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The Wisden Dictionary of Cricket

2012-02-10T16:50:00.000-08:00

Third edition
Michael Rundell
A & C Black ț London

Foreword
Can any sport have a richer vocabulary than cricket? Equestrianism must be a contender (there are more than 50 different types of bit you can stick in a horse's mouth) and maybe motor racing - but surely no other ball game?

Even baseball has only three or four ways of actually hitting the ball, whereas cricket has a couple of dozen at least, and new ones keep being invented. For the definition of ramp and flamingo, look within. And the differences between many of these strokes is a matter of arguable nuance. I remember once spending an afternoon at a rather dull county match discussing how to describe the precise difference between a pull and a hook.

In addition to all its other arbiters, cricket obviously needs a kind of fifth umpire: a professional lexicographer. And in Michael Rundell it has found the man. Twenty-one years ago, when his Dictionary of Cricket first appeared, he took us on a journey of extraordinary erudition from ACB to yorker.

This new edition, published under the Wisden umbrella, still starts from ACB, although these days the initials have only historical significance, but our new destination is zooter, a word that only came into common parlance with the advent of Shane Warne.

There are a great many points of interest for anyone who enjoys cricket to stop off en route and linger a while. Rundell's dictionary works both for the tyro follower of the game (perhaps a bit confused by commentators' terminology) and the supposed expert. There can be hardly anyone alive
who has not read Rundell and is aware that middle-wicket is not remotely the same as mid-wicket. The explanation is here: the book is peppered with potted histories of the game's terms that will fascinate anyone who relishes cricket in all its richness.

When I was asked to write this foreword, I became very enthusiastic - as a fan of the first edition - and anxious to make a few contributions from my years in the press-box. For instance:

dot-job n (usually effing dot-job) A cricket match so close that even the journalists present have to start making a note of every delivery, including the dot balls.

He got very sniffy, did Rundell, and told me there was a big difference between language and in-group jargon. Most new cricketing terms seem to emanate from professional cricketers themselves, then spread from the dressing room via the media to the stands and the village green. Dot-job has not made this journey.

I was also keen to add my tuppence-worth to cricketing etymology. The J section of this edition has been expanded to include both jaffa and jag back which did not make the earlier version. Rundell's first sighting of jaffa is from 1994. Yet I am sure I used the word in its present cricketing meaning in The Guardian a good ten years earlier, in connection with a fast bowler of the time, now a famous commentator and a good friend.

Infuriatingly, I can't find the reference in my own files. And The Guardian has not yet digitised its archives for the early 1980s, which would make it possible to do a word-check of this nature in seconds.

There is a further complication. Though jaffa is a compliment to a bowler, the context on that occasion was less favourable. I think I said something about finding the odd jaffa in a bowl of rotting golden delicious. Human nature being what it is, you can be certain that the bloke concerned would remember the (quite unjust) insult in every detail.

I am too much of a coward to ask him. But some day fully computerised news archives will add even greater scientific exactitude to the next edition of this already awesome book. Do read, and enjoy.

Matthew Engel Herefordshire, September 2006

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Data Structures in Java - A Laboratory Course

2012-02-09T19:56:00.000-08:00

Contents
Laboratory 1 Logbook ADT 1
Focus: Implementing an ADT using a Java class
Application: Generating a calendar display
Prelab Exercise 7
Bridge Exercise 13
In-lab Exercise 1 15
In-lab Exercise 2 17
In-lab Exercise 3 19
Postlab Exercise 1 21
Postlab Exercise 2 22
Laboratory 2 Point List ADT 23
Focus: Array implementation of a point list
Application: Displaying a dragon curve
Prelab Exercise 29
Bridge Exercise 34
In-lab Exercise 1 37
In-lab Exercise 2 39
In-lab Exercise 3 43
Postlab Exercise 1 45
Postlab Exercise 2 46
Laboratory 3 String ADT 47
Focus: Java’s built-in String class
Application: Lexical analysis
Prelab Exercise 55
Bridge Exercise 57
In-lab Exercise 1 61
In-lab Exercise 2 65
In-lab Exercise 3 70
Postlab Exercise 1 73
Postlab Exercise 2 74
Laboratory 4 Array Implementation of the List ADT 77
Focus: Array implementation of a list
Application: Analyzing DNA sequences
Prelab Exercise 85
Bridge Exercise 88
In-lab Exercise 1 92
In-lab Exercise 2 94
In-lab Exercise 3 96
Postlab Exercise 1 99
Postlab Exercise 2 101
Laboratory 5 Stack ADT 103
Focus: Array and singly linked list implementations of a stack
Application: Evaluating postfix arithmetic expressions
Prelab Exercise 109
Bridge Exercise 114
In-lab Exercise 1 116
In-lab Exercise 2 117
In-lab Exercise 3 120
Postlab Exercise 1 125
Postlab Exercise 2 128
Laboratory 6 Queue ADT 129
Focus: Array and singly linked list implementations of a queue
Application: Simulating the flow of customers through a line
Prelab Exercise 135
Bridge Exercise 138
In-lab Exercise 1 140
In-lab Exercise 2 142
In-lab Exercise 3 144
Postlab Exercise 1 147
Postlab Exercise 2 148
Laboratory 7 Singly Linked List Implementation of the List ADT 149
Focus: Singly linked list implementation of a list
Application: Slide show program
Prelab Exercise 155
Bridge Exercise 157
In-lab Exercise 1 160
In-lab Exercise 2 162
In-lab Exercise 3 164
Postlab Exercise 1 167
Postlab Exercise 2 169
Laboratory 8 Doubly Linked List Implementation of the List ADT 171
Focus: Circular doubly linked list implementation of a list
Application: Anagram puzzle
Prelab Exercise 177
Bridge Exercise 179
In-lab Exercise 1 181
In-lab Exercise 2 183
In-lab Exercise 3 186
Postlab Exercise 1 189
Postlab Exercise 2 191
Laboratory 9 Ordered List ADT 193
Focus: Array implementation of an ordered list using inheritance
Application: Assembling messages in a packet switching network
Prelab Exercise 199
Bridge Exercise 203
In-lab Exercise 1 205
In-lab Exercise 2 207
In-lab Exercise 3 209
Postlab Exercise 1 211
Postlab Exercise 2 213
Laboratory 10 Recursion with Linked Lists 215
Focus: Using recursion to process and restructure linked lists
Application: Replacing recursion with iteration
Prelab Exercise 223
Bridge Exercise 234
In-lab Exercise 1 238
In-lab Exercise 2 242
In-lab Exercise 3 244
Postlab Exercise 1 247
Postlab Exercise 2 248
Laboratory 11 Expression Tree ADT 249
Focus: Linked implementation of an expression tree
Application: Logic circuits
Prelab Exercise 257
Bridge Exercise 259
In-lab Exercise 1 261
In-lab Exercise 2 264
In-lab Exercise 3 266
Postlab Exercise 1 271
Postlab Exercise 2 273
Laboratory 12 Binary Search Tree ADT 275
Focus: Linked implementation of a binary search tree
Application: Indexed accounts database
Prelab Exercise 281
Bridge Exercise 283
In-lab Exercise 1 285
In-lab Exercise 2 287
In-lab Exercise 3 289
Postlab Exercise 1 295
Postlab Exercise 2 296
Laboratory 13 Heap ADT 299
Focus: Array implementation of a heap
Application: Simulating the flow of tasks in an operating system using a priority queue
Prelab Exercise 307
Bridge Exercise 309
In-lab Exercise 1 311
In-lab Exercise 2 313
In-lab Exercise 3 318
Postlab Exercise 1 323
Postlab Exercise 2 324
Laboratory 14 Weighted Graph ADT 325
Focus: Adjacency matrix implementation of the Weighted Graph ADT
Application: Computation of shortest paths
Prelab Exercise 331
Bridge Exercise 334
In-lab Exercise 1 336
In-lab Exercise 2 339
In-lab Exercise 3 342
Postlab Exercise 1 347
Postlab Exercise 2 349
Laboratory 15 Performance Evaluation 351
Focus: Determining execution times
Application: Analyzing the execution times of sorting and searching routines
Prelab Exercise 357
Bridge Exercise 358
In-lab Exercise 1 360
In-lab Exercise 2 363
In-lab Exercise 3 366
Postlab Exercise 1 369
Postlab Exercise 2 370
Laboratory 16 Team Software Development Project 373
Focus: Object-oriented analysis and design techniques
Application: Create a program that generates an HTML noteboard consisting of a set
of monthly calendars and associated notes
Week 1: Prelab Exercise 1 375
Week 1: Prelab Exercise 2 382
Week 1: Bridge Exercise 390
Week 1: In-lab Exercise 397
Week 2: In-lab Exercise 404
Postlab Exercise 407

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The Magic Indian Cricket, Revised Edition by Mihir Bose

2012-02-09T16:46:00.000-08:00

Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Series editors’ foreword xi
1. India – whose India? 1
2. Khel-khood as cricket 45
3. Middle India and the cricket Raj 91
4. The gully, the maidan and the mali 117
5. An English sporting Eden in India 129
6. Ranji’s burden 144
7. The besieged hero 175
8. The Nawabi legend 202
9. Vegetarians, fast bowlers and violence 222
10. Gods and boys 230
11. Shining India or poverty of ambition? 242
12. My India, my England 261
Postscript 271
Index 276
Plates can be found between pages 174 and 175

Revised edition
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It Takes All Sorts: Celebrating cricket's colourful characters

2012-02-09T08:30:00.000-08:00

Peter Roebuck, 2005
CONTENTS
Dedication vi
Preface vii
1 Arrivals 1
2 Champions and their deeds 22
3 Soaring subcontinentals 41
4 Breaking barriers 62
5 To be an Englishman 72
6 Shafts of lightning 92
7 From the Caribbean 102
8 From various angles 118
9 From the Dark Continent 133
10 Salt of the earth 150
11 Australians at work 159
12 Reputations 182
13 Leaving the stage 195
14 Retirements 206
15 Dealing with life 220
16 Departures 231
Afterword 247
Index 250

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Cricket, Literature and Culture - Symbolising The Nation, Destabilising Empire

2012-02-06T20:07:00.000-08:00

anthony Bateman 2009
Contents
List of Figures vii
Permissions ix
Acknowledgements xi
introduction: Writing the Cricket Field 1
1 ‘more mighty than the Bat, the Pen […]’: Culture, hegemony and
the Literaturisation of Cricket 15
2 ‘england over’?: Cricket and Literature in the inter-War years 55
3 ‘Guilty, m’lud, to fiction […]’: Neville Cardus and Cultural Crisis 95
4 Cricket, Literature and empire 1850–1939 121
5 ‘From Far it Look Like Politics’: C.L.r. James and the Canon 157
6 ‘the Play is a Poem’? 197
Bibliography 205
Index 229

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Cricket For Dummies

2012-02-05T21:56:00.002-08:00

Contents at a Glance
Foreword ....................................................................xxi
Introduction .................................................................1
Part I: Getting Started ..................................................7
Chapter 1: Taking In the Joy of Cricket............................................................................9
Chapter 2: Getting to Grips with the Basics..................................................................19
Chapter 3: From 20 Overs to 5 Days: The Many Formats of Cricket..........................43
Chapter 4: Grabbing the Right Gear: Cricket Equipment ............................................59
Part II: Playing the Game ...........................................75
Chapter 5: Honing Your Batting Skills............................................................................77
Chapter 6: Making it Big As a Bowler...........................................................................105
Chapter 7: Fielding Made Easy......................................................................................131
Chapter 8: Talking Tactics: Captaining a Cricket Team .............................................153
Chapter 9: Talented Training and Cricket Coaching .................................................175
Part III: Welcome to Planet Cricket............................193
Chapter 10: Grasping the Global Rivalries .................................................................195
Chapter 11: Taking in Big International Tournaments ..............................................213
Chapter 12: The Domestic Cricket Scene ...................................................................231
Chapter 13: Becoming a Cricket Fan ............................................................................249
Part IV: The Part of Tens ...........................................271
Chapter 14: Ten Greatest Ever Cricketers ...................................................................273
Chapter 15: Ten Most Memorable Cricket Matches...................................................279
Chapter 16: Ten Mind-boggling Cricket Feats .............................................................287
Chapter 17: Ten Great Cricket Controversies ............................................................293
Index .......................................................................301

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Cricket and the Law

2012-02-04T18:21:00.000-08:00

David Fraser
Football may be the people’s game, but the quintessentially English game of cricket has a
firm place within the public’s affection with many cricketing concepts escaping the
confines of the game to carry far broader social meanings.
Cricket and the Law charts the inter-relationship between cricket—the law of the
game, and legal theory—the law of our lives. Fraser draws fascinating connections and
commonalities between these two seemingly disparate, complex sets of conventions.
This engaging study will be enjoyed by lawyers and students of law, sport, sociology
and cultural studies, as well as cricket lovers everywhere.
David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the School of Law, Nottingham
University, UK.

Contents
Series editor’s preface ix
Preface xi
Foreword xv
1 Introduction 1
2 The legal theory of cricket 14
3 Lord Denning, cricket, law and the meaning of life 20
4 Dante, cricket, law and the meaning of life 24
5 Laws, not rules or cricket as adjudication 28
6 Law, codes and the spirit of the game 37
7 More law and the spirit of the game 48
8 The man in white is always right: umpires, judges and rule of law of law 64
9 Umpires, decisions and the rule of law 78
10 The man in white is always right (but he is not always neutral) 99
11 Technology, adjudication and law 104
12 Leg before wicket, causation and the rule of law 116
13 Mankad, Javed, Hilditch, Sarfraz and the rule of law 124
14 It’s not cricket: underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life 138
15 The chucker as outlaw—legality, morality and exclusion in cricket 145
16 Murali, Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking 152
17 Bouncers: terror and the rule of law in cricket 186
18 Ball-tampering and the rule of law 200
19 The little master, ball-tampering and the rule of law 238
20 Delay and over-rates: temporality and the meaning of cricket 247
21 Ethical discourse, legal narrative and the meaning of cricket 255
22 You...—sledging and cricket as ethical discourse 258
23 Walking, the judicial function and the meaning of law 273
24 Other stories about cricket, law and the meaning of life 282
25 Capitalism and the meaning of cricket 309
26 Class struggle, old school tie and the meaning of cricket 317
27 The Hill, the members and others: the crowd as sub-text 321
28 Bodyline, postmodernism, law and the meaning of life 330
29 Conclusion: on life, law and cricket 335
Notes 337
Index 402

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Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age

2012-02-04T07:33:00.000-08:00

Edited by Stephen Wagg
Contents
List of contributors xi
List of abbreviations xv
Introduction: Following on 1
STEPHEN WAGG
PART I
Cricket and the former dominions 7
1 Unity, difference and the ‘national game’: cricket and Australian
national identity 9
BRETT HUTCHINS
2 Kiwi or English?: cricket on the margins of New Zealand national
identity 28
GREG RYAN
3 ‘No one in Dolly’s class at present?’: cricket and national identity
in post-apartheid South Africa 48
JON GEMMELL AND JAMES HAMILL
PART II
Cricket in the New Commonwealth 75
4 Play together, live apart: religion, politics and markets in Indian
cricket since 1947 77
SHARDA UGRA
5 History without a past: memory and forgetting in Indian cricket 94
SATADRU SEN
6 Cricket in ‘a nation imperfectly imagined’: identity and tradition
in postcolonial Pakistan 110
CHRIS VALIOTIS
7 Sri Lanka: the power of cricket and the power in cricket 132
MICHAEL ROBERTS
8 One eye on the ball, one eye on the world: cricket, West Indian
nationalism and the spirit of C. L. R. James 159
TIM HECTOR; COMPILED AND WITH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY BY
STEPHEN WAGG
PART III
Cricket in the Old Country 179
9 Calypso kings, dark destroyers: England–West Indies Test
cricket and the English press, 1950–1984 181
STEPHEN WAGG
10 ‘A carnival of cricket?’: the Cricket World Cup, ‘race’ and
the politics of carnival 204
TIM CRABBE AND STEPHEN WAGG
11 Sheffield Caribbean: the story of a Yorkshire cricket club 223
CHRIS SEARLE
12 Clean bowl racism?: inner-city London and the politics of
cricket development 233
NICK MILLER
13 The ambush clause: globalisation, corporate power and the
governance of world cricket 251
MIKE MARQUSEE
Index 266

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Asian Empire and British Knowledge: China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion

2012-02-04T05:23:00.000-08:00

Ulrike Hillemann
Imperial College, London

Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations x
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Britain and China – an overview 3
1.2 Methodological considerations 8
2 The Decline of Mythical China 16
2.1 The origin of language 17
2.2 Chinese style and British taste 21
2.3 A Chinese court at Brighton 27
3 At the China Coast 34
3.1 A diplomatic expedition 34
3.2 Chinese law and British rights 45
3.3 The unreliable interpreter 56
3.4 A barren land 64
3.5 Diplomacy and local knowledge 75
81
3.6 Trade and identity
3.7 British honour and opium 91
4 South and Southeast Asian Encounters 106
4.1 China’s neighbour 107
4.2 Chinese subjects for the empire 120
4.3 Co-operator and corruptor 130
4.4 British rule, Chinese societies 135
4.5 Educating the Chinese diaspora 141
150
5 Asian Networks and the British Isles
5.1 British Sinology 152
5.2 Saving China 168
171
5.3 Forces of free trade
6 Epilogue 188
Notes 193
236
Bibliography
254
Index

The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
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The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa

2012-02-03T20:50:00.000-08:00

CONTENTS
List of Figures xiv
Prologue: The Changing Face of Chinese Engagement
in Africa 1
China’s Rise in Africa 2
China and Africa: Mutual Beneﬁt? 3
Poverty and Prosperity 7
A Different Kind of ‘‘Aid’’ 10
China, Aid, and the West 12
What is Foreign Aid? 13
Why Do Countries Give Aid? 14
Issues and Themes 17
Approaches and Analysis 19
1. Missionaries and Maoists: How China’s Aid Moved from
‘‘Red’’ to ‘‘Expert’’ 22
Aid from the West 26
Red Sun Rising 29
From Mau Mau to Mao 31
‘‘Dragon in the Bush’’ 34
Dazhai in Africa? 37
Tazara: The Tan-Zam Railway 40
Rethinking Aid 41
2. Feeling the Stones: Deng Xiaoping’s Experiments
with Aid 43
An ‘‘Ideal Trading Partner’’ 46
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones 51
Aid and the Four Tigers 52
Zhao Ziyang Goes to Africa 53
Leather Swaps: Compensatory Trade in Africa 55
Being Responsible to the End 56
China, Melvin Lisk, and Okeky Agencies, Ltd. 60
Aid as a Springboard for Investment 62
Building Business 64
Tripartite Cooperation 65
‘‘We Are the World’’ 66
Checkbook Diplomacy 67
3. Going Global: Foreign Aid in the Toolkit of a
Rising China 71
Battle in Seattle 75
Deeper into Africa 77
Value for Money 78
Entering Europe’s Backyard 81
Zhu Rongji and the Tan-Zam Railway Redux 83
‘‘Koni . . . Koni . . . Koni’’ 85
Packaging Soft Power 86
Dragon Heads 87
Creative Destruction 89
China–Africa Development Fund 93
Tariff and Quota-Free Entry 95
Overseas Zones: Going Global in Groups 97
The First Two African Winners 101
Crossing the Ocean by Feeling the Stones 103
4. Eastern Promises: An Aid System with Chinese
Characteristics 105
A Very Brief History 106
China’s Aid Institutions 107
China Eximbank’s Concessional Loans 114
The Development Bank That Doesn’t Give Aid 115
Acupuncture at King Harmon Road 117
Learning from China 119
Humanitarian Aid: After Disaster 121
China’s ‘‘Peace Corps’’ 123
Does China Give ‘‘Cash Aid’’? 124
Dumping Debt 127
5. Orient Express: How Does Chinese Aid and
Engagement Work? 131
Beijing versus Paris 132
An Oriental Big Power 136
China Eximbank, Huawei, and Sierratel 140
Learning from Japan’s Request-Based System 141
The Eximbank Cycle 142
From Aid to Proﬁt: CNEEC Consolidates Goma 143
China’s Resource-Backed Infrastructure Loans 145
Aid Without Strings? 148
Tied Aid? 151
‘‘Hordes of Experts’’ 154
Capacity Building 157
6. Apples and Lychees: How Much Aid Does China Give? 162
Estimating China’s Africa Aid 168
One is Aid, the Other is Not 173
Package Financing Mode 174
Big Mistakes 177
Is China Bigger than the World Bank? 179
Comparing Apples and Apples 182
Will Chinese Loans Create a New Debt Crisis? 184
7. Flying Geese, Crouching Tiger: China’s Changing
Role in African Industrialization 189
Challenges and Opportunities 191
Flying Geese as Industrial Catalysts 193
Marlboro Man 195
Friendship Textile Factory’s Rocky Road 197
Cars, Calf, and Cows 201
Asian Tigers and African Factories 204
‘‘Original and Taiwan’’ 205
8. Asian Tsunami: How a Tidal Wave Can also Be a Catalyst 211
Leather Goes Global 212
Textiles: A Chinese Tsunami? 215
Drivers of Change? 222
Catalyzing Local Industry 224
Chinese Workers in African Factories 227
9. Exporting Green Revolution: From Aid to Agribusiness 232
Challenges and Opportunities 234
China’s Traditional Aid 236
Doing Well by Doing Good? 239
Wang Yibin and South–South Cooperation 241
From Weeds to Seeds 244
The Father of Hybrid Rice 246
China’s Agrotechnology Centers: Sustainability and Business 247
10. Foreign Farmers: Chinese Settlers in Rural Africa 253
Going Global in Agriculture 255
Food Security: China and Africa 256
Mega-Projects 257
In the North, There is Only Magbass 259
Not a Good Chew on the Bones 265
Liu Jianjun’s ‘‘Baoding Villages’’ 266
11. Rogue Donor? Myths and Realities 273
‘‘Chinese Aid: It’s All about Oil/Minerals/Resources’’ 277
‘‘China Enables Sudan to Get Away with Murder in Darfur’’ 281
‘‘China Hurts Efforts to Strengthen Democracy and
Human Rights in Africa’’ 284
‘‘Chinese Support Kept Robert Mugabe in Power
in Zimbabwe’’ 287
‘‘China is Making Corruption Worse’’ 292
‘‘Chinese Aid and Loans are Part of a System of
‘Unfair’ Subsidies’’ 297
‘‘China Gains Business with Low Environmental and
Social Standards’’ 299
Conclusion: Engaging China 307
Appendices 313
Endnotes 318
Index 385

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China into Africa, Trade, Aid and Influence

2012-02-03T20:16:00.000-08:00

Preface vii
1 China’s Quest for Resources, Opportunities,
and Inﬂuence in Africa 1
Robert I. Rotberg
2 China’s New Policy toward Africa 21
Li Anshan
3 China’s Emerging Strategic Partnerships in Africa 50
Wenran Jiang
4 Africa and China: Engaging Postcolonial
Interdependencies 65
Stephanie Rupp
5 Chinese-African Trade and Investment:
The Vanguard of South-South Commerce in
the Twenty-First Century 87
Harry G. Broadman
6 Searching for Oil: China’s Oil Strategies in Africa 109
Henry Lee and Dan Shalmon
7 Special Economic Zones: China’s Developmental
Model Comes to Africa 137
Martyn J. Davies
8 Military and Security Relations: China, Africa,
and the Rest of the World 155
David H. Shinn
9 China’s Foreign Aid in Africa: What Do We Know? 197
Deborah Brautigam
10 Chinese Concessional Loans 217
Paul Hubbard
11 China’s Political Outreach to Africa 230
Joshua Eisenman
12 China’s Role in Human Rights Abuses in Africa:
Clarifying Issues of Culpability 250
Stephen Brown and Chandra Lekha Sriram
13 “Peaceful Rise” and Human Rights: China’s Expanding
Relations with Nigeria 272
Ndubisi Obiorah, Darren Kew, and Yusuf Tanko
14 China’s Renewed Partnership with Africa:
Implications for the United States 296
Chin-Hao Huang
Contributors 313
Index 319

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Data structures and Program Design in C++ - Prentice Hall

2012-02-02T22:43:00.000-08:00

Author: Alexander J. Ryba, Robert L. Kruse
Edition: 1
International Publisher: Prentice Hall
International Pub. Date: October 3, 1998
Cover: Paperback
International ISBN-10: 0137689950
International ISBN-13: 9780137689958
No of Pages: 717

Synopsis

76899-4

Object-oriented programming and powerful features of C++ enable this carefully crafted text to build data structures from basic ideas into complete, fully-developed programs and interesting applications. In the process, the text explores problem solving and programming principles, data abstraction, recursion, and the comparative analysis of algorithms as fundamentals tools of software design.

Employing substantial case studies, reusable software development, and programming projects to increase understanding, successful authors Robert L. Kruse and Alexander J.Ryba include topics such as:

C++ templates are introduced early; code for data structures is developed as templated classes in fully reusable form; the Standard Template Library (STL) is mentioned as appropriate.
Recursion is treated early and applied throughout the text.
Data abstraction and abstract data types (ADTs) are emphasized, with conceptual development separated from implementation issues.
Advanced structures and algorithms are developed into complete programs, including splay trees, B-trees, red-black trees, and graph algorithms such as minimal spanning trees.

Data Structures and Program Design in C++ will prove useful to both computer science students and professionals. The authors supply all code in this book on the Web, and, as well, they provide an excellent instructor support package that includes an Instructor's Resource Manual with transparency masters, solutions, and source code to all of the programming examples and projects in the text.
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Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic.NET (Cambridge, 2005)

2012-02-02T20:39:00.000-08:00

Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Collections 14
Chapter 2
Arrays and ArrayLists 46
Chapter 3
Basic Sorting Algorithms 72
Chapter 4
Basic Searching Algorithms 86
Chapter 5
Stacks and Queues 99
Chapter 6
The BitArray Class 124
Chapter 7
Strings, the String Class, and the StringBuilder Class 150
Chapter 8
Pattern Matching and Text Processing 181
Chapter 9
Building Dictionaries: The DictionaryBase Class and the
SortedList Class 200
Chapter 10
Hashing and the HashTable Class 210
Chapter 11
Linked Lists 227
Chapter 12
Binary Trees and Binary Search Trees 249
Chapter 13
Sets 268
Chapter 14
Advanced Sorting Algorithms 283
Chapter 15
Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms for Searching 298
Chapter 16
Graphs and Graph Algorithms 320
Chapter 17
Advanced Algorithms 352
References 379
Index 381

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Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 4e

2012-01-31T22:26:00.000-08:00

Chapter Listing
The chapters for this course are organized to provide a pedagogical
path that starts with the basics of Java programming and object-
oriented design, moves to concrete structures like arrays and linked
lists, adds foundational techniques like recursion and algorithm
analysis, and then presents the fundamental data structures and
algorithms, concluding with a discussion of memory management
(that is, the architectural underpinnings of data structures).
Specifically, the chapters for this book are organized as follows:
1. Java Programming Basics
2. Object-Oriented Design
3. Arrays, Linked Lists, and Recursion
4. Analysis Tools
5. Stacks and Queues
6. Lists and Iterators
7. Trees
8. Priority Queues
9. Maps and Dictionaries
10. Search Trees
11. Sorting, Sets, and Selection
12. Text Processing
13. Graphs
14. Memory
A. Useful Mathematical Facts

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Data Structures and Algorithms

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Data Structures and Algorithms
Alfred V. Aho, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
John E. Hopcroft, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, Stanford, California
PREFACE
Chapter 1 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Chapter 2 Basic Data Types
Chapter 3 Trees
Chapter 4 Basic Operations on Sets
Chapter 5 Advanced Set Representation Methods
Chapter 6 Directed Graphs
Chapter 7 Undirected Graphs
Chapter 8 Sorting
Chapter 9 Algorithm Analysis Techniques
Chapter 10 Algorithm Design Techniques
Chapter 11 Data Structures and Algorithms for External Storage
Chapter 12 Memory Management
Bibliography

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Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++[Solutions][Third_Edition]

2012-01-30T22:24:00.000-08:00

Included in this manual are answers to many of the exercises in the textbook Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++, third edition, published by Addison-Wesley. These answers reﬂect the state of the book in the ﬁrst printing of the third edition.
Speciﬁcally omitted are general programming questions and any question whose solution is pointed to by a reference at the end of the chapter. Solutions vary in degree of completeness; generally, minor details are left to the reader. For clarity, the few code segments that are present are meant to be pseudo-C++ rather than completely perfect code.
Errors can be reported to weiss@ﬁu.edu.

C O N T E N T S
Preface v
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Algorithm Analysis 5
Chapter 3 Lists, Stacks, and Queues 9
Chapter 4 Trees 29
Chapter 5 Hashing 41
Chapter 6 Priority Queues (Heaps) 45
Chapter 7 Sorting 53
Chapter 8 The Disjoint Set 59
Chapter 9 Graph Algorithms 63
Chapter 10 Algorithm Design Techniques 77
Chapter 11 Amortized Analysis 87
Chapter 12 Advanced Data Structures and Implementation 91

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Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C

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by Mark Allen Weiss
PREFACE

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: ALGORITHM ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 3: LISTS, STACKS, AND QUEUES

CHAPTER 4: TREES

CHAPTER 5: HASHING

CHAPTER 6: PRIORITY QUEUES (HEAPS)

CHAPTER 7: SORTING

CHAPTER 8: THE DISJOINT SET ADT

CHAPTER 9: GRAPH ALGORITHMS

CHAPTER 10: ALGORITHM DESIGN TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 11: AMORTIZED ANALYSIS

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Data Structure with Java

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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Object-Oriented Programming 1
Software Design and Development 1
Object-Oriented Design 2
Abstract Data Types 3
Java Interfaces 4
Classes and Objects 5
Modifiers 8
Composition, Aggregation, and Inheritance 10
The Unified Modeling Language 13
Polymorphism 14
Javadoc 16
Chapter 2 Arrays 26
Properties of Arrays 26
Duplicating an Array 28
The java.util.Arrays Class 29
The Sequential Search Algorithm 30
The Binary Search Algorithm 31
Chapter 3 Linked Data Structures 46
Maintaining an Ordered Array 46
Indirect Reference 47
Linked Nodes 50
Inserting an Element into a Linked List 55
Inserting at the Front of the List 58
Deleting from a Sorted Linked List 59
Nested Classes 59
Chapter 4 The Java Collections Framework 69
The Inheritance Hierarchy 69
The Collection Interface 70
The HashSet Class 72
Generic Collections 74
Generic Methods 76
Generic Wildcards 76
Iterators 77
The TreeSet Class 79
The LinkedHashSet Class 83
The EnumSet Class 83
The List Interface 85
The ArrayList and Vector Classes 86
The LinkedList Class 86
The ListIterator Interface 87
The Queue Interface 87
The PriorityQueue Class 90
The Deque Interface and ArrayDeque Class 91
The Map Interface and Its Implementing Classes 92
The Arrays Class 95
The Collections Class 96
Autoboxing 97
Chapter 5 Stacks 103
Stack Operations 103
The JCF Stack Class 103
A Stack Interface 104
An Indexed Implementation 104
A Linked Implementation 106
Abstracting the Common Code 108
Application: An RPN Calculator 109
Chapter 6 Queues 117
Queue Operations 117
The JCF Queue Interface 117
A Simple Queue Interface 118
An Indexed Implementation 119
An Indexed Implementation 120
Application: A Client-Server System 121
Chapter 7 Lists 131
The JCF List Interface 131
The Range-View Operation sublist() 132
List Iterators 133
Other List Types 136
Application: The Josephus Problem 140
Application: A Polynomial Class 141
Chapter 8 Hash Tables 148
The Java Map Interface 148
The HashMap Class 149
Java Hash Codes 150
Hash Tables 151
Hash Table Performance 153
Collision Resolution Algorithms 154
Separate Chaining 156
Applications 157
The TreeMap Class 159
Chapter 9 Recursion 165
Simple Recursive Functions 165
Basis and Recursive Parts 166
Tracing A Recursive Call 167
The Recursive Binary Search 168
Binomial Coefficients 169
The Euclidean Algorithm 171
Inductive Proof of Correctness 171
Complexity Analysis 172
Dynamic Programming 173
The Towers of Hanoi 173
Mutual Recursion 175
Chapter 10 Trees 186
Tree Definitions 186
Decision Trees 188
Transition Diagrams 189
Ordered Trees 191
Traversal Algorithms 192
Chapter 11 Binary Trees 200
Definitions 200
Counting Binary Trees 201
Full Binary Trees 202
Identity, Equality, and Isomorphism 203
Complete Binary Trees 205
Binary Tree Traversal Algorithms 207
Expression Trees 209
A BinaryTree Class 211
Implementations of The Traversal Algorithms 216
Forests 219
Chapter 12 Search Trees 230
Multiway Search Trees 230
B-trees 232
Binary Search Trees 234
Performance of Binary Search Trees 236
AVL Trees 237
Chapter 13 Heaps and Priority Queues 245
Heaps 245
The Natural Mapping 245
Insertion Into A Heap 246
Removal From A Heap 247
Priority Queues 247
The JCF PriorityQueue Class 248
Chapter 14 Sorting 255
Code Preliminaries 255
The Java Arrays.sort() Method 256
The Bubble Sort 256
The Selection Sort 257
The Insertion Sort 258
The Shell Sort 259
The Merge Sort 260
The Quick Sort 263
The Heap Sort 265
The Speed Limit For Comparison Sorts 269
The Radix Sort 270
The Bucket Sort 271
Chapter 15 Graphs 285
Simple Graphs 285
Graph Terminology 285
Paths and Cycles 286
Isomorphic Graphs 288
The Adjacency Matrix for a Graph 290
The Incidence Matrix for a Graph 291
The Adjacency List for a Graph 291
Digraphs 292
Paths in a Digraph 294
Weighted Digraphs and Graphs 295
Euler Paths and Hamiltonian Cycles 295
Dijkstra’s Algorithm 297
Graph Traversal Algorithms 300
APPENDIX Essential Mathematics 319
The Floor and Ceiling Functions 319
Logarithms 319
Asymptotic Complexity Classes 320
The First Principle of Mathematical Induction 321
The Second Principle of Mathematical Induction 322
Geometric Series 323
Other Summation Formulas 323
Harmonic Numbers 324
Stirling’s Formula 325
Fibonacci Numbers 326
INDEX 329

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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

2012-01-29T07:20:00.000-08:00

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
AUTHOR’S NOTE xiv
MAP xviii
PART I: HISTORICAL LEGACIES
1 Schools of Thought 1
Who was Confucius? 1
What were Confucius’s core ideas? 2
What was his political vision? 2
How important was history to Confucius? 3
Has Confucius always been venerated in China? 4
Was Confucius celebrated in his own times? 5
When did the ideas of Confucius gain influence? 7
How was Confucius viewed a century ago? 8
Is Confucianism a religion? 9
How has Confucius fared since 1949? 10
11
Why is Confucius back in favor?
13
How exactly is the new regime using Confucius?
Did Confucianism hinder imperial China’s economic development? 14
Does China have an indigenous “democratic” tradition? 16
What is the Chinese term for democracy and
what exactly does it mean? 17
2 Imperial China 19
What were the main early dynasties? 19
How did dynasties rule? 20
What was the “dynastic cycle”? 21
22
What were the political implications of this cyclical view?
Were all dynasties the same? 22
How did dynasties interact with foreign countries? 24
What was the Opium War? 25
Why did the Qing Dynasty fall? 26
What internal developments weakened the Qing? 27
What was the significance of peasant rebellions? 27
28
What impact did the Opium War have?
What was the Taiping Uprising? 29
Why was the 1894–1895 War with Japan so important? 30
What was the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901)? 30
How has this crisis been misunderstood? 31
32
How does the reputation of the crisis differ in China?
Why does this difference in views of the Boxers matter? 32
How did Qing rule finally end? 33
Is the Chinese Communist Party a new dynasty? 34
3 Revolutions and Revolutionaries 36
Who was Sun Yat-sen? 36
What happened to Sun after he became president? 37
What was the “Warlord era”? 37
What was the May 4th movement? 38
Who was the most important radical writer of the May 4th era? 39
How does the Communist Party view the May 4th era? 41
Why was the example of the Russian Revolution so important? 42
42
What was the First United Front?
Why was the May 30th movement important? 43
What was the Northern Expedition? 43
Who was Chiang Kai-shek? 44
What was the Long March? 45
What was the Rape of Nanjing? 46
How did the Communists beat the Nationalists? 47
What role have mass campaigns played in
the People’s Republic of China? 49
50
What were some important early mass campaigns?
What was the Resist America, Support Korea campaign? 51
What was the Hundred Flowers campaign? 52
53
What happened during the Anti-Rightist campaign?
What sort of people were Mao and his main allies? 53
How were Mao’s writings viewed? 55
What was the Great Leap Forward? 56
What was the Cultural Revolution? 57
What was the Gang of Four? 59
Why hasn’t Mao been repudiated by China’s current leaders? 59
What is the alternative to viewing Mao as a monster? 61
Is Mao seen in China as someone who made errors? 62
How do ordinary Chinese feel about Mao? 63
PART II: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
4 From Mao to Now 67
Who was Deng Xiaoping? 67
Who were Deng’s successors? 69
What exactly did Deng do? 69
How is Deng viewed now? 70
What was the Democracy Wall movement? 71
72
What is the real story of the Tiananmen Uprising?
Why hasn’t the Chinese government changed its line on Tiananmen? 75
What effect did the fall of other Communist governments have on China? 76
How did China’s rulers avoid falling prey to the “Leninist extinction”? 78
How has the government responded to protests since 1989? 80
Why and how has the CCP suppressed the Falun Gong movement? 81
Who are the Chinese dissidents now? 82
84
What is the role of the Internet in political dissent?
What does the digital divide mean in China? 85
Why were the 2008 Olympics such a big deal for China? 86
What was unusual about China’s preparations for the 2008 Olympics? 87
What does the handling of the Olympics say about today’s China? 88
Will grand spectacles continue to be important to China? 91
Why hold an Expo so soon after the Olympics? 91
What is the “One-Child Family” policy? 93
Was female infanticide encouraged to help limit population size? 95
Is contemporary China utterly unique? 96
What does China have in common with other countries? 98
Is the Great Firewall of China a unique structure? 100
5 U.S.–China Misunderstandings 103
What is the most common thing Americans get wrong about China? 103
Why is China’s diversity overlooked? 104
How does ethnicity come into the picture? 105
How important are regional divides? 106
How important are age divides in China? 107
Is China still truly an atheist state? 108
Is China a Big Brother state? 109
What is the biggest source of Chinese misunderstanding of
the United States? 112
How do U.S. and Chinese views on Tibet differ? 113
6 The Future 116
Is China bent on world domination? 116
How likely is a war with Taiwan? 118
Will China become the world’s dominant economic power? 120
Will China, long thought of as a land of villages,
soon be a land of cities? 121
Is China likely to become a democracy? 123
How powerful is Chinese nationalism? 123
What kind of government will China have in a decade? 125
What big challenges lie ahead for the CCP? 126
What big issues relating to the environment and energy
does China face? 127
Why is endemic corruption such a serious problem? 129
How can the United States and China adjust to an era in which
they are the two superpowers? 131
What other kinds of things do China and the United States
have in common? 133
Is this an argument for Americans to refrain from
all criticism of China? 134
NOTES 137
FURTHER READING 147
INDEX 157

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The Policy of the Entente

2012-01-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

The Policy of the
Entente
Essays on the Determinants of
British Foreign Policy
1904-1914
KEITH M. WILSON
Lecturer in Modern History, University of Leeds

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Delhi
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521111652
© Cambridge University Press 1985
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception
and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,
no reproduction of any part may take place without the written
permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 1985
This digitally printed version 2009
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 84-17038
ISBN 978-0-521-30195-4 hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-11165-2 paperback

Contents
Acknowledgements page viii
Introduction 1
1 The Poverty of the Entente Policy 4
2 The Politics of Liberal Foreign Policy I 17
3 The Politics of Liberal Foreign Policy II 37
4 The Dissimulation of the Balance of Power 59
5 The Fiction of the Free Hand 85
6 The Invention of Germany 100
7 The Military Entente with France 121
8 The Cabinet's Decision for War, 1914 135
Notes 148
Bibliography 187
Index 197

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Media and the British Empire

2012-01-28T03:11:00.000-08:00

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by Sir Mark Tully x
Notes on the Contributors xiii
1 Introductory Survey 1
Chandrika Kaul
2 ‘To Enlighten South Africa’: The Creation of a Free Press
at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century 20
John M. MacKenzie
3 ‘The thinking is done in London’: South Africa’s English
Language Press and Imperialism 37
John Lambert
4 ‘The Old Pals’ Protection Society’? The Colonial Office
55
and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation
Joanna Lewis and Philip Murphy
5 The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs.
the British in Bechuanaland, 1948–56 70
Susan Williams
6 Ernest Jones’ Mutiny: The People’s Paper, English Popular
Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857–58 88
Tim Pratt
7 Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill’s
Press Campaign against Constitutional Reform in India,
1929–1935 104
Ian St John

8 India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press
Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire,
1909–1946 125
Chandrika Kaul
9 ‘Business as Usual’? British Newsreel Coverage of Indian
Independence and Partition, 1947–1948 145
Philip Woods
10 Purity, Obscenity and the Making of an Imperial
Censorship System 160
Deana Heath
11 Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in
Imperial News and Cable Communication (1870–1912) 174
Denis Cryle
12 A ‘Sense of Common Citizenship’? Mrs Potts of Reefton,
New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire 190
Ross Harvey
13 ‘That some must suffer for the greater good’: The Post
Courier and the 1969 Bougainville Crisis 205
Philip Cass
14 The Influence of the British Empire through the
Development of Communications in Canada: French
Radio Broadcasting during the Second World War 219
Alain Canuel
15 Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang’s
‘Indigenous’ English Press 233
Su Lin Lewis
Select Bibliography and Further Reading 250
Index 262

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Data Strategy

2012-01-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

By Sid Adelman, Larissa T. Moss, Majid Abai
...............................................
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date: June 15, 2005
ISBN: 0-321-24099-5
Pages: 384

Table of Contents | Index

The definitive best-practices guide to enterprise data-management strategy.You can no longer manage enterprise data "piecemeal." To maximize the business value of your data assets, you must define a coherent, enterprise-wide data strategy that reflects all the ways you capture, store, manage, and use information.In this book, three renowned data management experts walk you through creating the optimal data strategy for your organization. Using their proven techniques, you can reduce hardware and maintenance costs, and rein in out-of-control data spending. You can build new systems with less risk, higher quality, and improve data access. Best of all, you can learn how to integrate new applications that support your key business objectives.Drawing on real enterprise case studies and proven best practices, the author team covers everything from goal-setting through managing security and performance. You'll learn how to: Identify the real risks and bottlenecks you face in delivering data—and the right solutions Integrate enterprise data and improve its quality, so it can be used more widely and effectively Systematically secure enterprise data and protect customer privacy Model data more effectively and take full advantage of metadata Choose the DBMS and data storage products that fit best into your overall plan Smoothly accommodate new Business Intelligence (BI) and unstructured data applications Improve the performance of your enterprise database applications Revamp your organization to streamline day-to-day data management and reduce cost Data Strategy is indispensable for everyone who needs to manage enterprise data more efficiently—from database architects to DBAs, technical staff to senior IT decision-makers. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

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Copyright
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction
Current Status in Contemporary Organizations
Why a Data strategy Is Needed
Vision and Goals of the Enterprise
Components of a Data Strategy
How Will You Develop and Implement a Data Strategy?
References
Chapter 2. Data Integration
Ineffective "Silver-Bullet" Technology Solutions
Gaining Management Support
Integrating Business Data
Deciding What Data Should Be Integrated
Consolidation and Federation
Getting Started
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3. Data Quality
Current State of Data Quality
Recognizing Dirty Data
Data Quality Rules
Data Quality Improvement Practices
Enterprise-Wide Data Quality Disciplines
Enterprise Architecture
Business Sponsorship
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4. Metadata
Why Metadata Is Critical to the Business
Metadata Categories
Metadata Sources
Metadata Repository
Developing a Metadata Repository
Managed Metadata Environment
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5. Data Modeling
Origins of Data Modeling
Significance of Data Modeling
Logical Data Modeling Concepts
Enterprise Logical Data Model
Physical Data Modeling Concepts
Physical Data Modeling Techniques
Dimensionality
Factors that Influence the Physical Data Model
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6. Organizational Roles and Responsibilities
Building the Teams Who Create and Maintain the Strategy
Resistance to Change
Optimal Organizational Structures
Training
Roles and Responsibilities
Data Ownership
Information Stewardship
Worst Practices
Agenda for Weekly Data Strategy Team Meeting
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Performance
Performance Requirements
Service Level Agreements
Capacity Planning: Performance Modeling
Capacity Planning: Benchmarks
Application Packages: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs)
Designing, Coding, and Implementing
Setting User Expectations
Monitoring (Measurement)
Tuning
Case Studies
Performance Tasks
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8. Security and Privacy of Data
Data Identification for Security and Privacy
Roles and Responsibilities
Regulatory Compliance
Auditing Procedures
Design Solutions
Impact of the Data Warehouse
Vendor Issues
Communicating and Selling Security
Best Practices and Worst Practices
Identify Your Own Sensitive Data Exercise
Conclusion
Chapter 9. DBMS Selection
Existing Environment
DBMS Choices
Why Standardize the DBMS?
Total Cost of Ownership
Application Packages and ERPs
Criteria for Selection
Selection Process
Reference Checking
RFPs for DBMSs
Response Format
Evaluating Vendors
Dealing with the Vendor
Exercise—How Well Are You Using Your DBMS?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10. Business Intelligence
What Is Business Intelligence?
BI Components
Imprtant BI Tools and Processes
Emerging Trends and Technologies
BI Myths and Pitfalls
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11. Strategies for Managing Unstructured Data
What Is Unstructured Data?
A Unified Content Strategy for the Organization
Emerging Technologies
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12. Business Value of Data and ROI
The Business Value of Data
Align Data with Strategic Goals
The Cost of Developing a Data Strategy
Benefits of a Data Strategy
Conclusion
Reference
Appendix A. ROI Calculation Process, Cost Template, and Intangible Benefits Template
Cost of Capital
Risk
ROI Example
Cost Calculation Template
Intangible Benefits Calculation Template
Reference
Appendix B. Resources
Publications
Websites
Index

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Data Modeling Techniques for Data Warehousing

2012-01-27T19:38:00.000-08:00

Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
The Team That Wrote This Redbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Comments Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Structure of This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2. Data Warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 A Solution, Not a Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Why Data Warehousing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 Short History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 3. Data Analysis Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1 Query and Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2 Multidimensional Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3 Data Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.4 Imprtance to Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 4. Data Warehousing Architecture and Implementation Choices . . . 15
4.1 Architecture Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.1 Global Warehouse Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.2 Independent Data Mart Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1.3 Interconnected Data Mart Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2 Implementation Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2.1 Top Down Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2.2 Bottom Up Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2.3 A Combined Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 5. Architecting the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1 Structuring the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.1 Real-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.2 Derived Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.3 Reconciled Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2 Enterprise Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.1 Phased Enterprise Data Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.2 A Simple Enterprise Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.3 The Benefits of EDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3 Data Granularity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.3.1 Granularity of Data in the Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.3.2 Multigranularity Modeling in the Corporate Environment . . . . . . . 30
5.4 Logical Data Partitioning Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5.4.1 Partitioning the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.4.1.1 The Goals of Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.4.1.2 The Criteria of Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.4.2 Subject Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 6. Data Modeling for a Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
6.1 Why Data Modeling Is Imprtant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Visualization of the business world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The essence of the data warehouse architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Different approaches of data modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.2 Data Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.3 ER Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.3.1 Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.3.1.1 Entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.3.1.2 Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
6.3.1.3 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
6.3.1.4 Other Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
6.3.2 Advanced Topics in ER Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
6.3.2.1 Supertype and Subtype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
6.3.2.2 Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
6.3.2.3 Derived Attributes and Derivation Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.4 Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.4.1 Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.4.1.1 Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.4.1.2 Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Dimension Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Dimension Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.4.1.3 Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.4.2 Visualization of a Dimensional Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.4.3 Basic Operations for OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.4.3.1 Drill Down and Roll Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.4.3.2 Slice and Dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.4.4 Star and Snowflake Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.4.4.1 Star Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.4.4.2 Snowflake Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.4.5 Data Consolidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.5 ER Modeling and Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 7. The Process of Data Warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
7.1 Manage the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
7.2 Define the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
7.3 Requirements Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
7.3.1 Source-Driven Requirements Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.3.2 User-Driven Requirements Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.3.3 The CelDial Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.4 Modeling the Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.4.1 Creating an ER Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.4.2 Creating a Dimensional Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.4.2.1 Dimensions and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.4.2.2 Adding a Time Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
7.4.2.3 Creating Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.4.2.4 Granularity, Additivity, and Merging Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Granularity and Additivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Fact Consolidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7.4.2.5 Integration with Existing Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7.4.2.6 Sizing Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7.4.3 Don′t Forget the Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.4.4 Validating the Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.5 Design the Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.5.1 Data Warehouse Design versus Operational Design . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.5.2 Identifying the Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.5.3 Cleaning the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.5.4 Transforming the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.5.4.1 Capturing the Source Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
7.5.4.2 Generating Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
7.5.4.3 Getting from Source to Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7.5.5 Designing Subsidiary Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
7.5.6 Validating the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7.5.7 What About Data Mining? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7.5.7.1 Data Scoping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7.5.7.2 Data Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7.5.7.3 Data Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7.5.7.4 Data Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.5.7.5 Data Summarization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.6 The Dynamic Warehouse Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 8. Data Warehouse Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
8.1 Data Warehouse Modeling and OLTP Database Modeling . . . . . . . . . 81
8.1.1 Origin of the Modeling Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
8.1.2 Base Properties of a Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
8.1.3 The Data Warehouse Computing Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8.1.4 Setting Up a Data Warehouse Modeling Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8.2 Principal Data Warehouse Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.3 Data Warehouse Modeling for Data Marts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.4 Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
8.4.1 Requirements Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.4.1.1 Process Oriented Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8.4.1.2 Information-Oriented Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.4.2 Requirements Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.4.2.1 Determining Candidate Measures, Dimensions, and Facts . . . . 98
Candidate Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Candidate Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Candidate Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8.4.2.2 Creating the Initial Dimensional Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Establishing the Business Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Determining Facts and Dimension Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Determining Representative Dimensions and Detailed Versus
Consolidated Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Dimensions and Their Roles in a Dimensional Model . . . . . . . . . 111
Getting the Measures Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Fact Attributes Other Than Dimension Keys and Measures . . . . . 114
8.4.3 Requirements Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
8.4.4 Requirements Modeling - CelDial Case Study Example . . . . . . . 117
8.4.4.1 Modeling of Nontemporal Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Product Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Analyzing the Extended Product Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Looking for Fundamental Aggregation Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
The Manufacturing Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
The Customer Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
The Sales Organization Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
The Time Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
8.4.4.2 Developing the Basis of a Time Dimension Model . . . . . . . . 127
About Aggregation Paths above Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Business Time Periods and Business-Related Time Attributes . . 130
Making the Time Dimension Model More Generic . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Flattening the Time Dimension Model into a Dimension Table . . . 132
The Time Dimension As a Means for Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Lower Levels of Time Granularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
8.4.4.3 Modeling Slow-Varying Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
About Keys in Dimensions of a Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Dealing with Attribute Changes in Slow-Varying Dimensions . . . . 135
Modeling Time-Variancy of the Dimension Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . 137
8.4.4.4 Temporal Data Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Preliminary Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Time Stamp Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Instant and Interval Time Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Base Temporal Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Adding Time Stamps to Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Restructuring the Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Adding Entities for Transactions and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Grouping Time-Variant Classes of Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Advanced Temporal Modeling Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Adding Temporal Constraints to a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Modeling Lifespan Histories of Database Objects . . . . . . . . . . 150
Modeling Time-Variancy at the Schema Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Some Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
8.4.4.5 Selecting a Data Warehouse Modeling Approach . . . . . . . . 151
Considerations for ER Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Considerations for Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Two-Tiered Data Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Dimensional Modeling Supporting Drill Across . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Modeling Corporate Historical Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Chapter 9. Selecting a Modeling Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
9.1 Diagram Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
9.1.1 ER Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
9.1.2 Dimensional Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.2 Reverse Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.3 Forward Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.4 Source to Target Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
9.5 Data Dictionary (Repository) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
9.6 Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
9.7 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Chapter 10. Populating the Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
10.1 Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
10.2 Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
10.3 Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
10.4 Imprtance to Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Appendix A. The CelDial Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
A.1 CelDial - The Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
A.2 Project Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
A.3 Defining the Business Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
A.3.1 Life Cycle of a Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
A.3.2 Anatomy of a Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
A.3.3 Structure of the Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
A.3.4 Defining Cost and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
A.3.5 What Do the Users Want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
A.4 Getting the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
A.5 CelDial Dimensional Models - Proposed Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
A.6 CelDial Metadata - Proposed Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Appendix B. Special Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Appendix C. Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
C.1 International Technical Support Organization Publications . . . . . . . . 185
C.2 Redbooks on CD-ROMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
C.3 Other Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
C.3.1 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
C.3.2 Journal Articles, Technical Reports, and Miscellaneous Sources . 186
How to Get ITSO Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
How IBM Employees Can Get ITSO Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
How Customers Can Get ITSO Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
IBM Redbook Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
ITSO Redbook Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

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Empires of Religion

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Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Preface viii
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction: Empires of Religion 1
Hilary M. Carey
Part I Religious Metropoles
2 The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a
Hostile Imperial Framework: A Comparative Study of
Early Modern Ireland and Hungary 25
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
3 Anti-Catholicism and the British Empire, 1815–1914 43
John Wolffe
4 An Empire of God or of Man? The Macaulays,
Father and Son 64
Catherine Hall
5 Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish
Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement 84
Esther Breitenbach
Part II Colonies and Mission Fields
Greater Britain: Whiteness and its Limits
6 ‘Making Black Scotsmen and Scotswomen?’ Scottish
Missionaries and the Eastern Cape Colony in the
Nineteenth Century 113
John MacKenzie
7 Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in
Colonial New South Wales 137
Peter Cunich
8 ‘Brighter Britain’: Images of Empire in the International
Child Rescue Movement, 1850–1915 161
Shurlee Swain
9 Saving the ‘Empty North’: Religion and Empire
in Australia 177
Anne O’Brien
Part II Colonies and Mission Fields
Friends of the Native? Universalism and Its Limits
10 ‘The Sharer of My Joys and Sorrows’: Alison Blyth,
Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery
in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica 199
John McAleer
11 Richard Taylor and the Children of Noah: Race, Science
and Religion in the South Seas 222
Peter Clayworth
12 From African Missions to Global Sisterhood: The
Mothers’ Union and Colonial Christianity, 1900–1930 243
Elizabeth E. Prevost
Part III Post-Colonial Transformations
13 Ireland’s Spiritual Empire: Territory and Landscape in
Irish Catfholic Missionary Discourse 267
Fiona Bateman
14 Canadian Protestant Overseas Missions to the
Mid-Twentieth Century: American Influences, Interwar
Changes, Long-Term Legacies 288
Ruth Compton Brouwer
15 Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse
Khama Controversy, 1948–1956 311
John Stuart
Select Bibliography 333
Index 339

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Britain and the Origin of the Vietnam War

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Contents
List of Maps ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1 Churchill and Roosevelt, January 1943–July 1945 4
Trusteeship and French participation in the war in the Far East 7
Inter-theatre rivalry 21
Resolution 31
A lost opportunity 33
2 Liberation, July 1945–March 1946 37
Vietnam 38
Cambodia 53
The Cambodian-Siamese border dispute 58
Rice and relief 63
Military aid 68
The co-ordination of British policy 72
3 Lord Killearn, March 1946–May 1948 74
Vietnam 75
The Cambodian-Siamese border dispute 85
Rice, relief and regionalism 88
Military aid 95
The rebranding of British policy 99
4 The Winds of Change, May 1948–January 1950 101
Indo-China 102
Rice, relief, regionalism and military aid 117
The escalation of a crisis 130
5 Consequences, January–June 1950 132
The blend of Britain’s Indo-Chinese and regional policies 133
British policy denouement 157
Conclusion 159
Britain 159
France 163
The US 164
Summary 166
Select Personalia 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 212
Index 224

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The State and Ethnic Politics in South East Asia

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Contents
List of tables vi
Preface viii
Introduction x
1
1 Ethnicity and the state
23
2 The ethnocratic state and ethnic separatism in Burma
46
3 Ethnicity and corporatism in Singapore
77
4 Neo-patrimonialism and national integration in Indonesia
109
5 Internal colonialism and ethnic rebellion in Thailand
143
6 Class, state and ethnic politics in Peninsular Malaysia
180
7 Ethnicity, nationalism and democracy
Notes 186
Bibliography 239
Index 258

by David Brown

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The Media and Political Change in Southeast Asia Karaoke Culture and the Evolution of Personality Politics

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Contents
List of tables vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 Introduction: disruptive technologies – change, conflict and
breakdown 1
2 The growth of the media and entertainment industry: the
move to centre stage 27
3 The Southeast Asian context 55
4 Please do not adjust your set: international information flows,
the media and security in Malaysia 87
5 From propaganda to pop culture: the Philippines and the rise
of the Southeast Asia media stars 115
6 Perning in the gyre: Indonesia, the globalized media and the
‘war on terror’ 140
7 The rise and fall of the media dictator: Thailand and the
continued influence of the military in Southeast Asia 175
8 The Singapore grip: putting the squeeze on a globalized
media post 9/11 217
9 Managing perceptions – from shooting the messenger to
dodging the questions: the role of PR in Southeast Asia 242
10 Subverting the media: piracy, surveillance and the battle for
control in Southeast Asia 271
11 Conclusion 297
304
References
Index 351

Jonathan Woodier's latest work considers what impact the media has upon the democratization process in Southeast Asia. Has the media had a liberalizing effect or become subject to elite control in Southeast Asia and, if so, why? What role does the global media play in this process, particularly given its conglomerization and commoditization? By examining the communications media and its relationship to political change in Southeast Asia, this fascinating study will endeavour to provide both a regional comparative analysis and a more balanced interpretation of the mass communication media in the wake of 9/11.The book also investigates the durability of authoritarian regimes and the enduring capacity of the media-controlled state alongside the growing sophistication of political communications - particularly the use of PR consultants. The author provides an insider's view with unique insights into the practice of political communication and its development throughout the strategically imprtant region of Southeast Asia with its large Moslem states as well as much further afield to countries such as China and post-industrial Europe. As such the book will be warmly welcomed by academics of politics, international relations, media, communications and PR. It will also appeal to researchers interested in political change, the rise of the global media giants and the influence of authoritarian states such as China.

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Strange Parallels Southeast Asia in Global Context c 800-1830 Volume 2 Mainland Mirrors Europe Japan China South Asia and the Islands

2012-01-26T08:11:00.000-08:00

Contents
List of Figures page xv
Abbreviations Used in the Notes xvii
Preface xxi
1
1. A Far Promontory: Southeast Asia and Eurasia
1. Rethinking Eurasia 1
Three Critiques of European Exceptionalism 3
New Axes of Comparison 9
2. Political and Cultural Integration in Mainland Southeast
Asia c. 800–1830: A Pr ́ cis
e 11
Territorial Consolidation: Overview of Mainland Southeast
Asian Political History 12
Administrative Centralization 22
Cultural Integration 26
The Dynamics of Integration: Overview 31
The Dynamics of Integration: Expansion of Material
Resources 32
The Dynamics of Integration: New Cultural Currents 37
The Dynamics of Integration: Intensifying Interstate
Competition 43
The Dynamics of Integration: Intended and Unintended
Consequences of State Interventions 44
3. Synchronized Trajectories in Mainland Southeast Asia,
Europe, and Japan: A Preliminary Survey 49
Idiosyncrasies 49
Shared Indices of Integration: Territorial, Administrative,
and Cultural Trends 52
Pressures to Integration 67
Factors Promoting Eurasian Coordination 77
4. Areas of Inner Asian Conquest and Precocious
Civilization: Preliminary Comments on China
and South Asia 92
The Protected Zone and the Exposed Zone 92
Similarities Between the Two Zones 93
Distinguishing Features of China and South Asia 97
Europeans in India and Archipelagic Southeast Asia 114
5. Critiques and Caveats 117
2. Varieties of European Experience, I. The Formation of
123
Russia and France to c. 1600
1. Charter Polities, Early and Late, c. 500–1240/1330 126
Introduction: Distinct Heritages, Comparable Rhythms 126
Kievan Genesis and Prosperity 130
Integration and Devolution in the Future Area of
France: The Frankish/Carolingian Charter State,
c. 500–1000 147
Sources of Renewed Vitality, c. 900–1328:
The Capetian Achievement 154
Political and Cultural Cohesion in Kiev and
Capetian France 170
2. Fragmentation, c. 1240–1450 182
The Poison Fruits of Growth: A Survey of 13th- to
182
Mid-15th-Century Difficulties
184
Kiev’s Collapse and the Era of Fragmentation to c. 1450
193
France, c. 1270–1450: A Conjuncture of Calamities
3. Broad Renewal, Brief Collapse, c. 1450–1613 205
205
A New European-Wide Cycle
Muscovite Construction, c. 1450–1580: Mongol-Tatar
212
Patronage and Decline
Muscovite Construction, c. 1450–1580: Economic and
217
Military Spurs
Muscovite Construction, c. 1450–1580: Administrative
Creativity 224
Russian Cultural Integration to c. 1600 228
Muscovite Crisis and Disintegration, c. 1560–1613 238
Factors Promoting the Revival of France, c. 1450–1560 241
Novel French Political Structures, c. 1450–1560:
Comparisons with Southeast Asia 250
French Political Identities and Cultural Integration,
c. 1400–1600 257
French Collapse, 1562–1598: The Wars of Religion 266
Interim Conclusion 269
3. Varieties of European Experience, II. A Great
271
Acceleration, c. 1600–1830
1. Overview: Wider Differences, Closer Parallels 271
2. Russian Political and Cultural Trends to c. 1830 282
Stabilization and Renewal to c. 1650 282
Pressures to Territorial Expansion and Administrative
Integration: Warfare, New Intellectual Currents, and
Economic Growth, c. 1650–1830 286
Strengthening the Central State, c. 1650–1830; Frontier
Revolts as a Sign of Success – Comparisons with
Southeast Asia 299
Cultural Fracture and Integration in the Russian Imperial
Core, c. 1650–1830 306
Culture and Control on the Imperial Periphery,
c. 1650–1830 313
3. France During and After the Bourbons 318
The Construction of French “Absolutism,”
c. 1600–1720: Renewed Integrative Pressures 318
323
New Political Structures
Economic Trends c. 1620–1780 and the Problem of
French–Southeast Asian Correlations 329
The French Revolution and Its Aftermath 340
French Cultural Integration and Fracture, c. 1600–1830 355
Conclusion: Europe and Southeast Asia During
a Thousand Years 368
371
4. Creating Japan
1. Overview 371
2. The Formation and Evolution of an Integrated Polity,
c. 600–1280 381
Charter Civilization: The Ritsuryo Order to c. 900 381

The Stability and Longevity of the Charter Order 391
Evolution of the Heian-Centered Polity,
c. 900 to 1280 398
3. Devolution and Reintegration, c. 1280–1603 407
Late Kamakura and Ashikaga Political Tensions,
c. 1280–1467 407
The Warring States Era and Reunification,
c. 1467–1603 411
Explaining and Correlating Japanese Reunification,
c. 1450–1600 416
Warrior Arts, Buddhist Sects, and Oral Literature:
Cultural Trends, c. 1200–1600 431
4. Tokugawa Idiosyncrasies, 1603–1854 438
Early Political Vigor 438
Tokugawa Economic Vitality to c. 1720 448
Political and Economic Strains, c. 1720–1840;
Overarching Similarities to Other Eurasian Realms 457
The Dynamics of Cultural Integration Under
the Tokugawa 469
The Implications of Cultural Change for Japanese
Self-Images and Political Expression 482
Conclusion 490
5. Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, I.
494
China: A Precocious and Durable Unity
Why China and South Asia? 494
1. Similarities Between China and the Protected Zone 497
Progressively Shorter Interregna: A Pr ́cis of Chinese
e
497
Political History
Administrative Integration 504
Territorial Expansion 519
Horizontal Cultural Integration 524
Vertical Cultural Exchange 537
Economic and Demographic Cycles Coordinated with
Other Sectors of Eurasia: Explaining Synchronization 548
Comparative Views of the High Qing Economy 565
2. Differences Between China and the Protected Zone 576
Distinctive Chinese Features: Civilizational Precocity 576
Distinctive Chinese Features: Inner Asian Domination 581
Distinctive Chinese Features: The Burdens of Size 603
Distinctive Chinese Features: Modest Fiscal and
Military Imperatives 613
Some Implications of Size and Pacific Environment 622
Conclusion 627
6. Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, II.
South Asia: Patterns Intermediate Between China and the
631
Protected Zone
1. Similarities Between South Asia, the Protected Zone,
and China 635
Progressively Shorter Eras of Polycentrism: Overview of
South Asian Political History 635
Long-Term Improvements in Administrative Coordination
639
and Penetration
Territorial Expansion 656
Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Integration Across
South Asia 658
Economic and Technological Spurs to Integration
Synchronized with Other Sectors of Eurasia 681
2. Distinctive Features: Early State Formation, Growing
Inner Asian and British Influence, Persistent
Oscillations 705
Early Genesis of Civilization 706
Growing Exposure to Inner Asian Conquest:
An Overview 709
The Recurrent Prosperity and Decline of Regional
Polities: Why Were Such States Less Stable Than in
713
the Protected Zone?
Phase One: Regional Florescence and Eclipse,
c. 550–1206/1334 715
Phase Two: Regional Florescence and Eclipse,
c. 1350–1560/1687 724
Phase Three: Regional Florescence and Eclipse,
c. 1700–1800/1850 733
Why Were Empires Less Durable in South Asia Than
in China? 738
Cohesion and Vulnerability Among Conquest Elites:
Turks and Other Overland Immigrants 746
Cohesion Among Conquest Elites: The British 757
Conclusion 760
763
7. Locating the Islands
Overview: The Relation of Maritime to Mainland
Southeast Asia 763
1. The Charter Era in the Archipelago, c. 650–1350/1500 770
Early State Formation 770
An Archipelagic Charter State: Srivijaya 772
Charter States and Civilization in Pre-Muslim Java 780
Charter State Collapse in the Straits and in Java,
c. 1300–1500 793
2. Trade, New States, and Islam, c. 1350–1511 797
Problems of Periodization and Regional Coherence 797
The Opening Phase of the “Age of Commerce,”
c. 1400–1511: Rising Global Demand 798
Major Port Polities, c. 1350–1511 802
Negeri Society, Islamization, and Malay Identity 809
3. European Interventions in an Era of Multistate Parity,
1511–c. 1660 820
Archipelagic Prosperity to c. 1640 820
Europeans as “White Inner Asians” 824
Creating the Spanish Philippines to c. 1660 830
Portugal’s Impact to c. 1660 837
The Dutch in Southeast Asia to c. 1660 841
Major Archipelagic States, c. 1511 to 1660:
Centralization, Militarization, and Commercial Controls 845
4. Strengthening the Dutch and Spanish Realms,
c. 1660–1830 857
858
A Survey of Dutch Advances to 1784
864
Explaining Dutch Advances
868
18th-Century Commercial Dynamism: The Dutch as Victim
Early 19th-Century Upheavals: The Dutch as Phoenix 874
Cultural Cleavages in the Dutch Conquest State 878
Political and Cultural Integration in the Philippines,
c. 1660–1830 883
Conclusion: The Islands and the Mainland 891
895
Conclusion
Index 909

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Southeast Asia Illusion and Reality in Politics and Economics

2012-01-26T02:32:00.000-08:00

Table of Contents
i Nationalism and Democracy 3
16
n The Philippines, Burma, and Malaya
63
m Indonesia, South Viet Nam, and Thailand
iv The Chinese 110
136
v Communism
vi International Relations 160
vn The Economic Effects of Colonial Rule 188
vm Financial Problems of the Underdeveloped Countries 204
rx Private Investment Abroad since 1945 215
x Western Investment in Southeast Asia 229
xi Economic Progress and Problems 275
xn Foreign Aid 309
xra Western Aid and Population Growth 324
Notes 349
Suggested Reading 360
Index 362

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Southeast Asia A Historical Encyclopedia From Angkor Wat to East Timor

2012-01-25T22:52:00.000-08:00

Southeast Asia is the encyclopedia that will be used for exploring and understanding this geopolitical region for many years. Its pages are packed with well-explained, easily accessible articles. Editor Ooi, a social and economic historian from Malaysia, has assembled a group of writers that represent a wide range of expertise from around the world to focus on Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Some articles also cover the influence that China, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan have had on the region.

The introduction is a well-written and concise history of Southeast Asia. It includes bold type cross-references that lead readers to articles within the main text of the encyclopedia. The 800 articles range in length from 300 to 3,000 words, and each has cross-references and a list of bibliographic references. In addition to entries for each country, there are entries on events, organizations, and individuals, and on topics from folklore, geography, war, and religion, among other subject areas.^B There is strong coverage of the Dutch, British, and Portuguese colonial presence in the region. Economic, social, and political transformations are explained in depth. Each entry is credited, and the contributors are listed in an appendix with their university or corporate affiliation. In the last volume are maps, country fact tables, a topical list of entries, a chronology organized by country, a bibliography of more than 70 pages, and a thorough index.

This set is highly recommended for public, academic, and some high-school libraries for the broad coverage and generally easy-to–understand articles. Steve Stratton

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Data Mining With Neural Networks Solving Business Problems From Application Development To Decision Support

2012-01-24T20:14:00.000-08:00

Overview

This book is targeted directly at executives, managers, and computer professionals by explaining data mining and neural networks from a business information systems and management perspective. It presents data mining with neural networks as a strategic business technology, with the focus on the practical, competitive advantages they offer. In addition the book provides a general methodology for neural network data mining and application developmcnt using a set of realistic business problems as examples. The examples are developed using a commercially available neural network data mining tool, the IBM Neural Network Utility.

Is your organization storing huge quantities of data that could be useful--but you don't know where to start? Do you have information about customers, distributors, markets, and competitors that you are not using to full advantage? And are you personally more interested in strategic applications and general overviews than mind-numbing equations and printouts of code? If so, Data Mining with Neural Networks is the book for you. Written for a business audience, it explains how your company can mine a vast amount of data and transform it into strategic action. Highly Recommended for any company that wants to develop sound plans based on powerful quantitatitive and analytical methods.

Table of Content

Part 1 The Data Mining Process Using Neural Networks

Chapter 1. Introduction to Data Minlng
Chapter 2. Introduction to Neural Networks
Chapter 3. Data Preparation
Chapter 4. Neural Network Models and Architectures
Chapter 5. Training and Testing Neural Network
Chapter 6. Analyzing Neural Networks for Decision Support
Chapter 7. Deploying Neural Network Application
Chapter 8. Intelligent Agents and Automated Data Mining

Part 2 Data Mining Application Case Studie

Chapter 9. Market Segmentation
Chapter 10. Real Estate Pricing Model
Chapter 11. Customer Ranking Model
Chapter 12. Sales Forecasting

Appendix A. IBM Neural Network Utility
Appendix B. Fuzzy Logic
Appendix C. Genetic Algorithms

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Data Mining Methods and Models

2012-01-24T00:32:00.000-08:00

CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS 1
1
Need for Dimension Reduction in Data Mining 1
Principal Components Analysis 2
Applying Principal Components Analysis to the Houses Data Set 5
How Many Components Should We Extract? 9
Profiling the Principal Components 13
Communalities 15
Validation of the Principal Components 17
Factor Analysis 18
Applying Factor Analysis to the Adult Data Set 18
Factor Rotation 20
User-Defined Composites 23
Example of a User-Defined Composite 24
Summary 25
References 28
Exercises 28
REGRESSION MODELING 33
2
Example of Simple Linear Regression 34
Least-Squares Estimates 36
Coefficient of Determination 39
Standard Error of the Estimate 43
Correlation Coefficient 45
ANOVA Table 46
Outliers, High Leverage Points, and Influential Observations 48
Regression Model 55
Inference in Regression 57
t-Test for the Relationship Between x and y 58
Confidence Interval for the Slope of the Regression Line 60
Confidence Interval for the Mean Value of y Given x 60
Prediction Interval for a Randomly Chosen Value of y Given x 61
Verifying the Regression Assumptions 63
Example: Baseball Data Set 68
Example: California Data Set 74
Transformations to Achieve Linearity 79
Box–Cox Transformations 83
Summary 84
References 86
Exercises 86
MULTIPLE REGRESSION AND MODEL BUILDING 93
3
Example of Multiple Regression 93
Multiple Regression Model 99
Inference in Multiple Regression 100
t-Test for the Relationship Between y and xi 101
F-Test for the Significance of the Overall Regression Model 102
Confidence Interval for a Particular Coefficient 104
Confidence Interval for the Mean Value of y Given x1 , x2 , . . ., xm 105
Prediction Interval for a Randomly Chosen Value of y Given x1 , x2 , . . ., xm 105
Regression with Categorical Predictors 105
Adjusting R 2 : Penalizing Models for Including Predictors That Are
Not Useful 113
Sequential Sums of Squares 115
Multicollinearity 116
Variable Selection Methods 123
Partial F-Test 123
Forward Selection Procedure 125
Backward Elimination Procedure 125
Stepwise Procedure 126
Best Subsets Procedure 126
All-Possible-Subsets Procedure 126
Application of the Variable Selection Methods 127
Forward Selection Procedure Applied to the Cereals Data Set 127
Backward Elimination Procedure Applied to the Cereals Data Set 129
Stepwise Selection Procedure Applied to the Cereals Data Set 131
Best Subsets Procedure Applied to the Cereals Data Set 131
Mallows’ Cp Statistic 131
Variable Selection Criteria 135
Using the Principal Components as Predictors 142
Summary 147
References 149
Exercises 149
LOGISTIC REGRESSION 155
4
Simple Example of Logistic Regression 156
Maximum Likelihood Estimation 158
Interpreting Logistic Regression Output 159
Inference: Are the Predictors Significant? 160
Interpreting a Logistic Regression Model 162
Interpreting a Model for a Dichotomous Predictor 163
Interpreting a Model for a Polychotomous Predictor 166
Interpreting a Model for a Continuous Predictor 170
Assumption of Linearity 174
Zero-Cell Problem 177
Multiple Logistic Regression 179
Introducing Higher-Order Terms to Handle Nonlinearity 183
Validating the Logistic Regression Model 189
WEKA: Hands-on Analysis Using Logistic Regression 194
Summary 197

References 199
Exercises 199
NAIVE BAYES ESTIMATION AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS 204
5
Bayesian Approach 204
Maximum a Posteriori Classification 206
Posterior Odds Ratio 210
Balancing the Data 212
Na ̇ve Bayes Classification
ı 215
Numeric Predictors 219
WEKA: Hands-on Analysis Using Naive Bayes 223
Bayesian Belief Networks 227
Clothing Purchase Example 227
Using the Bayesian Network to Find Probabilities 229
WEKA: Hands-On Analysis Using the Bayes Net Classifier 232
Summary 234
References 236
Exercises 237
GENETIC ALGORITHMS 240
6
Introduction to Genetic Algorithms 240
Basic Framework of a Genetic Algorithm 241
Simple Example of a Genetic Algorithm at Work 243
Modifications and Enhancements: Selection 245
Modifications and Enhancements: Crossover 247
Multipoint Crossover 247
Uniform Crossover 247
Genetic Algorithms for Real-Valued Variables 248
Single Arithmetic Crossover 248
Simple Arithmetic Crossover 248
Whole Arithmetic Crossover 249
Discrete Crossover 249
Normally Distributed Mutation 249
Using Genetic Algorithms to Train a Neural Network 249
WEKA: Hands-on Analysis Using Genetic Algorithms 252
Summary 261
References 262
Exercises 263
CASE STUDY: MODELING RESPONSE TO DIRECT MAIL MARKETING 265
7
Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining 265
Business Understanding Phase 267
Direct Mail Marketing Response Problem 267
Building the Cost/Benefit Table 267
Data Understanding and Data Preparation Phases 270
Clothing Store Data Set 270
Transformations to Achieve Normality or Symmetry 272
Standardization and Flag Variables 276
Deriving New Variables 277
Exploring the Relationships Between the Predictors and the Response 278
Investigating the Correlation Structure Among the Predictors 286
Modeling and Evaluation Phases 289
Principal Components Analysis 292
Cluster Analysis: BIRCH Clustering Algorithm 294
Balancing the Training Data Set 298
Establishing the Baseline Model Performance 299
Model Collection A: Using the Principal Components 300
Overbalancing as a Surrogate for Misclassification Costs 302
Combining Models: Voting 304
Model Collection B: Non-PCA Models 306
Combining Models Using the Mean Response Probabilities 308
Summary 312
References 316
INDEX 317

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Data Mining Cookbook - Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk, and Customer Relationship Management (OCR) - 2001

2012-01-23T20:00:00.000-08:00

by Olivia C. Rud , O. C. Rud , Olivia Parr Rud

About the Book

Increase profits and reduce costs by utilizing this collection of models of the most commonly asked data mining questions
In order to find new ways to improve customer sales and support, and as well as manage risk, business managers must be able to mine company databases. This book provides a step-by-step guide to creating and implementing models of the most commonly asked data mining questions. Readers will learn how to prepare data to mine, and develop accurate data mining questions. The author, who has over ten years of data mining experience, also provides actual tested models of specific data mining questions for marketing, sales, customer service and retention, and risk management. A CD-ROM, sold separately, provides these models for reader use.

Get a data mining recipe for success to increase profits and reduce costs in today's business world with-This CD-ROM provides actual, tested models of the most commonly asked data mining questions for marketing, sales, risk analysis, customer retention and support, and other key business applications. Complete, working code written in SAS will help you directly implement models, with or without an automated mining tool. With this invaluable resource, you'll be able to target the best customers, improve sales and services, and increase overall profitability for your company. Step-by-step guidance on how to create, evaluate, validate, and implement models, plus a review of the basics, are available through the companion book, Data Mining Cookbook (sold separately from Wiley). Minimum System Requirements:Windows

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Data Mining and Warehousing

2012-01-22T22:40:00.001-08:00

S. Prabhu
N. Venkatesan

CONTENTS
Preface vii
Acknowledgement ix
Chapter 1 Data Mining and Warehousing Concepts 1-7
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Data Mining Definitions 2
1.3 Data Mining Tools 3
1.4 Applications of Data Mining 3
1.5 Data Warehousing and Characteristics 4
1.6 Data Warehouse Architecture 6
Exercise 7
Chapter 2 Learning and Types of Knowledge 8-13
2.1 Introduction 8
2.2 What is Learning? 8
2.3 Anatomy of Data Mining 9
2.4 Different Types of Knowledge 12
Exercise 13
Chapter 3 Knowledge Discovery Process 14-22
3.1 Introduction 14
3.2 Evaluation of Data Mining 15
3.3 Stages of the Data Mining Process 15
3.4 Data Mining Operations 20
3.5 Architecture of Data Mining 20
Exercise 22
Chapter 4 Data Mining Techniques 23-53
4.1 Introduction 23
4.2 Classification 23
4.3 Neural Networks 23
4.4 Decision Trees 24
4.5 Genetic Algorithm 32
4.6 Clustering 34
4.7 Online Analytic Processing (OLAP) 45
4.8 Association Rules 46
4.9 Emerging Trends in Data Mining 51
4.10 Data Mining Research Projects 52
Exercise 53
Chapter 5 Real Time Applications and Future Scope 54-62
5.1 Applications of Data Mining 54
5.2 Future Scope 59
5.3 Data Mining Products 61
Exercise 62
Chapter 6 Data Warehouse Evaluation 63-71
6.1 The Calculations for Memory Capacity 63
6.2 Data, Information and Knowledge 65
6.3 Fundamental of Database 65
6.4 OLAP and OLAP Server 68
6.5 Data Warehouses, OLTP, OLAP and Data Mining 69
Exercise 71
Chapter 7 Data Warehouse Design 72-85
7.1 Introduction 72
7.2 The Central Data Warehouse 72
7.3. Data Warehousing Objects 74
7.4 Goals of Data Warehouse Architecture 77
7.5 Data Warehouse Users 78
7.6 Design the Relational Database and OLAP Cubes 79
7.7 Data Warehousing Schemas 81
Exercise 85
Chapter 8 Partitioning in Data Warehouse 86-94
8.1 Introduction 86
8.2 Hardware Partitioning 86
8.3 RAID Levels 88
8.4 Software Partitioning Methods 92
Exercise 94
Chapter 9 Data Mart and Meta Data 95-100
9.1 Introduction 95
9.2 Data Mart 95
9.3 Meta Data 96
9.4 Legacy Systems 100
Exercise 100
Chapter 10 Backup and Recovery of the Data Warehouse 101-105
10.1 Introduction 101
10.2 Types of Backup 101
10.3 Backup the Data Warehouse 102
10.4 Data Warehouse Recovery Models 104
Exercise 105
Chapter 11 Performance Tuning and Future of Data Warehouse 106-109
11.1 Introduction 106
11.2 Prioritized Tuning Steps 106
11.3 Challenges of the Data Warehouse 107
11.4 Benefits of Data Warehousing 108
11.5 Future of the Data Warehouse 108
11.6 New Architecture of Data Warehouse 109
Exercise 109
Appendix A Glossary 110-114
Appendix B Multiple-Choice Questions 115-116
Appendix C Frequently Asked Questions & Answers 117-119
Appendix D Model Question Papers 120-124
Bibliography 125-126
Index 127-129

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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Technologies

2012-01-22T20:04:00.000-08:00

Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery
Technologies
Table of Contents
Preface .........................................................................................................................vii
Section I:
Association Rules
Chapter I
OLEMAR: An Online Environment for Mining Association Rules in
Multidimensional Data ................................................................................................. 1
Riadh Ben Messaoud, University of Lyon 2, France
Sabine Loudcher Rabaséda, University of Lyon 2, France
Rokia Missaoui, University of Québec, Canada
Omar Boussaid, University of Lyon 2, France
Chapter II
Current Interestingness Measures for Association Rules: What Do They
Really Measure? .......................................................................................................... 36
Yun Sing Koh, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Richard O’Keefe, University of Otago, New Zealand
Nathan Rountree, University of Otago, New Zealand
Chapter III
Mining Association Rules from XML Data .................................................................59
Qin Ding, East Carolina University, USA
Gnanasekaran Sundarraj, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, USA
Chapter IV
A Lattice-Based Framework for Interactively and Incrementally Mining Web
Traversal Patterns ...................................................................................................... 72
Yue-Shi Lee, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Show-Jane Yen, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Section II:
Clustering and Classification
Chapter V
Determination of Optimal Clusters Using a Genetic Algorithm ............................ 98
Tushar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Shibendu Shekhar Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Chapter VI
K-Means Clustering Adopting rbf-Kernel .............................................................. 118
ABM Shawkat Ali, Central Queensland University, Australia
Chapter VII
Advances in Classification of Sequence Data ......................................................... 143
Pradeep Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, India
P.Radha Krishna, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, India
Raju. S. Bapi, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, India
T. M. Padmaja, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, India
Chapter VIII
Using Cryptography for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining ................................... 175
Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Section III:
Domain Driven and Model Free
Chapter IX
Domain Driven Data Mining.................................................................................... 196
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Chapter X
Model Free Data Mining ......................................................................................... 224
Can Yang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
Jun Meng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
Shanan Zhu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
Mingwei Dai, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, P. R. China
Section IV:
Issues and Applications
Chapter XI
Minimizing the Minus Sides of Mining Data ......................................................... 254
John Wang, Montclair State University, USA
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA
Dan Zhu, Iowa State University, USA
Chapter XII
Study of Protein-Protein Interactions from Multiple Data Sources .................... 280
Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Thanh Phuong Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Japan
Tuan Nam Tran, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan
Chapter XIII
Data Mining in the Social Sciences and Iterative Attribute Elimination ............ 308
Anthony Scime, SUNY Brockport, USA
Gregg R. Murray, SUNY Brockport, USA
Wan Huang, SUNY Brockport, USA
Carol Brownstein-Evans, Nazareth College, USA
Chapter XIV
A Machine Learning Approach for One-Stop Learning ...................................... 333
Marco A. Alvarez, Utah State University, USA
SeungJin Lim, Utah State University, USA
About the Contributors ............................................................................................ 358
Index ....................................................................................................................... 367

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Data Mining - Know It All (Elsevier, 2009)

2012-01-20T21:39:00.000-08:00

Contents
About This Book ........................................................................... ix
Contributing Authors .................................................................... xi
CHAPTER 1 What’s It All About? ...................................................... 1
1.1 Data Mining and Machine Learning ................................... 1
1.2 Simple Examples: The Weather Problem
and Others ......................................................................... 7
1.3 Fielded Applications .......................................................... 20
1.4 Machine Learning and Statistics ........................................ 27
1.5 Generalization as Search .................................................... 28
1.6 Data Mining and Ethics ...................................................... 32
1.7 Resources ........................................................................... 34
CHAPTER 2 Data Acquisition and Integration ............................... 37
2.1 Introduction ....................................................................... 37
2.2 Sources of Data .................................................................. 37
2.3 Variable Types.................................................................... 39
2.4 Data Rollup ........................................................................ 41
2.5 Rollup with Sums, Averages, and Counts ......................... 48
2.6 Calculation of the Mode .................................................... 49
2.7 Data Integration ................................................................. 50
CHAPTER 3 Data Preprocessing ....................................................... 57
3.1 Why Preprocess the Data? ................................................. 58
3.2 Descriptive Data Summarization ....................................... 61
3.3 Data Cleaning ..................................................................... 72
3.4 Data Integration and Transformation ................................ 78
3.5 Data Reduction .................................................................. 84
3.6 Data Discretization and Concept
Hierarchy Generation ........................................................ 98
3.7 Summary ............................................................................ 108
3.8 Resources ........................................................................... 109
CHAPTER 4 Physical Design for Decision Support,
Warehousing, and OLAP .............................................. 113
4.1 What Is Online Analytical Processing? .............................. 113
4.2 Dimension Hierarchies ...................................................... 116
4.3 Star and Snowflake Schemas ............................................. 117
4.4 Warehouses and Marts ....................................................... 119
4.5 Scaling Up the System ....................................................... 122
4.6 DSS, Warehousing, and OLAP
Design Considerations ....................................................... 124
4.7 Usage Syntax and Examples for Major
Database Servers ................................................................ 125
4.8 Summary ............................................................................ 128
4.9 Literature Summary ............................................................ 129
Resources ........................................................................... 129
CHAPTER 5 Algorithms: The Basic Methods ................................. 131
5.1 Inferring Rudimentary Rules .............................................. 132
5.2 Statistical Modeling ............................................................ 136
5.3 Divide and Conquer: Constructing Decision Trees .......... 144
5.4 Covering Algorithms: Constructing Rules ......................... 153
5.5 Mining Association Rules ................................................... 160
5.6 Linear Models ..................................................................... 168
5.7 Instance-Based Learning ..................................................... 176
5.8 Clustering ........................................................................... 184
5.9 Resources ........................................................................... 188
CHAPTER 6 Further Techniques in Decision Analysis ................ 191
6.1 Modeling Risk Preferences ................................................ 191
6.2 Analyzing Risk Directly ...................................................... 198
6.3 Dominance ......................................................................... 200
6.4 Sensitivity Analysis ............................................................. 205
6.5 Value of Information .......................................................... 215
6.6 Normative Decision Analysis ............................................. 220
CHAPTER 7 Fundamental Concepts of
Genetic Algorithms ........................................................ 221
7.1 The Vocabulary of Genetic Algorithms ............................. 222
7.2 Overview ............................................................................ 230
7.3 The Architecture of a Genetic Algorithm ......................... 241
7.4 Practical Issues in Using a Genetic Algorithm .................. 285
7.5 Review ............................................................................... 290
7.6 Resources ........................................................................... 290
CHAPTER 8 Data Structures and Algorithms for Moving
Objects Types ................................................................. 293
8.1 Data Structures ................................................................... 293
8.2 Algorithms for Operations on Temporal
Data Types ......................................................................... 298
8.3 Algorithms for Lifted Operations ....................................... 310
8.4 Resources ........................................................................... 319
CHAPTER 9 Improving the Model ..................................................... 321
9.1 Learning from Errors .......................................................... 323
9.2 Improving Model Quality, Solving Problems .................... 343
9.3 Summary ............................................................................ 395
CHAPTER 10 Social Network Analysis .............................................. 397
10.1 Social Sciences and Bibliometry ........................................ 398
10.2 PageRank and Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search ............... 400
10.3 Shortcomings of the Coarse-Grained Graph Model .......... 410
10.4 Enhanced Models and Techniques .................................... 416
10.5 Evaluation of Topic Distillation ......................................... 424
10.6 Measuring and Modeling the Web .................................... 430
10.7 Resources ........................................................................... 440
Index ........................................................................................... 443

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Data Compression-The Complete Reference-Appendixes & Solution

2012-01-19T21:39:00.000-08:00

Contents
A. The ASCII Code 823
1 ASCII Features 823
B. Basics of Probability 827
1 Joint and Union of Events 830
2 Conditional Probability 831
3 Probability Distributions 834
C. Curves That Fill Space 841
1 The Hilbert Curve 841
2 The Sierpi´nski Curve 842
3 Traversing the Hilbert Curve 848
4 Traversing the Peano Curve 850
D. Data Structures 853
1 Arrays 854
2 Stacks and Queues 855
3 Lists 855
4 Trees 856
5 Graphs 860
6 Hashing 861
7 Hash Functions 862
8 Collision Handling 863
E. Error Correcting Codes 867
1 First Principles 867
2 Voting Codes 869
3 Check Bits 870
4 Parity Bits 871
5 Hamming Distance and Error Detecting 872
6 Hamming Codes 874
7 The SEC-DED Code 876
8 Generating Polynomials 877

F. Finite State Automata 879
G. Gallery of Images 883
H. Human Visual System 887
1 Color and the Eye 887
2 The HLS Color Model 889
3 The HSV Color Model 890
4 The RGB Color Model 890
5 Additive and Subtractive Colors 892
6 Complementary Colors 895
7 Human Vision 895
8 Luminance and Chrominance 897
9 Spectral Density 901
10 The CIE Standard 904
11 Halftoning 906
12 Dithering 908
I. Introductory Mathematics 919
1 Useful Sums 919
2 Matrices 920
3 Trigonometric Identities 923
4 Vector Algebra 925
5 Complex Numbers 928
6 Convolution 930
7 Voronoi Diagrams 934
8 L Systems 935
9 The Greek Alphabet 940
10 Interpolating Polynomials 940
Glossary 947
Answers to Exercises 975
Index 1049

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Data Compression The Complete Reference (2004), 3Ed

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Contents
Preface to the Third Edition vii
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Preface to the First Edition xv
Introduction 1
1 Basic Techniques 15
1.1 Intuitive Compression 15
1.2 Run-Length Encoding 20
1.3 RLE Text Compression 21
1.4 RLE Image Compression 25
1.5 Move-to-Front Coding 35
1.6 Scalar Quantization 39
2 Statistical Methods 43
2.1 Information Theory Concepts 44
2.2 Variable-Size Codes 50
2.3 Preﬁx Codes 51
2.4 The Golomb Code 57
2.5 The Kraft-MacMillan Inequality 65
2.6 The Counting Argument 66
2.7 Shannon-Fano Coding 66
2.8 Huﬀman Coding 68
2.9 Adaptive Huﬀman Coding 84
2.10 MNP5 90
2.11 MNP7 95
2.12 Reliability 96
2.13 Facsimile Compression 99
2.14 Arithmetic Coding 106
2.15 Adaptive Arithmetic Coding 120
2.16 The QM Coder 124
2.17 Text Compression 133
2.18 PPM 134
2.19 Context-Tree Weighting 156
3 Dictionary Methods 165
3.1 String Compression 167
3.2 Simple Dictionary Compression 168
3.3 LZ77 (Sliding Window) 169
3.4 LZSS 173
3.5 Repetition Times 176
3.6 QIC-122 178
3.7 LZX 180
3.8 File Diﬀerencing: VCDIFF 183
3.9 LZ78 185
3.10 LZFG 188
3.11 LZRW1 191
3.12 LZRW4 194
3.13 LZW 195
3.14 LZMW 206
3.15 LZAP 208
3.16 LZY 209
3.17 LZP 211
3.18 Repetition Finder 218
3.19 UNIX Compression 221
3.20 GIF Images 222
3.21 The V.42bis Protocol 223
3.22 Various LZ Applications 223
3.23 Deﬂate: Zip and Gzip 224
3.24 PNG 236
3.25 XML Compression: XMill 240
3.26 EXE Compressors 242
3.27 CRC 243
3.28 Summary 246
3.29 Data Compression Patents 246
3.30 A Uniﬁcation 248
4 Image Compression 251
4.1 Introduction 253
4.2 Approaches to Image Compression 259
4.3 Intuitive Methods 273
4.4 Image Transforms 274
4.5 Orthogonal Transforms 279
4.6 The Discrete Cosine Transform 289
4.7 Test Images 325
4.8 JPEG 329
4.9 JPEG-LS 346
4.10 Progressive Image Compression 352
4.11 JBIG 360
4.12 JBIG2 369
4.13 Simple Images: EIDAC 380
4.14 Vector Quantization 382
4.15 Adaptive Vector Quantization 390
4.16 Block Matching 395
4.17 Block Truncation Coding 399
4.18 Context-Based Methods 405
4.19 FELICS 408
4.20 Progressive FELICS 411
4.21 MLP 415
4.22 Adaptive Golomb 423
4.23 PPPM 424
4.24 CALIC 426
4.25 Diﬀerential Lossless Compression 429
4.26 DPCM 431
4.27 Context-Tree Weighting 436
4.28 Block Decomposition 437
4.29 Binary Tree Predictive Coding 441
4.30 Quadtrees 448
4.31 Quadrisection 465
4.32 Space-Filling Curves 473
4.33 Hilbert Scan and VQ 474
4.34 Finite Automata Methods 477
4.35 Iterated Function Systems 494
4.36 Cell Encoding 511
5 Wavelet Methods 513
5.1 Fourier Transform 513
5.2 The Frequency Domain 514
5.3 The Uncertainty Principle 518
5.4 Fourier Image Compression 521
5.5 The CWT and Its Inverse 524
5.6 The Haar Transform 530
5.7 Filter Banks 549
5.8 The DWT 559
5.9 Multiresolution Decomposition 572
5.10 Various Image Decompositions 573
5.11 The Lifting Scheme 580
5.12 The IWT 591
5.13 The Laplacian Pyramid 593
5.14 SPIHT 597
5.15 CREW 609
5.16 EZW 609
5.17 DjVu 613
5.18 WSQ, Fingerprint Compression 616
5.19 JPEG 2000 622
6 Video Compression 637
6.1 Analog Video 637
6.2 Composite and Components Video 643
6.3 Digital Video 645
6.4 Video Compression 649
6.5 MPEG 661
6.6 MPEG-4 683
6.7 H.261 688
7 Audio Compression 691
7.1 Sound 692
7.2 Digital Audio 695
7.3 The Human Auditory System 698
7.4 µ-Law and A-Law Companding 704
7.5 ADPCM Audio Compression 710
7.6 MLP Audio 712
7.7 Speech Compression 717
7.8 Shorten 725
7.9 MPEG-1 Audio Layers 729
8 Other Methods 755
8.1 The Burrows-Wheeler Method 756
8.2 Symbol Ranking 761
8.3 ACB 765
8.4 Sort-Based Context Similarity 772
8.5 Sparse Strings 777
8.6 Word-Based Text Compression 789
8.7 Textual Image Compression 793
8.8 Dynamic Markov Coding 799
8.9 FHM Curve Compression 808
8.10 Sequitur 811
8.11 Triangle Mesh Compression: Edgebreaker 816
8.12 SCSU: Unicode Compression 827
Bibliography 835
Glossary 855
Joining the Data Compression Community 877
Index 879

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ASEAN Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia Racializing Chineseness

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Contents
1 Racializing Chineseness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Research Problematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2.1 Identity, Hybridity, and Multiple Chineseness . . . . . . . 3
1.2.2 Ethno-Racialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.2.3 Cultural Contact, Positions and Ethnic Relations . . . . . 12
1.2.4 Community, Economic Identity and Racializing
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.2.5 Ethnic Policies and the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.3 Country Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.3.1 Rethinking Assimilation and Chineseness in Thailand . . 22
1.3.2 One Face, Many Masks: The Chinese in Singapore . . . . 22
1.3.3 “Sama Makan tak Sama Makan”: The Chinese
in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.3.4 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Chinese
in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.3.5 Half Chinese or Three Quarters Chinese: The
Chinese in Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.3.6 A Love-Hate Relationship: The Chinese in Vietnam . . . 25
1.3.7 Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines . . . . . 26
1.4 Research Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2 Rethinking Assimilation and Chineseness in Thailand . . . . . . . . 31
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2 History of the Chinese in Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2.1 Perception of the Early Chinese Immigrants . . . . . . . 32
2.2.2 Rapid Expansion of the Chinese Community
in the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.2.3 The Character of the Chinese Society . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2.4 The Chinese as the Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2.5 Discriminatory Policies Towards the Chinese . . . . . . . 37
2.3 Assimilation and the Chinese in Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.4 Bilingualism and Bicultural Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.5 Socio-Economic Organizations and Occupational Differentiation . 45
2.6 Religion, Tradition and Ethnic Intermarriage . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.7 The Rise of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3 One Face, Many Masks: The Chinese in Singapore . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2 History of the Chinese in Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2.1 Economic Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.2.2 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.2.3 Community Organization and Structure . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.2.4 Segregation and the Use of Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.2.5 Religious Beliefs and Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.2.6 Relationships to Host Country, Homeland
and Other Diasporic Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.3 Ethnicity in Flux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
3.3.1 Ethnic Membership by Ascription . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3.3.2 Religious Bifurcation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.3.3 Language and Education as Contested Terrain . . . . . . 74
3.3.4 Between Generations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.3.5 Community Fragmentation and Disembedding . . . . . . 80
4 Sama Makan tak Sama Makan: The Chinese in Malaysia . . . . . . 83
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.2 Chinese Migration to Malaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.2.1 Economic Involvement of the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.2.2 Colonial Policy Affecting the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.2.3 Political Outlook of the Early Chinese Migrants . . . . . 87
4.2.4 The Japanese Occupation and the Growing Racial Divide 88
4.2.5 The Federation of Malaya and its Implications
for the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2.6 Sino-Malay Relations During the Communist Insurgency 90
4.2.7 Political Re-Orientation by the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.2.8 Independence and Racial Riots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.2.9 New Economic Policy and the Move Towards
a Malay State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.3 Ethnic Identity of the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
4.3.1 Ethnicity by Ascription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.3.2 Religion and Food as Ethnic Markers . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.3.3 Language and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.4 The Economy and Bumiputraism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Chinese in Indonesia . . . . 111
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2 Historical Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.2.1 Dutch Colonial Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Contents vii
5.2.2 Manipulation of Racial Politics – The Dutch
“Ethical Policy” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.2.3 Rising Chinese Nationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.2.4 Managing the Chinese Community . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2.5 Indonesian Nationalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.6 Japanese Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.7 Post War Independence Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.8 The Legal Status of the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.9 Political Involvement by the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.2.10 Sukarno’s Guided Democracy (1958–1965) . . . . . . . . 122
5.2.11 Chinese Under Suharto “New Order” . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.3 Contemporary Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.3.1 Ethnicity as Discourse: Situating the Chinese
in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.3.2 Chinese Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5.3.3 Multiple Chineseness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
5.3.4 Generational Differences and Their Impact
on Chinese Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.3.5 Ethnic Discrimination and Prejudice . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.3.6 After Suharto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.3.7 Chinese Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
6 Half-Chinese or Three-Quarters Chinese: The Chinese
in Contemporary Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.2 The Chinese in Burma: A Historical Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.2.1 Growth of the Chinese Community in Burma . . . . . . . 148
6.2.2 Economic Position of the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.2.3 The Chinese Community in the Post War Era . . . . . . . 151
6.3 Constructing the Logic of Being Chinese in Burma . . . . . . . . 155
6.3.1 Economic Identity and Racialization . . . . . . . . . . . 157
6.4 Long Sleeve and Short Sleeve Chinese: Intra-Ethnic
Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6.5 Identity Maintenance, Ethnic Relations and the State . . . . . . . 167
7 A Love-Hate Relationship: The Chinese in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . 175
7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.2 History of the Chinese in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.2.1 Early Migration of the Chinese to Vietnam . . . . . . . . 175
7.2.2 Chinese Pattern of Settlement in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . 176
7.2.3 Impact of the French Colonization on the Ethnic Chinese 176
7.2.4 Pacific War Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
7.2.5 Post Independence Period in North Vietnam . . . . . . . 179
7.2.6 Nationalism in South Vietnam and its Effects
on the Ethnic Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
7.2.7 Demonstrations by the Ethnic Chinese . . . . . . . . . . 181
7.2.8 The Fall of Saigon and its Effect on the Chinese
Business Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
7.2.9 Deteriorating Relations Between China and Vietnam . . . 184
7.2.10 Chinese Invasion of Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.2.11 Revival and Control of Ethnic Chinese Private Businesses 187
7.3 Contemporary Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.3.1 Inter-Ethnic Relations, Differentiation and Discrimination 188
7.3.2 Chinese Identity and Ethnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.3.3 Primacy and Politics of Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
7.3.4 Generational Divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
7.3.5 Cultural Similarities and Cultural Differences . . . . . . 195
7.3.6 Occupational Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
7.3.7 Community Identification and Associations . . . . . . . . 198
8 Hybridization and Chineseness in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.2 Chinese During the Spanish Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
8.2.1 Segregation of the Chinese Population . . . . . . . . . . 202
8.2.2 Massacres and Expulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
8.2.3 Conversion, Inter-Marriage and the Chinese
Mestizo Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
8.2.4 The Influx of Chinese Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
8.2.5 Anti-Chinese Sentiment and the Development
of a Minority Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.6 The American Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.2.7 Socio-Economic and Political Situation of the Chinese . . 205
8.2.8 The Chinese During the Japanese Occupation . . . . . . . 206
8.2.9 Independent Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.2.10 Mass Naturalization of the Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
8.3 Primordialism and Identity Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
8.3.1 Chinese Language and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.3.2 Chinese Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
8.3.3 Chinese Values and Cultural Content . . . . . . . . . . . 217
8.3.4 Heterogeneous Chineseness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
8.3.5 Generational Gap and Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . 219
8.3.6 Occupational Differentiation and Complementary
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
8.3.7 Ethnic Stereotypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
8.3.8 Religion and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
8.3.9 Community and Cultural Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . 228
9 Conclusion: Whither Chineseness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
9.1 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
9.2 Whither Chineseness: The Rise of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

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Asian Higher Education An International Handbook and Reference Guide

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CONTENTS
ix
Foreword
Philip G. Altbach
..
.
Preface x1
11
xv
Introduction
Gerard A. Postiglione
1
l. BANGLADESH
Kowsar P. Chowdhury
21
2. CAMBODIA
Thomas Clayton and Yuok Ngoy
37
3. CHINA
Weifang Min
57
4. HONGKONG
Grace C. L. M a k and Gerard A. Postiglione
75
5. INDIA
N. Jayararn
93
6. INDONESIA
William K. Curnrnings, Manasse Malo, and Karnanto Sunarto
115
7.IRAN
Golnar Mehran
137
S. JAPAN
Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow
165
9.LAOS
John C. Weidman
173
10. MALAYSIA
M o l l y N.N. Lee
1 l . MONGOLIA 199
John C. Weidman, Regesuriin Bat-Erdene, Ochir Gerel, and
D. Badarch
217
12. NEPAL
Murari Prasad Regnzi
23 1
13.NORTHKOREA
Gay Garland Reed and Bong Gun Chung
245
14. PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Mark Bray
265
15. PHILIPPINES
Andrew Gonzalez
285
16. SINGAPORE
Eng Thye Jason Tan
31 1
17.SOUTHKOREA
Sungho H. Lee
325
18. SRI LANKA
Swnrna Jayaweera
1 TAIWAN 345
9.
Shun-fen Chen
359
20.VIETNAM
Dung Ba Lam
Selected Bibliography 373

Index 393
About the Editors and Contributors 399

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Data Analysis Using the Method of Least Squares

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Contents
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................1
1.1 Quantitative Experiments..................................................................1
1.2 Dealing with Uncertainty..................................................................5
1.3 Statistical Distributions.....................................................................6
The normal distribution...............................................................8
The binomial distribution ..........................................................10
The Poisson distribution............................................................11
The χ 2 χχ distribution.....................................................................13
The t distribution .......................................................................15 t
The F distribution......................................................................16 F
1.4 Parametric Models .........................................................................17
1.5 Basic Assumptions .........................................................................19
1.6 Systematic Errors............................................................................22
1.7 Nonparametric Models ...................................................................24
1.8 Statistical Learning .........................................................................27
Chapter 2 THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES ........................................31
2.1 Introduction.....................................................................................31
2.2 The Objective Function...................................................................34
2.3 Data Weighting ...............................................................................38
2.4 Obtaining the Least Squares Solution............................................. 44
2.5 Uncertainty in the Model Parameters.............................................. 50
2.6 Uncertainty in the Model Predictions ............................................. 54
2.7 Treatment of Prior Estimates .......................................................... 60
2.8 Applying Least Squares to Classification Problems ....................... 64
Chapter 3 MODEL EVALUATION................................................................. 73
3.1 Introduction..................................................................................... 73
3.2 Goodness-of-Fit .............................................................................. 74
3.3 Selecting the Best Model ................................................................ 79
3.4 Variance Reduction......................................................................... 85
3.5 Linear Correlation........................................................................... 88
3.6 Outliers ........................................................................................... 93
3.7 Using the Model for Extrapolation ................................................. 96
3.8 Out-of-Sample Testing ................................................................... 99
3.9 Analyzing the Residuals ............................................................... 105
Chapter 4 CANDIDATE PREDICTORS....................................................... 115
4.1 Introduction................................................................................... 115
4.2 Using the F Distribution ............................................................... 116 F
4.3 Nonlinear Correlation ................................................................... 122
4.4 Rank Correlation........................................................................... 131
Chapter 5 DESIGNING QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS..................... 137
5.1 Introduction................................................................................... 137
5.2 The Expected Value of the Sum-of-Squares................................. 139
5.3 The Method of Prediction Analysis .............................................. 140
5.4 A Simple Example: A Straight Line Experiment.......................... 143
5.5 Designing for Interpolation........................................................... 147
5.6 Design Using Computer Simulations............................................ 150
5.7 Designs for Some Classical Experiments ..................................... 155
5.8 Choosing the Values of the Independent Variables ...................... 162
5.9 Some Comments about Accuracy .................................................167
Chapter 6 SOFTWARE ...................................................................................169
6.1 Introduction...................................................................................169
6.2 General Purpose Nonlinear Regression Programs ........................170
6.3 The NIST Statistical Reference Datasets ......................................173
6.4 Nonlinear Regression Convergence Problems..............................178
6.5 Linear Regression: a Lurking Pitfall .............................................184
6.6 Multi-Dimensional Models...........................................................191
6.7 Software Performance...................................................................196
6.8 The REGRESS Program ...............................................................198
Chapter 7 KERNEL REGRESSION..............................................................203
7.1 Introduction...................................................................................203
7.2 Kernel Regression Order Zero ......................................................205
7.3 Kernel Regression Order One .......................................................208
7.4 Kernel Regression Order Two ......................................................212
7.5 Nearest Neighbor Searching .........................................................215 r
7.6 Kernel Regression Performance Studies.......................................223
7.7 A Scientific Application ...............................................................225
7.8 Applying Kernel Regression to Classification ..............................232
7.9 Group Separation: An Alternative to Classification .....................236
Appendix A: Generating Random Noise ........................................................239
Appendix B: Approximating the Standard Normal Distribution ................243
References ......................................................................................................245
Index ......................................................................................................249

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Cyber Forensics A Field Manual For Collecting, Examining, And Preserving Evidence Of Computer Crimes

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Table of Contents
Cyber Forensics—A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of
Computer Crimes..............................................................................................................................1
Disclaimer...........................................................................................................................................6
Introduction........................................................................................................................................7
Background..............................................................................................................................8
Dimensions of the Problem......................................................................................................9
Computer Forensics...............................................................................................................10
Works Cited......................................................................................................................11
Section I: Cyber Forensics.............................................................................................................13
Chapter List............................................................................................................................13
........................................................................................................................................13
Chapter 1: The Goal of the Forensic Investigation.......................................................................14
Overview................................................................................................................................14
Why Investigate.....................................................................................................................14
Internet Exceeds Norm..........................................................................................................14
Inappropriate E−mail..............................................................................................................16
Non−Work−Related Usage of Company Resources.............................................................17
Theft of Information................................................................................................................18
Violation of Security Parameters............................................................................................18
Intellectual Property Infraction...............................................................................................19
Electronic Tampering.............................................................................................................20
Establishing a Basis or Justification to Investigate................................................................21
Determine the Impact of Incident...........................................................................................22
Who to Call/Contact...............................................................................................................24
If You Are the Auditor/Investigator.........................................................................................24
Resources..............................................................................................................................25
Authority.................................................................................................................................25
Obligations/Goals...................................................................................................................25
Reporting Hierarchy...............................................................................................................25
Escalation Procedures...........................................................................................................25
Time Frame............................................................................................................................26
Procedures.............................................................................................................................26
Precedence............................................................................................................................26
Independence........................................................................................................................26
Chapter 2: How to Begin a Non−Liturgical Forensic Examination.............................................27
Overview................................................................................................................................27
Isolation of Equipment...........................................................................................................27
Cookies..................................................................................................................................29
Bookmarks.............................................................................................................................31
History Buffer.........................................................................................................................32
Cache.....................................................................................................................................34
Temporary Internet Files........................................................................................................35
Tracking of Logon Duration and Times..................................................................................35
Recent Documents List..........................................................................................................36
Tracking of Illicit Software Installation and Use.....................................................................37
Chapter 2: How to Begin a Non−Liturgical Forensic Examination
The System Review...............................................................................................................38
The Manual Review...............................................................................................................41
Hidden Files...........................................................................................................................42
How to Correlate the Evidence..............................................................................................43
Works Cited......................................................................................................................44
Chapter 3: The Liturgical Forensic Examination: Tracing Activity on a Windows−Based
Desktop............................................................................................................................................45
Gathering Evidence For Prosecution Purposes.....................................................................45
Gathering Evidence Without Intent to Prosecute...................................................................45
The Microsoft Windows−Based Computer.............................................................................46
General Guidelines To Follow................................................................................................48
Cookies..................................................................................................................................50
Bookmarks/Favorites.............................................................................................................53
Internet Explorer's History Buffer...........................................................................................54
Temporary Storage on the Hard Drive...................................................................................55
Temporary Internet Files........................................................................................................56
System Registry.....................................................................................................................57
Enabling and Using Auditing via the Windows Operating System.........................................61
Confiscation of Computer Equipment....................................................................................65
Other Methods of Covert Monitoring......................................................................................66
Chapter 4: Basics of Internet Abuse: What is Possible and Where to Look Under the
Hood.................................................................................................................................................68
Terms.....................................................................................................................................68
Types of Users.......................................................................................................................69
E−Mail Tracking.....................................................................................................................69
IP Address Construction........................................................................................................69
Browser Tattoos.....................................................................................................................69
How an Internet Search works...............................................................................................70
Swap Files.............................................................................................................................74
ISPs.......................................................................................................................................75
Servers...................................................................................................................................75
Works Cited......................................................................................................................75
Chapter 5: Tools of the Trade: Automated Tools Used to Secure a System Throughout
the Stages of a Forensic Investigation.........................................................................................77
Overview................................................................................................................................77
Detection Tools......................................................................................................................77
Protection Tools.....................................................................................................................84
Analysis Tools........................................................................................................................87
Chapter 6: Network Intrusion Management and Profiling...........................................................91
Overview................................................................................................................................91
Common Intrusion Scenarios.................................................................................................91
Intrusion Profiling...................................................................................................................95
Creating the Profile................................................................................................................96
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................103
Chapter 7: Cyber Forensics and the Legal System....................................................................105
Overview..............................................................................................................................105
How the System Works........................................................................................................105
Issues of Evidence...............................................................................................................106
Hacker, Cracker, or Saboteur..............................................................................................108
Best Practices......................................................................................................................115
Notes..............................................................................................................................115
Acknowledgments..........................................................................................................116
Section II: Federal and International Guidelines........................................................................117
Chapter List..........................................................................................................................117
......................................................................................................................................117
References.....................................................................................................................118
Chapter 8: Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence...............118
Recognizing and Meeting Title III Concerns in Computer Investigations.............................123
Computer Records and the Federal Rules of Evidence.......................................................131
Proposed Standards for the Exchange of Digital Evidence.................................................134
Recovering and Examining Computer Forensic Evidence...................................................140
International Principles for Computer Evidence...................................................................141
Chapter 9: Computer Crime Policy and Programs.....................................................................143
The National Infrastructure Protection Center Advisory 01−003..........................................143
The National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996...........................................146
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks...................................................................................157
The Melissa Virus................................................................................................................163
Cybercrime Summit: A Law Enforcement/Information Technology Industry Dialogue........163
Chapter 10: International Aspects of Computer Crime..............................................................165
Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.....................................................................165
Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime Frequently Asked Questions.......................168
Internet as the Scene of Crime............................................................................................168
Challenges Presented to Law Enforcement by High−Tech and Computer Criminals..........169
Problems of Criminal Procedural Law Connected with Information Technology.................169
Combating High−Tech and Computer−Related Crime........................................................169
Vienna International Child Pornography Conference...........................................................171
OECD Guidelines for Cryptography Policy..........................................................................171
Fighting Cybercrime: What are the Challenges Facing Europe?.........................................171
Chapter 11: Privacy Issues in the High−Tech Context..............................................................172
Law Enforcement Concerns Related to Computerized Databases......................................172
Enforcing the Criminal Wiretap Statute................................................................................174
Referring Potential Privacy Violations to the Department of Justice for Investigation
and Prosecution..................................................................................................................174
Testimony on Digital Privacy................................................................................................175
Chapter 12: Critical Infrastructure Protection.............................................................................176
Attorney General Janet Reno's Speech on Critical Infrastructure Protection......................176
Protecting the Nation's Critical Infrastructures: Presidential Decision Directive 63.............176
The Clinton Administration's Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection: Presidential
Chapter 12: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Decision Directive 63..........................................................................................................177
Foreign Ownership Interests in the American Communications Infrastructure....................187
Carnivore and the Fourth Amendment.................................................................................188
Chapter 13: Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues.......................................................................195
Overview..............................................................................................................................195
Guide for Federal Agencies on Implementing Electronic Processes...................................195
Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace.................................................196
The Government Paperwork Elimination Act.......................................................................196
Internet Gambling................................................................................................................197
Sale of Prescription Drugs Over the Internet.......................................................................197
Guidance on Implementing the Electronic Signatures in Global And National
Commerce Act (E−SIGN)....................................................................................................198
Part I: General Overview of the E−SIGN Act.......................................................................198
The Electronic Frontier: the Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the
Internet................................................................................................................................215
Internet Health Care Fraud..................................................................................................217
Jurisdiction in Law Suits.......................................................................................................218
Electronic Case Filing at the Federal Courts.......................................................................225
Notes..............................................................................................................................226
Chapter 14: Legal Considerations in Designing and Implementing Electronic
Processes: A Guide for Federal Agencies.................................................................................229
Executive Summary.............................................................................................................229
Introduction..........................................................................................................................237
I. Why Agencies Should Consider Legal Risks....................................................................238
II. Legal Issues to Consider in "Going Paperless"...............................................................242
III. Reducing The Legal Risks in "Going Paperless"............................................................255
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................266
Notes..............................................................................................................................267
Chapter 15: Encryption.................................................................................................................273
Department of Justice FAQ on Encryption Policy (April 24, 1998)......................................273
Interagency and State and Federal Law Enforcement Cooperation....................................273
Law Enforcement's Concerns Related to Encryption...........................................................273
Privacy in a Digital Age: Encryption and Mandatory Access...............................................274
Modification of H.R. 695.......................................................................................................280
Security and Freedom Through Encryption Act...................................................................281
OECD Guidelines for Cryptography Policy..........................................................................285
Recommended Reading................................................................................................285
Chapter 16: Intellectual Property.................................................................................................286
Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Guidance............................................................286
Deciding Whether to Prosecute an Intellectual Property Case............................................286
Government Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials...........................................................286
Federal Statutes Protecting Intellectual Property Rights.....................................................286
IP Sentencing Guidelines.....................................................................................................289
Intellectual Property Policy and Programs...........................................................................292
Copyrights, Trademarks and Trade Secrets........................................................................294
Section III: Forensics Tools..........................................................................................................296
Chapter List..........................................................................................................................296
......................................................................................................................................296
Chapter 17: Forensic and Security Assessment Tools..............................................................297
Detection, Protection, and Analysis.....................................................................................297
Detection and Prevention Tools for the PC Desktop...........................................................297
Analysis Tools......................................................................................................................299
Applications..........................................................................................................................301
Additional Free Forensics Software Tools...........................................................................307
Chapter 18: How to Report Internet−Related Crime...................................................................308
Overview..............................................................................................................................308
The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)......................................................................309
Chapter 19: Internet Security: An Auditor's Basic Checklist....................................................310
Firewalls...............................................................................................................................310
Supported Protocols............................................................................................................311
Anti−Virus Updates..............................................................................................................311
Software Management Systems..........................................................................................312
Backup Processes and Procedures.....................................................................................312
Intra−Network Security........................................................................................................312
Section IV: Appendices.................................................................................................................314
Appendix List.......................................................................................................................314
......................................................................................................................................314
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms...........................................................................................314
A−C................................................................................................................................314
D..........................................................................................................................................317
E−G......................................................................................................................................319
H−I.......................................................................................................................................322
K−Q......................................................................................................................................323
R−S......................................................................................................................................324
T−W.....................................................................................................................................326
Appendix B: Recommended Reading List..................................................................................329
Books...................................................................................................................................329
Articles.................................................................................................................................332
Web Sites.............................................................................................................................333
List of Exhibits...............................................................................................................................337
Chapter 2: How to Begin a Non−Liturgical Forensic Examination.......................................337
Chapter 3: The Liturgical Forensic Examination: Tracing Activity on a Windows−Based
Desktop...............................................................................................................................337
Chapter 4: Basics of Internet Abuse: What is Possible and Where to Look Under the
Hood...................................................................................................................................337
Chapter 5: Tools of the Trade: Automated Tools Used to Secure a System Throughout
the Stages of a Forensic Investigation................................................................................338
Chapter 6: Network Intrusion Management and Profiling....................................................338
Chapter 8: Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence.............338
List of Exhibits
Chapter 9: Computer Crime Policy and Programs...............................................................338
Chapter 11: Privacy Issues in the High−Tech Context........................................................338
Chapter 12: Critical Infrastructure Protection.......................................................................339
Chapter 13: Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues.................................................................339
Chapter 14: Legal Considerations in Designing and Implementing Electronic
Processes: A Guide for Federal Agencies..........................................................................339
Chapter 18: How to Report Internet−Related Crime............................................................339

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C-sharp 2.0 The Complete Reference, Second Edition

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C# 2.0: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
byHerbert Schildt
McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2006 (912 pages)
ISBN:0072262095
With carefully crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples, this book offers in-depth coverage of all aspects of C#, including its keywords, syntax, and core libraries.

Table of Contents
C# 2.0—The Complete Reference, Second Edition
Preface
Part I - The C# Language
Chapter 1 - The Creation of C#
Chapter 2 - An Overview of C#
Chapter 3 - Data Types, Literals, and Variables
Chapter 4 - Operators
Chapter 5 - Program Control Statements
Chapter 6 - Introducing Classes and Objects
Chapter 7 - Arrays and Strings
Chapter 8 - A Closer Look at Methods and Classes
Chapter 9 - Operator Overloading
Chapter 10 - Indexers and Properties
Chapter 11 - Inheritance
Chapter 12 - Interfaces, Structures, and Enumerations
Chapter 13 - Exception Handling
Chapter 14 - Using I/O
Chapter 15 - Delegates and Events
Chapter 16 - Namespaces, the Preprocessor, and Assemblies
Chapter 17 - Runtime Type ID, Reflection, and Attributes
Chapter 18 - Generics
Chapter 19 - Unsafe Code, Pointers, Nullable Types, and Miscellaneous Topics
Part II - Exploring the C# Library
Chapter 20 - Exploring the System Namespace
Chapter 21 - Strings and Formatting
Chapter 22 - Multithreaded Programming
Chapter 23 - Collections, Enumerators, and Iterators
Chapter 24 - Networking Through the Internet
Part III - Applying C#
Chapter 25 - Building Components
Chapter 26 - Creating Form-Based Windows Applications
Chapter 27 - A Recursive-Descent Expression Parser
Appendix A - XML Comment Quick Reference
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables

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Crystal Reports 10 - The Complete Reference

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Table of Contents
Foreword 0
Part I BackCover 1
Part II Crystal Reports 10 - The Complete
Reference 1
Part III Introduction 3
................................................................................................................................... 5 1 What's New in Crystal Reports 10
Part IV Part I: Designing Reports 6
................................................................................................................................... 7 1 Chapter 1: Getting the Feel of Crystal Reports 10
......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Introducing Crystal Reports 10
......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Using the Report Wizards
......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Using the Blank Report Option
......................................................................................................................................................... 30 The Report Explorer
................................................................................................................................... 31 2 Chapter 2: Enhancing Appearance with Text Objects
......................................................................................................................................................... 33 The Field Heading Text Object
......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Combining Database Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 36 Combining Special Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 38 Formatting Individual Parts of Text Objects
......................................................................................................................................................... 39 Imprting Text from a File
................................................................................................................................... 40 3 Chapter 3: Sorting and Grouping
......................................................................................................................................................... 41 Grouping Records
................................................................................................................................... 69 4 Chapter 4: Creating Geographic Maps
......................................................................................................................................................... 72 Adding a Map
......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Drilling Down on Maps
......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Changing the Map View
................................................................................................................................... 83 5 Chapter 5: Using Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 84 The Formula Workshop
......................................................................................................................................................... 89 The Formula Expert
......................................................................................................................................................... 91 The Formula Editor
......................................................................................................................................................... 106 Number Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 109 String Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 116 Date/Time Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 119 If-Then-Else Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 126 Other Crystal Reports Logic Constructs
......................................................................................................................................................... 130 Boolean Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 133 Variables in Formulas and Evaluation Times
......................................................................................................................................................... 145 User Function Libraries
......................................................................................................................................................... 147 Running Total Fields
................................................................................................................................... 150 6 Chapter 6: Creating Custom Functions
......................................................................................................................................................... 151 Custom Functions Defined
......................................................................................................................................................... 152 Creating Your Own Custom Functions
......................................................................................................................................................... 162 Sharing Custom Functions with Other Users
......................................................................................................................................................... 163 Using Custom Functions in Your Formulas ................................................................................................................................... 164 7 Chapter 7: The Repository
......................................................................................................................................................... 165 The Repository Defined
......................................................................................................................................................... 168 Adding To/Updating the Repository
......................................................................................................................................................... 174 Adding Repository Items to Reports
......................................................................................................................................................... 176 Changing Repository Items on Your Report
......................................................................................................................................................... 179 Controlling Repository Rights
......................................................................................................................................................... 183 Migrating a Version 9 Repository to Version 10
................................................................................................................................... 186 8 Chapter 8: Analyzing with Advanced Selection Criteria
......................................................................................................................................................... 186 The Select Expert
......................................................................................................................................................... 193 Manipulating the Record Selection Formula Directly
......................................................................................................................................................... 196 Limiting Data with a Group Selection Formula
......................................................................................................................................................... 197 Performance Considerations with Record Selection
................................................................................................................................... 199 9 Chapter 9: Making Your Reports Visually Appealing
......................................................................................................................................................... 204 The Highlighting Expert
......................................................................................................................................................... 206 Conditional Formatting Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 211 Special Fonts, Graphics, and Line Drawing
......................................................................................................................................................... 216 Text and Paragraph Formatting
......................................................................................................................................................... 219 The Crystal Reports 10 Format Painter
......................................................................................................................................................... 220 Report Alerts
......................................................................................................................................................... 224 Crystal Reports Templates
................................................................................................................................... 229 10 Chapter 10: Using Sections and Areas
......................................................................................................................................................... 238 Creating Summary and Drill-Down Reports
......................................................................................................................................................... 245 Multiple-Column Reports for Labels and Listings
......................................................................................................................................................... 247 Using Multiple Sections
......................................................................................................................................................... 251 Conditionally Suppressing Sections
......................................................................................................................................................... 253 Underlaying Sections
................................................................................................................................... 255 11 Chapter 11: Analyzing with Cross-Tabs
......................................................................................................................................................... 256 Creating a Cross-Tab Object
......................................................................................................................................................... 264 Multiple Rows, Columns, and Summarized Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 268 Customizing Cross-Tab Appearance
................................................................................................................................... 280 12 Chapter 12: Creating Charts
......................................................................................................................................................... 280 Types and Layouts of Charts
......................................................................................................................................................... 285 Creating Charts with the Chart Expert
......................................................................................................................................................... 304 Drilling Down on Charts
......................................................................................................................................................... 305 Finer Points of Chart Formatting
................................................................................................................................... 313 13 Chapter 13: Using Subreports
......................................................................................................................................................... 315 Unlinked Subreports
......................................................................................................................................................... 320 Linked Subreports
......................................................................................................................................................... 323 Subreport Formatting with the Format Editor
......................................................................................................................................................... 326 On-Demand Versus In-Place Subreports
......................................................................................................................................................... 328 Passing Data Between Main Reports and Subreports
......................................................................................................................................................... 332 Performance Considerations
................................................................................................................................... 333 14 Chapter 14: Viewer Interaction with Parameter Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 334 Creating a Parameter Field
......................................................................................................................................................... 345 Using Parameter Fields in Record Selection
......................................................................................................................................................... 346 Displaying Parameter Fields on the Report
......................................................................................................................................................... 347 Special Parameter Field Features
......................................................................................................................................................... 354 Conditional Formatting with Parameter Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 356 Using Parameter Fields with Formulas
................................................................................................................................... 361 15 Chapter 15: Exporting Reports
......................................................................................................................................................... 362 Exporting Reports to Office Applications
......................................................................................................................................................... 371 Sending Reports Electronically
................................................................................................................................... 372 16 Chapter 16: Reporting from SQL Databases
......................................................................................................................................................... 374 Logging On to SQL Databases
......................................................................................................................................................... 384 Linking Tables
......................................................................................................................................................... 398 Viewing the SQL Query
......................................................................................................................................................... 400 Crystal Reports SQL Commands
......................................................................................................................................................... 407 Using SQL Stored Procedures
......................................................................................................................................................... 410 Using SQL Expression Fields
......................................................................................................................................................... 414 Grouping on the Database Server
......................................................................................................................................................... 418 Performance Considerations
................................................................................................................................... 420 17 Chapter 17: Creating and Using Business Views
......................................................................................................................................................... 421 Business Views Overview
......................................................................................................................................................... 423 Creating Business Views
......................................................................................................................................................... 489 Using Business Views with Crystal Reports
................................................................................................................................... 494 18 Chapter 18: Accommodating Database Changes and Field Mapping
......................................................................................................................................................... 495 Recognizing Database Changes
......................................................................................................................................................... 500 Mapping Old Fields to New Names
................................................................................................................................... 502 19 Chapter 19: Reporting from OLAP Cubes
......................................................................................................................................................... 505 Crystal Reports OLAP Capabilities
......................................................................................................................................................... 506 Using the OLAP Report Creation Wizard
......................................................................................................................................................... 514 Adding an OLAP Grid to an Existing Report
......................................................................................................................................................... 518 Changing the OLAP Database Location
......................................................................................................................................................... 518 Controlling OLAP Grid Appearance
......................................................................................................................................................... 520 Interacting with the OLAP Grid
................................................................................................................................... 524 20 Chapter 20: Reporting from Proprietary Data Types
......................................................................................................................................................... 526 Reporting from Microsoft Outlook
......................................................................................................................................................... 529 Reporting from the File System Data
......................................................................................................................................................... 531 Reporting from the Windows 2000/XP Event Log
......................................................................................................................................................... 534 Reporting from Web Server Logs
......................................................................................................................................................... 537 Crystal Reporting with XML
......................................................................................................................................................... 540 Crystal Reports Custom Data Sources
Part V Part II: Crystal Reports 10 on the
Web 543
................................................................................................................................... 543 1 Chapter 21: Crystal Reports Web Alternatives
......................................................................................................................................................... 545 Crystal Reports Web Alternatives Compared
......................................................................................................................................................... 547 Exporting to Static HTML
......................................................................................................................................................... 554 Navigating and Viewing Report Parts
................................................................................................................................... 562 2 Chapter 22: Crystal Reports with ASP and ASP.NET
......................................................................................................................................................... 563 The Report Designer Component and Active Server Pages
......................................................................................................................................................... 568 RDC Report Viewers
......................................................................................................................................................... 573 Web Integration with CE Embedded Edition
......................................................................................................................................................... 592 Web Integration with Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET
................................................................................................................................... 626 3 Chapter 23: Crystal Reports with Java
......................................................................................................................................................... 626 Pieces to the Puzzle
......................................................................................................................................................... 627 Things You Can Do with the Java Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 628 Let's Get Started
......................................................................................................................................................... 629 The Java Viewer JSP Application
......................................................................................................................................................... 631 Exporting Reports
......................................................................................................................................................... 634 Report Part Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 638 Interactive Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 640 Grid Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 642 Common Viewer Properties
......................................................................................................................................................... 645 Crystal Enterprise Report Source
......................................................................................................................................................... 647 Report Application Server (RAS) Report Source
......................................................................................................................................................... 649 Best Practices
................................................................................................................................... 650 4 Chapter 24: Introduction to Crystal Enterprise
......................................................................................................................................................... 658 Crystal Enterprise Architecture
................................................................................................................................... 664 5 Chapter 25: Using the Crystal Launchpad and Web Desktop
......................................................................................................................................................... 665 Navigating the Crystal Enterprise Launchpad
......................................................................................................................................................... 666 Connecting to the Web Desktop
......................................................................................................................................................... 670 Folders, Objects, and Instances
......................................................................................................................................................... 679 Controlling, Printing, and Exporting Reports
......................................................................................................................................................... 688 Scheduling Objects
......................................................................................................................................................... 698 Organizing the Web Desktop
................................................................................................................................... 702 6 Chapter 26: Administering Crystal Enterprise
......................................................................................................................................................... 703 Crystal Enterprise Architecture
......................................................................................................................................................... 711 Managing Users and Groups
......................................................................................................................................................... 721 Integrating CE with Existing Security Environments
......................................................................................................................................................... 726 Controlling Access Using Rights
......................................................................................................................................................... 731 Creating Folders and Adding Objects
......................................................................................................................................................... 745 Defining Output Destinations
......................................................................................................................................................... 747 Creating Calendars
......................................................................................................................................................... 749 Using Events
......................................................................................................................................................... 754 Enabling Auditing
......................................................................................................................................................... 757 Configuring Success/Failure/Alert Notification
......................................................................................................................................................... 761 Other General Administrative Tasks
......................................................................................................................................................... 768 Managing Servers
Part VI Part III: Developing Custom
Window Applications 781
................................................................................................................................... 781 1 Chapter 27: Integrating Crystal Reports with Visual Basic
......................................................................................................................................................... 783 Development-Language Options
......................................................................................................................................................... 784 Different VB Reporting Options
......................................................................................................................................................... 785 The Report Designer Component
......................................................................................................................................................... 786 RDC Object Model Architecture
......................................................................................................................................................... 792 Adding the RDC to Your Project
......................................................................................................................................................... 800 The RDC Object Model
......................................................................................................................................................... 803 An Introduction to the RDC Object Model
......................................................................................................................................................... 806 Providing Database Login Credentials
......................................................................................................................................................... 807 Controlling Record Selection
......................................................................................................................................................... 809 Setting Formulas
......................................................................................................................................................... 811 Changing Text Objects at Run Time
......................................................................................................................................................... 812 Passing Parameter-Field Values
......................................................................................................................................................... 814 Manipulating Report Groups
......................................................................................................................................................... 816 Conditional Formatting and Formatting Sections
......................................................................................................................................................... 821 Choosing Output Destinations
......................................................................................................................................................... 823 Changing the Data Source at Run Time
......................................................................................................................................................... 826 Customizing the Report Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 831 Error Handling
......................................................................................................................................................... 832 Other RDC Properties and Methods
......................................................................................................................................................... 836 Creating New Reports at Run Time
......................................................................................................................................................... 847 Distributing RDC Applications
................................................................................................................................... 852 2 Chapter 28: Crystal Reports with Visual Studio .NET
......................................................................................................................................................... 852 Crystal/VS.NET Bundle Options
......................................................................................................................................................... 855 Windows Forms Viewer
......................................................................................................................................................... 859 Integrated Report Designer
......................................................................................................................................................... 869 VS.NET Report Customization Object Models
......................................................................................................................................................... 880 Using Crystal Reports Web Services
Part VII Index 884
................................................................................................................................... 885 1 Index_B
................................................................................................................................... 886 2 Index_C
................................................................................................................................... 889 3 Index_D
................................................................................................................................... 890 4 Index_E
................................................................................................................................... 891 5 Index_F
................................................................................................................................... 893 6 Index_G
................................................................................................................................... 893 7 Index_H
................................................................................................................................... 894 8 Index_I
................................................................................................................................... 894 9 Index_J
................................................................................................................................... 895 10 Index_L
................................................................................................................................... 896 11 Index_M
................................................................................................................................... 896 12 Index_N
................................................................................................................................... 897 13 Index_O
................................................................................................................................... 898 14 Index_P
................................................................................................................................... 899 15 Index_R
................................................................................................................................... 901 16 Index_S
................................................................................................................................... 904 17 Index_T
................................................................................................................................... 904 18 Index_U
................................................................................................................................... 905 19 Index_V
................................................................................................................................... 906 20 Index_W
................................................................................................................................... 907 21 Index_X
Part VIII List of Figures 907
Part IX List of Tables 915
Part X List of Sidebars 916
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Create Your First Website By 3.45 This Afternoon

2012-01-16T20:32:00.000-08:00

Create Your First Website By 3.45 This Afternoon, has launched the author into the Internet marketing spotlight, and is now helping many others to build a successful web business and making money online.

Chris says, “This 120+ page eBook has been the one defining element of my online success”.

“I clearly remember when I began how difficult it was to get a ’straight answer’ from anyone regarding how to create a website,” says Farrell. “Most people tried to sell me expensive and unnecessary products, which incidentally were over complicated or full of fluff.”

Create Your First Website By 3.45 This Afternoon will allow anyone to create their own website within hours. It is a step-by-step guide that covers the whole process with nothing left to chance. It is presented in Chris’s unique, and easy to understand style. The eBook covers everything from purchasing a domain name and setting up a hosting account, through to building and uploading your page to your server.

Chris Farrell is a 40-year-old Londoner, now living in Beverly Hills. He was totally new to Internet marketing in February 2008. Within six months he was having his first $250 days and within nine months had his first $1000 day.

The eBook, Create Your First Website By 3.45 This Afternoon was responsible for building his list of subscribers from zero to 15,000 with 12 months. He now teaches others through his membership site, how to use the same eBook to build their subscriber list. The eBook has been downloaded more than 33,000 times.

Chris takes a simple approach to making money online. He leaves all the hype and broken promises to other marketers.

“Making money online is a skill. Just like plumbing or carpentry. But like any skill – it can be learned.” Says Chris.

Chris Farrell has built up an amazing membership site, and a huge band of loyal followers because of his laid back approach and his honesty and integrity.

Through his membership site, Chris provides a complete training system, designed mainly for newcomers to Internet marketing. Members of his site are provided all the training and resources to build a profitable web based business. They have access to all the products that he uses himself.

One of those products is Create Your First Website By 3.45 This Afternoon – The Videos. This is a series of 43 videos that follow the eBook of the same name. Chris’s easy to follow teaching style makes creating your first website an absolute breeze.

Chris Farrell is a great person to learn from if you are serious about building a web business. His membership site provides all the training and resources required to build a successful internet business.

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Jadi Penulis TOP BGT

2012-01-16T18:09:00.000-08:00

Ups, mau bukti? Baca aja dulu! Eheheh. Aku aja baca kok. Yah, meskipun belom selese sih . Eh, tapi bener lho, buku itu bener-bener ‘buku penuntun’ yang pas buat kalian yang pengen banget nulis novel. Gak akan ada masalah tentang penciptaan karakter yang nantinya mau kamu masukin di novel kamu. Ulasannya lengkap banget! Dari bikin outline, gimana mengolah ide, memahami karakter yang dibuat, memutuskan penggunaan POV, dan sebagainya dan sebagainya. Khawatir takut gak sanggup baca? Tenaaaaang, bahasanya gampang dimengerti kok! Bakal ada contohnya jugak kalo nanti ada yang kurang dipahami. Jadi, penggarapan novelmu jadi lebih gampang deh!
Ehehe, garis besarnya, ini novel mau mengajak kita biar bisa nulis novel selama 60 hari. Dua bulan? Nulis novel dalam dua bulan? Iya! Kenapa enggak? Fahri Asiza aja bia kok nulis novel kurang dari dua bulan, kenapa kita enggak?
Oh ya, aku sih niatan awal nggak mau bikin review buku… cuma pengen sharing aja ke blogger laen, “Ini lho, ada buku bagus.”
Gitu aja.
Aku mutusin buat mbaca itu udah lama sih, sebenernya. Cuma yaaaa, kok ya baru sekarang sempetnya. Mau ga dibaca, sayang juga sih. Bagus-bagus gitu. Kasian juga yang bikin kalo gada yang mbaca bukunya #eh. Hoho.

"Untuk calon penulis novel yang menjejakan penanya di manapun, percayalah bahwa setiap goresan pena yang kita torehkan sangat bernilai dan memiliki makna terdalam di jenak kehidupan kita, maka menulislah."

Sebuah paragraf singkat yang memberi sengat dan harapan bagi setiap yang membacanya. Arul Khan, pengarang buku ini mampu memberi semangat kepada setiap orang yang membaca karangannya ini. Kesadaran bahwa setiap dari kita punya "power of writing", setiap dari kita mampu menghasilkan sebuah tulisan yang sempurna dari ide kita yang sederhana namun brilian.

Dengan sistemasi 2 bulan atau 60 hari, Arul khan, mampu menyihir setiap pembaca menuju keyakinan yang pasti akan kemampuan diri dalam talenta menulis. Tidak akan kita temui bab dalam buku ini yang akan kita lihat hanya pembagian langkah penting dalam hitungan hari yang semuanya total 60 langkah atau 60 hari.

Dimulai dari hal sepele namun merupakan penentu kita dalam penulis bahkan mungkin dalam apapun yang kita inginkan yaitu niat! Kita akan diajak terus menanjak, berlari menuju imaginasi tertinggi yang mungkin belum kita sadari menuju puncak kreativitas menulis dengan hati. Dengan komitmen pada hari pertama, jadwal management di hari kedua, mulai menulis di hari ketiga dan ide, sudut pandang, karakter, plot dan seterusnya merupakan langkah penting di hari berikutnya.

Di setiap langkah kita akan disuguhi motivasi dan hipnotis yang menyenangkan akan kemudahan dalam menjalankan tugas mulia ini, MENULIS! Arul khan menyadarkan kita bahwa menulis itu bukanlah suatu hal keramat yang hanya bisa dilakukan oleh mereka yang punya bakat, mereka yang punya darah penulis, namun, menulis merupakan panggilan jiwa secara alami yang menunggu kita untuk menjemput panggilan itu. Semuanya begitu mudah tanpa kita sadari semuanya begitu indah dalam alunan kenikmatan imagina si diri yang tida henti. Karena menulis adalah cermin dari diri.

Dengan bahasa yang saya yakin setiap orang bisa memahaminya Arul khan mampu mengalirkan keyakinannya, ide, dan motivasinya kepada setiap insan yang bernafas agar mampu menyadari "the realy easy to write". Dimulai dari hal sepele, Arul memberikan rambunya bagaimana agar kita mudah dalam menumbuhkan komitmen, menemukan ide, mengembangkan ide tersebut, serta bagaimana memanage semua ide yang sudah kita temui. Semuanya begitu gamblang tanpa beban, semuanya begitu mudah layaknya tanpa rintangan.

Setelah kita yakin terhadap kemampuan diri sendiri, Arul mengakhiri penuntunnya dengan motivasi penutup bagaimana kita mengembangkan novel menjadi hal terbaik. Bagaimana kita menghadapi fase terpenting novel yaitu masa di mana kita dihadapkan kepada tantangan "mengedit". Semuanya begitu mudah dalam proses pengendapan ini kita disuguhi tip n trik memanage waktu lenggang kita sebagai fase refrehsing n proses awal pengeditan yang baik. Semuanya begitu simple namun sangat mengena.

Bagi para penulis pemula buku ini rasanya wajib untuk diikutkan dalam koleksi bukunya

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Getting Unstuck

2012-01-15T20:06:00.000-08:00

Penulis : Dr. Timothy Butler
Terbit : Desember 2007
Bahasa : Indonesia
Sinopsis : Adakalanya kemandekan hadir dalam pekerjaan atau kehidupan kita. Dalam kemandekan, kita merasa patah semangat, kehilangan arah, tak puas dengan keadaan namun tak tahu harus berbuat apa. Namun, siapa sangka bahwa kemandekan ternyata ada gunanya? Kemandekan akan memaksa Anda untuk menyadari bahwa perubahan harus terjadi—dalam pekerjaan, dalam kehidupan, dalam visi Anda. Dan ternyata saat kita mengalami kemandekan merupakan kesempatan terbaik untuk memulai perubahan yang akan menjadikan hidup Anda makin bermakna.

Dr. Timothy Butler, ahli psikologi dan pembimbing karier berpengalaman dari Harvard Business School, berbagi pengetahuan dan pengalaman dalam membimbing orang-orang melalui kemandekan dan menjadikannya batu loncatan menuju kehidupan baru yang lebih memuaskan. Metode-metode Dr. Butler, yang didasarkan pada pengalaman karier dan riset beliau selama 20 tahun, dapat membuat Anda lebih mengenal diri Anda, apa yang paling bermakna bagi Anda, dan apa yang bisa Anda lakukan untuk mencapainya.

Kita semua pasti pernah mengalami yang namanya kebuntuan secara psikologis atau kemandekan. Kemandekan sendiri biasanya diawali oleh peristiwa yang sebenarnya dapat diduga: saat harus kehilangan pekerjaan, saat kita putus cinta, saat kehilangan sosok yang biasanya menyemangati dan menyayangi Anda untuk selamanya.

Kemandekan kadang datang pada situasi yang tidak kita duga; ketika karier kehilangan tantangannya, ketika Anda merindukan suasana intim tetapi belum menemukan pasangan jiwa yang cocok atau ketika Anda ingin menjalani hidup yang lebih bermakna lagi. Seperti yang telah diperkirakan (atau tidak), kemandekan mendatangkan rasa “lumpuh” seakan Anda tidak dapat melakukan apa-apa. Di kantor, Anda sering merasa stagnan dan kurang mendapat tantangan. Kehidupan pribadi Anda pun diisi perasaan yang tidak tenang, penurunan kualitas dalam berpikir dan bosan berkepanjangan. Saat mengalami kemandekan inilah Anda dipaksa menyadari bahwa perubahan harus dilakukan—dalam pekerjaan, keluarga, dan visi hidup—jika ingin hidup memiliki makna yang lebih.

Dalam Getting Unstuck, ahli psikologi, Timothy Butler membagi pengalaman dan hasil penelitiannya selama 20 tahun. Dalam buku ini Anda akan dapat:

· Belajar bagaimana mengenali kebuntuan secara psikologis dan menggunakannya sebagai batu loncatan untuk menjadi pribadi yang lebih baik.

· Berpartisipasi dalam latihan yang dapat membuat Anda lebih mengenal diri Anda.

· Mengetahui bagaimana cara melakukan aktivitas, memberikan penghargaan, mengenal berbagai tipe manusia, budaya kerja dan komunitas yang akan memuaskan keingintahuan Anda.

· Melihat bagaimana caranya Anda membuat keputusan yang tepat yang dapat mengubah visi baru Anda menjadi kenyataan.

Getting Unstuck Adalah sebuah kisah individu yang berhasil keluar dari kemandekan dan menemukan kembali arti hidup.

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Eneagram of Love and Relationship

2012-01-15T06:30:00.000-08:00

Buku ini akan menjelaskan kepada anda sembilan tipe manusia dalam bentuk Eneagram, yang masing – masing memiliki sudut yang berbeda antara satu dengan yang lainnya. Ke sembilan tipe yang memiliki motivasi yang berbeda ini adalah ibarat sembilan buah planet yang berbeda. Semuanya memiliki kecenderungan alasan melakukan sesuatu yang sama sekali berlainan, bahkan mungkin bertentangan. Eneagram adalah berasal dari bahasa yunani yang berarti sebuah gambar berbentuk segi sembilan. Pada tahun 1960-an simbol ini dipakai psikiater dari Bolivia yang bernama Oscar Ichazo dan psikiater asal Chili bernama Claudio Naranjo untuk digunakan dalam studi tipe kepribadian manusia. Pada dasarnya, jenis tipe seseorang juga ditentukan dari bentuk fisik diri mereka sendiri, seperti misalnya tipe pusat, tipe jantung, tipe kepala atau tipe pemikiran, tipe pusat perut dan lainnya.
Adapun ke sembilan tipe tersebut adalah :
1. Perfeksionis
tipe ini dimotivasi kebutuhan meningkatkan kualitas diri dan hidup dengan cara yang benar.
2. Penolong
Tipe ini dimotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk dicintai dan dihargai serta mengekspresikan perasaan positif terhadap orang lain.
3. Pengejar prestasi
Tipe ini dimotivasi untuk menjadi orang yang dihormati, sukses, produktif, dan efisien.
4. Romantis
Tipe ini adalah yang memiliki kepribadian yang imajinatif dan artistik.
5. Pengamat
Kebutuhan untuk mengetahui dan memahami, bergantung pada diri sendiri, serta menjauhi perasaan dikendalikan atau dijajah.
6. Pencemas
tipe ini dimotivasi oleh Kebutuhan untuk merasa aman.
7. Petualang
tipe ini dimotivasi oleh Kebutuhan untuk berbahagia, berkontribusi pada dunia, serta terhindar dari rasa sakit dan penderitaan.
8. Pejuang
Kebutuhan untuk bergantung pada diri sendiri, kuat dan berdampak pada dunia.
9. Pendamai
Kebutuhan untuk hidup harmonis, menyatu dengan orang lain, dan menghindari konflik.
semua sembilan tipe tersebut dijabarkan secara mendetail. Bagaimana ciri – ciri umum mereka, bagaimana mereka menghadapi setiap masalah yang timbul serta bagaimana mereka berpikir dan bergaul dengan tipe – tipe yang lain. Selain dari itu, buku ini diengkapi bagaimana cara – cara berhadapan dengan masing – masing tipe, yang ternyata setiap tipe juga memiliki subtipe.

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Eneagram - Mengenal 9 Tipe Kepribadian Manusia

2012-01-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

Judul : Eneagram
* Jenis : Psikologi Kepribadian Populer
* Pengarang : Renee Baron dan Elizabeth Wagele
* Penerbit : PT Serambi Ilmu Semesta
* Tahun Terbit : Desember 2005
* Halaman : 180

Kepribadian manusia selalu menjadi tema yang menarik untuk dicari tahu, apalagi kepribadian kita sendiri. Rasa ingin tahu tersebutlah yang lantas membuat banyak orang pergi ke psikolog untuk menjalani tes-tes kepribadian. Semua ini dilakukan demi mengetahui “seperti apa sesungguhnya diri kita ini?”
Enneagram
Selain dengan mengikuti tes-tes psikologi, ada satu metode yang bisa digunakan untuk mengetahui kepribadian yaitu menggunakan enneagram. Enneagram diartikan sebagai “sebuah gambar bertitik sembilan”. Metode ini dikabarkan telah ada sejak ratusan tahun yang lalu dan diajarkan secara lisan dalam suatu kelompok sufi di Timur Tengah, hingga akhirnya mulai berkembang di Amerika Serikat sekitar tahun 1960-an. Kepribadian manusia dalam sistem enneagram, terbagi menjadi 9 tipe. Renee Baron dan Elizabeth Wagele, lewat buku yang berjudul enneagram, berusaha untuk menjelaskan kesembilan tipe tersebut agar lebih mudah dimengerti.
Sembilan Tipe Kepribadian Manusia
Kesembilan tipe kepribadian tersebut adalah :
Tipe 1 perfeksionis
Orang dengan tipe ini termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk hidup dengan benar, memperbaiki diri sendiri dan orang lain dan menghindari marah.
Tipe 2 penolong
Tipe kedua dimotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk dicintai dan dihargai, mengekspresikan perasaan positif pada orang lain, dan menghindari kesan membutuhkan.
Tipe 3 pengejar prestasi
Para pengejar prestasi termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk menjadi orang yang produktif, meraih kesuksesan, dan terhindar dari kegagalan.
Tipe 4 romantis
Orang tipe romantis termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk memahami perasaan diri sendiri serta dipahami orang lain, menemukan makna hidup, dan menghindari citra diri yang biasa-biasa saja.
Tipe 5 pengamat
Orang tipe ini termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk mengetahui segala sesuatu dan alam semesta, merasa cukup dengan diri sendiri dan menjaga jarak, serta menghindari kesan bodoh atau tidak memiliki jawaban.
Tipe 6 pencemas
Orang tipe 6 termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk mendapatkan persetujuan, merasa diperhatikan, dan terhindar dari kesan pemberontak.
Tipe 7 petualang
Tipe 7 termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk merasa bahagia serta merencanakan hal-hal menyenangkan, memberi sumbangsih pada dunia, dan terhindar dari derita dan dukacita.
Tipe 8 pejuang
Tipe pejuang termotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk dapat mengandalkan diri sendiri, kuat, memberi pengaruh pada dunia, dan terhindar dari kesan lemah.
Tipe 9 pendamai
Para pendamai dimotivasi oleh kebutuhan untuk menjaga kedamaian, menyatu dengan orang lain dan menghindari konflik.

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Change Your Mindset Change Your Life

2012-01-14T17:07:00.000-08:00

Bagi Anda penikmat buku motivasi, teramat sayang bila Anda tak melahap isi buku ini. Bagi Anda para pemimpin, eksekutif, guru, orangtua, trainer, atau pelatih olahraga, buku ini sangatlah membantu dalam mengubah para pembelajar “bermasalah” menjadi insan-insan sukses dan bahagia. Sebagai pribadi pun, Anda tak bakal kecewa dengan buku hasil penelitian 20 tahun lebih dari ahli kenamaan di bidang motivasi dan psikologi kepribadian ini. Banyak inspirasi yang niscaya membuat Anda senantiasa optimis, gembira, dan terampil membangkitkan kemampuan-kemampuan dahsyat dalam diri Anda

Kesuksesan tak hanya buah dari potensi (bakat, kecerdasan) dan usaha. Cara kita memandang diri, dunia, dan kesuksesan juga turut menentukannya. Karena itu, kunci sukses dalam segala pentas kehidupan sesungguhnya adalah pola pikir sehat. Orang berpola pikir sehat tidak menyalahkan keadaan dirinya. Alih-alih mengandalkan bakat dan kecerdasan, dia lebih menekankan proses belajar dan peran ikhtiar. Baginya, kesuksesan atau kegagalan di masa kini bukanlah cerminan dari masa datang.

Paparan tentang kesuksesan dalam buku ini sangat mendasar dan langka. Lazimnya, buku-buku tentang kesuksesan lebih menawarkan sisi-sisi praktis. Tetapi, buku ini justru mengajak Anda menggarap inti masalah kesuksesan: pikiran. Tak hanya itu, buku ini mengontraskan dengan apik tokoh-tokoh dunia—di bidang musik, sastra, sains, olahraga, dan bisnis—yang berpola pikir tetap (fixed mindset) dan berpola pikir berkembang (growth mindset). Ternyata, tokoh yang berpola pikir tetap lebih mampu mempertahankan kesuksesan dan kegembiraan hidup.

Bagi Anda penikmat buku motivasi, teramat sayang bila Anda tak melahap isi buku ini. Bagi Anda para pemimpin, eksekutif, guru, orangtua, trainer, atau pelatih olahraga, buku ini sangatlah membantu dalam mengubah para pembelajar “bermasalah” menjadi insan-insan sukses dan bahagia. Sebagai pribadi pun, Anda tak bakal kecewa dengan buku hasil penelitian 20 tahun lebih dari ahli kenamaan di bidang motivasi dan psikologi kepribadian ini. Banyak inspirasi yang niscaya membuat Anda senantiasa optimis, gembira, dan terampil membangkitkan kemampuan-kemampuan dahsyat dalam diri Anda.

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Dude, Where's My Country? Michael Moore

2012-01-14T07:43:00.000-08:00

The shocking, rollicking, administration-ending new book By the year's #1 selling author Michael Moore

When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring-and then silencing-the nation's widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed the commander in chief for his fictitious presidency and his fictitious war. Now, just a few months later, those words have remarkably become the accepted truth of the land.

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Portfolio Management in Practice

2012-01-13T18:04:00.000-08:00

Christine Brentani
Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803

Contents
Preface ix
Introduction xi
1 Managing portfolios 1
2 Portfolio theory 15
3 Measuring returns 33
4 Indices 55
5 Bond portfolio management 68
6 Portfolio construction 84
7 Types of analysis 104
8 Valuation methodologies – shares 128
9 Financial statement analysis and financial ratios 149
10 Types of funds explained 164
Answers to quizzes 181
Glossary 196
Bibliography 208
Index 211

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