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Radiobiology and Environmental Security (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)

Springer, 2011

This volume - like the N.A.T.O. Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based - addresses the fundamental science that contributes to our understanding of the potential risks from ecological terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, intentional release of radionuclides into water or air. Both effects on human health (D.N.A. and...

Applied Graph Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

This book will serve as a foundation for a variety of useful applications of graph theory to computer vision, pattern recognition, and related areas. It covers a representative set of novel graph-theoretic methods for complex computer vision and pattern recognition tasks. The first part of the book presents the application of graph theory to...

A Unified Framework for Video Summarization, Browsing & Retrieval: with Applications to Consumer and Surveillance Video

Academic Press, 2005

Large volumes of video content can only be easily accessed by the use of rapid browsing and retrieval techniques. Constructing a video table of contents (ToC) and video highlights to enable end users to sift through all this data and find what they want, when they want are essential. This reference puts forth a unified framework to integrate these...

Introduction to Power Electronics (Essential Electronics Series)

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998

Building on solid state device and electromagnetic contributions to the series, this text book introduces modern power electronics, that is the application of semiconductor devices to the control and conversion of electrical power. The increased availability of solid state power switches has created a very rapid expansion in applications, from the...

Blackjacking: Security Threats to BlackBerry Devices, PDAs, and Cell Phones in the Enterprise

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Is someone waiting to pick off your BlackBerry?

Today, it is almost impossible to do business without a cell phone and a BlackBerry or PDA. These devices are a lifeline for companies large and small. And nobody knows this better than a hacker.

Traditionally, security for mobile devices—which are essentially...

Combustion Processes in Propulsion: Control, Noise, and Pulse Detonation

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

"This collection represents the current state-of-the-art in combustion research for air-breathing chemical propulsion. Nearly an equal mix of computational and experimental results are presented from the major players in Pulse Detonation Engines research, providing the reader with a thorough overview of the contemporary technical issues...

Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications (Springer Series in Materials Science)

Springer, 2008

Organic semiconductors offer unique characteristics such as tunability of electronic properties via chemical synthesis, compatibility with mechanically flexible substrates, low-cost manufacturing, and facile integration with chemical and biological functionalities. These characteristics have prompted the application of organic semiconductors and...

Service-Oriented Computing (Cooperative Information Systems)

MIT Press, 2008

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a computing paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed applications in heterogeneous...

The Joys of Hashing: Hash Table Programming with C

Apress, 2019

Build working implementations of hash tables, written in the C programming language. This book starts with simple first attempts devoid of collision resolution strategies, and moves through improvements and extensions illustrating different design ideas and approaches, followed by experiments to validate the choices.
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Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income

FT Press, 2010

“Marvin Appel is a discerning and highly regarded money manager. In this concise but compelling text, he shows how individual investors can use a range of fixed-income strategies to gain superior returns while ably managing risk.” --Nelson Freeburg, Editor, Formula Research

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Energy Efficient Servers: Blueprints for Data Center Optimization

Apress, 2015

Energy Efficient Servers: Blueprints for Data Center Optimization introduces engineers and IT professionals to the power management technologies and techniques used in energy efficient servers. The book includes a deep examination of different features used in processors, memory, interconnects, I/O devices, and other...

Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses

New York University, 2015

While the past 40 years have seen significant declines in adult smoking, this is not the case among young adults, who have the highest prevalence of smoking of all other age groups. At a time when just about everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, why do so many college students smoke? Is it a short lived phase or do they continue...

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