Product Description: This book is concerned with the provision of health information remotely via the latest communications technologies. The rapidly aging population has led governments to seek more effective methods of maintaining high standards of public health through the cultivation of healthy living, as well as improved and more efficiently delivered health advice and diagnostic services...read more

Product Description: Rules of Thumb for Business Writers offers busy professionals solutions to most on-the-job writing challenges. Brief, to-the-point chapters cover all the basics, including reports, resumes, speeches, memos, letters, and PowerPoint, with tips for meeting deadlines and managing paper flow...read more

Presents information on content development for online help systems.

Product Description: "Fantasies in Processing" describes new methods in the analysis of scientific literature, database management, and computer-assisted instruction using the power and sophistication of the Internet. As a result of the enhanced capabilities in computing and communication, much of the mundane, mechanical process typically involved in developing and conducting scientific research can be replaced by computer software...read more

Product Description: Global networks have become a major political, economic, and legal topic in discussions among the participants of the "global community." Around the world, governments, legal scholars, and practitioners are in the process of developing theories in respect of the regulation of the online world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide explains the use and administration of eHelp's latest software package, emphasizing administrator setup and maintenance. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following in the tradition of the other members of the Rules series, Rules of Thumb for Online Research is a brief, practical guide to electronic research and documentation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book concentrates on two aspects of business intelligence, together with the associated IBM products: data warehousing with Visual Warehouse, and on-line analytical processing using the DB2 OLAP Server. The book thus provides managers needing an overview as well as practitioners needing to understand and use these tools with all the information they need...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: he World Wide Web has matured into a powerful tool for scientists, engineers and researchers. Far more than a collection of links and sites, today's Web represents a sea change in the lives of professionals, providing new ways to communicate ideas and information...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Test functions (fault detection, diagnosis, error correction, repair, etc.) that are applied concurrently while the system continues its intended function are defined as on-line testing. In its expanded scope, on-line testing includes the design of concurrent error checking subsystems that can be themselves self-checking, fail-safe systems that continue to function correctly even after an error occurs, reliability monitoring, and self-test and fault-tolerant designs...read more

Product Description: -- Examine the Internet as a set of resources for writers to make use of, participate in, and audiences to engage.-- Topics include: defining an argument, considering purpose, on-line researching and writing, discussion lists and newsgroups design principles, and more...read more

Product Description: On-line analytical processing (OLAP) is clearly a new approach to information system technology―offering a much-needed way to make informed decisions better and faster. One of its most important characteristics is multidimensional analysis―analysis that goes beyond the conventional two-dimensional analysis and provides users with rapid retrieval of data from organizational databases, data warehouses, or both...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new book gives you all of the necessary guide lines for conecting one computer to another from any remote location via network, modem, the Internet or a wireless connection. It explains everything from how to send a fax from your PC, to navigating the World Wide Web remotely...read more

Product Description: Revised and updated to cover the latest developments in modem technology, including speeds up to 28.8 KBPS and PCMCIA cards, this book offers information about how to buy the right modem and how to set it up, fine-tune it, and troubleshoot problems...read more

Product Description: The #1 guide to creating effective online documentation is now updated and expanded to reflect the latest technological advances, including multimedia. "...online documentation is a different medium, as different from books as television is from radio or movies from novels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive look at one of the most promising technologies of the '90s--Online Transaction Processing (OTLP). Table of Contents: Benefits of OLTP; Formulating the OLTP Strategy; Evaluating Vendor Approaches; Making the OLTP Business Case; Operating Systems; The Role of Open Systems; Choosing the Hardware Platform; Connecting Diverse Hardware Platforms; Technical Installation and Implementation Concerns; Security on the OLTP Network; Integrating Applications; Minimizing the Risk of Down-time; Options for System Backup; Performance Monitoring; Database Considerations; Troubleshooting Concerns; Implementing the OLTP System; Vendor Approaches; Examples...read more