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"Control Systems Engineering", now in its fifth edition, takes a practical approach to control systems engineering. Presenting clear and complete explanations, the text shows you how to analyze and design feedback control systems that support today's modern technology. By working with the same physical system in each chapter,...

Highly experienced researchers describe in step-by-step detail methods that have proven most useful in delivering genes to mammalian cells. Volume 1: Nonviral Gene Transfer Techniques focuses on gene delivery by a variety of chemical and physical methods, including ultrasound, biolistics, peptides, PNA clamps, liposomes, microinjection,...

Explore the emerging specifications—and the latest tools—for implementing advanced Web services using Microsoft technologies. Keep pace with evolving Web services specifications—and get developer-to-developer insights for using them to deliver advanced, interoperable solutions for Microsoft .NET. This guide provides a...

Explore InfoPath 2003—and transform the way you manage business information and deliver results! This guide expertly reviews InfoPath features and capabilities—including the latest updates from Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1—demonstrating how to create easy-to-use forms to capture data from spreadsheets, text files,...

Finally! The official guide to Advantage Database Server has arrived to help you easily develop and deploy client/server applications. Manage large quantities of data and access that data in a multiuser environment with unbelievable speed. Learn how ADS gives you unparalleled reliability and data integrity with little or no database...

Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. But Java’s text manipulation mechanisms have always been limited, compared to languages like AWK and Perl. On the flip side, a new regular expressions package in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) brings hope to the Java text mechanisms. This package provides you...

If you want to work with your traditional film images electronically, this is the guide that will finally show you how you can do it. "Mastering Digital Scanning" takes a photographer's viewpoint to the topic of digitizing, managing, and enhancing film-based images. You'll learn how to use your scanner's options to your...