Illicit Antiquities

Illicit Antiquities

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international ‘antiquities’ market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage.

Illicit Antiquities

OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C Step by Step

OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C Step by Step

Embark upon object-oriented programming in the .NET era with this straightforward, accessible guide. Progress at your own pace from the basics through advanced OOP concepts with the help of clear instructions, candid reference notes and design tips, and engaging programming examples. Learn how to take full advantage of the objects provided by Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# or how to create and implement your own objects. In less time than you thought possible, youll absorb object-oriented design concepts and terminology and understand how to construct elegant object-oriented programs with two of the most powerful development languages.

OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C Step by Step

Principles of Programming Languages

Principles of Programming Languages

The development of programming languages has radically modified our relation to language, complexity and machines. This book is an introduction to the principles around which these languages are organised imperative constructions, functional constructions, reference, dynamic data types, objects and more. Using Java as a main language, but systematically comparing it to other languages it enables the reader to understand the unifying concepts that lie beneath each particular language and provides the tools that allow the students to adapt to new programming languages.

Principles of Programming Languages

Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Bioinformatics

Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Bioinformatics

Many biological systems and objects are intrinsically fuzzy as their properties and behaviors contain randomness or uncertainty. In addition, it has been shown that exact or optimal methods have significant limitation in many bioinformatics problems. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic are ideal to describe some biological systems/objects and provide good tools for some bioinformatics problems. This book comprehensively addresses several important bioinformatics topics using fuzzy concepts and approaches, including measurement of ontological similarity, protein structure prediction/analysis, and microarray data analysis. It also reviews other bioinformatics applications using fuzzy techniques.

Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Bioinformatics

3D Laser Microfabrication

3D Laser Microfabrication

A thorough introduction to 3D laser microfabrication technology, leading readers from the fundamentals and theory to its various potent applications, such as the generation of tiny objects or three-dimensional structures within the bulk of transparent materials.

3D Laser Microfabrication

Numerical particle-in-cell Methods

Numerical particle-in-cell Methods

Algorithms known as ‘particle’ methods, whose characteristic feature is the discretization technique when the set of discrete objects is introduced, which are model ‘particles’ considered as some mesh of moving nodes, are becoming more and more widespread in mathematical modelling. Until recently, particle methods have mainly been developed as an alternative to classical numerical methods for solving problems in some applied domains of physics and mathematics. As a result, no specialized monographs on this subject have been available.

Numerical particle-in-cell Methods

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Step-by-step instructions and practical examples to creating web applications with , and MongoDB. Learn to , the object model in a , way. Create objects in Ruby and map them to MongoDB. Learn about Mongoid and MongoMapper for mapping Ruby objects to MongoDB documents. Process large datasets with MapReduce. Create geo-spatial indexes or 2D indexes.

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

Multimedia is the new digital frontier. Managers, , architects, administrators and developers need to fully comprehend this exciting new technology as its widespread use and acceptance cannot be ignored any longer.,

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the , , will give you a complete understanding of how to manage all data, especially multimedia. You will learn all the latest terminology, how to set up a database, load digital objects, search on them and even how to sell them. Whether you are a manager or database administrator, this book will give you the knowledge you need to take control of this rapidly growing and industry- changing technology. Technology which is transforming our lives.

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

PowerPoint 2003 Just the Steps For Dummies

PowerPoint 2003 Just the Steps For Dummies

Offers an easy-to-navigate design featuring a two-column landscape layout loaded with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help readers get up to speed fast on key PowerPoint tasks-and create effective and striking presentations. Shows how to print a presentation, set up a slide show, work with pictures and clip art, color text and objects, modify the slide master, create a template, insert a diagram or chart, add sound and video, and much more.

PowerPoint 2003 Just the Steps For Dummies

Microsoft XNA Unleashed

Microsoft XNA Unleashed

Microsoft XNA Unleashed provides comprehensive coverage and solid instruction on how to leverage the XNA , to create high quality , for , and the Xbox 360. The author shows you how to take full advantage of the many features the XNA Framework provides; you will learn the intricacies of important tasks such as adding sound and music to games, as well as creating, loading, and texturing 3D objects. In addition to providing coverage of 2D programming, the author shows you how to create sophisticated 3D games. All the important topics such as physics, artificial intelligence, and special effects are covered in detail.

Microsoft XNA Unleashed

Beginning POJOs

Beginning POJOs

Beginning POJOs introduces you to open source lightweight web development using Plain Old , Objects (POJOs) and the tools and frameworks that enable this. Tier by tier, this book guides you through the construction of complex but lightweight enterprise Java-based web applications. Such applications are centered around several major open source lightweight frameworks, including Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, and JBoss.,

Additional support comes from the most successful and prevalent open-source tools: , and Ant, and the increasingly popular TestNG. This book is ideal if you’re new to open source and lightweight Java.

Beginning POJOs

Hands-On Programming with R

Hands-On Programming with R

Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R’s , tools.,

RStudio Master Instructor Garrett Grolemund not only teaches you how to program, but also shows you how to get more from R than just visualizing and modeling data. You’ll gain valuable programming skills and support your work as a data scientist at the same time.

Hands-On Programming with R

Just Spring Data Access

Just Spring Data Access

JDBC has simplified database access in , applications, but a few nagging wrinkles remain – namely, persisting Java objects to relational databases. With this book, you’ll learn how the , , makes that job incredibly easy with dependency injection, template classes, and object-relational-mapping (ORM).,

Through sample code, you’ll discover how Spring streamlines the use of JDBC and ORM tools such as Hibernate, the Java Persistence API (JPA), and Java Data Objects (JDO). If you’re a Java developer familiar with Spring and want to advance your data access skills, this book shows you how.

Just Spring Data Access