The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available
Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in...
Radio Frequency circuits are the fundamental building blocks in a vast array of consumer electronics and wireless communication devices. Jeremy Everard's unique combination of theory and practice provides insight into the principles of operation, together with invaluable guidance to...
The term “minimally invasive spinal surgery” was coined in early 1990 following publication
of the first edition of this text entitled Arthroscopic Microdiscectomy: Minimal
Intervention in Spinal Surgery, and subsequent establishment of the International Society
for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (ISMISS) under...
Information technology auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance have several overlapping characteristics. They both require ethical accounting practices, focused auditing activities, a functioning system of internal control, and a close watch by the board’s audit committee and CEO. Written as a contribution to the accounting and auditing...
For both the manufacturer and the purchaser, reliability is one of the most important
characteristics defining the quality of a product or system. High reliability is
achieved through design efforts, choice of materials and other inputs, production,
quality assurance efforts, proper maintenance, and many related decisions and...
This book provides techniques to tackle the design challenges raised by the increasing diversity and complexity of emerging, heterogeneous architectures for embedded systems. It describes an approach based on techniques from software engineering called aspect-oriented programming, which allow designers to control today’s sophisticated...
An effective systems development and design process is far easier to explain than it is to implement. A framework is needed that organizes the life cycle activities that form the process. This framework is Configuration Management (CM).
Software Configuration Management discusses the framework from a standards viewpoint, using...
This book provides comprehensive coverage of software application development for the Palm, using the Visual Basic (VB) language. In this book, we'll illustrate Palm development using a variety of software techniques, but we'll focus on a new Visual Basic compiler for the Palm: the AppForge Add-in for Microsoft Visual Basic....
The first edition of Programming Visual Basic .NET has been one of the most popular .NET books since its release in April 2002. Many readers have reviewed it on Amazon. com, citing it as one of the best .NET Framework books they’ve encountered. It is often the only Visual Basic book in Amazon’s list of top sellers in the Computer and...
Authoratative Answers to All Your Apache Questions—Now Updated to Cover Apache 2.0
Linux Apache Web Server Administration is the most complete, most advanced guide to the Apache Web server you’ll find anywhere. Written by a leading Apache expert—and now updated to...
The Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences is the first resource to provide comprehensive coverage of the core theories, methods, techniques, and applications employed by forensic scientists. One of the more pressing concerns in forensic science is the collection of evidence from the crime scene and its relevance to the forensic...
Although traditional texts present isolated algorithms and data structures, they do not provide a unifying structure and offer little guidance on how to appropriately select among them. Furthermore, these texts furnish little, if any, source code and leave many of the more difficult aspects of the implementation as exercises. A fresh...
