is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.pLearning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, this book picks up where that book left off. Topics include:pPackages and namespacespReferences and scopingpManipulating complex data structurespObject-oriented programmingpWriting and using modulespContributing to CPANpFollowing the successful format of Learning Perl, each chapter in the book is designed to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have ambition to go further.pPerl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.pLearning Perl Objects, References & Modules is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that separates thePerl dabbler from the Perl programmer./div  (less)

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a day, but it certainly will take you a ways up the slope. Written with the beginning Web designer in mind, Part I focuses on introducing LiveMotion and its tool set while educating you on how Web graphics work. But, while the author appropriately details the differences between GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphic-image formats, LiveMotion is a tool for creating vector-based animation for the Web, and the chapter ""Understanding Web Graphics"" makes no mention of the Flash, QuickTime (which LiveMotion doesn't utilize), or even animated GIF formats. Parts II (Working with LiveMotion Objects), III (Color, Shape, and Style), and IV (Creating Static and Dynamic Images for the Web) detail use of the application itself, and Parts V and VI wrap up the book with examples of animation and multimedia, and designing and optimizing advanced Web presentations. Although LiveMotion is primarily an animator's tool, this book takes a different approach to it, looking at and using it as if it were a Web designer's tool. Interesting chapters about creating rollovers and using LiveMotion for page compositing illustrate this, as do 22 pages on setting type. Meanwhile, the whole section on creating animation in LiveMotion is just over 20 pages long. An inexpensive book, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe LiveMotion in 24 Hours doesn't have an accompanying CD-ROM or any color illustrations, which makes chapter 10, ""Getting Colorful,"" somewhat theoretical. The book as a whole reads more like a reference manual than a tutorial, but the detailed index will help you find what you need quickly. For people who need to learn from structured tutorials, there are other books. For those who like to create things on their own and need only a reference book with examples, this one is a good choice. --Mike Caputo"  (less)

searching of 2-D electrophoresis gels, and pathology slides. Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval presents a wavelet-based approach for feature extraction, combined with integrated region matching. An image in the database, or a portion of an image, is represented by a set of regions, roughly corresponding to objects, which are characterized by color, texture, shape, and location. A measure for the overall similarity between images is developed as a region-matching scheme that integrates properties of all the regions in the images. The advantage of using this soft matching is that it makes the metric robust to poor segmentation, an important property that previous research has not solved. Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval demonstrates an experimental image retrieval system called SIMPLIcity (Semantics-sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries). This system validates these methods on various image databases, proving that such methods perform much better and much faster than existing ones. The system is exceptionally robust to image alterations such as intensity variation, sharpness variation, intentional distortions, cropping, shifting, and rotation. These features are extremely important to biomedical image databases since visual features in the query image are not exactly the same as the visual features in the images in the database. Integrated Region-Based ImageRetrieval is an excellent reference for researchers in the fields of image retrieval, multimedia, computer vision and image processing.  (less)

readable book provides broader coverage than competing texts in the area. Handbook of Analysis and Its Foundations provides an introduction to a wide range of topics, including: algebra; topology; normed spaces; integration theory; topological vector spaces; and differential equations. The author effectively demonstrates the relationships between these topics and includes a few chapters on set theory and logic to explain the lack of examples for classical pathological objects whose existence proofs are not constructive. More complete than any other book on the subject, students will find this to be an invaluable handbook. For more information on this book, see http://math.vanderbilt.edu/  (less)

mode (ATM) and the practical application of these technologies. The international collection of contributors was culled from exhaustive research of over 100,000 related archival and technical journals.brThis reference will be indispensable to engineering and computer science libraries, research libraries, and telecommunications, networking, and computer companies. It covers a diverse array of topics, including:br* Techniques in emerging database system architecturesbr* Techniques and applications in data miningbr* Object-oriented database systemsbr* Data acquisition on the WWW during heavy client/server traffic periodsbr* Information exploration on the WWWbr* Education and training in multimedia database systemsbr* Data structure techniques in rapid prototyping and manufacturingbr* Wireless ATM in data networks for mobile systemsbr* Applications in corporate financebr* Scientific data visualizationbr* Data compression and information retrievalbr* Techniques in medical systems, intensive care units  (less)

Theta Operators <br>11 Valued Predicates <br>12 LIKE and SIMILAR Predicates <br>13 BETWEEN and OVERLAPS Predicates <br>14 The [NOT] IN Predicate <br>15 EXISTS ( ) Predicate <br>16 Quantified Subquery Predicate <br>17 The SELECT Statements Conditional OUTER JOINs <br>18 VIEWs and TEMPORARY TABLEs <br>19 Partitioning Data <br>20 Grouping Operations <br>21 Aggregate Functions <br>22 Auxiliary Tables <br>23 Statistics in SQL <br>24 Regions, Runs and Sequences <br>25 Array Structures in SQL <br>26 Set Operations <br>27 Subsets <br>28 Adjacency List Model of Trees in SQL <br>29 Nested Set Model of Trees in SQL <br>30 Graphs in SQL <br>31 Optimizing Code <br>Appendix: Readings and Resources <br>References <br>Index <br>About the Author<i><p>SQL for Smarties</i> was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques you need to transform yourself into an expert SQL programmer. Now, in this fully updated second edition, SQL mastermind Joe Celko keeps you moving forward, using his entertaining<STRIKE>,</STRIKE> conversational style to teach you the best solutions to old and new challenges and to convey <i>the way you need to think</i> if you really want to get the most out of your SQL programming efforts.</p><br><p>Inside, logic- and set-based analyses replace the traditional<STRIKE>,</STRIKE> procedural approach to problem-solving, helping you make the conceptual leap that separates an SQL gur@YÌÌÌÌÍÿ¾Û€  (less)

each module as a foundation to build towards the next book in the series. This 2D Advanced module covers intermediate topics such as blocks and attributes, dimensioning commands, and an introduction to plotting and object linking.PART 1- DIMENSIONING: Dimensioning Concepts. Types of Dimensioning. Starting Dimensioning. Exiting Dimensioning. DDIM Dialog Box. GEOMETRY Sub-Dialog. FORMAt Sub-Dialog. ANNOTATION Sub-Dialog. Dimension Variables. New Equivalent DIM Commands. Associative Dimensioning. Command: DIMLINEAR. Command: DIMALIGNED. Command: DIMDIAMETER. Command: DIMRADIUS. Command: DIMANGULAR. Command: DIMORDINATE. Command: DIMBASELINE. Command: DIMCONTINUE. Command: DIMCENTER. Command: LEADER. Command: TOLERANCE. Command: DIMEDIT. Command: DIMEDIT- Oblique. Command: DIMSTYLE. PART 2- INTERMEDIATE: Command: PLOT. Sheet Size and Plot Scales. Block Fundamentals. Command: BLOCK. Command: WBLOCK. Command: INSERT. Command: DDINSERT. Command: MINSERT. Attribute Concepts. Command: ATTDEF. Command: ATTDISP. Command: ATTEDIT. Command: ATTEXT. Command: DDATTDEF. Command: DDATTE. Command: DDATTEXT. PART 3- ADVANCED: Command: UCS. Introduction to Paper and Model Space. Command: MVIEW. Command: XREF. Nested External Reference Files. Using Multiple XREFs. Command: XBIND. XY Filtering. Using Layer Filters. Command: FILTER. Shape Fundamentals. Creating a Rectangular Shape. Creating the X-Shape. Creating Arcs and Circles. Command: COMPILE. Command: LOAD. Command: SHAPE. Complex Lines. Complex Lines with Text Strings. Complex Lines with Shape. Loading a Complex Linetype.  (less)

control structure first, then slowly adds other structures. Students are motivated through the use of a chapter problem to demonstrate concepts, which is formalized towards the end of each chapter. This gives students substantial, yet understandable, examples of structures, presenting a more realistic picture of problem solving and program development. Abstraction, the underlying theme of the text, is demonstrated with control structures, data types, subprograms, and the object-oriented paradigm. Descriptions of nine subfields of computer science are integrated into the text. The text meets all criteria of the CS1 course, several from CS2, and related knowledge units.brPart 1: Getting Startedbr1. An Overview of ComputersbrPart 2: Control Abstractionbr2. The Programming Processbr3. Selection Control Structuresbr4. Procedures and Event-Controlled Loopsbr5. Procedures and Reference Parametersbr6. Text Files and Scope RulesbrPart 3: Data Abstractionbr7. ADTs and One-Dimensional Arraysbr8. Records and Other Composite Typesbr9. Abstraction and the Object-Oriented Paradigmbr10. Inheritance and the Object-Oriented Paradigmbr11. Sorting and Searchingbr12. Multi-Dimensional Arraysbr13. String Processingbr14. Sets and Enumerated Data TypesbrPart 4: Advanced Topicsbr15. Recursionbr16. Dynamic Data Structuresbr17. AnalysisbrExercisesbrAppendix A. ASCII TablesbrAppendix B. Turbo Pascal Data TypesbrAppendix C. Standard Identifiers and SubprogramsbrAppendix D. Turbo Pascal Syntax ChartsbrAppendix E. Pascal Operators and SymbolsbrAppendix F. Turbo Pascal Error MessagesbrAppendix G. The Turbo Pascal Integrated DebuggerbrAppendix H. The T?òzáG®ÿ¾Û€  (less)