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Joomla! 1.5 Content AdministrationAuthor:
Tracey PorstPages:
212Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
184719804XThis practical, hands-on guide will give you all the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Joomla! site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Administrators. It is a quick-start guide that best serves content administrators and editors and doesn’t cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs help with article management, multimedia management, search engine optimization, and more will also benefit from it.
To explain all the features, we will work on developing and maintaining the content and structure of a fledgling web site for a fictitious company “The Party People”. Beginning with the basics, which includes an exploration of how to access and navigate around the administration interface, you will move into managing and creating content, including adding images, video, and audio material. There is advice on how to make the most of your multimedia material and how to choose the right file type for your needs. 
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Handbook of Production SchedulingAuthor:
Jeffrey W. HerrmannPages:
318Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0387331158The HANDBOOK OF PRODUCTION SCHEDULING concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings. It includes industry case studies that use innovative techniques as well as academic research results that can be used to improve real-world production scheduling. Its purpose is to present scheduling principles, advanced tools, and examples of innovative scheduling systems to persons who could use this information to improve production scheduling in their own organizationThe intended audience includes: production and plant managers, industrial engineers, operations research practitioners, advanced undergraduate/ graduate students and faculty studying and doing research in operations research and industrial engineering.The handbook provides a range and variety of real-world scheduling issues and analyses. Some of the areas covered are as follows:* production scheduling processes as complex decision-making systems;* the key concepts in master production scheduling and the techniques that are useful for finding better solutions;* practical approaches to important supply chain scheduling problems;* the use of mathematical programming to solve large production scheduling problems at one of the world's largest mines;* guidelines for work-rest scheduling, personnel scheduling, job rotation scheduling, cross-training, as well as group and team work.The motivation for this book is the desire to bridge the gap between scheduling theory and practice. Therefore, these practical analyses are provided to help researchers and students solve scheduling problems by focusing on real world scheduling systems that will benefit from improvement.
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3D Game Engine Design: A Practical Approach to Real-Time Computer Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)Author:
David H. EberlyPages:
596Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0000000000Topics covered:Mathematical methods and sample source code for 3-D game development
Geometrical transformations
Coordinate systems
Quaternions
Euler angles
Standard 3-D objects: spheres, oriented boxes, capsules, lozenges, cylinders, ellipsoids
Distance methods for a variety of shapes
Introduction to the graphics pipeline
Model and world coordinates
Projecting perspective
Camera models
Culling techniques
Surface and vertex attributes
Rasterizing
Efficiency issues for clipping and lighting
Hierarchical scene representation, using trees and scene graphs
Picking algorithms for a variety of 3-D shapes
Collision detection for static and dynamic graphical objects
Oriented bounding-box (OBB) trees
Basics of curves and special curves (including Bezier curves and various splines)
Curves (generating surfaces from curves by using different techniques)
Character animation, using keyframe animation and inverse kinematics
Skinning
Geometrical level of detail considerations
Techniques for generating game terrain
Spatial sorting and binary space partitioning (BSP)
Special effects: lens flare, bump mapping, volumetric fogging, projected light and shadows, particle systems, morphing techniques
C++ language features for effective object-oriented design
Reference to the numerical methods required for game mathematics
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Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917Author:
Julie GreenePages:
312Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
0521028809This study explores the political evolution of the U.S. labor movement, focusing on its dominant organization, the American Federation of Labor, during a key period (1881 to 1917) of transformation in U.S. political history. Julie Greene documents the AFL's entrance into electoral politics and the emergence of the important alliance between the AFL and the Democratic party, explaining the causes and impact of these developments.
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Leading the Campaign: Advancing Colleges and UniversitiesAuthor:
Michael J. WorthPages:
200Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
1607096498This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis lies on the strategic decisions that a campaign requires and on campaign leadership.
The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president. And campaign experience at some level is generally now a prerequisite credential for presidential candidates, as well as deans and other academic leaders,on both public and private campuses. This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not intended as a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis is on the strategic decisions that a campaign requires and on campaign leadership. It will be of interest to trustees, advancement professionals, and others concerned with the future of colleges and universities. But, consistent with its sponsorship by the American Council on Education, it emphasizes the campaign leadership of presidents.Contents
Introduction vii
1 The Comprehensive Campaign 1
2 Campaign Phases: Key Decisions and Tasks 21
3 The Campaign Team 35
4 Campaign Goals, Priorities, and Objectives 51
5 Campaign Resources and Policies 79
6 Executing the Campaign 99
7 The Art of Fundraising 129
8 Post-Campaign Evaluation, Planning, and Stewardship 155
9 Campaign Communications and Events 165
Conclusion 175
Index 179
About the Author 183
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Concord Publications 1001 - IsraelS Armoured MighAuthor:
SAMUEL M. KATZPages:
64Format:
PDFLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
9623610017On 6 J Line 1982, the Israel Defense Forces launched a massive invasion of Lebanon, and in the process inaugurated a new era in tank warfare. The age of the MERKAVA Main Battle Tank was at hand.
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The Judicial Assessment of Expert EvidenceAuthor:
Deirdre DwyerPages:
368Format:
pdfLanguage:
EnglishISBN10:
052150970XJustice systems increasingly rely on expert evidence. We are therefore obliged to justify the courts' ability to assess this evidence, especially when the courts must resolve disagreements between experts or address possible bias. By reintegrating contemporary evidence theory with applied philosophy, Deirdre Dwyer analyses the epistemological basis for the judicial assessment of expert evidence. Reintegrating evidence with procedure, she also examines how we might arrange our legal processes in order to support our epistemological and non-epistemological expectations. Including analysis of the judicial assessment of expert evidence in civil litigation (comparing practice in England and Wales with that in the United States, France, Germany and Italy), the book also provides the first detailed account of the historical development of English civil expert evidence and the first analysis of the use of party experts, single joint experts and assessors under the Civil Procedure Rules.
