Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems):

Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporateresource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources. An important component of this integration is the management of the “metadata” that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the various forms of underlying business data. The “metadata repository” is essential keeping track both of the various physical components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we mean by “customer?” Where can we find information about our customers?

After years of building enterprise models for the oil, pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself.

* A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for information architecture-encompassing the Business Owner’s, Architect’s, and Designer’s views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation)

* Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts

* Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.)

* Presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools – and should be

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Luxology modo 401 Training Rotary Engine Series 16:

In this tutorial we take a close look at many of the new animation set-up and rigging tools in modo 401. These tools allow us to rig and animate mechanically-based objects using constraints, inverse kinematics and dynamic parenting.

This project explains how to rig a rotary engine. The rotary engine was a crazy and yet beautiful piece of engineering that powered aircraft in the early years of aviation. Most famously known for powering fighter aircraft in WWI, they spun with the propeller at tremendous speed thus expelling oil in the face of the pilot and making the aircraft difficult to handle due to the gyroscopic effect of the engine spinning. The unusual way the engine worked led to a unique design which we look at in detail in this project via a cutaway model that reveals how all the elements of the engine moved and interacted with each other.

The focus of the tutorial is automation. When finished the entire engine rig can be driven by a single keyframed channel. This is an ideal tutorial for anyone who wants to dig into what has now evolved into very capable animation system within modo.

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Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX (Graphics Series):

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Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX is a completely updated edition of this specialized book for Photoshop users wishing to go beyond the basics. It takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS3. The book is packed with full color photos showing before-and-after touch-up examples and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS3. Using a mixture of fun and practical projects, you will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. This edition also includes more real-world projects to illustrate practical uses of Photoshop's tools. The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. Throughout the book, you will learn to work with the tools that come with Photoshop, but aren't used on a regular basis, and are therefore not covered in depth in general purpose Photoshop books. Armed with this knowledge, you can to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout this book. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects!

About the Author

Stephen Burns has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few. Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 10 years ). He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.

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International Mathematical Olympiads, 1986-1999 (MAA Problem Book Series) [ILLUSTRATED] :

The International Mathematical Olympiad competition is held every year with the final taking place in a different country. This book contains questions and solutions from the finals 1986-1999 inclusive. It will be of great value to students preparing for the IMO and all others interested in mathematical problem solving.

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Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) (Textbook Binding):

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Reinventing the wheel is a terrible waste of time, yet legions of computer programmers do exactly that every day. Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics gives the working graphics programmer a vast collection of programming examples, complex code snippets explained and ready to use. Each chapter is filled with more than just code examples–the explanations needed to understand why these examples work the way they do are given by authors with experience both in writing and in the field.

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Fundamentals of Wavelets: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering):

Wavelet theory originated from research activities in many areas of science and engineering. As a result, it finds applications in a wide range of practical problems. Wavelet techniques are specifically suited for nonstationary signals for which classic Fourier methods are ineffective.

Based on courses taught by the authors at Texas A&M University as well as related conferences, Fundamentals of Wavelets is a textbook offering an up-to-date engineering approach to wavelet theory. It balances a discussion of wavelet theory and algorithms with its far-ranging practical applications in signal processing, image processing, electromagnetic wave scattering, and boundary value problems.

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Australian Mathematical Olympiads 1979-1995 (Enrichment Series, 12):

This book is a complete collection of all Australian Mathematical Olympiad papers from the first paper in 1979 to 1995. Solutions to all of the problems are included and in a number of cases, alternative solutions are also offered.

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EU COST C13 Glass and In Building Envelopes – Final Report: Volume 1 Research in Architectural Engineering Series:

EU COST C13 Glass and In Building Envelopes - Final Report: Volume 1 Research in Architectural Engineering Series

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The main objective of the COST Action C13 was to increase the knowledge of properties and possibilities of glazing in order to increase the performance of building envelopes, to reduce the energy consumption and to improve the quality of life with respect to interiorspace, impact on the environment and human welfare. This collection of papers presented at meetings and workshops of the COST C13 working groups 1 (Architectural Aspects and Design Integration), 2 (Quality of Interior Space) and 3 (Structural Aspects of Glass) are the result of 5 years of exchange of ideas, experiences and know-how between members, delegates and experts. It represents the body of knowledge from a restricted but representative group of professionals in Europe on the subject of glass building envelopes. The Steel Structures Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH) and the research group ‘Facades & Systems’ of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (NL) have taken the initiative to publish these COST C13 papers in order to disseminate the knowledge to the world of glass facade professionals and to contribute to the development of a new generation of high-performance glass building envelopes.

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Developing Java Beans (Java Series):

Developing Java Beans (Java Series)
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. | 1997-06-01 | ISBN 1565922891 | PDF | 312 pages | 1.22 MB

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Java Beans is the most important development in Java this year. It gives Java developers the ability to work with sophisticated graphical development tools and to integrate Java software into projects using other component technologies, such as Microsoft’sActiveX. Developing Java Beans gives you a firm grounding in every aspect of the Java Beans component architecture. You’ll learn how to create components that can be manipulated by tools like Borland’s JBuilder or IBM’s VisualAge for Java, enabling others to build entire applications by using and reusing these building blocks. Beyond the basics, Developing Java Beans teaches you how to create Beans that can be saved and restored properly; how to take advantage of introspection to provide more information about a Bean’s capabilities; how to provide property editors and customizers that manipulate a Bean in sophisticated ways; and how to integrate Java Beans into ActiveX projects. If you’re a Java developer, you’ll want to take advantage of Java’s component architecture. Developing Java Beans gives you a comprehensive introduction to this exciting new technology. The book covers:
Events, event listeners, and adapters
Properties, indexed properties, bound properties, and vetoable property changes
Persistence, serialization, versioning, and object validation
Packaging Beans using JAR files
The BeanBox, a prototypical development tool
Reflection and introspection
Property editors and customizers
The ActiveX bridge; using Java Beans in Visual Basic programs

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Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples (Springer Texts in Statistics):

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples

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Time Series Analysis and Its Applications presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying theory. Numerous examples using non-trivial data illustrate solutions to problems such as evaluating pain perception experiments using magnetic resonance imaging or monitoring a nuclear test ban treaty. The book is designed to be useful as a text for graduate level students in the physical, biological and social sciences and as a graduate level text in statistics. Some parts may also serve as an undergraduate introductory course. Theory and methodology are separated to allow presentations on different levels. Material from the earlier 1988 Prentice-Hall text Applied Statistical Time Series Analysis has been updated by adding modern developments involving categorical time sries analysis and the spectral envelope, multivariate spectral methods, long memory series, nonlinear models, longitudinal data analysis, resampling techniques, ARCH models, stochastic volatility, wavelets and Monte Carlo Markov chain integration methods. These add to a classical coverage of time series regression, univariate and multivariate ARIMA models, spectral analysis and state-space models. The book is complemented by ofering accessibility, via the World Wide Web, to the data and an exploratory time series analysis program ASTSA for Windows that can be downloaded as Freeware. Robert H. Shumway is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the Inernational Statistical Institute. He won the 1986 American Statistical Association Award for Outstanding Statistical Application and the 1992 Communicable Diseases Center Statistics Award; both awards were for joint papers on time series applications. He is the author of a previous 1988 Prentice-Hall text on applied time series analysis and is currenlty a Departmental Editor for the Journal of Forecasting. David S. Stoffer is Professor of Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has made seminal contributions to the analysis of categorical time series and won the 1989 American Statistical Association Award for Outstanding Statistical Application in a joint paper analyzing categorical time series arising in infant sleep-state cycling. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forecasting and has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal fo the American Statistical Association.

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User Mode Linux(R) (Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series):

User Mode Linux(R) (Bruce Perens' Open SourceSeries)

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With User Mode Linux you can create virtual Linux machines within a Linux computer and use them to safely test and debugapplications, network services, and even kernels. You can try out new distributions, experiment with buggy software, and even testsecurity. Now, for the first time, the creator and maintainer of User Mode Linux shows how to put it to work hands-on. Jeff Dike covers everything from getting started through running enterprise-class User Mode Linux servers. You’ll find authoritative advice on bootup, compilation, administration, specialized configurations, and much more.Coverage includes *What User Mode Linux is, how it works, and its uses in Linux networks *Key applications, including server consolidation, development, and disaster recovery *Booting and exploration: logins, consoles, swap space, partitioned disks, and more *Copy-On-Write (COW): UML’s efficient approach to storing filesystem changes *In-depth discussion of User Mode Linux networking and security *Centrally managing User Mode Linux instances, and controlling their hardware resources *Implementing clusters and other specialized configurations *Setting up User Mode Linux servers, step-by-step: small-scale and large-scale examples *The future of virtualization and User Mode Linux Whether you’re a netadmin, sysadmin, teacher, student, or programmer, User Mode Linux(R)–the technology and this book–is indispensable.

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Sampling Algorithms (Springer Series in Statistics):

Sampling Algorithms (Springer Series in Statistics)

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Over the last few decades, important progresses in the methods of sampling have been achieved. This book draws up an inventory of new methods that can be useful for selecting samples. Forty-six sampling methods are described in the framework of general theory. The algorithms are described rigorously, which allows implementing directly the described methods. This book is aimed at experienced statisticians who are familiar with the theory of survey sampling.

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UML for Database Design (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series):

UML for Database Design (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition | ISBN: 0201721635 | 320 pages | July 24, 2001 | CHM | 5 Mb

The Unified Modeling Language (UML), the standard graphical notation for modeling business and software application needs, has emerged as an effective modeling tool for database design. When used as a common modeling language for the many facets of system development, the UML can serve as a unifying framework that facilitates the integration of database models with the rest of a system design.

This pragmatic guide introduces you to the UML and leads you through the process of UML-based database modeling and design. The book presents the different types of UML diagrams, explaining how they apply to the database world, and shows how data modeling with the UML can be tied into the Rational Unified Process.

UML for Database Design is structured around the database design process: business use case modeling, business object modeling, database requirements definition, analysis and preliminary design, and, finally, detailed design and deployment. For each phase of development the book describes the overall objectives and workflow of that phase, the status of the case study, the relevant UML constructs, and the nuts and bolts of database modeling and design with the UML. Drawing on their extensive industry experience, the authors reveal the trials and tribulations of database development teams, lessons learned, and pointers for success.

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Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications : A Guide for Java Developers:

Developing Scalable Series 40Applications: A Guide for Java Developers

Nokia’s Series 40 Developer Platform gives Java developers access to the world’s highest-volume, fastest-growing, and most excitingmobile markets. Nokia sells close to 100 millionunits within their Developer Platform families every year, and the Series 40 Developer Platform is the highest-volume platform in the family. Success on this platform is crucial for the commercial success of any mobileapplication. Knowledge of the Series 40 Developer Platform can be applied to the Java environment on all Nokia Developer Platform devices, including Series 60 devices.

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Java Programming for Engineers (Mechanical Engineering Series (Boca Raton, Fla.).):

While teaching Java programming at Minnesota State University, the authors noticed that engineering students were enrolling in Java programming courses in order to obtain basic programming skills, but there were no Java books suitable for courses intended for engineers. They realized the need for a comprehensive Java programming tutorial that offers basic programming skills that can be applied in the field of engineering. With this in mind, the authors developed Java Programming for Engineers in order to meet the needs of both engineers and engineering students. The text uses the personal computer as a development platform and assumes no prior programming experience or knowledge. The only skills expected of the reader are basic keyboarding and user-level familiarity with the PC. Topics covered range from mathematical expressions to linear systems to engineering graphics. Chapters on problem solving skills and the designing of engineering applications walk readers through real word problems they might encounter. Divided into two parts, Part 1 is a description of the Java language, of the fundamentals of object orientation, input and output operations, and error handling. Part 2 is about Java programming for engineers. It starts with computer number systems, fixed- and variable-precision numeric data, mathematical programming in Java as could be of interest to engineers, and concludes with an overview of Java Graphics.

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