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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Substantially revising and updating the classic reference in the field, this handbook offers a valuable overview and myriad details on current chemical processes, products, and practices. No other source offers as much data on the chemistry, engineering, economics, and infrastructure of the industry....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Information Technology and Product Development: A Research Agenda presents important new research from varied disciplines aimed at developing new theoretical concepts and insights on the application of IT in product and service innovation. Drawing on the work of researchers in such varied management...
Wireless Technology
Applications, Management, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Wireless technology and handheld devices are dramatically changing the degrees of interaction throughout the world, further creating a ubiquitous network society. The emergence of advanced wireless telecommunication technologies and devices in today’s society has increased accuracy and access rate,...
Real-Time Systems
Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
"This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems. It offers a splendid example for the balanced, integrated treatment of systems and software engineering, helping readers tackle the hardest problems of advanced real-time system design, such...
Quality Education @ a Distance
IFIP TC3 / WG3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ a Distance February 3–6, 2003, Geelong, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book considers several aspects of providing quality education at a distance: Quality of systems that support online learning, quality support infrastructure, quality of technical access and support, materials distribution; issues in each of these areas are considered. It contains the papers presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This set of lectures is the outgrowth of a new course in the Department of Materials Science at Stanford University. It was taught collectively by the authors of the various sections and represents an attempt to increase the awareness of students in the materials area of computer simulation techniques...
Human Ecology
Contemporary Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred...
by Ali K. Kamrani, Emad Abouel Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
"Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping" offers insight into the methods and techniques that allow for easily implementing engineering designs by incorporating advanced methodologies and technologies. This book contains advanced topics such as feature-based design and process planning,...
Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks
Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
This book brings together leading researchers and developers in the field of wireless sensor networks to explain the special problems and challenges of the algorithmic aspects of sensor and ad-hoc networks. The book also fosters communication not only between the different sensor and ad-hoc communities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Simulation of computer architectures has made rapid progress recently. The primary application areas are hardware/software performance estimation and optimization as well as functional and timing verification. Recent, innovative technologies such as retargetable simulator generation, dynamic binary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This conference proceedings explores issues surrounding the replacement of existing nuclear power plants when they reach the end of their useful life. Topics covered include: Nuclear competitiveness regarding politics and power plant evolution; social acceptance regarding communication, information,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Developed from the Global Foundation's International Conference on Environment and Nuclear Energy, held in October 1997, this volume examines the impact of nuclear energy on regional and global environmental issues under a variety of scenarios. These include competition in deregulated energy environments,...
by Kankar Bhattacharya, Jaap E. Daalder, Math H.J. Bollen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Deregulation is a fairly new paradigm in the electric power industry. And just as in the case of other industries where it has been introduced, the goal of deregulation is to enhance competition and bring consumers new choices and economic benefits. The process has, obviously, necessitated reformulation...
Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organisations
Vehicles for Social and Labour Market Integrations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In many countries, particularly in continental Europe, societies have been plagued by high unemployment for several decades. Simultaneously, due to recent shifts from industrial to service-oriented post-industrial societies, labor as a significant culture code is increasingly loosing importance. Because...