техническая литература
Handbook of Neutron Optics
Utsuro Masahiko
Written by authors with an international reputation, acknowledged expertise and teaching experience, this is the most up-to-date resource on the field. The text is clearly structured throughout so as to be readily accessible, and begins by...
Physics of Organic Semiconductors
Adachi Chihaya
The field of organic electronics has seen a steady growth over the last 15 years. At the same time, our scientific understanding of how to achieve optimum device performance has grown, and this book gives an overview of our present-day knowledge...
Functional Food Product Development
Charter Edward
According to an August 2009 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the United States market for functional foods in 2007 was US$ 27 billion. Forecasts of growth range from between 8.5% and 20% per year, or about four times that of the food industry...
Bioactive Compounds in Foods
Gilbert John
Inherent toxicants and processing contaminants are both non-essential, bioactive substances whose levels in foods can be difficult to control. This volume covers both types of compound for the first time, examining their beneficial as well as...
Engineering Project Appraisal
Duffy Aidan
In most cases of civil engineering development, a range of alternative schemes meeting project goals are feasible, so some form of evaluation must be carried out to select the most appropriate to take forward. Evaluation criteria usually include...
Practical Reliability Engineering
O'Connor Patrick
With emphasis on practical aspects of engineering, this bestseller has gained worldwide recognition through progressive editions as the essential reliability textbook. This fifth edition retains the unique balanced mixture of reliability theory...
Electrical Distribution Networks
Sabonnadi?re Jean-Claude
This book describes the fundamental aspects of the new generation of electrical distribution grids, taking as its starting point the opportunities that exist for restructuring existing infrastructure. It emphasizes the incorporation of renewable...
Corrosion Chemistry
Cicek Volkan
Corrosion Chemistry details the scientific background of the corrosion process and contemporary applications for dealing with corrosion for engineers and scientists, covering the most recent breakthroughs and trends. Corrosion is in essence a...
Rockfall Engineering
Lambert St?phane
Rockfall Engineering is an up-to-date, international picture of the state of the art in rockfall engineering. The three basic stages of rockfalls are considered: the triggering stage, the motion stage, and the interaction with a structure stage;...
Smart Grids
Sabonnadi?re Jean-Claude
On a worldwide basis, the development of SmartGrids is a consistent answer to the problem of an efficient and sustainable delivery of electric energy through distribution grids. SmartGrids are a combination of information and communication...
Practical Food Safety. Contemporary Issues and Future Directions
Bhat Rajeev
The past few years have witnessed an upsurge in incidences relating to food safety issues, which are all attributed to different factors. Today, with the increase in knowledge and available databases on food safety issues, the world is...
Microstrip and Printed Antennas. New Trends, Techniques and Applications
Antar Yahia M.M.
This book focuses on new techniques, analysis, applications and future trends of microstrip and printed antenna technologies, with particular emphasis to recent advances from the last decade Attention is given to fundamental concepts and...
Aquaculture, Resource Use, and the Environment
McNevin Aaron
Aquaculture, Resource Use, and the Environment places aquaculture within the larger context of global population growth, increased demand for sustainable, reliable sources of food, and the responsible use of natural resources. Aquaculture...
Baugruben. Berechnungsverfahren
Hettler Achim
The book deals with the structural design of temporary excavation support and the dimensioning of excavation support walls and their individual components. Completely calculated examples explain the application of the procedures described in the book.
Energy Geostructures. Innovation in Underground Engineering
Laloui Lyesse
Energy geostructures are a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are spreading rapidly throughout the world. They allow the procurement of a renewable and clean source of energy which can be used for heating and...
Electrical Energy Efficiency. Technologies and Applications
Sumper Andreas
The improvement of electrical energy efficiency is fast becoming one of the most essential areas of sustainability development, backed by political initiatives to control and reduce energy demand. Now a major topic in industry and the electrical...
Electropolymerization. Concepts, Materials and Applications
Karyakin Arkady
Providing extensive coverage, including conducting, insulating and electroactive films, this handbook and ready reference deals with introductory topics and fundamentals as well as advanced insights. Clearly structured, in the first part of the...
Advanced Wireless Networks. Cognitive, Cooperative & Opportunistic 4G Technology
Lorenzo Beatriz
With 40% new material the new edition of Advanced Wireless Networks provides a comprehensive representation of the key issues in 4G wireless networks. Focussing on cognitive, cooperative and opportunistic paradigms to provide further increase in...
Vehicle Powertrain Systems. Integration and Optimization
Mashadi Behrooz
The powertrain is at the heart of vehicle design; the engine – whether it is a conventional, hybrid or electric design – provides the motive power, which is then managed and controlled through the transmission and final drive components. The...
6LoWPAN. The Wireless Embedded Internet
Shelby Zach
It is stunningly thorough and takes readers meticulously through the design, configuration and operation of IPv6-based, low-power, potentially mobile radio-based networking. Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google This...
Organic Electronics. Emerging Concepts and Technologies
Cicoira Fabio
An overview of the tremendous potential of organic electronics, concentrating on those emerging topics and technologies that will form the focus of research over the next five to ten years. The young and energetic team of editors with an...
Sparidae. Biology and aquaculture of gilthead sea bream and other species
Mylonas Constantinos
The Sparidae, commonly known as breams and porgies, is a family of fishes of the order Perciformes, and includes about 115 species of mainly marine coastal fish of high economic value, exploited and farmed for human consumption, as well as for...
Computational Optimal Control. Tools and Practice
Subchan Dr Subchan
Computational Optimal Control: Tools and Practice provides a detailed guide to informed use of computational optimal control in advanced engineering practice, addressing the need for a better understanding of the practical application of optimal...
Biobased Lubricants and Greases. Technology and Products
Honary Lou
Due to the rise in petroleum prices as well as increasing environmental concerns, there is a need to develop biochemicals and bioproducts that offer realistic alternatives to their traditional counterparts; this book will address the lack of a...
Dried Fruits. Phytochemicals and Health Effects
Alasalvar Cesarettin
Dried fruits serve as important healthful snack items around the world. They provide a concentrated form of fresh fruits, prepared by different drying techniques. With their unique combination of taste/aroma, essential nutrients, fibre, and...
Antioxidant Polymers. Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Iemma Francesca
Antioxidant Polymers is an exhaustive overview of the recent developments in the field of polymeric materials showing antioxidant properties. This research area has grown rapidly in the last decade because antioxidant polymers have wide industry...
Thermal Infrared Sensors. Theory, Optimisation and Practice
Budzier Helmut
The problems involved in designing optimal infrared (IR) measuring systems under given conditions are commensurately complex. The optical set-up and radiation conditions, the interaction between sensor and irradiation and the sensor itself,...
Chalcogenide Photovoltaics. Physics, Technologies, and Thin Film Devices
Schock Hans-Werner
This first comprehensive description of the most important material properties and device aspects closes the gap between general books on solar cells and journal articles on chalcogenide-based photovoltaics. Written by two very renowned authors...
Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors. An Introduction
B?ssler Heinz
The first advanced textbook to provide a useful introduction in a brief, coherent and comprehensive way, with a focus on the fundamentals. After having read this book, students will be prepared to understand any of the many multi-authored books...
Cognitive Communications. Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Regulatory Policy and Economics, Implementation
Zhang Honggang
This book discusses in-depth the concept of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) and its application to cognitive communications In this book, the authors present an overview of cognitive communications, encompassing both cognitive radio...
Vehicular Networks. Models and Algorithms
Labiod Houda
Over the last few years vehicular networks have been receiving a lot of attention from academia, industry, standardization bodies, and the various transportation agencies and departments of many governments around the world. It is envisaged in...
Sustainable Masonry. Stability and Behavior of Structures
Ciblac Thierry
This book covers the impact of sustainable masonry on the environment, touting the many benefits of utilizing local and/or low embodied energy materials in the construction of sustainable buildings.
VANET. Vehicular Applications and Inter-Networking Technologies
Laberteaux Kenneth
This book provides an invaluable introduction to inter-vehicular communications, demonstrating the networking and communication technologies for reducing fatalities, improving transportation efficiency, and minimising environmental impact. This...
Sweeteners and Sugar Alternatives in Food Technology
Kearsley Malcolm
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible source of information on all types of sweeteners and functional ingredients, enabling manufacturers to produce low sugar versions of all types of foods that not only taste and perform as well as...
Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing
Cao Jiannong
The book focuses on mobile agents, which are computer programs that can autonomously migrate between network sites. This text introduces the concepts and principles of mobile agents, provides an overview of mobile agent technology, and focuses...
Modulation and Coding Techniques in Wireless Communications
Krouk Evgenii
The high level of technical detail included in standards specifications can make it difficult to find the correlation between the standard specifications and the theoretical results. This book aims to cover both of these elements to give...
Control of Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration
Hornik Tomas
Integrating renewable energy and other distributed energy sources into smart grids, often via power inverters, is arguably the largest “new frontier” for smart grid advancements. Inverters should be controlled properly so that their integration...
Next Generation Telecommunications Networks, Services, and Management
Plevyak Thomas
An unprecedented look into the present and future of next generation networks, services, and management in the telecommunications industry The telecommunications industry has advanced in rapid, significant, and unpredictable ways into the...
Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization. Principles and Applications
Kuo Way
This unique treatment systematically interprets a spectrum of importance measures to provide a comprehensive overview of their applications in the areas of reliability, network, risk, mathematical programming, and optimization. Investigating the...
Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles
Chen YangQuan
Unmanned systems and robotics technologies have become very popular recently owing to their ability to replace human beings in dangerous, tedious, or repetitious jobs. This book fill the gap in the field between research and real-world...
High-k Gate Dielectrics for CMOS Technology
He Gang
A state-of-the-art overview of high-k dielectric materials for advanced field-effect transistors, from both a fundamental and a technological viewpoint, summarizing the latest research results and development solutions. As such, the book clearly...
Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis
Li Changzhi
An authoritative guide to the theory, technologies, and state-of-the-art applications in microwave noncontact sensing and analysis Engineering researchers have recently developed exciting advances in microwave noncontact sensing and analysis,...
Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering
Romo Juan
A comprehensive guide to the design, implementation, and operation of line of sight microwave link systems The microwave Line of Sight (LOS) transport network of any cellular operator requires at least as much planning effort as the cellular...
Modern Lens Antennas for Communications Engineering
Huang Kao-Cheng
The aim of this book is to present the modern design principles and analysis of lens antennas. It gives graduates and RF/Microwave professionals the design insights in order to make full use of lens antennas. Why do we want to write a book in...
Compact Multifunctional Antennas for Wireless Systems
Lim Eng Hock
Offers an up-to-date description of modern multifunctional antenna systems and microwave components Compact multifunctional antennas are of great interest in the field of antennas and wireless communication systems, but there are few, if any,...
Modeling and Control of Engines and Drivelines
Eriksson Lars
Control systems have come to play an important role in the performance of modern vehicles with regards to meeting goals on low emissions and low fuel consumption. To achieve these goals, modeling, simulation, and analysis have become standard...
Broadband Communications via High-Altitude Platforms
Grace David
A unique book with systematic and thorough coverage of HAP related issues, problems and solutions. Handbook of Broadband Communications from High Altitude Platforms provides a thorough overview and state of the art of the HAP enabling...
Self-Healing Polymers and Polymer Composites
Rong Min Zhi
A state-of-art guide on the interdisciplinary aspects of design, chemistry, and physical properties of bio-inspired self-healing polymers Inspired by the natural self-healing properties that exist in living organisms—for example, the...
Handbook of Food Process Design, 2 Volume Set
Rahman Mohammad Shafiur
In the 21st Century, processing food is no longer a simple or straightforward matter. Ongoing advances in manufacturing have placed new demands on the design and methodology of food processes. A highly interdisciplinary science, food process...
Markov Decision Processes in Artificial Intelligence
Buffet Olivier
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a mathematical framework for modeling sequential decision problems under uncertainty as well as Reinforcement Learning problems. Written by experts in the field, this book provides a global view of current...
