This text offers information, including how-to advice for specific components, ample reference material, and a comprehensive case study on building a PC. It is intended for anyone who buys, builds, upgrades, or repairs PCs in a corporate, small business, or home setting. In addition to coverage of the fundamentals and general tips about working on ...
For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry - not just to make pretty colors and stinky smells, but to learn how to do real lab work: purify ...
With off-the-shelf computer systems to fit any budget or requirement, some people might wonder why you'd want to build your own. They don't understand that for many computer users, a ready-made system is about as satisfying as popping a frozen dinner in the microwave when you you'd rather have real food instead. Sure, it works, but it's not ...
Using humor, extraordinary clarity, and carefully paced explanations and examples, Thompson leads readers to the cutting edge of interpreting research outcomes and teaches how to make the statistical decisions that result in better research. Through the use of the general linear model to show how different statistical methods are related to each ...
This popular Build-It-Yourself (BIY) PC book covers every step in building one's own system: planning and picking out the right components, step-by-step assembly instructions, and an insightful discussion of why someone would want to do it in the first place.
Popular books such as THE COMING PLAGUE and THE HOT ZONE strike fear in many people, yet few truly understand the health risks surrounding germs, antibacterial products and antibiotics. In OVERKILL, a media-savvy expert from the Harvard Center for Risk. Analysis share everyday techniques to optimise health and well-being without becoming part of ...
The primary object of this manual is to build an understanding of the principles of computer operations and the use of computers in the laboratory. While the development of applications for computers has been rapid since their introduction, the principles of computer operation and their use in sensing and control have remained stable. Those are ...
This volume brings together previously uncollected essays by Ian Watt, one of the major literary critics of the later 20th century, famed equally for his work on Joseph Conrad and for his pioneering investigation into the genesis of English prose fiction. In addition to the author's reassessment of "The Rise of the Novel" the essays in this volume ...
This is a comprehensive guide to buying, building, upgrading, and repairing Intel-based PCs, presented in O'Reilly's concise "In a Nutshell" format. The three major points of the book are: buying guidelines - in supplying advice on how to choose optimum systems and components, the book focuses on teaching the reader how to evaluate alternatives ...
Windows NT TCP/IP Network Administration is a complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network on Windows NT. Windows NT and TCP/IP have long had a close association, and this is the first book to focus exclusively on NT networking with TCP/IP. It starts with the fundamentals -- what the protocols do and how they work, how addresses and ...
In HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers share their practice wisdom, knowledge, and skills on a broad range of issues. Their words of wisdom will give readers the willingness to follow problems through and the flexibility and creativity that are required when dealing with issues concerning HIV/AIDS. At the same ...
New, powerful mixed-mode scattering parameter techniques are earning rave reviews among wireless and microwave engineers, because they have proved to be highly effective design tools for optimizing the performance of integrated circuits, components, and systems. Now, for the first time, these techniques are explained in full detail by the ...
If you're one of the many who has decided to build your own personal computer system, you know that doing so can be quite a challenge. The information can be overwhelming--and so can the number of choices. It's true, whether you're perusing online sites, or wandering the aisles of your favorite retail store, shopping for PC components is no easy ...
Leading researchers have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to this overview of high-performance computing in biomedical research. This book includes over 30 pages of color illustrations.
Recent advances in statistical methodology and computer automation are making canonical correlation analysis available to more and more researchers. This volume explains the basic features of this sophisticated technique in an essentially non-mathematical introduction which presents numerous examples. Thompson discusses the assumptions, logic, and ...
'This is a book that should be on the desk of anyone truly concerned with reliability. The whole question of conditional reliabilities is current and important; and, the question of reliability generalization is being opened out and moving away from Cronbach's approach. The topic is an important one' - Richard L Gorsuch, Fuller Theological ...
This volume presents the important concepts required for implementing two disciplines of factor analysis - exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with an emphasis on EFA/CFA linkages. Modern extensions of older data analysis methods (e.g., ANOVA, regression, MANOVA, and descriptive discriminant analysis) have ...
This text provides a fast-track means for experienced NetWare administrators to build on their knowledge and master the fundamentals of using the Microsoft Windows NT Server. The broad coverage of many aspects of Windows NT Server is balanced by a tightly focused approach of comparison, contrast, and differentiation between NetWare and NT features ...
The lyrics to twenty-two beloved hymns have been adapted to express the unique view of one of God's most charming and challenging creatures. All are sung by an outstanding "Cats of Character", including the Wee Little Kittens, Catarotti, the Catler Brothers, and more. The music -- from Bluegrass to Zydeco, Comic Opera to High Church, Southern ...
"Advances in Social Science Methodology: Volume 4" is separated into two parts: factor analytic methods and non-factor analytic methods. The first section begins with an examination of basic issues in classical measurement and correlation, forming a foundation for subsequent discussions. Further chapters discuss explained-variance partitioning, ...
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