation, multiple inheritance, interpreters and compilers, keyword and default parameters, generics, operator overloading, complex numbers, universal hierarchies, exceptions, and garbage collection. We describe such a course, which we have given.
MCSE Windows 2000 Foundations
Authors: Ed Tittel, Lee Scales
Venue:  (2000)

:MCSE Windows 2000 Foundations explores the key concepts and technologies behind Windows 2000 and helps readers sort through the complexity of the new Windows 2000 MCSE certification exams. A Self-Assessment section helps readers evaluate their knowledge of Windows 2000 and a Resource Appendix details a wide variety of study resources that will enable the reader to tailor a Windows 2000 MCSE study program to meet individual requirements. MCSE Windows 2000 Foundations compares Windows 2000 and NT Architectures, explains Windows 2000 installation, troubleshooting, deployment, and service packs; covers the planning and implementation of naming strategies and domain structures; and discusses typical I/O devices such as printers, scanners, Sound, Video, mouse, keyboard, smartcard readers, modems, and device drivers.