crc press aug 2016 (22 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Animator's Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing. It will show readers how to access their inner 'animator.' With over 60 different gesture and drawing exercises, this book enhances vision, analysis, understanding, and the core skills required to become a master animator. Filled with extensive practice pages, Tony White's Sketchbook, invites students to demonstrate what they learn. Each exercise is timed, so that the skills acquired, are optimized for efficiency and comprehension. The style and technique of the art produced will be entirely up to the reader, thus making no two sketchbooks alike. Key Features Provides readers with their own personal sketchbook, demonstrating classical art skills that are highly prized by studio employers Readers will come away better visualizing form, gesture, pose and expression Includes 60 speed and gesture drawing exercises Provides the perfect way for students of animation to improve their core skills Perfect for animation instructors who can rely on this unique course workbook to take their students to new levels of classic visualizing expertise.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Experience the thrill of crafting your own HTML5 game with Phaser.js game engine. HTML5 and modern JavaScript game engines have helped revolutionized web based games. Each chapter in An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js showcases a sample game that illustrates an aspect of Phaser.js (now Lazer.js) that can be used as is, or in remixed games of the developer's design. Each of these examples help the reader to understand how to optimize JavaScript game development with modern project tooling like Grunt and Bower. Though the world of HTML game development continues to grow and evolve, An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js, provides a grounded resource and vital learning tool to anyone looking to optimize web game development process. Key FeaturesChapter objectives and examples with sample code make concepts easy to graspMaster questions and chapter summaries further help to solidify these conceptsFeature boxes that contain important hints and things to note help keep readers on the right pathThis book uses a 'building blocks' approach to game development and starts with the technology required to get things runningEach chapter will be a small sample game that demonstrates one piece of Phaser.js, giving the reader time to grasp and understand the core conceptsSubsequent chapters will demonstrate new features, building upon the knowledge of previous examples.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is designed to help the busy practitioner develop a differential diagnosis for the otolaryngology problems they encounter in the outpatient, inpatient, or emergency setting. The authors discuss clinical presentations and treatments, complemented by photographs of examinations and procedures to help physicians with diagnosis. The book features concise descriptions and highlights key treatment plans for the most common conditions in otolaryngology. For ease of reference, chapters are organised into five major sections, reflecting the make-up of the specialty: Otology, Rhinology/Skull Base, Laryngology, Head & Neck, Facial Plastics, and Pediatrics. Easy to read and richly illustrated with relevant clinical photographs and diagrams, this book will be an indispensable reference for otolaryngologists, primary care providers, physician assistants, nurses, and students.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DNA Nanoscience: From Prebiotic Origins to Emerging Nanotechnology melds two tales of DNA. One is a look at the first 35 years of DNA nanotechnology to better appreciate what lies ahead in this emerging field. The other story looks back 4 billion years to the possible origins of DNA which are shrouded in mystery. The book is divided into three parts comprised of 15 chapters and two Brief Interludes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The growing complexity of projects and the uncertainty that reigns in today's global economy are rendering ineffective traditional project practices and processes. These outdated techniques are based on the premise that knowledge about a project is complete before it ever starts-this is nearly impossible in today's ever-changing world. New methods are needed to allow projects to adapt to changing conditions. Simply said, project management has to evolve! This book presents the latest steps in this evolution.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Melvin Greer and Kevin Jackson have assembled a comprehensive guide to industry-specific cybersecurity threats and provide a detailed risk management framework required to mitigate business risk associated with the adoption of cloud computing. This book can serve multiple purposes, not the least of which is documenting the breadth and severity of the challenges that today's enterprises face, and the breadth of programmatic elements required to address these challenges. This has become a boardroom issue: Executives must not only exploit the potential of information technologies, but manage their potential risks.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work addresses classification using mixture models broadly. Unlike traditional treatments of the subject that heavily focus on unsupervised approaches, this book gives attention to unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised classification paradigms. Case studies illustrate both non-Gaussian and Gaussian approaches to model selection.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book on performance fundamentals covers UNIX, OpenVMS, Linux, Windows, and MVS. Most of the theory and systems design principles can be applied to other operating systems, as can some of the benchmarks. The book equips professionals with the ability to assess performance characteristics in unfamiliar environments. It is suitable for practitioners, especially those whose responsibilities include performance management, tuning, and capacity planning. IT managers with a technical outlook also benefit from the book as well as consultants and students in the world of systems for the first time in a professional capacity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a comprehensive overview of methods of characterizing the mechanical properties of engineering materials using specimen sizes in the micro-scale regime (0.3-5.0 mm). A range of issues associated with miniature specimen testing like correlation methodologies for data transferability between different specimen sizes, use of numerical simulation/analysis for data inversion, application to actual structures using scooped out samples or by in-situ testing, and more importantly developing a common code of practice are discussed and presented in a concise manner.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Green engineering creates options that enable sustainability by developing chemicals, processes, value-added products, and systems that are environmentally preferable, energy and resource efficient, and often cost-effective. The present book focuses on these aspects including production of eco-friendly biodiesel, anaerobic digestion of pharmaceutical effluent, mass production of microalgae for industrial applications, waste mediated synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials for wastewater treatment, and the role of phytoremediation. It also covers biotechnological tools and techniques required for sustainable development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Researching Patient Safety and Quality in Health Care: A Nordic Perspective is an anthology based on contributions from leading researchers on quality and safety in healthcare in the Nordic countries together with four internationally renowned patient safety authors. Research on patient safety and quality has been dominated by countries such as the USA, England, Canada, and Australia. This book addresses the current debates in research on patient safety and quality in healthcare from a Nordic perspective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book addresses all structural systems used in high-voltage transmission lines, as well as their associated foundations. It also discusses the hardware used to support conductors, fabrication, and assembly. In developing countries, the term 'transmission structures' tends to mean lattice towers. That term actually includes a vast range of structural systems and configurations of various materials such as wood, steel, and concrete. This work covers those structures and configurations, filling existing knowledge gaps with practical, state-of-the-art information. A companion volume to Design of Electrical Transmission Lines: Line and System Modeling, this book provides a handy resource for practicing engineers, researchers, students, academics, and managers at utilities and electrical corporations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a logical and systematic approach to lymph node biopsies and guides general pathologists and haematopathologists alike through the maze of differential diagnoses, enabling them to reach an accurate diagnosis. It covers both classical and less well-known features of individual disease processes. The book is presented in an easy-to-read format and contains boxes for quick reference detailing the clinical, morphological, immunohistochemical, and genetic features of each entity. Thoroughly revised, the third edition also includes more than 300 high-quality histological colour photographs along with updated references.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources. Despite this scarcity, there remain numerous problems associated with the excessive and inappropriate use of phosphorus leading to non-point source pollution and eutrophication of natural waters. Identifying appropriate systems for managing soil phosphorus and reducing the risks of eutrophication are needed to minimize the environmental risks. This book focuses on the availability and recycling of phosphorus; regulatory and policy issues of sustainable phosphorus use; and water quality management in agroecosystems pertaining to phosphorus.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nutrients play a significant role in brain development throughout fetal and postnatal life. This book reviews the evidence from animal and human research, highlighting the influence of specific nutrients on brain function and cognitive development. With a unique, integrative approach to the nutritional, environmental, and genetic influences on brain development, the book examines issues such as single versus multiple limiting nutrients, critical periods of deficiency, and the impact of the child-parent relationship on the architecture of the developing brain.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work critically re-examines decades of work on the problem of Space from the traditional point of view, and offers a new perspective, based on the author's own extensive research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a series of control and filtering approaches for stochastic systems with traditional and emerging engineering-oriented complexities. Each chapter includes investigations of stability, robust performance, reliability, and/or disturbance attenuation. The text describes novel methodologies that can be applied extensively in lab simulations, field experiments, and real-world engineering practices to address challenges such as random delays, randomly occurring nonlinearities, time-variant nonlinearities, and more. Thus, this book provides a valuable reference for researchers and professionals in the signal processing and control engineering communities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates the spatial health inequalities in six most important topics in environmental and public health, including food insecurity, birth health outcomes, infectious diseases, children's lead poisoning, chronic diseases, and health care access. These are the topics that the author has done extensive research on and provides a detailed description of the topic from a global perspective. Each chapter identifies relevant data and data sources, discusses key literature on appropriate techniques, and then illustrates with real data with mapping and GIS techniques. This is a unique text book for students, geographers, clinicians, health and research professionals and community members interested in applying GIS and spatial analysis to the study of health inequalities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides basic theory of Electromagnetic Compatibility using simple equations expressed as magnitudes with worked examples. Applications and examples are described simply with numerous sketches and are useful for non specialist electronic engineers and technicians.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive collection of the latest information on nanomaterials and nanocomposites. It covers material synthesis, processing, structure characterization, properties and applications. It presents a coherent treatment of how composite properties depend on nanostructure, and covers cutting-edge topics like bionanocomposites for sustainable development. This book summarizes many developments in the field making it an ideal resource for researchers from industry, academia, government and private research institutions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on research efforts involved in the development of biobased lubricants and fuels. Among other things, it covers the advantages and disadvantages of using vegetable oil lubricants and their availability, the modification of vegetable oils for improving base oil properties, the use of new non-food oils as lubricant base oils, the transesterification route for making biodiesel and its properties dependent on feedstocks, the development of biobased lubricants for various applications and the oleochemical derived surfactants for metalworking applications.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring contributions from specialists in related research areas, this book presents expert summaries on state-of-the-art diagnostic approaches for major animal viral pathogens, with a particular emphasis on detection and differentiation at the molecular level. With broad coverage in a concise format, it is an essential reference for beginning and experienced laboratory scientists as well as students of virology. It also offers an indispensable guide applicable to medical, veterinary, and industrial settings that are dependent on speedy turnarounds, extreme sensitivity, and exquisite specificity of virological testing for decision making and disease prevention.