Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: A Digital Photographer's Guide

Author: David Huss

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has taken the photography world by storm! Let two industry experts, Dave Huss and David Plotkin, help you get up to speed fast with the all-new version 2. This complete reference for all users of Lightroom starts out with the basics, covering each available tool found in Lightroom with step-by-step clarity. The book then moves on to more in-depth discussions of the most often used tools and techniques, so you can customize a workflow that best suits your own needs. Start at the beginning to develop a complete set of Lightroom skills, or skip ahead to the sections that delve deeper into the tools you want to use immediately. Learn how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively to improve the overall quality of your work so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind your camera!

*Maximize your productivity and learn from two experts exactly how to incorporate Adobe Photoshop Lightroom into your own workflow, whether you use Windows or a Mac
*Fully up-to-date with the latest features of Lightroom 2 and packed with full color, step-by-step screenshots and photographs
*Visit focalpress.com/Lightroom for additional Lightroom tutorials, software news and updates

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Lightroom Fundamentals 1

Ch. 2 Getting to Know the Library Module 37

Ch. 3 Getting Your Photos into Lightroom 57

Ch. 4 Organizing Your Photos 97

Ch. 5 Fixing Photos Fast Using Quick Develop 153

Ch. 6 Precision Correction and Enhancement Using Develop Module 179

Ch. 7 Making Local Adjustments 241

Ch. 8 Showtime: Making Slideshows 263

Ch. 9 Web Wizard: Creating and Posting Images on the Web 293

Ch. 10 Layout and Composition 311

Index 361

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Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

Author: Jonathan Gennick

The Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference is a must-have for anyone working with Oracle databases, especially those looking to maximize the effectiveness of SQL*Plus. As Oracle's long-standing interactive query tool, SQL*Plus is available at every Oracle site, from the largest data warehouse to the smallest single-user system. Despite its wide use, however, SQL*Plus is still often not completely understood or fully utilized.

Database administrators and developers alike will therefore find the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference to be extremely beneficial. In addition to summarizing all of the SQL*Plus syntax and format options, including new Oracle Database 10g features, this handy, on-the-job guide specifically shows readers how to:

Differentiate between SQL and SQL*Plus Interact with SQL*Plus from both the command line and the web browser Select, insert, update, and delete data Format both text and HTML reports with SQL*Plus Specify SQL*Plus commands and format elements Tune SQL queries The new third edition of this book has been updated for Oracle Database 10g to include information on both SQL*Plus and SQL. New SQL information includes the SELECT statement's new MODEL clause, flashback queries, partition outer joins, and DBMS_XPLAN.

With its quick-reference format and compact size, the Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference follows in the long line of successful "pocket references" offered by O'Reilly. It also serves as the ideal companion to O'Reilly's larger, more comprehensive book on SQL*Plus, the bestselling Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide.

Author Jonathan Gennick is an editor for O'Reilly specializing in database and programming titles, having amassed some 17 years of programming and database management experience.

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials or Oracle Wait Interface

Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials

Author: David L Demets

Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard for establishing many clinical practice guidelines and are central to evidence based medicine. Obtaining the best evidence through clinical trials must be done within the boundaries of rigorous science and ethical principles. One fundamental principle is that trials should not continue longer than necessary to reach their objectives. Therefore, trials must be monitored for recruitment progress, quality of data, adherence to patient care or prevention standards, and early evidence of benefit or harm. Frequently, a group of external experts, independent from the investigators and trial sponsor, is charged with this monitoring responsibility, especially for safety and early benefit. This group is referred to by various names, such as a data monitoring committee or a data and safety monitoring board. This book, through a series of case studies presented by many distinguished clinical trial experts, illustrates the complexity of this monitoring process. The editors provide an overview of the process and a summary of a multitude of the lessons learned from the cases presented.

This book should be useful to anyone serving on a data and safety monitoring board, or planning to do so, for colleagues in academia, industry and governmental agencies, and for teaching students in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials and medical ethics. No other text has as extensive a collection of cases which provide insight into the many issues, often conflicting, that must be examined before recommendations to continue or discontinue a trial can be made. While depth in statistical methods is not required, some familiarity with statistical design andanalysis issues in clinical trials is helpful. The cases cover trials which were terminated early for convincing evidence of benefit, or for harmful effects. Cases with complex issues are also included. This series of cases should provide broad background information for potential monitoring committee members and better prepare them for the challenges that may exist in the trials for which they are responsible.

Table of Contents:

1	Monitoring committees : why and how	3
2	Lessons learned	14
3	FDA and clinical trial data monitoring committees	39
	Introduction to case studies showing benefit from the intervention	53
	Assessing possible late treatment effects early : the diabetic retinopathy study experience	55
	Data and safety monitoring in the beta-blocker heart attack trial : early experience in formal monitoring methods	64
	Data monitoring for the aspirin component of the physicians' health study : issues in early termination for a major secondary endpoint	73
	Early termination of the stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation I trial : protecting participant interests in the face of scientific uncertainties and the cruel play of chance	85
	Early termination of the diabetes control and complications trial	93
	Data monitoring in the AIDS clinical trials group study #981 : conflicting interim results	109
	Challenges in monitoring the breast cancer prevention trial	118
	Data monitoring experience in the metoprolol CR/XL randomized intervention trial in chronic heart failure : potentially high-risk treatment in high-risk patients	136
	Stopping the randomized aldactone evaluation study early for efficacy	148
	Data monitoring in the heart outcomes prevention evaluation and the clopidogrel in unstable angina to prevent recurrent ischemic events trials : avoiding important information loss	158
	The data monitoring experience in the candesartan in heart failure assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity program	166
	Introduction to case studies showing harmful effects of the intervention	179
	Breaking new ground : data monitoring in the coronary drug project	183
	The data monitoring experience in the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial : the need to be prepared early	198
	Data monitoring in the prospective randomized milrinone survival evaluation : dealing with an agonizing trend	209
	Stopping the carotene and retinol efficacy trial : the viewpoint of the safety and endpoint monitoring committee	220
	Monitoring a clinical trial with waiver of informed consent : diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin for emergency treatment of post-traumatic shock	228
	Consideration of early stopping and other challenges in monitoring the heart and estrogen/progestin replacement study	236
	Data monitoring in the antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment to prevent heart attack trial : early termination of the doxazosin treatment arm	248
	Data monitoring experience in the moxonidine congestive heart failure trial	260
	Data monitoring of a placebo-controlled trial of daclizumab in acute graft-versus-host disease	269
	Introduction to case studies with special issues	281
	Clinical trials of herpes simplex encephalitis : the role of the data monitoring committee	285
	The nocturnal oxygen therapy trial data monitoring experience : problem with reporting lags	292
	Stopping a trial for futility : the cooperative new Scandinavian enalapril survival study II	302
	Lessons from warfarin trials in atrial fibrillation : missing the window of opportunity	312
	Data monitoring experience in the AIDS toxoplasmic encephalitis study	320
	Data monitoring in the randomized evaluation of strategies for left ventricular dysfunction pilot study : when reasonable people disagree	330
	The data monitoring experience in the carvedilol post-infarct survival control in left ventricular dysfunction study : hazards of changing primary outcomes	337
	Controversies in the early reporting of a clinical trial in early breast cancer	346
	Making independence work : monitoring the bevacizumab colorectal cancer clinical trial	360

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Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

Author: Richmond She

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

Usability Testing and Research or Groovy Programming

Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

Author: Carol M Barnum

Built on a solid foundation of current research in the field, Usability Testing and Research provides a comprehensive, up-to-date perspective in this increasingly important area of technical communication. Based on the most current research in the field, this book reflects the most recent developments and studies on this topic available. Sidebars throughout the book catch the attention of the readers and highlight key concepts in the text. A chapter on web testing provides coverage of what is now the hottest area in usability testing. End of chapter discussions and exercises reinforce learning. Frequent examples of planning, conducting, and reporting usability tests present current samples of projects. An appendix on teamwork gives pertinent advice in an area neglected by other texts: building and coordinating cross-functional teams for usability testing. For those interested in usability testing and research.

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Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers

Author: Kenneth Barclay

Groovy Programming: An Introduction for Java Developers
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage

"For a book targeting those new to scripting, OO or dynamic languages in general, this book is fabulous!"
— Andrew Glover, President, Stelligent Incorporated

Groovy is a unique scripting language designed to augment the Java platform. It offers Java-like syntax, native support for maps and lists, methods, classes, closures, and builders. With its dynamic weak typing and seamless access to the Java API, it is well suited to the development of many small- to medium-size applications.

Groovy is more expressive and operates at higher levels of abstraction than Java. This results in more rapid application development and increased programmer productivity. It can be used for "gluing" applications together rather than implementing complex data structures and algorithms.

Another major strength of Groovy is that the coding effort required is relatively small by comparison with code written in Java. Often the latter appears to be overly complex and difficult to understand and maintain. This is because it requires extensive boilerplate or conversion code not required by Groovy.

In one of the first guides to Groovy, authors Kenneth Barclay and John Savage introduce all the major aspects of Groovy development and explain the dynamic features this innovative programming language brings to the Java platform. This book assumes only a general knowledge of Java programming. Whether a seasoned Java developer or new to scripting languages, you'll receive expert guidance on how to make Groovy work for you.

Features
* The first comprehensive book on Groovyprogramming that shows how writing applications and scripts for the Java platform is fast and easy

* Written by leading software engineers and acclaimed computing instructors

* Offers numerous programming examples, code samples, detailed case studies, exercises for self-study, and a companion website with a Windows-based Groovy editor

About the Authors
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage are both lecturers at the School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Their speciality is object-oriented software engineering, development, and programming. They are - coauthors of Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003).

Java/Programming
ISBN 978-0-12-372507-3

Table of Contents:

Preface; Chapter 1: Groovy; Chapter 2: Numbers and Expressions; Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions; Chapter 4: Lists, Maps and Ranges; Chapter 5: Simple Input and Output; Chapter 6: Case Study: A Library Application (Modelling); Chapter 7: Methods; Chapter 8: Flow of Control; Chapter 9: Closures; Chapter 10: Files; Chapter 11: Case Study: A Library Application (Methods); Chapter 12: Classes; Chapter 13: Case Study: A Library Application (Objects); Chapter 14: Specialization; Chapter 15: Unit Testing (JUnit); Chapter 16: Case Study: A Library Application (Specialization); Chapter 17: Persistence; Chapter 18: Case Study: A Library Application (Persistence); Chapter 19: XML Builders and Parsers; Chapter 20: GUI Builders; Chapter 21: Template Engines; Chapter 22: Case Study: A Library Application (GUI); Chapter 23: Server Side Programming; Chapter 24: Case Study: A Library Application (Web); Chapter 25: Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendix A: Software Distribution; Appendix B: Groovy; Appendix C: More on Numbers and Expressions; Appendix D: More on Strings and Regular Expressions; Appendix E: More on Lists, Maps and Ranges; Appendix F: More on Simple Input and Output; Appendix G: More on Methods; Appendix H: More on Closures; Appendix I: More on Classes; Appendix J: Advanced Closures; Appendix K: More on Builders; Appendix L: More on GUI Builders; Index