Gaining a strong sense of signals and systems fundamentals is key for general proficiency in any electronic engineering discipline, and critical for specialists in signal processing, communication, and control. At the same time, there is a pressing need...

First published in 1997, Principles of Tissue Engineering is the widely recognized definitive resource in the field. The third edition provides a much needed update of the rapid progress that has been achieved in the field, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of tissue growth and development, the tools and...

Hutchison's Clinical Methods, first published over a century ago, is the classic textbook on clinical examination. It provides an outstanding source of learning and reference for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors. It seeks to teach an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that new methods and investigations...

Mathematics of Bioinformatics: Theory, Methods, and Applications provides a comprehensive format for connecting and integrating information derived from mathematical methods and applying it to the understanding of biological sequences, structures, and networks. Each chapter is divided into a number of sections based on the...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Functional and Constraint Logic Programming, WFLP 2011, held in Odense, Denmark, in July 2011 as Part of the 13th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2011), the 22st International Symposium on...

How many ways do exist to mix different ingredients, how many chances to win a gambling game, how many possible paths going from one place to another in a network ? To this kind of questions Mathematics applied to computer gives a stimulating and exhaustive answer. This text, presented in three parts (Combinatorics, Probability, Graphs)...

Fast-Tracking Your Career provides engineers and IT professionals with a complete set of soft skills they can use to become more effective on the job and gain recognition from management and colleagues. The 11 core skills covered here are accompanied by more than 40 detailed guidelines on how to master those skills. The book offers...

Illustrating how...

Data communications and computer networks are vital in today's business world. Whether your career entails business management, computer programming, system design, or a related area, DATABASE COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS, 7th Edition will give you the thorough understanding you need of basic features, operations, and limitations...

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still holds many challenges and motivates researchers from different backgrounds to propose innovative solutions.
Representing geographical space beyond our mere perception is key to making relevant...

• quickly create Windows and web applications by dragging-and-dropping data controls in Visual Studio 2010
• code your own...