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Selected Readings on Telecommunication and Networking (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2008

Education and research in the field of telecommunications and networking can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements.

Selected Readings on Telecommunications and Networking supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused...

Control of Single Wheel Robots (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2005

This monograph presents a novel concept of a mobile robot, which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot. The robot is balanced by a spinning wheel attached through a two-link manipulator at the wheel bearing, and actuated by a drive motor. This configuration conveys significant advantages including insensitivity to attitude...

Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?: And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

Harper Perennial, 1989

When I wrote Imponderables™, I purposely omitted any questions about the origins of words and phrases. An Imponderable was a mystery that couldn’t be answered by standard reference books, and so many wonderful books about words already existed that I couldn’t believe there was a need for more.

As someone who uses...

Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals

Springer, 2003

The publication of Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals represents the results of an information-gathering process that has extended over a 30-year career as a health professional. It reflects a determination to frame medical sociology as a multidisciplinary endeavor that must, of necessity, draw information from a wide...

R Graphics Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2013

I started using R several years ago to analyze data I had collected for my research in graduate school. My motivation at first was to escape from the restrictive environments and canned analyses offered by statistical programs like SPSS. And even better, because it’s freely available, I didn’t need to...

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007

Most people think meetings are all too often a waste of time. But Weisbrod and Janoff say that's only because of the way most meetings are run. In this book they offer ten principles that will allow you to get more done in meetings by doing less. The key is knowing what you can and can't control. You can't controol people's...

Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Routledge, 2007

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of...

The Concise Encyclopedia of Communication

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

This concise volume presents key concepts and entries from the twelve-volume ICA International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008), condensing leading scholarship into a practical and valuable single volume.

Based on the definitive twelve-volume IEC, this new concise edition presents key concepts and the most...

Cognitive Communication and Cooperative HetNet Coexistence: Selected Advances on Spectrum Sensing, Learning, and Security Approaches (Signals and Communication Technology)

Springer, 2014

This book, written by experts from universities and major industrial research laboratories, is devoted to the very hot topic of cognitive radio and networking for cooperative coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks. Selected highly relevant advanced research is presented on spectrum sensing and progress toward the realization of...

Pancreatic Cancer (Recent Results in Cancer Research)

Springer, 2007

Although pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious forms of cancers, the lack of clinical symptoms often limits curative treatment options. This book gives insight into the current understanding of the management of pancreatic cancer and considers recent findings in cancer research. It provides answers to questions of how to know when...

Advances in Elastomers I: Blends and Interpenetrating Networks (Advanced Structured Materials)

Springer, 2013

This is the first volume of a two-volume work which summarizes in an edited format and in a fairly comprehensive manner many of the recent technical research accomplishments in the area of Elastomers. “Advances in Elastomers” discusses the various attempts reported on solving these problems from the point of view of the chemistry...

System Parameter Identification: Information Criteria and Algorithms (Elsevier Insights)

Elsevier Limited, 2013

Recently, criterion functions based on information theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, information divergence) have attracted attention and become an emerging area of study in signal processing and system identification domain. This book presents a systematic framework for system identification and information processing,...

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