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Close-Up and Macro Photography

Focal Press, 2009

In this exhaustive guide to macro photography, respected author and photographer Adrian Davies takes a comprehensive approach to the subject, covering every aspect of the multi-faceted and often complicated world of close-up photography.

Everything about Adrian's approach is both practical and diverse, with optimal output always in...

Parallel MATLAB for Multicore and Multinode Computers (Software, Environments and Tools)

SIAM, 2009

This is the first book on parallel MATLAB and the first parallel computing book focused on the design, code, debug, and test techniques required to quickly produce well-performing parallel programs.

MATLAB is currently the dominant language of technical computing with one million users worldwide, many of whom can benefit from the...

Compression for Great Video and Audio, Second Edition: Master Tips and Common Sense (DV Expert)

Focal Press, 2009

It was the fall of 1989, and I was taking a computer animation class at UMass Amherst (I went to Hampshire College, another school in the Five Colleges consortium). We were using long-gone tools like Paracomp Swivel 3D to create a video about robots. This was well before After Effects, so we were using Macromind Director 1.0 as a very basic...

Gigabit Ethernet for Metro Area Networks

McGraw-Hill, 2002

Gigabit Ethernet has been deployed in the metro space, providing low cost, easily managed bandwidth for intensive applications like video, storage, and ASPs. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3a) will make the use of Ethernet in the Metro area even more attractive. IDC projects that GigE revenues in the U.S., marked at $155 million in 2001, will grow...

Expert SQL Server 2008 Development

Apress, 2009

Expert SQL Server 2008 Development is aimed at SQL Server developers ready to move beyond Books Online. Author and experienced developer Alastair Aitchison shows you how to think about SQL Server development as if it were any other type of development. You’ll learn to manage testing in SQL Server and to properly...

Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency (Series in Computer Science)

Springer, 2005

Real-time systems technology, traditionally developed for safety-critical systems, has recently been extended to support novel application domains, including multimedia systems, monitoring apparatuses, telecommunication networks, mobile robotics, virtual reality, and interactive computer games. Such systems are referred to as mft real-time systems,...

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...

Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption

Springer, 2009

Current radiation protection standards are based upon the application of the linear no-threshold (LNT) assumption, which considers that even very low doses of ionizing radiation can cause cancer. The radiation hormesis hypothesis, by contrast, proposes that low-dose ionizing radiation is beneficial. In this book, the author examines all facets...

Getting StartED with Windows 7

Friends of Ed, 2009

Welcome to the new world of Windows 7. Whether this is your first time with Windows, you're switching from another operating system, or you're upgrading from Windows XP or Vista, you’ll find a wealth of new ideas and innovations in Windows 7. The mission with this release was to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and in Getting...

Mobile Robot Navigation with Intelligent Infrared Image Interpretation

Springer, 2009

Mobile robots require the ability to make decisions such as "go through the hedges" or "go around the brick wall." Mobile Robot Navigation with Intelligent Infrared Image Interpretation describes in detail an alternative to GPS navigation: a physics-based adaptive Bayesian pattern classification model that uses a...

The k p Method: Electronic Properties of Semiconductors

Springer, 2009

This book presents a detailed exposition of the formalism and application of k.p theory for both bulk and nanostructured semiconductors. For bulk crystals, this is the first time all the major techniques for deriving the most popular Hamiltonians have been provided in one place. For nanostructures, this is the first time the Burt-Foreman theory...

Practical WPF Charts and Graphics (Expert's Voice in .Net)

Apress, 2009

Welcome to Practical WPF Charts and Graphics. This book will provide all the tools you need to develop professional chart and graphics applications using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and C# based on the .NET Framework. I hope this book will be useful for WPF and C# programmers of all skill levels.

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