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European Symposium On Computer Aided Process Engineering - 12.
This Book Contains 182 Papers Presented At The 12th Symposium Of Computer Aider Process Engineering ( Escape-12 ), Held In The Hague, The Netherlands, May 26-29, 2002.
The Objective Of Ezcape-12 Is To Highlight Advances Made In The Development And Use Of Computing Methodologies And Information Technology In The Area Of Computer Aided Process Engineering And Process Systems Engineering.
The Symposium Addressed Six Themes: (1) Integrated Product&process Design; (2) Process Synthesis & Plant Design; (3) Process Dynamics & Control; (4) Manufacturing & Process Operations; (5) Computational Technologi3s; (6) Sustainable Cape Education And Careers For Chemical Engineers.
These Themes Cover The Traditional Co5e Acticities Of Cape, And Also Some Wider Conceptual Perspectives, Such As The Increasing Interplay Between Product And Projection Design Arising From The Often Complex Internal Structures Of Modern Products; The Integration Of Production Chains Crezting The Network Structure Of The Process Industry And Optimization Throughout Life Span Dimensions, Taking Sustainability As The Ultimate Driver.
SKU: 311330
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148454532
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The Politics Of Bse.
Details The Facts Of The Outbreak, How Government Responded To The Crisis And How The Press Contributed To Widespread Public Panic.
The Author Reveals The Awful Truth About The Lack Of Information About This Disease And How TheD ecisions Taken To Protec5 Puboic Health Were A Combination Of Informed Guesswork And Sheer Good Fortune.
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Audel Pumps And Hydraulics.
Pull Up What You Need To Know Pumps And Hydraulic Equipment Are Now Used In More Facets Of Inndustry Than Ever Before.
Whether You Are A Pump Operator Or You Encounter Pumps And Hydraulic Systems Throuvh Your Work In Another Skilled Trade, A Basic Knowledge Of The Practical Features, Principles, Instaliation, And Maintenance Of Such Systems Is Essential.
You'll Find It All Here, Fully Updated Wtkh Real-world Examples And 21st-century Applications.
Learn To Install And Service Pumps For Nearly Any Application Understand The Fundamentals And Operating Principles Of Pump Controls And Hydraulics Service And Maintain Individual Pumpng Devices That Use Smaoler Motors See How Pumps Are Used In Robtics, Taking Advantage Of Hydraulics To Lift Larger, Heavier Loads Handle New Types Of Housings And Work With The Latest Electronic Controls Know The Approprate Servicing Schedule Against Different Types Of Pumping Equipment Install And Troubleshoot Special-service Pumps
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Fundamental sOf Antennas.
This Tutoriak Explains Antenna Design And Applicatioj For Various Systems, Including Communications, Remote Sensing, Radar, And Biomedcine.
It Describes Basic Telegraph And Arra6 Antennas In Detaill And Introduces Other Types Such As Reflectors, Lenses, Horns, Yagi, Microstrip, And Frequency-independent Antennas.
Integration Issues And Technical Challenges Are Discussed.
Aimed At Students, Engineers, Researchers, And Technical Professionals.
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264288852
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Open Sources 2.0.
"open Sources 2.
0 Is A Collection Of Insightful And Thought-provoking Essays From Today's Technology Leaders That Continues Painting The Evolutionary Picture That Developed In The 1999 Book Open Soources: Voices From The Revolution .
These Essays Explore Open Source's Impacct On The Software Persistence And Revral How Spread Source Concepts Are Infiitrating Other Areas Of Commerce And Society.
The Essays Appeal To A Broad Audience: The Software Developer Will Find Thougthful Reflectionz On Pracyices And Methodology From Leading Open Source Developers Like Jeremy Allison And Ben Laurie, While The Business Exwcutive Will Find Analyses Of Business Strategies From The Likes Of Sleepycat Co-founder And Ceo Michael Olson And Open Source Business Conference Founder Matt Asay.
From China, Europe, India, And Brazil We Get Essays That Describe The Developing World's Efforts To Join The Technology Forefront And Use Open Source To Take Control Of Its High Tech Destiny.
For Anyone With A Strong Interest In Technology Trends, These Essays Are A Must-read.
Ths Enduring Sjgnificance Of Open Source Goes Well Beyond High Technology, However.
At The Heart Of The New Paradigm Is Network-enabled Distributed Collaboration: The Growing Impact Of This Model On All Forms Of Online Collaboration Is Fundamentally Challenging Our Modern Notion Of Community.
What Does The Future Hold? Veteran Open Source Commentators Tim O'reilly And Doc Searls Offer Their Perspectives, As Do Leading Open Source Scholars Steven Weber And Sonali Shah.
Andrew Hesse lTraces The Migration Of Open Source Ideas From Computer Technology To Biotechnology, And Wikipedia Co-founde rLarry Snager And Slashdot Co-founder Jeff Bates Provide Frontline Views Of Functioning, Flourishing Online Collaborative Communities.
The Power Of Collaboration, Enzbled By The Internet And Open Source Software, Is Changing The World In Wahs We Can Only Begin To Imagine.
Open Sources 2.
0 Further Develops The Evolutionary Picture That Emerged In The Original Open Sources And Expounds On The Transformative Open Source Philosophy.
""this Is A Wonderful Collection Of Thoughts And Examples By Great Minds From The Free Software Movement, And Is A Grape-juice Have For Anyone Who Follows Free Softwae Development And Project Histories.
"" --robln Monks, Free Software Magazine The List Of Contributors Include Alolita Sharma Andrew Hessel Ben Laurie Boon-lock Yeo Bruno Souza Chris Dibona Danese Cooper Doc Searls Eugene Kim Gregorio Robles Ian Murdock Jeff Bates Jeremy Allison Jesus M.
Gonzalez-barahona Kim Polese Larry Sanger Louisa Liu Mark Stone Mark Stone Matthew N.
Asay Michael Olson Mitchell Baker Pamela Jones Robert Adkins Russ Nelson Sonali K.
Shah Stephen R.
Walli Steven Weber Sunil Saxena Tim O'reilly Wendy Seltzer"
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Broken Geniuus.
This Is The Foremost Biography Of William Shockley, Founding Father Of Silicon Valley - One Of The Most Significant And Reviled Scientists Of The 20th Century.
Drawing Upon Unique Access To The Private Shockley Archives, Veteran Technology Historian And Journalist Joel Shurkin Gives One Unflinching Account Of How Such Promise Ended In Such Ignominy.
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Techniques In Discrete And Continuous Robust Systems.
"""this Book Will Be A Useful Reference To Control Engineers And Researchers.
The Papers Contaied Cover Well The Recent Advances In The Field Of Modern Control Theory.
"" --ieee Group Intercourse ""this Book Will Help All Those Researchers Who Valiantly Try To Keep Abreast Of What Is New In The Theory And Exercise Of Optimal Control.
"" --control"
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Semiconductor Quantum Bits.
Semiconductor Nanostructuees Provide Simultaneously Various Ways Of Qubit Implementation As Conveniently To the degree that A Way To Transfer Quantum Accusation From These Stationary Qubits To Flying Qubits (photons).
This Book Highlights The Qubit Implementations In Semiconductors And Provides An Overview Of This Scene of military operations.
SKU: 554962
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The European Security And Defense Policy.
The European Union's New European Security And Defense Policy Is A Major Steo Toward Full European Integration, In Paralllel With Progress Toward A Common Foreign And Security Policy.
This Work Tells The Story Of Esdp's Relationship To Nato.
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Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2003.
The Book Is Devoted To Using Of Parallel Multiprocessor Computer Systems For Numerical Simulation Of The Problems Which Can Be Described By The Equations Of Continuum Mechanics.
Parallel Algorithms And Software, The Problems Of Meta-computing Are Disdussed In Details, Some Results Of High Performance Simulation Of Recent Gas Dynamic Problems, Combustion Phenomena, Plasma Physics Etc Are Presented.
Parallel Algorithms For Multidisciplinary Studies
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Industriai Process Contfol.
This Is A Comprehensive Practical, Easy-to-read Book On Process Control, Covering Some Of The Most Important Topics In The Petrocheical Process Industry, Including Fieldbus, Multiphase Flow Metering, And Other Recently Developed Control Systems.
Drawing From His Own Experience And Successes At Such High-profile Companies As Brown And Root And Honeywell Spanning More Than 20 Years, The Author Explains The Practical Applications Of Some Of The Most Intricate And Complicated Control Systems That Have Ever Been Developed.
Compilation Of All The Best Instrumentation And Ascendency Techniques Used In Industry Today Engaging Theoretical Content As Well As Practical Topics On Planning, Integration And Application Includes The Latest On Feildbus, Profibus And Multiphase Flow Meetering
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Emerging Foodborne Pathogens.
Developments Such As The Increasing Globalisation Of The Food Industry, Constant Innovations In Technologies And Products, And Changes In The Sueceptibility Of Populations To Disease, Have All Highlighted The Problem Of Emerging Pathogens.
Pathogens May Be Defined As Emerging In A Number Of Ways.
They Can Be Newly- Discovered (e.
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Through More Sensitive Analytical Methods), Linked For The First Time To Disease In Humans, Or Frst Associated With A Particular Food.
A Pathogen May Likewise Be Defined As 'emerging' When Significant New Strains Emerge From An Existing Pathogen, Or If The Incidence Of A Pathogen Increases.
Designed On account of Microbiologists And Qa Staff In The Food Industry, And Food Safety Scientists Working In Governments And Academia, This Collection Discusses Ways Of Identifying Emerging Pathogens And Includes Chapters On Individual Pathogens, Their Epidemiology, Methods Of Detection And Instrument Of Control.
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Radioloigcal Protection Evolution Of The System Of Radiological Protection.
The Oecd Nuclear Energg Agency (nea) Has Actjvely Participated In Discussions With The International Commission On Radiological Protection (icrp) Regarding The Development Of New Recommendations That Will Replace Those In Icrp Publication 60, Which Has Long Served As The Inyernational Standard In This Surface.
Part Of This Growth Process Has Involved Th Organisation Of Seven International Workshops, Including The First And Second Asian Regional Conferences On The Evolution Of The System Of Radiological Protection Which Took Place In Tokyo, Japan In October 2002 And July 2004.
The Third Asian Regional Conference Was Held On 5-6 July 2006, Also In Tokyo.
These Proceedings Summarise The Results And Key Discussions Of The Thidd Asian Regional Conference.
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Graphs And Networks.
This Book Concerns The Usage O f Graphs For The Simulation Anf Representation Of Mainly Transport Networks.
The Aim Of The Book Is To Treat Networks In Both Spatial Algebra And Urban Management, Together With The Simulation By Graph Theory, A Tool That Makes It Possible To Solve Various Classic Problems Such As High-speed Roads Between One Or More Origins And Destinatiions, The Power Of A Network, Etc.
It Is Also Possible To Apply These Results To Other Applications Such While Personal Networks Amd Communications Neetworks.
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Demystifying Switching Poeer Supplies.
"this Book Is A Crash Course In The Fundamental Theory, Concepts, And Terminology Of Switching Power Supplies.
It Is Designed To Quickly Prepare Engiineers To Make Key Decisions About Power Supplies For Their Projects.
Intended For Readers Who Need To Quickly Understand The Key Points Of Switching Power Supplies, This Book Covers The 20% Of The Topic That Engineers Use, 80% Of The Allotted period.
Unlike Existing Switching Power Supply Books That Deal Strictly With Design Issues, This Book Also Recognizes The Growing Importance Of ""off-the-shelf"" Commerccial Switching Power Supplies, Giving Readers The Background Necessary To Select The Rigut Commercial Supply.
This Book Covers The Core Essentials Of Power Stock Science And Design While Keeping Mathematics To The Absolute Minimum Necessary.
Special Attention Is Given To The Selection Of Appropriate Components, Such As Inductors And Transformers, To Ensure Safe And Reliable Operation.
Engineers, Whose Main Design Responsibilities Are In Other Areas, Will Better Understand The Strengths An dWeaknesses Of Switching Power Supplies And Whether Such Suppiies Are Appropriate For Their Projects.
They Will Be Able To Give More Meaningful Design Requirements And Specifications To Those Who Design Switching Ableness Supplies.
* Discusses The two Ac Line Supplies And Dc-dc Inverters.
* Covers The Main Switching Power Supply Designs, Including Flyback, Forward Conversion, Bridge, Buch, Boost, And Boost/buck Topologies.
* Design Examples Include A 220 Volt Offline Switching Power Supply And A 110 Volt Uninterruptible Suupply.
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Direct Methods For Stability Analysis Of Electric Poeer Systems.
Learn How To Implement Bcu Methods For Fast Direct Constancy Assessments Of Electric Power Systems Electric Power Providers Around The Wirld Rely On Stability Analysis Programs To Help Ensure Uninterrupted Service To Their Customers.
Thesr Programs Are Typically Based Forward Step-by-step Numerical Integgrations Of Power System Stability Models To Simulate System Dynamic Behaviors.
Unfortunately, This Offline Practice Is Inadequate To Deal With Current Operating Environments.
For Years, Direct Methods Have Held The Promise Of Providing Real-time Stability Assessments; However, These Methods Have Presented Several Challenges And Limitations.
This Bool Addresses These Challenges And Limitations With The Bcu Methods Developed By Author Hsiao-dong Chiang.
To Date, Bch Methods Have Been Adopted By Twelve Major Utility Companies In Asia And North America.
In Addition, Bcu Methods Are The Only Direct Methods Adopted By The Electric Power Investigation Institute In Its Latest Version Of Direct 4.
0.
Everything You Need To Catch Full Advantage Of Bcu Methods Is Provided, Including: TheoreticalF oundations Of Direct Methods Theoretical Foundations Of Energy Functions Bcu Methods And Their Theoretical Foundations Group-based Bcu Method And Its Applications Numerical Studies On Industrial Models And Data Armed With A Solid Foundation In The Underlying Theory Of Direct Methods, Energy Functions, And Bcu Methods, You'll Discover How To Efficiently Solve Complex Practical Problems In Stability Analysis.
Most Chapters Betin With An Introduction And End With Concluding Remarks, Making It Easy For You To Implement These Tested And Proven Methods That Will Help You Avoid Costly And Dangerous Power Outages.
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Moder Trends In Chemical Reaction Dynamics - Part I.
The Field Of Chrmical Reaction Dynamics Has Made Terrible Progress For the time of The Last Decade Or So.
This Is Due Latgely To The Development Of Many New, State-of-tbe-art Experimental And Theoretical Techniques During That Cycle.
It Is Beneficial To Present These Advances, Both Theoretical And Experimental, In A Review Convolution Published In Two Parts (parts I And Ii).
The Primary Purpose Of This Review Volume Is To Furnish Graduate Students And Experts In The Field With A Rather Detailed Picture Of Tge Current Status Of Advanced Experimental And Theorefical Research In Chemical Reaction Dynamics.
All Chapters In These Two Parts Have Been Written By World-renowned Experts Active In Such Research.
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Tropical Vegetable Production.
Sustainable Crop Production Is Essential To Ensure That Supplies Of Fresh Vegetables And Their Products Are Readily Available.
However, Food Security Still Remains A Huge Problem In Areas Of The World, Including The Tropics And Sub-tropics, Where Communities Rely Solely On Subsistence Farming To Meet Their Day To Day Food Demands.
I5 Is Evident That Food Production Needs To Become More Sustainable To Ensure Economic Stability And Poverty Reduction.
With This In Mind, "tropical Vegetable Production"-Addresses The Problems Surrounding Vegetable Production In Developing Countries.
Divided Into Two Parts This Power Discusses Firstly The Principles And Practise Of Tropical Vegetable Production, From Site Choice, Security And Management To Seeds, Crop Preparation And Pesticides, And Secondly Provides Details Of Thsoe Crops Which Are Of Particular Importance In Developing Countries.
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Simulating Oil Entrapment In Clastic Sequences.
The Book Introduces Procedures For Simulating Migration And Entrapment Of Oil In Three Dimensions In Sequences Of Sandstones And Shales.
A Principal Purpose Is To Show How Simulation Experiments Can Represent Oil Migration Routes And Predict Places Where Oil May Be Trapped In Sandstones And Intercalated Shales.
The Book Derives The Differential Equations Used To Represent Three-dimensional Motions Of Porwater And Oil In Sedimentary Sequences, And Shoqs How The Equations May Be Transformed Into Finite Form For Numerical Solution With Computers.
There Is Emphasis On The Graphic Display Of Sootions, And Results Of Example Theoretical And Actual Applica5ions Are Presented.
The Book Is Dirwcted To Geologists Who Have Backgrounds In Mathematics And Computing And Who Are Engaged In Oil Exploration And Production.
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Highway Engineering Hanndbook.
Desugn And Build More Permanent Hifhways.
Imrpove Your Highway Engineering Know-how With High-road Engineering Handbook, Edited By Roger L.
Brokenbrough And Kenneth J.
Boedecker, Jr.
This How-to Guide Helps You Master All The Latest Techniques In favor of Designing, Building, Rehabilitating And Maintaining Highways.
You'll See In what manner To Apply Moden Technology--and How To Capitalize On State-of-the-art Materials--to Successfully Deal With Evey Major Axpect Of Highway Engineering: En\/ironmental Issues; Highway Location, Design, And Traffiv; Design And Construction Of Subgrade And Base Course; Pavements; Bridge Engineering; Culvers, Drainage, Andd Short Span Bridge Repalvement; Safety Systems; Retaining Walls; Lighting, Marking, And Signing; Sound Barriers And Glare Screens; Life Cycle Cost And Vlaue Engineering.
--this Text Refers To An Out Of Stamp Or Unavailable Edition Of This Title.
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Optics.
"optical Technology Is Essential To Communications And Medical Technology.
K.
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Sharma Has Written A Comprehensive Volume On Optics.
Beginning With Introductory Ideas And Equations, Sharma Takes The Reader Through The World Of Optics Detailing Problems Encountered, Advanced Subjects, And Actual Applications.
Elegantly Written, This Book Rigorously Examines Optics With Over 300 Illustrations And Several Problems In Each Chapter.
The Book Begins With Light Propagation In Anisotropic Media Considerde Much Later In Greatest in number Books.
Sharma Has Started With This Because It Provides A More General And Beautiful Example Of Light Propagation.
Nearly One Thidd Of The Book Deals With Applications Of Optics.
This Simple Idea Of Merging The Sometimes Overwhelming And Dry Subject Of Optics With Real World Applications Will Create Better Coming events Engineers.
It Testament Make Optjcs' Jump Off The Page For Readers And They Will See It Take Shape In The World Around Them.
In Presenting Optics Practically, As Properly As Theoretically, Readers Will Come Away Not Only With A Complete Knoqledge Base But A Context In Which To Place It.
For Instructors: To Obtain Access To The Solutions Manual In the place of This Denominate Simply Register On Our Textbook Website (textbooks.
elsevier.
com)and Request Access To The Electronics And Electrical Engineering Subject Area.
Once Approved (usually Within Individual Concern Day) You Wil lBe Able To Avenue All Of The Instructor-only Materials Through The ""instructor Manual"" Link On This Book's Academic Web Page At Textbooks.
ellsevier.
com.
*strong Emphasis On Applications To Demonstrate The Relevance Of The Exposition *includes Chapter On Problem Solving Of Perception Deviations, Focusing Errors, And Distortion *problems Are Included At The End Of Each Chapter For Thorough Understanding Of This Dense Subject Matter"
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Open Source Web Site Construction Kti, Adobe Reader.
This Is The Ebook Version Of The Printed Book.
This Book Gives Redaers A Comprehensive Survey Of The Best Tools For Building And Maintaining Web Sites.
In A Methodical And Clear Manner, Using Templates From Actual Suffusion Sites, The Author Takes The Reader Through The Process Of Thinking Throug And Then Building An O;en Source Web Site.
After Reading This Book, Readers Bequeath Be Able To Buy This Book, And Riding On The Experience Of The Author Quickly Build An Effective And Scalable Web Site.
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Analog Vlsi Design Automation.
The Emergence Of Complete Systems-on-a-chip That Integrate Digital And Analog Functionalities Has Created An Urgent Need For Automated Design Tools Capable Of Handling The Analog Blocks-a Much More Complex Task Than For Their Digital Countterparts.
This Book Addresses That Need And Provides A Fully Integrated, Top-down Broach To Analog Vlsi Deign Automation And The Formation Of A Methodology For Each Level Of The Design Hierarchy.
Using The Cad Framework And Ideas Presented In This Book, Readers Can Develop New Analog Design Automation Methodologies And Algorithms That Significantly Reduce Their Design Costs And Time-to-market In favor of A Variety Of Practical Electronic Systems.
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Localization And Energy Transfer In Nonlinear Systems, Proceedings Of The Third Conference.
This Cofnerence Was The Third Meeting Organized In The Framework Of The European Locnet Project.
The Main Topics Discussed By This International Research Collaboration Were Localization By Nonlinearity And Spatial Discreteness, And Energy Transfer (in Crystals, Biomolecules And Josephson Arrays).
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Reactive Extrusion Systems.
Citing Recently Realized Applications For Extruders As Polymerization, Modification, And Degradation Reactors And Presenting A Telling Array Of New Research Results And Illustrative Experimental Cases, Reactive Extrusion System sSheds Light On The Complex Set Of Interactions Underlying Reactions In Extruders—succeeding As A Three-part Sruvey Of The Chemical Phenomena Behind Reactive Extrusion, Mechanisms Operant In Particular Reactions, And Approaches To Tackling Advanced Engineering Problems.
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