Eyewitness Car

Eyewitness Car

A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to today’s high-performance racing cars.

Eyewitness Car

45 Database Performance Tips for Developers

45 Database Performance Tips for Developers

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45 Database Performance Tips for Developers

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

A management professor and a religion professor team up to provide a fresh, penetrating look at the obstacles that prevent people from achieving their full potential. As authors Charles Watson and Thomas Idinopulos demonstrate, inner demons like a lack of integrity, mindless conformity, passivity, or greed conspire to keep people from doing their best. But people can avoid becoming their own worst enemies by using their uniquely human capacities to their fullestto be more responsible, more creative, more self-disciplined, and more honest. Using these strengths, the authors show, makes it easier to resolve ethical dilemmas, attain peak performance without burning out, maintain a positive outlook, and, ultimately, succeed in achieving treasured personal and professional goals.

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

Error Control for Network-on-Chip Links

Error Control for Network-on-Chip Links

This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of the state of the art in error control for Network on Chip (NOC) links. Coverage includes detailed description of key issues in NOC error control faced by circuit and system designers, as well as practical error control techniques to minimize the impact of these errors on system performance.

Error Control for Network-on-Chip Links

Security in Embedded Devices

Security in Embedded Devices

Although security is prevalent in PCs, wireless communications and other systems today, it is expected to become increasingly important and widespread in many embedded devices. For some time, typical embedded system designers have been dealing with tremendous challenges in performance, power, price and reliability. However now they must additionally deal with definition of security requirements, security design and implementation. Given the limited number of security engineers in the market, large background of cryptography with which these standards are based upon, and difficulty of ensuring the implementation will also be secure from attacks, security design remains a challenge. This book provides the foundations for understanding embedded security design, outlining various aspects of security in devices ranging from typical wireless devices such as PDAs through to contactless smartcards to satellites.

Security in Embedded Devices

The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management

The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management

In this step by step guide, former Management Consultant and change management expert Theodore Panagacos walks you through the entire discipline of Business Process Management. Learn how to fast track your orgnaization’s strategy to govern processes, create a process culture, and measure business performance. Best of all, this crystal-clear, convenient sized book can be put to work in your organization immediately!

The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management

Schaums Outline of Theory and Problems of Financial Management

Schaums Outline of Theory and Problems of Financial Management

Master financial management with Schaum’s–the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! Students love Schaum’s Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students raise their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum’s!

Schaums Outline of Theory and Problems of Financial Management

The New Language of Business

The New Language of Business

There is now a direct, provable link between an organizations flexibility and business performance. To optimize flexibility, companies must achieve unprecedented levels of integration and automation of key processes and infrastructure, both internally and externally. At the same time, they must learn to manage their processes far more dynamically and responsively.

The New Language of Business

Java Performance

Java Performance

Coding and testing are often considered separate areas of expertise. In this comprehensive guide, author and Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be equally adept at understanding how code behaves in the JVM, as well as the tunings likely to help its performance.

Java Performance

Volpone

Volpone

A comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson’s Volpone – introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.

Volpone

Physique, Fitness and Performance, Second Edition

Physique, Fitness and Performance, Second Edition

Totally revised and updated, this second edition of the well-received Physique, Fitness, and Performance retains the unique integrated approach of its predecessor, examining the relationship of structure to function in human performance. Far surpassing the limited focus of standard exercise and fitness books, it combines the morphological study of physique relative to body structure, body size and body composition with the applied interaction of muscular, cardiovascular, motor, and metabolic system capacities, abilities, and skills developed and acquired through exercise and training programs.

Physique, Fitness and Performance, Second Edition

Championship Triathlon Training

Championship Triathlon Training

Dedication, passion, obsession–for serious endurance athletes, coaches, duathletes, and triathletes, the quest for improvement never ends. Knowing they can shave time from the previous performance, they seek out the latest in research and training techniques.

Championship Triathlon Training

Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing

Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing

This workbook allows students to practice and record the mastery of skills found in Taylor’s Fundamentals of Nursing, Seventh Edition by providing checklists designed to record every step of each procedure. This set of checklists is valuable as a self-assessment tool for students and a means for faculty to record student performance.

Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing

Energy Management Principles and Practice

Energy Management Principles and Practice

Energy technology, Management, Efficiency, Energy consumption, Energy conservation, Management techniques, Planning, Conformity, Quality assurance, Quality management, Quality auditing, Environmental management, Documents, Measurement, Performance, Environment, Quality and Management

Energy Management Principles and Practice

Thermal and Catalytic Processes in Petroleum Refining

Thermal and Catalytic Processes in Petroleum Refining

This text examines the thermal and catalytic processes involved in the refining of petroleum including visbreaking, coking, pyrolysis, catalytic cracking, oligomerization, alkylation, hydrofining, hydroisomerization, hydrocracking, and catalytic reforming. It analyzes the thermodynamics, reaction mechanisms, and kinetics of each process, as well as the effects of operating conditions and reactor design on process performance and product quality. This is a valuable resource for chemists who wish to improve their knowledge of some of the real world issues that must be addressed in hydrocarbon conversion. Topics include processes on metallic catalysts, processes using bifunctional catalysts, and catalytic reforming.

Thermal and Catalytic Processes in Petroleum Refining

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer’s life he fought so hard to attain.

Ask the Dust

Root Cause Analysis, Fourth Edition

Root Cause Analysis, Fourth Edition

What is RCA? It seems like such an easy question to answer, yet from novices to veterans and practitioners to providers, no one seems to have come to agreement or consensus on an acceptable definition for the industry. Now in its fourth edition, Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results discusses why it is so hard to get such consensus and why various providers are reluctant for that to happen.

Root Cause Analysis, Fourth Edition

Magento Site Performance Optimization

Magento Site Performance Optimization

In the open source, e-commerce platform community, Magento has established itself as the most popular e-commerce platform in the market. It is supported by a very strong developer community and it fits most merchants’ needs. Despite this leadership, Magento has a major problem; it is very slow. To serve customers in a more efficient way, we need a tool that can optimize our sites’ performance. Even if the tool is able to boost the speed of the site to some extent, it can still be a very crucial factor when there are so many competing websites on the market.,

This book will start by providing a list of trustee companies to host a Magento website with high traffic. Also, we will discuss the required configurations in terms of amount of RAM, CPU, and HDD.

Magento Site Performance Optimization

Rails AntiPatterns

Rails AntiPatterns

As developers worldwide have adopted the powerful , on , web framework, many have fallen victim to common mistakes that reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. Rails AntiPatterns identifies these widespread Rails code and , problems, explains why they’re bad and why they happen – and shows exactly what to do instead.,

The book is organized into concise, modular chapters – each outlines a single common AntiPattern and offers detailed, cookbook-style code solutions that were previously difficult or impossible to find.

Rails AntiPatterns

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Apply your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and , – and start building your own , 8 apps now. As a member of the Windows Ecosystem team, the author has trained hundreds of , engineers and has been on the front lines of bringing the first Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store. Through this book, you’ll get a thorough grounding in platform features and considerations, and delve into development essentials across the whole scope of the Windows 8 platform. And you’ll gain insights and best practices on design, coding, and performance from real-world developers working on real-world apps.

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript