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Easy Mathematics for Biologists

CRC Press, 1999

Over the past decade or so I have become increasingly concerned that many students on B.Sc. and HND courses in the biological sciences have great difficulty with numerical calculations relating to aspects of biology, whether it is with both the mathematics and the applications, or just a problem applying the mathematics to a particular situation....

Flight Physics: Essentials of Aeronautical Disciplines and Technology, with Historical Notes

Springer, 2009

This textbook gives an introduction, with extensive historical notes, to the principal disciplines of aeronautics. The principles of applied aerodynamics, aircraft propulsion, flight performances, stability and control of conventional subsonic aircraft are augmented by overviews of helicopter technology and high speed flight.

Overviews of the...

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2009

Terrorism has consistently dogged this supposedly modern and enlightened age. It has merely adopted new shapes and forms in keeping with the times. The causes have also evolved over the years, as old problems are solved and new ones created. Moreover, it has gone high-tech, like everything else. Thus, as this book convincingly shows, terrorism will...

Surgery of the Esophagus: Textbook and Atlas of Surgical Practice

Steinkopff, 2009

This atlas provides a thorough overview on current surgical strategies in the treatment of esophageal diseases. The first part of this atlas is focused on basic diagnostic tools, indications and preoperative work up. The second part exhibits profound instructions for current surgical procedures illustrated with precise drawings in detail and...

Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies

Information Science Publishing, 2009

With the growing demand for increased bandwidth, conventional broadband access solutions will quickly become a hindrance in terms of bandwidth provision for network access.

Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies presents a comprehensive overview of emerging optical access network...

Free Calculus: A Liberation from Concepts and Proofs

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Conventional calculus is too hard and too complex. Students are forced to learn too many theorems and proofs. In Free Calculus, the author suggests a direct approach to the two fundamental concepts of calculus -- differentiation and integration -- using two inequalities. Regular calculus is condensed into a single concise chapter. This makes the...

Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)

University of New York, 2009

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral...

Interface Science in Drinking Water Treatment, Volume 10: Theory and Applications (Interface Science and Technology)

Academic Press, 2006

It is difficult to imagine anything more important to the human population than safe drinking water. Lack of clean drinking water is still the major cause of illness and death in young children in developing countries. In more fortunate communities, where water treatment is practiced, the primary aim of water authorities is to provide water that is...

Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

Springer, 2009

Web services based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and related standards, and deployed in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), are the key to Web-based interoperability for applications within and across organizations. It is crucial that the security of services and their interactions with...

Creating Value, Second Edition: Successful Business Strategies

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.

This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of...

RESTful Java Web Services

Packt Publishing, 2009

If you are already familiar with REST theory but are new to RESTful Java web services, and want to use the Java technology stack together with Java RESTful frameworks to create robust web services, this is the book for you.

This book is a guide to developing RESTful web services using Java and the most popular RESTful frameworks...

Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms: An Evolutionary Computation Approach (Natural Computing Series)

Springer, 2009

Traditionally, evolutionary computing techniques have been applied in the area of data mining either to optimize the parameters of data mining algorithms or to discover knowledge or patterns in the data, i.e., to directly solve the target data mining problem. This book proposes a different goal for evolutionary algorithms in data mining: to...

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