• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Number Of Pages: 592
• Publication Date: 1995-10-18
• Sales Rank: 2128755
• ISBN / ASIN: 0824796233
• EAN: 9780824796235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Informa Healthcare
• Studio: Informa Healthcare
• Book Description:
  

  Provides a thorough overview of current knowledge of stress proteins in both normal and disease physiology and evaluates the potential for developing novel diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic approaches to control human disease based on the latest stress-protein research.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 562
• Publication Date: 2006-01-05
• Sales Rank: 2816126
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387284648
• EAN: 9780387284644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Book Description:
  
  Retinal Degenerations is the result of the International Symposium on Retinal degeneration which has become perhaps the most important research meeting in the field. THe topics in this volume explore the etiology, cellular mechanisms, epidemiology, genetics, models and potential therapeutic measures for the blinding diseases of retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
  

This text will highlight the mechanisms and consequences of dendritic transmitter release, with an emphasis on the mechanisms that generate such processing and how these can induce state-dependent plasticity in the processing. This volume will be out of broad significance, expanding the understanding of the spectrum of dendritic mechanisms for neural processing. It will demonstrate that dendritic release that likely occurs throughout the brain is a key feature in the control of information transfer in neural networks, through cross-talk and autorcontrol by paracine/autocrine mechanisms.

• Publisher: Slack Incorporated
• Number Of Pages: 768
• Publication Date: 2004-04-19
• Sales Rank: 400200
• ISBN / ASIN: 1556426097
• EAN: 9781556426094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Slack Incorporated
• Studio: Slack Incorporated
• Book Description:
  Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated version of this classic text. Incorporated within over 700 pages are a multitude of updated features unique to this edition including over 1,600 color images, state-of-the-art technology, and case presentations. These elements cohesively work together to successfully demonstrate the retina in normal and diseased states using the innovative Stratus OCTTM.
  Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases, Second Edition is written with the clinician in mind. The text's primary objective is to illustrate the appearance of the eye in health and disease, comparing conventional clinical technologies using OCT imaging. This method introduces the clinician to the manifestations of disease as elucidated by OCT, while presenting the more familiar fundoscopic and fluorescein angiographic appearance side-by-side.
  Drs. Joel S. Schuman, Carmen A. Puliafito, and James G. Fujimoto, PhD together with their co-authors have collaborated to produce this comprehensive resource. OCT applications in retinal diseases, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, anterior segment and a description of OCT technologies are all topics extensively covered in this new edition. An appendix is included that contains a wealth of technical information for those interested in learning more about the principles of operation of this medical diagnostic imaging technology.
  This text will provide a clinical reference for the retinal and glaucoma specialist that shows how to utilize and interpret OCT imaging to enhance diagnostic sensitivity and specificity as well as to enhance therapeutic decision making and monitor the outcome of treatment. Both clinicians and scientists interested in optical imaging of the eye will find this insightful text a useful reference.

• Publisher: Slack Incorporated
• Number Of Pages: 768
• Publication Date: 2004-04-19
• Sales Rank: 400200
• ISBN / ASIN: 1556426097
• EAN: 9781556426094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Slack Incorporated
• Studio: Slack Incorporated
• Book Description:
  Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated version of this classic text. Incorporated within over 700 pages are a multitude of updated features unique to this edition including over 1,600 color images, state-of-the-art technology, and case presentations. These elements cohesively work together to successfully demonstrate the retina in normal and diseased states using the innovative Stratus OCTTM.
  Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases, Second Edition is written with the clinician in mind. The text's primary objective is to illustrate the appearance of the eye in health and disease, comparing conventional clinical technologies using OCT imaging. This method introduces the clinician to the manifestations of disease as elucidated by OCT, while presenting the more familiar fundoscopic and fluorescein angiographic appearance side-by-side.
  Drs. Joel S. Schuman, Carmen A. Puliafito, and James G. Fujimoto, PhD together with their co-authors have collaborated to produce this comprehensive resource. OCT applications in retinal diseases, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, anterior segment and a description of OCT technologies are all topics extensively covered in this new edition. An appendix is included that contains a wealth of technical information for those interested in learning more about the principles of operation of this medical diagnostic imaging technology.
  This text will provide a clinical reference for the retinal and glaucoma specialist that shows how to utilize and interpret OCT imaging to enhance diagnostic sensitivity and specificity as well as to enhance therapeutic decision making and monitor the outcome of treatment. Both clinicians and scientists interested in optical imaging of the eye will find this insightful text a useful reference.

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Number Of Pages: 929
• Publication Date: 2006-12-01
• Sales Rank: 33810
• ISBN / ASIN: 0781746981
• EAN: 9780781746984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Book Description:
  Thoroughly revised for its Sixth Edition, Grabb and Smith's Plastic Surgery is the only comprehensive single-volume reference on the full range of aesthetic and reconstructive procedures in plastic surgery. Featuring over 1,900 photographs and drawings, this world-renowned reference guides you through virtually every aesthetic and reconstructive surgical challenge, including implants; craniosynostosis syndromes; rhinoplasty; soft tissue and skeletal injuries; tendon transfer; and wound care.
  
  
  
  This edition features the latest clinical recommendations and procedures, including breast prosthetics, tissue expansion, flexor tendon surgery, reconstruction of the auricle and otoplasty, correction of ptosis and canthoplasty, and face lifts.
  
  
  
  A bonus DVD-ROM provides fast access to full text and color images from the book and guides you through new, recommended endoscopic techniques, laser procedures, and microsurgery options.

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 2006-09-01
• Sales Rank: 1355390
• ISBN / ASIN: 0781738695
• EAN: 9780781738699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Book Description:
  A complete update of a classic reference by specialists at the Mayo Clinic, Henderson's Orbital Tumors, Fourth Edition collates the Clinic's fifty years' experience in managing tumors involving the orbit. Drawing on case reports and extensive follow-up data from over 1,700 patients treated at the Clinic, the authors formulate comprehensive guidelines on diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of the entire spectrum of orbital tumors. This new edition reflects the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment, including improved imaging technology, more accurate pathologic diagnosis, new radiotherapy options, new surgical approaches, and therapy using monoclonal antibodies. More than 460 illustrations, 43 in full color, complement the text.

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Number Of Pages: 480
• Publication Date: 2006-04-01
• Sales Rank: 154784
• ISBN / ASIN: 1582557136
• EAN: 9781582557137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• 
  Book Description:
  This comprehensive text focuses on psychiatric issues associated with HIV/AIDS and provides clinicians with a basic understanding of epidemiology, virology, transmission, and medical treatments inclusive of occupational exposures. Psychosocial, spiritual, and sociocultural aspects of HIV/AIDS are covered, describing implications of HIV/AIDS across minority groups. The treatment section allows clinicians to organize an effective psychiatric treatment plan for all mental disorders associated with HIV/AIDS. Issues of adherence, prevention, and public well-being are emphasized throughout. The management of medical problems such as delirium, dementia, and pain management in special HIV/AIDS patients with co-morbid substance abuse as well as end of life care is also included.

• Publisher: Scribner
• Number Of Pages: 576
• Publication Date: 2001-06-12
• Sales Rank: 204094
• ISBN / ASIN: 068485466X
• EAN: 9780684854663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Scribner
• Studio: Scribner
• Amazon.com's Best of 2001:
  

  Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing all the discordant views and "answers" offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history. The result is a sprawling and thoroughly engrossing study, brilliantly synthesized by author Andrew Solomon.

  Deceptively simple chapter titles (including "Breakdowns," "Treatments," "Addiction," "Suicide") each sit modestly atop a virtual avalanche of Solomon's intellect. This is not a book to be skimmed. But Solomon commands the language--and his topic--with such grace and empathy that the constant flow of references, poems, and quotations in his paragraphs arrive like welcome dinner guests. A longtime sufferer of severe depression himself, Solomon willingly shares his life story with readers. He discusses updated information on various drugs and treatment approaches while detailing his own trials with them. He describes a pharmaceutical company's surreal stage production (involving Pink Floyd, kick dancers, and an opener à la Cats) promoting a new antidepressant to their sales team. He chronicles his research visits to assorted mental institutions, which left him feeling he would "much rather engage with every manner of private despair than spend a protracted time" there. Under Solomon's care, however, such tales offer much more than shock value. They show that depression knows no social boundaries, manifests itself quite differently in each person, and has become political. And, while it may worsen or improve, depression will never be eradicated. Hope lies in finding ways--as Solomon clearly has--to harness its powerful lessons. --Liane Thomas

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 376
• Publication Date: 2006-03-28
• Sales Rank: 2122699
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387301712
• EAN: 9780387301716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Book Description:
  

  N-acetylaspartate, or NAA, is the acetylated form of the amino acid aspartate, and it is present exclusively in the nervous system. Indeed, NAA is one of the most highly concentrated chemicals found in the brain of humans and animals, and yet the functions served by this brain-specific metabolite remain elusive, and controversial. Despite the uncertainties surrounding the functions of NAA in the development and operation of the nervous system, this molecule has attracted the attention of researchers and clinicians for two distinct reasons.

  First, the acetyl proton on NAA gives off a very prominent signal in water-suppressed, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), which permits clinicians to monitor levels of NAA in the brains of patients in a non-invasive manner. Because NAA is found primarily in neurons, and because the levels in the brain have been found to change rapidly after injury, or slowly during neurodegenerative diseases, MRS has become a preferred method of analyzing nerve cell dysfunction and death without surgical intervention.

  The second reason that NAA has attracted attention in recent years is that a congenital genetic disorder of NAA metabolism has been found to be the cause of the neurodegenerative disorder known as Canavan’s disease. Canavan’s disease is an inherited leukodystrophy that involves myelination pathologies of cortical white matter, leading to death within 10 years of birth. The genetic mutation results in a defective enzyme that de-acetylates NAA in the brain, resulting in a significant rise in NAA levels in the brain and urine. This enzyme, known as aspartoacylase (ASPA), appears to be involved in the process of myelination, such that a defective enzyme results in a disruption of the myelination of nerve fibers during development.

  The purpose of this symposium is to bring together investigators from around the world who are interested in the study of NAA, and the roles it plays in neuronal development and functioning. It is hoped that bringing researchers and clinicians together in such a forum will facilitate rapid progress in this emerging field, and will help lead to discoveries that can alleviate the suffering caused by a deadly, inheritable infantile disease.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Number Of Pages: 316
• Publication Date: 2004-12-07
• Sales Rank: 566219
• ISBN / ASIN: 0199263094
• EAN: 9780199263097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
• Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
• Book Description:
  

  Latin is alive and well. Beginning in Rome around 600 BC Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for over two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it still provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells its history from origins to the present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same light touch as Speak, his bestselling history of languages, A Natural History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis. The author charts the expansion in the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows its central role in European history and culture and, by judicious quotation of phrases and texts, describes how spoken and written Latin changed and evolved differently in different places. He ends with a summary of Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and of phrases still in common use. Considered elitist and irrelevant in the second half of the twentieth century and often banned from schools, Latin is now enjoying a huge revival of interest and a renaissance in schools across Europe, the UK, and the USA. Tore Janson offers persuasive arguments for its value and direct access to its fascinating worlds, past and present.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 368
• Publication Date: 2007-04-30
• Sales Rank: 2127502
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387691448
• EAN: 9780387691442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Product Description:
  

  During the last few decades, sleep medicine and science, and many of their diverse aspects, have emerged as areas of intense medical and scientific interest. Of these, sleep and neuroimmunology, which cut across many behavioral states, are highly interlinked, inherently fascinating and touching upon many facets of human health and well-being. Elucidating the roles of immune substances and cells in central nervous system functions, especially their involvement in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness, may help unravel pathophysiologic mechanisms of sleep disorders and improve their management.

  Neuroimmunology of Sleep provides an introduction to the interphase between sleep and neuroimmunology. Written both from basic and clinical perspectives, the volume contains useful information to many biomedical professionals and students of human biology. This informative and forward-looking volume will be valuable to sleep researchers, neuroimmunologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, and all physicians or health-care professionals who evaluate and treat patients with sleep problems. In addition, this volume will be helpful to medical students and clinicians of various disciplines who want to get an overall grasp of the neuroimmunology of sleep field.

• Publisher: Praxis
• Number Of Pages: 413
• Publication Date: 2007-02-01
• Sales Rank: 276902
• ISBN / ASIN: 038726129X
• EAN: 9780387261294
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Praxis
• Studio: Praxis
• Book Description:
  

  Cassini At Saturn – Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn June 2004 so this update includes 8 months of scientific data available for review, including the most spectacular images of Saturn, its rings and satellites ever obtained by a space mission. As the Cassini spacecraft approached its destination in spring 2004, the quality of the images already being returned by the spacecraft clearly demonstrated the spectacular nature of the close-range views that will be obtained. The book contains a 16-page colour section, comprising a carefully chosen selection of the most stunning images to be released during the spacecraft’s initial period of operation.

  The Huygens craft, released by Cassini, parachuted through the clouds of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in January 2005. David Harland tells the exciting story of the this craft’s journey to the surface of one of the most enigmatic bodies on the Solar System, the only moon to have a dense atmosphere and possibly lakes of liquid gas at -190ºC on its surface. Titan is considered to be an early Earth in deep freeze, possibly with the building blocks of life in its atmosphere. There will undoubtedly be enormous interest in the first results and images of Titan’s surface, and this book is the first incisive summary of this groundbreaking material.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 420
• Publication Date: 2007-02-02
• Sales Rank: 2240409
• ISBN / ASIN: 0387365222
• EAN: 9780387365220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Book Description:
  

  This volume offers a complete description of the current state of biology concerning the papillomavirus. It evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by infection with human papillomaviruses (HPVs). To date, more than 70 HPV types have been identified, of which over 15 have been reported in cervical cancer biopsies. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women, approximately 500,000+ new cases are diagnosed each year. This book also considers the possible involvement of HPV infection in cancers at other sites of the human body.

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Number Of Pages: 280
• Publication Date: 2007-04-03
• Sales Rank: 2565322
• ISBN / ASIN: 0123738962
• EAN: 9780123738967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Academic Press
• Studio: Academic Press
• Book Description:
  

  The Advances in Cancer Research series provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. A very special event the Nobel Minisymposium, Molecular Oncology From Bench to Bedside, held at the Karolinska Instituet, in Stockholm, Sweden, was marked the celebration of George and Eva Kleins combined 160th birthday. To honor this occasion, this 2nd of two volumes brings together contributions by their former students, colleagues and collaborators of the past fifty years into a volume of Advances in Cancer Research dedicated to George and Eva. Over a decade ago, a subdivision of ACR called Foundations in Cancer Research was initiated and the tributes honoring the Kleins bodies of work presented at the minisymposium are especially appropriate for the series.

• Publisher: Nuvision Publications
• Number Of Pages: 626
• Publication Date: 2004-03-28
• Sales Rank: 822548
• ISBN / ASIN: 159547997X
• EAN: 9781595479976
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Nuvision Publications
• Studio: Nuvision Publications
• Book Description:
  

  The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word Dogma in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required of him that he shall weigh what is taught, and give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part of the doctrines of the Rite; but because it is of interest and profit to know what the Ancient Intellect thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves the radical difference between our human and the animal nature, as the capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in regard to itself and the Deity. Contents: Apprentice; Fellow-craft; Master; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Building; Elu of the Nine; Elu of the Fifteen; Elu of the Twelve; Master Architect; Royal Arch of Solomon; Perfect Elu; Knight of the East; Prince of Jerusalem; Knight of the East and West; Knight Rose Croix; pontiff; Master of the Symbolic Lodge; Noachite or Prussian Knight; Knight of the Royal Axe or Prince of Liabanus; Chief of the Tabernacle; Prince of the Tabernacle; Knight of the Brazen Serpent; Prince of Mercy; Knight Commander of the Temple; Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept; Scottish Knight of St. Andrew; Knight Kadosh; Inspector Inquisitor; Master of the Royal Secret. If you read only one book on Freemasonry, this is it!

• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Number Of Pages: 240
• Publication Date: 2006-07-14
• Sales Rank: 342677
• ISBN / ASIN: 0976694050
• EAN: 9780976694052
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Studio: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Book Description:
  

  Interface Oriented Design focuses on an important, but often neglected, aspect of object-oriented design. You'll learn by pragmatic example how to create effective designs composed of interfaces to objects, components and services. You'll see techniques for breaking down solutions into interfaces and then determining appropriate implementation of those interfaces to create a well structured, robust, working program.

  Interface Oriented Design explores how to develop robust, reliable software as a collection of interfaces that interact with each other.

  You'll learn what polymorphism and encapsulation really mean, and how to use these ideas more effectively. See how to create better interfaces using agile development techniques, and learn the subtle differences between implementing an interface and inheriting an implementation. Take a fresh, modern view of Design By Contract and class responsibilities. Understand the basis of a service-oriented architecture, including stateful versus stateless interfaces, procedural versus document models, and synchronous versus asynchronous invocations.

  Learn about the most useful patterns, including Proxy, Facade, Adapter, and Factory, as well categories of interfaces including service providers, information holders, and external world interfaces.

  If you want to be a more effective programmer and create better software, you need Interface Oriented Design.

• Publisher: Wiley
• Number Of Pages: 512
• Publication Date: 2001-08-28
• Sales Rank: 192170
• ISBN / ASIN: 0471406465
• EAN: 9780471406464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Wiley
• Book Description:
  

  This concise and authoritative book emphasizes basic principles and problem formulation. It illustrates both the cohesiveness of the relatively few fundamental ideas in this area and the great variety of problems these ideas solve. All of the problems address principles and procedures inherent in the design and analysis of engineering structures and mechanical systems, with many of the problems referring explicitly to design considerations.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 216
• Publication Date: 1999-07-20
• Sales Rank: 3440092
• ISBN / ASIN: 3540643338
• EAN: 9783540643333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Book Description:
  

  Molecular Sieves - Science and Technology will cover, in a comprehensive manner, the science and technology of zeolites and all related microporous and mesoporous materials. Authored by renowned experts, the contributions will be grouped together topically in such a way that each volume of the book series will be dealing with a specific sub-field. Volume 2 covers both the description of the various, complementary techniques for structure determination of microporous and mesoporous matter and their applications illustrated by a large number of pertinent examples. It also deals with general aspects of structures and structure distortions of microporous materials. In summary, Volume 2 provides the researchers in the field of zeolites and related materials with the indispensable knowledge of the great potential of modern methods for structure analysis.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 200
• Publication Date: 2003-02-28
• Sales Rank: 4356609
• ISBN / ASIN: 0306474239
• EAN: 9780306474231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Book Description:
  

  This volume deals with the most advanced areas of reactivation of the cell cycle in terminally differentiated cells. Terminally differentiated cells have long been regarded as irreversibly unable to proliferate. However, this view is being overturned, with great implications for both biological knowledge and potential therapeutic applications.

  The basic science is presented in detail and the potentialities for exploitation in cell replacement therapy and tissue repair are highlighted. For the first time, large parts of this research field are covered in a single resource, contributed by scientists who have given the most to its advancement in recent years. This volume will be valuable for young scientists wishing to enter this field and will serve as an authoritative reference for those already working in it.

• Publisher: CRC
• Number Of Pages: 440
• Publication Date: 2002-09-13
• Sales Rank: 1393664
• ISBN / ASIN: 0824799178
• EAN: 9780824799175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: CRC
• Studio: CRC
• 
  Book Description:
  
  This book describes the origin, use, and limitations of electrochemical phase diagrams, testing schemes for active, passive, and localized corrosion, the development and electrochemical characterization of passivity, and methods in process alteration, failure prediction, and materials selection. It offers useful guidelines for assessing the efficacy of corrosion inhibitors and coatings for metals and alloys, developing effective corrosion prediction models, calculating the corrosion rates of various materials, determining the resistance of alloys to pitting and crevice corrosion, and considering current and potential distribution effects on corrosion
  

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 360
• Publication Date: 2001-12-01
• Sales Rank: 179927
• ISBN / ASIN: 0792376447
• EAN: 9780792376446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Springer
• Studio: Springer
• Book Description:
  Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis: Using Synopsys® Design Compiler® Physical Compiler® and PrimeTime®, Second Edition describes the advanced concepts and techniques used towards ASIC chip synthesis, physical synthesis, formal verification and static timing analysis, using the Synopsys suite of tools. In addition, the entire ASIC design flow methodology targeted for VDSM (Very-Deep-Sub-Micron) technologies is covered in detail.
  The emphasis of this book is on real-time application of Synopsys tools, used to combat various problems seen at VDSM geometries. Readers will be exposed to an effective design methodology for handling complex, sub-micron ASIC designs. Significance is placed on HDL coding styles, synthesis and optimization, dynamic simulation, formal verification, DFT scan insertion, links to layout, physical synthesis, and static timing analysis. At each step, problems related to each phase of the design flow are identified, with solutions and work-around described in detail. In addition, crucial issues related to layout, which includes clock tree synthesis and back-end integration (links to layout) are also discussed at length. Furthermore, the book contains in-depth discussions on the basis of Synopsys technology libraries and HDL coding styles, targeted towards optimal synthesis solution.

• Publisher: Baen
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 1993-06-01
• Sales Rank: 126433
• ISBN / ASIN: 0671721720
• EAN: 9780671721725
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Baen
• Review:

  Second in the excellent Honor Harrington series: introducing the Graysons

  
  "The Honor of the Queen" is the second book in a wonderful space opera series set some three thousand years in the future and featuring David Weber's best fictional heroine, "Honor Harrington." The books are best read in sequence and I strongly recommend that you start with "On Basilisk Station" which is the first one.
  
  Despite the futuristic setting, there are strong parallels with Nelson's navy. Assumed technology in the Honor Harrington stories imposes tactical and strategic constraints on space navy officers similar to those which the technology of fighting sail imposed on wet navy officers two hundred years ago. The galactic situation in the novels contains strong similarities to the strategic and political situation in European history at the time of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
  
  This seems to be quite deliberate: many thinly veiled (and amusing) hints in the books indicate that they are to some extent a tribute to C.S. Forester, while the main heroine of the books, Honor Harrington, appears to owe more than just her initials to C.S. Forester's character "Horatio Hornblower."