Friday, June 13, 2008

The Engineers and the Price System


The Engineers and the Price System
Cosimo Classics | 2006-09-01 | ISBN: 1596058927 | 124 pages | PDF | 17 MB

One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption." But he also, in this 1921 volume, foresaw the rise of the scientist and the technologist as an economic power. Here, he explains... . the conflict between the entrepreneur and the engineer . the new power of the technological craftsman in the industrial scheme . why any "revolution" in America would come from organized labor . and more. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Veblen's The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, and The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts


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Resource Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems


Resource Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems
122 pages | Springer; 1 edition (November 7, 2007) | ISBN: 0387749446 | PDF | 1 MB

Many algorithms have already been proposed in the past to solve the problem of allocating resources in a multi-user multicarrier wireless system. Due to the difficulty of the problem, most of the previous work in this area has focused on developing suboptimal heuristics without performance guarantees.

Resource Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems proposes a unified algorithmic framework based on dual optimization techniques that have complexities that are linear in the number of subcarriers and users, and that achieve negligible optimality gaps in standards-based numerical simulations. Adaptive algorithms based on stochastic approximation techniques are also proposed, which are shown to achieve similar performance with even much lower complexity.

Key Features
With theoretical derivations, practical algorithms, and complexity analysis this book makes an accessible reference for researchers and industry practioners alike
All the algorithms proposed are clearly presented in concise block diagrams allowing the reader to implement these algorithms quite easily in the software of their choice
The results of each section of the book are based on the 3GPP-LTE standard  a fourth generation cellular standard of timely importance
Presents chapter on the least complex algorithms that still achieve stochastically optimal results without the need for channel distribution information
The section on future work presents several relevant avenues for further investigation of interest to researchers in the field

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CDMA Capacity and Quality Optimization


CDMA Capacity and Quality Optimization
627 pages | McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (February 25, 2003) | ISBN: 0071399194 | PDF | 8 Mb

Now that CDMA has been accepted as a key component of worldwide 3G systems, service providers, capacity planners, engineers and technicians need to understand the best methods and tools for maximizing throughput, capacity, and quality. This book provides that expertise.

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FileNet: A Consultant's Guide to Enterprise Content Management


FileNet: A Consultant's Guide to Enterprise Content Management
200 pages | Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (June 10, 2004) | ISBN: 075067816X | PDF | 1 Mb

"I provide consulting for ERP software and related business processes. One constant my clients face is knowing what software can and cannot do. They want truth and often get spin. In this age of spin and clouded truth, Todd Groff and Thomas Jones provide a breath of fresh air. They tell the truth and speak their minds. If you want to learn to navigate through FileNet armed with their insight and wisdom, buy this new book and use it. They have years of experience navigating through the FileNet software shoals and have given us a well-marked map."
Gregory S. Bennett, ERP Software Functional Consultant

"As a Project Manager, I appreciate not only the coverage Groff and Jones have given to each system but also how they have impressed upon the viewer the linkage between systems. This book extends learning opportunities in many ways and from top to bottom it assumes nothing. Each chapter is written to provide a general knowledge and combines data-intensive index models with scenario-based techniques."
Sandi Owen, Business Analyst

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Java by Dissection


Charlie McDowell , Ira Pohl “Java by Dissection"
Lulu.com | 2006-08-02 | ISBN: 141165238X | 468 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB

Second Edition. Introduction to programming using Java.



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The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning


Saul Carliner, Patti Shank “The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning"
Pfeiffer | 2008-04-25 | ISBN: 0787978310 | 560 pages | PDF | 2 MB

The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world’s foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll; Brent Wilson Lee Christopher; William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, and Jane Bozarth; Pat Brogan; Patrick Parrish; Marc J. Rosenberg and Steve Forman; Pat McGee; Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger Cote, and Marie-Claude Lavoie; Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, and Ron Oliver; and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, design, economic, evaluation, research, economic, and philosophical issues underlying e-learning. Each chapter includes a chart that summarizes the key take-away points, contains questions that are useful for guiding discussions, and offers suggestions of related links, books, papers, reports, and articles.



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Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms


Charu C. Aggarwal, Philip S. Yu “Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms"
Springer | 2008-06-20 | ISBN: 0387709916 | 535 pages | PDF | 4 MB


Advances in hardware technology have increased the capability to store and record personal data about consumers and individuals, causing concerns that personal data may be used for a variety of intrusive or malicious purposes.

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms proposes a number of techniques to perform the data mining tasks in a privacy-preserving way. These techniques generally fall into the following categories: data modification techniques, cryptographic methods and protocols for data sharing, statistical techniques for disclosure and inference control, query auditing methods, randomization and perturbation-based techniques.
This edited volume contains surveys by distinguished researchers in the privacy field. Each survey includes the key research content as well as future research directions.

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Models and Algorithms is designed for researchers, professors, and advanced-level students in computer science, and is also suitable for industry practitioners.



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Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation


John J. Clement “Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation"
Springer | 2008-07 | ISBN: 1402067119 | 632 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB


How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the analysis of insight (“Aha!”) episodes of creative theory formation. Advanced processes examined include specialized conserving transformations, Gedanken experiments, and adjusted levels of divergence in thinking. Student interviews are used to show that students have natural abilities for many of these basic reasoning and model construction processes and that this has important implications for expanding instructional theories of conceptual change and inquiry.
"I regard this work as the most comprehensive account ever attempted to show how imagistic, analogic, and sensory-motor representations participate in creative thinking."
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Trading Places: Smes in the Global Economy: A Critical Research Handbook


Lester Lloyd-Reason, Leigh Sear “Trading Places: Smes in the Global Economy: A Critical Research Handbook"
Edward Elgar Publishing | 2007-09-30 | ISBN: 184542039X | 252 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB


'This book is most timely. It arrives at a time when globalisation and new technologies present major opportunities and challenges to the role of the independent small and medium sized business in economies. . . The book's strength in dealing with many of the emerging issues is underpinned by a truly international range of contributors with a strong mix of practical as well as academic experience.'
- From the preface by Allan Gibb, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, UK

Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today's global economy.
The expert contributors contend that the past twenty years have seen an explosion in research into international SMEs, resulting in a considerable body of academic literature and thinking. This research, they argue, may merely serve to increase our lack of understanding in this area, and often results in myths and misconceptions upon which SME policies and support programmes have been developed and introduced. They go on to suggest that academic models are often poorly suited to the problems faced by SMEs within the international trading environment. In many instances, the contributors find SMEs at the vanguard of the challenge to accepted business practices: it is these challenges that underpin the text.
Illustrating that today's SMEs are faced with the critical issue of how to create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in light of the increased complexity of international trade and global business linkages, this Handbook will prove invaluable to both academics and practitioners involved in business and management and entrepreneurship.





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Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction


Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
World Bank Publications | 2003-06-18 | ISBN: 0821350714 | 250 pages | PDF | 13,7 MB

This volume synthesizes insights from the vast literature on land policy. It evaluates the implications of these insights for development policy, taking due account of actual experiences in policy implementation, and suggests ways to design land policies that promote growth as well as poverty reduction.

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KURV STUDIOS LIGHTWAVE 3D 9 INTRODUCTION TO HYPERVOXELS


KURV STUDIOS LIGHTWAVE 3D 9 INTRODUCTION TO HYPERVOXELS | 360 Mb

This video is another in Larry's arsenal of LightWave 3D training. This video done entirely in LightWave 3D 9.2 covers how to create awesome visual effects with Hypervoxels. Larry asked us to call this video an Introduction to Hypervoxels but many would consider this 3+ hour training video much more than an introduction. This video goes into blending Hypervoxels into video or a photograph, creating flames, and adding Hypervoxels to surfaces. Larry explains the in's and outs of Hypervoxels while showing you different ways to adjust your renders. This video is a total of 4+ hours long and is designed for beginner to intermediate lightwave 3D 9.x users.

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Taxation of Financial Intermediation


Taxation of Financial Intermediation
World Bank Publications | 2003-06 | ISBN: 0821354345 | 464 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB

Contributors to this volume--all respected academics or practitioners--address distinct areas of taxation. Theoretical chapters model the impact of taxes on intermediaries, the design of optimal tax schemes, the role of imperfect information, and links between taxation and saving. Current practice in the industrial world and case studies of distorted national systems provide an empirical underpinning. And discussion of practical issues considers inflation, the income tax treatment of intermediary loan-loss reserves, deposit insurance, the VAT, and financial transactions taxes.
This book will prove useful to finance and policy professionals, development specialists, scholars and students of financial sector policy.


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European Integration, Regional Policy, and Growth


European Integration, Regional Policy, and Growth
World Bank Publications | 2003-05 | ISBN: 0821353950 | 292 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB

To answer these questions, the World Bank, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the CIDOB Foundation brought together leading scholars, senior policy-makers, and practitioners from existing and new EU member countries, as well as representatives from the European Commission to a conference in Barcelona. European Integration, Regional Policy, and Growth presents the results of these discussions.

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Structural Design for Architecture


Angus J. MacDonald, "Structural Design for Architecture"
Architectural Pr | ISBN: 0750630906 | (November 1997) | PDF | 267 pages | 19 MB

This text is concerned with the preliminary stages of the design of structures for buildings. It also deals with the issues involved in structural decision making at a strategic level. It is intended principally for use by students of architecture and should provide them with the information required to make sensible choices on the structural aspects of architectural design. The topics covered include choice of structural material, the determination of the form and geometry of structures, the integration of the structure with other aspects of architectural design and the preliminary allocation of dimensions to the principal structural elements.


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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development


MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development
Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 1, 2006) | PDF | 800 Pages | ISBN-10:0735623333 | 8,97 MB

Get in-depth preparation for Exam 70-526, an exam for the new MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Application certificationand build real-world job skills. Includes test questions, reviews, troubleshooting labs, an exam discount, and more.

EXAM PREP GUIDE

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-526—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

•Configure Windows Forms and manage layout of the user interface
•Create lists, buttons, tool strips, and menus
•Set up and manage connections to databases
•Implement data-bound controls to display information to users
•Read, validate, and write XML
•Manage the printing process with dialogs
•Enhance usability with drag-and-drop functionality, accessibility features, and user assistance controls
•Use ClickOnce to configure installation and deployment


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Businessweek 23/06/2008

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Businessweek 23/06/2008
Pages: 90 | PDF | English | 17 MB

BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 (as The Business Week) under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time.[1] Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune and Forbes, which are published bi-weekly.

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