Nanotechnology is almost a household word now-a-days, or at least some word with
‘‘nano’’ in it, such as nanoscale, nanoparticle, nanophase, nanocrystal, or nanomachine.
This field now enjoys worldwide attention and a National Nanotechnology
Initiative (NNI) is about to be launched.
Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) represent a relatively new class of quasiductile
ceramic materials. They are characterized by carbon or ceramic fi bers embedded
in ceramic matrices (oxide or non - oxide) with comparatively low bonding
forces between the fi bers and the matrix. These weak intefaces, in combination
with a porous...
The origins of this book can be found in the scientific collaboration (officially
started in March 2003) between Francesco Pulvirenti and me. Besides its obvious technical aim, this collaboration has produced eighteen theses for second-level laurea degree in electronic engineering and fifteen theses for first level laurea degree in...
If you've done some Arduino tinkering and wondered how you could incorporate the Kinect in your
projects — or the other way around — this book is for you.
If you haven’t actually done any tinkering but you are looking for a good way to get started, this
book might also be for you. Even though...
The Kinect sensor provides a genuinely new way for a computer to make some sense
of the world around it. The fusion of a camera, a directional microphone system,
and a depth sensor into a single, mass-market device provides an opportunity for
software developers to advance the field of computer interaction in all...
CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS, the syntax to control the style and layout of web pages.
CSS3 is completely backward-compatible, so you will not have to change your existing designs. The CSS3
specification is still under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). However, many of the
new CSS3 properties...
THE GAMING WORLD AND THE WEB have been on a collision course with each other since social games began bringing gaming to the masses and helped make what was once a subculture a mainstream, mass-market phenomenon. Throw mobile into the mix and suddenly you have a massive phenomenon that is going to become more important as more devices get into...
This book is based on lectures regularly taught in the fourth and fifth years
graduate courses in transport phenomena and chemical reactor modeling,
and in a post graduate course in modern reactor modeling at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Trondheim, Norway. The objective...
We are living in a time of big changes. We face changes driven by
powerful forces like world population growth; rising prices for food, fuel,
and raw materials; depletion of natural resources; and increasing levels of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And at the very same time, we are
also surrounded by the...
This book is an outstanding contribution to the interdisciplinary series on Crime, Media, and Popular Culture from Praeger Publishers. Because of the pervasiveness of media in our lives and the salience of crime and criminal justice issues, we feel it is especially important to provide a home for scholars who are engaged in innovative and...
When first thinking of putting together a compilation of writings on a particular topic, those that have
such a notion believe they will give meaning to a paradigm, influence a research area, or at a minimum
shed light exploring a critical phenomenon. Ultimately, the editors and authors hope that the exchange
for the reader - in...
Any attempt to list the 50 most important battles in all history is necessarily
subjective. To list them in order of importance is an even greater exercise
of chutzpah. Nevertheless, people have been listing decisive battles since
Sir Edward Creasy, a lawyer who taught history, a century-and-a-half ago.
Other compilers include...
