When Aliss Elizabeth's father brings home a dog called Whu that mysteriously appeared in his laboratory, their cozy life begins to turn upside down, or at the least tilt sharply. Whu's presence disrupts space around him in often hilarious ways that the world needs and the government would like to control. To keep Whu out of their hands, Aliss Elizabeth, her father, and Whu are forced to flee from Cambridge to New York City and then back to Massachusetts, with the police and the army in hot pursuit.

Through all their adventures, Whu uses his strange powers to show them how the behavior of...

ICT-Investitionen gewinnen fur den Mittelstand zur Sicherung der Wettbewerbsfahigkeit enorm an Bedeutung. Das Buch stellt heraus, welche ICT-Themen auf Unternehmen zukommen, welche moglichen Hurden dabei zu uberwindenund welche Konsequenzen fur die Wettbewerbsfahigkeit zu erwarten sind. Es zeigt anhand von sechs Best-Practice-Beispielen, wie ICT-Losungen in Unternehmen erfolgreich umgesetzt werden konnen und gibt daraus ableitend Handlungsempfehlungen fur ICT- Nutzer und -Anbieter. Eine Pflichtlekture fur Manager von Unternehmen, die sich aktiv mit neuen ICT-Moglichkeiten auseinandersetzen...

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems contains an invaluable collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time system developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems. The methods are practical and theoretically sound, and can be used to assess design tradeoffs and to troubleshoot system timing behavior. This collection of methods is called rate monotonic analysis (RMA).
The Handbook includes a framework for describing and categorizing the...