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Institutions as Conscious Food Consumers: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Drive Systems Change

Academic Press, 2018

Institutions like schools, hospitals, and universities are not well known for having quality, healthy food. In fact, institutional food often embodies many of the worst traits of our industrialized food system, with long supply chains that are rife with environmental and social problems and growing market concentration in many stages...

Emerging Postharvest Treatment of Fruits and Vegetables (Postharvest Biology and Technology)

Academic Press, 2018

With the increasing need and demand for fresh fruits and vegetables, the field of postharvest science is continuously evolving. Endeavors are being made by scientists involved in postharvest research for maintenance of the quality and safety of fresh horticultural produce to enhance the postharvest life and to extend the availability...

Introductory Statistics, Third Edition

Academic Press, 2010

In this 3rd edition revised text, master expositor Sheldon Ross has produced a unique work in introductory statistics. The text's main merits are the clarity of presentation, contemporary examples and applications from diverse areas, and an explanation of intuition and ideas behind the statistical methods. Concepts are motivated,...

Muscle and Exercise Physiology

Academic Press, 2018

Muscle and Exercise Physiology is a comprehensive reference covering muscle and exercise physiology, from basic science to advanced knowledge, including muscle power generating capabilities, muscle energetics, fatigue, aging and the cardio-respiratory system in exercise performance. Topics presented include the clinical...

Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications

Academic Press, 2005

The Second Edition if this successful text offers a systematic exposition of the basic ideas and results of Hilbert space theory and functional analysis. It includes a simple introduction to the Lebesgue integral and a new chapter on wavelets. The book provides the reader with revised examples and updated diverse applications to differential and...

Handbook of Fiber Optic Data Communication, Second Edition

Academic Press, 2002

The datacom industry is evolving very rapidly, and a host of new technologies, services, standards, and types of networks have been introduced since the first edition of the Handbook was published over 3 years ago. Building on the success of the first edition, this Handbook contains revisions and updates to all major chapters plus a new glossary...

The Electrical Engineering Handbook, First Edition

Academic Press, 2004

The purpose of The Electrical Engineering Handbook is to provide a comprehensive reference work covering the broad spectrum of electrical engineering in a single volume. It is written and developed for the practicing electrical engineers in industry, government, and academia. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date information in classical...

Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS), First Edition

Academic Press, 2004

There is a world in which every crime is solved in 60 minutes, DNA matches are made “While U Wait,” and staff work on only one case at a time. But it is a fantasy land, an imaginary land; it is not the real world. This book is about the real world of biometric identification technology. It is a fascinating topic. This technology can...

Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks, First Edition : Understanding and Using Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers

Academic Press, 2004

Two of us (Anderson and Bell) wrote the fi rst edition of this book,
titled Optical Time-Domain Refl ectometry, published in 1997. At the time
we were engineers at Tektronix, in the company’s Cable and Network
Analysis Division. In 1997, Tektronix was a major producer of optical
time-domain refl ectometers (OTDRs), and our...

WDM Technologies: Optical Networks, First Edition (Optics and Photonics Series)

Academic Press, 2004

These volumes are about wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), the
most recent technology innovation in optical fiber communications. In the
past two decades, optical communications has totally changed the way we
communicate. It is a revolution that has fundamentally transformed the
core of telecommunications, its basic...

Neural Networks in Finance : Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market (Advanced Finance Series)

Academic Press, 2004

"This book clarifies many of the mysteries of Neural Networks and related optimization techniques for researchers in both economics and finance. It contains many practical examples backed up with computer programs for readers to explore. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand methods used in nonlinear forecasting."
Blake...

Raman Amplification in Fiber Optical Communication Systems (Optics and Photonics)

Academic Press, 2004

This book provides a comprehensive description of the Raman amplification technique as it is applied to telecommunication systems. It covers both the fundamental and the applied aspects and is intended to serve both as a useful reference for researchers engaged in the field and as a teaching manual for those who are planning to enter this exciting...

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