crc press apr 2015 (29 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Accessible to nonspecialists and beginning students, this work provides insight into physics using minimal mathematics and jargon. It highlights unusual aspects of physics and gives a new twist to some fundamental concepts. The book covers both classical and modern physics in an engaging, straightforward style. The author presents perplexing questions that often lack satisfying answers and includes many examples that reveal interesting ideas. He also delves into the stories of famous and eccentric past scientists.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The research has demonstrated the potential and the limitations of combining experimental fieldwork with modelling to optimize agricultural water productivity for Teff cultivation. Focusing on only experimental fieldwork is a single approach, and is hardly ever sufficient for achieving the best solutions to the current water management problems. New guidelines on using the combined effort of experimental work in the field to produce field experimental data and using models are clearly needed. It is to these needs as well as to the required increase of Teff production under water scarce conditions that this research has provided its main contribution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is about irrigation performance in two distinct typologies of irrigation schemes: large-scale sugar estate schemes and community managed schemes. The thesis identifies the major irrigation performance challenges and concerns in the two categories of schemes. Moreover, variations in performance between the same irrigation typologies as a result of differences in water management modalities were addressed. Hydraulic/water delivery performance in the sugar estate schemes was evaluated using routinely collected offtake flow data and hydrodynamic modelling. In addition to comparative performance evaluation, the thesis introduced assessing the internal irrigation service (utility) using qualitative data from the water users' perspective in the community-managed schemes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space. It emphasizes the roles of Hausdorff measure and the capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions. The book covers theorems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a rigorous theoretical treatment of the results and mathematical foundation of adaptive design theory. The authors introduce the statistical models most commonly used in comparative experiments. They then illustrate biased coin and urn designs that only take into account past treatment allocations as well as designs that use past data, such as sequential maximum likelihood and doubly adaptive designs. The book also covers multipurpose adaptive experiments involving utilitarian choices and ethical issues and discusses covariate-adaptive methods.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reinforcement learning (RL) is a framework for decision making in unknown environments based on a large amount of data. Several practical RL applications for business intelligence, plant control, and gaming have been successfully explored in recent years. Providing an accessible introduction to the field, this book covers model-based and model-free approaches, policy iteration, and policy search methods. It presents illustrative examples and state-of-the-art results, including dimensionality reduction in RL and risk-sensitive RL. The book provides a bridge between RL and data mining and machine learning research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book shows how to take advantage of mathematical models when developing strategies to mitigate infectious disease transmission. It presents a way of modeling as well as modeling results that help to guide the effective management of infectious disease transmission and outbreak response. It discusses the requirements for preventing epidemics and ways to quantify the impact of preventative public health interventions on the size and dynamics of an epidemic. The book also illustrates how data are used to inform model choice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the nonlinear distortion of multicarrier signals. First, it outlines the basic principles of multicarrier transmission and multicarrier-based systems. Next, it presents a unified approach to well-known analytical results on memoryless nonlinearities that takes advantage of the Gaussian behavior of multicarrier signals. This is followed by a theoretical study of the accuracy of the Gaussian approximation usually used for multicarrier signals. The book concludes with a study of the performance of some multicarrier-based systems in the presence of different types of nonlinear devices.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This first volume presents fundamental, classical statistical concepts at the doctorate level without using measure theory. It covers estimation, prediction, testing, confidence sets, Bayesian analysis, and the general approach of decision theory. This edition gives careful proofs of major results and explains how the theory sheds light on the properties of practical methods. The book includes in-depth examples throughout as well as many exercises at the end of each chapter.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collecting information previously scattered throughout the literature, this text provides students with one unified guide to contemporary developments in the field. It shows students how atomic physics has played a key role in many other areas of physics. Important topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, stimulated transitions and the properties of gas, the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, coherence, cooling and trapping of charged and neutral particles, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Summarizing the state of the art in sensor and transducer technology, this book will help readers make more informed selections of sensors or transducers for particular applications. The book describes the differences between new sensor and transducer technologies that are based on nanotechnology and nanofabrication and the older or 'classical' sensor technologies. It presents the new structures of pressure sensors being used in such applications as mechanical pressure sensing, gas pressure sensing, and atmospheric pressure sensing. Each chapter in the book includes a set of short questions with answers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Resource allocation is an important issue in wireless communication networks. In recent decades, cognitive radio-based networks have garnered increased attention and have been well studied to overcome the problem of spectrum scarcity in future wireless communication systems. Many new challenges in resource allocation appear in cognitive radio-based networks. This book focuses on effective resource allocation solutions in several important cognitive radio-based networks, including opportunistic spectrum access networks, cooperative sensing networks, cellular networks, high-speed vehicle networks, and smart grids.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A companion to the author's highly praised textbook, this manual presents wet lab methods for courses in biophysics or molecular biology. Tested in a pedagogical setting, the experiments follow a logical progression beginning with a DNA construct. The book starts with the basics of molecular cloning: amplifying and purifying plasmid, plasmid mapping, and using restriction enzymes. Later experiments deal with more advanced techniques, such as the synthesis and characterization of quantum dots and gold nanoparticles, protein crystallization, and spectroscopic techniques.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Game AI Pro2 presents cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) in games, drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. It contains knowledge, advice, hard-earned wisdom, and insights gathered from across the community of developers and researchers who have devoted themselves to game AI. The book provides a toolbox of proven techniques that can be applied to many common and not-so-common situations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by a renowned teacher, researcher, and professional consultant in applied dynamics, this book represents a revolutionary approach to modern engineering dynamics analysis-one you can assimilate quickly and easily to get immediate results. The eleventh edition includes a new chapter on Lagrangian Dynamics, and many new and revised examples and chapter problems. The book begins by establishing the premise that most dynamics engineers are developing and analyzing models to predict motion, and that the subject of differential equations is the natural language for dynamics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them. Because they come mainly from the environmental and science disciplines, most environmental professionals have limited training in the fundamentals of economics. This book is designed to provide those professionals not only with the basic principles of economics for foundational purposes but also the economic pros and cons to consider when making critical decisions on environmental issues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Divided into five sections, this book offers 200 graph-theoretical matrices covering adjacency and related matrices, distance and related matrices, incidence matrices, and special and graphical matrices. It provides insight into the properties and potential usefulness of many novel graph-theoretical matrices in chemistry. Most of the graph-theoretical matrices presented have been used as sources of molecular descriptors usually referred to as topological indices. They are concerned with a special class of graphs that represent molecules.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first publication to provide comprehensive guidance regarding the identification, characterization, and interpretation of mouse developmental defects. It emphasizes the interpretation of abnormal phenotypes and provides detailed protocols for appropriately processing mouse embryos, fetuses, neonates, juveniles, and placentas. A complete reference on the design, analysis, and interpretation of abnormal findings, the book is enhanced with numerous full-color illustrations, enabling readers to comprehend both normal development and the major categories of defects that may be seen in malformed developing mice (and placentas) of all ages. The extensive literature citations provide a starting point for additional reading to begin building true expertise in the field.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A truly integrated collection of research, this book compares Ayurvedic and Western conceptions of wellness, healthy lifestyle, and diet. Examining the phyto-pharmacological, phytochemical, clinical, ethnobotanical, socio-cultural, and biomedical approaches to plant- and herb-based healthy diets and wellness, it includes approximately 40 selected monographs on fruits, vegetables, spices, nuts, and seeds complete with Ayurvedic and traditional uses as nutritional ingredients. It offers evidence based on the scientific literature on chemical composition, nutritional properties, mechanisms of action and influences at the cellular level as well as extensive references for further study.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Systems Engineering and Analysis of Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems integrates solid fundamental systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques with the technical focus of contemporary Electro-Optical and Infrared optics, imaging, and detection methodologies and systems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examining the fastest growing sector in the biopharmaceutical market, this book discusses the advancement of protein drug development using peptides and proteins as the basis for prophylactic agents such as newly developed vaccines. As in the first two editions, this book employs a simple and straightforward style to discuss protein formulation and delivery from the basic to the more complex factors affecting protein stability and delivery. This third edition includes new information on insulin analogs, monoclonals, microneedles, and U.S. FDA guidelines.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book details chiroptical spectroscopic methods: electronic circular dichroism (ECD), optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), and vibrational Raman optical activity (VROA). For each technique, the text presents experimental methods for measurements and theoretical methods for analyzing the experimental data. It also includes a set of experiments that can be adopted for undergraduate teaching laboratories. Each chapter is written in an easy-to-follow format for novice readers, with necessary theoretical formalism in appendices for advanced readers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the fourth volume of The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, this book covers broad areas such as molecular biology, transport phenomena, physiological modeling, stem cells, drug delivery systems, artificial organs, and personalized medicine.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring contributions from world-renowned experts and overseen by a highly respected series editor, Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Synthetic Methods, Volume 3 compiles reliable protocols for the preparation of intermediates for carbohydrate synthesis or other uses in the glycosciences. Exploring carbohydrate chemistry from both the academic and industrial points of view, this unique resource brings together useful information into one convenient reference. To ensure reproducibility, an independent checker has verified the experimental parts involved by repeating the protocols or using the methods.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the last few years, the global economic outlook has continued to be shrouded in uncertainty and volatility following the financial crisis in the Euro zone. While the US and Europe are going through a difficult period, investors are focusing more keenly on Asia. This fifth edition provides overarching construction cost data for 16 countries: Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on polysulfones and their derivatives, which are used as functional materials due to their structural and physical characteristics. The text presents the bioapplications of polysulfones in two categories: blood-contacting devices and cell- or tissue-contacting devices. It analyzes surface wettability and hydrophilicity trends, as well as morphological characteristics of modified polysulfones. It also introduces chelating units on the modified polysulfone structure to obtain potential applications, such as surface coatings, adhesives, high-temperature lubricants, electrical insulators, semiconductors, and the reduction of heavy-metal pollution in ecosystems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Designed to provide beginners with an introduction to optical metrology without sacrificing rigor, this handbook discusses key principles and techniques before exploring practical applications. It explores everything from interferometry, holography, and Moiré metrology to diffraction, scattering, and polarization. This second edition is fully revised to reflect the latest developments. It also includes four new chapters-nearly 100 pages-on optical coherence tomography for industrial applications, interference microscopy for surface structure analysis, noncontact dimensional and profile metrology by video measurement, and optical metrology in manufacturing technology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book covers polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) from fundamentals to applications, describing their structure, properties, characterization, synthesis, and use in electrochemical energy storage and solar energy conversion technologies. The text discusses cutting-edge methodologies in PEM material selection and fabrication, providing an overview of the state of the art of PEM development, while pointing out important challenges and recommending mitigation strategies to improve PEM performance. It analyzes the current integration of PEMs with primary power devices and explores research trends for the next generation of PEMs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book discusses the synthesis, characterization, and properties of multifunctional cellulose-based graft copolymers, offering an overview of the latest technical accomplishments. Presenting the contributions of accomplished experts in the field of natural cellulosic polymers, the text addresses a separate biomaterial in each chapter, exploring composition as well as graft copolymerization chemistry. It covers fundamentals and applications, tackles several critical issues, provides suggestions for future work, and supplies deeper insight into the state of the art of advanced cellulose-based graft copolymers.