This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health, BIH 2015, held in London, UK, in August/September 2015. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. Following the success of past conferences in this series, BIH 2015 has a strong emphasis on emerging trends of big data analysis and management technology for brain research, behavior learning, and real-world applications of brain science in human health and wellbeing.

This is the first book to tie together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. It describes nearly 100 open source tools, from the widely applied (like Linux, Perl, and Apache) to the Oracle-specific (like Orasoft, Orac, OracleTool, and OraSnap). You'll learn where to find them, what their advantages are, and how to create and release new open source Oracle tools yourself.

Failure is always an option... For more than 50 years, NASA's Mission Control has been known for two things: perfect decision making in extreme situations and producing generations of steely-eyed missile men and women who continue that tradition. A key to that legacy of brilliant performance is a particular brand of leadership, especially at the working level in Mission Control. Take the ultimate insiders look at the leadership values and culture that created the best team on this planet. Paul Sean Hill was responsible for NASA's Mission Operations support for manned space flight from 2007-2011. In this candid book he shows that the secret to Mission Control's success has never been rocket science and that the real practice of perfect decision making can be applied to any organisation or team. By demonstrating how his Mission Control team nurtured a culture which has delivered impossible wins for decades, Hill provides a guide for all leaders to boost their company's performance at all levels. Whether failure means cost and schedule overruns, quality reduction, loss of market share, bankruptcy - or putting someone's life a risk, how we lead can determine whether even small mistakes are dealt with or are left to snowball out of control and destroy an enterprise. Discover how to take leadership from the Mission Control Room to your boardroom and beyond, and achieve this out-of-this-world leadership environment in your team.

In this collection of 250-Word stories, author Sean Hill (creator of @VeryShortStory) has crafted fifty creative, humorous tales that include a touch of strange. These engaging flash fiction stories invoke worlds that entertain and stay with you long after reading them. PRAISE FOR SEAN HILL'S WRITING "Story telling is his bag, pure and simple." - Austin American Statesman "Witty, well-crafted and always thought-provoking." - Salt Lake Tribune Stories in this collection: Harmony Sometimes Cake Love This Time Around Jared Your Birthday Slave Wanted From Nothing My Collection Mother(r) Puppy One. Two. Three. Permanent Match Therapy Pain Firing People Donna I Like You Ted Nedland The Kim and I Hilda To Become King Hotel Lobby The Closet Fat The Map Old Photograph Expanding My Horizons Will of Alfred Lochner Re-parenting Freedom Ballpark Strange The Clown Terry Imagining Things You Would Think Monkey Paw It Happened Again Candy On the Prowl Who Wears the Pants? Battleground I've Always had It Tess Day at the Office Martin Smash the Hammer Family Dog Large Coffee, Cream, Seven Splenda Rainy D

CREATIVE FICTION THAT FITS ON A POST-IT BUT CAN MOVE READERS WITH POWERFUL TALES OF LOVE, LIFE, DEATH, AND EVERYDAY LIFE In this one-of-a-kind collection, author Sean Hill has crafted hundreds of engaging stories that conjure an entire novel in just a sentence or two. Sometimes sad, often humorous and always creative, these tales touch on a wide range of life experiences from romance and family to death and sex. Nana rocked in her old wooden rocking chair. "Timmy, you have always been my favorite," she said. He looked at her. "Nana, I'm Bobby." Read your diary, discovered your secret. I thought I loved you, but now I'm not sure. Don't know what to do, you look so human. Clowning was Daryl's profession, cooking was his passion. Stella thought he was perfect. She liked to laugh and never learned to cook. Alex bought Sharon a ring for Valentine's Day, which she sold to buy the gun that stopped him from loving her. In 2009, Sean Hill combined his love of writing and technology by creating @VeryShortStory, a Twitter feed where he interacts with his readers and shares his 140-character stories.