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Advanced information technology is pervasive in any kind of human activity - science, business, finance, management and others - and this is particularly true for database systems. Both database theory and database applications constitute a very important part of the state of the art of computer science. Meanwhile there is some discrepancy between different aspects of database activity. Theoreticians are sometimes not much aware of the real ne...

Excerpt from Type Determination for Very High Level Languages In many very high level languages, identifiers are not constrained to refer to objects of particular type. Also, in order to make maximum use of a small syntactic space, the meaning of operator symbols may depend on the types of their operands. In the setl language (schwartz 1973 a, h), for example, the plus sign represents addition for numeric operands, concatenation for tuples, c...

Equal parts showman and artist, hustler and faithful son, trained tenor and fast-talking raconteur, Sam Tenenbaum is-to paraphrase Whitman-large, he contains multitudes. In this inspirational and quintessentially American "song of himself, " we see Sam pick himself up by the bootstraps of an awkward childhood in mid-20th Century Birmingham, Alabama, and forge an unlikely path through the roughriding, anything-goes early days of professional wr...

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Skillfully organized introductory text examines origin of differential equations, then defines basic terms and outlines the general solution of a differential equation. Explores integrating factors, dilution and accretion problems, Laplace Transforms, Newton's Interpolation Formulas, more.

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Whether it is analyzing the stability of an underwater robot or predicting the trajectory of a satellite, today’s engineers are solving increasingly difficult and unconventional problems in dynamics. "Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics" provides students with all of the foundations they need to solve problems in Newtonian mechanics. The author’s unique, methodological approach also helps students to develop their problem-solving, abstract thinki...

Michael Tenenbaum's book "Blessed Assurance?" Revised and expanded. This book is an excellent challenge to dogma and the idea of biblical infallibility, but it's also so much more. It explores the sort of questioning and reasoning that goes on within a person facing the possibility that what he or she has believed isn't true. Sometimes even the most diehard believers come to realize their faith has been misplaced. What's involved in that proce...

Christians defend the bible while critics assert that it's a fallible collection of human writings. Both sides often discuss the matter as if it has reached an irresolvable dead end. But is that true? Does the fact that some people continue to believe the bible mean that it hasn't been demonstrated with certainty that it's not a revelation from God? In "Blessed Assurance" Mike Tenenbaum presents a clear and direct case proving that the bible u...

Die kaum mehr beherrschbare Komplexität der Netze, Systeme und Anwendungen veranlasste Distributed Management Task Force (eine Normungsorganisation der IT-Industrie) eine neue standardisierte Managementarchitektur zu entwerfen. Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) erlaubt es, heterogene Systeme auf eine einheitliche Art und Weise zu verwalten. In diesem Buch wird eine WBEM-basierte Systemmanagementlösung für HP NonStopServer ausführlich b...

Clear, fun explanations of the science behind the headlines ("U.S. News & World Report"), "The Why Files" explains how poker can make one sick, whether electrocution is the best way to zap a bug, and more. b&w, illustrations throughout.

In recent decades the central questions of moral psychology have attracted renewed interest. Contemporary work on moral motivation and the rationality of moral action has broadened its focus to include a wide array of related issues. New interpretations of historical figures have also contributed to conceptual advances in moral psychology, in a way unparalleled in any other area of philosophy. This volume presents original work from some of th...

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Poetry. Poet and musician Molly Tenenbaum possesses a technical brilliance informed by a lifetime dedication to music. Her work is full of striking images, unexpected juxtapositions, and inventive lyricism, compelling us to attend to the details of the world and what is sacred in it. The poems in BY A THREAD -- like the most intriguing melodies, the most alluring chords, the happiest and saddest of sounds and cadences -- mesmerize. These poems...