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November 30Ebook » Computers & IT The Internet: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)

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The Internet: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)
Publisher: Pogue Press | ISBN: 059652742X | edition 2006 | PDF | 460 pages | 8,37 mb

The Internet is almost synonymous with change--that's one of its charms, and one of its headaches. You may think you know the Internet, but are you really up to speed on internet telephones, movie and TV downloading, blogging, gaming, online banking, dating, and photosharing?
This utterly current book covers:
Getting Online. Readers will have all the information they need to decide what kind of broadband connection works best for them, which browser they should use, and what kind of spyware-fighting and virus-and spam-protection measures they need to protect themselves.
Finding Information. Google may be the leading search site, but it's certainly not the only game in town. This book introduces a diverse and useful collection of sites that help uncover everything from health care information, to shopping, travel and finance, to dependable reviews and ratings.
Movies, music, and photos.

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November 30Ebook » Science related » Medicine The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture

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The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture

Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN: 0674216261 | edition 1989 | PDF | 400 pages | 18,6 mb
Cancer is that "loathsome beast, which seized upon the breast, drove its long claws into the surrounding tissues, derived its sustenance by sucking out the juices of its victims, and never even relaxed its hold in death," a turn-of-the-century physician recorded. Even today cancer affects the popular imagination with dread. In a subtle and penetrating cultural history, James Patterson examines reactions to the disease through a century of American life.
The modern American preoccupation with cancer was apparent during the widely publicized illness and death from that ailment of Ulysses S. Grant in 1885. Awareness of the disease soon figured heavily in the public consciousness, and individual reactions to it continue to reveal broader tensions within American society. Patterson examines responses to cancer by researchers and physicians, quacks and faith healers, by the multitude who have heard sensational media reports of "cures," as well as by many who have had firsthand experiences with the disease.
Optimistic attitudes of many experts contrast sharply with the skepticism of large segments of the population--often the less wealthy and the less educated--that reject the claims of medical science and resist the advice or, some argue, the paternalistic dictates of the government-supported cancer research establishment.
Expanding expectations of a cure from a confident medical profession; the rise of a government-supported Cancer Establishment managing a large research empire; the emergence of a "cancer counterculture"; a new emphasis on prevention through control of the environment and the self; and the private fears and pessimism of millions of Americans form a telling history of American social patterns.

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November 30Ebook » Computers & IT » General Programming Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications

Author:ebook-publishing | 30 November 2009 |

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Alexander T. Borgida, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Paolo Giorgini, Eric S.K. Yu, "Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications"
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K | 2009-06-05 | ISBN: 3642024629 | 530 pages | PDF | 8.41 MB

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of John Mylopoulos on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Toronto, contains 25 high-quality papers, written by leading scientists in the field of conceptual modeling. The volume has been divided into six sections. The first section focuses on the foundations of conceptual modeling and contains material on ontologies and knowledge representation. The four sections on software and requirements engineering, information systems, information integration, and web and services, represent the chief current application domains of conceptual modeling. Finally, the section on implementations concentrates on projects that build tools to support conceptual modeling. With its in-depth coverage of diverse topics, this book could be a useful companion to a course on conceptual modeling.

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November 30Ebook » Computers & IT » Development for Web MODx Web Development

Author:ebook-publishing | 30 November 2009 |

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Antano Solar John, "MODx Web Development"
Packt Publishing (March 30, 2009) | English | 1847194907 | 276 pages | PDF | 5.79 MB

Building dynamic websites with the PHP application framework and CMS

* Simple, step-by-step instructions detailing how to install, configure, and customize MODx
* Covers detailed theory from the basics, to practical implementation
* Learn the most common web requirements and solutions, and build a site in the process

MODx is a content management system and PHP web application framework rolled into one. With the ease of a CMS and the extensibility of a framework, MODx allows you to develop professional-looking, intricate websites with its easy-to-use interface and flexible architecture. MODx provides reusable code called snippets most of which are so generic that, without any modification, they can serve multiple functionalities. The generic nature of the snippets makes it possible to get the perfect customization that is so hard in other content management systems.
This book will get web developers up-and-running with MODx. With step-by-step examples and illustrative screenshots, you will be guided through installation, configuration, and customization. By the end of the book, you will have created a powerful, dynamic website by using the individual elements of MODx, without the need for programming know-how.

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November 30Ebook » Computers & IT Enterprise Information Systems VII

Author:ebook-publishing | 30 November 2009 |

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Enterprise Information Systems VII
265 pages | Springer; 1 edition (November 13, 2006) | 1402053231 | PDF | 5 Mb

The purpose of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Five simultaneous tracks have been held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Internet Computing, Electronic Commerce and Human Factors.

ICEIS focuses on real world applications: therefore authors were asked to highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. During the conference there was an interesting debate on how to solve business problems, using IT. Paper presentations included the description of advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general surveys indicating future directions for information systems and technologies.

Papers included in the book are the best papers presented at the ICEIS 2005 conference.

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November 30Ebook » Computers & IT Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: An Evolutionary Computation Approach

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Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: An Evolutionary Computation Approach
187 pages | Springer; 1 edition (November 5, 2009) | 3642025404 | PDF | 1 Mb

Traditionally, evolutionary computing techniques have been applied in the area of data mining either to optimize the parameters of data mining algorithms or to discover knowledge or patterns in the data, i.e., to directly solve the target data mining problem. This book proposes a different goal for evolutionary algorithms in data mining: to automate the design of a data mining algorithm, rather than just optimize its parameters.

The authors first offer introductory overviews on data mining, focusing on rule induction methods, and on evolutionary algorithms, focusing on genetic programming. They then examine the conventional use of evolutionary algorithms to discover classification rules or related types of knowledge structures in the data, before moving to the more ambitious objective of their research, the design of a new genetic programming system for automating the design of full rule induction algorithms. They analyze computational results from their automatically designed algorithms, which show that the machine-designed rule induction algorithms are competitive when compared with state-of-the-art human-designed algorithms. Finally the authors examine future research directions.

This book will be useful for researchers and practitioners in the areas of data mining and evolutionary computation.