Das Katz-und-Maus-Spiel geht weiter: Ganz allein in dem verschlossenen Schutzhaus ist Psychologe Katsuya dem Serienkiller Shinohara schutzlos ausgeliefert! Doch welches kranke Spiel hat dieser für ihn...
This beginning graduate-level text treats in detail the relations between internal, potential, and kinetic energy in the atmosphere. The first part of the book describes the generation, transformation...
On September 11, 2001 the World became completely cognizant of the security challenges it faces on an international scale. With this awareness a commitment has come from the scientific, engineering, a...
This exciting new book covers wireless systems and networks in ten thorough chapters. These range from the fundamentals of wireless communications and 2G and 3G mobile cellular systems through to MIMO...
As wireless and mobile technologies become more and more prevalent in businesses and our daily lives, organizations are starting to heavily invest in developing infrastructure and applications for mob...
A problem of broad interest - the estimation of the spectral gap for matrices or differential operators (Markov chains or diffusions) - is covered in this book. The area has a wide range of applicatio...
Both signal processing and image processing play increasingly important roles in remote sensing. Most data from satellites are in image forms; thus image processing has been used more often. However, ...
Summary: Developers of digital media require new skills in information design. Information designers developing web sites, software or online system interfaces, games and other digital media often ove...
Preconditioning techniques have emerged as an essential part of successful and efficient iterative solutions of matrices. Ke Chen's book offers a comprehensive introduction to these methods. A vast ra...
Correlative Learning: A Basis for Brain and Adaptive Systems provides a bridge between three disciplines: computational neuroscience, neural networks, and signal processing. First, the authors lay dow...
This book is based on invited and selected offered papers--suitably revised and updated--from the 7th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar held at Hokkaido University, Japan, in July 2004. These...
Exciting work in the past decade has revealed commonalities and differences among individual cell fusion events. In Cell Fusion: Overviews and Methods, a team of leading experts provide a collection o...
Drying is of fundamental importance in most sectors of food processing. This volume provides an up to date account of all the major drying technologies employed in the food industry and their underlyi...
Although the process of understanding the biological functions of carbohydrates has developed slowly due to the lack of efficient approaches in obtaining and studying these structures, in the past two...
Until around 1990, Shanghai was Chinas politics, economy, society, and space have been transformed by macro- and micro-level forces.
Whether you're in training or an established practitioner, the brand-new "Surgical Techniques in Ophthalmology Series" features the essential information you need on a variety of surgical maneuvers in...
While the moral, ethical, social and political arguments for taking action are becoming ever more persuasive and more widely accepted, both the management and stakeholders of food and beverage service...
Essentials of Technical Analysis for Financial Markets is an all-encompassing handbook on navigating the financial markets successfully using technical analysis. Clearly written, easy-to-understand, a...
An accessible treatment of the modeling and solution of integer programming problems, featuring modern applications and softwareIn order to fully comprehend the algorithms associated with integer prog...
"Securing Emerging Wireless Systems: Lower-layer Approaches" aims to fill a growing need in the research community for a reference that describes the lower-layer approaches as a foundation towards sec...
This edited volume is intended to address in a comprehensive and integrated manner three major areas of national and international security research from an information systems-centric perspective: le...
"The Contemporary Design in Details" series takes a highly visual look at architectural design details that are more often dealt with in a technical textbook format. The books take readers on a tour o...
This text is the first comprehensive treatment of structural decompositions of various types of linear systems, including autonomous, unforced or unsensed, strictly proper, non-strictly proper, and de...
This text provides a complete and cutting-edge guide to the design and engineering of small antennas for portable electronic devices such as cell phone handsets, laptop computers, RFID (radio frequenc...
These two volumes provide a broad overview of our current knowledge of nematology. The first volume addresses basic biology, while the second covers applied aspects of nematodes as parasites or diseas...
These two volumes provide a broad overview of our current knowledge of nematology. The first volume addresses basic biology, while the second covers applied aspects of nematodes as parasites or diseas...
This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The an...
At the cusp of the last century, Wai-Kai Chen introduced a monumental reference for the design, analysis, and prediction of VLSI circuits: The VLSI Handbook. Significantly revised, revamped, and updat...
Discrete wavelet transforms (DWTs) have led the revolutions in image and video coding systems over the past decade. In this book, the DWT is presented from the VLSI design perspective, and the related...
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