This book contains a number of chapters on transactional database concurrency control. A two-sentence summary of the volume's entire sequence of chapters is this: traditional locking techniques can be improved in multiple dimensions, notably in lock scopes (sizes), lock modes (i…
Google can't answer all your patron's questions-- but knowing some of these search secrets can help you help them. Google services and features are constantly evolving, and this guide introduces how web results are presented; how search filters can narrow your results; and how t…
Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visuali…
The focus of this study is the role and function of country of origin (COO) in the creation and communication of the brand identities of Scottish premium/luxury brands. It applies the identity concept which is well developed in the branding literature to the COO literature where…
Ontology has been developed to offer a commonly agreed understanding of a domain that is required for knowledge representation, knowledge exchange and reuse across domains. Therefore, ontology organizes information into taxonomies of terms (i.e., concepts, attributes) and shows …
In aquaculture worldwide, diseases are a significant constraint to economic expansion. The Scottish salmonid industry has experienced many cycles of development, with episodes of little or negative profitability caused by excess of production, and times of crisis due to differen…
One of the hallmarks of a trumpet player’s performing experience is the thrill of playing solo works for trumpet and piano. Many of the works for solo trumpet and piano regularly performed today have long been considered canonical, and given the history of the trumpet, tend to b…
Leukodystrophies (LDs) and genetically determined leukoencephalopathies (gLEs) are a heterogeneous group of rare genetic disorders of the cerebral white matter. LDs are primary disorders of the cerebral white matter (i.e. glial cells, myelin sheath), while gLEs include all leuko…
The need to search for complex and recurring patterns in database sequences is shared by many applications. In this work, we discuss how to express and support efficiently sophisticated sequential pattern queries in relational database systems. Thus, we first introduce SQL-TS, a…