Making money demands effort, whether working for a salary or investing. You get nothing for nothing. Anyone who tells you the stock market is an absolute doddle, and money for old rope, is either a conman or a fool. And the proof of that became very clear with the stock market depressions starting in 2007. But doing a bit of work does not necessarily mean heavy mathematics and several hours eve…
How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? This is the question addressed in this book. Each chapter focuses on situations where quality is highly uncertain: such situations provide excellent opportunities to analyze how quality is the outcome of a construction process involving producers, consumers, and marke…
This publication is designed to provide (Master’s and PhD) students with a concise introduction to research, especially, in organisations. The aim is to familiarise them with the knowledge they need to make well-reasoned methodological choices when preparing an (applied) approach and provide them with the tools they need to develop what is referred to in this book as a research design. Wh…
This book has not been written for fellow academic methodologists. It is mainly aimed at teachers and lecturers who want to pay attention to methodology in their courses. This may involve working on research assignments, explaining certain methodological aspects of specialised knowledge, as well as supervising Master’s and, sometimes, PhD projects. Above all, this book is aimed at students wh…
No longer are financial instruments confined to bank loans and deposits, stocks and bonds, and other traditional forms. Numer- ous financial products have emerged to meet new needs and pref- erences of individuals and institutions. At the same time, opera- tions of major financial institutions increasingly have extended beyond national borders and are now carried out on a worldwide basis. Su…
Computer networking or data communications is a set of disciplines concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. It has its requirements and underlying principles. Since the first node of ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network, later renamed Internet) was established in 1969, the store-and-forward packet switching technologies formed the Internet architecture, whi…
Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan worked well together; they did so because they had a profound respect for each other. That respect was the bridge to listening and thinking together in ways that allowed them to build an important theoretical perspective referred to as the “most widely accepted model used today both for understanding agricultural growth processes and as the basis for agricultur…
The purpose of this book is to help you program shared-memory parallel machines without risking your sanity.1 We hope that this book’s design principles will help you avoid at least some parallel-programming pitfalls. That said, you should think of this book as a foundation on which to build, rather than as a completed cathedral. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to help make further …
This book is concerned with signal analysis in its broadest sense. Usually, signals are modeled as functions in suitable spaces such as L2, the space of square integrable functions, or Sobolev spaces. Signals might be given explicitly as, for example, in image analysis or implicitly, as solutions of operator equations. In either case, the problem of interest is to analyze and process these sign…
This book springs from class notes, I developed for a course called Engineer- ing Analysis which I have taught every other fall semester since 1983 at the University of Akron. The course is targeted to students who are beginning graduate study in engineering. The students enrolled are first- and second-year graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, although I have taught st…
The life of the Oracle database programmer is in a state of flux. Oracle Corporation is advancing rapidly into the middle and presentation tiers of the enterprise application with an array of new products and technologies. Perhaps more significantly, with the launch of Oracle 8i, more and more enterprise features are being moved into the database, bringing with them a wealth of new programming …
The purpose of this book is to enable you to create well-engineered Android applications that go beyond the scope of small example applications. This book is for people coming to Android programming from a variety of backgrounds. If you have been programming iPhone or Mac OS applications in Objective-C, you will find coverage of Android tools and Java language features relevant to Android progr…
The web application landscape is vast and varied. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Framework— built on top of the mature and robust .NET Framework—is one of the most trusted platforms in the industry. ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s latest addition to the world of ASP.NET providing web developers with an alternative development approach that helps you build web applications with ease. The main goal of th…
HTML5 makes the Web a first-class environment for creating real applications. It reinforces JavaScript’s existing tool set with key extensions to the browser APIs that make it easier to create applications that feel (and can be) complete in themselves, not just views on some distant server process. The Web began as a way to share files, stored on a web server, that changed only occasionally. …
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce you to the Mac OS X environment, providing a foundation for understanding the origins of the operating system, how it is structured, and what components it contains. The first two chapters explain how to use and navigate Mac OS X, and introduce you to technologies you will use throughout the book.
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services is an enterprise-ready platform for developing data integration solutions. SQL Server Integration Services provides the ability to extract and load from and to heterogeneous data sources and destina- tions. In addition, it provides the ability for you to easily deploy, manage, and configure these data integration solutions. If you are a data integration…
Welcome to the exciting, empowering world of home automation! If you have ever wanted your home to do more than just protect you against the outside elements and want to interface it to the digital domain, this book will show you how. By demonstrating several easy-to-build projects, you will be able to take the skills you learned from this book and expand upon and apply them toward custom home …
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college course…
Programming is making the computer do whatever we want it to do. And program (or software) is the name given to a series of computer code to complete a specific task. Sometimes the procedure of writing a program is also named as solving a problem because all programs are written to do a specific task, in other words to solve a problem you faced in real world. Because of the hardware design, com…