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Beginning SQL Server for developers Fourth edition. by Dewson, Robin

Contents: “…-- SQL Server Editions -- The Example -- Installation -- Install -- Setup Role -- Choosing the Features to Install -- Naming the Instance -- Service Accounts -- Authentication Mode -- Defining the Data Directories -- FILESTREAM Options -- Creating the Reporting Services Database -- Distributed Replay Options -- Security -- Services Accounts -- Looking at the Authentication Mode -- Windows Authentication Mode -- Administrators on a Machine -- Mixed Mode -- The sa Login -- Summary -- Chapter 2: SQL Server Management Studio -- A Quick Overview of SSMS -- Query Editor -- sqlcmd -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Database Design and Creation -- Defining a Database -- Prebuilt Databases Within SQL Server -- master -- tempdb -- model -- msdb -- AdventureWorks/AdventureWorksDW -- Choosing the Database System Type -- OLTP -- Backups -- Indexes -- In-memory data -- BI/OLAP -- Example System Choice -- Gathering the Data -- Determining the Information to Store in the Database -- Financial Products -- Customers -- Customer Addresses -- Shares -- Transactions -- External and Ignored Information -- Building Relationships -- Using Keys -- Primary Key -- Foreign/Referencing Key -- Candidate/Alternate Key -- A Unique Constraint Instead of a Primary Key -- Creating Relationships -- Relationships and Referential Integrity -- Types of Relationships -- One-to-One -- One-to-Many -- Many-to-Many -- More on Foreign Keys -- Normalization -- Assign Each Entity a Unique Identifier -- Store Only Information That Directly Relates to That Entity -- Avoid Repeating Values or Columns -- Normal Forms -- First Normal Form -- Customers -- Shares -- Second Normal Form -- Third Normal Form.…”
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Virtual, augmented and mixed reality : 13th International Conference, VAMR 2021, held as part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual event, July 24-29, 2021,... by VAMR (Conference) Online), SpringerLink (Online service), International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Contents: “…Designing and Evaluating VAMR Environments -- Narrative Cognition in Mixed Reality Systems: Towards an Empirical Framework -- Exploratory Study on the Use of Augmentation for Behavioural Control in Shared Spaces -- Pose Estimation and Video Annotation Approaches for Understanding Individual and Team Interaction during Augmented Reality-Enabled Mission Planning -- GazeXR: A General Eye-tracking System Enabling Invariable Gaze Data in Virtual Environment -- SpatialViewer: A Remote Work Sharing Tool that Considers Intimacy Among Workers -- A Review of Virtual Therapists in Anxiety and Phobias Alleviating Applications -- Designing Limitless Path in Virtual Reality Environment -- A Comparative Study of Conversational Proxemics for Virtual Agents -- Real-time Data Analytics of COVID Pandemic using Virtual Reality -- Design Considerations for Interacting and Navigating with 2 Dimensional and 3 Dimensional Medical Images in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Medical Applications -- Virtual Reality Sickness Evaluation in Exergames for Older Hypertensive Patients: A Comparative Study of Training Methods in a Virtual Environment -- Consistency in Multi-device Service including VR : A Case Study -- Multimodal and Natural Interaction in VAMR -- The Effect of Body-Based Haptic Feedback on Player Experience during VR Gaming -- User Defined Walking-in-place Gestures for Intuitive Locomotion in Virtual Reality -- Exploring Human-to-Human Telepresence and the Use of Vibro-Tactile Commands to Guide Human Streamers -- Pseudo-haptic Perception in Smartphones Graphical Interfaces: a Case Study -- A Research on Sensing Localization & Orientation of Objects in VR with Facial Vibrotactile Display -- HaptMR: Smart Haptic Feedback for Mixed Reality based on Computer Vision Semantic -- Position Estimation of Occluded Fingertip based on Image of Dorsal Hand from RGB Camera -- Head-mounted Displays and VR Glasses -- Usability and User Experience of Interactions on VR-PC, HoloLens 2, VR Cardboard and AR Smartphone in a Biomedical Application -- Simulation of the Field of View in AR and VR Headsets -- Exploring Perspective Switching in Immersive VR for Learning First Aid in Lower Secondary Education -- Beyond Visible Light: User and Societal Impacts of Egocentric Multispectral Vision -- No One is Superman: 3-D Safety Margin Profiles when Using Head-Up display (HUD) for Takeoff in Low Visibility and High Crosswind Conditions -- Robust Camera Motion Estimation for Point-of-View Video Stabilization -- Rendering Tree Roots Outdoors: A Comparison between Optical See Through Glasses and Smartphone Modules for Underground Augmented Reality Visualization -- Using Head-Mounted Displays for Virtual Reality: Investigating Subjective Reactions to Eye-Tracking Scenarios -- Omnidirectional Flick View -- VAMR Applications in Design, the Industry and the Military -- Virtual Fieldwork: Designing Augmented Reality Applications using Virtual Reality Worlds -- Contextually Adaptive Multimodal Mixed Reality Interfaces for Dismounted Operator Teaming with Unmanned System Swarms -- Virtual Solutions for Gathering Consumer Feedback on Food: A Literature Review and Analysis -- Modernizing Aircraft Inspection: Conceptual Design of an Augmented Reality Inspection Support Tool -- The Potential of Augmented Reality for Remote Support -- A Review of Distributed VR Co-Design Systems -- The Mobile Office: A Mobile AR Systems for Productivity Applications in Industrial Environments -- Virtual Reality Compensatory Aid for Improved Weapon Splash-Zone Awareness -- Mixed Reality Visualization of Friendly vs Hostile Decision Dynamics -- Doing versus Observing: Virtual Reality and 360-degree Video for Training Manufacturing Tasks -- VAMR in Learning and Culture -- Design and Research on the Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform of Shanghai Jade Carving Techniques Based on Unity 3d Technology -- IME VR: an MVC Framework for Military Training VR Simulators -- Extended Reality, Pedagogy, and Career Readiness: A Review of Literature -- Development of an AR Training Construction System using Embedded Information in a Real Environment -- LibrARy : Enriching the Cultural Physical Spaces with Collaborative AR Content -- Supporting Embodied and Remote Collaboration in Shared Virtual Environments -- A Survey on Applications of Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality for Nature and Environment -- Flexible Low-Cost Digital Puppet System -- Mixed Reality Technology Capabilities for Combat-Casualty Handoff Training.…”
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Microsoft SharePoint : building Office 2007 solutions in C♯ 2005 by Hillier, Scot

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Advanced persistent training : take your security awareness program to the next level by Schroeder, Jordan

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Learn Swift on the Mac : for OS X and iOS by Malik, Waqar

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Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems : 14th international conference, KES 2010, Cardiff, UK, September 8-10, 2010, proceedings. Part I by International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies Cardiff, Wales, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Keynote Talks -- Evolving Integrative Brain-, Gene-, and Quantum Inspired Systems for Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering -- A Semiotic View of Social Intelligence for Realizing Human-Machine Symbiotic Systems -- Embracing Uncertainty: The New Machine Intelligence -- Exploiting Social Structures and Social Networks -- Knowledge Visualization for Engineered Systems -- Proximity-Based Federation of Smart Objects: Liberating Ubiquitous Computing from Stereotyped Application Scenarios -- Artificial Neural Networks, Connectionists Systems and Evolutionary Computation -- A Neural Network Model to Develop Urban Acupuncture -- Discovering Process Models with Genetic Algorithms Using Sampling -- A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach for the Antenna Positioning Problem -- CLONAL-GP Framework for Artificial Immune System Inspired Genetic Programming for Classification -- Solving Industrial Based Job-Shop Scheduling Problem by Distributed Micro-Genetic Algorithm with Local Search -- Data Mining via Rules Extracted from GMDH: An Application to Predict Churn in Bank Credit Cards -- Sensitivity Analysis and Automatic Calibration of a Rainfall-Runoff Model Using Multi-objectives -- University Course Timetabling Using ACO: A Case Study on Laboratory Exercises -- Machine Learning and Classical AI -- Nonparametric Statistical Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Regression Problems -- Adaptive Learning of Nominal Concepts for Supervised Classification -- A Novel Approach of Process Mining with Event Graph -- A Classification Algorithm for Process Sequences Based on Markov Chains and Bayesian Networks -- Coaching to Enhance the Online Behavior Learning of a Robotic Agent -- Agent and Multi-agent Systems -- Cooperation of AGVs' Head-on Collision Avoidance by Knowledge Exchange in Autonomous Decentralized FMS -- A Log Analyzer Agent for Intrusion Detection in a Multi-Agent System -- A Proof System for Time-Dependent Multi-agents -- Toward Emotional E-Commerce: Formalizing Agents for a Simple Negotiation Protocol -- Distributed Ant Colony Clustering Using Mobile Agents and Its Effects -- Monitoring a Multi-Agent System Evolution through Iterative Development -- An Agent for Ecological Deliberation -- A Framework to Compute Inference Rules Valid in Agents' Temporal Logics -- Statecharts-Based JADE Agents and Tools for Engineering Multi-Agent Systems -- Telco Agent: Enabler of Paradigm Shift towards Customer-Managed Relationship -- Multi-attribute Auction Model for Agent-Based Content Trading in Telecom Markets -- Applying Possibility and Belief Operators to Conditional Statements -- A Computer Adaptive Testing Method for Intelligent Tutoring Systems -- Intelligent Vision, Image Processing and Signal Processing -- Combining Patient Metadata Extraction and Automatic Image Parsing for the Generation of an Anatomic Atlas -- Parallel Processing with CUDA in Ceramic Tiles Classification -- Signal Receiving and Processing Platform of the Experimental Passive Radar for Intelligent Surveillance System Using Software Defined Radio Approach -- Automated Anticounterfeiting Inspection Methods for Rigid Films Based on Infrared and Ultraviolet Pigments and Supervised Image Segmentation and Classification -- Vowel Recognition by Using the Combination of Haar Wavelet and Neural Network -- Bayesian Classification Using DCT Features for Brain Tumor Detection -- A New Strategy of Adaptive Nonlinear Echo Cancelling Volterra-Wiener Filter Structure Selection -- Intelligent System for Commercial Block Recognition Using Audio Signal Only -- Viewpoint Insensitive Actions Recognition Using Hidden Conditional Random Fields -- Fuzzy Hyper-Prototype Clustering -- Knowledge Management, Ontologies and Data Mining -- Clustering Using Difference Criterion of Distortion Ratios -- Computer-Generated Conversation Based on Newspaper Headline Interpretation -- Using Regression Analysis to Identify Patterns of Non-Technical Losses on Power Utilities -- Enhancing the Symbolic Aggregate Approximation Method Using Updated Lookup Tables -- Which XML Storage for Knowledge and Ontology Systems? …”
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Inductive logic programming : 16th international conference, ILP 2006, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 24-27, 2006 : revised selected papers by ILP (Conference) Santiago de Compostela, Spain), SpringerLink (Online service)

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Marketing analytics roadmap : methods, metrics, and tools by Rackley, Jerry

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Advances in dependability engineering of complex systems : proceedings of the twelfth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX, July 2-6, 2017,... by International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems Brunów, Poland, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Proceedings of fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving : SocProS 2015. Volume 1 by International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving Roorkee, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…A Production Model with Stock Dependent Demand, Partial Backlogging, Weibull Distribution Deterioration and Customer Returns -- Chapter 3. …”
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The coder's path to wealth and independence by Beckner, Mark

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Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2015 by Collins, Mark J. (Mark Jeffery)

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Plant engineer's handbook by ScienceDirect (Online service)

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing : ICRCWIP-2014 by International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing Jaipur, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Vein Bio-Metric Template Security using Overlapped Shares Accounting for Minimum Storage -- Miniaturization of MEMs Based Smart Patch Antennas for Bio-Medical Applications -- Authentication of Primary User at Physical Layer through Approximation in Cognitive Radio -- Data Based Correlation Scheme -- A Comparative analysis of Different LFSR Based Ciphers and Parallel Computing Platforms for Development of Generic Cipher Compatible on Both Hardware and Software Platforms -- Generation of Automatic Variable Key to Make Secure Communication -- Vector Evaluated Genetic Algorithm Based Distributed Query Plan Generation in Distributed Database -- A Novel Mems Based Frequency Tunable Rectangular Patch Antenna -- Design and Optimization of Band Stop Filter using Metamaterial Structures for K-Band Applications -- Low Cost Crash Protection System for Heavy Motor Vehicles -- Effect of Parasitic Elements on the Performance of Buck-Boost Converter Used in PV System -- Effective Medium Approximation for Defining the Unavoidable Resistance of Solar Cell Front Contact -- A Novel Low Power Design Approach to Exploit the Power Usage of AMBA APB Bridge -- Solar Wind & Diesel Hybrid Energy System: A Review -- Analysis and Optimization of Stability for 6T SRAM Cell using 180nm Technology. …”
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Managing nonprofit organizations in a policy world by Vaughan, Shannon K.

Contents: “…Resource Development: Grants -- The Role of Grants in the Nonprofit Sector -- Types of Grants -- Project or Program Grants -- Operating Grants -- Seed Money -- Challenge/Matching Grants -- Government Grants and Fee-for-Service Contracts -- Distribution of Government Grants -- Public Goods and Services via Government Contracts -- Foundation Funding -- Types of Foundations -- Preparing a Grant Proposal -- Getting Started -- Budget and Project Narratives -- Submitting the Proposal -- Public Policy Consequences of Grants and Contracts -- Government Funding of Policy Priorities -- Foundation Funding to Influence Policy -- Conclusion -- Questions for Review -- Assignment -- Suggested Readings -- Web Resources -- pt. …”
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Ubiquitous computing application and wireless sensor : UCAWSN-14 by FTRA International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Application and Wireless Sensor Network Cheju-do, Korea, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Lin, P.-H. Wang -- A New Distributed Grid Scheme utilizing Node-based Preprocessing Technique for Supporting k-NN Queries; H. …”
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Tamed agility pragmatic contracting and collaboration in agile software projects by Book, Matthias

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Pro Android 3 by Komatineni, Satya

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The new public health Third edition. by Tulchinsky, Theodore H., Varavikova, Elena

Contents: “…Contents note continued: Health Policy and Planning as Context -- The Elements of Organizations -- Scientific Management -- Bureaucratic Pyramidal Organizations -- Organizations as Energy Systems -- Cybernetics and Management -- Target-Oriented Management -- Operations Research -- Management by Objectives -- Human Relations Management -- The Hawthorne Effect -- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Theory X--Theory Y -- Network Organization -- Total Quality Management -- Changing Human Behavior -- Empowerment -- Strategic Management of Health Systems -- Health System Organization Models -- Functional Model -- Corporate Model -- Matrix Model -- Skills for Management -- The Chief Executive Officer of Health Organizations -- Community Participation -- Integration: Lateral and Vertical -- Norms and Performance Indicators -- Health Promotion and Advocacy -- Philanthropy and Volunteerism -- New Organizational Models -- New Projects and their Evaluation.…”
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