There still exists considerable uncertainty in many countries about the contribution of drinking water to sporadic cases of disease. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), led the Workshop on Molecular Technologies for Safe Drinking Water in 1998 to address...
Electron Microscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis describes the unique role electron microscopy plays in the immensely important field of heterogeneous catalysis. It brings together several disciplines, namely surface science, solid state chemistry and physics, materials science, chemical engineering and crystallography. The work described in...
This book addresses the fundamentals of communications systems and networks, providing
models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. It is divided into ten chapters,
which are the result of a joint effort by the authors and contributors. The authors and the
contributors have a long history of collaboration, both in...
My interest in this subject started when I joined the broadcast equipment manufacturer,
Chyron. For a few years I was the product manager for their playout automation and
asset management product lines. These were one of the first applications that gave
television broadcasters the means to manage the ingest, storage, archiving, and...
The need for compressed and coded representation and transmission of multimedia data
has not rescinded as computer processing power, storage, and network bandwidth have
increased. They have merely served to increase the demand for greater quality and
increased functionality from all elements in the multimedia delivery and consumption...
This book was prompted by the desire to fill the gap between theoretical descriptions and a more
pedagogical description of the main technological components of International Mobile Telecommunications
Advanced (IMT-Advanced) such as Radio Resource Management (RRM), Carrier
The current Internet is an outgrowth of the ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) that was initiated four decades ago. The TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) designed by Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn in 1973 did not anticipate, quite understandably, such extensive
use of wireless channels and...
Written as an authoritative introduction, this text describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard following the logical progression of signal processing steps, as well as COFDM modulation, source and channel coding, MPEG compression and...
A unique multi-media teaching kit for those instructing clients, staff, and students about HIV/AIDS. The CD Includes: " PowerPoint slides " In-classroom learning activities " Supplemental homework assignments " Recommended reading lists " Web resources " And much more!
This book is now in its fifth edition. Each edition has corresponded to a different phase in the way computer networks were used. When the first edition appeared in 1980, networks were an academic curiosity. When the second edition appeared in 1988, networks were used by universities and large businesses. When the third edition appeared in...
Speaker identification is a widely used technique in several security
systems. In remote access systems, speaker utterances are recoded and
communicated through a communication channel to a receiver that performs the
identification process. Speaker identification is based on characterizing each
speaker with a set of features...
This book aims at giving an introduction to the principles and techniques
of quantum cryptography, including secret-key distillation, as well as some
more advanced topics. As quantum cryptography is now becoming a practical
reality with products available commercially, it is important to focus not
only on the theory of quantum...
