Modeling

The author has made a great effort of presenting the subject matter in an easy to understand and read format. The text covers basic laboratory determination of hydrogeological paratmers to complex calculations and modeling. This book is great because there have been times when I have been working on a problem (effective poristy, density and saturation) and have been able to find an example of it in this book. The text covers one dimensional steady state flow, transient flow, flow nets etc.. Cooper Jacob method, drawdown, well efficiency and numeric groundwater flow modeling. I highly recommend this book. Full of alot of great information and examples/problem sets.

Freund & Wilson have taken a classical statistical procedure and breathed new life into it. Covering the basics at an understandable level, the text covers all current and traditional topic areas. From Multipe Regression to PCA regression with a tinge of Ridge Regression. Traditional trouble areas are adequately dealt with. The novice reader will have no trouble in getting up to speed and not have any of the formula hemmoraging normally associated with MRA. For you mathematicians take a break and go do a derivative elsewhere. A Dummies book for the rest of us. 5 stars and 6 bottles of beer for this one. Good job fellas!

Resource life cycle analysis is an interesting technique that has changed my view of both project management and strategic planning. The essence of this approach is the integration of resources, value chains, and precedence as key factors in information systems planning. Although this book is described as an IS modeling technique, the basic concepts can be used outside of IS, making the approach more universal than I believe the authors intended.

The key elements of the approach are (1) Resources - the view taken by the authors is businesses are a collection of resources. This differs from most approaches that view businesses as a inter-related processes and functions. Because the unit of composition for businesses is a resource (or asset), each are viewed within the context of a life cycle. This is a natural way of looking at assets, and this view fosters systematic management of business resources. Resources can be human, software, time, money, etc. (2) Value chains - this is the element that does address business processes and functions because it treats them as value chains. This is not an uncommon way of viewing processes and functions, but combining this view with the resource view is. (3) Precedence - this element adds sequence to the functions in *support* of resources.

From the foregoing there is a clear connection between resource life cycle analysis and project management, especially with respect to resource and precedence elements. From a strategic planning point of view, there is also a direct connection between value chains and processes, both of which are determining factors for systems to be implemented in support of business processes. These connections highlight the value of resource life cycle analysis as a methodology, and underscore its value as a tool that can be "bolted on" to your existing project management and/or planning methodologies.

I have been deeply influenced by this approach and have incorporated it into the way I approach requirements analysis and project planning. If you are a consultant, IT professional or operational manager of a business unit this book will provide you with some deep skills and a new way of approaching analysis.

Grammar isn't encoded in our genomes. It is learned. The beginnings of the proof are here. This is an important book. Read it and it's companion: Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations; which gives you hands on with the models discussed.

This text is geared towards architects and architectural students who have little or no CAD experience and no experience with Revit. Step by step, illustrated tutorials take you through the process of developing a commercial multi-story building, complete with documentation.

Lots of tips, tricks, and shortcuts to help get you productive fast!

It's something of a misnomer, the title of Larry Fink's hilariously gruesome portrait of the fashion world. In Runway, his latest and most spectacular book of photographs, the much-celebrated "catwalk" barely figures at all. Fink's much more interested in the backstage drama, and in this behind-the-scenes record of the culminating moments in the seasonal paroxysms devoted to ready-to-wear and haute couture, he finds theater aplenty.

A pitiless and perceptive social critic, Fink previously documented the brutal heroics of boxing and the bizarre social customs of New York's Upper East Side. Here his camera captures, in unflattering close-up, the unguarded moments of some of fashion's biggest stars. And while he frequently focuses on instantly familiar supermodels, his most memorable pictures tend to be of the designers themselves. Many of them are more recognizable than their mascots, bagged like so many trophies under Fink's unremitting gaze. Isaac Mizrahi strikes a characteristically self-mocking, histrionic pose; a wolfish Oscar de la Renta glares at us suspiciously; Calvin Klein, caught in mid-sentence, could be having a cardiac arrest. In another supremely chilling image, Gianni Versace gazes heavenwards, looking horror-struck; it's almost as if the slain designer's having a premonition of his gruesome fate.

Fink's corrosive visual style derives from influences as diverse as Weegee and Diane Arbus (he studied with Lisette Model, the legendary French photographer who made a habit of the grotesque). He's obviously well aware that his hand-held flash - usually held aloft and angled down - freezes the scene like a diorama, turning humans into statues and vice versa (in one delicious moment captured at a society benefit, we see the lower halves of a line of partygoers filing past a comparatively lively pair of sarcophagi). In page after uncaptioned, full-bleed page, Fink hammers home a harrowing glimpse of a grandly dysfunctional world.

But Fink has a love-hate relationship with this strange and contorted show of human frailty; he glamorizes and demonizes its insanity at the same time. He's abidingly curious about the backstage talents, with their fanatical devotion to craft, who feverishly toil to create the designer's illusions. In one tightly cropped shot, makeup whiz Kevyn Aucoin, with total concentration, grasps a model's head in a vice-like grip (significantly, her face is hidden from us). And always, there are the fashion paparazzi, hovering (like Fink) on the sidelines, getting it all down on film so we can devour it.

"When substance is dead, style lives on," Fink writes in an afterword. Rest assured, both substance and style are alive and well in this damning - and damn amusing - book.

This is the fourth edition of this primer on linear models by Littell and Freund. As with the previous editions it gives a thorough treatment of the models and their application through the use of SAS procedures. In the fourth edition, Walter Stroup has been added and Phil Spector dropped as coauthor. Also this edition drops the word "System" in the title after "SAS". The main addition to this edition is the inclusion of a lot of detailed information on the application of mixed effects models through use of the MIXED procedure. There is a great deal of comparison of the differences between PROC MIXED and PROC GLM in the analysis of these models. Many interesting examples are presented and care is taken to show the user how to specify the models so as to get the appropriate analysis. They also teach you enough to aid in interpreting the output.

Littell, Milliken, Stoup and Wofinger have also written a very nice book titled "The SAS System for Mixed Models" and my only question would be to ask "which book offers more?" This fourth edition seems to now cover many of the same topics that highlight that book.

Readers should be aware of the two books and should investigate for themselves the differences and overlap before deciding to purchase either one. One clear difference is the date of publication. This book, published in 2002, is more current and has several references from 1997 and after whereas the mixed models book was published in 1996.

Over the past 75 years, water quality models have evolved as critical tools in determining rational and cost-effective solutions to water quality problems. However, despite all the progress, the correct calculation of sediment fluxes remained the one "missing link" in the water quality modeling paradigm.

Di Toro's book is a tour de force that lays out an elegant framework to forge this link and set it on a firm scientific foundation. As such, it should be in the library of every individual and institution involved in water quality modeling and management. Because of the cutting edge nature of his scholarship, the book should also be of great interest to researchers and graduate students.

Sediment Flux Modeling provides a comprehensive treatment of the science and mathematics underlying the impact of sediment processes on the quality of natural waters. Di Toro lays out the mathematics and the science in a clear, step-by-step fashion as he progresses from the fundamentals of sediment transport and kinetic processes to advanced topics like metals exchange.

In a similar fashion to Robert Berner's excellent volume "Early Diagenesis", it should stand as the definitive reference for years to come.

This is the very good book for integrated circuits design.

Before this book was published, Wolf & Tauber's book was the only good reference I had. Plummer's new book has a thorough review of basic principles, very well updated parts on current manufacturing equipments (Wolf's book also has extensive coverage in this respect). The best part in my opinion is oxidation & diffusion parts where the authors are one of the leaders in current research. The book not only focuses on the specific details, but also gives an integrated view of the whole CMOS fabrication process, which I enjoyed a lot.

I strongly recommend this book for students who want to learn basics of IC fabrication and also professional engineers who needs a good and well updated reference.