Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Bioinformatics Research and Development Conference, BIRD 2008, held in Vienna, Austria in July 2008.
The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. 30 papers are organized in topical sections followed by 11 papers from the ALBIO workshop and 8 papers from the PETRIN workshop.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Bioinformatics Research and Development: Second International Conference, BIRD 2008, Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2008 Proceedings
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
Description: Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched field of study in urban informatics.
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: Community Integration and Implementation brings together an international selection of 66 esteemed scholars presenting their research and development on urban technology, digital cities, locative media, and mobile and wireless applications. A truly global resource, this one-of-a-kind reference collection contains significant and timely research covering a diverse range of current issues in the urban informatics field, making it an essential addition to technology and social science collections in academic libraries that will benefit scholars and practitioners in an array of fields ranging from computer science to urban studies.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation
Jack Alexander, “Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation”
Wiley | 2006-11-03 | ISBN: 0470047976 | 301 pages | PDF | 3,75 MB
Wiley | 2006-11-03 | ISBN: 0470047976 | 301 pages | PDF | 3,75 MB
No matter what industry your company competes in, you need to have a firm understanding of how to create a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes in order to improve performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this—and much more.\
Evolutionary Essays: A Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Evolution
Evolutionary Essays: A Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Evolution
Elsevier Science | 2008 | ISBN: 0444529969 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 1.54 MB
Elsevier Science | 2008 | ISBN: 0444529969 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 1.54 MB
Evolution is natures most fascinating process, the possibility given sufficient time to combine simple inorganic compounds to more and more complex biochemical compounds, which make up more and more complex organisms. It is therefore crucial in our effort to understand the evolution to see it from as many different angles as possible. This books draw an image of evolution from the thermodynamic viewpoint, which gives new and surprising insights into the processes and mechanisms that have driven evolution. This new thermodynamic interpretation has made it possible to quantify the various steps of evolution and to show that evolution has followed an exponential growth curve.
*The first comprehensive thermodynamic interpretation and explanation of evolution
*This thermodynamic interpretation makes it possible to quantify the various steps of evolution
*This interpretation explains the wide spectrum of different mechanisms on which the evolution has been based
eBook Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales
Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales
Springer | 2008 | ISBN: 1402087608 | Pages: 186 | PDF | 2.06 MB
Springer | 2008 | ISBN: 1402087608 | Pages: 186 | PDF | 2.06 MB
Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the genome and clues to evolution through simple systems. Emerging areas of science such as “systems biology” and “bio-complexity” are founded on the idea that phenomena need to be understood in the context of highly interactive processes operating at different levels and on different scales. This is where physics meets complexity in nature, and where we must begin to learn about complexity if we are to understand it. Similarly, there is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict the evolutionary behavior of highly interacting man-made systems, in areas such as communications and transport, which permeate the modern world. The same applies to the evolution of human networks such as social, political and financial systems, where technology has tended to vastly increase both the complexity and speed of interaction, which is sometimes effectively instantaneous. The book contains reviews on such diverse areas as evolution experiments with microorganisms, the origin and evolution of viruses, evolutionary dynamics of genes and environment in cancer development, aging as an evolution-facilitating program, evolution of vision and evolution of financial markets.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 896
Publication Date: 2000-11-16
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0195136047
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780195136043
Comprehensive, up-to-date, and problem-oriented, Introduction to Electrical Engineering is ideal for courses that introduce nonelectrical engineering majors to the language and principles of electrical engineering. It can also be used in undergraduate survey courses taken by electrical engineering majors. Covering a uniquely broad range of topics, this text discusses the underlying concepts and methods behind various electrical engineering applications--from consumer gadgets and biomedical electronics to sophisticated instrumentation systems, computers, and electric machinery. Sarma highlights basic physical concepts while also emphasizing mathematical techniques, motivating students to learn the material in a logical sequence beginning with physical principles and extending to processes, modeling, using analytical techniques, and finally, designing.
Features
- Incorporates practical and open-ended case studies at the end of each chapter
- Includes over 1,000 end-of-chapter problems, a wealth of examples, and over 1,500 illustrations
- Offers comprehensive chapters on signal processing, control systems, and communication systems
- Provides integrated coverage of MATLABRG and SPICE
- Adopts a modern focus on design and teamwork
- Contains complete solutions to 20% of the end-of-chapter problems on http://www.mssarma.org Includes helpful appendices on the FE examination; mathematical relations; solution of simultaneous equations; complex numbers; Fourier series; Laplace transforms; and more
- A Solutions Manual by M. S. Sarma contains complete solutions for all problems. (0-19-514260-8)
- A CD-ROM containing Microsoft PowerPointRG Overheads provides over 350 text figures and captions formatted for classroom presentation. (0-19-514472-4)
- A website, mssarma.org, includes interesting web links, enhancement materials, errata, and more.
- Circuits: Allan's Circuits Problems by Allan Kraus (0-19-514248-9)
- Electronics: KC's Problems and Solutions to Accompany Microelectronic Circuits, Fourth Edition, by K.C. Smith (0-19-511771-9)
- SPICE: SPICE, Second Edition, by Gordon Roberts and Adel Sedra (0-19-510842-6)
- MATLAB: Getting Started with MATLAB by Rudra Pratap (0-19-515014-7)
Monday, January 12, 2009
Download EBook Single-Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy
TVCH Publishers | 1996-11 | ISBN: 3527293167 | 250 pages | PDF | 13.4 MB
This text on single molecule spectroscopy presents developments for the detection and investigation of single entities. Current methods and their applications are surveyed.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
eBook Science For Humanism: The Recovery of Human Agency
Charles R. Varela, ��Science For Humanism: The Recovery of Human Agency��
Routledge | 2009-03-27 | ISBN: 0415481821 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
Routledge | 2009-03-27 | ISBN: 0415481821 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and cultural worlds of deterministic structures; it is this version of the freedom and determinism issue which centres the Science and Humanism debates, and thus marks the history of the social sciences. Anthony Giddens is credited with providing the new vocabulary of 'structure' and 'agency' in order to formulate the problem of freedom and determinism in those terms, thus making this formulation fruitful.In this book, Charles R. Varela proposes that Kant originally formulated this problem, and makes a series of wide-ranging and groundbreaking observations based on Kant's metaphysics of realism which enables Varela to propose a solution to the structure/agency problem. Subjects revisited in this book include: 'Giddens' Call'; the stalemate of the social and psychological sciences; the determinist tradition of modern science; and, postmodernism. This breadth of themes, drawn together by Varela with his work on Kant, fully realizes Giddens' principle that human agency is a real causal force. It is Kant's conception of causal power that is the causal force Giddens' has called for. "Science For Humanism: The Recovery of Human Agency" will be of particular interest to students of humanism and therefore realism, Kant and Giddens.
eBook The Sky at Einstein's Feet
William C. Keel, "The Sky at Einstein's Feet"
Springer | 2005-11-28 | ISBN: 0387261303 | 246 pages | PDF | 23,2 MB
Springer | 2005-11-28 | ISBN: 0387261303 | 246 pages | PDF | 23,2 MB
The insights of relativity have illuminated a century of astronomical discovery, often going beyond the phenomena that Einstein lived to see. This book shows, in nonmathematical ways, how deeply these ways of viewing the Universe have informed our interpretations of it, and how many of the amazing discoveries of these decades have made sense only as part of Einstein's universe.
The author brings together the ways in which we see the bizarre effects of relativity played out on a cosmic scale. None of this is particularly new to practicing astronomers, but much has yet to be seen outside technical journals. The presentation avoids mathematics (except for the most famous equation in all of physics!), and is designed to be accessible to the interested public. Gravitational lenses, the visible effects of light-travel delays, the search for black holes, the ways relativity in atomic nuclei makes stars shine, are all treated. In many cases, some of the principals are still alive and provided new commentary on the discoveries. Numerous illustrations are newly produced from data in the archives of such observatories as Hubble and Chandra.
eBook-Genetics Databases (Biological Techniques Series)
enetics Databases (Biological Techniques Series)
Academic Press; Spi edition | ISBN: 0121016250 | 320 pages | September 1999 | PDF | 13 Mb
"Read the book from cover to cover... is rewarding and provides one with a feel for the state of the art in relation to data mining from genetics databases... I would highly recommend the book to anyone currently doing research in the biological sciences and molecular or genetic science in particular" - Today's Life Sciences
eBook For Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
R. Langer, Guruprasad Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, Luis Kun, B. Alberts, ��Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology��
Springer | 2008-09-30 | ISBN: 0387764941 | 485 pages | PDF | 6,8 MB
Springer | 2008-09-30 | ISBN: 0387764941 | 485 pages | PDF | 6,8 MB
Bioengineering and biotechnology are exploding��the number of career opportunities is expected to increase twice as fast as for other science and engineering fields over the next decade. Bioengineers and biotechnologists have enormous potential to meet employment needs ranging from traditional careers in science and engineering through a host of alternative career pathways.
This book provides a roadmap to the broad and varied career development opportunities in bioengineering, biotechnology, and related fields. Eminent practitioners lay out career paths related to academia, industry, government and regulatory affairs, healthcare, law, marketing, entrepreneurship, and more.
Lifetimes of experience and wisdom are shared, including "war stories," strategies for success, avoidance of common pitfalls, and discussions of the authors�� personal views and motivations. Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology is an indispensable guide to some of the most exciting career and professional growth opportunities in science, engineering, and beyond, and a "must read" for anyone interested in a career related to this burgeoning field.
From the Foreword by U.S. National Medal of Science Laureate and Institute Professor Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "This book provides a wealth of information and should serve as an excellent resource��The editors have gone to great effort to discuss a variety of critical topics in the burgeoning areas of bioengineering and biotechnology."
From the Introduction by Dr. Bruce Alberts, President Emeritus of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Co-chair of the InterAcademy Council: "I am very impressed with the enormous dedication and skill that created this major, highly-original contribution �C I know of nothing like it."
From the Editorial by Dr. Joachim Nagel, President, International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, and past president of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering: "This book provides all the answers and can be highly recommended as the ultimate guide to anyone interested in bioengineering and biotechnology. The book arrives at a crucial time, and catapults bioengineering and biotechnology to the forefront of disciplines and to a rightly held pinnacle of inspiration for engineers, scientists, and technologists."
From the Afterword by Dr. Shu Chien, President, Biomedical Engineering Society and past president of the American Physiological Society and of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering: "��this is truly an outstanding book that is the first of its kind...certainly a pioneering contribution."
Saturday, January 10, 2009
eBook-Television Technology Demystified: A Non-technical Guide
Focal Press | 2006-01-18 | ISBN: 0240806840 | 288 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB
"Television Technology Demystified" is written for non-technical television production professionals. Journalists, program producers, camera persons, editors, and other television professionals need to know how equipment works, which performance levels are achievable, how to evaluate the technical quality of picture and sound, and other aspects of production; this book presents these and other essential concepts in a simple and non-mathematical way. Aleksandar-Louis Todorovic, a highly respected and well-known figure in the broadcasting community, has succeeded in making complex technology understandable.
*Learn about complex technical concepts such as interlace scanning and digital compression without complex mathematics, diagrams, and drawings
*Understand the potentials and limitations of the various and changing production tools available
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Book For Single-Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy
TVCH Publishers | 1996-11 | ISBN: 3527293167 | 250 pages | PDF | 13.4 MB
This text on single molecule spectroscopy presents developments for the detection and investigation of single entities. Current methods and their applications are surveyed.
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eBook For Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd edition
Wiley-VCH | 2001-06-15 | ISBN: 3527303170 | 474 pages | PDF | 22.7 MB
This new edition of the best-selling handbook gives a complete and concise description of the latest knowledge on nuclear and radiochemistry as well as their applications in the various fields of science. It is based on over 40 years experience in teaching courses and research.
The book is aimed at all researchers seeking sound knowledge about the properties of matter, whether chemists, physicists, medical doctors, mineralogists or biologists. All of them will find this a valuable source of information.
Research in radiochemistry includes: Study of radioactive matter in nature, investigation of radioactive transmutations, chemistry of radioelements etc. Applications include: Radionuclides in geo- and cosmochemistry, dating by nuclear methods, radioanalysis, Mössbauer spectroscopy and related methods, behavior of natural and man-made radionuclides in the environment, dosimetry and radiation protection.
All the subjects are presented clearly and comprehensibly, and in a logical sequence, avoiding detailed derivations of equations. The relevant information is compiled in tables and the recent edition of the multi-colored Karlsruhe 'Chart of the Nuclides' has also been included.
Clearly a standard work by an author with extensive experience in research and teaching.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
eBookn First Scalar wave textbook for engineers
First Scalar wave textbook for engineers
Scalar Waves Textbook | Publisher: Meyl | 2003 | 700 pg | PDF | 32.5 Mb | ISBN 3980254240
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From an extended vortex and field theory to a technical, biological and historical use of longitudinal waves. Edition belonging to the Electromagnetic Environmental Compatibility seminar (part 1 - 3).
From Maxwell’s field equations only the well-known (transverse) Hertzian waves can be derived, whereas the calculation of longitudinal electromagnetic waves gives zero as a result. This is a flaw of the field theory, since longitudinal waves exist for all particle waves, like e.g. as plasma wave, as photon- or neutrino radiation.
Starting from Faradays discovery, instead of the formulation of the law of induction according to Maxwell, an extended field theory is derived, which goes beyond the Maxwell theory with the description of potential vortices (noise vortices) and their propagation as a longitudinal wave, but contains the Maxwell theory as a special case. With that the extension is allowed and doesn’t contradict textbook physics.
Besides the mathematical calculation of longitudinal EM waves this book contains a voluminous material collection concerning their technical use. What if the useful signal and what would normally be called the interfering noise signal change their places? What if a separate modulation of frequency and wavelength makes a parallel image transmission possible? This book also addresses questions concerning the environmental compatibility of electromagnetic energy for the benefit of humanity (bio resonance, among others) or to harm humanity (electro smog).
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eBook-Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Publisher: Wiley | Number Of Pages: 508 | Publication Date: 2005-09-12 | ISBN: 0470010797 | 13MB[/b]
Book Description:
Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots Second Edition: Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures provides all the essential information, both theoretical and computational, for complete beginners to develop an understanding of how the electronic, optical and transport properties of quantum wells, wires and dots are calculated. Readers are lead through a series of simple theoretical and computational examples giving solid foundations from which they will gain the confidence to initiate theoretical investigations or explanations of their own.
* Emphasis on combining the analysis and interpretation of experimental data with the development of theoretical ideas
* Complementary to the more standard texts
# Aimed at the physics community at large, rather than just the low-dimensional semiconductor expert
# The text present solutions for a large number of real situations
# Presented in a lucid style with easy to follow steps related to accompanying illustrative examples
eBook-Device Modeling For Analog And RF CMOS Circuit Design - T. Ytterdal, Y. Cheng, T. Fjeldly
Device Modeling For Analog And RF CMOS Circuit Design by T. Ytterdal, Y. Cheng, T. Fjeldly
Wiley 2003 | ISBN: 0471498696 | PDF | 307 p.| English | 2 MB
Bridges the gap between device modelling and analog circuit design. Includes dedicated software enabling actual circuit design. Covers the three significant models: BSIM3, Model 9 &, and EKV. Presents practical guidance on device development and circuit implementation. The authors offer a combination of extensive academic and industrial experience.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
eBook Engineering the User Interface: From Research to Practice
Miguel Redondo, Crescencio Bravo, Manuel Ortega “Engineering the User Interface: From Research to Practice”
Springer | 2008-11-23 | ISBN: 1848001355 | 277 pages | PDF | 16,4 MB
This book contains a collection of the best papers presented at the VII International Conference on Interacción Persona-Ordenador (IPO), Human-Computer Interaction in Spanish, which took place in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) on November 13th-17th, 2006. In its seventh edition this conference has become a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion and dissemination of novelty research in Human-Computer Interaction. The main goal of Interacción 2006 was to expand the conference scope with internationally recognised invited speakers. Other goals such as enriching the relationship between industry and academia, and incorporating workshops and tutorials of quality to the conference structure were also achieved.
This book is organised according to the main areas of both basic and applied research that were presented at the conference. These areas were: Ergonomics and Human Factors, Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, User-Centred Design, Usability and Accessibility, Systems and Models for Collaboration, Interaction in Teaching and Learning, Design and Development of User Interfaces, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Interaction and People with Special Needs.
This work is suitable for all scientists interested in HCI research.
eBook For Nanophotonic Materials: Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials
Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Kurt Busch, “Nanophotonic Materials: Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials”
Wiley-VCH | 2008-04-18 | ISBN: 3527408584 | 445 pages | PDF | 9.0 MB
By Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Kurt Busch
* Publisher: Wiley-VCH
* Number Of Pages: 445
* Publication Date: 2008-04-18
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3527408584
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783527408580
* Binding: Hardcover
Stimulated by the pioneering work of Sajeev John and Eli Yablonovitsch, German research groups started with theoretical and experimental work on 2D and 3D photonics crystals in the early 1990s. This initial work was the basis for a research project focussing on photonic crystals and funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in 1999. During the last seven years, a consortium consisting of more than 20 German research groups concentrated on photonics crystals research. Nanophotonic Materials - Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metameterials summarizes the work and research results of these groups.
Research started with linear, non-dispersive properties of purely dielectric 2D and 3D photonic crystals and progressed to non-linear and dispersive properties of dielectric photonic crystals including gain and / or losses. These properties where studied on different materials systems such as silicon, III-V-compound semiconductors, oxides and polymers, as well as hybrid systems consisting of dielectric photonic crystals and liquid crystals. Applications of these systems were developed in the area of active photonic crystal fibres, functional optical components, and sensors. Some of these have by now even entered into industrial applications.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology eBook
Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology is a fully comprehensive text for courses in electrical and electronic principles, circuit theory and electrical technology. The coverage takes students from the fundamentals of the subject, to the completion of a first year degree level course. Thus, this book is ideal for students studying engineering for the first time, and is also suitable for pre-degree vocational courses, especially where progression to higher levels of study is likely.
John Bird's approach, based on 700 worked examples supported by over 1000 problems (including answers), is ideal for students of a wide range of abilities, and can be worked through at the student's own pace. Theory is kept to a minimum, placing a firm emphasis on problem-solving skills, and making this a thoroughly practical introduction to these core subjects in the electrical and electronic engineering curriculum.
This revised edition includes new material on transients and laplace transforms, with the content carefully matched to typical undergraduate modules.Material is only available to lecturers who have adopted the text as an essential purchase. In order to obtain your password to access the material please follow the guidelines in the book.
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"Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology" is a fully comprehensive text for courses in electrical and electronic principles, circuit theory and electrical technology. The coverage takes students from the fundamentals of the subject, to the completion of a first year degree level course. Thus, this book is ideal for students studying engineering for the first time, and is also suitable for pre-degree vocational courses, especially where progression to higher levels of study is likely. John Bird's approach, based on 700 worked examples supported by over 1000 problems (including answers), is ideal for students of a wide range of abilities, and can be worked through at the student's own pace. Theory is kept to a minimum, placing a firm emphasis on problem-solving skills, and making this a thoroughly practical introduction to these core subjects in the electrical and electronic engineering curriculum. This revised edition includes new material on transients and laplace transforms, with the content carefully matched to typical undergraduate modules. Free Tutor Support Material including full worked solutions to the assessment papers featured in the book will be available. Material is only available to lecturers who have adopted the text as an essential purchase. In order to obtain your password to access the material please follow the guidelines in the book. Revised edition now includes additional material on Transients and Laplace transforms. Highly practical text, including hundreds of examples and problems are included throughout to aid student learning. Free instructor's manual provides full worked solutions to assessment papers.
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