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• Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than 150,000 copies
• Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the extract, transform, load (ETL) process
• Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming the remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then loading the end product into the data warehouse
• Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensive guidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice on ensuring data quality

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Teaming with Lin Johnson, Donna Partow combines her varied life experiences with solid Bible teaching for unique books that will appeal to women's Bible study groups of all ages and interests as well as to individuals Practical life applications are included in each inspiring lesson. Isaiah explores the faithfulness of God, including his choice to redeem a fallen world..
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Donna Partow, teaming with Lin Johnson, brings Scripture alive for both individuals and Bible study groups as readers search the Word, consider its message, and apply its truth to their lives. Nehemiah explores what to do when it's time to rebuild, helping women discover contemporary applications from this Old Testament book..
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Teaming with Lin Johnson, Donna Partow combines her varied life experiences with solid Bible teaching for unique books that will appeal to women's Bible study groups of all ages and interests as well as to individuals Practical life applications are included in each inspiring lesson. II Corinthians delves into the major themes of Paul's letter..
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Donna Partow, teaming with Lin Johnson, brings Scripture alive for both individuals and Bible study groups as readers search the Word, consider its message, and apply its truth to their lives. Galatians examines the believers' relationship with Christ, focusing on spiritual freedom and its bene¹ts..
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This state-of-the-art survey comprises a selection of the material presented at the International Dagstuhl Seminar on Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in April 2005.

The seminar centered around an emerging de facto standard for time and event annotation: TimeML. The 9 papers included in the book constitute the thoroughly cross-reviewed and revised versions of selected summaries and findings presented and discussed at the seminar.

The papers feature current research and discuss open problems concerning annotation, temporal reasoning, and event identification. The main concern is with the determination of the effectivity of the TimeML language for consistent annotation, the determination of the usefulness of such annotations for further processing, and the question as to which modifications should be applied to the standard to improve its convenience in applications such as question-answering and information retrieval.

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METALLURGY; THE ART OF EXTRACTING METALS FROM THEIR ORES AND ADAPTING THEM TO VARIOUS PURPOSES OF MANUFACTURE - IN no country are the operations of Metallurgy conducted on so vast a scale as in Greut Britain and yet the contributions which have been made to tlie literature of the subject by British metallurgists are few aiid scanty in the extreme. But this should not lend to the erroneous conclusion which some persons are inclined to draw, that onr smelters are too ignorant of chemistry to understand the theory of the processes linder their direction, or too illiterate to be able to record the results of their experience. I have the pleasure of linowing many of these men intimately, and I will venture to affirm thatwvith respect to knowledge, both of the theory and practice of the special departments of the Art in which they are engaged, they are not excelled by any metallurgists in Europe. The chief writers on Metallurgy are the Germans, to whom we owc two of the most remarkable wvorlrs on the subject, namely, tlie treatise of Agricola, in Latin, which appeared in 1555 and the System of P1Ietdlurgy of Iiarsten, in Gerinan, published in 1831. The rnonogrz plls, contributions to periodicals, and compendious treatises relating to the science and practice of PIIetallurgy which have been published in the German language, are very numerous. We are, probably, indebted to the Germans, to a greater extent tlmn is commonly s lpposed, for the development of our mineral resources, since the introduction of German miners and metnilurgists into England, about three centuries ago, tlirough tlie wisdom of Elizabeth. The Swedes, who, in the persons of Sclleele and Eerzelius, have played so distinguished a part in raising chemistry to the dignity of a science, have not been behind with respect to AIetallurgy. Many valuable monopal hs and original papers 011 rnetnllurgical s13bjects exist iu the Swedish language, wlGcl3 ullfortunately is but littlc own to Englisllmen. The c Jernlioiltorets Annaler, or Annals of the Board of Iron-Jlasters, now consist of about forty volumes, whicb contain theoretic91 and Sn-actical papers of the liigliest interest to Miners and JIe,-A urgis s. lllle French have published exteilsively on metallurgical sub-a jacts and the Annales des Mines form a repertory of met, allurgical knowledge of great value. The chief conti ibutors to this vork have been the graduaies ahd tud ts of the c o l ede s Mines and tlieir contributions, to a large extent, consist of the desc. riptions of processes which they have witnessed out of France. It is. pot, a little surprising, that,, considering the skill in arrangement and the of - language wliich usually , distinguish French . scientific writers, no complete treatise of Netallurgy should yet haire . appeared in France. In the exercise of my duties as Lecturer on Bletallurgy. at the Government School of Nines, during the last ten years, I have constantly felt the ant of a comprehensive treatise on subject in the English language, to mllich I might refer the students aiid I have heard repeated expressions of regret from many of our practical Metlallurgists that no . such treatise existed. I now attempt to supply this deficiency ahd it is only after some years of deliberation. that I debided. to take this. step.. It is obvious that .. a work of this kind must be in great measure a compilation ....
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The preferred method of data analysis of quantitative experiments is the method of least squares Often, however, the full power of the method is overlooked and very few books deal with this subject at the level that it deserves. The purpose of Data Analysis Using the Method of Least Squares is to fill this gap and include the type of information required to help scientists and engineers apply the method to problems in their special fields of interest. In addition, graduate students in science and engineering doing work of experimental nature can benefit from this book. Particularly, both linear and non-linear least squares, the use of experimental error estimates for data weighting, procedures to include prior estimates, methodology for selecting and testing models, prediction analysis, and some non-parametric methods are discussed.

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Tools and techniques from today's leading intellectual capital innovators: Xerox, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, Avery Dennison, Eastman Chemical, Rockwell, and Skandia
"Patrick Sullivan . . . has brought together some of the best thinkers and best thinking on the subject of intellectual capital. Anyone who hopes to profit from intellectual capital will profit from Profiting from Intellectual Capital."-Thomas A. Stewart Author of Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations.
"A comprehensive collection of the key ideas for effectively managing intellectual assets in the twenty-first century."-Hubert St. Onge Senior Vice President, Strategic Capability, Mutual Life of Canada.
"The first thorough exposition of how companies manage and extract value from their intellectual capital. The discussion of 'best practices,' as well as the high level conceptual examination of various intellectual capital issues, is an important contribution to this fast-growing field."-Baruch Lev, PhD The Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director, The Intangibles Research Project at New York University.
"This is a remarkable compendium of analytic approaches to that most elusive of management goals-managing intellectual capital. It gives our 'state-of-the-practice' knowledge a most substantial boost."-Larry Prusak Managing Principal, Knowledge Management, IBM Corporation.
"Sullivan brings together strategic management and intellectual capital. The combination is powerful."-Russell L. Parr Senior Vice President, AUS Consultants.
In today's postindustrial economy, technology and knowledge-based companies are superseding traditional manufacturing enterprises at a rapid rate. But as tangible assets give way to invisible, information-centered ones, most firms still know very little about their intellectual capital and what it can do for them.
While a number of books and articles have already been written about the knowledge-creation and information-sharing aspects of intellectual capital management, Profiting from Intellectual Capital takes the next step-examining how companies can develop financial benefits and extract ever more value from their intellectual capital.
Divided into three sections, the book is filled with the practices and procedures of companies that are in the vanguard of ICM-Dow Chemical, Xerox, Rockwell International, Skandia, and Hewlett-Packard. The first part of the book presents essential terms and concepts, along with basic material on the principles of value extraction and a discussion of the usefulness of values in the management of intellectual capital. The two subsequent sections offer methods for IC measurement, management, and monitoring, as well as important techniques for extracting value-including such practical initiatives as creating an intellectual property database, patent trees, and more.
Profiting from Intellectual Capital is essential reading for today's forward-thinking executives, attorneys, accountants, and other professionals. Because while knowledge is power, knowledge can be profits, too..
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