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Transaction Management

Author : D. Chorafas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230376533
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Transaction Management by : D. Chorafas

Download or read book Transaction Management written by D. Chorafas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-01-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an essential update for experienced data processing professionals, transaction managers and database specialists who are seeking system solutions beyond the confines of traditional approaches. It provides practical advice on how to manage complex transactions and share distributed databases on client servers and the Internet. Based on extensive research in over 100 companies in the USA, Europe, Japan and the UK, topics covered include : * the challenge of global transaction requirements within an expanding business perspective *how to handle long transactions and their constituent elements *possible benefits from object-oriented solutions * the contribution of knowledge engineering in transaction management * the Internet, the World Wide Web and transaction handling * systems software and transaction-processing monitors * OSF/1 and the Encina transaction monitor * active data transfers and remote procedure calls * serialization in a transaction environment * transaction locks, two-phase commit and deadlocks * improving transaction-oriented database management * the successful development of an increasingly complex transaction environment.

Principles of Transaction Processing

Author : Philip A. Bernstein
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0080948413
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Transaction Processing written by Philip A. Bernstein and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed discussions of the internal workings of transaction processing systems, and it discusses how these systems work and how best to utilize them. It covers the architecture of Web Application Servers and transactional communication paradigms.The book is divided into 11 chapters, which cover the following: Overview of transaction processing application and system structureSoftware abstractions found in transaction processing systemsArchitecture of multitier applications and the functions of transactional middleware and database serversQueued transaction processing and its internals, with IBM's Websphere MQ and Oracle's Stream AQ as examplesBusiness process management and its mechanismsDescription of the two-phase locking function, B-tree locking and multigranularity locking used in SQL database systems and nested transaction lockingSystem recovery and its failuresTwo-phase commit protocolComparison between the tradeoffs of replicating servers versus replication resourcesTransactional middleware products and standardsFuture trends, such as cloud computing platforms, composing scalable systems using distributed computing components, the use of flash storage to replace disks and data streams from sensor devices as a source of transaction requests. The text meets the needs of systems professionals, such as IT application programmers who construct TP applications, application analysts, and product developers. The book will also be invaluable to students and novices in application programming. - Complete revision of the classic "non mathematical" transaction processing reference for systems professionals - Updated to focus on the needs of transaction processing via the Internet-- the main focus of business data processing investments, via web application servers, SOA, and important new TP standards - Retains the practical, non-mathematical, but thorough conceptual basis of the first edition

Managing Transaction Costs in the Era of Globalization

Author : F. A. G. den Butter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781001316
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Managing Transaction Costs in the Era of Globalization by : F. A. G. den Butter

Download or read book Managing Transaction Costs in the Era of Globalization written by F. A. G. den Butter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book presents practical applications of modern economic theories to trade, transaction costs and institutions within both business and governmental realms. Frank A.G. den Butter explains the importance and means of keeping transaction costs as low as possible. He illustrates how this transaction management can contribute to making firms and nations more competitive by exploiting gains from the division of labour and international fragmentation of production, and uses relevant case studies to illustrate how value is created by reducing transaction costs. Policy recommendations for strengthening the competitive position of trading nations and reducing implementation costs of government policy are presented, and management methods for creating value in organizing production on a global scale are prescribed. A wide-ranging audience encompassing economists in academia, government and business; managers in industry and government; and students of economics, business and globalization will find this book to be a crucial reference tool.

Java Transaction Design Strategies

Author : Mark Richards
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411695917
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Java Transaction Design Strategies written by Mark Richards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how transaction management works in Java and developing an effective transaction design strategy can help to avoid data integrity problems in your applications and databases and ease the pain of inevitable system failures. This book is about how to design an effective transaction management strategy using the transaction models provided by Java-based frameworks such as EJB and Spring. Techniques, best practices, and pitfalls with each transaction model will be described. In addition, transaction design patterns will bring all these concepts and techniques together and describe how to use these models to effectively manage transactions within your EJB or Spring-based Java applications. The book covers: - The local transaction model - The programmatic transaction model - The declarative transaction model - XA Transaction Processing - Transaction Design Patterns

Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Applications

Author : Rolf A. de by
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461556791
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Applications by : Rolf A. de by

Download or read book Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Applications written by Rolf A. de by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Application is a comprehensive report on a successful international project, called TRANSCOOP, carried out from 1994 to 1997 by a group of European scientists. But the book is also much more than that, namely, an ambitious attempt to integrate Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Workflow Management Systems (WFMS), and Transaction Processing (TP) technologies. The very term {\em cooperative transactions} is in itself contradictory. Cooperation technologies, such as CSCW, aim at providing a framework for information exchange between cooperating (human) participants. In contrast, traditional transaction technologies allow concurrent users to operate on shared data, while providing them with the illusion of complete isolation from each other. To overcome this contradiction, the TRANSCOOP researchers had to come up with a new and original notion of correctness of concurrent executions, based on controlled exchange of information between concurrent users. Merging histories in accordance with prespecified commutativity rules among concurrent operations provides transactional guarantees to activities such as cooperative designing, which until now had to be carried out sequentially. As an interesting consequence, it also provides a basis for management of consistency between disconnected or mobile users who operate independently and yet, must occasionally reconcile their work with each other.

Database Design and Implementation

Author : Edward Sciore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030338363
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Database Design and Implementation written by Edward Sciore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook examines database systems from the viewpoint of a software developer. This perspective makes it possible to investigate why database systems are the way they are. It is of course important to be able to write queries, but it is equally important to know how they are processed. We e.g. don’t want to just use JDBC; we also want to know why the API contains the classes and methods that it does. We need a sense of how hard is it to write a disk cache or logging facility. And what exactly is a database driver, anyway? The first two chapters provide a brief overview of database systems and their use. Chapter 1 discusses the purpose and features of a database system and introduces the Derby and SimpleDB systems. Chapter 2 explains how to write a database application using Java. It presents the basics of JDBC, which is the fundamental API for Java programs that interact with a database. In turn, Chapters 3-11 examine the internals of a typical database engine. Each chapter covers a different database component, starting with the lowest level of abstraction (the disk and file manager) and ending with the highest (the JDBC client interface); further, the respective chapter explains the main issues concerning the component, and considers possible design decisions. As a result, the reader can see exactly what services each component provides and how it interacts with the other components in the system. By the end of this part, s/he will have witnessed the gradual development of a simple but completely functional system. The remaining four chapters then focus on efficient query processing, and focus on the sophisticated techniques and algorithms that can replace the simple design choices described earlier. Topics include indexing, sorting, intelligent buffer usage, and query optimization. This text is intended for upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in Computer Science. It assumes that the reader is comfortable with basic Java programming; advanced Java concepts (such as RMI and JDBC) are fully explained in the text. The respective chapters are complemented by “end-of-chapter readings” that discuss interesting ideas and research directions that went unmentioned in the text, and provide references to relevant web pages, research articles, reference manuals, and books. Conceptual and programming exercises are also included at the end of each chapter. Students can apply their conceptual knowledge by examining the SimpleDB (a simple but fully functional database system created by the author and provided online) code and modifying it.

IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Automated Clearing House Services

Author : Prasad Edlabadkar
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738441155
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Automated Clearing House Services by : Prasad Edlabadkar

Download or read book IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Automated Clearing House Services written by Prasad Edlabadkar and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment volume is increasing every year. NACHA estimates that ACH payments crossed 21 billion several years ago. Financial institutions are re-evaluating their current payment platforms. Financial Transaction Manager is a single interface that can handle ACH needs that cross various platforms. IBM® Financial Transaction Manager for ACH Services provides pre-built support for processing all ACH transactions that flow through financial systems. This includes ingestion, validation, transaction management, and distribution. The robust rules-based environment handles payment routing and exception management, and an automated import and export facility handles ACH processing rules. Further functions include administration, process management, data warehousing, and reporting and extracts. This IBM Redbooks® publication is written for the business analyst (banker), and the computer administrators responsible for configuration of the system. A business analyst can use this book to see what process within Financial Transaction Manger are associated with their banking terms. A bridge is built from banking terms to configuration terms. A system administrator can look into this publication to see exactly how to configure Financial Transaction Manager for ACH to the needs of their financial institution. By creating reference points for both the business analyst and the system administrator, communication and understanding is enhanced as both teams understand each other's terminology and how to use Financial Transaction Manager for ACH.

Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB

Author : Rod Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764558315
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)

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Book Synopsis Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB by : Rod Johnson

Download or read book Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB written by Rod Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-07-02 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is this book about? Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB shows Java developers and architects how to build robust J2EE applications without having to use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). This practical, code-intensive guide provides best practices for using simpler and more effective methods and tools, including JavaServer pages, servlets, and lightweight frameworks. What does this book cover? The book begins by examining the limits of EJB technology — what it does well and not so well. Then the authors guide you through alternatives to EJB that you can use to create higher quality applications faster and at lower cost — both agile methods as well as new classes of tools that have evolved over the past few years. They then dive into the details, showing solutions based on the lightweight framework they pioneered on SourceForge — one of the most innovative open source communities. They demonstrate how to leverage practical techniques and tools, including the popular open source Spring Framework and Hibernate. This book also guides you through productive solutions to core problems, such as transaction management, persistence, remoting, and Web tier design. You will examine how these alternatives affect testing, performance, and scalability, and discover how lightweight architectures can slash time and effort on many projects. What will you learn from this book? Here are some details on what you'll find in this book: How to find the simplest and most maintainable architecture for your application Effective transaction management without EJB How to solve common problems in enterprise software development using AOP and Inversion of Control Web tier design and the place of the Web tier in a well-designed J2EE application Effective data access techniques for J2EE applications with JDBC, Hibernate, and JDO How to leverage open source products to improve productivity and reduce custom coding How to design for optimal performance and scalability

Transaction Processing

Author : Jim Gray
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080519555
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Transaction Processing written by Jim Gray and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to client/server computing.Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields ofdatabases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and updateinformation in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large,distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably.Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show howto build high-performance distributed systems and high-availabilityapplications with finite budgets and risk. The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur aswell as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book,examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial andresearch systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstratesthe many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The bookwill be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systemsor client/server architectures.

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications

Author : Seth Ladd
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430205008
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications written by Seth Ladd and published by Apress. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliantly practical work that lets the reader experience a real-world scalable agile enterprise Java-based application being built from the ground up using the latest Spring 2.x kit available. The open source agile lightweight Spring (meta) Framework 2.x is by far the leading innovative force and "lightning rod" that’s driving today’s Java industry. Spring has time and time again proven itself in real-world highly scalable enterprise settings such as banks and other financial institutions. This book is the only authoritative Spring 2 authored book, as it has been written by team members of Interface21, the group that lead the Spring Foundation and its growing community.

Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

Author : Anil Hemrajani
Publisher : Sams Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0132714906
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse by : Anil Hemrajani

Download or read book Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse written by Anil Hemrajani and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile JavaTM Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a book about robust technologies and effective methods which help bring simplicity back into the world of enterprise Java development. The three key technologies covered in this book, the Spring Framework, Hibernate and Eclipse, help reduce the complexity of enterprise Java development significantly. Furthermore, these technologies enable plain old Java objects (POJOs) to be deployed in light-weight containers versus heavy-handed remote objects that require heavy EJB containers. This book also extensively covers technologies such as Ant, JUnit, JSP tag libraries and touches upon other areas such as such logging, GUI based debugging, monitoring using JMX, job scheduling, emailing, and more. Also, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) and refactoring are methods that can expedite the software development projects by reducing the amount of up front requirements and design; hence these methods are embedded throughout the book but with just enough details and examples to not sidetrack the focus of this book. In addition, this book contains well separated, subjective material (opinion sidebars), comic illustrations, tips and tricks, all of which provide real-world and practical perspectives on relevant topics. Last but not least, this book demonstrates the complete lifecycle by building and following a sample application, chapter-by-chapter, starting from conceptualization to production using the technology and processes covered in this book. In summary, by using the technologies and methods covered in this book, the reader will be able to effectively develop enterprise-class Java applications, in an agile manner!

Pro Spring

Author : Clarence Ho
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430261528
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pro Spring written by Clarence Ho and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro Spring updates the perennial bestseller with the latest that the Spring Framework 4 has to offer. Now in its fourth edition, this popular book is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available. With Pro Spring, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together. The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile, and lightweight Java technologies such as Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

Pro Spring 3

Author : Rob Harrop
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 143024108X
Total Pages : 933 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pro Spring 3 written by Rob Harrop and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of Spring. With Pro Spring 3, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and gain access to the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application like transactions, the web and presentations tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

Spring 5 Recipes

Author : Marten Deinum
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484227905
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Spring 5 Recipes written by Marten Deinum and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve all your Spring 5 problems using complete and real-world code examples. When you start a new project, you’ll be able to copy the code and configuration files from this book, and then modify them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch. The recipes in Spring 5 Recipes cover Spring fundamentals such as Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more. Other recipes include Spring enterprise solutions for topics such as Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, and working with big data and the cloud using Hadoop and MongoDB. Finally, Spring web recipes cover Spring MVC, other dynamic scripting, integration with the popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more. You’ll also see recipes on new topics such as Spring Framework 5, reactive Spring, Spring 5 microservices, the functional web framework and much more. This book builds upon the best-selling success of the previous editions and focuses on the latest Spring Framework features for building enterprise Java applications. What You'll Learn Get re-usable code recipes and snippets for core Spring, annotations and other development tools Access Spring MVC for web development Work with Spring REST and microservices for web services development and integration into your enterprise Java applications Use Spring Batch, NoSQL and big data for building and integrating various cloud computing services and resources Integrate Java Enterprise Edition and other Java APIs for use in Spring Use Grails code and much more Who This Book Is For Experienced Java and Spring programmers.

SQL Server Transaction Log Management

Author : Tony Davis
Publisher : Red Gate Books
ISBN 13 : 9781906434960
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book SQL Server Transaction Log Management written by Tony Davis and published by Red Gate Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of the SQL Server transaction log, what it does and how it works, and its role in ensuring data integrity. Topics covered include: write ahead logging; how to perform transaction log backup and restore in FULL and BULK_LOGGED recovery models; managing log growth, and dealing correctly with an overgrown or full log; and optimizing log throughput and availability, and how to avoid log fragmentation. --

Pro Spring 5

Author : Iuliana Cosmina
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484228081
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Pro Spring 5 written by Iuliana Cosmina and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers and parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in Pro Spring 5 and see how they work together. This book updates the perennial bestseller with the latest that the new Spring Framework 5 has to offer. Now in its fifth edition, this popular title is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available. It covers the new functional web framework and interoperability with Java 9. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom. The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile, and lightweight Java technologies such as Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. What You'll Learn Discover what’s new in Spring Framework 5 Use the Spring Framework with Java 9 Master data access and transactions Work with the new functional web framework Create microservices and other web services Who This Book Is For Experienced Java and enterprise Java developers and programmers. Some experience with Spring highly recommended.

Temporal Databases: Research and Practice

Author : Opher Etzion
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540645191
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Temporal Databases: Research and Practice written by Opher Etzion and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory text to the science of neurobiology, describing animal nervous systems, what they consist of, how they work, and how they are studied. Unlike many other neurobiology texts, considerable discussion is given to both human and non-human nervous systems. Written in an easy-to-read style, it will be useful for both biology and medical students. It provides the opportunity for self-testing at the end of each chapter, with objectives and questions. A CD-ROM entitled 'The Human Brain' (ISBN 3-540-14666-0) has been produced to accompany this text, and can be purchased either separately or together with the book (ISBN 3-540-63778-8).