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Posted: May 19th, 2009, 7:01pm CEST
Stringent industrial requirements for sophisticated performance and circumstantial control of microdevices or nanotechnology manufacturing, and other types of machinery at multiple scales, require complex materials. The adjective 'complex' indicates that the substructure influences gross mechanical behaviour in a prominent way and interactions due to substructural changes are represented directly. Examples are liquid crystals, quasi-periodic alloys, polymeric bodies, spin glasses, magnetostrictive materials and ferroelectrics, suspensions, in particular liquids with gas bubbles, polarizable fluids, etc.
The mechanical behaviour of complex bodies described in this book gives rise to a wide variety of challenging problems from the macroscopic- to the nano-world. The chapters composing this book explore various aspects of these problems, giving rise to new areas of discussion together with specific solutions.
Contributors are Carlo Cercignani, Gianfranco Capriz, Pierre Degond, Antonio Fasano, Harley T. Johnson, Sukky Jun, Krishna Kannan, Wing Kam Liu, Alberto Mancini, Paolo Maria Mariano, Ingo Müller, Kumbakonan R. Rajagopal, Jan Jerzy Slawianowski.
The book will be a useful tool for researchers and students working on the basic mathematical and physical problems accruing from the mechanics of materials.
* Leading scientific competence of contributors.
* Clear writing style linking solutions and open problems.
* Suggestions for direct technological applications and new research work.
* Mathematical models for nanotechnology devices.
The book can be a useful tool for Scholars and PhD students addressing their research activity toward basic mathematical and physical problems accruing from the mechanics of materials.
About the Author
Prof. G. Capriz has founded in the 1980s the primary abstract format of the mechanics of complex bodies, generating a school about this subject. As a fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, he has pushed strongly the work in mathematical physics in Italy indicating profound and innovative directions of research. Prof. P. M. Mariano has developed in the last ten years the general structure of the abstract model-building framework of the mechanics of complex bodies substantially, unifying existing models of complex matter and suggesting new ones. His wide research work range from solid to fluid and is essentially theoretical.
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Posted: May 19th, 2009, 6:52pm CEST
Understand, troubleshoot, repair, and upgrade your boat’s electrical systems
Frustrated by the high cost of basic electrical work but nervous about tackling such projects yourself? Get sound advice and guidance from author Ed Sherman, who wrote and teaches the American Boat & Yacht Council’s certification program for electrical technicians. In Powerboater’s Guide to Electrical Systems, he combines basic theory with step-by-step directions for troubleshooting problems, making repairs, and installing new equipment. Learn to
- Draw up a wiring diagram for your boat
- Locate and identify wiring and circuit components
- Select and use a multimeter
- Choose and maintain battery and marine ignition systems
- Troubleshoot starting, charging, and instrument problems
- Install DC and AC marine accessories, equipment, and electronics
“Ed Sherman's nationally recognized expertise in electrical systems in boats makes him a natural choice to train and certify marine electricians. . . . He believes, as I do, that doing it right the first time will surely enhance your boating experience.”--C. T. “Skip” Moyer III, Past President, American Boat & Yacht Council
Ed Sherman is one of America’s best-known authorities on marine technology. He is the author of Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting and Outboard Engines and the coauthor of The 12-Volt Bible for Boats. As the senior staff writer for the American Boat & Yacht Council, he plays a key role in defining that organization’s national standards for electrical systems and certifying marine electricians to the standards.
About the Author
Ed Sherman is one of the country’s best-known authorities on marine electrical systems. A senior writer at the American Boat & Yacht Council, he has played a key role in defining that organization’s national standards for electrical systems.
When someone presents a bone (or series of bones) to a forensic anthropologist for identification, deciding whether or not the bone is human is one of the first steps in determining its importance in a medicolegal investigation. Almost every forensic anthropologist has been asked to drop everything and go to a scene that has been secured by law enforcement because someone believes that the skeleton in the bushes is human, only to discover that those remains are from a deer. The inconvenience and expense associated with an exercise such as this is one reason why human/nonhuman bone identification is one of the most popular subjects in seminars I present to law enforcement.
This book is intended to give law enforcement, medicolegal investigators, forensic anthropologists, and even the general public an atlas with photographs and other information necessary for bone identification. Admittedly, it is difficult to create a reference book such as this for such a large audience. Some professionals will be able to skim or skip certain sections of the book that are designed for the novice reader, while some readers will find it necessary to study the initial osteology section to learn the basic terminology used in bone identification.
Now updated — America's #1 bestselling home-buying book!
Want to buy a house, but concerned about the market? Have no fear — this trusted guide arms you with Eric Tyson and Ray Brown's time-tested advice and updated strategies for buying a home in current market conditions. You'll discover how to find the right property, make smart financial decisions, and understand the latest lending requirements and tax implications.
- New to this edition — new and expanded coverage to help homebuyers take advantage of low home prices, understand the subprime mortgage crisis, obtain a mortgage, and improve credit scores
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To buy or not to buy? — weigh the advantages of owning versus renting, get your finances in order, and know how much house you can safely afford
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Handle financing — understand your credit rating, navigate the different types of mortgages, and complete all paperwork
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Play the real estate game — find the right location and property, assemble an all-star real estate team, and make the most of the Internet's real estate resources
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Let's make a deal — negotiate with finesse, make successful offers, inspect and protect your new home, and cover all your bases in escrow
"Invaluable information, especially for the first-time home buyer." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"A reference you'll turn to time after time." — St. Petersburg Times
Open the book and find:
- Reasons why home prices rise and fall
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Hands-on instruction for buying a home in up or down markets
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How to pay the price you want
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The best mortgage options
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A sample home-buying contract
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Pros and cons of comparable market analysis
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Tips for overcoming mortgage and appraisal problems
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How to cope with buyer's remorse
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The best real estate Web sites
About the Author
Eric Tyson, MBA, is a financial counselor and the author of bestselling For Dummies books on personal finance, investing, and real estate investing. Ray Brown, a real estate professional for more than 30 years, has hosted a real estate radio show in San Francisco.
Photographic images play a key role in defining global fashion culture and in charting its discursive space. They are seen by many as the driving force behind the fashion system, with cultural pundits and industry creatives heralding the photograph as fashion’s ‘ultimate signifier’ (Saville in Burgoyne 2002: 36). Since the early 1990s, fashion photography has commanded an increasing share of public consciousness, as well as a growing amount of wall space in museums, galleries and auction houses. It has engaged with new technologies and challenged ideals of beauty, it has proved politically and aesthetically provocative, economically lucrative, and ideologically potent. Despite this, fashion photography has been paid little attention by the scholarly and critical community.
Printed media on fashion photography are everywhere these days: accounts of photographers, designers and trends, volumes of portraiture and street chic, magazines and themed collections, exhibition catalogues, monographs, limitededition folios and bookworks. Critical accounts of fashion photography are much less easy to find. The limited number that exist are scattered throughout exhibition catalogues, magazines, journals, anthologies, newspapers and other media. For its part, photographic criticism has yet to engage with fashion photography in a sustained way, sharing with other forms of cultural criticism a kind of unspoken aversion to the medium. Fashion photography’s coupling with industry and commerce, its flirtation with the frivolous and the ephemeral, its role in the marketing and selling of garments, the questionable part it plays in the construction of feminine identity – none of these have helped it to gain status in the eyes of visual and cultural studies. Lumped in with other forms of advertising, fashion images have too often been subjected to a limited range of analytical tools, most of them inherited from other discourses.
Does God exist? What about evil and suffering? How does faith relate to science? Is there life after death? These questions fascinate everyone and lie at the heart of philosophy of religion. Chad Meister offers an up-to-date introduction to the field, focussing not only on traditional debates but also on contemporary concepts such as the intelligent creator. Key topics, such as divine reality and the self and religious experience, are discussed in relation to different faiths. "Introducing Philosophy of Religion": offers a lucid overview of contemporary philosophy of religion; introduces the key figures in the history of philosophy of religion; explores the impact of religious diversity and pluralism; examines the main arguments for and against the existence of God and the nature of the divine; looks at science and issues of faith and reason; and, explores how the different religions approach the concept of life after death. The wealth of textbook features, including tables of essential information, questions for reflection, summaries, glossary and recommendations for further reading make the book ideal for student use. Along with its accompanying Reader, this is the perfect introductory package for undergraduate philosophy of religion courses.
About the Author
Director of Philosophy, Bethel College, USA
Multimedia hardware still cannot accommodate the demand for large amounts of visual data. Without the generation of high-quality video bitstreams, limited hardware capabilities will continue to stifle the advancement of multimedia technologies. Thorough grounding in coding is needed so that applications such as MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000 may come to fruition.
Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering provides a solid, comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals and algorithms that lead to the creation of new methods for generating high quality video bit streams. The authors present a number of relevant advances along with international standards.
New to the Second Edition
A chapter describing the recently developed video coding standard, MPEG-Part 10 Advances Video Coding also known as H.264
Fundamental concepts and algorithms of JPEG2000
Color systems of digital video
Up-to-date video coding standards and profiles
Visual data, image, and video coding will continue to enable the creation of advanced hardware, suitable to the demands of new applications. Covering both image and video compression, this book yields a unique, self-contained reference for practitioners tobuild a basis for future study, research, and development.
With cheaper bandwidth and greater robustness, optical networking components are looking increasingly tempting--perhaps even mandatory for maintaining your network's competitive edge. Here's how you get there from here, without being overwhelmed by optical science.
Optical technologies' advantages over copper have caught your attention. Now you're one of the many network professionals--enterprise and service provider alike--looking to answer that key question,What's the impact on my network? Optical Networking Components provides the help you need as you rethink system changes and update plans. Written specifically for network managers and administrators by a veteran communications consultant, Gil Held's Optical Networking Components helps you:
*Understand the role of LEDs, lasers, single mode and multimode optical fiber and couplers and amplifiers
*Bridge the divide between conventional systems and optical upgrades
*Relate optical technologies to existing networks in language you already know
*Evaluate optical components in the context of your existing infrastructure
*Apply practical integration and migration techniques in LANs, WANs, and other infrastructure without deep optical theory
*Get familiar with technical changes in performance measurement, system management, switching technology, support requirements, and other key challenges
When adding optical components to traditional data networks, plug-and-play is not an option. But with Gil Held's expert book, it's much easier to build and deploy your game plan.
About the Author
Gil Held (Macon GA) is a prolific author in the field of data communications. He teaches seminars in breaking technologies worldwide. Gil lays claim to having put the first fiber optics into a building within the state of Georgia - 20 years ago.
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Posted: May 19th, 2009, 5:37am CEST
This volume is an adaptation for the professional market of the most recent 10th (“millennium”) edition of Dr. Helfert’s best-selling Techniques of Financial Analysis, which, with more than half a million copies in print over the past 38 years, has given the student, analyst, and business executive a concise, practical, usable, and up-to-date overview of key financial/economic analysis tools. The presentation format has always been carefully designed to help the reader understand the linkage between management decisions and their impact on the financial performance and the economic value of a business. This book helps the reader to interpret financial reports, develop basic financial projections, evaluate business investment decisions, assess the implications of financing choices, derive the value of a business or a security, and understand the role of analysis in achieving the goal of shareholder value creation. Every technique and measure is described and demonstrated in the context of important underlying financial and economic concepts, but without delving into theoretical abstraction.
The book offers up-to-date information on the latest recording technology, such as digital tape recording, hard-disk recording, keyboard and digital workstations, SMPTE, and MIDI. It also guides the beginner through the basics, showing how to make quality recordings with the new breed of inexpensive home-studio equipment. Other topics include: choosing and operating recorder-mixers based on cassette, Mini-Disc, and hard-disk; hum prevention; the latest monitoring methods; microphone selection and placement; audio-for-video techniques; troubleshooting bad sound; guidelines for good sound. With its step-by-step approach and easy-to-read format, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to create professional sounding recordings.
About the Author
Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer who specializes in audio and computer software.
Bruce Bartlett is a microphone engineer, audio journalist, and recording engineer. He has written over 600 articles on audio topics for such magazines as Modern Recording, db, Recording, EQ, Mix, Recording Engineer/Producer, Radio World, Pro Audio Review, Audio, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has also written a number of books including Stereo Microphone Techniques (Focal Press). A member of the Audio Engineering Society and Syn Aud Con, he holds a degree in physics and several patents on microphone design. He is also a musician and runs a 16-track digital studio specializing in live recording.
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 professionals need to be able to solve ever more complex problems of RF design.
Blending theoretical rigor with a wealth of practical expertise, Practical RF System Design addresses a variety of complex, real-world problems that system engineers are likely to encounter in today’s burgeoning communications industry with solutions that are not easily available in the existing literature. The author, an expert in the field of RF module and system design, provides powerful techniques for analyzing real RF systems, with emphasis on some that are currently not well understood. Combining theoretical results and models with examples, he challenges readers to address such practical issues as:
- How standing wave ratio affects system gain
- How noise on a local oscillator will affect receiver noise figure and desensitization
- How to determine the dynamic range of a cascade from module specifications
- How phase noise affects system performance and where it comes from
- How intermodulation products (IMs) predictably change with signal amplitude, and why they sometimes change differently
An essential resource for today’s RF system engineers, the text covers important topics in the areas of system noise and nonlinearity, frequency conversion, and phase noise. Along with a wealth of practical examples using MATLAB® and Excel, spreadsheets are available for download from an FTP Web site to help readers apply the methods outlined in this important resource.
About the Author
WILLIAM F. EGAN is an instructor at Santa Clara University, California, and formerly a Principle Engineer at TRW ESD and a Senior Technologist at GTE Government Systems. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is the author of two previous books related to RF technology.
How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks
Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!
If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!
Discover how to
- Choose the proper utensils and ingredients
- Melt, temper, and mold chocolate
- Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets
- Create special holiday treats
- Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts
About the Author
David Jones has been making candies for more than 30 years. He owns Hansel & Gretel Candy Kitchen in Helen, Georgia.
A comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing and extending the powerful and freely available application from Microsoft.
•Learn .NET architecture through building real world examples
•Understand, implement and extend the Community Starter Kit
•Learn to create and customize your own website
•Develop the confidence to implement and extend the system
•This book is written for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C#
This book is a complete and practical guide helping you to deliver content rich community driven web sites based on the freely available ASP.NET Community Starter Kit from Microsoft. It is aimed at experienced ASP.NET developers with the responsibility of delivering robust and feature rich web sites, fast and effectively.
Microsoft's ASP.NET Community Starter Kit (CSK) is a powerful, freely-available application that allows you to quickly create a fully-featured community-driven web site, complete with article and news management, downloads, forums, and user handling.
What you will learn from this book
• Install and configure the CSK
• Find your way around the CSK’s towering range of features
• Create and administer community web sites
• Become familiar with the common CSK ASP.NET controls
• Customize your CSK site
• Discover the secrets of the CSK core architecture
• Explore the inner workings of CSK modules
• Extend the CSK by creating new modules
• Customize existing modules with Web controls
• Add an RSS feed to share your content with others
• Deploy your CSK Web site
This book has been written for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C# and access to Visual Studio .NET. This book uses the Visual Studio. NET version of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit
The BlackBerry is such a valuable tool, even the President is using one! Whether you’ve just bought your first BlackBerry or you want to get up to speed on the new models,
BlackBerry For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to use every fantastic feature.
Packed with information to help you make the most of this amazing device, BlackBerry For Dummies explains how to send and receive e-mail and instant messages, surf the Web, take photos, make phone calls, play music, and organize your life, right from the palm of your hand. Find out how to:
- Get up to speed on the latest features of your BlackBerry, including Storm, Curve, Bold, Pearl Flip, and Javelin models
- Navigate the display screen and use the trackball, your BlackBerry’s keyboard, and shortcuts
- Manage your appointments, keep your calendar, and handle your to-do list
- Use e-mail, SMS text messaging, and instant messaging, and even receive faxes
- Take photos, record video, and sync your BlackBerry with iTunes
- Back up your BlackBerry, arrange automated backups, maintain your battery, and protect your information with secure passwords
- Use your BlackBerry GPS
- Learn about the BlackBerry browser and bookmark and organize your favorite Web sites
- Add cool lifestyle applications and enjoy games on your BlackBerry
The more you know about your BlackBerry, the more you’ll decide it’s indispensable. BlackBerry For Dummies, 3rd Edition tells you everything you need to know, the fun and easy way!
About the Author
Robert Kao is one well-rounded professional. His ability to translate his technical knowledge and communicate with users of all types led him to co-write
BlackBerry For Dummies and
BlackBerry Pearl For Dummies. He started out as a BlackBerry developer for various financial firms in New York City, that truly global city. A graduate of Columbia University, with a Computer Engineering degree, he currently lives in South Brunswick, New Jersey.
Dante Sarigumba is a long-time user of BlackBerry and a gizmo enthusiast. He is a co-host of the Mobile Computing Authority biweekly podcast. He works for a major investment bank in New York as a software developer and lives in South Brunswick, New Jersey, with his wife, Rosemarie, and two sons, Dean and Drew. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
And so the journey continues, and, as I’ve said before, what a long, strange trip it’s been. When I first wrote Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming in early 1999, the landscape of both books and the development world was much different than it is today. At the time, .NET was as yet unheard of, and while Visual Studio 98 ruled the day as the most popular development environment, Java was coming on strong and alternative development tools, such as Delphi, were still more competitive than they typically are today. The so-called “dot com” era was booming, and the use of database management systems (DBMS), such as SQL Server, was growing exponentially.
There was, however, a problem. While one could find quite a few books on SQL Server, they were all oriented toward the administrator. They spent tremendous amounts of time and energy on things that the average developer did not give a proverbial hoot about. Something had to give, and as my development editor and I pondered the needs of the world, we realized that we could not solve world hunger or arms proliferation ourselves, but we could solve the unrealized need for a new kind of SQL book — one aimed specifically at developers.
Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java™ EE: Using GlassFish™ focuses on the open source GlassFish persistence engine. This book shows Java programmers how to develop applications utilizing relational database technologies with examples using Oracle and MySQL and the GlassFish application development framework and deployment platform all based on Java EE.
- The book explains in detail how you can organize your Java EE solution into a multilayer architecture, placing most emphasis on how to implement the persistence and database tiers of an application.
- Through many examples, this book shows how you can efficiently use the Java Persistence features available in the Java EE platform. Find out how you can greatly simplify the task of building the persistence layer of your Java EE application by moving some application logic into the underlying database, utilizing database views, stored programs, and triggers.
- The book also explains how to deploy Java EE applications to GlassFish, a free, open source Java EE 5–compliant application server.
What you’ll learn
- Use the GlassFish persistence layer in conjunction with GlassFish Java EE application server.
- Organize the database and persistence tiers of a Java EE application; and utilize MySQL or Oracle database applications when building the database tier.
- Work with EJB 3 JPA object/relational mapping features; plug JPA into Java EE transactional environment; and implement persistence with the EJB 3 EntityManager.
- Integrate and use JSF (web–tier) using emerging GlassFish JSF Framework (Scales) and other JSF tools/frameworks.
- Deploy applications to GlassFish Application Server.
Who is this book for?
The book is appropriate for Java developers who want to learn how to develop Java EE applications interacting with a relational database via the Java Persistence API (JPA) and then deploy them to the open source GlassFish Application Server.
About the Apress Beginning Series
The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!
About the Author
Yuli Vasiliev is a software developer, freelance author, and consultant currently specializing in open source development, Java technologies, databases, and Service–Oriented Architecture (SOA). He has over 10 years of software development experience as well as several years of technical writing experience. He wrote a series of technical articles for Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and Oracle Magazine.
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Posted: May 19th, 2009, 5:15am CEST
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Integrating Maple V animation software and traditional topics of partial differential equations, this text discusses first and second-order differential equations, Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems, generalized Fourier series, the diffusion or heat equation and the wave equation in one and two spatial dimensions, the Laplace equation in two spatial dimensions, nonhomogenous versions of the diffusion and wave equations, and Laplace transform methods of solution. The CD- ROM contains real-time animations of solutions of partial differential equations using Maple V. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Offers a unique approach to learning the mathematics first, then use Maple graphics capabilities to visualize both static and animated behavior of the solution
Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value PRoblems with Maple presents all of the material normally covered in a standard course on partial differential equations, while focusing on the natural union between this material and the powerful computational software, Maple. The Maple commands are so intuitive and easy to learn, students can learn what they need to know about the software in a matter of hours- an investment that provides substantial returns. Maple's animation capabilities allow students and practitioners to see real-time displays of the solutions of partial differential equations; the enclosed CD-ROM is filled with such animations.
- Provides a quick overview of the software w/simple commands needed to get started<BR id="CRLF">-Includes review material on linear algebra and Ordinary Differential equations, and their contribution in solving partial differential equations<BR id="CRLF">-Incorporates an early introduction to Sturm-Liouville boundary problems and generalized eigenfunction expansions<BR id="CRLF">- Numerous example problems and end of each chapter exercises
About the Author
Dr. George A. Articolo has 35 years of teaching experience in physics and applied mathematics at Rutgers University, and has been a consultant for several government research laboratories and aerospace corporations. He has a Ph.D. in mathematical physics with degrees from Temple University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
