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Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Fahui Wang (Author), Fahui Wang (Editor)This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.96 x 10.44 x 7.04 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2011

Humanizing Information Technology: Advice from Experts

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Report copyright infringementby Schelin (Author)People, just like computers, are the main components of any information systems. IT Solutions Series: Humanizing Information Technology: Advice from Experts brings out a variety of views expressed by practitioners from corporate and public settings offer their experiences in dealing with the human by-product of IT. Number of Pages: 173 Dimensions: 0.64 x 9.18 x 6.32 IN Illustrated: Yes Publicat...

Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way K-12

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Report copyright infringementby Mary J. Johnson (Author)This book helps teachers, librarians, and technologists apply 21st-century strategies at every level and in every content area!Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way, K-12 offers dozens of helpful tools: - A comprehensive listing of popular Web 2.0 tools- An extensive state-by-state bibliography of primary source collections online- A sample permission letter to parents to introduce a 21st century primary source unit- In-depth chapters ...

Bookmarking: Beyond the Basics - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia E. Vandenbroek (Author)With easy-to-follow tutorial guides, this book is your one-stop-shop for implementing creative activities for all ages on social bookmarking tools. Focusing on ways social bookmarking can impact academic and public libraries and increase collaborations with both patrons and faculty, Bookmarking: Beyond the Basics introduces a variety of social bookmarking websites with helpful tutorials and activities for a wide range of users. It ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rao R. Uppaluri (Author)There is a dearth of Oracle Database Administrators inspite of having a large number of Oracle Programmers/Analysts. It is not difficult to rationalise the reason for this. Oracle Database Administration (DBA) is relatively harder to grasp and the concepts are subtle. There are a handful of books, all exhaustive treatises, on this topic, in addition to those by Oracle Corporation. There are no elementary books to smoothly introduce this ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Vining (Author), Doug Pence (Author), Ron Hawkins (Author)Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are powerful, built-in tools used to solve business problems. Many System i programmers, however, do not have a working knowledge of the APIs available within i5/OS. Worse still, programmers who are familiar with the use of APIs may not be taking full advantage of the APIs and processing techniques available to them.In this book, author and noted IBM API expert...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Coombs (Author), Jason Griffey (Author)Thinking of setting up a blog for your school, academic or public library? This book is for you! - Learn all about the blogosphere and its place in your library.- Learn the nitty gritty of setting up and hosting your library blog- Find out just what you need in hardware and software to make your blog work like a charm- See examples of groundbreaking uses for your library blog This book is an overview of the world of ...

Dinosaurs On-Line: A Guide to the Best Dinosaur Sites on the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby R. L. Jones (Author), Kathryn Gabriel (Author)Here is a book containing information about more than 500 Web sites about dinosaurs. Sites are rated for quality and cross-referenced by type, level of complexity, and availability of special features. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.03 x 5.99 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 30, 2000

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Report copyright infringementby H. Thomas Milhorn (Author)"Cybercrime: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim" is a nuts and bolts, how-to guide for the typical home-computer user. It addresses the various crimes being committed via the Internet and gives instructions on how to avoid becoming a victim of each. The chapters dealing with individual cybercrimes are laid out in a format consisting of a discussion of the basics of the crime, followed by real-life examples of the particular crime, and then...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ploski Seamon (Author), Eric J. Levitt (Author), Eric J. Levitt (Joint Author)This book utilizes a web-based learning model as the basis for professional development and technology training. The model is built around 6 systematic steps: Guided Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Web Page Development, Internet Discoveries, CyberInquiries and WebQuests. Professional development is provided in the context of instructional activities that incorporate computers and web-bas...

Technology Timesavers: Simple Steps to Increasing Classroom Productivity

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ploski Seamon (Author), Eric J. Levitt (Author)With twice as much to teach and twice as much testing, finding the time to do it all is a challenge for every teacher. These timesaving tips help you make the most of every precious minute. - Quick assessment techniques that speed up grading of papers- How to map ideas into useable projects- Easy rubrics accurately assess projects and presentations- Web search techniques for fast fact-gathering- Organize exist...

Toponym Resolution in Text: Annotation, Evaluation and Applications of Spatial Grounding of Place Names - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jochen L. Leidner (Author)The problem of automatic toponym resolution, or computing the mapping from occurrences of names for places as found in a text to an unambiguous spatial footprint of the location referred to, such as a geographic latitude/longitude centroid is difficult to automate due to insufficient and error-prone geographic databases, and a large degree of place name ambiguity: common words need to be distinguished from proper names (geo/non-geo amb...

Internet-Based Student Research: Creating to Learn with a Step-By-Step Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqueline P. Keane (Author)This project-oriented, hands-on guide to developing research projects with upper elementary and middle school students gives teachers and school library media specialists the steps they need to teach researching skills to students in a meaningful and comprehensive manner. Projects are broken into four phases, called the CIDE Process: Concept, Investigation, Design, and Execution. Lead students through their research to produce meanin...

Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos A. Arnaldo (Editor) Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the Internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This volume records the response of these various sectors and shows how individuals and organizations can cooperate effectively. It describes the major work being carried out in some African...

Displacement Mapping and Volume Rendering Graphics Hardware

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Report copyright infringementby Michael C. Doggett (Author)The complexity of graphics hardware is currently undergoing a major change with the introduction of geometry engines on relatively inexpensive single chip ASICs which now contain the complete graphics rendering pipeline in full custom hardware. While the highest performance in measured in frames per second is the ultimate criteria for judging these chips, the focus is now starting to shift towards new features and different rendering ...

The Information Age and Diplomacy: An Emerging Strategic Vision in World Affairs

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Report copyright infringementby Amir Dhia (Author)Advances in the field of information and communication technologies have substantially affected most segments of our life, leading to the Information Age or Information Revolution. On both individual and state scale, 'information' has become a vital 'commodity' by which one measures levels of knowledge, skills, well-being, prosperity and development. Tracing the evolution of the Information Age and the emerging trends of diplomacy and politics...

An Open Design for Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition: athenaCL

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Ariza (Author)This dissertation introduces a new design for a computer-aided algorithmic music composition system. Rather than exploring specific algorithms, this study focuses on system and component design. The design introduced here is demonstrated through its implementation in athenaCL, a modular, polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition system in a cross-platform interactive command-line environment. The athenaCL system offers an...

Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics

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Report copyright infringementby Ben P. Walls (Author)A synopsis of eminent computer chess programs reveal that they are designed around a 'brute force' approach. An argument is made that by continuing the 'brute force' search approach, computer chess development is moving away from human evaluation methods. Research is done into studies of evaluation methods, and a discovery is made that humans use a form of intuition, called their 'sense of beauty', to choose the best chess move. A paper by ...

Decision Making in Uncertain Situations: An Extension to the Mathematical Theory of Evidence

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Report copyright infringementby Fabio Campos (Author)The main problem addressed by this work is how to model and combine bodies of knowledge (or evidence) while maintaining the representation of the unkowledge and of the conflict among the bodies. This is a problem with far-reaching applications in many knowledge segments, in particular for the fields of artificial intelligence, product design, decision making, knowledge engineering and uncertain probability. It must be kept in mind that know...

The 8051/8052 Microcontroller: Architecture, Assembly Language, and Hardware Interfacing

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Steiner (Author)This book was written with the novice or intermediate 8052 developer in mind. Assuming no prior knowledge of the 8052, it takes the reader step-by-step through the architecture including discussions and explanations of concepts such as internal RAM, external RAM, Special Function Registers (SFRs), addressing modes, timers, serial I/O, and interrupts. This is followed by an in-depth section on assembly language which explains each instructi...

Will They Like It or Use It?: The Development and Use of an Instrument to Measure Adult Learners' Perceived Levels of Computer Competence, Attitudes

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Report copyright infringementby Steven R. Yacovelli (Author)While "e-learning" has proliferated in our society, the problem exists that many corporations are delving into e-learning without fully understanding end users' self-reported computer competence or attitudes toward e-learning or computers in general, which could ultimately impact the success of e-learning at an organization. Studies have been done to examine these phenomena, but the vast majority center around the academic environmen...

Gesture Generation by Imitation: From Human Behavior to Computer Character Animation

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Kipp (Author)In an effort to extend traditional human-computer interfaces research has introduced embodied agents to utilize the modalities of everyday human-human communication, like facial expression, gestures and body postures. However, giving computer agents a human-like body introduces new challenges. Since human users are very sensitive and critical concerning bodily behavior the agents must act naturally and individually in order to be believable...

Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Reilly (Author)Using the same approach as the popular Milestones in Science and Technology and Milestones in Health and Medicine, this unique reference features more than 600 concise entries describing the most significant advances in the field of computer science and information technology. Arranged in a convenient A-to-Z format, entries explain topics in a wide variety of categories, including hardware, software, theory, mathematics, programming, langua...

Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical Implications

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Report copyright infringementby Carol A. Hert (Author)I a work that provides such a comprehensive reassessment of Information Retrieval (IR) theory, with regards to the user-oriented model. -- Journal of the American Society for Information Science Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 14, 1997

Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Herre Van Oostendorp (Author)Assembles perspectives on the discourse of electronic texts from cognitive psychology, computer science, and cognitive ergonomics, emphasizing the interface characteristics and design for linear and non-linear texts as used in e-mail, electronic journal browsers, word processors that combine reading Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.98 x 5.92 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication ...

Developing Educational Hypermedia: Coordination and Reuse

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Report copyright infringementby R. Rada (Author), Roy Rada (Author)This volume is for those interested in methods and tools for improving the development of educational hypermedia on a large scale. Interactive multimedia or hypermedia is one of the technologies which is most influencing the educating and training of people. This book shows how coordination and reuse pertain to the development of courseware, which provides new opportunities and challenges to researchers, practitioners, and des...

Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing

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Report copyright infringementby Herre Van Oostendorp (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The Robots Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth M. Ford (Editor), Zenon W. Pylyshyn (Editor), Kenneth M. Ford (Other)The chapters in this book have evolved from talks originally presented at The First International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition. Although the workshop took place in1989, the papers that appear here are more recent, completed some time after the workshop. They reflect both the spontaneous exchanges in that halcyon setting and the extensive review process. Number o...

Statistical Handbook on the Social Safety Net - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Fernando Padro (Author)Padro begins by defining a social safety net and discussing the economic health of various nations and their definition of poverty. Traditional safety net programs, such as social security, unemployment insurance and workers compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, and the welfare system in the United States and other countries are discussed in depth. Additional chapters provide detailed analysis devoted soley to programs affecting women and ...

Learning to Build and Comprehend Complex Information Structures: Prolog as a Case Study

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Brna (Author), Benedict Du Boulay (Author), Helen Pain (Author)Complex information structures are found in many disciplines including physics, genetics, biology and all branches of the information sciences. The current increasing, widespread use of information technology in all academic activities' emphasizes the need to understand how people construct and use such structures. The practices and activities found within the community of programmers provides ...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Pain (Author), Paul Brna (Author), Benedict Du Boulay (Author)Complex information structures are found in many disciplines including physics, genetics, biology and all branches of the information sciences. The current increasing, widespread use of information technology in all academic activities' emphasizes the need to understand how people construct and use such structures. The practices and activities found within the community of programmers provides ...

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), Carol A. Hert (Editor)I a work that provides such a comprehensive reassessment of Information Retrieval (IR) theory, with regards to the user-oriented model. -- Journal of the American Society for Information Science Number of Pages: 1 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 14, 1997