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Using Information Technology (Tenth Edition)
by Stacey Sawyer Brian WilliamsUSING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; A Practical Introduction to Computers & Communications 10/e "If there is anything we have learned during 18 years of writing and revising this computer concepts book, it is this: Not only does the landscape of computer education change rapidly, but so do the students. . . . This edition, then, is written for the Always On generation, helping students use technology to enrich their personal lives. " -Brian K. Williams & Stacey C. Sawyer
Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites
by Ron Severdia Kenneth CrowderWhy use Joomla? Because with Joomla you don't need to have any technical expertise or web design experience to create effective websites and web apps. Whether you're creating your first website or building a multi-function site for a client, this book provides straightforward, hands-on instruction that makes it easy to learn this open source web content management system.Written by members of the Joomla Leadership Team, Using Joomla helps newcomers quickly learn the basics, while developers with Joomla experience will pick up best practices for building more sophisticated websites. You'll also find more than a dozen ways to extend the functionality of existing Joomla-built websites. Start building with Joomla in minutes!Get guidelines for planning, creating, and organizing your contentUnderstand how to create and use Joomla templates to build websites quicklyExplore how components, modules, and plug-ins can extend your site's functionalityIncrease your site ranking by using Joomla best practicesUse built-in components such as banners, news feeds, polls, search, and web linksSet up an online store, calendar, photo gallery, discussion forum, and moreLearn important security precautions to safeguard your site
Using Joomla!: Efficiently Build and Manage Custom Websites
by Ron Severdia Jennifer GressIf you’re new to content management systems—or even new to building websites—this practical guide will get you up and running in no time. You don’t have to know much code, if any, to get started.Need to build a website quickly? Have a client that requires a powerful website with lots of compelling features? Ideal for web designers and developers alike, this updated edition takes you step-by-step through site creation with Joomla, with plenty of hands-on exercises along the way.Build a sample site throughout the book to see how Joomla! worksPlan and structure your site’s categories, articles, menus, and modulesLearn the ins and outs of creating, organizing, and displaying contentAdd images, audio, and video—and create complete image galleriesBuild a blog, set up an events calendar, and create custom user formsSell merchandise by putting together your own online storeEngage visitors by creating user profiles and hangoutsSecure your site and keep it optimizedMigrate to Joomla! 3 and update your third-party extensions
Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office
by Charles EdgeIf you’re considering a Mac OS X server for your small business, school, nonprofit, or home network, this easy-to-follow guide will help you get up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to share files, mail, and calendar information on your desktops, iPads, iPhones, and other devices, whether you’re new to Mac OS X servers or need to update your skills for the Lion edition.Discover how to configure your network to include multiple operating systems—including Mac, iOS, and Windows—and set up servers for wikis, websites, and podcasts with relative ease.Plan your installation to make sure you have the right server hardwareControl data access with permissions, and use Apple’s Time Machine to back up your networkShare contacts, schedules, and instant messaging with groupwareManage wikis, blogs, and websites with Lion’s web serviceBuild an email server and protect it against spam and malwareHandle preferences for the network’s Apple computers and iOS devicesDeploy new Apple computers to the network with disk imaging
Using Mac OS X Mavericks
by Kevin WilsonLearn to use your Mac the easy way: no jargon, just clear, concise and to the point. Using Mac OS Mavericks is your handy guide to using a computer running Mavericks, providing a quick resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast. Using Mac OS Mavericks is your handy guide to using a computer running Mavericks, providing a quick resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast. Step-by-step techniques supported by photography and screen prints, and easy to follow text, make using a Mac a cinch. Whether you have just bought your first Mac, switched from Windows, or are a keen computer user, this lean reference will provide you with the underpinnings needed to use a Mac like a pro. What you'll learn Valuable new features in Mavericks Setting up your Mac and using the interface, finders, dashboards and widgets Security and back-up considerations Setting up Wifi, Internet, and email, and using Mac App Store, iCloud and spotlight Creating stunning presentations and writing beautiful looking documents Organizing your favorite music into playlists, onto your iPod or burning a CD Creating, organizing, and storing photo albums and slideshows Editing your home movies with iMovie Who this book is for This book is for those who are new to Mac OS X Mavericks and even to those who may be new to Mac OS altogether. Table of Contents 1. Introducing Mavericks 2. The Cloud 3. Mac App Store 4. Time Machine 5. Security 6. Using the Internet 7. Apple E-Mail 8. Calendar 9. Using iTunes 10. iPhoto 11. Using iMovie 12. Pages '09 13. Keynote 14. Giving Presentations
Using Metering to Perform Energy Management: Performing Data Analytics via the Metering System (River Publishers Series in Energy Management)
by George “Buster” Barksdale Kecia PierceThis book covers many helpful analysis tools and processes to assist energy managers (EMs) administer their energy program through their meter management system (MMS). These tools and the corresponding techniques offer opportunities for the EM to optimize their time. If fully utilized, the MMS will allow an EM to reduce field time significantly, as they can perform most of the energy management pre-analysis, benchmarking, data analysis and, in many cases, complete the task of performing a virtual audit remotely from their office.The book covers many instructional areas that are, for the most part, only offered by consulting groups and software vendors as services. Those two groups offer their services for fees and therefore do not publish their ideas or best practices for commercial use. Software vendors provide software analytics whose functional aspects are addressed by our descriptions of the essential tasks in each chapter. This book allows EMs to expand their knowledge of software capabilities by viewing other best practices. Consulting groups offer services in a few areas: basic benchmarking and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx). These services are considered essential to energy management but are generally implemented as on-site services, which, due to their nature, are much more expensive than a monitoring commissioning (MCx) solution. Monitoring commissioning, in contrast to MBCx, is purely done at the monitoring level and allows you to manage the critical energy measures that comprise the majority of the savings, but without getting into the field testing.Benchmarking is covered much deeper in the book as we show how to benchmark each system within a building. The benchmarking sections show how to automatically analyze each system’s usage into a separate benchmark for baseload, lighting, AC, and fan/pump systems. These systems produce benchmarks so EMs can compare by site, category type, climate zone, etc. We also introduce benchmarks that enable the EM to utilize tools to determine the performance of each system and which are their most significant energy users. These analytics functions are covered to produce results that identify potential energy savings for each energy system.
Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research
by Charlotte BrookfieldFull of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.
Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research
by Charlotte BrookfieldFull of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.
Using Microsoft® InfoPath® 2010 with Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Step by Step
by Laura Rogers Darvish ShadravanThe smart way to learn how to build InfoPath forms for SharePoint--one step at a time! Quickly teach yourself how to use Microsoft® InfoPath® 2010 to create electronic business forms for Microsoft SharePoint® 2010. With Step by Step, you set the pace--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Design and build InfoPath forms without writing code Add approval workflows to your InfoPath forms Integrate data from SharePoint and other company systems Create forms that offer a rich experience in the browser Build views and dashboards to display form information Create and use forms in the cloud with SharePoint Online
Using Microsoft Office 2013
by Kevin WilsonLearn Office the easy way, no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point. . . Using Microsoft Office 2013, is the essential step by step guide to getting the most out of Microsoft Office, providing a complete resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast. This book explores constructing professional looking documents adding and using graphics and clipart, fonts, tables, graphs and formatting; creating stunning PowerPoint presentations for your lessons, lectures, speeches or business presentations powerpoint animations and effects setting up your projector and laptop ready to present. Using Excel to create spreadsheets to analyse data. Excel functions and formulas Excel charts and graphs and more. . . Techniques are illustrated in full colour step-by-step using photography and screen prints throughout, together with concise, easy to follow text from an established expert in the field, provide a comprehensive guide to office applications. Whether you are new to Microsoft Office, an experienced user or studying a computer skills course this book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinning foundations and equip you with the skills needed to use Office like a pro.
Using MIS, Student Value Edition (7th Edition)
by David KroenkeFor undergraduate Introductory Management Information Systems courses. This engaging introduction to how people use IS to solve business problems explains why MIS is the most important course in the business school by showing students how businesses use information systems and technology to accomplish their goals, objectives, and competitive strategy. Included are three unique Guides per chapter focusing on the themes of ethics, security, and other timely topics; plus a number of illustrative cases, exercises, projects, and other aids to ensure that students connect the knowledge in the text to everyday life. With a new edition now publishing each year, Using MIS, 4e, contains fresh, new, and current material to help keep your students up to date. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students. Here's how: Personalize learning with MyMISLab--the online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that fosters learning within and beyond the classroom. Focus on important themes of ethics, security, and other timely topics through text's Guides, designed to help students improve their skills as future business professionals. Connect classroom knowledge to everyday life with illustrative cases and a number of exercises and other interactive features. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyMISLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyMISLab search for ISBN-10: 0133806898/ISBN-13: 9780133806892. That package includes ISBN-10: 0133546438/ISBN-13: 9780133546439 and ISBN-10: 0133548511/ISBN-13: 9780133548518. MyMISLabis not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
Using Mobile Technologies in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics (Mathematics Education in the Digital Era #12)
by Nigel Calder Kevin Larkin Nathalie SinclairMobile technologies influence the way that we interact with the world, the way that we live. We use them for communication, entertainment, information and research. In education settings, there has been substantial investment in mobile devices, often without a concomitant investment in developing pedagogy and practices. With mobile technologies evolving rapidly, and the number of educational apps growing, there is a need for research into how they facilitate mathematics learning. Such research is of particular importance regarding how such devices may be used to open up new ways of envisaging mathematics and mathematics education, and to help develop conceptual rather than procedural or declarative knowledge. This volume draws upon international research and reports on a range of research projects that have incorporated mobile technologies for mathematics education. It presents research on the use of mobile technologies, such as iPads, iPods, iPhones, Androids, and Tablets, across a diverse range of cultures, year levels and contexts. It examines the ways in which mobile technologies, including apps, might influence students’ engagement, cognition, collaboration and attitudes, through the reshaping of the learning experience. In addition, the book presents appropriate ways to integrate mobile technologies into teaching and learning programmes. It is a significant reference book for those involved with teaching mathematics or using mobile technologies in education, while also offering insights and examples that are applicable to the use of digital technologies in education generally.
Using Models to Improve the Supply Chain
by Charles C. PoirierAround the world, virtually every company is engaged in some form of effort intended to improve the processing that takes place across an end-to-end supply chain system as they work towards moving their organizations to the next level of performance. Supply chain, particularly when enhanced with collaboration and Internet technology, is uniquely su
Using Moodle
by Jason ColeDeveloped by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000- student university. Teachers who use Moodle have access to an array of powerful tools such as assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. Using Moodle is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that explains how the system works, with plenty of examples and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Authored by a member of the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little-known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users. For anyone who is using-or thinking of using-this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.
Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System
by Jason Cole Helen FosterUsing Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules.Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will:Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course.Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades.Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool.Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class.Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain.Using Moodle is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.
Using Moodle, 2nd Edition
by Jason Cole Helen FosterUsing Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will: Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course. Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades. Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool. Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class. Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain. Using Moodle is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.
Using MS SQL Server 6.5, Special Edition
by Bob Branchek Steve Wynkoop Peter HazlehurstThis book provides a hands-on approach that covers all aspects of working with SQL Servers must-have resource for serious database users!
Using MVVM Light with your Xamarin Apps
by Paul JohnsonLearn how to use the popular MVVM Light development framework with a focus on reliable, maintainable code that can be deployed across any of the .NET-supported mobile platforms. Clear examples are provided of the advantages of the MVVM platform along with step-by-step demonstrations of how to create applications at different levels of complexity. Application development is covered for iOS, Android, and Windows phone (UWP) using MVVM Light as the central framework. The model-view-view-model (MVVM) pattern is valued by many developers as an excellent way to create sophisticated modern applications. Its clear separation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability, and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These characteristics have long been highly valued by WPF developers, and now that benefit is available to Xamarin developers, too. What You'll Learn Set up and install MVVM Light Understand the advantages and disadvantages of MVVM Discover why inversion of control is important in MVVM Conduct unit testing of MVVM apps Convert your existing apps to use MVVM Use MVVM Light within a Xamarin Forms app Use webservices Be introduced to the new .NET 2.0 Standard Class Library and how to use MVVM Light with it
Using Node.js for UI Testing
by Pedro TeixeiraFull of techniques and tips for simulating user interactions and verifying that your application is behaving correctly.This book is for frontend and backend web application developers that know how to program in JavaScript.
Using Office 365
by Kevin WilsonLearn Office the easy way, no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point. . . Using Microsoft Office 365, is the essential step by step guide to getting the most out of the traditional Microsoft Office applications (not SharePoint), providing a complete resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast. Techniques are illustrated step-by-step using photography and screen prints throughout, together with concise, easy to follow text from an established expert in the field, provide a comprehensive guide to office applications. Whether you are new to Microsoft Office, an experienced user or studying a computer skills course this book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinning foundations and equip you with the skills needed to use Office like a pro. What you'll learn How to use the new Microsoft Office 365 What is Skydrive and how to use it How to use the new Microsoft Word 2013 as part of Office 365 How to give presentations and use the Powerpoint 2013 as part of Office 365 How to do spreadsheets with Excel 2013 as part of Office 365 Who this book is for This book is for those new to Office 365 as well as those who are new to Office in general. Table of Contents 1. Microsoft Office 365 2. Microsoft Skydrive 3. Microsoft Word 2013 4. PowerPoint 2013 5. Giving Presentations 6. Microsoft Excel 2013
Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming
by Barbara Chapman Gabriele Jost David J. Kuck Ruud Van Der PasThis book should provide an excellent introduction to beginners, and the performance section should help those with some experience who want to push OpenMP to its limits.
Using OpenRefine
by Ruben Verborgh Max De WildeThe book is styled on a Cookbook, containing recipes - combined with free datasets - which will turn readers into proficient OpenRefine users in the fastest possible way.This book is targeted at anyone who works on or handles a large amount of data. No prior knowledge of OpenRefine is required, as we start from the very beginning and gradually reveal more advanced features. You don't even need your own dataset, as we provide example data to try out the book's recipes.
Using R for Statistics
by Sarah StowellUsing R for Statistics will get you the answers to most of the problems you are likely to encounter when using a variety of statistics. This book is a problem-solution primer for using R to set up your data, pose your problems and get answers using a wide array of statistical tests. The book walks you through R basics and how to use R to accomplish a wide variety statistical operations. You'll be able to navigate the R system, enter and import data, manipulate datasets, calculate summary statistics, create statistical plots and customize their appearance, perform hypothesis tests such as the t-tests and analyses of variance, and build regression models. Examples are built around actual datasets to simulate real-world solutions, and programming basics are explained to assist those who do not have a development background. After reading and using this guide, you'll be comfortable using and applying R to your specific statistical analyses or hypothesis tests. No prior knowledge of R or of programming is assumed, though you should have some experience with statistics. What you'll learn How to apply statistical concepts using R and some R programming How to work with data files, prepare and manipulate data, and combine and restructure datasets How to summarize continuous and categorical variables What is a probability distribution How to create and customize plots How to do hypothesis testing How to build and use regression and linear models Who this book is for No prior knowledge of R or of programming is assumed, making this book ideal if you are more accustomed to using point-and-click style statistical packages. You should have some prior experience with statistics, however. Table of Contents 1. R Fundamentals 2. Working with Data Files 3. Preparing and Manipulating Data 4. Combining and Restructuring Data Sets 5. Continuous Variables 6. Tabular Data 7. Probability Distribution 8. Creating Plots 9. Customizing Plots 10. Hypothesis Tests 11. Regression and Linear Models 12. Appendix A: Basic Programming with R 13. Appendix B: Add-on Packages 14: Appendix C: Data Sets
Using R in HR Analytics: A Practical Guide to Analysing People Data
by Dr Martin Edwards Kirsten Edwards Daisung JangConfidently analyse your organization's HR data using R and R Studio to gain insights that improve people strategy and business decision-making. Effective use of HR data has the power to transform a business. However, this is only possible if HR practitioners have the knowledge, skills and confidence to analyse the data and to draw evidence-based insights from it. This book is the practical guide that HR professionals need. Through worked examples, this book shows readers how to carry out and interpret analyses of HR data in areas such as recruitment, performance, employee engagement and diversity. People professionals are then shown how to use the results to develop robust people strategies and to support more effective evidence-based decision-making. Using R in HR Analytics provides a thorough grounding in the differences between descriptive reporting and predictive analytics as well as the methods and measures used to identify the validity of results. There is also expert guidance on the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language modelling on HR analytics. Written for HR professionals at any level, there is essential coverage of data privacy and the ethical considerations of using people data. Online resources include sample datasets to allow readers to practice analysing HR data.