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RSS functionsJavaScript & DHTML Cookbook: Variables, Functions, and Flow Control
White Paper Even simple subjects, such as JavaScript variables and functions, have numerous nuances that are easy to forget over time. This paper covers a miscellany of core JavaScript topics. A couple of these recipes may be part... [17 Oct 2007]
Advanced SAS String Functions and a Little Recursion Protect Against Run-Time Errors
White Paper The new string functions rxparse and rxsubstr provide a clean approach to the problem that is easy to implement. This paper presents two SCL methods that utilize these functions to generate code-saving... [07 Sep 2006]
Anti-Disassembly Using Cryptographic Hash Functions
White Paper This paper presents a new method of anti-disassembly based on cryptographic hash functions which is portable, hard to analyze, and can be used to target particular computers or users. Computer viruses sometimes employ... [08 Jun 2006]
Hanging on by a STRING?: Using Functions to Untie Text Strings
White Paper SAS provides solutions through a "Bundle" of functions one can use on strings. Almost every data programmer can give an example of a variable that, due to data entry requirements, has to be characterized as a text string. [01 Jun 2007]
User-Written DATA Step Functions
White Paper For years, users have asked for the ability to write functions in DATA step syntax. In SAS9, the FCMP procedure provides the ability to write functions using DATA step syntax. In SAS 9.2, these... [01 Jun 2007]
Master Excel 2003 Date and Time functions
White Paper This sample chapter from Que Publishing's Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2003, teaches you how to successfully create and use Date and Time functions. This sample chapter, taken from Que... [17 May 2006]
Follow best practice by validating data with PHP's character type functions
White Paper This document outlines the more useful functions available in the PHP ctype extension, with explanations and usage examples. This download shows you several of the more useful functions available in the... [19 May 2006]
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 7: Creating User-Defined XPath Functions for IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1
White Paper Previously, expressions were built mainly from event data, previously computed expressions, and built-in XPath functions. The monitor programming model receives data coming from external events, extracts these data, and... [12 Jun 2008]
Build Custom Aggregate Functions
White Paper The creation and use of single-row functions in Oracle Database is well understood, but did one know that one can also create his or her own aggregate functions? One aspect of Oracle Database found very... [11 Oct 2006]
Learning to Rank With Nonsmooth Cost Functions
White Paper This paper proposes a class of simple, flexible algorithms, called LambdaRank, which avoids these difficulties by working with implicit cost functions. The quality measures used in information retrieval are particularly... [08 Aug 2007]
SQL in a Nutshell: SQL Functions
White Paper In effect, functions are one-word commands that return single values. But many functions do not use any type of input parameter, such as the function that returns the current system time, CURRENT_TIME. [17 Oct 2007]
An Industry White Paper on the Best Practices Approach to Managing Telecom Administrative Functions in The Enterprise
White Paper Telecommunications administrative functions are not core to the enterprise's business. There's enormous confusion brought on by dramatic changes in the telecommunications industry. The outlook for improvement is bleak. [25 Feb 2004]
Integrating the Flight Management System with Air Traffic Control Functions
White Paper By simplifying the expression of flight paths, the PO concept potentially solves many practical problems related to ATC and offers increased flexibility to ATC functions. Any civil aviation system in the world can... [25 Feb 2004]
The Basics of the PRX Functions
White Paper The PRX functions and call routines let readers to use the pattern matching features of Perl 5.6.1 to do these tasks, and more. It will also show how to code the more useful PRX functions, and how to use... [09 Jun 2007]
EMIF Series, Two Functions in One Device
White Paper In contrast to discrete solutions, the integration offiltering functions on silicon allows space to be saved in high density PCBs and the filteringperformance to be increased with the minimization of the parasitic... [25 Feb 2004]
