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Teaches students of information systems, software engineering, computer science and related areas how to analyze and design information systems using the FOOM methodology. This work provides guidelines on what to do and how to do each of the analysis and design activities.

Validation and verification is an area of software engineering that has been around since the early stages of program development. This book offers coverage of many formal and semiformal techniques of V&V., It explores, depicts, and provides examples of different applications in V&V, that produce many areas of software development.

Providing end user computing information, this collection includes empirical and theoretical research concerned with various aspects of end user computing, including development, utilization, and management. It also features the research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends.

Provides a global vision about the lesser-defined areas of microarchitectural design knowledge, exposing the main techniques, experiences, and methods in order to help researchers apply these concepts.

Offers a framework for modeling societies of autonomous agents that is based on fuzzy algebraic tools. This work overviews platforms developed with the purpose of simulating hypotheses or harvesting data from human subjects in efforts for calibration of the model of early learning in humans.

Philosophers have mused over them, poets have written about them and musicians have sung about them. Love, desire and passion will at some point touch everyone's life - yet they are little understood and some of the oldest mysteries of mankind. Why do people fall in love and what is love anyway? What makes people attractive? How do these emotions tie in with our physiology and how we have evolved? Lust and Love: Is it more than Chemistry? prov...

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Understanding Rita Dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of this Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who was also the first African American poet laureate of the United States. Through close readings of seven poetry collections, Pat Righelato offers detailed analyses of Rita Dove's thematic concerns and artistic development while bringing to light the musical sense of form and expression of history that permeates Dove's work. While u...

Organized by Colonel August Willich, a former Prussian army officer who led troops during the German Revolution of 1848, Indiana's German 32nd Indiana regiment fought in the Western Theater of the Civil War. The 32nd Indiana forged an enviable combat record on the battlefields at Rowlett's Station in Kentucky, at Shiloh, Stones River, and Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, and at Chickamauga and Pickett's Mill in Georgia. The letters collected her...

Providing readers with a unique insight into conducting research, this exciting book describes the thought and work processes of researchers as they complete their projects. Engaging and accessible it investigates all the key aspects of this topic and advice on how to conduct interviews, study the everyday life of an organization, and many other standard methods of conducting research. This is not a prescriptive methodology textbook, rather it...

In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks, and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc lamp, for isolating sodium and potassium, for his theory that chemical affinity is electrical, and, of course, for his safety lamp. His lectures on science made the fortunes of the Royal Insti...

Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.

Using documentary evidence in the form of numerous advertisements of the time, From Submarines to Suburbs is a fascinating analysis of the way corporations made the successful switch from supporting the war effort to building on the peacetime prosperity by re-tooling the patriotic fervor of the home front.

Using documentary evidence in the form of numerous advertisements of the time, From Submarines to Suburbs is a fascinating analysis of the way corporations made the successful switch from supporting the war effort to building on the peacetime prosperity by re-tooling the patriotic fervor of the home front.

Just as Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" provides rules of usage for writing in the English language, this text furnishes a set of rules for writing in C#.

Six Sigma is a management program that provides tools that help manufacturers obtain efficient, stream-lined production to coincide with ultimate high quality products. Lean Six Sigma will show how the well-regarded analytical tools of Six Sigma quality control can be successfully brought into the well-established models of lean manufacturing, bringing efficient, stream-lined production and high quality product readily together. This book offe...

This book IS different. The techniques within its pages were all developed on the shop floor working with thousands of REAL customers. Each skill is explained using a clear and simple language. In short it DELIVERS!

Join Ray as he sets out on a journey to prove he is a man. Ray's journey is a right of passage for his people, and he must undergo many tests along the way. These tests challenge his will, his mind, his very self, and help him to grow and mature into the man he is destined to become. Features a special illustrated introduction to the world of magic lands, 20 additional illustrations in the text, and a premium quality large format trade paperba...

Private sector activity is crucial for development. It shapes the investment climate, mobilizes innovation and financing in areas such as global health, and can either cause or mitigate social and environmental harm. Yet so far, the international development debate has not focused on the role of the private sector.

Since 1960, Financing the Election volumes have presented reliable information on the costs and trends of campaign finance in the United States. In establishing the parameters of electoral campaigns and political spendingand interpreting the resultsFinancing the 2004 Election provides a unique resource for readers and citizens interested in the current state of politics and money in America.