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Effective Methods for Software Engineering

By: Boyd L. Summers

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Effective Methods for Software Engineering

By: Boyd L. Summers

Software is important because it is used by a great many people in companies and institutions. This book presents engineering methods for designing and building software. Based on the author’s experience in software engineering as a programmer in the defense and aerospace industries, this book explains how to ensure a software that is programmed operates according to its requirements. It also shows how to develop, operate, and maintain software engineering capabilities by instilling an engineering discipline to support programming, design, builds, and delivery to customers. This book helps software engineers to: Understand the basic concepts, standards, and requirements of software engineering. Select the appropriate programming and design techniques. Effectively use software engineering tools and applications. Create specifications to comply with the software standards and requirements. Utilize various methods and techniques to identify defects. Manage changes to standards and requirements. Besides providing a technical view, this book discusses the moral and ethical responsibility of software engineers to ensure that the software they design and program does not cause serious problems. Software engineers tend to be concerned with the technical elegance of their software products and tools, whereas customers tend to be concerned only with whether a software product meets their needs and is easy and ready to use. This book looks at these two sides of software development and the challenges they present for software engineering. A critical understanding of software engineering empowers developers to choose the right methods for achieving effective results. Effective Methods for Software Engineering guides software programmers and developers to develop this critical understanding that is so crucial in today’s software-dependent society.

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CRC Press

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1000052710

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Dietary Supplement Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers

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Dietary Supplement Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers

Consultant and long-time FDA food and dietary supplement labeling expert James Summers offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and complying with the dietary supplement labeling requirements of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Dietary Supplement Labeling Compliance Review, Third Edition. Available in book or searchable CD-ROM (view CD-ROM version) formats, this updated review is composed of three essential parts: Sections I through V consist of the introduction and how-to information. Sections VI through IX consist of the compliance step-by-step review procedure (in the form of questions and responses,) and other labeling requirements. Sections X through XV consist of guidance and information for decision making. Clearly illustrated with dozens of charts, sample label panels, and supplement facts boxes, this manual is the straightforward, no-nonsense tool both inexperienced and experienced dietary supplement label reviewers need to assure labeling compliance

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470384719

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9780470384718

Food Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers

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Food Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470276517

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Science as Natural Philosophy and Finding Our Place in the Universe

By: Richard L. Summers

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Science as Natural Philosophy and Finding Our Place in the Universe

By: Richard L. Summers

The Scientific Revolution began with the publication of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory describing the Sun as the center of our solar system and all the known Universe. That revolutionary idea began a rethinking of our place in the Universe and no longer were the affairs of humanity considered as the centerpiece of all that was known. In the past century, with the advent of the theories of Special and General Relativity, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, and a more sophisticated conception of living system dynamics, there has been a new understanding of the central role of the observer or experiencer in the determination of natural phenomena and the actualization of reality. Modern advancements in information theory, semiotics, and consciousness studies have also led to a better comprehension of the relationship between 1st person and 3rd person perspectives and the limits of the Scientific Method. Science and religion have always had the common goal of trying to further our understanding of the world and its meaning for us. This book explores a possible return of science to a role as natural philosophy and a pathway to better understanding our place in the Universe.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527555585

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9781527555587

Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration

By: Boyd L. Summers

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Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration

By: Boyd L. Summers

Before software engineering builds and installations can be implemented into software and/or systems integrations in military and aerospace programs, a comprehensive understanding of the software development life cycle is required. Covering all the development life cycle disciplines, Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration explains h

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1466567988

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Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe

Macy, Nebraska, 2004-2005

By: Wynne L. Summers

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Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe

Macy, Nebraska, 2004-2005

By: Wynne L. Summers

Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. All three grew up on the Omaha reservation, moved away in later life, and held careers outside the reservation. Yet all returned to their community, bringing the skills they learned in the "white world" and the knowledge they gained as children from their own elders to contribute to the well-being of the Omaha people.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803228112

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9780803228115

Effective Processes for Quality Assurance

By: Boyd L. Summers

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Effective Processes for Quality Assurance

By: Boyd L. Summers

Driving innovation can reduce costs for companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses. Quality is key to successful innovation. Delivery of complex products must have high quality to reduce customer problems and defects. This book explains how to integrate Quality Assurance processes to produce compliant product management and gap analysis. It shows how Quality Assurance provides a common operating framework in which best practices, improvements, and cost avoidance activities can be shared. Effective Processes for Quality Assurance emphasizes improving process execution and reducing operational costs. It also focuses on how Quality Assurance personnel must support companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses by encouraging a cooperative, proactive approach and ensure compliance through management and team member participation. Lean and Agile can provide a competitive advantage, and this practical reference explains how to implement these two principles to deliver products that have fewer defects. It also explains: Quality Assurance methods Measuring benefits of Quality Assurance process improvement Quality Assurance performance and improvement Risk management Quality Assurance improvement with metrics Effective processes for Quality Assurance Quantitative process performance and commitments Quality Assurance plans Quality Assurance for customers and suppliers Supporting software configuration Effective Processes for Quality Assurance covers the critical issues for implementing Quality Assurance processes that can deliver high-quality products successfully.

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CRC Press

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0429508387

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9780429508387

Software Engineering Reviews and Audits

By: Boyd L. Summers

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Software Engineering Reviews and Audits

By: Boyd L. Summers

Accurate software engineering reviews and audits have become essential to the success of software companies and military and aerospace programs. These reviews and audits define the framework and specific requirements for verifying software development efforts.Authored by an industry professional with three decades of experience, Software Engineerin

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1439851468

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9781439851463

Higher and Faster

Memoir of a Pioneering Air Force Test Pilot

By: Robert M. White,Jack L. Summers

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Higher and Faster

Memoir of a Pioneering Air Force Test Pilot

By: Robert M. White,Jack L. Summers

In 1961, pilot Robert M. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth's surface. This is his story. Tracing his childhood on the rough streets of Manhattan during the Depression, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, his service in Korea and Vietnam and his rise as an experimental test pilot in the Air Force, this autobiography is a testament to the role of persistence and excellence in the life of a man whose aeronautical feats are now legend. It is the portrait of an extraordinary man in pursuit of the American dream and a glimpse into a remarkable time in America's aviation history.

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McFarland

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0786458224

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9780786458226

Girls First Dance

By: Brandon L. Summers

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Girls First Dance

By: Brandon L. Summers

When surly teen Sandra witnesses her new neighbor, a strange dentist, possibly murdering a woman, she asks her sunny best friend Jamie to help prove a crime has been committed. As the summer progresses, though, both girls find that their long hidden romantic feelings for each other are only growing. Confronting the difficult truth soon proves to be the greater of the two challenges before them.

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Devine Destinies

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1487413890

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9781487413897

Food Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers,Elizabeth J. (Betty) Campbell

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Food Labeling Compliance Review

By: James L. Summers,Elizabeth J. (Betty) Campbell

Consultant and long-time Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food labeling expert James Summers answers the many questions surrounding FDA food labeling regulations and compliance in Food Labeling Compliance Review. Now in its third edition, the manual is a comprehensive food labeling compliance handbook designed to aid in understanding the requirements of the FDA. This reference is a must-have for regulatory officials, industry personnel, and others responsible for assuring that the label and labeling of domestic and imported food products in interstate commerce comply with the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended. The manual is available in book or searchable CD-ROM formats (or both together if you order the first choice on the right). The text is composed of three essential parts: 1.) Introduction and how-to information, including the outline of a compliance review. 2.) Compliance step-by-step review procedure (in the form of questions and answers) for the food label reviewer to establish the degree to which a product’s label complies with applicable laws and regulations. These sections also provide a basis for developing a label for prospective food products, as well as a foundation for responding to label deviations observed during the review. 3.) Guidance and information for decision making such as ready references, charts, illustrations, regulations, Federal Register indexes and tables of content for related publications. Clearly illustrated with dozens of charts, sample label panels and “Nutrition Facts” boxes, Food Labeling Compliance Review is the practical, no-nonsense tool needed by both the experienced and inexperienced food label reviewer. About the Author: James L. Summers is a senior consultant at AAC Consulting Group, Inc. (Rockville, MD), a firm providing consulting services in food, dietary supplement, cosmetics and other areas which fall under the jurisdiction of FDA. He has been offering expert labeling and compliance advice to AAC clients since he ended his 32-year tenure at FDA. He has held positions as Aquatic Sampling Specialist, Supervisory Microbiologist, Public Health Sanitarian, General Biologist, FDA Inspector, Regional Shellfish Specialist, and Consumer Safety Officer (in the Division of Regulatory Guidance). In his last position at FDA, he served as Supervisory Consumer Safety Officer, Branch Chief in the Office of Food Labeling. There he was the focal point for handling the most controversial, complex, and precedent-setting problems involving regulatory compliance issues dealing with food labeling. He participated in the development of policies and regulatory strategies regarding the enforcement of NLEA and other food labeling regulations. Contributor: Elizabeth J. (Betty) Campbell joined AAC after a 35-year career with the FDA where she served as Director of Programs and Enforcement Policy in the Office of Food Labeling in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and as Acting Director of the Office of Food Labeling. Ms. Campbell played a key role in writing the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) regulations in the early 1990s, and then had major responsibility for implementing those regulations.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0813800161

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9780813800165

The Pirates of Sufiro

By: David Lee Summers

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The Pirates of Sufiro

By: David Lee Summers

The Pirates of Sufiro is the story of a planet and its people--of Ellison Firebrandt, the pirate captain living in exile; of Espedie Raton, the con-man looking to make a fresh start for himself and his wife on a new world; of Peter Stone, the ruthless bank executive who discovers a fortune and will do anything to keep it; and of the lawman, Edmund Ray Swan who travels to Sufiro seeking the quiet life but finds a dark secret. It is the story of privateers, farmers, miners, entrepreneurs, and soldiers--all caught up in dramatic events and violent conflicts that will shape the destiny of our galaxy.

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Lbf Books Llc

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1885093373

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9781885093370

Water Budgets and Rate Structures

Innovative Management Tools

By: P. Mayer,W. DeOreo,T. Chesnutt,D. Pekelney,L. Summers

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Water Budgets and Rate Structures

Innovative Management Tools

By: P. Mayer,W. DeOreo,T. Chesnutt,D. Pekelney,L. Summers

Water budgets—volumetric allotments of water to customers based on customer-specific characteristics and conservative resource standards—are an innovative means of improving water use efficiency. Once thought to be impractical because of technological constraints, water budgets linked with an increasing block rate structure have been implemented successfully in more than 20 utilities. As utilities develop advanced customer information systems and geographical information systems, these rate structures are expected to be applied more broadly. Water budget rate structures are attractive to water agencies searching for stable revenue generation, improved customer acceptance, increased water use efficiency, augmented affordability of nondiscretionary customer water consumption, and improved drought response. The objectives of this study were to examine water budgets and their potential value to North American water utilities and the varying applications of the water budget concept that have been adapted to different conditions. Key research issues included different practical approaches to water budget rate structures, the benefits and challenges of these approaches, the potential uses of water budgets during drought, and important steps in the water budget implementation process. An extensive literature review was conducted using bibliographic and web-based searches. The researchers conducted numerous structured interviews with water agencies that have already implemented water budgets and water agencies interested in the concept, but not yet using water budgets. This research focused on the technical ability and readiness of the agency as well as the potential barriers to implementation. Agencies also provided annual reports, consumption data, information on customer classes, and information on customer billing systems. Case studies on implemented water budget programs were developed by the research team and reviewed by agency personnel to ensure accuracy. Case studies were chosen to be illustrative of the successes and challenges involved in implementing a water budget rate structure.

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IWA Publishing

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1843392100

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9781843392101

Owl Dance

By: Dave L. Summers

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Owl Dance

By: Dave L. Summers

Owl Dance is a Weird Western steampunk novel. The year is 1876. Sheriff Ramon Morales of Socorro, New Mexico, meets a beguiling woman named Fatemeh Karimi, who is looking to make a new start after escaping the oppression of her homeland. When an ancient life form called Legion comes to Earth, they are pulled into a series of events that will change the history of the world as we know it. In their journeys, Ramon and Fatemeh encounter mad inventors, dangerous outlaws and pirates. Their resources are Ramon's fast draw and Fatemeh's uncanny ability to communicate with owls. The question is, will that be enough to save them when airships from Czarist Russia invade the United States?

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069221884X

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9780692218846

Heirs of the New Earth

By: David Lee Summers

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Heirs of the New Earth

By: David Lee Summers

The Earth has gone silent. John Mark Ellis and the crew of the Sanson are sent to investigate. When they arrive, they find vast alien machines known as Clusters in orbit. Fearing the worst, they land and discover that the once overcrowded, polluted Earth has become a paradise of sorts. The problem is over half the population is dead or missing and the planet's leaders don't seem to care. As Ellis works to unravel the mystery, sudden gravitational shifts from the galaxy's center indicate something even worse is in the offing. Can Ellis save the galaxy from the heirs of the new Earth?

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1885093497

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Don't Come Back a Stranger

By: James L. Summers

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Don't Come Back a Stranger

By: James L. Summers

Describes the experiences of a boy's freshman year in college that turned him into an activist no longer understood by his friends and family.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664324827

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9780664324827

Change of Focus

By: James L. Summers

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Change of Focus

By: James L. Summers

A high school girl finds herself involved in an eternal triangle, the other two participants being her camera and the boy who envies it.

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0664325149

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9780664325145

The Lights in the Woods

The Hope Elementary Series

By: Eric L Summers

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The Lights in the Woods

The Hope Elementary Series

By: Eric L Summers

The Lights in the Woods is the first entry in the Hope Elementary Series. Vincent and Valentine are just getting settled into their new school when they begin to hear stories about lights appearing ABOVE the woods near the town. Soon, one of their friends begins to act very strange and before they know it, the twins are on a desperate mission to save their friends life. Filled with wonder and mystery, the Lights in the Woods is the first entry in the Hope Elementary Series, a collection of books inspired by the X-Files, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many other classic sources of fantasy and science fiction.

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ISBN 13

9798390695302

Lair of the Wolf

A Novel

By: Jack L. Summers

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Lair of the Wolf

A Novel

By: Jack L. Summers

Jim Gill, a young boy, becomes consumed by the horrific images in his dreams. After a series of gruesome murders, Jim begins to be connected to the killings because of his dreams. It is then when a bizarre experiment comes into play.

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Sterlinghouse Publisher

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1563152711

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9781563152719

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