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Cloud computing can provide virtually unlimited scalable high performance computing resources. Cloud workflows often underlie many large scale data/computation intensive e-science applications such as earthquake modelling, weather forecasting and astrophysics. During application modelling, these sophisticated processes are redesigned as cloud workflows, and at runtime, the models are executed by employing the supercomputing and data sharing ability of the underlying cloud computing infrastructures. "Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems"
focuses on real world scientific applications which often must be
completed by satisfying a set of temporal constraints such as
milestones and deadlines. Meanwhile, activity duration, as a
measurement of system performance, often needs to be monitored and
controlled. This book demonstrates how to guarantee on-time
completion of most, if not all, workflow applications. Offering a
comprehensive framework to support the lifecycle of
time-constrained workflow applications, this book will enhance the
overall performance and usability of scientific cloud workflow
systems.
Organic Structure Determination Using 2-D NMR Spectroscopy: A Problem-Based Approach, Second Edition, is a primary text for a course in two-dimensional (2-D) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, with the goal to learn to identify organic molecular structure. It presents strategies for assigning resonances to known structures and for deducing structures of unknown organic molecules based on their NMR spectra. The book begins with a discussion of the NMR technique, while subsequent chapters cover instrumental considerations; data collection, processing, and plotting; chemical shifts; symmetry and topicity; through-bond effects; and through-space effects. The book also covers molecular dynamics; strategies for assigning resonances to atoms within a molecule; strategies for elucidating unknown molecular structures; simple and complex assignment problems; and simple and complex unknown problems. Each chapter includes problems that will enable readers to test their understanding of the material discussed. The book contains 30 known and 30 unknown structure determination problems. It also features a supporting website from which instructors can download the structures of the unknowns in selected chapters, digital versions of all figures, and raw data sets for processing. This book will stand as a single source to which instructors and students can go to obtain a comprehensive compendium of NMR problems of varying difficulty.
Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known
as "Semiconductors and Semimetals" has distinguished itself through
the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and
contributors. The "Willardson and Beer" Series, as it is widely
known, has succeeded in publishing numerous landmark volumes and
chapters. Not only did many of these volumes make an impact at the
time of their publication, but they continue to be well-cited years
after their original release. Recently, Professor Eicke R. Weber of
the University of California at Berkeley joined as a co-editor of
the series. Professor Weber, a well-known expert in the field of
semiconductor materials, will further contribute to continuing the
series' tradition of publishing timely, highly relevant, and
long-impacting volumes. Some of the recent volumes, such as
"Hydrogen in Semiconductors, Imperfections in III/V Materials,
Epitaxial Microstructures, High-Speed Heterostructure Devices,
Oxygen in Silicon, " and others promise that this tradition will be
maintained and even expanded. Reflecting the truly
interdisciplinary nature of the field that the series covers, the
volumes in "Semiconductors and Semimetals" have been and will
continue to be of great interest to physicists, chemists, materials
scientists, and device engineers in modern industry.
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book
chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance
supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining
convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a
high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding
Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control," focus on a range of
special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic
bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition,
winner s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues
arising when bidding for targets in bankruptcy auctions, effects of
deal protection devices (termination agreements, poison pills),
role of large shareholder voting in promoting takeover gains, deal
financing issues (such as raising the cash used to pay for the
target), managerial incentive effects of takeovers, governance
spillovers from cross-border mergers, and returns to merger
arbitrage. Including an index and new introduction, this volume
will simplify and facilitate students interaction with new concepts
and applications.
Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a
well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians,
psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an
internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial
publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and
thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area
of neurobiology research. In this volume, invited experts provide
authoritative reviews on various aspects of Monoamine Oxidase and
its Inhibitors.
Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume
serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational
psychology researchers, scholars, and students.
Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a
well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians,
psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an
internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial
publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and
thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area
of neurobiology research. This volume reviews existing theories and
current research surrounding the movement disorder
Dyskinesia.
Hermeticity of Electronic Packages is a book about the integrity of sealed packages to resist foreign gases and liquids penetrating the seal or an opening (crack) in the packageuespecially critical to the reliability and longevity of electronics. The author explains how to predict the reliability and the longevity of the packages based on leak rate measurements and the assumptions of impurities. Non-specialists in particular will benefit from the author's long involvement in the technology. Hermeticity is a subject that demands practical experience, and solving one problem does not necessarily give one the background to solve another. Thus, the book provides a ready reference to help deal with day to day issues as they arise. The book gathers in a single volume a great many issues previously available only in journalsuor only in the experience of working engineers. How to define the ""goodness"" of a seal? How is that seal measured? How does the integrity of the seal affect circuit reliability? What is the significance of the measured integrity of the seal? What is the relationship of Residual Gas Analysis and the seal integrity? The handbook answers these questions and more, providing an analysis of nearly 100 problems representative of the wide variety of challenges that actually occur in industry today.
This comprehensive examination of short selling, which is a bet
on stocks declining in value, explores the ways that this strategy
drives financial markets. Its focus on short selling by region, its
consideration of the history and regulations of short selling, and
its mixture of industry and academic perspectives clarify the uses
of short selling and dispel notions of its destructive
implications. With contributions from around the world, this volume
sheds new light on the ways short selling uncovers market forces
and can yield profitable trades.
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in
the Economics of Education combines recent data with new
methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse
perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator
incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make
sense of the investments and returns associated with education.
Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin
(University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for
Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging
research on the economics of education and prior work. In
conjunction with Volume 3, they measure our current understanding
of educational acquisition and its economic and social
effects.
Volume 40 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 10 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Perspectives on Attachment and Social Cognition Across Generations; Developmental Perspectives on Vulnerability to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Youth; Development of Future Thinking, Planning, and Prospective Memory; and Family Relationships and Children's Stress Responses. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume
serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational
psychology researchers, scholars, and students. 10 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail
This bookdescribes computational financetools. It covers
fundamental numerical analysis and computational techniques, such
asoption pricing, and givesspecial attention tosimulation and
optimization. Many chapters are organized as case studies
aroundportfolio insurance and risk estimation problems. In
particular, several chapters explain optimization heuristics and
how to use them for portfolio selection and in calibration of
estimation and option pricing models. Such practical examples allow
readers to learn the steps for solving specific problems and apply
these steps to others. At the same time, the applications are
relevant enough to make the book a useful reference. Matlab and R
sample code is provided in the text and can be downloaded from the
book's website.
"Advances in Experimental Social Psychology" continues to be one of
the most sought after and most often cited series in this field.
Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical
interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new
research, theory, and practice in social psychology. For more information about the Elsevier Book Series on
ScienceDirect Program, please visit:
info.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/
"Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics "merges two long-running serials--"Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics" and "Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy." This series features extended articles on the physics of
electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle
optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science
and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation,
electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these
domains.
Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through
the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and
contributors. Originally widely known as the "Willardson and Beer"
Series, it has succeeded in publishing numerous landmark volumes
and chapters. The series publishes timely, highly relevant volumes
intended for long-term impact and reflecting the truly
interdisciplinary nature of the field. The volumes in
Semiconductors and Semimetals have been and will continue to be of
great interest to physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and
device engineers in academia, scientific laboratories and modern
industry.
At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide. In the United States, it is generally believed that the major problem is lack of affordable access to health care (i.e. health insurance). This book takes an unprecedented approach to address this issue by proposing that the major problem is not lack of affordable access to health care per se, but lack of access to better, safer, and more affordable medicines. The latter problem is present not only in the United States and the developing world but also in countries with socialized health care systems, such as Europe and the rest of the industrialized world. This book provides a comparative analysis of the health care systems throughout the world and also examines the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Molecular Wine Microbiology features rigorous scientific content written at a level comprehensible for wine professionals as well as advanced students. It includes information on production and spoilage issues, the microbial groups relevant for wine production and microbial wine safety. Microbiology has long been recognized as a key tool in studying
wine production, however only recently have wine microbiology
studies been addressed at a molecular level, increasing
theunderstanding of how microbiology impacts not only the flavor
quality of the wine, but alsoits safety. Understanding, at a
molecular level, how a starter culture can impact ethanol,
glycerol, volatile phenols, mannoproteins, biogenic aminesor
ochratoxin A of a wine are just some of the core points that must
be considered in order to achieve maximium consumer acceptability
while addressing safety concerns during processing and storage.
While other books offer insights into thetechnological aspects of
enology, this book is written by expert microbiologists, who
explore the positive and negative impacts of gene function in
theproduction of wine, from a microbiological point of view.
Pulses are nutritionally diverse crops that can be successfully
utilized as a food ingredient or a base for new product
development. They provide a natural food grade ingredient that is
rich in lysine, dietary fiber, complex carbohydrates, protein and
B-vitaminssuggesting that pulses can provide a variety of health
benefits such as reducing heart disease and diabetes. Interest in
the use of pulses and their ingredients in food formulations is
growing and several factors are contributing to this drive. Pulse
Foods: Processing, Quality and Nutraceutical Applicationsis the
first book toprovide up-to-date information on novel and emerging
technologies for the processing of whole pulses, techniques for
fractionating pulses into ingredients, their functional and
nutritional properties, as well as their potential applications, so
that the food industry can use this knowledge to incorporate pulses
into new food products. First reference bringing together essential information on the processing technology of pulses Addresses processing challenges relevant to legume and pulse grain processors Delivers insights into the current state-of-art and emerging processing technologies In depth coverage of developments in nutraceutical applications of pulse protein and carbohydrate based foods"
The current trend of building more streamlined structures has made stability analysis a subject of extreme importance. It is mostly a safety issue because Stability loss could result in an unimaginable catastrophe. Written by two authors with a combined 80 years of professional and academic experience, the objective of Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications is to provide engineers and architects with a firm grasp of the fundamentals and principles that are essential to performing effective stability analysts. Concise and readable, this guide presents stability analysis within the context of elementary nonlinear flexural analysis, providing a strong foundation for incorporating theory into everyday practice. The first chapter introduces the buckling of columns. It begins with the linear elastic theory and proceeds to include the effects of large deformations and inelastic behavior. In Chapter 2 various approximate methods are illustrated along with the fundamentals of energy methods. The chapter concludes by introducing several special topics, some advanced, that are useful in understanding the physical resistance mechanisms and consistent and rigorous mathematical analysis. Chapters 3 and 4 cover buckling of beam-columns. Chapter 5 presents torsion in structures in some detail, which is one of the least well understood subjects in the entire spectrum of structural mechanics. Strictly speaking, torsion itself does not belong to a topic in structural stability, but needs to be covered to some extent for a better understanding of buckling accompanied with torsional behavior. Chapters 6 and 7 consider stability of framed structures in conjunction with torsional behavior of structures. Chapters 8 to 10 consider buckling of plate elements, cylindrical shells, and general shells. Although the book is primarily devoted to analysis, rudimentary design aspects are discussed. The accompanying website will include additional formulas and
problems based on the author s on software which is currently being
used in corporations. The website will also include equations and
examples based on there personal experiences. In addition, the
website will include a solutions manual for those who wish to use
the book as a text book for a two-semester course. Engineers,
Architects, designers, and researcher will find this print/website
combination a valuable guide both in terms of its applications of
verification of design of structures.
The growing area of peptide and protein therapeutics research is
of paramount importance to medical application and advancement. A
needed reference for entry level researchers and researchers
working in interdisciplinary / collaborative projects, Peptide and
Protein Delivery addresses the current and emerging routes for
delivery of therapeutics. Covering cerebral delivery, pulmonary
delivery, transdermal delivery, intestinal delivery, ocular
delivery, parenteral delivery, and nasal delivery, this resource
offers an overview of the main routes in therapeutics. Researchers
across biochemistry, pharmaceutical, molecular biology, cell
biology, immunology, chemistry and biotechnology fields will find
this publication invaluable for peptide and protein laboratory
research.
The contributions in this volume cover methods for removal of
particle contaminants on surfaces. Several of these methods are
well established and have been employed in industrial applications
for a long time. However, the ever- higher demand for removal of
smaller particles on newer substrate materials is driving
continuous development of the established cleaning methods and
alternative innovative methods for particle removal. This book
provides information on the latest developments in this topic
area. Feature: Comprehensive coverage of innovations in surface contamination and cleaning Benefit: One-stop series where a wide range of readers will be sure to find a solution to their cleaning problem, saving the time involved in consulting a range of disparate sources. Feature: Written by established experts in the contamination and cleaning field Benefit: Provides an authoritative resource Feature: Each chapter is a comprehensive review of the state of the art. Benefit: Can be relied on to provide insight, clarity and real expertise on up-to-the-minute innovations. Feature: Case studies included Benefit: Case studies help the reader see theory applied to the solution of real-world practical cleaning and contamination problems.
Molecular Tools and Infectious Disease Epidemiology examines the opportunities and methodologic challenges in the application of modern molecular genetic and biologic techniques to infectious disease epidemiology. The application of these techniques dramatically improves the measurement of disease and putative risk factors, increasing our ability to detect and track outbreaks, identify risk factors and detect new infectious agents. However, integration of these techniques into epidemiologic studies also poses new challenges in the design, conduct, and analysis. This book presents the key points of consideration when integrating molecular biology and epidemiology; discusses how using molecular tools in epidemiologic research affects program design and conduct; considers the ethical concerns that arise in molecular epidemiologic studies; and provides a context for understanding and interpreting scientific literature as a foundation for subsequent practical experience in the laboratory and in the field. The book is recommended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying infectious disease epidemiology and molecular epidemiology; and for the epidemiologist wishing to integrate molecular techniques into his or her studies.
Cytosol, the liquid found inside cells, is the site for multiple cell processes, including signaling from the cell membrane to sites within the cell. Cytosolic signaling mechanisms are researched and studied in graduate programs in cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, molecular and cellular physiology, pharmacy, and biomedical sciences. Articles written and edited by experts in the field
How can private equity investors exploit investment opportunities
in foreign markets? Peter Cornelius uses a proprietary database to
investigate and describeprivate equity markets worldwide, revealing
their levels of integration, their risks, and the ways that
investors can mitigate those risks. In three major sections that
concentrate on the risk and return profile of private equity, the
growth dynamics of discrete markets and geographies, and
opportunities for private equity investments, he offers
hard-to-find analyses that fill knowledge gaps about foreign
markets. Observing that despite the progressive dismantling of
barriers investors are still home-biased, he demonstrates that a
methodical approach to understanding foreign private equity markets
can take advantage of the macroeconomic and structural factors that
drive supply and demand dynamics in individual markets.
Thermodynamic Tables to Accompany Modern Engineering Thermodynamics is a companion text to Modern Engineering Thermodynamics by Robert T. Balmer. It contains two Appendices-Appendix C features 40 thermodynamic tables, while Appendix D provides 6 thermodynamic charts. These charts and tables are provided in a separate booklet to give instructors the flexibility of allowing students to bring the tables into exams. This booklet is provided at no extra charge with new copies of Balmer's book. It may be purchased separately if needed. |
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