IP for 3G or Neural Systems for Control

IP for 3G: Networking Technologies for Mobile Communications

Author: Dave Wisely

What is an 'all-IP' network? What difference will IP networking make to 3G services?
Third Generation (3G) mobile offers access to broadband multimedia services - and in the future most of these, even voice and video, will be IP-based. However 3G networks are not based on IP technologies, rather they are an evolution from existing 2G networks. Much work needs to be done to IP QoS and mobility protocols and architectures for them to be able to provide the functionality 3G requires.
IP for 3G gives a comprehensive overview of 3G networking functionality and examines how IP protocols can be developed to provide some of the basic building blocks of a mobile system (mobility, QoS and call control)
Features:
* Clear explanation of how 3G works at the network level.
* Review of IP protocol and architectural principles.
* Extensive review, classification and analysis of IP mobility protocols - macro and micro- including IPv6.
* Analysis of IP QoS protocols and proposed solutions for mobile networks.
* Tutorial on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and how SIP can be used for multimedia session control.
* Description of latest UMTS developments - including Release 5.
* Discussion of 4G networks - what does 4G mean?
IP for 3G will appeal to mobile telecommunications and network engineers who want to know about future developments as well as system designers and developers. Students and academics on postgraduate courses related to telecommunications, especially 3G networking or IP protocols, will find this text ideal supplementary reading, only assuming a general knowledge of GSM and general networking principles.

Booknews

Explores ways to bring the networking protocols and principles of the internet into third generation (3G) mobile phone networks. The authors, who work for BTexact Technologies in the UK, review the architecture of a UMTS network, the internet protocol stack, security techniques, call session control, mobility management, and quality of service before outlining the design of an all-IP mobile network. The book is appropriate for graduate students in telecommunications, as well as practicing network engineers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	An Introduction to 3G Networks	21
3	An Introduction to IP Networks	71
4	Multimedia Service Support and Session Management	121
5	IP Mobility	143
6	Quality of Service	201
7	IP for 3G	249
	Abbreviations	279
	Index	287

Interesting book: Monkey Business or The Psychology of Selling

Neural Systems for Control

Author: Omid M Omidvar

Control problems offer an industrially important application and a guide to understanding control systems for those working in Neural Networks. Neural Systems for Control represents the most up-to-date developments in the rapidly growing aplication area of neural networks and focuses on research in natural and artifical neural systems directly applicable to control or making use of modern control theory. The book covers such important new developments in control systems such as intelligent sensors in semiconductor wafer manufacturing; the relation between muscles and cerebral neurons in speech recognition; online compensation of reconfigurable control for spacecraft aircraft and other systems; applications to rolling mills, robotics and process control; the usage of past output data to identify nonlinear systems by neural networks; neural approximate optimal control; model-free nonlinear control; and neural control based on a regulation of physiological investigation/blood pressure control. All researchers and students dealing with control systems will find the fascinating Neural Systems for Control of immense interest and assistance.

Key Features
* Focuses on research in natural and artifical neural systems directly applicable to contol or making use of modern control theory
* Represents the most up-to-date developments in this rapidly growing application area of neural networks
* Takes a new and novel approach to system identification and synthesis

Basic Business Statistics or Fundamentals of Math and Physics for Game Programmers

Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications

Author: Mark L Berenson

Berenson shows students how statistics is use in each functional area of business. This edition features statistics in real-business scenarios, web cases, data analysis and interpretation of software results, case studies and team projects, as well as visual explorations of statistical concepts. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in statistics. 

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Using case studies and chapter review problems, the authors attempt to make statistics and its business applications with Microsoft Excel software as painless as possible. After making the case for what's in it for productivity and quality-minded managers, they ease into Excel functions for analyzing and presenting data, hypothesis testing, regression, and time-series analysis. Appends a math and algebra review, summation notation, standard statistical tables and symbols, special data sets for team projects, and documentation for the CD-ROM files. Indexed by book subjects and Microsoft Excel features. The CD-ROM includes the PHStat statistics add-in for Excel for use in business statistics courses. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction and Data Collection	1
	Supplement: Using Microsoft Excel for Statistical Analysis	29
Ch. 2	Presenting Data in Tables and Charts	63
Ch. 3	Summarizing and Describing Numerical Data	151
Ch. 4	Basic Probability and Discrete Probability Distributions	209
Ch. 5	Decision Making	289
Ch. 6	The Normal Distribution and Sampling Distributions	329
Ch. 7	Confidence Interval Estimation	413
Ch. 8	Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests	479
Ch. 9	Two-Sample Tests with Numerical Data	537
Ch. 10	ANOVA and Other c-Sample Tests with Numerical Data	603
Ch. 11	Two-Sample and c-Sample Tests with Categorical Data	669
Ch. 12	Statistical Applications in Quality and Productivity Management	721
Ch. 13	Simple Linear Regression and Correlation	771
Ch. 14	Multiple Regression Models	853
Ch. 15	Time-Series Analysis	935
	Answers to Selected Problems	1025
App. A	Review of Arithmetic and Algebra
App. B	Summation Notation
App. C	Statistical Symbols and Greek Alphabet
	App. D Special Data Set
	App. E Tables
	App. F Documentation for CD-ROM Files
	Index
	Excel Index

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Fundamentals of Math and Physics for Game Programmers

Author: Wendy Stahler

Fundamentals of Math and Physics for Game Programmers teaches the fundamental math and physics concepts, principles, and formulas that are crucial for developing successful games. Covers topics such as trigonometry snippets, vector and matrix operations, transformations, momentum and collisions, and 1D/2D/3D motion. Concepts are taught in a step-by-step format in order to improve the level of game development. Includes case studies and hands-on projects allowing students to experience the application of essential concepts. End-or-chapter review exercises are provided for additional content reinforcement

Statistical Thinking for Managers or Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java

Statistical Thinking for Managers

Author: David K Hildebrand

Focusing on the analysis of data using modern statistical and spreadsheet software, Hildebrand and Ott emphasize making sense of data and discuss not only how a statistical method is applied, but why and why not. Throughout the book, the authors integrate computer use into the development of statistical concepts, emphasizing the value of looking at data to make sure the right questions are being asked. The real-life applications and examples throughout challenge students to think like managers. The case that concludes every chapter asks students to deal with a relatively unstructured situation and to explain the statistical reasoning in nontechnical language. Modern statistical methods, including resampling and bootstrapping are included. In addition, the authors emphasize quality control and improvement throughout the book and include three full chapters on regression and correlation methods.

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Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java

Author: Frank Carrano

Data Structures/Java

 

Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java, 2/E

Frank M. Carrano, University of Rhode Island

Janet Prichard, Bryant University

ISBN: 0321304284

 

 

The Second Edition of Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java: Walls and Mirrors, presents fundamental problem-solving and object-oriented programming skills by focusing on data abstraction (the Walls) and recursion (the Mirrors).  It is fully revised to use the latest version of the Java programming language (Java 5.0). Java 5.0 is particularly well suited for presenting object-oriented programming, and helps enhances this edition’s increased focus on object-oriented programming and data abstraction. Clear, accessible writing is complimented by a pedagogically rich presentation throughout this textbook.

 

 

The Second Edition includes:

• Early and expanded attention to learning the Java language
• Fully updated Java code and UML notation used for all psuedocode
• Coverage of advances in Java 5.0 such asgeneric types, iterators, and the Java Collections Framework
• Examples that illustrate the role of classes and ADTs in the problem-solving process

 

“This book stands out as one of the best data structures books I have ever seen. It offers fine coverage of data structures and problem-solving techniques, and presents material in an elegant way that students can easily understand.”

Eric Jiang, University of San Diego

 

 

"Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java: Walls and Mirrors is an effective tool for introducing students to systematic solution design and lucid programming style. Walls and Mirrors makes teaching simpler and learning easier through its clear explanation of concepts, elaborate illustrative examples, and wide-ranging selection of problems."

Sandip Sen, The University of Tulsa

 

 

“The strength of Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java: Walls and Mirrors lies in its systematic approach to developing problem solving and programming skills.  It provides clear, effective coverage of the fundamentals of software development.” 

Chakib Chraibi, Barry University

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Problem-solving techniques	1
1	Review of Java fundamentals	3
2	Principles of programming and software engineering	65
3	Recursion : the mirrors	113
4	Data abstraction : the walls	171
5	Linked lists	221
Pt. 2	Problem solving with abstract data types	291
6	Recursion as a problem-solving technique	293
7	Stacks	327
8	Queues	381
9	Advanced Java topics	421
10	Algorithm efficiency and sorting	463
11	Trees	517
12	Tables and priority queues	601
13	Advanced implementations of tables	657
14	Graphs	735
15	External methods	781
App. A	A comparison of Java to C++	821
App. B	Unicode character codes (ASCII subset)	825
App. C	Java resources	826
App. D	Mathematical induction	828

Programming the World Wide Web or Oracle Regular Expressions

Programming the World Wide Web

Author: Robert W Sebesta

  Now in the Fourth Edition, Programming the World Wide Web provides a comprehensive introduction to the tools and skills required for building and maintaining server sites on the Web, teaching readers how to develop platform-independent sites using current Web development technology. Essential programming exercises are presented using a manageable progression: Readers begin with a foundational XHTML Web site and employ new languages and technologies to add features.

Fundamentals; Introduction to XHTML; Cascading Style Sheets; The Basics of JavaScript; JavaScript and HTML Documents; Dynamic Documents with JavaScript; Introduction to XML; The Basics of Perl; Using Perl for CGI Programming; Servlets and Java Server Pages; Introduction to PHP; Introduction to ASP.NET; Database Access through the Web; Introduction to Ruby; Introduction to Rails; Introduction to Ajax.

MARKET: For all readers interested in the tools and skills required for building and maintaining server sites on the Web.

Table of Contents:

1	Fundamentals	1
2	Introduction to HTML and XHTML	27
3	Cascading Style Sheets	89
4	The Basics of JavaScript	117
5	JavaScript and HTML Documents	175
6	Dynamic Documents with JavaScript	211
7	Java Applets	251
8	Introduction to XML	291
9	The Basics of Perl	333
10	Using Perl for CGI Programming	377
11	Introduction to Web Servers and Servlets	417
12	Introduction to PHP	461
13	Database Access through the Web	509
App. A	Introduction to Java	557
	Index	577

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Oracle Regular Expressions: Pocket Reference

Author: Jonathan Gennick

Support for regular expressions in SQL and PL/SQL is one ofthe most exciting features of Oracle Database 10G. Oracle has long supported the ANSI-standard LIKE predicate for rudimentary pattern matching, but regular expressions take pattern matching to a new level. They provide a powerful way to select data that matches a pattern, as well as to manipulate, rearrange, and change that data. This concise pocket guide is part tutorial and part quick-reference. It's suitable for those who have never used regular expressions before, as well as those who have experience with Perl and other languages supporting regular expressions. The book describes Oracle Database 10G's support for regular expressions, including globalization support and differences between Perl's syntax and the POSIX syntax supported by Oracle 10G. It also provides a comprehensive reference, including examples, to all supported regular expression operators, functions, and error messages. O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among developers and database administrators everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. Whether you're using regular expressions for the first time or applying your skills from other languages to the latest version of Oracle, the Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference is the book to have close by.

Google or MCTS

Google

Author: Virginia Scott

It's the American dream--start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multibillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All they did, after all, is come up with a better way to search for things on the Internet, right? Only in part. No company achieves a market value in the range of $172 billion (in early 2008) based on a single good idea. This new entry in the Corporations That Changed the World Series shows how Google exploited the rage for "click through" ads, instant news, mapping and satellite imagery, email, and more to create a high-tech behemoth that has done nothing less than change the way we work and live. Chapters in the book: -Explain the importance of the company and the essential "disruptions" it introduced that changed business forever. -Detail Google's origins and brief history. -Present biographies of the founders and the historical context in which they launched the company. -Explain Google's strategies and innovations. -Show how Google's treatment of employees--food for free, concierge services, laundry facilities, and more--set the bar high for any company eager to attract the best and brightest. -Assess Google's impact on society, technology, processes, methods, etc. (Huge, considering that the company's name has become a verb in the English language!) -Show how Google beat Yahoo and other companies working hard to create a roadmap of the Internet. -Detail financial results over the years. -Predict Google's future prospects and successes. In addition, author Virginia Scott offers special features that include a look at the colorful people associated with Google, interesting trivia,ethical issues and controversies, a focus on products, what its detractors have to say, and a look at where the company is headed. Google--a company that changed, and is changing, the world.

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MCTS: Microsoft Windows Vista Client Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-620

Author: James Chellis

Offering a full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident that you’re getting the instruction you need to take Microsoft’s new MCTS exam (70-620), this book is packed with practical guidance and hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills. Exclusive WinSim Vista Simulator allows you to perform a number of the exercises in a simulated environment, real-world scenarios put what you’ve learned in the context of actual job roles, and challenging review questions in each chapter prepare you for exam day.

Microsoft Project Version 2002 Step by Step or Star Wars Republic Commando

Microsoft Project Version 2002 Step by Step

Author: Carl S Chatfield

Teach yourself exactly what you need to know about using Microsoft Project 2002 project-management software-just when you need it. With Step by Step, you can work through every lesson or choose your own best starting point. The book uses easy-to-follow instructions and friendly, non-intimidating language to walk you through the steps for planning, organizing, and analyzing project tasks, deadlines, and resources. Hone your new skills using practice files on CD.

Step by Step is the easy way to introduce yourself to Microsoft Project 2002 features and functions-and quickly build mastery with everyday tasks-one step at a time!

Look this: Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals or Personal Finance For Dummies

Star Wars Republic Commando: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Michael Knight

Only the best get the toughest missions.
·Detailed strategies for all 3 campaigns of precise military-style operations
·Extensive maps for every mission
·Comprehensive stats for all weapons and equipment
·Enemies exposed: a complete breakdown of each enemy's weapons and weaknesses
·Multiplayer tips and tactics
·Exclusive art gallery—a look behind the graphics

The Future of Ideas or Implementing SAP ERP Sales Distribution

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

Author: Lawrence Lessig

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.

Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

Publishers Weekly

In his previous book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, constitutional scholar and former Industry Standard columnist Lessig offered a wary assessment of both the burgeoning architecture of the Internet and the work of those seeking to control its growth. In this sprawling follow-up, Lessig takes his arguments in Code to the next level. Warning of a digital future that, despite all its promise, could in fact turn out quite darkly, Lessig argues that while most of the world is still pondering a digital revolution, a counterrevolution is already underway. Programmers are closing off Internet innovation through code. And lawmakers, lobbied by entrenched commercial interests, are applying overly broad interpretations of copyright and intellectual property laws. To fully realize the cultural and economic benefits of our technological revolution, Lessig urges the creation of a public "commons" for the Internet, an open system that would allow for quicker exchange of intellectual capital and offer future innovators the ability to freely build upon the innovations of others. Some of Lessig's sweeping proposals are sure to spark a lively debate, but his well-reasoned, clearly written argument is powerful. If we fail to deal appropriately and immediately with the intellectual, legal, cultural and economic issues associated with rapid technological change, Lessig asserts, we risk not only squandering the promise of the digital future, but reverting to "a dark age" of increased corporate and government control. Although some readers may find parts of the book rather dense, Lessig has authored another landmark book for the digital age. Agent: Amanda Urban. (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners BusinessInformation.

Library Journal

Is the Internet evolving into a controlled environment? Should it be completely free from intellectual property rights? Lessig (Stanford Law Sch.; Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace) argues that as the Internet faces the challenges of intellectual property laws, it should not become so controlled that it discourages innovation and creativity in the digital world. He explains the historical context of the Internet and its relationship to the "commons" (items that are made available for free) and argues that, for the Internet to evolve and be an open environment, there must be a balance between intellectual property and the public domain. His book is filled with current case and social histories, as well as extensive source notes. His examples are thorough but can be excessively detailed. Though it is written for the lay reader, it will be better understood by those with some technological background. Recommended for all types of libraries, especially those maintaining materials on intellectual property. Rob Martindale, Dallas P.L. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

The fate of free expression in cyberspace hangs in the balance, avers Lessig (Law/Stanford Univ.; Code: and Other Laws of Cyberspace, not reviewed), who offers practical advice to save it. From his opening rally-"The forces that the original Internet threatened to transform are well on their way to transforming the Internet"-Lessig offers a timely polemic against the sterilization of cyberspace. Created both as a venue for the quick dissemination of information and above all as a fiercely open medium, cyberspace, he argues, now suffers from innumerable and insuperable barriers created by corporate interests to protect their dominance. Maneuvering through a twisted thicket of scientific and legal arcane, his prose and reasoning could not be clearer or more passionate. He even makes computer wiring somewhat comprehensible for the layperson: no small achievement. Using concrete examples from daily life, Lessig clarifies such complex issues as intellectual property in cyberspace by providing a historical overview of relevant legal cases from player-piano rolls to cable TV to Napster. Although intellectual property laws are essential to protect the rights of creators, at what point does the protection of authorial rights unnecessarily cripple the public discourse? Why can people hang a poster of the Simpsons on their walls but not on their web pages? One of the major threads of Lessig's argument is the inherent lunacy of applying "real world" laws to cyberspace, as when eBay sued a rival for trespass because they "illegally entered" its site. For Lessig, the cyberspace commons as intellectual playground and societal gathering place must be preserved, lest we soon feel the stultifyingeffect of sterility drowning what should be a rowdy and polyphonic discourse. The author closes with a reserved homage to US Senator Orrin Hatch, a politician who (perhaps unexpectedly) seeks to preserve the freedoms of the Internet. Part manifesto, part jeremiad, but all essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of creative freedom in cyberspace.

Look this: The Total Money Makeover or How to Win Friends and Influence People

Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution

Author: Glynn C Williams

A hands-on guide to the latest release of mySAP Sales and Distribution

This long-anticipated revision to the author’s Implementing SAP R/3 Sales & Distribution covers the latest release of SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 and 6.0. This book focuses on the complete end-to-end implementation of functionality related to the Sales and Distribution (SD) module. It will be used by SAP professionals who desire to utilize the SD module to its fullest capability by referring to time saving practical advice and tips. By drawing on his vast implementation experience, the author clearly identifies how to apply practical solutions to common requirements of an implementation.

Table of Contents:

Part One

Chapter 1 Introduction and Master Data

Chapter 2 Master Data Configuration

Chapter 3 Sales Documents

Chapter 4 Contracts and Special Processes

Part Two

Chapter 5 Available to Promise and Transfer of Requirements

Chapter 6 Logistics Execution Process

Chapter 7 Billing

Chapter 8 Pricing and Taxes

Part Three

Chapter 8 Diverse Sales and Distribution Functions

Chapter 9 Credit Management,Receivable Risk Management,Blocks and Calendars

Chapter 10 Advanced Consultant Tools

Appendix A: Transaction Codes

Learning Windows Server 2003 or Eric Sink on the Business of Software

Learning Windows Server 2003

Author: Jonathan Hassell

With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has the right server fora world now dominated by enterprise networks and web-based server applications. A number of significant improvements make this a more reliable server than Windows 2000, and those who switched have seen notable performance gains. Server 2003 is, in fact, a very competitive solution to Unix in terms of cost, performance, and application development productivity.

But getting this server up and running, either as a stand-alone or as part of a multi-site, multi-server network, is a formidable task even for the most experienced system administrators. Our no-fluff guide gives you exactly what you need: all the nuts and bolts for installing, configuring, securing, and managing Server 2003. This focused and practical book clearly documents the complexities of this server, and offers hands-on advice for planning, implementing and growing Windows networks without trying to teach you how to be a system administrator.

Learning Windows Server 2003 shows you how to create and manage user accounts (with particular attention to Active Directory), how to manage access to system resources such as printers and files, and how to configure and manage the server s plethora of major subsystems. The book goes into considerable detail about:

• Windows file and print services
• Active Directory
• IIS6 web server
• Group Policy and other security tools Patch management
• .NET Framework application server
• Windows Terminal Services (including their use in conjunction with Microsoft Office and the Small Business Edition)

Various networking subsystems that ship with Server 2003 This highly instructive book also provides an introduction to clustering services, and thoroughly documents steps that should be taken to ensure the security of the server and its resources. Windows Server 2003 was designed to meet the needs of companies or organizations that rely on one or more internal computer networks, and our comprehensive reference is the ideal companion.

Table of Contents:

1	Introducing Windows Server 2003	1
2	Installation and deployment	19
3	File, print, and user services	60
4	Domain name system	154
5	Active directory	204
6	Group policy and IntelliMirror	299
7	Windows security and patch management	370
8	Internet information services	426
9	.NET framework	507
10	Windows terminal services	536
11	Communications and networking	567
12	Clustering technologies	626
13	Other Windows Server 2003 services	663
App	The future of Windows Server	701

Interesting textbook: Systèmes informatiques de Bibliothèque :de l'Automation de Bibliothèque aux Solutions d'Accès D'information Distribuées

Eric Sink on the Business of Software

Author: Eric Sink

If you are looking at starting your own software company or just interested in gaining deeper insight into this segment of the industry then go, buy this book.

— Pankaj Kumar, Slashdot contributor

This book would make my "recommended reading" list with no problem.

— Tom Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings

Eric Sink on the Business of Software is a selection of the best and most popular essays from the author's website. This insightful collection of essays explore the business concerns that programmers face during the course of their careers--particularly those programmers who are small independent software vendors.

Sink also covers issues like starting your own business, and then performing the hiring, marketing, and finances--in a style that programmers understand, sprinkled with a touch of humor.

Electronic Health Records or PBX Systems for IP Telephony

Electronic Health Records

Author: Byron Hamilton

The availability of complete medical information when needed brought the innovation of storing the patient’s information electronically. Improvement of patient medical care was and is the catalyst for the electronic health record. Electronic Health Records provides the conceptual theory and hands-on application students need to work in today's medical office. Hands-on practice uses fully-functional demo version of SpringCharts EHR software which is available for students to use.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: An Introduction to Electronic Health Records
Chapter 1 – AN INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
Chapter 2 – STANDARDS FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
PART 2: SpringCharts Advanced Training
Chapter 3 – INTRODUCTION & SETUP
Chapter 4 - THE CLINIC ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 5 - THE PATIENT’S CHART
Chapter 6 - THE OFFICE VISIT
Chapter 7 – CLINICAL TOOLS
Chapter 8 - CUSTOMIZING TEMPLATES AND POPUP TEXT
Chapter 9 - TESTS, PROCEDURE, AND DIAGNOSIS CODES
Chapter 10 Productivity Center & UTIL125
Appendix A – SAMPLE DOCUMENTS
Appendix B
Glossary
Index

Interesting book: The Laws of Cool or The Economics of Information Technology

PBX Systems for IP Telephony

Author: Allan Sulkin

Calling all--

* telecom managers

* datacom managers with voice responsibilities

* Call Center managers

* VoIP implementers

* network integrators

* product and service developers

* industry analysts

"Clear and precise analysis and discussion of PBX system design and capabilities. Allan Sulkin has a unique ability to explain complex systems in easily understandable terms." -- Joe Licata, President, Siemens Enterprise Networks

"A welcome addition to the bookshelf for anyone interested in the evolving IP-PBX system. Voice and data communications managers alike will greatly benefit from this text." -- Michael Thurk, Avaya, Group Vice President - Systems

"Allan Sulkin's solid expertise and critical insight has been a valuable resource for the telecommunications community for over 20 years. He is uniquely qualified to articulate the very complex subject of PBX and IP telephony." -- Kanji Suzuki, former EVP of NEC America and current president and CEO of NEC Infrontia, Inc.

The most efficient (and economical) ways to bring enterprise communication systems into the Digital Age are in this guide, written by the foremost analyst in the markret space. In PBX Systems for IP Telephony, Allan Sulkin--consultant and advisor to Avaya, Siemens, Cisco, NEC, Alcatel and other world-class companies--evaluates technologies, markets, and best practices for enterprise voice systems, messaging, and customer contact centers.

The heart and brains of your communications network, the PBX (Private Branch Exchange) can be the vital link--or the missing link--that interfaces businesses and theircustomers. This guide, from the recognized expert in telephony systems, provides answers. Whether you need to IP-enable a PBX system for a small business, make complex choices for the advanced call center, or gain the expertise to integrate a variety of communication systems into a state-of-the-art foundation for your e-business vision, PBX Systems for IP Telephony should be your first choice. Here's why:

* No one knows PBX systems and markets better than the author, and no one is better at explaining them

* This comprehensive resource supplies nuts-and-bolts information on costs, performance, risks, and other real-world considerations difficult to research

* You get insights into the potential strengths and weaknesses of next-generation PBX systems

* You'll consult the consultant to the system designers for practical advice on systems that fit your needs and your future

* There's no more business-aware or user-friendly guide anywhere to converging your voice systems with your IP-based data systems

When it comes to the PBX, the question often seems to be "Who's job is it anyway?" With this guidebook, you'll be ready to take the responsibility--and get the credit.

HTTP Pocket Reference or CakePHP Application Development

HTTP Pocket Reference

Author: Clinton Wong

The HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the backbone of the World Wide Web. HTTP is the language that each Web browser (or other Web client) uses to communicate with servers around the world. All Web programmers, administrators, and application developers need to be familiar with HTTP in order to work effectively.

The HTTP Pocket Reference not only provides a solid conceptual foundation of HTTP, it also serves as a quick reference to each of the headers and status codes that compose an HTTP transaction. The book starts with a tutorial of HTTP, but then explains the client request and server responses in more detail, and gives a thorough technical explanation of more advanced features of HTTP (such as persistent connections and caching).

Most people use the Web every day without knowing anything about HTTP, but if you need to get "beyond the browser," this book is the place to start.

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CakePHP Application Development

Author: Anupom Syam

This step-by-step introduction to rapid web development with open-source MVC framework CakePHP teaches PHP programmers to rapidly develop and deploy well-crafted, robust web-based applications. If you know PHP and want to develop cutting-edge Web 2.0 applications, or code in a faster more productive way, this book is ideal for you. The Cake rapid-development framework for PHP uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework enabling PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. This book starts by installing Cake, setting up a CakePHP development and deployment environment, and building a first application, then covers each main component of a CakePHP application in detail, before showing how to build Web 2.0 style applications quickly using a case study application. It is packed with example code and demo applications, showing in action all of the techniques to write a complete, non-trivial application in PHP.

OSPF or Network Routing

OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol

Author: John T T Moy

Written for TCP/IP network administrators, protocol designers, and network application developers, this book gives the most complete and practical view ever into the inner workings of Internet routing. The book focuses on OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), a common TCP/IP routing protocol that provides robust and efficient routing support in the most demanding Internet environments. A methodical and detailed description of the protocol is offered and OSPF's role within the wider context of a TCP/IP network is demonstrated.

Practical throughout, the book provides not only a theoretical description of Internet routing, but also a real-world look into how theory translates into practice. It shows how algorithms are implemented, and how the routing protocols function in a working network where transmission lines and routers routinely break down.

You will find clear explanations of such routing fundamentals as how a router forwards packets, IP addressing, CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), the routing table, Internet routing architecture, and the two main routing technologies: Distance Vector and link-state algorithms. OSPF is discussed in depth, with an examination of the rationale behind OSPF's design decisions and how it has evolved to keep pace with the rapidly changing Internet environment. OSPF topics covered by the book include the following:
• OSPF areas and virtual links
• NBMA (Nonbroadcast multi-access) and Point-to-MultiPoint network segments
• OSPF configuration and management
• Interaction with other routing protocols
• OSPF cryptographic authentication
• OSPF protocol extensions, including theDemand Circuit extensions and the multicast extensions to OSPF (MOSPF)
• An OSPF FAQ

IP multicast and multicast routing are also discussed. Methods for debugging routing problems are explained, including a catalog of available debugging tools. The book also offers side-by-side comparisons of all the unicast and multicast routing protocols currently in use in the Internet.

You will come away from this book with a sophisticated understanding of Internet routing and of the OSPF protocol in particular. Moreover, the book's practical focus will enable you to put this deeper understanding to work in your network environment.

Booknews

Written for TCP/IP network administrators, protocol designers, and network application developers, this introductory text explains the inner workings of the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) TCP/IP routing protocol for the Internet. Topics covered include: OSBF virtual links, NBMA (nonbroadcast multi-access) network segments, interactions with other routing protocols, and protocol extensions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures

Author: Deepankar Medhi

Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing, PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. This book systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms, protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches are designed to enable efficient routing.

In reading this book, one will learn about 1) the evolution of network routing, 2) the role of IP and E.164 addressing in routing, 3) the impact on router and switching architectures and their design, 4) deployment of network routing protocols, 5) the role of traffic engineering in routing, and 6) lessons learned from implementation and operational experience. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses that should be considered during deployment of future routing schemes as well as actual implementation of these schemes. It allows the reader to understand how different routing strategies work and are employed and the connection between them. This is accomplished in part by the authors' use of numerous real-world examples to bring the material alive.

. Bridges the gap between theory and practice in network routing, including the fine points of implementation and operational experience
. Routing in a multitude of technologies discussed in practical detail, including, IP/MPLS, PSTN, and optical networking
. Routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP presented in detail
. A detailed coverage of variousrouter and switch architectures
. A comprehensive discussion about algorithms on IP-lookup and packet classification
. Accessible to a wide audience due to its vendor-neutral approach
. CD-ROM with bonus chapters on advanced topics

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Part I: Packet Routing / Part II: Circuitswitched (Voice) Routing / Part III: Transport Routing / Part IV: Router and Switching Architecture / Part V: Integrated Routing & New Directions

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible or Fixing Windows XP Annoyances

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible

Author: Brian Benz

* Covers all the programming techniques, concepts, and languages used with Notes and Domino, as well as the many new features of Domino 6
* Thoroughly examines the Notes and Domino role with Java, XML, Web services, and other IBM products and technologies
* Provides extensive code and examples, many geared to the needs of administrators
* High-profile authors, known to their audience through conferences and articles
* Companion Web site shows example applications from the book running on a live Domino server and provides code download

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Introduction to Lotus Notes and Domino	1
Ch. 1	The History of Notes and Domino	3
Ch. 2	A Simple Application	9
Ch. 3	The Notes Storage Model	19
Ch. 4	Application Building Blocks	47
Pt. II	Domino Designer	61
Ch. 5	The Designer IDE	63
Ch. 6	Managing and Deploying Application Projects	75
Ch. 7	Standard Templates	87
Pt. III	Application Architecture	93
Ch. 8	Page and Form Basics	95
Ch. 9	Views and Folders	123
Ch. 10	Database Security	137
Ch. 11	Framesets and Outlines	145
Ch. 12	Advanced Form Design	159
Ch. 13	Database Properties	173
Ch. 14	Sharing Code with Libraries	189
Pt. IV	Automating Applications	201
Ch. 15	Formulas in Forms and Views	203
Ch. 16	Actions, Buttons, and Action Hotspots	223
Ch. 17	Form, View, and Database Events	233
Ch. 18	Agents	247
Ch. 19	Web Applications	263
Ch. 20	Mail-Enabled Applications	275
Ch. 21	Document Security	285
Ch. 22	Workflow Management	291
Pt. V	Formula Language Techniques	305
Ch. 23	Introduction to the Formula Language	307
Ch. 24	Working with @Functions	313
Ch. 25	Introduction to @Commands	335
Ch. 26	Using the Formula Language to Retrieve Data	353
Ch. 27	User Interaction through the Formula Language	369
Ch. 28	Advanced Formula Techniques	385
Pt. VI	LotusScript Language Techniques	401
Ch. 29	Introduction to LotusScript	403
Ch. 30	Working with the Domino Object Model in LotusScript	423
Ch. 31	Advanced LotusScript Techniques	469
Pt. VII	Java Techniques	511
Ch. 32	Java and Domino Designer	513
Ch. 33	Java Classes and Methods	519
Ch. 34	Accessing Domino from Java Applications	531
Ch. 35	Java Servlets for Domino	545
Ch. 36	Java Servlets Using Third-Party Developer Tools	561
Ch. 37	Domino Custom JSP Tags	575
Ch. 38	Domino and WebSphere	587
Pt. VIII	JavaScript Techniques	599
Ch. 39	JavaScript Basics	601
Ch. 40	Using JavaScript Events	615
Ch. 41	DHTML and Domino	637
Ch. 42	Combining Domino and Java Applets Using JavaScript	657
Pt. IX	Relational Database Integration	667
Ch. 43	Integrating Enterprise Data with Domino Applications	669
Ch. 44	Developing Domino Applications for Data Integration	685
Ch. 45	LEI Retrievals and Updates	699
Pt. X	XML	715
Ch. 46	XML and Domino	717
Ch. 47	XML, DXL, and Domino Data	725
Ch. 48	LotusScript and XML	741
Ch. 49	Using Domino to Serve Relational XML	751
Ch. 50	Developing Java Applications with XML and Domino	763
Ch. 51	Generating XML with Domino Java Agents and Servlets	781
Ch. 52	Getting XML into Domino	815
Ch. 53	Transforming XML with XSLT	839
Ch. 54	XML Data Islands	857
Pt. XI	Web Services	867
Ch. 55	Web Services Introduction	869
Ch. 56	SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI	879
Ch. 57	Serving Web Services from Domino	891
Ch. 58	Consuming Web Services in Notes Client Applications	913
	Index	927

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Fixing Windows XP Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about the Windows OS

Author: David Karp

Windows XP is the most popular operating system on the planet--and the most annoying. From incomprehensible error messages to inexplicable crashes, from wonky wireless setups to just finding a file, Windows can make your computing life a nightmare. But thanks to "Fixing Windows XP Annoyances, you can banish the bugs, speed up operations, and just make Windows work right.
Inspired by author David Karp's "Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, this all-new tome pulls together tips, tricks, insider workarounds, and fixes for PC novices and pros, in a handy, accessible Q&A format that lets you find the solutions in a flash. "Fixing Windows XP Annoyances will not only increase your productivity but lower your blood pressure. Karp's new book covers:
Setup and Hardware-Update Windows, reinstall Windows safely, speed up start up, resolve driver-hardware conflicts, and more.
Windows Interface-Navigate quickly, fix screen resolution problems, customize the desktop, and switch applications more quickly.
Windows Explorer-Force XP's file & folder management application to remember your view settings, save your default application choices, and get XP's Search tool to behave.
Multimedia-Having a problem playing a video or burning a CD? Want to do more with your digital photo collection? We have the answers.
Web and Email-Get a handle on spyware, spam and pop-ups; protect your privacy online; learn how to improve your online experience.
Wireless and Home Networking-Connect all your PCs; share Internet connections; share files and drives securely; make your wireless network purr; share network printers; and more.
If you're having a problem, just look through theTable of Contents for the annoyance that most closely matches your problem, or feel free to start thumbing through the pages. You'll likely find a fix to a problem you didn't even know could be solved.

C Gotchas or Web Standards Solutions

C++ Gotchas: Avoiding Common Problems in Coding and Design

Author: Stephen Dewhurst

"This may well be the best C++ book I have ever read. I was surprised by the amount I learned."

--Matthew Wilson, Development Consultant, Synesis Software

C++ Gotchas is the professional programmer's guide to avoiding and correcting ninety-nine of the most common, destructive, and interesting C++ design and programming errors. It also serves as an inside look at the more subtle C++ features and programming techniques.

This book discusses basic errors present in almost all C++ code, as well as complex mistakes in syntax, preprocessing, conversions, initialization, memory and resource management, polymorphism, class design, and hierarchy design. Each error and its repercussions are explained in context, and the resolution of each problem is detailed and demonstrated.

Author Stephen Dewhurst supplies readers with idioms and design patterns that can be used to generate customized solutions for common problems. Readers will also learn more about commonly misunderstood features of C++ used in advanced programming and design. A companion Web site, located at . All such code is indicated in the text by an abbreviated pathname near the code example, as in >>gotcha00/somecode.cp

Finally, a warning: the one thing you should not do with gotchas is elevate them to the same status as idioms or patterns. One of the signs that you're using patterns and idioms properly is that the pattern or idiom appropriate to the design or coding context will arise "spontaneously" from your subconscious just when you need it.

Recognition of a gotcha is analogous to a conditioned response to danger: onceburned, twice shy. However, as with matches and firearms, it's not necessary to suffer a burn or a gunshot wound to the head personally to learn how to recognize and avoid a dangerous situation; generally, all that's necessary is advance warning. Consider this collection a means to keep your head in the face of C++ gotchas.

Stephen C. Dewhurst
Carver, Massachusetts
July 2002


0321125185P11072002

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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook

Author: Dan Cederholm

Web Standards, created and enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers use the same technology syntax, no matter what language they script in. Web Standards ensure the net stays neat, preventing the chaos that would emerge with inconsistent code. These standards also increase content compatibility among varying viewing devices, from screen readers for people with vision impairments, to cell phones, PDAs and more. Web standards are applied to code in HTML, XML and CSS.

Cederholm's book explains how to create markup and style, exploring multiple techniques for handling situations when building with Web Standards. In this easy-to-read book, each chapter provides "extra credit" sections, giving you bonus tips and tricks, and empowering you to make better decisions based with well-rounded information.

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I really think it does a fantastic job at keeping the reader interested in the subject (something that is often very hard to do in technical books) and will definitely be a great business tool for you. A quick read it is, but a valuable reference that has earned a spot next to my keyboard, my 3 bars of caffeinated soap, and the trusty case of bawls.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Lists	1
Ch. 2	Headings	15
Ch. 3	Tables are evil?	29
Ch. 4	Quotations	51
Ch. 5	Forms	63
Ch. 6	, , and other phrase elements	81
Ch. 7	Anchors	95
Ch. 8	More lists	109
Ch. 9	Minimizing markup	123
Ch. 10	Applying CSS	137
Ch. 11	Print styles	153
Ch. 12	CSS layouts	165
Ch. 13	Styling text	191
Ch. 14	Image replacement	203
Ch. 15	Styling	223
Ch. 16	Next steps	233

Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step or Battlefield

Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step

Author: Curtis Fry

Microsoft Excel provides one of the most complete sets of analysis tools in any spreadsheet. Excel version 2002 simplifies existing features and offers new tools that help the user work faster and smarter, with better Web integration and collaboration capabilities, and comprehensive tools for creating and analyzing, and sharing spreadsheet information. Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Step by Step offers self-paced instruction to the beginning-to-advanced user who wants to get the most out of Excel Version 2002-and prepare for Microsoft Office User (MOUS) certification. This personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons full of clear objectives, a wealth of task-oriented procedures, and dozens of real-world business scenarios. Each Step by Step title consists of friendly, straightforward instruction with dozens of full-color screenshots and illustrations to help you learn exactly what you need to know at your own pace. A companion CD-ROM includes practice files that are tightly integrated with the lessons, plus movie-style demonstrations of key procedures. Other features include a "QuickLook Guide" for easy visual navigation, a "Finding the Best Starting Point for You" section to help you decide how to get the most out of the book, and a special lay-flat binding to keep the book open during lessons.

Booknews

This instruction book for Microsoft Excel offers help organizing, processing, and presenting data. It also doubles as a study guide for the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) exam. Sixteen chapters cover topics like setting up a workbook, performing calculations, changing document appearance, data filters, reordering and summarizing data, analyzing alternative data sets, creating charts, printing, automating repetitive tasks, using databases, and publishing information on the Web. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide

Author: Michael Knight

* Maps detailed with the locations of all gold and collectibles!
* Complete walkthroughs for each mission, including alternate strategies.
* Battlefield-tested combat tactics. Our guide shows the best ways to use demolition to your tactical advantage.
* Deadly weapons information for all kits. Know which armament is the right tool for the job!
* Offensive and defensive multiplayer strategies to help you get the edge in online play.

Free Preview includes: Weapons and Items lists as well as Acta Non Verba walkthrough.

Table of Contents:

WELCOME TO B-COMPANY
BASIC TRAINING
INFANTRY
THE MOTOR POOL
WELCOME TO BAD COMPANY
ACTA NON VERBA
CROSSING OVER
PAR FOR THE COURSE
AIR FORCE ONE
CRASH AND GRAB
GHOST TOWN
MULTIPLAYER
XBOX 360 ACHIEVEMENTS

JavaScript for Dummies or PCs Just the Steps for Dummies

JavaScript for Dummies (Dummies Series)

Author: Emily A Vander Veer

• Responding to reader feedback, the author has thoroughly revamped the book with more step-by-step coverage of JavaScript basics, an exclusive focus on Internet Explorer, and many complete sample scripts

• Updated to cover JavaScript 1.5, the latest release of this popular Web scripting language

• Using lots of examples, including a sample working Web site, the book shows how to create dynamic and interactive pages, build entire sites, and automate pages

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PCs Just the Steps for Dummies

Author: Nancy C Muir

Your first PC can be intimidating. You’re probably panicky that you’ll hit a wrong key and send your information to some high-tech black hole or cause your PC to self-destruct. Not to worry. PCs Just the Steps For Dummies gives you simple directions for getting stuff done with your PC—everything from turning it on to using the Internet or a network. The book’s design features two columns, with numbered step-by-step instructions on one side and corresponding illustrations, screen shots, or photos on the other. You just pick the task you want to do and look up practical, no-nonsense how-to. This guide covers:

• Hardware basics and peripherals, including printers, faxes, and scanners

• Working with Windows XP, including managing memory and working with files and folders

• Working with sound and video

• Going online, searching the Web with Internet Explorer, and e-mailing with Outlook Express

• Networking, including configuration and connection and sharing folders or printers

• Protecting and troubleshooting your PC

With practical organization and a task-oriented approach, this book will have you inspired instead of intimidated. You won’t get an unabridged history of computers and a lot of gibberish; you will get clear, easy-to-follow instructions that help you get your tasks done efficiently on your PC.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Hardware basics	3
Ch. 1	First look at your PC	5
Ch. 2	Using discs and drives	11
Ch. 3	Working with input devices	17
Ch. 4	Setting up accessibility features	23
Ch. 5	Working with printers, faxes, and scanners	29
Ch. 6	Setting up your laptop	39
Pt. II	The brains of the beast	45
Ch. 7	Working with Windows XP	47
Ch. 8	Managing memory	61
Ch. 9	Setting up software	67
Ch. 10	Working with files and folders	75
Ch. 11	Exploring Windows assets	87
Pt. III	Working with your display, multimedia, and graphics	101
Ch. 12	Setting up your display	103
Ch. 13	Working with sound	115
Ch. 14	Working with digital imaging and video	127
Pt. IV	Going online	137
Ch. 15	Accessing the Internet	139
Ch. 16	Browsing the Web with Internet Explorer	149
Ch. 17	Exchanging e-mail with Outlook Express	161
Pt. V	Networking	177
Ch. 18	Setting up a network	179
Ch. 19	Connecting across a network	191
Pt. VI	Security and troubleshooting	199
Ch. 20	Making Windows XP secure	201
Ch. 21	Troubleshooting hardware problems	209
Ch. 22	Troubleshooting software problems	217

Virtual Art or Introduction to Object COBOL

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion

Author: Oliver Grau

Winner in the 2003 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Competition in the Jackets category.

Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype.

Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, MonikaFleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	2
Ch. 2	Historic Spaces of Illusion	24
Ch. 3	The Panorama of the Battle of Sedan: Obedience through Presence	90
Ch. 4	Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century: Art as Inspiration of Evolving Media	140
Ch. 5	Virtual Art - Digital! The Natural Interface	192
Ch. 6	Spaces of Knowledge	212
Ch. 7	Telepresence: Art and History of an Idea	270
Ch. 8	Evolution	296
Ch. 9	Perspectives	338
	References	352
	Author Index	402
	Subject Index	408

Introduction to Object COBOL

Author: E Reed Dok

Are You Ready to Meet the Demand for Object COBOL Programming? Now you can keep up-to-date with the newest standards in COBOL. With its use of straightforward language and real-world examples, An Introduction To Object COBOL is a concise and accessible introduction to using Object COBOL. You'll discover how object technology is applied and how the resulting Object COBOL code is constructed. All of the programs included in the text can be downloaded from the Wiley web site (wiley.com/college/). You are encouraged to execute and experiment with them. As you work with these programs and follow the related case study, you will gain important experience in using Object COBOL in a business environment. Inside these pages you will:
* Keep up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in COBOL programming.
* Understand the relationship of object technology to the business environment.
* See how object technology is applied to real-life examples.
* Receive a non-technical introduction to object technology without the use of intensive vocabulary.

QuickBooks 2002 or Multimedia and Hypertext

QuickBooks 2002: The Official Guide

Author: Kathy Ivens

With Intuit's highly acclaimed QuickBooks 6.0 and this official guide, owners of almost any small business can create a customized accounting system designed to track cash, manage payroll, handle invoices, and more! From the get-go, you'll learn the quickest ways to set up and configure your accounts - and by the end of the book, you'll know how to work with inventory, create budgets, manage money online, and much more.

Library Journal

QuickBooks, a leader in simplified small- business accounting software, can nonetheless be confusing to set up and optimize. Authorized by the software's manufacturer, Intuit Inc., The Official Guide cuts through this confusion. Not only does it show how to use the program, but it also explains when and why to customize its features to make small business accounting simpler and more efficient. Useful for those setting up QuickBooks for the first time or those who are upgrading to the newest version. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	Using QuickBooks for the First Time	3
2	Setting Up Your Lists	29
3	Invoicing	67
4	Receiving Payments	103
5	Tracking Accounts Receivable	119
6	Entering Accounts Payable Bills	143
7	Paying Bills	163
8	Running Payroll	191
9	Government Payroll Reporting	211
10	Configuring and Tracking Inventory	225
11	Making Checkbook Adjustments	251
12	Reconciling Bank Accounts	275
13	Using Budgets	285
14	Using Journal Entries	297
15	Running General Ledger Reports	313
16	Using Online Banking Services	333
17	Year-End Procedures	351
18	Using Time Tracking	367
19	Using Timesheets for Payroll and Job Costing	387
20	Using the Onscreen Timer	395
21	Customizing QuickBooks	419
22	Managing Your QuickBooks Files	451
A	Do This First!	471
B	Installing QuickBooks	477
C	Glossary	485
D	Keyboard Shortcuts	489
E	Getting Help in QuickBooks	493
	Index	507

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Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond

Author: Jakob Nielsen

Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape.

Features

• Includes a large number of richly illustrated examples of a wide variety of new hypermedia systems.
  
• Provides a range of strategies for overcoming information overload.
  
• Thorougly discusses a number of new applications, including distribution of hypertext tools via the Internet.
  
• Explains copyright issues for users and develeopers, and usability issues for hypertext.
  
• Forecasts the future of the field in the long and short term.

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard or The Alignment Effect

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard: Using Processes as Strategic Drivers

Author: Ralph Smith

Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard shows managers how to optimally use the balanced scorecard to achieve and sustain strategic success even as the business environment changes. It exceptionally fills the gap between theory and application to facilitate the use of processes as a strategic weapon to deliver world-class performance.

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The Alignment Effect: How to Get Real Business Value out of Technology

Author: Faisal Hoqu

ISBN: 0-13-044939-3 The cataclysmic end of the new economy signaled not only a stock market implosion but also a dramatic denouement in what was actually a decade-long history of "technology for the sake of technology." In retrospect, the revelation and return to rational thinking seem self-evident: how many executives, after all, would willingly throw millions of dollars at an investment without knowing how it could affect business? If we use history as a guide and tally up the waste, the answer is an unpalatable "a lot."

Now corporations are demanding the same accountability from their IT investments that they do from their other assets, as they hold technology initiatives to real, bottom-line business results. As any decision-maker charged with overseeing how technology affects the business and vice versa knows, get it right, and you're lionized as a savior; get it wrong, and you're cast out as a pariah.

In The Alignment Effect, Faisal Hoque combines proven guidance with object lessons from Fortune 500 executives and industry authorities to compellingly illustrate how corporations can align themselves through Business Technology Management, thereby increasing their efficiency and reducing the financial and operational risks that have long been associated with business and technology change.

"After billions upon billions of dollars and more than a decade, experience shows that failing to bring technology projects in line with business goals can have devastating consequences. Neither business vision alone nor technology alone is to blame. At the heart of this dilemma exists a costly and persistent disconnect that, regardless of industry, has vexed business and IT decision-makers alike. But, after all this time, how can companies right what is so obviously wrong?"

—Faisal Hoque

With insights contributed by key industry executives and thought leaders from around the globe:

Randolph C. Blazer

Chairman & CEO, KPMG Consulting, Inc.

Paul Daversa

President & CEO, Resource Systems Group

Patrick F. Flynn

VP & CIO, PACCAR, Inc.

Scott Hayward

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase and Company

Dale Kutnick

Chairman, CEO, & Research Director, META Group, Inc.

Dr. Jerry Luftman

Best-selling author of Competing in the Information Age; Distinguished Service Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Chuck Martin

Best-selling author of Managing for the Short Term and Net Future; Former Associate Publisher, InformationWeek

Jack Mollen

SVP, Human Resources, EMC Corporation

Honorio Padron

President & CEO, Business Services, Exelon Corporation

Don Peppers

Best-selling author of the One to One book series; Founder & Partner, Peppers and Rogers Group

Chris Perretta

CIO, GE Capital, Card Services

Kevin Poulter

Head of Business Integration, British American Tobacco

Howard Smith

CTO, CSC Europe

Thomas Trainer

Former CIO, Citigroup, Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., and Reebok International Ltd.

Carl Wilson

EVP & CIO, Marriott International, Inc.

CIO Insight

In this soon-to-be-released guide to alignment strategy, the experiences of industry experts and Fortune 500 executives provide object lessons on the pitfalls of "technology for the sake of technology," while the author lays out the benefits of what he calls Business Technology Management (BTM) to help corporate decision-makers reduce risk and increase efficiency.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Faisal Hoque, a business technology expert, guides corporations through the challenges of business technology management by illustrating his guidance with lessons from many Fortune 500 executives and industry authorities. To help leaders get the most business value out of technology and increase their organizational efficiency, Hoque offers many ways for them to reduce the financial and operational risks that often accompany technological change in an interconnected business environment. Copyright (c) 2003 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

What People Are Saying

Charles B. Wang
The companies that will get ahead and stay ahead in today's interconnected business environment will be those that take control of technology, not those that let technology take control of them. Business leaders who want grab the reins and steer IT in the same direction as the rest of the business must read this book.
—Charles B. Wang, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Computer Associates International, Inc.

Chuck Martin
Top executives have realized for years that closing the gaping distance between technology and business can provide their organization with a strong, defensible, competitive advantage. However, knowing it and executing it are very different. The Alignment Effect finally clearly lays out a process of how to do it, and do it right.
—Chuck Martin, Author, Managing for the Short Term

Randolph Blazer
Faisal Hoque demonstrates that technology is no longer just the realm of engineers and programmers. The Alignment Effect challenges 'C' level executives to drive IT value and provides them the pathway to smart, integrated business decisions.
—Randolph C. Blazer, Chairman & CEO, KPMG Consulting, Inc.

Phil Fasasno
I found this book an enlightening and valuable read. The real world stories coupled with the author's interpretation of the CIO's business role, should make every business leader sit up and take notice. Everyone in a position of leadership should read this book before they set next year's IT budget.
—Phil Fasano, Senior Vice President, Global Technology Group, JP Morgan Chase and Company

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Real World Evidence	7
2	Approaching a Solution	27
3	Modeling, Collaboration, Reuse	47
4	The End-to-End Perspective	79
5	Business Model Definition	95
6	Process Optimization	115
7	Technology Automation	141
8	Direction and Control	171
9	Promise to Practice	195
	Conclusion	209
	Appendix	213
	References	225
	Contributors	231
	Index	237

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems or Programming Microsoft ASPNet 20 Core Reference

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems

Author: Efraim Turban

Appropriate for all courses in Decision Support Systems (DSS), computerized decision making tools, and management support systems.

 

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 8e provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today's revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. This completely revised and re-titled edition incorporates the expanded coverage of Business Intelligence and reflects  the emphasis that most decision support courses are now taking.

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Programming Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0 Core Reference

Author: Dino Esposito

Delve into the core topics for ASP.NET 2.0 programming, mastering the essential skills and capabilities needed to build high-performance Web applications successfully. Well-known ASP.NET author Dino Esposito deftly builds your expertise with Web forms, Microsoft Visual Studio®, core controls, master pages, data access, data binding, state management, security services, and other must-know topics-combining definitive reference with practical, hands-on programming instruction. Packed with expert guidance and pragmatic examples, this CORE REFERENCE delivers the key resources you need to develop professional-level Web programming skills.

Table of Contents:

1	The ASP.NET programming model	3
2	Web development in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005	37
3	Anatomy of an ASP.NET page	79
4	ASP.NET core server controls	119
5	Working with the page	175
6	Rich page composition	219
7	ADO.NET data providers	263
8	ADO.NET data containers	319
9	The data-binding model	353
10	Creating bindable grids of data	413
11	Managing views of a record	467
12	The HTTP request context	501
13	State management	537
14	ASP.NET caching	591
15	ASP.NET security	647

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics or Spidering Hacks

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

Author: James D Tisdall

With its highly developed capacity to detect patterns in data, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for biological data analysis. But if you're a biologist with little or no programming experience, starting out in Perl can be a challenge. Many biologists have a difficult time learning how to apply the language to bioinformatics. The most popular Perl programming books are often too theoretical and too focused on computer science for a non-programming biologist who needs to solve very specific problems.

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics is designed to get you quickly over the Perl language barrier by approaching programming as an important new laboratory skill, revealing Perl programs and techniques that are immediately useful in the lab. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular bioinformatics problem or class of problems, starting with the simplest and increasing in complexity as the book progresses. Each chapter includes programming exercises and teaches bioinformatics by showing and modifying programs that deal with various kinds of practical biological problems. By the end of the book you'll have a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for such tasks as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to take on more advanced bioinformatics programming. Some of the later chapters focus in greater detail on specific bioinformatics topics. This book is suitable for use as a classroom textbook, for self-study, and as a reference.

The book covers:

• Programming basics and working with DNA sequences and strings
• Debugging your code
• Simulating gene mutationsusing random number generators
• Regular expressions and finding motifs in data
• Arrays, hashes, and relational databases
• Regular expressions and restriction maps
• Using Perl to parse PDB records, annotations in GenBank, and BLAST output

Interesting textbook: The Partridge and A Pear or Desserts

Spidering Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Techniques

Author: Kevin Hemenway

The Internet, with its profusion of information, has made us hungry for ever more, ever better data. Out of necessity, many of us have become pretty adept with search engine queries, but there are times when even the most powerful search engines aren't enough. If you've ever wanted your data in a different form than it's presented, or wanted to collect data from several sites and see it side-by-side without the constraints of a browser, then Spidering Hacks is for you.

Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. By the time you finish Spidering Hacks, you'll be able to:

Aggregate and associate data from disparate locations, then store and manipulate the data as you like

Gain a competitive edge in business by knowing whencompetitors' products are on sale, and comparing sales ranks and product placement on e-commerce sites

Integrate third-party data into your own applications or web sites

Make your own site easier to scrape and more usable to others

Keep up-to-date with your favorite comics strips, news stories, stock tips, and more without visiting the site every day

Like the other books in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Spidering Hacks brings you 100 industrial-strength tips and tools from the experts to help you master this technology. If you're interested in data retrieval of any type, this book provides a wealth of data for finding a wealth of data.

Table of Contents:

	Credits
	Preface
Ch. 1	Walking Softly	1
Ch. 2	Assembling a Toolbox	21
Ch. 3	Collecting Media Files	99
Ch. 4	Gleaning Data from Databases	141
Ch. 5	Maintaining Your Collections	349
Ch. 6	Giving Back to the World	363
	Index	391