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Food Intake in Fish
Dominic Houlihan
The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons. For example a thorough knowledge of factors influencing the ingestion of feed can lead to...
Fish Cognition and Behavior
Culum Brown
The study of animal cognition has been largely confined to birds and mammals; a historical bias which has led to the belief that learning plays little or no part in the development of behaviour in fishes and reptiles. Research in recent decades...
Aquaculture and the Environment
T. V. R. Pillay
Aquaculture and the Environment Second Edition T. V. R. Pillay The continuing rapid increases in aquaculture production world-wide raise fears of further environmental degradation of the aquatic environment. The second edition of this...
Salmon at the Edge
Derek Mills
Salmon at the Edge covers, in depth, the problems faced by wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal zones, and in their early weeks at sea. The book also reflects the current precarious state of many migratory salmonid...
Eco-labelling in Fisheries
Bruce Phillips
If the marine fishing industry is to survive into the future, innovative approaches are necessary. Recognising that market incentives have the potential to improve fisheries management, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has been established...
Advances in Fisheries Economics
Trond Bjorndal
A true landmark publication, Advances in Fisheries Economics brings together many of the world’s leading fisheries economists to authoritatively cover the many issues facing the field of fisheries economics and management today. Compiled in...
Particulate Emissions from Vehicles
Peter Eastwood
The public health risks posed by automotive particulate emissions are well known. Such particles are sufficiently small to reach the deepest regions of the lungs; and moreover act as carriers for many potentially toxic substances. Historically,...
FTTX Concepts and Applications
Gerd Keiser
This book presents fundamental passive optical network (PON) concepts, providing you with the tools needed to understand, design, and build these new access networks. The logical sequence of topics begins with the underlying principles and...
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
Ivan Stojmenovic
From physical issues up to applications aspects, Mobile Ad Hoc Networking comprehensively covers all areas of the technology, including protocols and models, with an emphasis on the most current research and development in the rapidly growing...
Introduction to Multimedia Communications
Kamisetty Rao
A comprehensive resource on multimedia communications. Covers recent trends and standardization activities in multimedia communications, such as layered structures, underlying theories and the current best design techniques. Describes the...
Practical RF System Design
William Egan F.
The ultimate practical resource for today's RF system design professionals Radio frequency components and circuits form the backbone of today's mobile and satellite communications networks. Consequently, both practicing and aspiring industry...
Modern Receiver Front-Ends
Joy Laskar
Architectures BABAK MATINPOUR and JOY LASKAR * Describes the actual implementation of receiver architectures from the initial design to an IC-based product * Presents many tricks-of-the-trade not usually covered in textbooks * Covers a range of...
Implementing Voice over IP
Bhumip Khasnabish
Public and private networks will eventually be configured in such a way that all voice calls are routed using Internet protocols Reviews existing and emerging standards for voice over IP Provides detailed guidance on how to engineer an efficient...
Next Generation Wireless Applications
Paul Golding
Cuts through the hype! Golding's compelling offers visionary, but practical insights. A must have" reference treatment for all practitioners in the mobile innovation space." —Jag Minhas, Telef?nica O2 Europe Second edition of this best-selling...
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Jelena Misic
Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related...
Mobile Communications Design Fundamentals
William C. Y. Lee
Revised and enlarged version that discusses how to design a mobile communications system. Comprehensively examines the mobile radio environment. Covers prediction of propagation loss, calculation and methods of reducing fades, interference,...
Ultra-wideband Radio Technology
Kazimierz Siwiak
Ultra-wideband (UWB) has been among the most controversial technologies of modern times. Its applications seem endless, its capabilities miraculous and yet it is so poorly understood. In this volume, the authors combine talents to de-mystify...
Towards the Semantic Web
John Davies
With the current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, this book uses a different approach from other books on the market: it applies ontologies to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge...
Managing Service Level Quality
Peter Massam
QoS (Quality of Service) and Network Management are old topics. However, the fusion of IP style multimedia and wireless networks (3G) means that network managers who might previously have dealt with one or the other, must now manage and provide...
Professional Content Management Systems
Peter Thomas
Content and Content Management are core topics in the IT and broadcast industry. However these terms have not been clearly defined for those learning the field. The topic is complex and users from different industries have different backgrounds...
Mobile Satellite Communication Networks
Y. Hu Fun
Mobile satellite services are set to change with the imminent launch of satellite personal communication services (S-PCS), through the use of non-geostationary satellites. This new generation of satellites will be placed in low earth orbit or...
Wireless Communications Resource Management
Daeyoung Park
Wireless technologies continue to evolve to address the insatiable demand for faster response times, larger bandwidth, and reliable transmission. Yet as the industry moves toward the development of post 3G systems, engineers have consumed all...
Host Identity Protocol (HIP)
Andrei Gurtov
“Within the set of many identifier-locator separation designs for the Internet, HIP has progressed further than anything else we have so far. It is time to see what HIP can do in larger scale in the real world. In order to make that happen, the...
Ground-Based Wireless Positioning
Kegen Yu
Ground Based Wireless Positioning provides an in-depth treatment of non-GPS based wireless positioning techniques, with a balance between theory and engineering practice. The book presents the architecture, design and testing of a variety of...
UMTS Networks and Beyond
Cornelia Kappler
An all-encompassing coverage on UMTS Networks including an in-depth discussion of current work on UMTS evolution and 4G . UMTS Networks and Beyond offers a comprehensive introduction to the networking aspects of UMTS and the networks coming...
Inter-Asterisk Exchange (IAX)
Mohamed Boucadair
Find out how IAX can complement SIP to overcome complications encountered in current SIP-based communications Written by an expert in the field of telecommunications, this book describes the Inter-Asterisk Exchange protocol (IAX) and its...
HSPA Performance and Evolution
Jun Liu
Written from an operator’s viewpoint, HSPA Performance and Evolution explores the lessons learned and techniques developed for optimally deploying HSPA (High Speed Packet Access). The essential distinctions between rolling out HSPA compared to...
Short-Range Wireless Communications
Marcos Katz
This unique book reviews the future developments of short-range wireless communication technologies Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications summarizes the outcomes of WWRF Working Group 5, highlighting the...
Evolved Packet System (EPS)
Pierre Lescuyer
2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS are key mobile communication technologies, chosen by more than 2 billion people around the world. In order to adapt to new services, increasing demand for user bandwidth, quality of service and requirements for network...
Network Mergers and Migrations
Gonzalo Herrero G?mez
This book provides you with guidelines to plan, design, roll out, and accomplish network migration activities with a variety of internetworking case studies. It considers both enterprise and service provider scenarios based on the expertise from...
Video Compression and Communications
Peter Cherriman
Since the publication of Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance...
Trust, Complexity and Control
Piotr Cofta
An increasing reliance on the Internet and mobile communication has deprived us of our usual means of assessing another party’s trustworthiness. This is increasingly forcing us to rely on control. Yet the notion of trust and trustworthiness is...
Advanced Integrated Communication Microsystems
Joy Laskar
Learn the fundamentals of integrated communication microsystems Advanced communication microsystems—the latest technology to emerge in the semiconductor sector after microprocessors—require integration of diverse signal processing blocks in a...
Technologies for Home Networking
Sudhir Dixit
A broad overview of the home networking field, ranging from wireless technologies to practical applications In the future, it is expected that private networks (e.g., home networks) will become part of the global network ecosystem, participating...
Ultra-Wideband Communications Systems
K. Liu J.Ray
The only book that provides full coverage of UWB multiband OFDM technology Ultra-wideband (UWB) has emerged as a technology that offers great promise to satisfy the growing demand for low-cost, high-speed digital networks. The enormous bandwidth...
Next Generation Mobile Systems
Minoru Etoh
What will the future of wireless communications look like? What drives mobile communications systems beyond 3G? In Next Generation Mobile Systems the authors answer these questions and others surrounding the new technologies. The book examines...
S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance
Saila Laitinen
S60 is the world leading smartphone platform. It has gained this position due to the huge developer base innovating on top of the S60 platform, the Product Creation Community who can provide expertise in different device program phases and tasks...
IEEE 802 Wireless Systems
Stefan Mangold
Throughout the next decade, 802 wireless systems will become an integral part of fourth generation (4G) cellular communication systems, where the convergence of wireless and cellular networks will materialize through support of interworking and...
QoS Over Heterogeneous Networks
Mario Marchese
The importance of quality of service (QoS) has risen with the recent evolution of telecommunication networks, which are characterised by a great heterogeneity. While many applications require a specific level of assurance from the network;...
Signaling in Telecommunication Networks
Fabrizio Devetak U.
Guidance to help you grasp even the most complex network structures and signaling protocols The Second Edition of Signaling in Telecommunication Networks has been thoroughly updated, offering new chapters and sections that cover the most recent...
Deep Space Optical Communications
Hamid Hemmati
A quarter century of research into deep space and near Earth optical communications This book captures a quarter century of research and development in deep space optical communications from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Additionally, it...
Speech Quality of VoIP
Alexander Raake
Finally a comprehensive overview of speech quality in VoIP from the user’s perspective! Speech Quality of VoIP is an essential guide to assessing the speech quality of VoIP networks, whilst addressing the implications for the design of VoIP...
OFDM and MC-CDMA
Thomas Keller
Wireless communications has witnessed a tremendous growth during the past decade and further spectacular enabling technology advances are expected in an effort to render ubiquitous wireless connectivity a reality. Currently, a technical in-depth...
Networking and Online Games
Grenville Armitage
The computer game industry is clearly growing in the direction of multiplayer, online games. Understanding the demands of games on IP (Internet Protocol) networks is essential for ISP (Internet Service Provider) engineers to develop appropriate...
Broadband Wireless Communications Business
Riaz Esmailzadeh
With the emergence of broadband wireless communication systems, new business opportunities have appeared for operators, content provides, and manufacturers. Broadband wireless communications technologies promise the freedom of constant access to...
Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks
Giacinto Losquadro
Space/Terrestrial Mobile Networks Internet Access and QoS Support covers the design of a Global Mobile Broadband System (GMBS) based on the results of the European Commission's Framework Programme 5 Information Society Technologies (IST) Project...
Interacting with Geospatial Technologies
Mordechai Haklay (Muki)
This book provides an introduction to HCI and usability aspects of Geographical Information Systems and Science. Its aim is to introduce the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); to discuss the special usability aspects of GIS which...
Ham Radio For Dummies
H. Silver Ward
Your how-to guide to become a ham Ham radio, or amateur radio, is a way to talk with people around the world in real-time, or to send email without any sort of internet connection. It provides a way to keep in touch with friends and family,...
Applied Life Data Analysis
Wayne Nelson B.
WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged...
Introduction to Distribution Logistics
Paolo Brandimarte
unique introduction to distribution logistics that focuses on both quantitative modeling and practical business issues Introduction to Distribution Logistics presents a complete and balanced treatment of distribution logistics by covering both...
