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Passive Methods as a Solution for Improving Indoor Environments (Green Energy and Technology)

Springer, 2011

There are many aspects to consider when evaluating or improving an indoor environment; thermal comfort, energy saving, preservation of materials, hygiene and health are all key aspects which can be improved by passive methods of environmental control. Passive Methods as a Solution for Improving Indoor Environments endeavours to fill...

Mechanics of the Cell

Cambridge University Press, 2012

The cells of our bodies represent a very large class of systems whose structural components often are both complex and soft. A system may be complex in the sense that it may comprise several components having quite different mechanical characteristics, with the result that the behavior of the system as a whole reflects an...

iOS 5 in the Enterprise (Develop and Design)

Peachpit Press, 2011

Those of you who have to deal with more than a handful of iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touches already know why you manage iOS devices. For everyone else, “manage” is not a short way to say “impose draconian control.” Managing devices on your network, including iOS devices,...

Carbon-Carbon Materials and Composites

William Andrew Publishing, 1994

Carbon-carbon composites, which have been used extensively for missile applications, were a part of NASA's Apollo spacecraft heat shield system. The development of carbon-carbon materials began in 1958 and was nurtured under the U.S. Air Force space plane program, Dyna-Soar, and by numerous thermal protection systems...

Flash iOS Apps Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

The iPhone is revolutionary. Every day, it seems, someone finds an innovative use for it and, in the App Store, the perfect outlet for their work. Its success has made apps cool and helped shift delivery of content away from the browser. Adobe has reacted to this change by repositioning the Flash platform, and providing the tools required for...

Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice

CRC Press, 2005

Although our planet is characterized by water, the extent to which water in its frozen state plays a role in the functioning of the Earth is perhaps underappreciated. Snow and ice cover about a sixth of the Earth’s surface, as snow lying on the ground, as glaciers and larger masses of terrestrial ice, including the huge...

Introducing Starling

O'Reilly, 2012

Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases....

Mobile Broadcasting with WiMAX: Principles, Technology, and Applications

Focal Press, 2008

This book is exclusively dedicated to WiMAX. The focus of the book is on the applications of WiMAX networks, with delivery of multimedia content to wireless and mobile devices being the area of greatest attention. WiMAX has crossed a number of major milestones in the recent past. These include setting standards, adopting...

Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles: Standards and Technologies for Controlling Emissions

World Bank Publications, 1997

Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal...

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

For Dummies, 2007

When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...

Investing For Dummies

For Dummies, 2011

During the financial crisis of 2008, things got scary. Large Wall Street firms were going under, stock prices were plummeting, and layoffs and unemployment rates were soaring. And, all this was happening in the midst of the 2008 presidential election. Talk of another Great Depression was in the air. In fact, polls showed a majority of...

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice

Springer, 2007

Mechatronics education has been a constant source of interest to nearly all engineering conferences, and the first chapter in this book is dedicated to this most important subject.

The first paper discusses a very original idea from one of the more innovative pioneers of mechatronics education. This looks at the...

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