You will find every skill and technique you need to build enterprise, Web, and eBusiness applications with DB2 UDB v8. This book is IBM's official guide to becoming an IBM Certified Application Developer for the DB2 Universal Database v8 Family.

Written for experienced developers, team leaders, and project managers who need a structured way of creating enterprise solutions, this step-by-step guide demonstrates how to deploy your project, analyze it, and model it using VEA.

"Handbook of Classical Mythology" offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the creation of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--"plus" an illustrated mythological dictionary listing every significant character, place, event, and object. Whether exploring the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or researching a specific piece of the whole, the handbook is the best introduction available to the extraordinary cast of these tales (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out.

The Ancient Greeks - who believed that war is the most important thing humans do--bequeathed to the West an incomparable military legacy that still influences the structure of armies and doctrine. Understand the reasons why their unique approach to fighting was so successful and so relentless, its role at the heart of classical culture, the rise of the city state, agrarian duels, the emergence of Athenian and Spartan power, the development of war as a specialized science, and the collapse of Greek warfare after Alexander the Great.

This acclaimed dictionary is the most comprehensive of its kind, with over 4,200 concise, informative entries on all aspects of English law, with 200 entries new to this volume. The Dictionary defines all the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization of the legal system - with new coverage of important recent legislation and expanded coverage of criminology and law enforcement. International in scope, the book includes terms taken from European law, international law, human rights law, and environmental law. This edition offers highlighted feature entries that discuss key topics in detail, such as adoption law or the Terrorism Act. There is a useful Writing and Citation Guide that specifically addresses problems and established conventions for writing legal essays and reports and the book features entry-level web links which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Law companion website. This classic dictionary is an invaluable source of legal reference for lawyers, law students, and anyone else needing succinct clarification of legal terms.

This volume introduces law students to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including economic, social, and cultural rights. It also discusses the history and organizational structure of human rights and humanitarian law enforcement mechanisms. Relevant to U.S. audiences, a chapter is devoted to the issues surrounding the incorporation of international law into U.S. law, including principles of constitutional and statutory interpretation, conflict rules, and the self-execution doctrine. Questions & Comments sections provide critical analyses of issues raised in the materials.

Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business associations, that help members form collective preferences and realize policy goals in labor market negotiations. Politicians, with incentives shaped by governmental structures, took the initiative in association-building and those that created the strongest associations were motivated to evade labor radicalism and to preempt parliamentary democratization. Sweeping in its historical and cross-national reach, the book builds on original archival data, interviews, and cross-national quantitative analyses. The research has important implications for the construction of business as a social class and powerful ramifications for equality, welfare state restructuring and social solidarity.

Harold Wheeler, in his classic 1947 papers (Wheeler, 1947a, 1947b), created the field of electrically small antennas (ESA), although, as shown in the history (Appendix A), the early antennas were all electrically small. This field has long been important for frequencies below roughly 1 GHz, where a half-wavelength is about 6 in. These electrically small antennas have characteristics in common that limit performance: low radiation resistance, high reactance, low efficiency, narrow bandwidth, and increased loss in the matching network. Most of these limitations are shared by two other classes of antennas: superdirective antennas and superconducting antennas. The original intent was to update Electrically Small, Superdirective, and Superconducting Antennas with a second edition. Sufficient material became available to broaden the scope of that book; the result is this book with a new title. This book provides mathematical foundations for important topics including ENG shells, ESA with m or « cores, including lossy cores, and focused/subwavelength imaging. Chapter 1 contains detailed electromagnetic derivations of Chu and Thal Q formulations, formulas for Q when m or « cores are used, and effects of loss on Q. Finally, work on fundamental limitations using spheroids instead of the radian sphere is covered. Chapter 2 is a treatise on bandwidth and matching, and Foster’s reactance theorem. Precise data are given for Fano’s matching limitations and bandwidth improvement. The effects of loss in matching circuits and cables on VSWR are shown. The relatively new field of non-Foster matching is next discussed. Finally, performance of a short monopole that is matched is compared with that of monopole with high-impedance preamp. Chapter 3 provides updated coverage on canonical antennas: dipoles, loops, self-resonant ESA, PIFA, and dielectric resonator antennas. A comparison is made of Q of various antennas with the Chu–Thal fundamental limitation. In Chapter 4 are presented six ideas that are clever but with performance numbers that are poor. Eighteen nutty antenna ideas are detailed in Chapter 5; the list keeps growing! Chapter 6 on superdirective antennas has been updated with recent data on the use of self-resonant elements. These allow modest supergain but bandwidth and tolerance limitations remain. Also included is new material on maximum directivity of arrays. The last chapter, on superconducting antennas, has been updated with new delay line data. The earlier conclusion that superconductors should be considered for the matching network, but not the antenna, still holds. Aworld history of ESA is presented in Appendix A. Antenna terms important to ESA are defined in Appendix B. Appendix C contains a paper by Karawas and Collin (2008) on NIM shells enclosing an ESA dipole. The analytical errors associated with perfect lenses and subwavelength focusing are treated in detail by Collin (2010) in Appendix D. Each chapter includes extensive references. An overall subject index and an author index are provided at the end of the book. We antenna engineers have done what is possible by rearranging the wires; future significant advances will come through the use of new low-loss magnetic materials and through the use of circuits to compensate for impedance deficiencies.