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A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the farm gate, and which sustain one of the world’s largest industries (textiles) with an annual worldwide economic impact of about $500 billion. In a number of ways, cotton...

Presenting the policy drivers, benefits and challenges for grid integration of electric vehicles (EVs) in the open electricity market environment, this book provides a comprehensive overview of existing electricity markets and demonstrates how EVs are integrated into these different markets and power systems. Unlike other texts, this book...

The presence of excess residues from frequent antibiotic use in animals is not only illegal, but can pose serious health risks by contaminating products for human consumption such as meat and milk. Chemical...

DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish covers all aspects of the new digital video frontier, for amateurs and professionals alike--from the nuts and bolts of timecode and aspect ratio; to framing, lighting, and sound recording; as well as editing, special effects creation, and...

This book will address the advances, applications, research results, and emerging areas of optics, photonics, computational approaches, nano-photonics, bio-photonics, with applications in information systems. The objectives are to bring together novel approaches, analysis, models, and technologies that enhance sensing, measurement,...

• Understand Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch's design and architecture
• Design your index, configure it, and distribute it, not only with assumptions, but...

Harness the power of Adobe Acrobat to create and publish sophisticated PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. From simple memos to interactive forms, learn why Acrobat is the tool for any electronic publishing task--including projects that require multimedia. Create, enhance, and edit PDF documents, or use the Internet to share working PDF...

FreeBSD is by far the most popular version of BSDВ®, the legendary operating system that has contributed a great deal to every version of UnixВ® in use today (including Mac OSВ® X). Originally a community effort by the University of California at Berkeley, FreeBSD was aimed at making Unix a little friendlier and easier to...