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Cephalopods
Peter Boyle
Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists and fisheries scientists. Cephalopods: ecology...
Flatfishes
Robin Gibson N.
Fascinating and instantly recognisable, flatfishes are unique in their asymmetric postlarval body form. With over 700 extant species recognised and a distribution stretching across the globe this group of fishes are of considerable research...
Krill
Inigo Everson
Krill, or euphausiids, a group of immense importance in marine ecosystems, comprises over 80 species, most of which are planktonic. Krill are widespread with species to be found in all the oceans of the world. Their numerical density in some...
Lobsters
Bruce Phillips
Lobsters are one of the most commercially important groups of animals harvested and farmed throughout the world. Bringing high prices on the market and the table, the results and yields of farmed species has seen continued growth. Under the...
Seamounts
Telmo Morato
Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands of seamounts, they are usually formed from volcanoes in the deep sea and are defined by...
Convergence
Christian Saxtoft, Dr.
Convergence: User Expectations, Communications Enablers and Business Opportunities offers a user-centric and business-oriented analysis of the rapidly changing communications industry. Clear summaries of key technology areas provide the backdrop...
UWB
Matti Hamalainen
Over the past 20 years UWB has been used for radar, sensing, military communications and niche applications. However, since the FCC ruling in 2002, which allowed the commercial operation of UWB for data communications, UWB has changed...
MMS
Daniel Ralph
MMS has evolved from the huge popularity of the SMS text service for GSM networks. It is a departure from the transport mechanism used for SMS (which is based on the GSM signalling channels) to the use of IP to transport messages within the MMS...
IMS
Khalid Al-Begain
Providing an holistic approach to IMS technologies, IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective explores service architecture for development and delivery of IMS services. Approaching IMS from the perspective of the user and the service...
Femtocells
Stuart Carlaw
Femtocells are low-power wireless access points used in the home and office. They operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile phones (WCDMA, LTE, WiMAX, CDMA and GSM) and other mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network via...
RFID
Albert Puglia
This book provides an introduction to RFID technology. It describes and addresses the following: How RFID works, how it is and can be used in current and future applications. The History of RFID technology, the current state of practice and...
CAMEL
Rogier Noldus
Learn how to use CAMEL to transfer the Intelligent Network concept to the mobile world! CAMEL (Customized Application for the Mobile network Enhanced Logic) is a standard for Intelligent Networks for mobile communications networks. It is...
Superconductivity
Kristian Fossheim
Superconductivity: Physics and Applications brings together major developments that have occurred within the field over the past twenty years. Taking a truly modern approach to the subject the authors provide an interesting and accessible...
Reliability
D. N. Prabhakar Murthy
Bringing together business and engineering to reliability analysis With manufactured products exploding in numbers and complexity, reliability studies play an increasingly critical role throughout a product's entire life cycle-from design to...
Photovoltaics
Konrad Mertens
A comprehensive tutorial on photovoltaic technology now fully updated to include solar storage and the latest methods for on-site plant measurements Starting with the basic principles of solar energy, this fully updated, practical text explains...
FACTS
Enrique Acha
The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of FACTS power systems modeling and simulation. * Detailed coverage of the development of FACTS controllers and guidance on the selection of appropriate equipment * Computer modelling examples of...
Colorimetry
Janos Schanda
Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System summarizes and explains the standards of CIE colorimetry in one comprehensive source. Presents the material in a tutorial form, for easy understanding by students and engineers dealing with colorimetry....
Nanofluids
T. Pradeep
Introduction to nanofluids–their properties, synthesis, characterization, and applications Nanofluids are attracting a great deal of interest with their enormous potential to provide enhanced performance properties, particularly with respect to...
Metallomesogens
Jose Serrano Luis
Research on metal-containing liquid crystals is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field with new materials continually being synthesized and novel applications being developed. 'Metallomesogens' is the first comprehensive survey of the...
Magnesium
Karl Kainer U.
The need for light-weight materials, especially in the automobile industry, created renewed interest in innovative applications of magnesium materials. This demand has resulted in increased research and development activity in companies and...
Mullite
Hartmut Schneider
The only book to provide a complete survey – from the crystallographic fundamentals right up to recent high-tech applications in aerospace technology. Following a general introduction to the topic, the authors go on to cover the crystal...
Refractories
William Smothers J.
This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding (CESP) series. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and...
Nanobiomaterials
Murugan Ramalingam
Written by an international team of editors and contributors from renowned universities and institutes, this book addresses the latest research in the field of nanobiomaterials, covering nanotechnologies for their fabrication, developments in...
Thixoforming
Reiner Kopp
Offering a sound technological overview, while also including the fundamental aspects, this book provides the knowledge needed to master the highly challenging process characteristics for successful application in industrial production. It...
Strangpressen
Horst Gers
Strangpressen ist eines der wichtigsten Fertigungsverfahren in der Metallindustrie. Der Tagungsband zeigt auf, wie das Strangpressen zu innovativen Probleml?sungen beitragen kann und welche Anforderungen dabei an den Strangpressbetreiber als...
Nanomaterials
Shakeel Ahmed
This timely volume on nanomaterials and their biomedical and environmental applications includes the fundamentals of nanoparticles, and state-of-the-art properties, characterization, and the synthesis methods as well as the applications. The...
Electroceramics
J. Herbert M.
Electroceramics, Materials, Properties, Applications, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the many aspects of ceramics and their electrical applications. The fundamentals of how electroceramics function are carefully introduced...
Nanoscale
Nigel Cameron
An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life Because truly transformative technologies have far-reaching consequences, they always generate controversy. Establishing an...
Holography
Jurgen Eichler
From fundamentals to advanced experiments and applications, this book explains how holography works. It guides students from simple optics to advanced topics in holography, following a practical approach using real-world materials. This proven...
Nanophotonics
Jean-Michel Lourtioz
Nanophotonicsis a comprehensive introduction to the emerging area concerned with controlling and shaping optical fields at a subwavelength scale. Photonic crystals and microcavities are extensively described, including non-linear optical...
Tomography
Pierre Grangeat
The principle of tomography is to explore the structure and composition of objects non-destructively along spatial and temporal dimensions, using penetrating radiation, such as X- and gamma-rays, or waves, such as electromagnetic and acoustic...
Colorimetry
Alan Robertson
Colorimetry, the science of quantitvely describing color, is essential for color reproduction technology. This is because it creates standards by which to measure color, using mathematical techniques and software to ensure fidelity across media,...
Lebensmittelverfahrenstechnik
Harald Schuchmann
Wer mochte nicht wissen, was in unseren Lebensmitteln steckt und wie sie zu traditionellen oder neuen Produkten weiterverarbeitet werden? Viele Nahrungsmittel mussen, um genie?bar zu sein oder den sensorischen Anspruchen von Konsumenten zu...
Wine
Jokie Bakker
The commercial importance of wine continues to increase across the globe, with the availability of many new wines, encompassing a remarkable and exciting range of flavours. Wine Flavour Chemistry focuses on aspects of wine making procedures that...
HACCP
Carol Wallace
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system is a preventative food safety management system, that can be applied throughout the food supply chain from primary production to the consumer. HACCP is internationally recognised as...
Salmonella
Chris Bell
Human illness attributed to foodborne pathogenic microorganisms has been prominent in the mass media in recent years. The Practical Food Microbiology Series has been devised to give practical and accurate information about specific organisms of...
Nutraceuticals
Paul LaChance A.
Phytochemicals are components acting individually, additively or synergistically, usually as a component of whole food, that have the characteristics of providing protective, preventative and possibly curative roles in the pathogenesis of cancer...
Prebiotics
Bob Rastall
The prebiotic concept works on the basis that many potentially health-promoting microorganisms are already present in humans. Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that stimulate activity in targeted microorganisms, to improve the...
Wear
Gwidon Stachowiak W.
Tribology is emerging from the realm of steam engines and crank-case lubricants and becoming key to vital new technologies such as nanotechnology and MEMS. Wear is an integral part of tribology, and an effective understanding and appreciation of...
Lawsuit!
Randall Goodden L.
Addressing product liability concerns and laws both in the U.S. and internationally, this book helps manufacturers and engineers develop and implement proactive processes that can reduce liability concerns and potential lawsuits. It discusses...
Geotechnik
Gerd Moller
Das Buch vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte ?ber den Aufbau und die Eigenschaften des Bodens, die bei der Planung und Berechnung sowie bei der Begutachtung von Sch?den des Systems Bauwerk-Baugrund zu ber?cksichtigen sind. Schwerpunkte sind die...
Stahlbau
Ulrich Kr?ger
Das Werk umfasst die Grundlagen aus DIN 18800 Teile 1 und 2, als Lehrstoff aufgearbeitet fur Studenten des Bauingenieurwesens der mittleren Semester gleicherma?en wie fur Stahlbau-Ingenieure in der Praxis. Das Buch stellt ein nutzliches Lern-...
Stahlbau
Rolf Kindmann
The central themes are structural stability, the determination of loading according to 2nd order theory and the verification of load-bearing capacity. The actual load-bearing behaviour is explained, suitable verification procedures are...
Concrete
Susan MacDonald
This book deals with the diagnosis, prognosis and repair issues associated with concrete buildings. Since the patenting and subsequent large-scale manufacture of modern cement, in the nineteenth century, concrete has become one of the most...
Poromechanics
Olivier Coussy
Modelling and predicting how porous media deform when subjected to external actions and physical phenomena, including the effect of saturating fluids, are of importance to the understanding of geophysics and civil engineering (including soil and...
Fluidverfahrenstechnik
Ralf Goedecke
Von Praktikern fur Praktiker geschrieben, erlautert das vorliegende Werk die prozesstechnische Behandlung von Flussigkeits- und Gasgemischen zur Reinigung, Auftrennung und Aufkonzentrierung der einzelnen Komponenten durch den Einsatz selektiver...
Nanotechnology
Wolfgang Fritzsche
Expectations of a technological revolution are associated with nanotechnology, and indeed the generation, modification and utilization of objects with tiniest dimensions already permeates science and research in a way that the absence of...
Klebtechnik
Walter Brockmann
Um solide, langzeitbestandige und stoffgerechte Klebungen im industriellen oder handwerklichen Bereich herzustellen, sind sowohl gute Grundlagenkenntnisse als auch fachlich fundiertes Wissen von Noten. Die einzelnen Informationen in der...
Kunststoffe
Wilhelm Keim
Als Kunststoffe werden hochmolekulare Substanzen bezeichnet, aus denen sich mittels geeigneter Verarbeitungsprozesse Formkorper herstellen lassen, die bei Raumtemperatur hart und steif sind. Sie zahlen wie Fasern, Folien, Elastomere,...
