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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
This book focuses on foundry-based process technology that enables the fabrication of 3-D ICs. The core of the book discusses the technology platform for pre-packaging wafer lever 3-D ICs. However, this book does not include a detailed discussion of 3-D ICs design and 3-D packaging. This is an edited...
by Stanley Singer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1837 a comprehensive discussion of lightning appeared in the Annual of the French Bureau des Longitudes with a section on ball lightning which provided for the first time a readily available source in the scientific literature of the basic properties of this curious natural phenomenon. The author,...
by Douglas A. Milner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The development of the 'factory of the future' by major international corporations such as General Motors, IBM, Westinghouse, etc now involves many practising engineers. This book is an attempt to identify and describe some of the building blocks required for computer aided engineering for manufacture....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of change in an organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another; and internal form through the series of time-entrained events which build...
Women, Work and Computerization
Charting a Course to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
ELLENBALKA Simon Fraser University ebalka@Sfu. ca 1. INTRODUCTION In developing the call for papers for the 7th International Federation of Information Processors (IFIP) Women, Work and Computerization Conference, we sought to cast our net widely. We wanted to encourage presenters to think broadly...
Environmental Micropaleontology
The Application of Microfossils to Environmental Geology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Martin Weidenbörner
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Mycotoxins are substances produced from fungal secondary metabolic processes. They impair animal health, thereby causing great economic losses of livestock through disease. Livestock come into contact with mycotoxins through contaminated feedstuff. Feedstuff is any of the constituent nutrients of...
Urban Sediment Removal
The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is not an extensive literature on street sweeping. Much of the research that has been completed exists in the "gray" area of technical reports and government documents. Furthermore, a great deal of this research is locally based, and has not been widely published. Indeed, our review...
International Standardisation of Good Corporate Governance
Best Practices for the Board of Directors
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In International Standardisation of Good Corporate Governance - Best Practices for the Board of Directors the Academy of Directors (AoD) presents a multidisciplinary approach for the governance of a company.
The AoD also aims to use the interaction between the academic and the business world to change...
Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems
Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 13.2 Conference on Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems Stuttgart, Germany, September 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems presents research and development and industrial experience of usability engineering for multimedia user interfaces. The book discusses the methods, tools and guidelines for multimedia use and implementation and covers the following topics in detail:
Design...
Academic Scientists at Work
Navigating the Biomedical Research Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This work guides the scientist on the journey from the end of a postdoctoral career to the point of promotion to Associate Professor. It includes a CD-ROM containing template worksheets and point-by-point instructions on how to complete them,
with downloadable blank worksheet versions. Included...
New Dimensions in Bioethics
Science, Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last three decades, bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration, including medical ethics, environmental ethics and more recently, genetic ethics. For reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject and to the poignancy of the problems presented,...
Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management
A Different Approach to ISO 14000 Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is clear that our environment is changing, and not for the better. Companies cannot ignore environmental issues anymore. Public awareness is growing, legislation is tightening, and demand for ISO 14000 compliance is rising. For many, however, the field of environmental management (including ISO...
Intelligent Transportation and Evacuation Planning
A Modeling-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
Intelligent Transportation and Evacuation Planning: A Modeling-Based Approach provides a new paradigm for evacuation planning strategies and techniques. Recently, evacuation planning and modeling have increasingly attracted interest among researchers as well as government officials. This interest...