About the Book
Features
- Use XML to mine data on the Web and interact with existing data services such as iTunes and Google.
- Learn the XML language, and then learn how to do cool things with it.
- Find out how to use XML in exciting new applications such as e-books, online speech synthesis, and multimedia.
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- Every concept is explained in plain English with a minimum of mathematical symbols.
- Includes real-world examples, step by step instructions and sample output for Minitab and JMP software as well as downloadble, ready to use data sets and templates.
- Includes applications to service industries to help managers understand the role of Six Sigma in nonmanufacturing industries.
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- NEW - Coverage of oxidation-reduction reactions.
- NEW - Updated and reorganized material throughout—Includes recent literature references.
- NEW - Web-based problems.
- NEW - Problems using software for molecular orbital calculations.
- Excellent, balanced coverage of core principles and theory.
- Integration of symmetry arguments throughout—Emphasizes symmetry more than other inorganic texts.
- Many problems at the end of each chapter—Including some from the recent literature.
- Worked examples in most chapters.
- Exercises in most chapters.
- Strong molecular symmetry/group theory coverage.
- Strong molecular-orbital approach.
- Special topic coverage—e.g., organometallic, solid-state chemistry, bioinorganic, and environmental inorganic.
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- Balances a rigorous theoretical background with practical tools for the interpretation of spectra.
- Makes frequent use of thought experiments to help students visualize a physical situation and to actively engage them in the learning process.
- Offers a unique treatment of condensed phases by presenting the fundamental theory of spectral transitions of isolated molecules, and then describing the effects of the condensed phases.
- Numerous clearly drawn illustrations expose theoretical concepts and provide practical examples of spectra.
- Studies the alternative time-dependent theoretical approaches to interpreting frequency domain spectra, which allow students to focus on the dynamic response of the system.
- Considers bulk electric and magnetic properties, emphasizing the physical picture of spectroscopic transitions in which the electric and magnetic properties of matter provide the basis for interaction with light.
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- Coverage of advanced object-oriented topics and languages like C#, Java™, JavaScript™, Perl™, PHP, XHTML, XSLT, and JSP™ is integrated throughout.
- Historical boxes and interviews with James Gosling, Larry Wall, Alan Cooper, Bjarne Stroustrup, and others set the material into context.
- Valuable historical foundations are presented in Chapter 2, outlining the origins, purposes, and contributions of the most important languages discussed in the rest of the text.
- In-depth discussions of the design issues for the primary constructs of the imperative languages are presented in Chapters 5-14. Design choices for several example languages are presented and evaluated, including variables (Chapter 5), data types (Chapter 6), expressions and assignment statements (Chapter 7), control statements (Chapter 8), subprograms (Chapters 9 and 10), data abstraction facilities (Chapter 11), object-oriented programming (Chapter 12), concurrent program units (Chapter 13), and exception and event handling (Chapter 14).
- Two alternative programming paradigms concludes coverage, functional programming in Chapter 15 and logical programming in Chapter 16.
- Each new student copy includes an access card for the Companion Website, which includes lab projects, self-assessment quizzes, and a language reference library.
Features
- Fully updated for LabVIEW 8, but also backwards compatible with previous versions
- While accessible to the LabVIEW beginner, it also includes advanced toipcs that help the beginner move to the next level after mastering the basics
- Includes content that helps prepare for the Certified LabVIEW Developer exam
About the Authors
Jeffrey Travis provides expert consulting and creates books, courses, and products for remote Internet controls and monitoring, virtual instrumentation, and Web applications through his company, Jeffrey Travis Studios. He has more than fifteen years of experience developing software, teaching, and consulting on LabVIEW and related technologies. He holds an M.S. in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jim Kring is president of James Kring, Inc., a leader in LabVIEW development, system integration consulting, and custom software design. He is founder of OpenG, a foundation promoting open-source LabVIEW tools, applications, frameworks, and documentation.Features
Accessible mathematical complexity
- Ensures understanding by students who have introductory preparation in mathematical analysis, vectors, matrices, probability, statistics, and rudimentary computer programming.
Heavily illustrated.
- Ensures easy comprehension of material, especially for today's visual learners.
Chapter-end Problem sets.
- Provides students with more opportunities for hands-on practice.
About the Authors
Rafael C. Gonzalez received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Miami in 1965 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in 1970, where he became Associate Professor in 1973, Professor in 1978, and Distinguished Service Professor in 1984. He served as Chairman of the department from 1994 through 1997. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at UTK.
Gonzalez is the founder of the Image & Pattern Analysis Laboratory and the Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He also founded Perceptics Corporation in 1982 and was its president until 1992. The last three years of this period were spent under a full-time employment contract with Westinghouse Corporation, who acquired the company in 1989.
Under his direction, Perceptics became highly successful in image processing, computer vision, and laser disk storage technology. In its initial ten years, Perceptics introduced a series of innovative products, including: The world's first commercially-available computer vision system for automatically reading the license plate on moving vehicles; a series of large-scale image processing and archiving systems used by the U.S. Navy at six different manufacturing sites throughout the country to inspect the rocket motors of missiles in the Trident II Submarine Program; the market leading family of imaging boards for advanced Macintosh computers; and a line of trillion-byte laser disk products.
He is a frequent consultant to industry and government in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning. His academic honors for work in these fields include the 1977 UTK College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award; the 1978 UTK Chancellor's Research Scholar Award; the 1980 Magnavox Engineering Professor Award; and the 1980 M.E. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. In 1981 he became an IBM Professor at the University of Tennessee and in 1984 he was named a Distinguished Service Professor there. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Miami in 1985, the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award in 1986, and the University of Tennessee's Nathan W. Dougherty Award for Excellence in Engineering in 1992.
Honors for industrial accomplishment include the 1987 IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award for Commercial Development in Tennessee; the 1988 Albert Rose Nat'l Award for Excellence in Commercial Image Processing; the 1989 B. Otto Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer; the 1989 Coopers and Lybrand Entrepreneur of the Year Award; the 1992 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award; and the 1993 Automated Imaging Association National Award for Technology Development.
Gonzalez is author or co-author of over 100 technical articles, two edited books, and four textbooks in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing and robotics. His books are used in over 500 universities and research institutions throughout the world. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in the World, and in 10 other national and international biographical citations. He ii the co-holder of two U.S. Patents, and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and the International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kapp Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Richard E. Woods earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His professional experiences range from entrepreneurial to the more traditional academic, consulting; governmental, and industrial pursuits.Features
- A principles-first approach emphasizes the underlying concepts of parallel computation rather than taking a “how-to” approach for currently popular commercial tools.
- Popular programming languages are discussed in the context of these principles and the tools used for programming contemporary parallel machines.
- Historical Context and Historical Perspective features at the end of select chapters discuss important developments and/or research in computing history related to the chapter’s topics.
- Fact/Tip boxes provide interesting extensions of chapter information.
- Definitions boxes clearly define and isolate keywords from the main chapter narrative.
Features
- For everyone concerned with agile testing: developers, testers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders
- Covers every key issue: Values, practices, organizational and cultural challenges, collaboration, metrics, infrastructure, documentation, tools, and more
- By two of the world's most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants
About the Authors
Lisa Crispin is dedicated to helping agile teams and testers discover good ways to deliver the best possible product. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc., and frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also coauthored Testing Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House.
Janet Gregory is the founder of DragonFire, Inc., an agile quality process consultancy and training firm. Her passion is helping teams build quality systems. Since 1998, she has worked as a coach and tester introducing agile practices into both large and small companies. Her focus is working with business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences, and she is a major contributor to the North American agile testing community.Features
- Complete information on all of the world's most important standards—For cellular, cordless telephone, and personal communications systems, including AMPS, ETACS, U.S. Digital Cellular, GSM, CDMA, DECT, WACS, CT-2, PDC, and CDPD.
- All new end of chapter solved example problems—On topics ranging from cellular system design to networking.
- Hundreds of figures, tables, and diagrams—With clear explanations of all major concepts.
Features
- In-depth coverage of object-oriented features with UML and their seamless integration with OOP languages, C++ and Java.
- A separate chapter on analysis and design.
- A number of fully solved programming examples.
- Assignments and objective questions at the end of each chapter.
- Web resource containing all programs and additional topics.
- Self-learning and practice-oriented approach.
Features
- Alignment with the new civil services preliminary examination (CSAT) pattern that is coverage as per the format of Paper I and Paper II
- Dynamic CSAT Dashboard – a dynamic library of useful content for CSAT 2012
- Provides four colour comprehensive map booklet
- Special chapter “Aptitude Building for the CSAT” provides useful tips, strategies and activities on building the aptitude
Features
- Concepts, analysis, design and measurements are given equal emphasis
- Balanced presentation of theory and applications
- Contains a chapter exclusively on microwave antennas
- Includes over 120 solved problems and 80 exercise problems
- Each chapter contains about 70 objective-type questions for practice
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- Routh’s criteria, Bode plot, Nyquist criteria and the root-locus technique are discussed in detail with solved examples
- Extensive discussion of compensating networks
- Digital Control System is explained in detail
- Solved numerical problems, practice problems and objective-type questions with answers
- Each chapter contains MATLAB programming on analysis of control systems
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- Detailed discussion of AC and DC machines
- Explicit and rigorous treatment of transformers—current, potential and welding transformers
- Auto transformers, Three Phase transformers, and Rotating machines are discussed in detail
- Covers electromechanical energy conversion
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- Balanced exposition of theory and application
- Unique introduction that discusses the fundamental concepts, notations, representation and principles that govern the field of electromagnetic field theory
- In-depth explanation of important topics like Maxwell’s Equation, Faraday’s Law and Guided WavesFeatures
- Design-oriented solved problems to help students to design circuits
- Specification and practical aspects of commonly used linear ICs in the industry.
- Circuit functions explained with an analysis of its output waveforms
- A large number of solved problems, practice problems, review questions and objective questions with answers
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- Discussion of amplifiers and voltage regulators
- Detailed explanation of feedback amplifiers and oscillators with input and output waveforms
- Description of wave-shaping circuits and blocking oscillators using graphical methods
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- Examination of the need for energy conservation methods, power factor improvement, various tariff methods and power quality
- Power generation by fuel cells and municipal waste
- The concept of distributed generation and deregulation
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- Illustrates the functioning of circuits using truth tables, state tables, timing diagrams and state diagrams
- Covers the Quine–McCluskey method, computer-based minimization techniques, and synchronous and asynchronous mode circuits
- In-depth coverage of fundamental-mode circuit analysis, pulse-mode sequential circuits, and FPGAs
- Includes a separate chapter on VHDL and packages
- Contains over 150 illustrations, 170 worked-out examples, and a large number of problems for practice
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- Explicit and rigorous treatment of transformers—current, potential and welding transformers
- Auto transformers, Three Phase transformers, and Rotating machines are discussed in detail
- Detailed discussion of Polyphase Induction motors
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- Examination of the need for energy conservation methods, power factor improvement, various tariff methods and power quality
- Power generation by gas and solar power
- The concept of underground cables
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- Examples using familiar Intel Processors like the 8085 or 8086
- Both CISC as well as RISC architectures with appropriate examples
- Full-length solved examples on complex topics, including ALU design, instruction-set design and CU design, providing clear insight regarding detailed design methodology
- Pictorial representation of complex processes, including Booth’s algorithm, for easier and quicker grasp of the subject
- Discussions on advanced processors, including the MIPS R4000, Core2Duo, UltraSPARC and PowerPC
- One complete chapter on the embedded system, dealing with its architectural specialities
Supplementing the book are:
- A project bank consisting of more than 70 projects with hints available online
- Pedagogical features such as multiple-choice questions, short questions, brain-teasers and the Quicksand Corner.
- A study card to help with last-minute exam preparation!
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- A large number of fully solved programming examples
- Assignments and objective questions at the end of each chapter
- A Web resource containing all programs and additional topics
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- Expanded coverage of pseudorandom number generation
- New coverage of federated identity, HTTPS, Secure Shell (SSH), and wireless network security
- Completely rewritten and updated coverage of IPSec and new chapter on legal and ethical issues
- Dozens of figures and tables that simplify and illuminate key concepts
- 50% more “field-tested” homework problems
- Keyword lists, recommended readings, and glossary
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- Dozens of figures and tables that simplify and illuminate key concepts
- 50% more “field-tested” homework problems
- Keyword lists, recommended readings, and glossary
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- Illustrates the radical developments in areas of electronic cash, secure electronic payments, and funds transfers
- Describes the changes taking place in online advertising, real-time promotion, and new product introduction
- Introduces new technologies such as structured and compound documents, software agents and mobile computing, networked multimedia databases, firewalls, and encryption
About the Authors
Ravi Kalakota is the Xerox Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.
Andrew B. Whinston is the Cullen Chair Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, IC2 Fellow, and Director of the Center for Information Systems Management at the University of Texas, Austin.
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Welcome to Electronic Commerce
- The Network Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce
- Network Security and Firewalls
- Consumer-Oriented Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Payment Systems
- Inter organizational Commerce and EDI
- EDI Implementation, MIME, and Value-Added Networks
- Intraorganizatonal Electronic Commerce
- The Corporate Digital Library
- Advertising and Marketing on the Internet
- Consumer Search and Resource Discovery
- On-Demand Education and Digital Copyrights
- The Internet Protocol Suite
- Multimedia and Digital Video
- Broadband Telecommunications
- Mobile and Wireless Computing Fundamentals
- References
- Model Question papers
- Index
