"Yellow Bird has found a button and wants to share it with Red Bird and Blue Bird. This is a red button on a brown base. It does not do anything when you press it. But when Red Bird and Blue Bird give it try, they are delighted to find that the button does not do nothing, and that is something!"-- Provided by publisher.

Does nonstop juggling define your working life? Travel arranger, meeting planner, tech troubleshooter, business writer, PowerPoint expert, and more - today's administrative professionals wear multiple hats for many bosses. Nobody knows how to do it all. Instead, they turn to the acclaimed Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook for reliable answers to every question. Quick overviews and clear directions break down big projects and confusing...

A step-by-step guidebook that demystifies a process that can often prove to be overwhelming and confusing to graduate students. The tone and format of this applied book is reader-friendly and includes practical suggestions that go beyond informing what "should" be done. It is chock full of detailed explanations, examples, and supplemental materials that have been used successfully in advising students in completing their master's theses. Key features:...

This thesis presents recent developments within the pure spinor formalism, which has simplified amplitude computations in perturbative string theory, especially when spacetime fermions are involved. Firstly the worldsheet action of both the minimal and the non-minimal pure spinor formalism is derived from first principles, i.e. from an action with two dimensional diffeomorphism and Weyl invariance. Secondly the decoupling of unphysical states in the...

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are schools emphasizing the knowledge and skills that students need in a global society--or are they actually undermining their strengths by overemphasizing high-stakes testing and standardization? Are education systems in China and other countries really as superior as some people claim?...

In this thoroughly revised Fourth Edition, Glenn Wong provides a comprehensive review of the various sports law issues facing professional, intercollegiate, Olympic, high school, youth, and adult recreational sports. Major topics include tort liability, contracts/waivers, antitrust law, labor law, constitutional law, gender discrimination, drug testing, intellectual property law, broadcasting laws pertaining to sports agents, business and employment...

Fully updated for the latest JavaScript standard and featuring a new chapter on Node.js. "JavaScript : a beginner's guide" Fifth edition shows you how to create dynamic Web pages with special effects using this versatile Web development language. This fast-paced tutorial covers JavaScript fundamentals, including variables, functions, operators, event handlers, objects, arrays, strings, and forms. More advanced techniques, such as Node.js, debugging,...

In this thesis decision-making problems are formalized using a stochastic discrete-time model called decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP).