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Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions

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Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions is the eighth volume of the CoreGRID series. The CoreGrid Proceedings is the premiere European event on Grid Computing. This book aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid Computing. The main focus in this [...]

Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

Provides a sustained and ambitious development of the basic idea that knowledge is true belief that tracks the truth… excellent. Eric Christian Barnes, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software

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One hidden factor powerfully influences the way users react to your software, hardware, User Interfaces (UI), or web applications: how those systems utilize users’ time. Now, drawing on the nearly 40 years of human computer interaction research–including his own pioneering work–Dr. Steven Seow presents [...]

Mechanical Design for the Stage

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Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small pneumatic cylinders pushing loads of a few pounds an inch or two, to 40 [...]

America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools 2008

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AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE. A designer couldn’t begin a project without the input of the client or the tools to make informed decisions. Choosing a design program should be no different. DesignIntelligence provides the tools, evaluations, and insight, to make informed decisions about design programs in the Ninth Annual [...]

Design and Analysis of Accelerated Tests for Mission Critical Reliability

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Early approaches to accelerated testing were based on the assumption that there was a simple acceleration factor dependent on stress that would correspond to a linear scaling of time from the operating stress to the accelerating stress. This corresponds to the simplest physical model of [...]

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences.
The 95 revised papers presented were [...]

Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours

You can’t go too far in technology these days without at least a casual understanding of data communications over local and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs). Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours will clue you in on the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) networking abstraction and other key [...]

Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours

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Movable Type, a low-cost, distributed publishing software solution is helping thousands of Web site developers organize and automate the Web content management process.
In 24 well-paced chapters, the authors of Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours show readers how to install, personalize, and configure Movable Type [...]

Maven: The Definitive Guide

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For too long, developers have worked on disorganized application projects, where every part seemed to have its own build system, and no common repository existed for information about the state of the project. Now there’s help. The long-awaited official documentation to Maven is here.
Written by Maven creator Jason Van Zyl and [...]