Handbook on Business Process Management 1: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems

By Jan vom Brocke, Michael Rosemann
Publisher: Springer,

Pages: 600, Date: 2010-08-31
ISBN-10 : 3642004156, PDF 10 Mb

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities.

This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world' s leading BPM thought leaders. This first volume focuses on arriving at a sound definition of Business Process Management approaches and examines BPM methods and process-aware information systems.
As such, it provides guidance for the integration of BPM into corporate methodologies and information systems.

Each chapter has been contributed by leading international experts. Selected case studies complement these views and lead to a summary of BPM expertise that is unique in its coverage of the most critical success factors of BPM.

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Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Pages: 8, Date: 2002-04

ISBN / ASIN: 0634000284

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This handy booklet includes 120 of the most commonly used chords, as well as information on chord theory and easy-reference diagrams.

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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets By Matt Perdeck

By Matt Perdeck
Publisher: Packt Publishing

Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2010-10-13
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1849690685

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Simple and proven techniques to quickly speed up your ASP.NET website
* Speed up your ASP.NET website by identifying performance bottlenecks that hold back your site's performance and fixing them


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* Written in a simple problem-solving manner - with a practical hands-on approach and just the right amount of theory you need to make sense of it all

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PDF For QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual

By Bonnie Biafore
Publisher: Pogue Press, Pages: 720

Date: 2010-11-01, ISBN-10 : 1449392458
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Your bookkeeping workflow will be smoother and faster with QuickBooks 2011 -- but only if you spend more time using the program than figuring out how it works. This Missing Manual puts you in control: You'll not only find out how and when to use specific features, you'll also get basic accounting
advice to help you through the learning process.

* Set up QuickBooks. Arrange files and preferences to suit your company.
* Manage your business. Track inventory, control spending, run payroll, and handle income.
* Follow the money. Examine everything from customer invoices to year-end tasks.
* Find key info quickly. Take advantage of QuickBooks’ reports, Company Snapshot, and search tools.
* Streamline your workflow. Set up the Home page and Online Banking Center
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* Build and monitor budgets. Learn how to keep your company financially fit.
* Share your financial data. Work with your accountant more efficiently.

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Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach

By Joseph A. Maxwell
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, Pages: 168

Date: 1996-04-12, ISBN-10 : 0803973292
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Are you thinking about doing a qualitative study, or currently in the middle of one? If so, Joseph A. Maxwell's Qualitative Research Design is the reliable guide for you. Taking a hands-on, innovative approach to qualitative design, it emphasizes the components of a design, how these interact with each other, and the environment in which the study is situated.

Maxwell provides a clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting the key design issues to deal with and describing the main considerations that inform your decisions about these issues. These design issues include clarifying the purpose of your study; creating a theoretical context for the research; formulating research questions; developing a relationship with the people you are studying; making decisions about sampling, data collection, and analysis; and assessing validity threats and alternative explanations to your study's conclusions.

The author also explains how to make the transition from your research design to your research proposal, providing an explicit model for the structure of a qualitative proposal that is based on the design of your study. Taking an exceptional approach to research design, Qualitative Research Design provides detailed exercises for applying its information and guidelines to your study.

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PDF For The Hot Zone

By Richard Preston, Publisher: Random House
Pages: 300, Date: 1994-09-20

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0679430946, PDF 1.9 Mb, MP3 files 148 MB

The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.

This book describes events between 1967 and 1993. The incubation period of the viruses in this book is less than twenty-four days. No one who suffered from any of the viruses or who was in contact with anyone suffering from them can catch or spread the viruses outside of the incubation period. None of the living people referred to in this book suffer from a contagious disease.

The viruses cannot survive independently for more than ten days unless the viruses are preserved and frozen with special procedures and laboratory equipment. Thus none of the locations in Reston or theWashington,D.C.area described in this book is infective or dangerous.

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A real-life medical thriller describes how a strain of a lethal, infectious, previously unknown virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory and the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and prevent the spread of the virus. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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PDF For Chemistry Essentials For Dummies

By John T. Moore, Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 192, Date: 2010-05-17

ISBN-10 : 0470618361, 1419 KB rared pdf

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Whether studying chemistry as part of a degree requirement or as part of a core curriculum, students will find Chemistry Essentials For Dummies to be an invaluable quick reference guide to the fundamentals of this often challenging course. Chemistry Essentials For Dummies contains content focused on key topics only, with discrete explanations of critical concepts taught in a typical two-semester high school chemistry class or a college level Chemistry I course, from bonds and reactions to acids, bases, and the mole.

This guide is also a perfect reference for parents who need to review critical chemistry concepts as they help high school students with homework assignments, as well as for adult learners headed back into the classroom who just need to a refresher of the core concepts.

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Dummies is proud to present our new series, The Essentials For Dummies. Now students who are prepping for exams, preparing to study new material, or who just need a refresher can have a concise, easy-to-understand review guide that covers an entire course by concentrating solely on the most important concepts. From algebra and chemistry to grammar and Spanish, our expert authors focus on the skills students most need to succeed in a subject.

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Trustworthly Global Computing

5th International Symposium, TGC 2010, Munich, Germany, February 24-26, 2010,
Revised Selected Papers

(Lecture Notes in ... Computer Science and General Issues)
By Martin Wirsing, Martin Hofmann, Axel Rauschmayer


Publisher: Springer
Pages: 380, Date: 2010-09-29
ISBN-10 : 3642156398, PDF 5.78 MB

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Trustworthly Global Computing, TGC 2010, held in Munich, Germany, in February 2010. The 17 revised full papers presented and the 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on types and processes; games and concurrent systems; certification of correctness; tools and languages; and probabilistic aspects.

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Variational and Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation

By Amar Mitiche, Ismail Ben Ayed
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 250, Date: 2010-10-26

ISBN-10 : 3642153518, PDF 7.68 MB

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Image segmentation consists of dividing an image domain into disjoint regions according to a characterization of the image within or in-between the regions. Therefore, segmenting an image is to divide its domain into relevant components. The efficient solution of the key problems in image segmentation promises to enable a rich array of useful applications.

The current major application areas include robotics, medical image analysis, remote sensing, scene understanding, and image database retrieval.

The subject of this book is image segmentation by variational methods with a focus on formulations which use closed regular plane curves to define the segmentation regions and on a level set implementation of the corresponding active curve evolution algorithms. Each method is developed from an objective functional which embeds constraints on both the image domain partition of the segmentation and the image data within or in-between the partition regions.

The necessary conditions to optimize the objective functional are then derived and solved numerically.
The book covers, within the active curve and level set formalism, the basic two-region segmentation methods, multiregion extensions, region merging, image modeling, and motion based segmentation. To treat various important classes of images, modeling investigates several parametric distributions such as the Gaussian, Gamma, Weibull, and Wishart. It also investigates non-parametric models. In motion segmentation, both optical flow and the movement of real three-dimensional objects are studied.

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Wonderland Junior A Pupils Book (English Adventure)

By Anne Worrall, Cristiana Bruni
Publisher: Longman

Date: 2005-01-24,  ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0582828546

Wonderland makes learning English a magical, memorable experience, by using the familiar fantastic world of Disney characters that children know and love.
The Wonderland series has been written for Greek and Cypriot Pre-Junior and Junior classes. The course uses a structured syllabus focussing on skills development, with abundant practice and recycling. Amazing stories, songs, chants, listening and reading materials inspire pupils to talk and write about their own lives, opinions and experiences.

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