This second edition reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation within the last decade. Primarily meant to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on physics of tsunamis, it describes up-to-date models of tsunamis generated by a submarine earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, meteorite impact, and moving...

This book reviews the chemical and biological properties of Artemisia amygdalina Decne, a critically endangered and endemic plant species in the the high-altitude Kashmir Himalayas, which has a high pharmacological potential. It describes the bioactivity-guided isolation of its chemical compounds, their characterization using...

• Perform GIS analysis faster by automating tasks, such as selecting data or buffering data, by accessing GIS tools using scripting
• Access the spatial data contained within shapefiles and...

• Master the most popular testing tools in the JavaScript ecosystem, such as CucumberJS, Mocha, SinonJS, and more.
• Learn how Behavior-driven development can help...

• Unlock and discover how to tackle clusters of raw data through practical examples in R
• Explore your data and create your own models from scratch
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As responsive design evolves, we have a critical need to think about design challenges beyond mobile, tablet, and desktop. When properly designed and planned, design patterns-small, reusable modules-help your responsive layout reach more devices (and people) than ever before. Ethan Marcotte shows you just how that's done, focusing on...

In this 100-page book, you will find that Stripes provides a very simple learning path, where you do not need to understand the entire framework in order to use it. The concept of this book is exactly that – to get you using the framework and writing code immediately. You will be off and running in no time, and adding to your skill set...

“Developing a hapi Edge” shows you how to build enterprise-quality web applications using the hapi service and application framework. By walking through the creation of a real web application, hapi-plugins.com, you will learn how to configure and start hapi, build out APIs, perform authentication, validation, caching, and so much...

• Identify the high level steps such as verifying user input, using command lines and conditional statements in creating and executing simple shell scripts
• Create and edit dynamic shell scripts to manage complex and repetitive tasks
• Learn about scripting in Perl and programming in...