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Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR
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Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR
friends of ED (April 28, 2008) | ISBN: 9781430205371 | English | 365 pages | PDF | 4.6 MB
Web applications no longer need be powered by any one individual's data, and they don't need to be confined to the desktop. Developers can draw on a wealth of publicly available content, from providers such as Flickr, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Last.fm, and combine it for use in their own applications. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) makes it simple to bring previously web-only applications to the desktop, allowing them to run alongside traditional applications on an end user's computer.
In this book, you'll learn how to create mashup applications from the vast array of web services, feeds, and APIs using Adobe Flash and Flex together with HTML and JavaScript (Ajax). You'll be introduced to the various sources of information and the tools necessary to gather and reuse that information, and then you'll learn how to combine that content in a variety of ways.
You'll learn how to have desktop applications interact with online services such as Flickr, you'll learn how to use Amazon S3 for enterprise-level data storage, and you'll embrace technologies such as OpenID. In addition, you'll create abstract visualizations based on music sourced from Last.fm and consume Twitter content via RSS. You will also see how to use the Flash-native data format SWX along with PHP to create a Yahoo! weather widget.
You'll discover just why you may want to build a widget or a desktop application rather leaving things web-based; then you'll create an application using Flex Builder and AIR and learn how best to distribute it. With so many tools and so much data available, the possibilities for mashup creation are endless. Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR provides all you need to get you up and running quickly, while also giving you a solid understanding of the technologies involved so you can take things further—to a place limited only by your imagination.
In this book you'll learn
* how to use Flex 3 in conjunction with ActionScript 3.0 to build powerful applications;
* how you can use Adobe AIR to take your application from the Web and onto the
desktop;
* the differences between developing for the Web and for the desktop;
* how you can use the APIs of popular web services such as Flickr, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Last.fm as data sources for your application; and
* how to optimize your applications for fast and efficient performance.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:38
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Cosmic Consciousness - Ali Nomad
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Ali Nomad "Cosmic Consciousness"
PDF | ISBN not applicable | Year 1915 | 179 pages | English | 1.07MB
1913. Contents: The New Birth; Man's Relation to God and to His Fellow Men; Areas of Consciousness; Self-Ness and Selflessness; Instances of Illumination and its After Effects; Examples of Cosmic Consciousness, Who Have Founded New Systems of Religion; Moses; Gautama; Jesus; Paul;Mohammed; Swedenborg; Modern Examples; Illumination as Expressed in the Poetical Temperament; methods of Attainment.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:39
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Electric Power Systems A Conceptual Introduction
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Alexandra von Meier, "Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction"(Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science) Wiley-IEEE Press | ISBN 0471178594 | 2006-07-11 | PDF | 3.3 Mb | 309 pages
A clear explanation of the technology for producing and delivering electricity
Electric Power Systems explains and illustrates how the electric grid works in a clear, straightforward style that makes highly technical material accessible. It begins with a thorough discussion of the underlying physical concepts of electricity, circuits, and complex power that serves as a foundation for more advanced material. Readers are then introduced to the main components of electric power systems, including generators, motors and other appliances, and transmission and distribution equipment such as power lines, transformers, and circuit breakers. The author explains how a whole power system is managed and coordinated, analyzed mathematically, and kept stable and reliable.
Recognizing the economic and environmental implications of electric energy production and public concern over disruptions of service, this book exposes the challenges of producing and delivering electricity to help inform public policy decisions. Its discussions of complex concepts such as reactive power balance, load flow, and stability analysis, for example, offer deep insight into the complexity of electric grid operation and demonstrate how and why physics constrains economics and politics.
Although this survival guide includes mathematical equations and formulas, it discusses their meaning in plain English and does not assume any prior familiarity with particular notations or technical jargon. Additional features include:
* A glossary of symbols, units, abbreviations, and acronyms
* Illustrations that help readers visualize processes and better understand complex concepts
* Detailed analysis of a case study, including a Web reference to the case, enabling readers to test the consequences of manipulating various parameters
With its clear discussion of how electric grids work, Electric Power Systems is appropriate for a broad readership of professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, government agency managers, environmental advocates, and consumers.
About the Author:
ALEXANDRA von MEIER, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Planning and Director of the Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University. An award-winning educator, Dr. von Meier teaches courses in energy management and design that address science, technology, policy, economics, and environmental issues, emphasizing energy efficiency and renewable resources.
Table of Contents
1 The physics of electricity 1
2 Basic circuit analysis 30
3 AC power 49
4 Generators 85
5 Loads 127
6 Transmissions and distribution 144
7 Power flow analysis 195
8 System performance 229
9 System operation, management, and new technology 259
App Symbols, units, abbreviations, and acronyms
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:41
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Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare by Richard A. Epstein
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Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare by Richard A. Epstein
BTLSJU | January 18, 2008 | ISBN: 9780817946111 | 93 pages | PDF | 1.34 MB
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics, Richard Epstein examines how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention—and find a middle way between socialism and libertarianism.
He argues the merits of competition over protectionism and reveals the negative results that ensue when political forces displace economic competition with subsidies and barriers to entry. In the process, he provides an illuminating analysis of some of the ways that special interest groups, with the help of sympathetic politicians, have been able to manipulate free markets in their favor
In this Hoover Classics reissue, Richard Epstein draws on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics to examine how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention. With clarity, force, and wit, Epstein provides an illuminating analysis of some of the ways that special interest groups, with the help of sympathetic politicians, have been able to manipulate free markets in their favor.
The author focuses on two areas where government intervention has been persistent in both the United State and Western Europe—agriculture and the labor market—and tries of find a middle path between socialism and libertarianism. He reveals how the truly great social catastrophes come from a wholesale disrespect for individual liberty and a total contempt for private property—and why there should never be compensation for losses incurred through the operation of competitive markets. He shows how free international trade can mitigate—and perhaps eliminate altogether—the harmful effects of protecting various groups through domestic policies. And he explains why even unilateral reform of trade barriers would reap great benefits.
"In the end," concludes Epstein, "everything is connected with everything else. If you are trying to understand the way in which the markets survive and societies prosper, it is because they get enough of the easy cases right by embracing competitive solutions."
Richard Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He currently serves as interim dean of the law school at the University of Chicago.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:42
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Earthquake Safety Activities For Children and Teachers
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Earthquake Safety Activities For Children and Teachers
FEMA | 2005 | English | 70 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This publication provides ready-to-use, hands-on activities for students and teachers explaining what happens during an earthquake, how to prepare for earthquake shaking, and how to stay safe during and after an earthquake. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Science Teachers Association have also prepared Earthquake: A Teacher’s Package for K-6, which includes hands-on classroom activities to support all elementary subject areas: creative writing, art, mathematics, social studies, and science.
Known as Tremor Troop, this publication contains matrices that link the classroom activities to the National Science Education Standards. The Drop, Cover, and Hold drawing shown on Master C of this Earthquake Safety Activities publication is available from FEMA as a classroom poster, as noted below.
For middle and high school teachers, FEMA and the American Geophysical Union have prepared Earthquake: A Teacher’s Package for Grades 7-12. Classroom activities are described, and activity sheets for students and background material for teachers are provided in each of the volume’s six units. Known as Seismic Sleuths, this publication also contains matrices that link the classroom activities to the National Science Education Standards.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:44
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Menopause For Dummies
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Marcia L, "Menopause For Dummies"
Publisher: For Dummies | 2006-12-06 | 0470053437 | 384 p | PDF | 4.6 Mb
Although menopause is a natural and inevitable stage in every woman’s life, its physical, mental, and emotional manifestations can vary greatly from one person to the next. Add to this all of the conflicting “expert” information about the benefits, risks, and side effects to which women are exposed on a daily basis, and it’s easy to see why most find it difficult to make informed choices about how to deal with their menopausal symptoms.
Authored by a team of acknowledged experts in treating menopausal symptoms, Menopause For Dummies arms you with all the information you need to stay in control every step of the way. In plain English, it explains the role menopause plays in a variety of common health problems, such as osteoporosis, stroke, and heart disease. It walks you through proven measures for minimizing your risk of developing complications through including diet and exercise, stress management, hormone replacement, and other techniques. And it arms you with authoritative, up-to-the-minute coverage of:
Premenopause how to identify it and what it means
The stages of menopause
How menopause can affect your body, emotions, and libido
The latest facts about hormone replacement therapy
The pros and cons of various alternative treatments
The best ways of handling hot flashes
Easing symptoms with diet and exercise
Preventing bone loss
Helpful lifestyle changes
With Menopause For Dummies in your corner you’ll have a kinder, gentler “change of life.”
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:45
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Read All About It (Book 1)
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Lori Howard “Read All About It (Book 1)"
Oxford University Press, USA | 1999-03-25 | ISBN: 0194351963 | 112 pages | PDF | 9,4 Mb
High-interest reading material to develop reading, thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:48
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Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals
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Dan Holme, "Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:50
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Understanding IPv6, Second Edition
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Joseph Davies, "Understanding IPv6, Second Edition" Microsoft Press | ISBN-10: 0735624461 | January 19, 2008 | 544 pages | CHM | 16MB
Now updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this guide
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:55
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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
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Mike Volodarsky, Olga Londer, Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguilar Mares, Kurt Meyer, Microsoft IIS Team, "Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit" Microsoft Press | ISBN-10: 0735624410 | March 5, 2008 | 779 pages | CHM | 12MB
Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting IIS 7.0 with insights from a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and IIS experts at Microsoft. You get 800 pages of in-depth technical guidance on using IIS 7.0 to help enable users to easily host and manage Web sites, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media, and communication services to the Web. This RESOURCE KIT covers IIS architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security, top administration and troubleshooting scenarios, and real-world best practices. Complete with scripts, tools, utilities, and an eBook on CD, this is the definitive resource for administering IIS 7.0.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 07:58
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Frozen Evolution: Or, that's not the way it is, Mr. Darwin - Farewell to selfish gene
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Jaroslav Flegr “Frozen Evolution: Or, that's not the way it is, Mr. Darwin - Farewell to selfish gene"
BookSurge Publishing | 2008-03-31 | ISBN: 8086561739 | 226 pages | PDF | 4,3 Mb
The old Darwinian model of evolution was recently substituted with the selfish gene theory. The present
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 08:02
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Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study
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Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study
CSI, Central Intelligence Agency | 2005 | ISBN: 1929667132 | English | 173 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
It is a rare season when the intelligence story in the news concerns intelligence analysis, not secret operations abroad. The United States is having such a season as it debates whether intelligence failed in the run-up to both September 11 and the second Iraq war, and so Rob Johnston’s wonderful book is perfectly timed to provide the back-story to those headlines. The CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence is to be commended for having the good sense to find Johnston and the courage to support his work, even though his conclusions are not what many in the world of intelligence analysis would like to hear.
He reaches those conclusions through the careful procedures of an anthro-pologist—conducting literally hundreds of interviews and observing and participating in dozens of work groups in intelligence analysis—and so they cannot easily be dismissed as mere opinion, still less as the bitter mutterings of those who have lost out in the bureaucratic wars. His findings constitute not just a strong indictment of the way American intelligence performs analysis, but also, and happily, a guide for how to do better.
Johnston finds no baseline standard analytic method. Instead, the most common practice is to conduct limited brainstorming on the basis of previous analysis, thus producing a bias toward confirming earlier views. The validating of data is questionable—for instance, the Directorate of Operation’s (DO) “cleaning” of spy reports doesn’t permit testing of their validity—reinforcing the tendency to look for data that confirms, not refutes, prevailing hypotheses.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 08:07
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Effects of Directed Energy Weapons by Philip E. Nielsen
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Effects of Directed Energy Weapons by Philip E. Nielsen
USAF | 1994 | ISBN 0945274246 | English | 368 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
Effects of Directed Energy Weapons is an encyclopedic treatment of how Directed Energy Weapons work, how the energy of these weapons is propagated to the target, and how the weapon/beam-target interaction creates effects (damage) in the target. This is a technical exposition, written at the undergraduate physics and engineering level that could serve either as a text book or as a reference text for technical practitioners. The text addresses Kinetic Energy Weapons in addition to Lasers, Microwaves and Particle Beams.
About the Author:
Philip E. Nielsen is a director and senior technical advisor for MacAulay-Brown, Incorporated, a defense engineering services firm headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. Prior to joining MacAulay-Brown, Dr. Nielsen served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for 26 years, retiring as colonel.
During this period, he served in a variety of positions related to the research, development, and acquisition of advanced weapon systems. He received the USAF Research and Development Award for contribution to high energy laser physics in 1975.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 08:10
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Mutualism: Ants and their Insect Partners (2008)
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Mutualism: Ants and their Insect Partners
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Language: English | ISBN: 0521860350 | 248 pages | Data: 2008 | PDF | 2 Mb
Description: A mutualism is an interaction between individuals of two different species of organism in which both benefit from the association. With a focus on mutualisms between ants and aphids, coccids, membracids and lycaenids, this volume provides a detailed account of the many different facets of mutualisms. Mutualistic interactions not only affect the two partners, but can also have consequences for higher levels of organization. By linking theory to case studies, the authors present an integrated account of processes and patterns of mutualistic interactions at different levels of organisation, from individuals to communities to ecosystems. Interactions between ants and their insect partners and their outcomes are explained from a resource-based, cost-benefit perspective. Covering a fascinating and growing subject in modern ecology, this book will be of interest to community and evolutionary ecologists and entomologists, at both research and graduate student level.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 08:11
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Mycotoxins in Fruits and Vegetables (2008)
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Mycotoxins in Fruits and Vegetables
Publisher: Academic Press | Language: English | ISBN: 0123741262 | 408 pages | Data: 2008 | PDF | 17 Mb
Description: Mycotoxins are toxins produced by aerobic, microscopic fungus under special conditions of moisture and temperature. They colonize in a variety of foods from harvest to the grocer. Mycotoxins have gained world wide interest in recent years with the revelation of the effect of these toxins on health. A current example is the presence of ochratoxin A, a human carcinogen and nephrotoxin, in wines. The increased concern about fruit safety has led to increased studies throughout the world and enhanced awareness for stringent regulations governing mycotoxin limits in food.
Presented in three defined sections, this is the first book to provide comprehensive analysis of the main mycotoxins contaminating fruits and vegetables and their derived products. The first section provides a safety evaluation of mycotoxins in fruits and vegetables, details regarding factors affecting mycotoxin production and diffusion in the fruit tissue, and recent methods for detection of mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins produced by the fungi. The second part takes a critical look at the main individual mycotoxins and the third section focuses on approaches for prevention and control.
* The first book dedicated to mycotoxins in fruits and vegetables
* Presents mycological, mycotoxicological and phytopathological aspects of fruits and vegetables
* Includes an analysis of detection, prevention and control methods for mycotoxigenic fungi and the mycotoxins they produce
* Provides a complete risk assessment and safety evaluation of mycotoxins in perishable produce
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 15, 2008 // 08:40
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