Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion. This book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth.
Recent developments in the use of electrospun fibrous materials, for application as scaffolds for tissue engineering and in the application of carbon fibrous materials in fuel cells, has generated new interest in the dependence of the properties and structure of these materials on those of their constituent fibres. Modelling Stochastic Fibrous...
Advanced Quantum Mechanics: Materials and Photons is a textbook which emphasizes the importance of advanced quantum mechanics for materials science and all experimental techniques which employ photon absorption, emission, or scattering. Important aspects of introductory quantum mechanics are covered in the first seven chapters to make...
This bookexplores the recent advances in designing and synthesizing one- and two-dimensional metal chalcogenide nanostructures, along with their practical applications, helping readers understand what has happened, and what is currently happening in the field of nanotechnology. It also includes a comprehensive table showing...
Welcome to Dimensional Data Warehousing with MySQL: A Tutorial.
Data warehousing enables unified information delivery by collecting data from various operational and administrative information systems already in operation and possibly from external data sources. The data from...
A Step-by-Step Guide for Helping Your Nonprofit Compete Successfully
In this important resource, acclaimed nonprofit consultant, author, educator, and speaker David La Piana shows nonprofit leaders how they can increase the likelihood of organizational success by tapping into the power of competitive strategy. Play to Win demonstrates how your...
The emergence of virtual reality applications and human-like interfaces has given rise to the necessity of producing realistic models of the human body. Building and animating a synthetic, cartoon-like, model of the human body has been practiced for many years in the gaming industry and advances in the game platforms have led to more realistic...
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT SIR ISAAC NEWTON was the last person to know everything. He was an
accomplished physicist (his three laws of motion were the basis of classical mechanics, which defi ned
astrophysics for three centuries), mathematician (he was one of the inventors of calculus and
developed Newton’s Method for fi nding...
From inventory management in stores to automotive part tracking in assembly plants, barcodes are one of the most prevalent automatic identification and data capture technologies. This book provides a complete introduction to barcodes for mobile devices, presenting the most relevant and up-to-date information previously unavailable elsewhere...
Completely updated to reflect revolutionary changes in technology and practice, the Fourth Edition of this best-selling reference features state-of-the-art coverage of multislice CT scanners and three-dimensional imaging, plus a new chapter on the acute abdomen and new material on CT and MR angiography, lung cancer screening,...
Ready to make amazing games for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch? With Apple’s Swift programming language, it’s never been easier. This updated cookbook provides detailed recipes for a managing wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to SpriteKit and OpenGL to performance—all...
Notable advances of the last quarter-century have deepened our appreciation of the three-dimensional nature of the ocean's large-scale circulation. This circulation has important implications for ocean chemistry and biology, atmospheric science, and climate. Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions surveys both observations and theories of the...
