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Advanced Imaging

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Advanced Imaging is published eleven times a year, serving approximately 40,000 imaging professionals in fields ranging in industry from medicine to arts and sciences to broadcasting and media. These individuals work on a daily basis with all forms of digital imaging for all applications, on all computer platforms.

Advanced Imaging provides the latest information on the imaging hardware, software and peripherals that are used in capturing, displaying, manipulating and storing images. In addition details on how available imaging tools and techniques are being used by professionals at work and looks at the burgeoning industry the tools have fostered.

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Design of Wood Frame Structures for Permanence

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Design of Wood Frame Structures for Permanence

When properly designed, wood frame structures will resist damage by moisture and living organisms. Recommendations for control of moisture and protection against decay and insect infestations are contained in this document. Many of the recommendations are established practice among architects, engineers, and builders.

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The Official Guide to 3D GameStudio

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The Official Guide to 3D GameStudio

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If you’re a video game enthusiast, then you’ve probably thought more than once about creating your own games. Now you can develop your own 3D games using 3D GameStudio! The Official Guide to 3D GameStudio will help you develop the skills you need to create a variety of games, including first-person shooter and fantasy role-playing. Learn how to make a game from start to finish using the most readily found tools in the industry. You’ll cover the fundamentals of character animation, level building, and programming various effects.

You’ll even get tips on the game industry as a whole, including how video games are made, what job opportunities exist, and how you can break into the industry. Whether you want to make games for your own enjoyment or to build your career portfolio, this all-in-one guide covers everything you need to know to make amazing 3D games!

About the Author
Michael Duggan is an Oklahoma-born artist and animator with a background in 3D modeling and digital animation. He is currently a freelance game programmer and motion graphics consultant in Harrison, Arkansas. He has taught animation and game design in the visual arts department of North Arkansas College for the last few years. He previously helped start a high-paced private college¿s new Gaming and Robotics program from the ground up. His education includes an Associates of Arts, a certificate of Surgical Technology, and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Game Art and Design at the Art Institute.

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OCP Oracle Database 11g Administration II Exam Guide: Exam 1Z0-053

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OCP Oracle Database 11g Administration II Exam Guide: Exam 1Z0-053

Description: Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g: Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, youAnd#39;ll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what youAnd#39;ve learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference.

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Windows 7 Inside Out

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Windows 7 Inside Out

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You re beyond the basics, so dive right in and put your PC to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Windows 7 and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Explore features and capabilities in each edition of Windows 7.

Configure and customize your system with advanced setup options. Manage files, folders, and media libraries with new search and organization features. Set up a wired or wireless network and manage shared resources. Administer accounts, passwords, and logons and help control access to resources. Configure Windows Internet Explorer(r) settings and security zones. Master security essentials to help protect against viruses, worms, and spyware. Troubleshoot errors and fine-tune performance. Automate routine maintenance with scripts and other tools. CD includes: Fully searchable eBook Downloadable gadgets and other tools for customizing Windows 7 Insights direct from the product team on the official Windows 7 blog Links to the latest security updates and products, demos, blogs, and user communities

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Robotic Mapping and Exploration

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Robotic Mapping and Exploration

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“Robotic Mapping and Exploration” is an important contribution in the area of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous robots, which has been receiving a great deal of attention by the research community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the autonomous mapping learning problem. Solutions include uncertainty-driven exploration, active loop closing, coordination of multiple robots, learning and incorporating background knowledge, and dealing with dynamic environments. Results are accompanied by a rich set of experiments, revealing a promising outlook toward the application to a wide range of mobile robots and field settings, such as search and rescue, transportation tasks, or automated vacuum cleaning.

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Global Finance

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Global Finance has been providing monthly news and analysis since 1987 about companies and financial institutions that do business around the world.

Global Finance delivers the full story; corporate finance, joint ventures and M&A, country profiles, capital markets, investor relations, currencies, banking, risk management, custody, direct investment, money management and all the rest-specifically tailored for corporate readers around the world.

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Scrappy Information Security

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This book should be read by anyone who cares about the security and privacy of their online information, and wants to know how to take steps to protect it … and that should be everyone. This book should be read by anyone who wants to “do the right thing” and ensure that they do not inadvertently compromise their employer’s, or their own, sensitive information … and that should be everyone.

Modern corporations do their best to hammer home the message of security through training, communications, and outright begging. The message often falls on deaf ears, not because employees want to make their workplaces unsafe, but rather, because the topic is so complex and wide-ranging that it simply is overwhelming. As an information security professional, it is their charge to make the online world safer for all of us. None of us tolerates a crime spree in our neighborhood. Likewise, we should not tolerate the current crime wave that is sweeping the Internet, one which truly threatens to stifle the e-commerce and e-communications that we have come to know and rely on.

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Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

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Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

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Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work – they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning.

This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.
About the Author
Gilles Tiberghien is a philosopher and an author in the field of Land Art.

James Corner is an internationally known landscape designer and theorist and professor for landscape architecture at the Pennsylvania University, USA.

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Solaris Application Programming

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Solaris Application Programming

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Solaris™ Application Programming is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, this wide-ranging resource shows developers and software architects how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications.

Whether you’re new to performance analysis and optimization or an experienced developer searching for the most efficient ways to solve performance issues, this practical guide gives you the background information, tips, and techniques for developing, optimizing, and debugging applications on Solaris.

The text begins with a detailed overview of the components that affect system performance. This is followed by explanations of the many developer tools included with Solaris OS and the Sun Studio compiler, and then it takes you beyond the basics with practical, real-world examples. In addition, you will learn how to use the rich set of developer tools to identify performance problems, accurately interpret output from the tools, and choose the smartest, most efficient approach to correcting specific problems and achieving maximum system performance.

Coverage includes

A discussion of the chip multithreading (CMT) processors from Sun and how they change the way that developers need to think about performance
A detailed introduction to the performance analysis and optimization tools included with the Solaris OS and Sun Studio compiler
Practical examples for using the developer tools to their fullest, including informational tools, compilers, floating point optimizations, libraries and linking, performance profilers, and debuggers
Guidelines for interpreting tool analysis output
Optimization, including hardware performance counter metrics and source code optimizations
Techniques for improving application performance using multiple processes, or multiple threads
An overview of hardware and software components that affect system performance, including coverage of SPARC and x64 processors