crc press aug 2014 (24 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Designed for veterinary students, small animal practitioners, veterinarians undertaking further surgical training, and those with specific interests in orthopedics, canine sports medicine, and rehabilitative medicine, this book is an illustrative, self-directed educational tool. Part of a series of self-assessment guides designed to facilitate active learning, it presents both selected clinical case scenarios and applied research material. The balance of science, art, and experience gives students and practitioners the insight required to make sound decisions. References are provided for each question, allowing readers the opportunity to delve more deeply into the topic of focus.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This handbook covers essential graphical methods for statisticians and explains how to implement the methods using SAS 9.4. It shows how to use SAS's newer ODS graphics to create many types of statistical graphics for exploring data and diagnosing fitted models. Each chapter deals graphically with several sets of example data from a wide variety of areas, such as epidemiology, medicine, and psychology. The SAS programs and data sets are available online.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries, one of the industry's leading visual effects packages, and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains contributions on the latest trends and key-projects in river engineering, flood protection and river restoration in Switzerland, and is invaluable to river engineers and researchers.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Reflecting the massive and ever-changing information in neuroscience, the second edition of this text bridges the gap between the peripheral and central systems. While retaining the basic outline of contents from the first edition, it continues to integrate structural organization with clinical disorders. Highlights of the new edition include the role of prefrontal cortex in behavior and attention, discussion of various forms of cortical dysfunctions, and current information on the auditory, vestibular, and gustatory systems. The book also expands the coverage of the limbic system, exploring the structural components of the extrapyramidal system, and the neurochemical basis of movement disorders.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Compounds isolated from nature may possess biological profiles and pharmaceutical potential far greater than anything made by man. However, they are notoriously cumbersome to isolate and challenging to synthesize, and the path of natural products to viable drugs is an arduous journey. This book presents a practical guide to gathering, isolating, and discovering new pharmaceuticals from nature. It emphasizes the challenges and advantages of products acquired from nature over traditional compounds such as those arising from combinatorial chemistry.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Actuarial Models: The Mathematics of Insurance, Second Edition thoroughly covers the basic models of insurance processes. It also presents the mathematical frameworks and methods used in actuarial modeling. This second edition provides an even smoother, more robust account of the main ideas and models, preparing students to take exams of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book supplies step-by-step instructions on how to secure the provenance of data to make sure it is safe from inference attacks. It details the design and implementation of a policy engine for provenance of data and presents case studies that illustrate solutions in a typical distributed health care system for hospitals. Although the case studies describe solutions in the health care domain, the methods presented in the book are applicable to a range of other domains. The book also illustrates the use of Semantic Web technologies and cloud computing technologies for enhancing the scalability of solutions.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As we get caught up in the quagmire of Big Data and analytics, it remains critically important to be able to reflect and apply insights, experience, and intuition to your decision-making process. In fact, a recent research study at Tel Aviv University found that executives who relied on their intuition were 90 percent accurate in their decisions. Bursting the Big Data Bubble: The Case for Intuition-Based Decision Making focuses on this intuition-based decision making. The book does not discount data-based decision making, especially for decisions that are important and complex. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of applying intuition, gut feel, spirituality, experiential learning, and insight as key factors in the executive decision-making process. Explaining how intuition is a product of past experience, learning, and ambient factors, the text outlines methods that will help to enhance your data-driven decision-making process with intuition-based decision making. The first part of the book, the 'Research Track', presents contributions from leading researchers worldwide on the topic of intuition-based decision making as applied to management.In the second part of the book, the 'Practice Track,' global executives and senior managers in industry, government, universities, and not-for-profits present vignettes that illustrate how they have used their intuition in making key decisions. The research part of the book helps to frame the problem and address leading research in intuition-based decision making. The second part then explains how to apply these intuition-based concepts and issues in your own decision-making process.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of a baby gorilla, this book details the comparative and phylogenetic context of the gross anatomy and evolutionary history of the soft tissue morphology of modern humans and one of their closest relatives. With detailed high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures, it provides an updated review of the anatomical variations within gorillas as well as an extensive list of the synonyms used in the literature to designate the structures discussed. It will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers studying primatology, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, zoology, and physical anthropology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This timely summary reflects the recent advances in bridging novel algorithms and high performance computing with characterization of important biological processes, such as folding dynamics of key proteins.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book shows how to perform computations with Python scripts in the Chimera environment. It covers topics that deal primarily with protein structure and encourages mathematical analysis by providing a firm foundation for computations. Through more than 60 exercises that involve the development of Python scripts, the book gives readers concrete guidance on using the scripting capabilities of Chimera. Python scripts and other material are available on a supplementary website.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The widespread availability of mobile devices coupled with recent advancements in networking capabilities make opportunistic networks one of the most promising technologies for next-generation mobile applications. This book covers recent developments in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of opportunistic mobile social networks. It presents a new perspective of mobile social networks, the opportunistic MSNs, which aim to enhance spontaneous interaction/communication among people that opportunistically encounter each other, without infrastructure support.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - About 30% of the general population suffers from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and the incidence of more serious fatty liver disorders increases with obesity. This volume discusses the current understanding of the development of fatty liver disease and reviews its clinical aspects. Expert contributors discuss the absorption and metabolism of fat in the liver and summarize research findings regarding the impact of oxidative stress, inflammation, and nutrition on the disease development and progression.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This new edition of a bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to materials and their properties. The book covers the processes of casting and jointing as well as welding. Additional topics include cutting tool materials, solid stoke welding, the theory of metal cutting, and design considerations in joining processes.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive review of the efforts put forth by China to prevent food safety concerns. Looking at food producers and operators, consumers, and government agencies as part of an organic system, the book examines the complete system of the food supply chain from multi-scientific systematic points of view. It begins with the production of agricultural products and investigates the changing track of food safety (including imported and exported products) in the key aspects of production, circulation, and consumption from 2006 to 2011.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a summary of the current state-of-the-art evidence of nutrition-infection interactions, including relevant clinical and basic science research and its impact on health and disease. It explores the role of nutrition in health and disease as well as effects of both under and over nutrition. Chapters cover roles of GI microbiota, enteric syndromes, immune-nutrients, pro/pre and postbiotics, HIV infection, nutrient-drug interactions, infection-nutrient interactions in special populations, and identifying future research directions for nutritional and anti-infective strategies.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - During the last decades, numerous promising drugs that provided neuroprotection in the laboratory setting failed to translate into the clinic because of their toxicity or lack of efficacy. However, these apparently disappointing results have provided valuable lessons to improve research strategies and enhance their clinical translation. In this scenario, by bringing together the experience developed by stroke researchers and clinicians, the book provides a precious tool for improving stroke patients' treatment and management.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This state-of-the-art work addresses both mainstream and emerging metallic spintronic devices. Featuring contributions from well-known academic and industrial experts, the book examines the latest metallic spintronic device research, developments, and applications, from magnetic tunneling junction sensors and spin torque oscillators to spin torque memory and logic. The text aims to equip anyone who is serious about metallic spintronic devices with up-to-date design, modeling, and processing knowledge. It can be used either by an expert in the field or a graduate student in course curriculum.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book presents the latest research and science on the process of vessel assembly, with an emphasis on methods for controlling the process for therapeutic applications. It has a strong orientation toward regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications with contributions from engineers, basic scientists, and biologists. The book provides the reader with an understanding of the process of how blood vessels and methods for controlling this process are engineered in order to develop treatments for various pathologies and surgical situations.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The main challenge faced by river engineers, and environmental and ecological scientists today is to restore channelized rivers under the constraints of high urbanization and limited space, as well as sustainable water use. This book includes the state-of-the-art in the fields of river hydrodynamics, morphodynamics, sediment transport, river engineering and restoration, and is aimedat river engineers and researchers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Get Up to Speed on PhysicsUpdated and expanded with new topics, The Physics Companion, 2nd Edition offers a unique and educational approach to learning physics at a level suitable for first-year science students. This new edition expands the presentation to include senior topics, such as statistical mechanics, quantum physics, and nuclear physics. A Convenient, Student-Friendly Format Rich with Diagrams and Clear ExplanationsThis useful book serves students from the beginning of their studies to well into their future careers. It provides detailed graphics, simple and clear explanations of difficult concepts, and annotated mathematical treatments in a one-page-per-topic format that is the signature style of the author's companion books.Be sure to check out the author's other companion books:The Mathematics Companion: Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers, 2nd EditionThe Materials Physics Companion, 2nd EditionThe Electronics Companion: Devices and Circuits for Physicists and Engineers, 2nd EditionThe Chemistry Companion 570 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Solve Complex Ground and Foundation ProblemsPresenting more than 25 years of teaching and working experience in a wide variety of centrifuge testing, the author of Centrifuge Modelling for Civil Engineers fills a need for information about this field. This text covers all aspects of centrifuge modelling. Expertly explaining the basic principles, the book makes this technique accessible to practicing engineers and researchers.Appeals to Non-Specialists and Specialists AlikeCivil engineers that are new to the industry can refer to this material to solve complex geotechnical problems. The book outlines a generalized design process employed for civil engineering projects. It begins with the basics, and then moves on to increasingly complex methods and applications including shallow foundations, retaining walls, pile foundations, tunnelling beneath existing pile foundations, and assessing the stability of buildings and their foundations following earthquake-induced soil liquefaction. It addresses the use of modern imaging technique, data acquisition, and modelling techniques. It explains the necessary signal processing tools that are used to decipher centrifuge test data, and introduces the reader to the specialist aspects of dynamic centrifuge modelling used to study dynamic problems such as blast, wind, or wave loading with emphasis on earthquake engineering including soil liquefaction problems.Introduces the equipment and instrumentation used in centrifuge testingPresents in detail signal processing techniques such as smoothing and filteringProvides example centrifuge data that can be used for sample analysis and interpretationCentrifuge Modelling for Civil Engineers effectively describes the equipment, instrumentation, and signal processing techniques required to make the best use of the centrifuge modelling and test data. This text benefits graduate students, researchers, and practicing civil engineers involved with geotechnical issues. 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Give Your Students the Proper Groundwork for Future Studies in OptimizationA First Course in Optimization is designed for a one-semester course in optimization taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the mathematical sciences and engineering. It teaches students the basics of continuous optimization and helps them better understand the mathematics from previous courses.The book focuses on general problems and the underlying theory. It introduces all the necessary mathematical tools and results. The text covers the fundamental problems of constrained and unconstrained optimization as well as linear and convex programming. It also presents basic iterative solution algorithms (such as gradient methods and the Newton-Raphson algorithm and its variants) and more general iterative optimization methods. This text builds the foundation to understand continuous optimization. It prepares students to study advanced topics found in the author's companion book, Iterative Optimization in Inverse Problems, including sequential unconstrained iterative optimization methods. 316 pp. Englisch.