This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of techniques, tools and knowledge used in performance engineering, covering the whole life cycle — from design through to operation — of both networks and systems

In the tradition of Effective Java™, Bloch and Gafter dive deep into the subtleties of the Java programming language and its core libraries. Illustrated with visually stunning optical illusions, Java™ Puzzlers features 95 diabolical puzzles that educate and entertain. Anyone with a working knowledge of Java will understand the puzzles, but even the most seasoned veteran will find them challenging.

The task of moving collections of books and other materials can be overwhelming as library facilities evolve to reflect changing demographics and use patterns. Author and experienced mover Steven Carl Fortriede has everything you need to get the job done quickly and efficiently with step-by-step directions, diagrams, spreadsheets, and photos. Readers will learn how to plan a library move, which method is best for a particular situation, how to recruit and train workers, and what tools and supplies are needed. Everything you need for the move is included - even specifications for boxes, moving carts, sorting trays, and a worksheet to calculate shelving layouts and growth rates. "Moving Your Library" is the complete kit for any librarian facing the daunting prospect of moving a library collection.

Boost takes you far beyond the C++ Standard Library, making C++ programming more elegant, robust, and productive. Now, for the first time, a leading Boost expert systematically introduces the broad set of Boost libraries and teaches best practices for their use. Writing for intermediate-to-advanced C++ developers, Björn Karlsson briefly outlines all 58 Boost libraries, and then presents comprehensive coverage of 12 libraries you're likely to find especially useful. Karlsson's topics range from smart pointers and conversions to containers and data structures, explaining exactly how using each library can improve your code. He offers detailed coverage of higher-order function objects that enable you to write code that is more concise, expressive, and readable. He even takes you "behind the scenes" with Boost, revealing tools and techniques for creating your own generic libraries.

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“Libraries and the fi ght against HIV/AIDS, poverty and corruption” takes up some of the big issues and major challenges facing the world: the HIV/AIDS pandemic, poverty and the reduction of it, and corruption and its counterpart transparency. The articles explore the role and responsibilities of libraries and information services, and how they can contribute to this fi ght. In regard to all three themes, authors call our attention to the need to identify new responsibilities and values for the library profession.

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever. Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns."

The Kanazawa Institute of Technology is Japan's largest institution of higher education specializing in engineering and technology. It is a world leader and collaborator in electronic initiatives, often on the forefront of systems design and telecommunications advancement. It is also the site of an annual symposium series on digital library development. Marcum and George have pulled together an international cadre of leading thinkers and experimenters, all of whom have participated in these symposia, to provide their considered opinions concerning the influence of digital technology on teaching and learning in general, and the role of the library in the educational enterprise in particular. Their contributions have, in turn, been arranged into four thematic groupings, which range from envisioning the future, and facing major challenges, to creating projects and programs, and developing digital libraries. An informative read for anyone involved in higher education.

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The history of a language can be understood as the combination of its internal history and external history. The internal history of a language includes all events of a linguistic nature, such as phonological, grammatical, and lexical changes. Among the questions it addresses are these:What changes have occurred in the language’s inventory of sounds over time?What grammatical structures have been lost, and what other structures have arisen to replace them?What have been the most important sources of new words? To what extent have other words become obsolete? External history is the history of the people or peopleswho speak the language, though naturally a language history focuses principally on the events that have had linguistic repercussions. Thus, external history addresses questions such as the following:What peoples spoke the language originally?What other peoples adopted the languag and under what circumstances?What invasions, migrations, and other events have contributed to the current geographic and demographic distribution of the language? What cultural developments have affected the evolution of the language? Ideally, we would like to find one-to-one correspondences between these two perspectives—the internal and the external—but in practice this is rarely possible. Even if it is unquestionable that cultural events such as the Renaissance and the technological revolution of the twentieth century have fostered the acceptance of largen umbers of neologisms—in the first case primarily from Italian and in the second from English—in general it is difficult to find concrete correspondences, for example, between the pace of phonological change and periods of peace or war, or between specific grammatical changes and migrations of populations.

The monograph is devoted to the vital questions of a domestic mass communication theory. The monograph is written for the scientists and students studying ‘social communications’.