Apr 15 2017 Added eBooks

The field of electronics is very diverse, and career opportunities are available in many areas. Because electronics is currently found in so many different applications and new technology is being developed at a fast rate, its feature appears limitless. There is hardly an area of our lives that is not enhanced to some degree by electronics technology. The study of electronics is one of the basic steps in gaining an understanding of all modern technology and science also; our everyday life depends a lot on the electronic. So this book of step in electronics practicals provides a comprehensive and clear coverage of electronic practical concepts, practical applications and troubleshooting. It is designed to cover a wide range of topics that make up the ...

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and the implementation of contemporary multimedia systems. Offering a balanced, global look at the latest advances in semantic indexing, retrieval, analysis, and processing of multimedia, the book features the contributions of renowned researchers from around the world. Its contents are based on four fundamental thematic pillars: 1) information and content retrieval, 2) semantic knowledge exploitation paradigms, 3) multimedia personalization, and 4) human-computer affective multimedia interaction. Its 15 chapters cover key topics such as content creation, annotation and modeling for the semantic web, multim...

Analyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data mining technologies for analyzing these networks and extracting useful information such as location, demographics, and sentiments of the participants of the network, and (ii) security and privacy technologies that ensure the privacy of the participants of the network as well as provide controlled access to the information posted and exchanged by the participants. The authors explore security and privacy issues for social media systems, analyze such systems, and discuss prototypes they have developed for social media systems whose data are represented using semantic web technologies. These experimental syst...

ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS' bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing-and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS. This small book teaches you to: -Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boring -Delegate filesystem privileges to users -Containerize ZFS datasets with jails -Quickly and efficiently replicate data between machines -split layers off of mirrors -optimize ZFS block storage -handle large storage arrays -select caching strategies to improve performance -manage next-generation storage hardware -identify and remove bottlenecks -build screaming fast database storage -dive deep into pool...

Python, a powerful and flexible general purpose programming language is growing in popularity as more people become interested in programming using open source languages. "Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide" shows readers how to use Python to run Web sites, write GUI interfaces, control number-crunching code, process large XML data sets, build test suites for C or Java code, and much more. Technical topics are explained clearly and concisely and end-of-chapter projects encourage the reader to program on their own. A detailed table of contents and a complete, well-organized index make this book a great reference tool. All code used in the book will be available for download on the companion website....