Membrane Technology: Sustainable Solutions in Water, Health, Energy and Environmental Sectors

Interconnect-Centric Design for Advanced SOC and NOC (Mathematics and Its Applications)

Springer, 2004

In Interconnect-centric Design for Advanced SoC and NoC, we have tried to create a comprehensive understanding about on-chip interconnect characteristics, design methodologies, layered views on different abstraction levels and finally about applying the interconnect-centric design in system-on-chip design. Traditionally, on-chip communication...

Organic Pollutants: An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2001

A companion to he much praised Principles of Ecotoxicology the book covers organic pollutants in greater depth and detail than has been covered in a textbook before. The first part of the book covers issues such as chemical warfare; metabolism of pollutants in animals and plants; environmental fate; and effects within ecosystems. This is followed...

Interest Rates, Prices and Liquidity: Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Macroeconomic Policy Making)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Many of the assumptions that underpin mainstream macroeconomic models have been challenged as a result of the traumatic events of the recent financial crisis. Thus, until recently, it was widely agreed that although the stock of money had a role to play, in practice it could be ignored as long as we used short-term nominal interest rates as...

Game Creation For Teens

Course Technology PTR, 2008

Welcome to the book Game Creation for Teens. This book is aimed at anyone who wants to make exciting and fun games for Windows. You’ll learn how to make a number of games in a drag-and-drop game creation system that requires no programming knowledge. By the end of the book, you will know how to make three amazing and exciting games and be...

The Handy Astronomy Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

Visible Ink Press, 2008

Why do the stars shine? What happens when you fall into a black hole? What’s the Moon made of? Is Pluto a planet or not? Does extraterrestrial life exist? How old is Earth? Can humans live in outer space? What is a quasar? How did the universe begin? How will it end? When it comes to the cosmos, it seems like everyone has a thousand...

Ruby Programming

Course Technology PTR, 2010

Ruby is an object-oriented, interpreted programming language. It is object-oriented in that it views (and interacts with) everything as an object. Ruby is interpreted in that its programs are compiled and executed by an interpreter at runtime. Th is allows you to make changes to your Ruby programs and then immediately run the programs...