Copyright (c) 2007 pdffinder.com. All rights reserved. http://www.pdffinder.com/ PDF Finder Last Listed Documents en-us Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST 5 187 55 http://www.pdffinder.com/ http://www.pdffinder.com/images/pdffinder-logo.gif http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/hibernate-spring-eclipse-hsql-database-maven-tutorial.html /pdf/hibernate-spring-eclipse-hsql-database-maven-tutorial.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Hibernate is a very popular ORM (Object to Relational Mapping) tool and Spring is a very popular IOC (Inversion Of Control) container with support for AOP, Hibernate etc. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/overture-maven-eclipse-plugin-development-guide.html /pdf/overture-maven-eclipse-plugin-development-guide.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST In order to compile the eclipse plug-ins of the Overture Tool the environment has to be setup. This includes Java, Maven, Eclipse and Eclipse test framework. ... The Maven user setting le is located in directory /.m2/ be default it contains user settings for Maven which apply for all projects. The settings le is named "settings.xml" a description of how to use this le in this project is described in section ??. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/apache-maven-user-guide.html /pdf/apache-maven-user-guide.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Maven, a Yiddish word meaning accumulator of knowledge, was originally started as an attempt to simplify the build processes in the Jakarta Turbine project. There were several projects each with their own Ant build files that were all slightly different and JARs were checked into CVS. We wanted a standard way to build the projects, a clear definition of what the project consisted of, an easy way to publish project information and a way to share JARs across several projects. The result is a tool that can now be used for building and managing any Java-based project. We hope that we have created something that will make the day-to-day work of Java developers easier and generally help with the comprehension of any Java-based project. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/a-probabilistic-deduplication-record-linkage-and-geocoding-system.html /pdf/a-probabilistic-deduplication-record-linkage-and-geocoding-system.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST In many data mining projects in the health sector information from multiple data sources needs to be cleaned, deduplicated and linked in order to allow more detailed analysis. The aim of such linkages is to merge all records relating to the same entity, such as a patient. Most of the time the linkage process is challenged by the lack of a common unique entity identier. Additionally, personal information, like names and addresses, are frequently recorded with typographical errors, can be formatted dierently, and parts can even be missing or swapped, making the duplication or linkage task non-trivial. A special case of linkage is geocoding, the process of matching user records with geocoded reference data, allowing spatial data analysis and mining, for example of disease outbreaks, or correlations with environmental factors. In this paper we present an overview of the Febrl (Freely extensible biomedical record linkage) project, which aims at developing improved algorithms and techniques for large scale data cleaning and standardisation, record linkage, deduplication and geocoding. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/a-probabilistic-geocoding-system-based-on-a-national-address-file.html /pdf/a-probabilistic-geocoding-system-based-on-a-national-address-file.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST It is estimated that between 80% and 90% of governmental and business data collections contain address information. Geocoding { the process of assigning geographic coordinates to addresses { is becoming increasingly important in many application areas that involve the analysis and mining of such data. In many cases, address records are captured and/or stored in a free-form or inconsistent manner. This fact complicates the task of robustly matching such addresses to spatiallyannotated reference data. In this paper we describe a geocoding system that is based on a comprehensive high-quality geocoded national address database. It uses a learning address parser based on hidden Markov models to separate free-form addresses into components, and a rule-based matching engine to determine the best set of candidate matches to a reference le. The geocoding software modules are implemented (as part of the Febrl open source data linkage system) in the object-oriented language Python, which allows rapid prototype development and testing. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/geoprocessing-and-scripting.html /pdf/geoprocessing-and-scripting.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST This exercise is designed to integrate methods in geoprocessing. The assignment begins with processing some data for the San Diego area using the ModelBuilder, includes some ArcToolBox processing, and ends with execution of iterative functions in a script. You are working with data in San Diego County to support habitat analysis for the California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica). The Gnatcatcher is a small non-migratory songbird that resides in this area. Habitat loss has lead to declining populations. The objective of this exercise is to provide an understanding of the range of geoprocessing options available in ArcGIS. Upon completion of the exercise you should be able to differentiate between processing using the ModelBuilder, the ToolBox, and automated processing using a script. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/the-10-commandments-of-guerrilla-marketing-design.html /pdf/the-10-commandments-of-guerrilla-marketing-design.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Guerrilla Marketing Design is more an attitude than a system of do’s and don’ts. It’s an attitude that emphasizes the efficient and memorable delivery of information. First Commandment: Purposeful - Guerrilla Marketers view design not as a matter of subjective likes and dislikes but as a strategic tool intended to achieve specific goals. Guerrillas avoid unnecessary decoration. Every mark on the page must serve a purpose. Guerrillas make design decisions based on how efficiently their designs communicate a desired message to a specific audience. Guerrilla Marketing design begins with a plan, based on a careful analysis of message, audience and competition. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/guerrilla-marketing-in-30-days.html /pdf/guerrilla-marketing-in-30-days.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Distilled from the bestselling "marketing" book series in history (with more than 14 million copies sold worldwide in 39 languages), Guerrilla Marketing In 30 Days encourages busy business professionals and CEO’s to hurdle the excuses of time, money, or motivation, and take dynamic strides toward new client acquisition and increased sales by following a 30-day marketing blueprint. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/open-source-and-viral-marketing.html /pdf/open-source-and-viral-marketing.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Internet marketing has evolved into a major marketing branch for many existing companies. Many new enterprises see the effectiveness and advantages of electronic business by not being limited by time and distance when engaging in business activity. The opportunities to do business world wide with the click of mouse are enormous and enticing. The skyrocketing success of Hotmail.com has shaken the Internet marketing world encouraging entrepreneur to develop marketing concepts and to convince capital venture companies to finance them. Despite promising innovative products, many start-ups disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. Something fundamentally had gone wrong. Viral marketing has been the buzz word for businesses for the last ten years. Customers act as advertisers by promoting a product through word of mouse. It is synonymous with word of mouth where a high degree of trust is given to a personal recommendation. The communication networks of the customers are used to transmit promotional material thereby drastically lowering the costs of customer acquisition. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/manfred-a-dramatic-poem.html /pdf/manfred-a-dramatic-poem.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Manfred, A Dramatic Poem by Lord Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Manfred, A Dramatic Poem by Lord Byron, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/writing-a-riddle-poem.html /pdf/writing-a-riddle-poem.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST -When writing a riddle poem, begin with the answer. Concrete objects, such as a desk or car, are easier to write poems about than abstract ideas such as happiness or peace. -Think about how difficult the riddle will be and use that to determine the level of specificity you want with your answer. Very specific answers like “Tonya’s white cat” are likely to be very hard, even for those who know Tonya’s cat. Specific answers such as “blue cheese” aren’t as difficult as very specific ones, but they are still challenging. General answers such as “cars” are the easiest type of solution, but that doesn’t mean the riddle can’t be hard! http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/mining-knowledge-sharing-sites-for-viral-marketing.html /pdf/mining-knowledge-sharing-sites-for-viral-marketing.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mining these networks from data, building probabilistic models of them, and using these models to choose the best viral marketing plan. Knowledge-sharing sites, where customers review products and advise each other, are a fertile source for this type of data mining. In this paper we extend our previous techniques, achieving a large reduction in computational cost, and apply them to data from a knowledge-sharing site. We optimize the amount of marketing funds spent on each customer, rather than just making a binary decision on whether to market to him. We take into account the fact that knowledge of the network is partial, and that gathering that knowledge can itself have a cost. Our results show the robustness and utility of our approach. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/the-new-rules-of-viral-marketing.html /pdf/the-new-rules-of-viral-marketing.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Imagine you’re the head of marketing at a theme park, and you’re charged with announcing a major new attraction. What would you do? Well, the old rules of marketing suggest that you pull out your wallet. You’d probably spend millions to buy your way into people’s minds, interrupting them with TV spots, billboards by the side of the highway, and other “creative” Madison Avenue advertising techniques. You’d also hire a big PR agency, who would beg the media to write about your attraction. The traditional PR approach requires a self-congratulatory press release replete with company muckety-mucks claiming that the new attraction will bring about world peace by bringing families closer together. That’s not what Cindy Gordon, vice president of new media and marketing partnerships at Universal Orlando Resort, did when she launched The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Other large entertainment companies would have spent millions of dollars to interrupt everyone in the country with old-rules approaches: Super Bowl TV ads, blimps, direct mail, and magazine ads. Instead, Gordon told just seven people about the new attraction. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/mining-social-networks-for-viral-marketing.html /pdf/mining-social-networks-for-viral-marketing.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Traditionally, social network models have been descriptive, rather than predictive: they are built at a very coarse level, typically with only a few global parameters, and are not useful for making actual predictions of the future behavior of the network. In the past, this was largely due to lack of data: the networks available for experimental study were small and few, and contained only minimal information about each node. Fortunately, the rise of the Internet has changed this dramatically. Massive quantities of data on very large social networks are now available from blogs, knowledge-sharing sites, collaborative ltering systems, online gaming, social networking sites, newsgroups, chat rooms, etc. These networks typically number in the tens of thousands to millions of nodes, and often contain substantial quantities of information at the level of individual nodes, sucient to build models of those individuals. Assembling these models into models of the larger network they are part of gives us an unprecedented level of detail in social network analysis, with the corresponding potential for new understanding, useful predictions, and their productive use in decision-making. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/the-dynamics-of-viral-marketing.html /pdf/the-dynamics-of-viral-marketing.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network, consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on half a million products. We observe the propagation of recommendations and the cascade sizes, which we explain by a simple stochastic model. We analyze how user behavior varies within user communities defined by a recommendation network. Product purchases follow a ’long tail’ where a significant share of purchases belongs to rarely sold items. We establish how the recommendation network grows over time and how effective it is from the viewpoint of the sender and receiver of the recommendations. While on average recommendations are not very effective at inducing purchases and do not spread very far, we present a model that successfully identifies communities, product and pricing categories for which viral marketing seems to be very effective. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/correlation-and-simple-linear-regression.html /pdf/correlation-and-simple-linear-regression.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST In this tutorial article, the concepts of correlation and regression are reviewed and demonstrated. The authors review and compare two correlation coefficients, the Pearson correlation coefficient and the Spearman , for measuring linear and nonlinear relationships between two continuous variables. In the case of measuring the linear relationship between a predictor and an outcome variable, simple linear regression analysis is conducted. These statistical concepts are illustrated by using a data set from published literature to assess a computed tomography–guided interventional technique. These statistical methods are important for exploring the relationships between variables and can be applied to many radiologic studies. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/applied-correlation-and-regression-analysis.html /pdf/applied-correlation-and-regression-analysis.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST The readings for the course come from a single textbook, a revised and updated edition of a classic that can be found among the reference books owned by many social and behavioral science researchers. We will cover all of the material in six of the 16 chapters and much of the information in two others. It is essential that you spend significant time reading in the textbook before each class meeting. Most of the time, reading through the assigned material once will not be sufficient. Read it; read it again; take notes on it; discuss it with fellow class members; prepare questions about it to raise in class or lab meeting. In short, to succeed in this course you must commit yourself to significant preparation time for each class meeting. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/simple-regression-and-correlation.html /pdf/simple-regression-and-correlation.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Today, we are going to discuss a powerful statistical technique for examining whether or not two variables are related. Specifically, we are going to talk about the ideas of simple regression and correlation. One reason why regression is powerful is that we can use it to demonstrate causality; that is, we can show that an independent variable causes a change in a dependent variable. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/orangehrm-free-open-source-hrm-software-review.html /pdf/orangehrm-free-open-source-hrm-software-review.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST Human Resource Management software are high on demand as companies are looking for more feasible solutions to streamline their most important assets - the employees. The HRM software have redefined the ambit of talent management assisting businesses in time-saving and effective HR management. Having done with my Top 10 HRM software, I need to add that there are efficient open source HRM software with upgraded features that are free to download. OrangeHRM one of the most feasible solutions that I could see. OrangeHRM is a free and open source human resource management business solution for the Small and Medium sized Enterprise(SME). This modular HRM system automates HR processes. It is developed fromPHP, MySQL and Apache HTTP Server. The software can be used on both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating system. For more insight I delved into the features of OrangeHRM. OrangeHRM includes 7modules lets how each of them function. http://www.pdffinder.com/pdf/orangehrm-tutorial.html /pdf/orangehrm-tutorial.html Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:17:58 CST OrangeHRM is a comprehensive solution for the efficient management and development of your Human Resources functions. OrangeHRM assists you in the complex and strategic process of managing this crucial enterprise function. Based on modular architecture, OrangeHRM enables a vast range of HR activities, with features that reflect the primary HR management activities. OrangeHRM is a perfect platform for reengineering your HR processes and achieving a new level of HR Management.