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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques (with CD-ROM), 1st edition
Authors: Ben Willmore
Venue:  (2002)

:Ready to learn not just the "how," but the "why" behind Photoshop's mostpowerful features? Photoshop guru Ben Willmore believes the only way tomaster Photoshop is to go beyond simply memorizing steps, and gain anunder-the-hood understanding of the program. He does the job masterfully inAdobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques, a well-known favorite that delivers the essential information you need in a fun, well-written, easy-to-read style. Rather than detail every mind-numbing feature of Photoshop, Willmore's compact book cuts through the fat to focus on the concepts, features, and techniques that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop 7 every day. If you've ever wanted to understand complex concepts like curves and channels, or learn the logic behind Photoshop's keyboard commands, look no further.Fully updated to cover the new features of Photoshop 7, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques starts with the working foundations of Photoshopthebasic tools, palettes, layers, and masksand quickly moves on to real-worldproduction techniques, such as how to sharpen scans, correct and optimizeimages, and use color curves to your advantage. By the time you finish thebook, you'll have explored the creative aspects of Photoshop, such as how toblend or enhance images, master colorizing techniques, and create advancedtype effects. Included is an entirely new chapter on color management thatgives you practical instruction on implementing a color-managed workflowfrom monitor to press. A section on Web graphics rounds out the book, withchapters on image slicing androllovers, creating effects for interfacedesign, animating effects, and optimizing images for Web. If you want to getbeyond conventional step-by-step instruction and become "Photoshopenlightened," this is the book for you.
ISSTA 2002 panel: is ISSTA research relevant to industrial users?
Authors: Antonia Bertolino
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis (2002)

ISSTA is at its twelfth edition. Also this year, researchers from academy and industry have contributed with many interesting studies and experience reports in software analysis and testing. We --- the ISSTA partakers- have (or at least believe to have) clear ideas about which are the problems to be solved, which are the real challenges, and probably each of us has already settled an agenda of the next steps to take for solving them looking ahead to the next ISSTA edition.Are we doing right? Do we know which are the real issues in the field? Is our research addressing relevant points, or just aesthetic questions? Do, and how much, industrial users ---the ISSTA addressees- value our papers and our achievements?This panel will address such questions by grouping a set of managers from different industries around a table and asking their opinions. As the above questions are very general, in the intent to tackle the theme in a concrete way, we will trigger the discussion by looking at the research results in terms of their potential impact in their respective enterprises. We would like to know which are currently the costs of testing and analysis activities in their industries, which are the items summing up such costs, and how we ISSTA researchers could help improving them.
A Spectral Element Method for the Navier--Stokes Equations with Improved Accuracy
Authors: Javier de Frutos, Julia Novo
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2000)

We present a procedure to enhance the accuracy of spectral element methods for the evolutionary Navier--Stokes equations. The approximations to the velocity and the pressure obtained using a spectral element method are postprocessed by solving a discrete Stokes problem only once, when the time evolution is completed. The analysis shows that this procedure improves the order of convergence for the approximations to the velocity and the pressure. The choice of a discrete pressure space endowed with an inf-sup condition independent of the discretization parameter leads to optimal error bounds for the pressure.
Learn Micorsoft Office 2000
Authors: Michael Busby, Russell A. Stultz
Venue:  (1999)

:Targeted at the beginning and intermediate user of the Office suite of applications, this updated book includes additional applications such as FrontPage, Publisher, PhotoDraw, and Explorer 5.0. The CD-ROM contains the book in electronic format and all of the keystroke exercises.
A framework for performance-based program partitioning
Authors: Ram Subramanian, Santosh Pande
Venue: Progress in computer research (2001)

Most of the reported work in the Parallelizing Compilers literature focuses on analyzing program characteristics such as the dependencies, loop structures, memory reference patterns etc. to optimize the generated parallel code [3, 2, 7, 8, 14, 10]. Unfortunately, parallelizing compilers have very little or no knowledge of the actual run time behavior of the synthesized code on the underlying hardware due to the complex behavior of the underlaying hardware and software subsystems. This interaction could significantly affect the performance of the generated code and must be considered during program partitioning phases of the compiler. In this paper, we present an efficient and accurate performance model based program partitioning approach for parallel architectures. We introduce the concept of behavioral edges for capturing the interactions between computation and communication through parametric functions. We present an efficient algorithm to identify behavioral edges, modify costs using the behavioral edges and adapt the schedule to improve schedule length. The program partitioning phase uses the static estimates computed using the behavioral edges and partitioning is iteratively performed using the ordering PDG based on computed intervals. A significant performance improvement (factor of 10 in many cases) is demonstrated by using our framework
PERL for Web Site Management, 1st edition
Authors: John Callender
Venue:  (2001)

:Checking links, batch editing HTML files, tracking users, and writing CGI scriptsthese are the often tedious daily tasks that can be done much more easily with Perl, the scripting language that runs on almost all computing platforms. If you're more interested in streamlining your web activities than in learning a new programming language, Perl for Web Site Management is for you: it's not so much about learning Perl as it is about using Perl to do common web chores more efficiently. The secret is that, although becoming a Perl expert may be hard, most Perl scripts are relatively simple. Using Perl and other open source tools, you'll learn how to: Incorporate a simple search engine Write a simple CGI gateway Convert multiple text files into HTML Monitor log files Track users as they navigate your site Even if you don't have any programming background, this book will get you quickly past Perl's seemingly forbidding barrier of chops and chomps, execs and elsifs. You'll be able to put an end to using clunky tools, editing files tediously by hand, or relying on programmers and system administrators to do "the hard stuff" for you. Sure, you might learn a little bit about programming as well, and perhaps something about the role of open source tools on the Web. But the purpose of Perl for Web Site Management isn't to educate youit's to empower you. Whether you're a developer, a designer, or simply a dabbler on the Web, this book is the plain-English, hands-on introduction to Perl you've been waiting for.
Oh! Pascal!, 3rd edition
Authors: Doug Cooper
Venue:  (1993)

:Welcome to the third edition of Oh! Pascal! Like its predecessors, Oh! Pascal! is an introduction to problem solving and programming. It requires absolutely no background in computing and remains, I hope, interesting enough to be read before the lecture instead of just before the exam. I had a lot of fun putting Oh! Pascal! together, and I think that you'll like working with it over the next few months.
Compactly supported radial basis functions for shallow water equations
Authors: S. M. Wong, Y. C. Hon, M. A. Golberg
Venue: Applied Mathematics and Computation (2002)

This paper presents the application of the compactly supported radial basis functions (CSRBFs) in solving a system of shallow water hydrodynamics equations. The proposed scheme is derived from the idea of piecewise polynomial interpolation using a function of Euclidean distance. The compactly supported basis functions consist of a polynomial which are non-zero on [0,1) and vanish on [1, ∞). This reduces the original resultant full matrix to a sparse matrix. The operation of the banded matrix system could reduce the ill-conditioning of the resultant coefficient matrix due to the use of the global radial basis functions. To illustrate the computational efficiency and accuracy of the method, the difference between the globally and CSRBF schemes is compared. The resulting banded matrix has shown improvement in both ill-conditioning and computational efficiency. The numerical solutions are verified with the observed data. Excellent agreement is shown between the simulated and the observed data.
Learning Computers, Speaking English
Authors: Steve Quann, Diana Satin
Venue:  (2000)

:Learning Computers, Speaking English gives ESL students greater options and opportunities in today's technology-based economy by helping them practice English as they learn about computers and word processing. The book develops skills cumulatively. Students are led through cooperative computer-based activities that cover the basic concepts of word processing, from learning to use the mouse to the features of a basic word processing program. By completing the book, students will have learned how to compose business and cover letters on the computer. Through interactive activities, students will improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills and review grammar. The textbook can be used with any computer that has Windows 95 or higher as an operating system. Lessons are based upon Microsoft Wordpad, which is available in Windows 95 or higher. Teachers working on other PC or Macintosh applications can use this book as a resource and adapt the lessons; information on how to adapt lessons is included. It can be used as the entire curriculum for a class, as supplementary material for just a portion of class time, or as a guide to self-study. It can be used in classrooms where there are very few computers or in classrooms that offer a computer to each student. The textbook may be purchased with a disk that contains instructional files and allows students to save their work to a disk.
A new method to evaluate software artifacts against predefined profiles
Authors: Maurizio Morisio, Ioannis Stamelos, Alexis Tsoukias
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

Software artifacts are characterised by many attributes, each one in its turn can be measured by one or more measures. In several cases the software artifact has to be evaluated as a whole, thus raising the problem of aggregating measures to give an overall, single view on the artifact.This paper presents a method to aggregate measures, that works comparing the artifact with predefined, ideal artifacts, or profiles. Profiles are defined starting fromranges of values on measures of attributes. The method is based on two main phases, namely definition of the evaluation model and application of the evaluation model, and is presented in a simplified case study that deals with evaluating the level of quality of an asset to decide if accepting it in a reuse repository. The advantages of the method are that it allows using ordinal scales, while it deals explicitly with preferences expressed, implicitly or explicitly, by the evaluator.
Planning Telecommunication Networks, 1st edition
Authors: Thomas G. Robertazzi
Venue:  (1998)

:In one concise volume, this book offers telecommunications professionals and graduate students an introduction to the theory underlying the interdisciplinary field of network planning, a critical aspect of network management that integrates planning telecommunications and data networks. In Planning Telecommunication Networks you will learn about the mathematical theory behind network planning, including an accessible treatment of linear programming and graph algorithms. Other featured topics cover: reliability theory for network planning; recent software advances in databases, expert systems, object-oriented programming, data mining, and data visualization; latest developments in new optimization techniques such as tabu research, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Complete with homework problems, this text offers you a broad overview of network planning to begin your exploration of this emerging field.
Quicktime Pro 4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: Judith L. Stern, Robert A. Lettieri
Venue:  (1999)

:The QuickTime Pro 4: Visual QuickStart Guide provides a clear, visual introduction to the rich capabilities of this multimedia creation software. Readers will learn techniques for preparing videos, audio clips, and editing multimedia content to deliver over the Internet or via CD/ROM. Written by two experts with years of experience using QuickTime, this VQS covers the basics of streaming digital media creation, as well as sophisticated techniques using the new features of QuickTime 4.
Modern Database Management, 5th edition
Authors: Fred R. McFadden, Mary B. Prescott, Jeffrey A. Hoffer
Venue:  (1998)

:Reacting to the current business environment, Modern Database Management, 6/e addresses current issues in the market, such as Internet, data warehousing and object-orientation. While sufficient technical explanations are given, the book instructs from a business perspective, allowing readers to understand the role of database management within a business. Chapter topics cover the database environment and development process, modeling data in the organization, advanced data modeling, logical database design and the relational model, physical database design and performance, SQL, advanced SQL, the client/server environment, the Internet environment, data warehousing, data and database administration, distributed databases, object-oriented data modeling, and object-oriented database development.
Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface
Authors: William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur
Venue:  (1999)

:The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features. Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book. It contains greater discussion of datatype extents, the most frequently misunderstood feature of MPI-1, as well as material on the new extensions to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations. Using MPI-2 covers the new extensions to basic MPI. These include parallel I/O, remote memory access operations, and dynamic process management. The volume also includes material on tuning MPI applications for high performance on modern MPI implementations.
CCNP: Support Study Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: Todd Lammle, Arthur Pfund
Venue:  (2002)

:Get ready for your future today! Cisco's new Support exam is a requirement for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) program. With full coverage of all exam objectives, you'll learn techniques and strategies for baselining and troubleshooting an environment using Cisco routers and switches for multiprotocol client hosts and servers. The CD contains a testing engine, electronic flashcards for PCs and Palm devices, and valuable networking tools and utilities.
Survival of the Smartest: Managing Information for Rapid Action and World-Class Performance, 1st edition
Authors: Haim Mendelson, Johannes Ziegler
Venue:  (1999)

:Drawing on the innovative concept of Organizational IQ and a study of companies in seventeen countries, Survival of the Smartest charts a course for managers to follow into the twenty-first century. At the heart of the book is the authors' tool for assessing an organization's future health, which they call Organizational IQ. It measures a company's ability to quickly process information and make effective decisions. Case studies from Hewlett-Packard, British Petroleum, Sun Microsystems, and Chrysler, among others, illustrate how companies can improve their Organizational IQs.
Making I/T Work: An Executive's Guide to Implementing Information Technology Systems, 1st edition
Authors: Dennis G. Severance, Jacque H. Passino
Venue:  (2002)

:Bridge the technology gap between vision and achievementTwo experts outline a framework using a composite hypothetical case study to offer a succinct presentation of large-scale information technology implementation effort. This book is a volume in the prestigious UMBS series and draws on the research and experience of faculty at the University of Michigan Business School. Author Biography: Dennis G. Severance (Ann Arbor, MI) is the Arthur Andersen Professor of Computer and Information Systems at the University of Michigan Business School. Jacque H. Passino (Houston, TX) is a senior partner in the Supply Chain Management Service Line at Accenture in Houston, Texas.
Using the Web to Compete in a Global Marketplace
Authors: Browning Rockwell
Venue:  (1998)

:Drawing upon years of experience doing business over the internet, global trade expert Browning Rockwell and a powerhouse group of contributing authors provide hundreds of ideas about planning, budgeting, designing, building, running, and profiting from a global business Web site. Following a fascinating and instructive overview of what the internet revolution means for free trade, Browning lays out a simple, easy-to-understand formula for building international Web sites that really work and add value to your company's bottom line.
A Truncated Newton Algorithm for Large Scale Box Constrained Optimization
Authors: Francisco Facchinei, Stefano Lucidi, Laura Palagi
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

A method for the solution of minimization problems with simple bounds is presented. Global convergence of a general scheme requiring the approximate solution of a single linear system at each iteration is proved and a superlinear convergence rate is established without requiring the strict complementarity assumption. The algorithm proposed is based on a simple, smooth unconstrained reformulation of the bound constrained problem and may produce a sequence of points that are not feasible. Numerical results and comparison with existing codes are reported.
Mompreneurs Online: Using the Internet to Build Work at Home Success
Authors: Patricia Cobe, Ellen H. Parlapiano
Venue:  (2001)

:According to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners, six in ten women business owners use the Internet with frequency. In this up-to-the-minute book, Patricia Cobe and Ellen H. Parlapiano offer these entrepreneurial women advice on how to get an at-home Web business up and running, take an existing business online, or find a company that allows telecommuting. With the sound and timely advice in Mompreneurs Online, women can build an Internet-based,kid-friendly business in the comfort (or chaos) of their very own homes. * Target the hottest, family-friendly Web businesses * Maximize online money-making potential with innovative marketing strategies * Build a dynamic website-one that will keep visitors coming back again and again * Network with other "mompreneurs" online Author Biography: Patricia Cobe and Ellen H. Parlapiano are recognized as leading authorities on working from home and have offered entrepreneurial advice on Good Day New York, Lifetime's New Attitudes, NPR, and others. Devoted moms with over 25 years of work-from-home experience between them, they are experts on juggling a home business and family.
Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science
Authors: Mark Wrathall, Jeff Malpas
Venue:  (2000)

:Hubert L. Dreyfus's engagement with other thinkers has always been driven by his desire to understand certain basic questions about ourselves and our world. The philosophers on whom his teaching and research have focused are those whose work seems to him to make a difference to the world. The essays in this volume reflect this desire to "make a difference"--not just in the world of academic philosophy, but in the broader world. Dreyfus has helped to create a culture of reflection--of questioning the deep premises that inform and shape work in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He has also been the primary introducer and interpreter of Martin Heidegger's work to the world of information technology. The essays in this volume represent the fruitful application of deep philosophical analysis to the concerns of our modern technological world. The sections are Coping and Intentionality; Computers and Cognitive Science; and "Applied Heidegger." In addition to cognitive science and artificial intelligence, topics include everyday skills, religion, business practices, and medical care. The book concludes with Dreyfus's responses to the essays. Contributors: Daniel Andler, Patricia Benner, Albert Borgmann, Harry Collins, George Downing, Fernando Flores, Sean Kelly, Joseph Rouse, Theodore R. Schatzki, John Searle, Robert C. Solomon, Charles Spinosa, David Stern, Charles Taylor, Terry Winograd, Mark Wrathall.
Error Analysis for Characteristics-Based Methods for Degenerate Parabolic Problems
Authors: Zhangxin Chen, Richard E. Ewing, Qiaoyuan Jiang, Anna M. Spagnuolo
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

We consider characteristics-based finite element methods for solving nonlinear, degenerate, advection-diffusion equations. These equations have applications in the simulation of petroleum reservoirs and groundwater aquifers and in the modeling of free boundary problems. Standard finite element Galerkin methods have been studied for these equations. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics-based finite element methods for them. The main difficulty in the analysis is that the equations are degenerate and the solution lacks regularity. Here we develop a technique that respects the degeneracy and the known minimal regularity. This technique is based on the Green operator for standard elliptic equations and is developed directly for the degenerate advection-diffusion equations. We concentrate our analysis on the modified method of characteristics (MMOC) and one of its variants, the modified method of characteristics with adjusted advection (MMOCAA), which conserves mass. We derive error estimates in various norms. The extension to other variants is discussed. The present technique is also applied to nondegenerate problems; error estimates previously obtained for the MMOC are derived under much weaker regularity assumptions on the solution, and the error estimates for the MMOCAA appear new even in the nondegenerate case. Finally, numerical results are presented to show the sharpness of the error estimates derived.