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PHP 6/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner

• ISBN:
• 1598637983
• Authors:
• Andrew B. Harris

If you are new to programming with PHP 6 and MySQL and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner™ series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for more practical programming applications and will learn how these skills can be put to use in real-world scenarios. Everything...

Network programming in .NET: C# & Visual Basic .NET

• ISBN:
• 1555583156
• Authors:
• Fiach Reid

The purpose of this book is to provide tools to design and implement network-orientated applications in .NET. It is also a guide for software designers to choose the best and most efficient way to implement mission critical solutions. The book addresses real-world issues facing professional developers, such as using third-party components as opposed in-house development. It differentiates itself from existing .NET publications because it is...

C# Network Programming

• ISBN:
• 0782141765
• Authors:
• Richard Blum

C# is Microsoft's hot new language for the .NET platform. This book covers everything C# programmers need to know to create network applications, a task traditionally done in C++. It explores the basics of network programming, including IP and TCP protocols, and moves on to targeted C# instruction, including using the C# network programming classes in the .NET framework. Topics covered include low-level network programming (such as sockets and...

Getting StartED with Windows 7

• ISBN:
• 1430225033
• Authors:
• Joseph Moran, Kevin Otnes

Welcome to the new world of Windows 7. Whether this is your first time with Windows, you're switching from another operating system, or you're upgrading from Windows XP or Vista, you’ll find a wealth of new ideas and innovations in Windows 7. The mission with this release was to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and in Getting StartED with Windows 7 we’ll highlight those features to make your time in Windows more productive and more...

Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (Java 5,Version 1.5)

• ISBN:
• 0596007388
• Authors:
• David Flanagan, Brett McLaughlin

Java 1.5, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available. But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait...

Practical WPF Charts and Graphics (Expert's Voice in .Net)

• ISBN:
• 1430224819
• Authors:
• Jack Xu

Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics. Such charts can have wide applications in representing mathematical, physical, and economic functions in your daily life. Whether you are an engineer, a quantitative analyst, a teacher, or a student, you will end up dealing with charting applications to some degree. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation graphics platform that enables you to build...

Understanding IPv6, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0735624461
• Authors:
• Joseph Davies

Now updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this guide delivers in-depth technical information on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 greatly improves on IPv4, the current protocol, by vastly increasing the number of available addresses and by adding enhancements for security, multimedia traffic management, routing, and network configuration. Written by a popular author and networking expert, this reference details the protocol,...

XML for Bioinformatics

• ISBN:
• 0387230289
• Authors:
• Ethan Cerami

XML for Bioinformatics aims to provide biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals with a comprehensive introduction to XML and current XML applications in bioinformatics. The book will assume no background in XML, and take readers from basic to intermediate XML concepts. Core topics will include: fundamentals of XML, creating XML grammars, web services via SOAP, and parsing XML documents in Perl and Java.

Proteases in the Brain (Proteases in Biology and Disease)

• ISBN:
• 0387231005

In all organs of the body proteases have critical roles to play both in normal development and functioning and in disease states. The brain is no exception to this, with proteases having emerging roles in synaptic plasticity, memory, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer?s, Parkinson?s and prion diseases, ischemia and traumatic brain injury, inflammatory and infectious diseases, and tumour progression. Proteases in the Brain brings...

Metal Matrix Composites

• ISBN:
• 0387233067
• Authors:
• Nikhilesh Chawla, Krishan K. Chawla

In the last few years, a significant increase in applications of MMCs has taken place, particularly in the areas of automotive, aerospace, electronics, and recreation.  These include continuous fiber reinforced MMCs for cables in power transmission, high temperature superconducting wires, particulate MMCs in civilian aircraft and automotive applications, and high volume fraction, high thermal conductivity substrates for electronic packaging. ...

Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

• ISBN:
• 0387233636

Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of computers, which has made it practical to explore fundamentally new approaches. In particular, what our group terms

Kindling 6 (Advances in Behavioral Biology) (v. 6)

• ISBN:
• 0387243801

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Kindling. Speakers at the conference will write chapters summarizing their current cutting-edge research on the kindling of seizures and related phenomena in epilepsy. The Kindling Conferences and the books arising from them (Kindling, Kindling 2-Kindling 5) have provided valuable summaries of the ongoing research on seizure development, with an emphasis on mechanisms, consequences, and...

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Sensory Neurochemistry (Springer Reference)

• ISBN:
• 0387303499

Metabolism and Functions of Bioactive Ether Lipids in the Brain

• ISBN:
• 0387774009
• Authors:
• Akhlaq A. Farooqui, Tahira Farooqui, Lloyd A. Horrocks

Information on bioactive ether lipids and their involvement in neurological disorders is currently scattered throughout the literature in the form of original papers and reviews. Metabolism and Functions of Bioactive Ether Lipids in the Brain provides readers with a comprehensive description of metabolism of bioactive ether lipids in the brain, activities of enzymes involved in their metabolism, and their involvement in neurological disorders....

Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 94)

• ISBN:
• 0387908943
• Authors:
• Frank W. Warner

Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups gives a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. It includes differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provides a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develops the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof...

TEX in Practice: Volume 1: Basics (Monographs in Visual Communication)

• ISBN:
• 0387975950
• Authors:
• Stephan v. Bechtolsheim

TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how...

One-Parameter Semigroups for Linear Evolution Equations (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0387984631
• Authors:
• Klaus-Jochen Engel, Rainer Nagel

This book gives an up-to-date account of the theory of strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups of linear operators. It includes a systematic discussion of the spectral theory and the long-term behavior of such semigroups. A special feature of the text is an unusually wide range of applications, e.g., to ordinary and partial differential operators, delay and Volterra equations and to control theory, and an emphasis on philosophical...

Brain Mystery Light and Dark: The Rhythm and Harmony of Consciousness

• ISBN:
• 0415180503
• Authors:
• Charl Don Keyes

Brain Mystique Light and Dark bridges the gap between neuroscience, brain evolution and consciousness by examining scientific models of how the brain becomes conscious.

Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory

• ISBN:
• 0415308364
• Authors:
• Erol Basar

Memory itself is inseparable from all other brain functions and involves distributed dynamic neural processes. This book bridges the disciplines of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology and EEG-brain dynamics to understand how the brain represents mental events that are interwoven with memory. The text presents a new study-framework that links oscillatory brain activity with the concept of dynamic memory, leading to dynamic-APLR alliance and all...

Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine (Reproductive Medicine and Assisted Reproductive Techniques)

• ISBN:
• 0415458927

A new subspecialty is growing at the interface of reproductive medicine and perinatology: infertility. Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine provides an authoritative and comprehensive reference source for those providing medical care to women trying to conceive a healthy pregnancy. A revolutionary first edition, Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine brings together a number of difficult, and usually separate, topics and provides the busy...

If I Only Had a Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury (New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Changes, and Social Justice)

• ISBN:
• 0415975727
• Authors:
• Mark Sherry

This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature) to frame an enriching narrative about the lived experience of brain injury.

The Role of DNA Damage and Repair in Cell Aging, Volume 4 (Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology)

• ISBN:
• 044450494X

Aging occurs at the level of individual cells, a complex interplay between intrinsic "programming" and exogenous "wear and tear", with genetically-determined cellular capacity to repair environmentally-induced DNA damage playing a central role in the rate of aging and its specific manifestations. In 12 chapters, "The Role of DNA Damage and Repair in Cell Aging" provides an intellectual framework for aging of mitotic and post-mitotic cells,...

Bioanalytical Separations, Volume 4 (Handbook of Analytical Separations)

• ISBN:
• 0444506586

Bioanalytical Separations is volume 4 of the multi-volume series, Handbook of Analytical Separations , providing reviews of analytical separation methods and techniques used for the determination of analytes across a whole range of applications. The theme for this volume is bioanalysis, in this case specifically meaning the analysis of drugs and their metabolites in biological fluids. - Discusses new developments in instrumentation and methods...

High Throughput Bioanalytical Sample Preparation: Methods and Automation Strategies (Progress in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis)

• ISBN:
• 044451029X
• Authors:
• David A. Wells

High Throughput Bioanalytical Sample Preparation: Methods and Automation Strategies is an authoritative reference on the current state-of-the-art in sample preparation techniques for bioanalysis. This book focuses on high throughput (rapid productivity) techniques and describes exactly how to perform and automate these methodologies, including useful strategies for method development and optimization. A thorough review of the literature is...

Reprogramming the Brain, Volume 157 (Progress in Brain Research)

• ISBN:
• 0444516026

The brain is plastic and it can change its function to adapt to changing demands of various kinds. The brain can also re-organize and change its function to better utilize its resources when parts of the brain have been damaged through injuries and diseases. This means that the brain is not "hard wired" but can be reprogrammed when needed. This book describes different aspects of how the plasticity can become activated and how it can benefit the...

Computational Neuroscience: Theoretical Insights into Brain Function, Volume 165 (Progress in Brain Research)

• ISBN:
• 0444528237

Computational neuroscience is a relatively new but rapidly expanding area of research which is becoming increasingly influential in shaping the way scientists think about the brain. Computational approaches have been applied at all levels of analysis, from detailed models of single-channel function, transmembrane currents, single-cell electrical activity, and neural signaling to broad theories of sensory perception, memory, and cognition. This...

Meyler's Side Effects of Psychiatric Drugs (Meylers Side Effects)

• ISBN:
• 0444532668
• Authors:
• Jeffrey K. Aronson MA DPhil MBChB FRCP FBPharmacolS FFPM(Hon)

Elsevier now offers a series of derivative works based on the acclaimed Meylers Side Effect of Drugs, 15th Edition. These individual volumes are grouped by specialty to benefit the practicing physician or health care clinician. The unwarranted effects of medications used in psychiatry can adversely affect a treatment plan. This book is critical in helping psychiatrists and mental health professionals assess the adverse effects of drugs such as...

THE ADAPTIVE BRAIN I, Volume 42: Cognition, learning, reinforcement, and rhythm (Advances in Psychology) (Pt. 1)

• ISBN:
• 0444701176

These books bring together recent neural models of vision, speech and language recognition and recall, cognitive self-organization, conditioning, reinforcement, motivation, attention, circadian rhythms, motor control, and certain mental disorders. In addition to unifying and predicting interdisciplinary data from psychology, psychophysiology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and anatomy, the work suggests new real-time circuit designs for...

Semiconductor Sensors in Physico-Chemical Studies, Volume 4: Translated from Russian by V.Yu. Vetrov (Handbook of Sensors and Actuators)

• ISBN:
• 0444822615

The scientific basis of the technique of semiconductor chemical sensors is the main focus of this work. The book concentrates on the usage of semiconductor sensors in precision physico-chemical studies. The physical and chemical principles underlying the semiconductor sensor method are explained in detail. The mechanism of the processes occurring under the interaction of gas with semiconductor adsorbent surfaces are also discussed. Scientists...

NMR Spectroscopy and its Application to Biomedical Research

• ISBN:
• 0444894101

NMR has become the most diverse spectroscopic tool available to date in biomedical research. It is now routinely used to study biomolecular structure and dynamics particularly as a result of recent developments of a cascade of highly sophisticated multidimensional NMR pulse sequences, and of advances in genetic engineering to produce biomolecules, uniformly or selectively enriched with 13C, 15N and 2H. Features of this book: • Provides an...

ADHD in Adults: A Psychological Guide to Practice

• ISBN:
• 0470012323
• Authors:
• Susan Young, Jessica Bramham

"This volume is a ground-braking first step in standardizing the psychosocial treatment of adults with ADHD." - Dr Sam Goldstein, University of Utah "I think it is a uniquely valuable guide to how psychological thinking and treatment can be helpful to adults with ADHD - I recommend it to all professionals taking on this work." - Professor Eric Taylor, Head of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London Institute of...

Integrated Medical Sciences: The Essentials

• ISBN:
• 0470016582
• Authors:
• Shantha Perera, Ho Leung, Rousseau Gama, Stephen Anderson

This book is a concise, accessible problem-based approach to the subject using case scenarios to facilitate students taking their pre-clinical or basic sciences examinations. Using a family of characters in each case scenario, the text reflects the current changes in medical and biomedical science teaching that is increasingly moving towards a more integrated approach through-problem-based learning. The characters, all members of an extended...

Deafness and Challenging Behaviour: The 360° Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0470025484
• Authors:
• Sally Austen, Dave Jeffery

Challenging behaviours, such as aggression and violence, are more common in deaf people than hearing people. Filling a crucial gap in the international market, this book will appeal equally to those who work occasionally or entirely with Deaf or hearing impaired client groups of all ages. Multi-disciplinary professionals with specialist knowledge of working with deaf people explore aspects of mild to severe challenging behaviour with reference...

Pinball: The Making of a Canadian Hero

• ISBN:
• 0470836903
• Authors:
• Perry Lefko

In 2004, Michael "Pinball" Clemons became the first black coach in the history of the CFL to hoist the Grey Cup in victory, the culmination of an experience that began when he came to Canada in 1989 as an unheralded American football player deemed too small to make it in the National Football League. Not only did Clemons make it big—literally and figuratively—in the Canadian Football League in a career that spanned 11½ seasons, but he...

XML in Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0470843446
• Authors:
• Chris Bates

XML is a powerful cross-platform mark-up language which has readily been adopted as a standard in many spheres of web and software development. Real benefits include its ease of integration into existing systems, the simplicity of using it in object-oriented environments and its wide applicability. Chris Bates shows how to use XML in modern software developments and backs up a thorough treatment of its key points with clear, practical examples....

J2EE AntiPatterns

• ISBN:
• 0471146153
• Authors:
• Bill Dudney, Stephen Asbury, Joseph Krozak, Kevin Wittkopf

 "The flip-side of Patterns, AntiPatterns provide developers with formal descriptions of common development gaffes that can derail a project along with practical guidelines on how to avoid them. In this book, the authors present dozens of Java AntiPatterns that tackle many of Java's biggest trouble spots for programming with EJB, JSP, Servlets, and more. Each AntiPattern is documented with real-world examples, code, and refactored (or...

Visual Basic .NET Design Patterns

• ISBN:
• 0471268607
• Authors:
• Mark Grand, Brad Merrill

Documents fifty Visual Basic .NET design patterns, including twenty that have never before been published Packed with tips on how readers can write their own patterns in Visual Basic .NET Presents case studies that demonstrate how to effectively use the patterns in the real world Explains how to use UML to document the patterns Companion Web site includes all code and UML models from the book as well as links to appropriate software downloads

The Human Fossil Record, Brain Endocasts: The Paleoneurological Evidence, Volume 3

• ISBN:
• 0471418234
• Authors:
• Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, Michael S. Yuan, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Ian Tattersall

Some of the most important clues indicating human brain evolution come from the cranial cavities of ancient skulls. Endocasts of these crania provide excellent three-dimensional models that yield information regarding the size, surface features, and asymmetry patterns of hominid brains. Looked at as a group, these endocasts provide essential information regarding the human brain’s overall development. Brain Endocasts, Volume Three of The Human...

Healing Addiction: An Integrated Pharmacopsychosocial Approach to Treatment

• ISBN:
• 0471656305
• Authors:
• Peter R. Martin, Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer

Filled with helpful resources and illuminating case studies, Healing Addiction provides you with an integrative guide to understanding and treating addiction that brings together the latest neuroscience, pharmacology, social understanding, and psychological research. It is a key resource for professionals in the addiction community, for social scholars and policymakers, and for the interested general reader.

A History of Nerve Functions: From Animal Spirits to Molecular Mechanisms

• ISBN:
• 052124742X
• Authors:
• Sidney Ochs

Sidney Ochs begins his survey with a chronological look at the history of nerves from the fifth century B.C. to the early eighteenth century to demonstrate the development of our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function. Ochs then adopts a thematic approach, considering key topics from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume will serve as an invaluable resource for historians of neuroscience and medicine, philosophers...