The awareness of the ideas characterized by Communicating Processes Architecture and their adoption by industry beyond their traditional base in safety-critical systems and security is growing. The complexity of modern computing systems has become so great that no one person – maybe not even a small team – can understand all aspects and...
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Embedded systems applications that are either mission or safety-critical usually entail low- to mid- production volumes, require the rapid development of specific tasks, which are typically computing intensive, and are cost bounded. The adoption of re-configurable FPGAs in such application domains is constrained to the availability of...
Eagerly awaited, this second edition of a best-selling textcomprehensively describes from a modern perspective the basics ofx-ray physics as well as the completely new opportunities offeredby synchrotron radiation. Written by internationally acclaimedauthors, the style of the book is to develop the basic physicalprinciples without obscuring...
Microsofts Windows Small Business Server has taken the market by storm, offering a compelling solution for business with 50 or fewer employees. Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003 is a complete guide for you intermediate-to-advanced administrators who have deployed SBS, gotten it working for your organizations, and want to take the...
Group A streptococcal pharyngitis is one of the most common, but also controversial infections clinicians are faced with every day. Clinical diagnosis is often not specific; laboratory data can be misleading and are frequently misinterpreted. Despite the in vitro effectiveness of penicillin, it does not always eradicate the organism from the...
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Welcome to the proceedings of REALWSN 2010, the 4th Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks!
After three meetings in Europe we decided to hold REALWSN in exciting Sri Lanka. We want to thank the local organizers as well as the authors, attendees and members of the technical Program Committee, Demo and Poster Chairs for...
In order to be useful and transfer adequate knowledge skills to the learner, a multimedia program design needs to have a sound pedagogical base. Technology-Assisted Problem Solving for Engineering Education: Interactive Multimedia Applications explores best practices in assisting students in understanding engineering concepts through...
The Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) standards and guideline publications,
of which the document contained herein is one, are developed through a voluntary
consensus standards development process. This process brings together volunteers
and/or seeks out the views of persons who have an interest in the topic covered by
this...
In 1989, I was responsible for organizing a workshop at the European Microwave
Conference on High-Power Solid State Amplifiers. This workshop proved popular and so
Artech House asked me to persuade the speakers to turn their material into a formsuitable
for publication, the result was the book entitled “High-Power GaAs FET...
The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop. In common with general scientific investigation, new ideas, concepts and interpretations emerge quite spontaneously and these are then discussed, used, discarded or subsumed into the prevailing subject paradigm. Sometimes these innovative concepts...
