In this day and age, physics engines play a very critical role in the success of a sophisticated game. PhysX is a state-of-the-art cross-platform physics engine widely used by top game studios and developers. It contains all the physics-related components you will need and exploits the parallel-processing capability of modern GPUs as well as...

Die bewegten und unbewegten Bauteile eines Kolbenmotors sind statischen und dynamischen Beanspruchungen ausgesetzt, die den Gesetzen der Mechanik folgen. In diesem Buch werden die einzelnen Motorkomponenten mit den dazugehörenden Berechnungsverfahren vorgestellt. Neben zahlreichen praktischen Auslegungshinweisen erläutert das Buch...

This accessible work is the first in more than seventy-five years to discuss the many roles of adrenaline in regulating the "inner world" of the body. David S. Goldstein, an international authority and award-winning teacher, introduces new concepts concerning the nature of stress and distress across the body's regulatory...

Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives...

Increased levels of chip integration combined with physical limitations of heat removal devices, cooling mechanisms and battery capacity, have established energy-efficiency as an important design objective in the implementation flow of modern electronic products. To meet these low energy objectives, new low power techniques, including...

There are many examples of the amazing evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom that aid survival, but the ability of animals to hibernate is one of the most incredible. Most vertebrates must keep warm, because hypothermia or loss of body heat is potentially fatal, but some have evolved to withstand a massive drop in...

One hundred years ago – in 1899 – Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in Heidelberg and later in Munich – created, in two very important pieces of work, the concept of "manisch-depressives Irresein" ("manic-depressive insanity"). The first was entitled Die klinische Stellung der Melancholie(The...

In dem Buch werden Data-Warehouse-Systeme als einheitliche, zentrale, vollständige, historisierte und analytische IT-Plattform untersucht und ihre Rolle für die Datenanalyse und für Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse dargestellt. Dabei behandelt der Autor die einzelnen Komponenten, die für den Aufbau, die Architektur und den...