The much-lamented “innovation gap” often referenced by current authors
with respect to drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry is a sure
sign that an era has passed. The reductionist view of disease as the direct
consequence of isolated errors of metabolism that could be explained
and understood as simple enzyme...
This text presents the fundamentals of circuit analysis in a way suitable for first and second year undergraduate courses in electronic or electrical engineering. It is very much a ‘theme text’ and not a work book. The author is at pains to follow the logical thread of the subject, showing that the development of topics, one from...
This is the first book to provide readers a comprehensive technical guide covering recent and open issues in wireless mesh networks. Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards explores the various key challenges in diverse scenarios as well as emerging standards, including capacity and scalability. It focuses on concepts,...
Mac OS X is quickly becoming one of the most popular operating systems for power users. Mac OS X’s ability to mesh an easy-to-use and attractive interface with a Unix back end has attracted average and power users to the Mac. In 2007, Apple releases the next version of Mac OS X: Leopard.
Written by the principal architect of the original Cisco Systems SAFE Security Blueprint, Network Security Architectures is your comprehensive how-to guide to designing and implementing a secure network. Whether your background is security or networking, you can use this book to learn how to...
This book reviews the algorithms for processing geometric data, with a practical focus on important techniques not covered by traditional courses on computer vision and computer graphics. Features: presents an overview of the underlying mathematical theory, covering vector spaces, metric space, affine spaces, differential geometry, and finite...
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently received a great deal of attention as a
promising cost-effective solution to provide coverage and broadband wireless
connectivity for mobile users to get access to different IP applications and services.
The factor that has helped WMNs become attractive is the wide application prospects...
With the increasing popularization of the Internet, together with the rapid
development of 3D scanning technologies and modeling tools, 3D model
databases have become more and more common in fields such as biology,
chemistry, archaeology and geography. People can distribute their own 3D works
over the Internet, search and download 3D...
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QuickBooks makes managing your business finances a lot less painful, so you can concentrate on what you do best. This friendly book makes using QuickBooks simple too! You'll find out how to set up QuickBooks for your business and use it to prepare invoices,...
Multimedia security has become a major research topic, yielding numerous academic papers in addition to many watermarking-related companies. In this emerging area, there are many challenging research issues that deserve sustained studying towards an effective and practical system. Multimedia Security: Steganography and Digital Watermarking...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea in August 2006.
The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 146 submissions. The papers are organized in topical...