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9801. 

Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

By: Richard Newton

Publisher: Pearson Education Canada

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2006

Insert Date: 05-MAY-2007

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The proven, practical guide to running a successful project, every time “This straightforward and insightful approach gives results. It provides enough structure to ensure visibility and reliable delivery without smothering you with paperwork. It's no nonsense real change for the real world.” Matthew Deardon, CEO, BT Directories You’ve got an important project to run. You need to know what to do, in what order, to make sure it all runs smoothly. You want to come out of it with the desired result, and looking good. This book is for you. Project Management Step by Step is the proven,...

9802. 

Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS® Examples, Second Edition

Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS® Examples, Second Edition

By: Glenn A. Walker

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 15-JUL-2002

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Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples, Second Edition, provides clinical researchers with an invaluable aid for understanding the statistical methods cited most frequently in clinical protocols, statistical analysis plans, clinical and statistical reports, and medical journals. The text is written in a way that takes the non-statistician through each test using examples, yet substantive details are presented that benefit even the most experienced data analyst. Introductory chapters provide elementary statistical concepts as applied to clinical trials and an...

9803. 

SAS® for Mixed Models, Second Edition

SAS® for Mixed Models, Second Edition

By: Ramon C. Littell; George A. Milliken; Walter W. Stroup; Russell D. Wolfinger; Oliver Schabenberber, Ph.D.

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 21-FEB-2006

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The indispensable, up-to-date guide to mixed models using SAS. Discover the latest capabilities available for a variety of applications featuring the MIXED, GLIMMIX, and NLMIXED procedures in this valuable edition of the comprehensive mixed models guide for data analysis, completely revised and updated for SAS®9. The theory underlying the models, the forms of the models for various applications, and a wealth of examples from different fields of study are integrated in the discussions of these models: random effect only and random coefficients models split-plot, multilocation, and...

9804. 

Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2007

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<>Make the Most of Visual Studio Team System in Real-World Agile Development Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) gives Microsoft development teams a powerful, integrated toolset for Agile development. Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams is a comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to making the most of VSTS in real-world Agile environments. Using a book-length case study, the authors show how to use VSTS to improve every aspect of software development, step by step–from project planning through design and from coding through testing and deployment. Agile...

9805. 

Wireless Networking with Microsoft® Windows Vista™

Wireless Networking with Microsoft® Windows Vista™

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 05-JUL-2007

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2007

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Networking has become commonplace in the home. In years past, it took a trained technician to set up and manage a computer network; that's not the case anymore. With more and more households having multiple PCs, there is an increased demand to network those PCs to share files, peripherals, and an Internet connection. And it's become much easier to create a home network, thanks to easier-to-use wireless networking technologies and equipment. The problem is setting up a wireless network can still be somewhat confusing, and often difficult. Even setting up a simple wireless network to share an...

9806. 

Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 25-JUL-2007

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2007

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"The core technologies of Ajax are quite straightforward; the hard part is applying them in the real world. Fortunately, the authors have been putting Ajax into practice since long before the term ‘Ajax’ was even coined. Enterprise AJAX offers excellent coverage of issues rarely explained to date, but frequently encountered by enterprise developers—including architecting of Ajax applications, and how to deal with such concerns as usability, security, and reliability." -DR. MICHAEL MAHEMOFF, PH.D. author of Ajax Design Patterns (AjaxPatterns.org) "Just when you thought you knew all you...

9807. 

Essential SharePoint® 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration

Essential SharePoint® 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 25-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 02-MAY-2007

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Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment–showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the...

9808. 

CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Quick Reference Sheets

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CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Quick Reference Sheets

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Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication Date: 01-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 27-APR-2007

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As a final exam preparation tool, CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Quick Reference Sheets provides a concise review of all objectives on the new CCIE Routing and Switching v3.0 written exam (350-001). This digital Short Cut provides you with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format. With this document as your guide, you will review topics on networking theory, LAN switching, IP routing, QoS, WAN, IP multicast, security and wireless topics. These fact-filled Quick Reference Sheets allow you to get all-important information at a glance,...

9809. 

SAS® Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9

SAS® Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9

By:  SAS Institute

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 01-MAR-2006

Insert Date: 26-APR-2007

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Prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 certification exam with the official guide by the SAS® Certified Professional Program. New and experienced SAS users who want to prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 certification exam will find this guide an invaluable, convenient and comprehensive resource that covers all of the objectives tested on the exam. Major topics include importing and exporting raw data files, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and identifying and correcting data syntax and programming logic errors.You will also become familiar with the enhancements and...

9810. 

Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS®: A Practical Guide

Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS®: A Practical Guide

By: Alex Dmitrienko; Geert Molenberghs; Christy Chuang-Stein; Walter Offen

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 18-FEB-2005

Insert Date: 26-APR-2007

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This comprehensive guide bridges the gap between modern statistical methodology and real-world clinical trial applications. Step-by-step instructions illustrated with examples from actual trials and case studies serve to define a statistical method and its relevance in a clinical trials setting and to illustrate how to implement the method rapidly and efficiently using the power of SAS software. Topics reflect the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry and address important statistical problems encountered in clinical trials, including...

9811. 

The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition

The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition

By: Lora D. Delwiche; Susan J. Slaughter

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 15-OCT-2003

Insert Date: 26-APR-2007

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Getting started with SAS is easy with The Little SAS Book. This friendly, easy-to-read guide gently introduces you to the most commonly used features of SAS software plus a whole lot more! The book has been revised to include concepts of the Output Delivery System; the STYLE= option in the PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE procedures; ODS HTML, RTF, PRINTER, and OUTPUT destinations; PROC REPORT; more on PROC TABULATE; exporting data; and the colon modifier for informats. You'll find clear and concise explanations of basic SAS concepts (such as DATA and PROC steps), inputting data, modifying and...

9812. 

Negus Live Linux Series The Official Damn Small Linux® Book: The Tiny Adaptable Linux® That Runs on Anything

Negus Live Linux Series The Official Damn Small Linux® Book: The Tiny Adaptable Linux® That Runs on Anything

By: Robert Shingledecker; John Andrews; Christopher Negus

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 06-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 25-APR-2007

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Make the Most of Today’s Smallest, Fastest Desktop Linux Distribution–Damn Small Linux! Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a super-efficient platform for everything from custom desktops to professional servers. Now, DSL’s creator and lead developer have written the first definitive, practical guide to this remarkable system. The Official Damn Small Linux Book brings together everything you need to put DSL to work in just minutes. Simply learn a few essentials, boot the live CD-ROM, and master the rest...one step at a time, hands-on. If you’re new to Linux, you can quickly discover how to use DSL...

9813. 

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 27-APR-2007

Insert Date: 24-APR-2007

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This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export...

9814. 

Programming ASP.NET AJAX

Programming ASP.NET AJAX

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 18-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 24-APR-2007

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Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time. Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web...

9815. 

SAS® Guide to Report Writing: Examples, Second Edition

SAS® Guide to Report Writing: Examples, Second Edition

By: Michele M. Burlew

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 30-JUN-2005

Insert Date: 23-APR-2007

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Jump-start your report-writing skills! Report writing has never been easier. Learn how you can easily avoid common report-writing pitfalls with SAS Guide to Report Writing: Examples, Second Edition. Updated for SAS®9, this task-oriented book guides you through the steps that you need to produce professional reports. Using a wealth of easy-to-follow examples, this time-saving book demonstrates the many different styles of reports that are available and the SAS tools used to generate them. The examples enable more experienced programmers to quickly grasp new techniques, while margin notes...

9816. 

Broadband Network Architectures: Designing and Deploying Triple-Play Services

Broadband Network Architectures: Designing and Deploying Triple-Play Services

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 01-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 21-APR-2007

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“Network professionals who are looking to deploy triple-play service provider networks will find this book a useful tool.” –Michael Newbery, IP Architect, TelstraClear Limited “This book provides a wealth of information on current and future broadband architectures, services, and deployments. It will serve both experienced technical experts needing a comprehensive reference, as well as those needing a concise explanation of broadband access architectures and multi-play services.” –Sanjay Wadhwa, Product Line Manager, IP Edge Products, Juniper Networks “This book is a thorough guide...

9817. 

SAS® Programming by Example

SAS® Programming by Example

By: Ronald P. Cody; Ray Pass

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 08-MAR-1995

Insert Date: 21-APR-2007

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Develop and fine-tune your programming skills the easy way - by example! For beginning and intermediate users, SAS Programming by Example guides you, with a series of annotated examples, through basic tasks to more complex ones. Problems and solutions are provided to make the most of the programming tools available in base SAS software. Conversational in tone, this book is useful both as a tutorial for learning programming and as a convenient quick-reference filled with tips and strategies for solving your programming problems. Among the clearly explained examples are models that show you...

9818. 

CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide

CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide

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Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication Date: 10-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 20-APR-2007

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&> Preparing for the CCNP® certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet. This book helps you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNP BSCI exam (642-901). The guide summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS® Software commands, keywords, command...

9819. 

Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide

Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide

By: Paul D. Allison

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 13-NOV-1995

Insert Date: 20-APR-2007

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Biomedical and social science researchers who want to analyze survival data with SAS will find just what they need with this easy-to-read and comprehensive guide. Written for the reader with a modest statistical background and minimal knowledge of SAS software, this book teaches many aspects of data input and manipulation. Numerous examples of SAS code and output make this an eminently practical resource, ensuring that even the uninitiated becomes a sophisticated user of survival analysis. The main topics presented include censoring, survival curves, Kaplan-Meier estimation, accelerated...

9820. 

Windows® PowerShell Unleashed

Windows® PowerShell Unleashed

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 04-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 19-APR-2007

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A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0672329883 ISBN-13: 9780672329883 PowerShell is one of the most exciting new products to come out of Microsoft in a long time. It is both a new scripting language and a command-line shell. People who have seen the demos have been extremely impressed by the power it brings to admins to automate and customize their regular tasks. PowerShell will be used as the basis for all Windows administrative scripting in the future, starting with Exchange 2007 and Vista. IT Pros have been hungering for whatever PowerShell information they can get their...