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This book is about the varied range of emerging applications using
specially trained detection dogs to monitor and protect aquatic
ecosystems, animals, plants and related resources. Featuring
contributions from those at the forefront of converging disciplines
ranging from canine training, ecological and biological monitoring,
water resource management, law enforcement, and eco-toxicology, it
addresses everyone already immersed in these or related fields, and
anyone seeking to gain a broader understanding of them. Chapters
cover several common themes including monitoring presence/absence
through biological and ecological surveys; maintaining and
evaluating water quality; law enforcement and anti-poaching
initiatives; public education, awareness and compliance; standards
and best practices; optimal uses of dogs in relation to and in
conjunction with other available tools and pragmatic considerations
for selecting and working with dogs and handlers. The aim of the
book is to stimulate new ideas, promote the sharing and
dissemination of information and findings - and, ideally, to
catalyze new and innovative partnerships, to strengthen the
preservation and conservation of our aquatic heritage.
Qualitative research methodologies are gaining more and more acceptance. This book deals with the application of qualitative methods to marketing management research. It explains different ways of making and analyzing data with qualitative tools, and it describes the generation of results working for researchers as well as for practitioners in marketing management. Teachers and students in marketing and research methodology, as well as researchers and practitioners in marketing management will find useful material on research methods and case study research.
This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of
violence against women rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and
sexual harassment in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes
why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they
are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors
have compiled original data that allow them to test various
hypotheses related to whether international law drives the
enactment of domestic legal protections. They also examine the ways
in which these legal protections are related to economic,
political, and social institutions, and how transnational society
affects the presence and strength of these laws. The original data
produced for this book make a major contribution to comparisons and
analyses of gender violence and law worldwide."
Magnetic data storage can be viewed as a data communication system.
This is not a sUlprising view, considering that data storage is
essentially the transfer of data between different times. The past
decade has indeed seen rapidly growing interest in applying
improved coding and detection techniques to magnetic data storage,
a traditional approach to enhance performance of communication
channels. Since its inception in the 1930's, the magnetic recording
industry has achieved impressive progress in data capacity. This
has been made possible mainly by innovations and advances in heads
and media design. However, as the demand for higher storage
capacity continues in the modem information era, a need arises to
explore other possibilities to help meet the ever-growing demand.
Advanced coding and detection are one such possibility, providing
an efficient, cost-effective means to increase data capacity. In
fact, with the advent of modem Ie technology which has enabled
real-time implementation of increasingly complex signal processing
algorithms, advanced coding and detection are rapidly becoming a
major issue in the development of improved data storage products.
While there have been remarkable advances in recent years in the
areas of both coding and detection for data storage, this book
focuses only on data detection, or the processing of readback
waveforms to reproduce stored data, in conjunction with the
traditional modulation coding method called run length-limited or
(d, k) coding."
Computer-Aided Design of Analog Circuits and Systems brings
together in one place important contributions and state-of-the-art
research results in the rapidly advancing area of computer-aided
design of analog circuits and systems. This book serves as an
excellent reference, providing insights into some of the most
important issues in the field.
Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits presents a
technique for automating the design of analog circuits. Market
competition and the astounding pace of technological innovation
exert tremendous pressure on circuit design engineers to turn ideas
into products quickly and get them to market. In digital
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, computer
aided design (CAD) tools have substantially eased this pressure by
automating many of the laborious steps in the design process,
thereby allowing the designer to maximise his design expertise. But
the world is not solely digital. Cellular telephones, magnetic disk
drives, neural networks and speech recognition systems are a few of
the recent technological innovations that rely on a core of analog
circuitry and exploit the density and performance of mixed
analog/digital ASICs. To maximize profit, these mixed-signal ASICs
must also make it to market as quickly as possible. However,
although the engineer working on the digital portion of the ASIC
can rely on sophisticated CAD tools to automate much of the design
process, there is little help for the engineer working on the
analog portion of the chip. With the exception of simulators to
verify the circuit design when it is complete, there are almost no
general purpose CAD tools that an analog design engineer can take
advantage of to automate the analog design flow and reduce his time
to market. Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits
presents a new variation-tolerant analog synthesis strategy that is
a significant step towards ending the wait for a practical analog
synthesis tool. A new synthesis strategy is presented that can
fully automate the path from a circuit topology and performance
specifications to a sized variation-tolerant circuit schematic.
This strategy relies on asymptotic waveform evaluation to predict
circuit performance and simulated annealing to solve a novel
non-linear infinite programming optimization formulation of the
circuit synthesis problem via a sequence of smaller optimization
problems. Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits
will be of interest to analog circuit designers, CAD/EDA
industry professionals, academics and students.
The move to higher levels of integration has increased the fraction
of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs
containing both analog and digital circuits. While the die area for
the analog portion of these chips is modest, the design time is
often significant. This has motivated the development of automated
analog physical design tools for cell-level place-and-route and
system-level signal-integrity-routing. To date, there is no tool
that has specifically addressed the critical design task of
synthesizing the power distribution for the analog portion of an
analog or mixed-signal ASIC. Synthesis of Power Distribution to
Manage Signal Integrity in Mixed-Signal ICs describes algorithms
for analog power distribution synthesis and demonstrates their
effectiveness. Existing digital power bus synthesis algorithms have
failed to address critical concerns for analog circuitry, thus
yielding unacceptable results. These tools synthesize only the bus
component of power distribution networks and only consider
simplified DC aspects of macros and busses. Readers of the
companion book in this series, Simulation Techniques and Solutions
for Mixed-Signal Coupling in Integrated Circuits (Kluwer Academic
Publishers), already recognize the inadequacy of this simplified
view of the noise and power distribution problem in mixed-signal
integrated circuits. Synthesis of Power Distribution to Manage
Signal Integrity in Mixed-Signal ICs addresses power distribution
synthesis for mixed-signal integrated circuits. Several key
challenges in power distribution design are identified and
automated methods to overcome them are described. This book
presents a new formulation for the analog powerdistribution
synthesis problem which synthesizes both the power busses power I/O
cell assignment by evaluating DC, AC, and transient interaction
between the macros, busses, chip substrate, and package.
Furthermore, algorithms are introduced which simultaneously
optimize power I/O cell assignment, macro cell substrate coupling,
power bus topology selection and power bus sizing. Synthesis of
Power Distribution to Manage Signal Integrity in Mixed-Signal ICs
will be of interest to CAD designers and researchers specializing
in physical design, modelling and circuit synthesis.
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book
delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how,
over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with
global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments that
reflect a distinctly Ghanaian cosmopolitanism. Ghana has a complex
and diverse fashion culture which was in evidence before
independence in 1957 and has continued to grow in reputation in the
postcolonial period. In this book, Christopher Richards reflects on
the contributions of the country's female fashion designers, who
have employed fashion to innovate existing, culturally relevant
dress styles, challenge gendered forms of dress, and make bold
statements regarding women's sexuality. Treated as artworks, the
book examines specific garments to illustrate the inherent
complexity of their design and how fashion is often embedded with a
blending of personal histories, cultural practices and global
inspirations. Reflecting in particular on the works of Laura
Quartey, Letitia Obeng, Juliana Kweifio-Okai, Beatrice Arthur and
Aisha Ayensu, this book makes an important and timely contribution
to art history, fashion studies, anthropology, history, women's
studies and African Studies.
Biological nitrogen fixation provides more than 50% of the total
annual input of the essential element nitrogen to world
agriculture. Thus, it is of immense agronomic importance and
critical to food supplies, particularly in developing
countries.
This book, with chapters authored by internationally renowned
experts, provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the
fascinating history of the process - including the surprising
discoveries of molybdenum-independent nitrogenases and
superoxide-dependent nitrogenase; a review of Man's attempts to
emulate the biological process - most successfully with the
commercially dominant Haber-Bosch process; and the current state of
the understanding art with respect to the enzymes - called
nitrogenases - responsible for biological nitrogen fixation.
The initial chapters use a historical approach to the biological
and industrial processes, followed by an overview of assay
methodologies. The next set of chapters focuses on the classical
enzyme, the molybdenum nitrogenase, and details its biosynthesis,
structure, composition, and mechanism of action as well as
detailing both how variants of its two component proteins are
constructed by recombinant DNA technology and how computational
techniques are being applied. The sophisticated chemical modelling
of the metal-containing clusters in the enzyme is reviewed next,
followed by a description of the two molybdenum-independent
nitrogenases - first, the vanadium-containing enzyme and then the
iron-only nitrogenase - together with some thoughts as to why they
exist Then follows an up-to-date treatment of the clearly
"non-classical" properties of the superoxide-dependent nitrogenase,
which more closely resembles molybdenum-containing hydroxylases and
related enzymes, like nitrate reductase, that it does the other
nitrogenases. Each chapter contains an extensive list of
references.
This book is the self-contained first volume of a comprehensive
seven-volume series. No other available work provides the
up-to-date and in-depth coverage of this series and this volume.
This book is intended to serve as an indispensable reference work
for all scientists working in this area, including agriculture and
the closely related metals-in-biology area; to assist students to
enter this challenging area of research; and to provide science
administrators easy access to vital relevant information.
About Tsereteli relatively little has been written in historical
literature. A study of his political career fits well into the
current, gradually widening interest in the men who were the losers
in the Russian revolution. A biography of Tsereteli is certainly
not out of place alongside S. H. Baron's biography of Plekhanov, I.
Getzler's work on Martov and the biography of Aksel'rod by A.
Ascher. While Plekhanov, Martov and Aksel'rod laid down the
theoretical principles of Menshe vism, Tsereteli was certainly
their superior in the field of practical politics. The quantity and
quality of the available source material is un equally divided over
the different periods of Tsereteli's life. There is very little
more about his youth than the brief notes which he himself made
much later in his life, and the recollections which Boris Niko
laevskii and Tsereteli's sister Eliko noted down from things he
said. There is quite a lot of material about the student movement
in Moscow between I900 and I902, in which he took an active part,
so that it is possible to get a good general picture. Since the
students often acted anonymously, however, it is not easy to
determine Tsereteli's role."
The Engineering Council (UK) have reported an encouraging increase
in the applications for Engineering Technician (Eng. Tech)
registration, both from applicants following a work-based learning
program and individuals without formal qualifications but who have
verifiable competence through substantial working experiences and
self-study. Design Engineer's Case Studies and Examples has been
written for these young engineers. The contents have been selected
on typical subjects that developing engineers may be expected to
cover in their professional career and gives solutions to typical
problems that may arise in mechanical design. The subjects covered
include the following: Introduction to stress calculations Basic
shaft design Beams under bending Keys and spline strength
calculations Columns and struts Gears Material selection
Conversions and general tables
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We Are Only Ghosts
Jeffrey L Richards
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Discovery Miles 5 790
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The Engineering Council (UK) have reported an encouraging increase
in the applications for Engineering Technician (Eng. Tech)
registration, both from applicants following a work-based learning
program and individuals without formal qualifications but who have
verifiable competence through substantial working experiences and
self-study. Design Engineer's Case Studies and Examples has been
written for these young engineers. The contents have been selected
on typical subjects that developing engineers may be expected to
cover in their professional career and gives solutions to typical
problems that may arise in mechanical design. The subjects covered
include the following: Introduction to stress calculations Basic
shaft design Beams under bending Keys and spline strength
calculations Columns and struts Gears Material selection
Conversions and general tables
Author Keith L. Richards believes that design engineers spend only
a small fraction of time actually designing and drawing, and the
remainder of their time finding relevant design information for a
specific method or problem. He draws on his own experience as a
mechanical engineering designer to offer assistance to other
practicing and student engineers facing the same struggle. Design
Engineer's Reference Guide: Mathematics, Mechanics, and
Thermodynamics provides engineers with a roadmap for navigating
through common situations or dilemmas. This book starts off by
introducing reference information on the coverage of differential
and integral calculus, Laplace's transforms, determinants, and
matrices. It provides a numerical analysis on numerical methods of
integration, Newton-Raphson's methods, the Jacobi iterative method,
and the Gauss-Seidel method. It also contains reference
information, as well as examples and illustrations that reinforce
the topics of most chapter subjects. A companion to the Design
Engineer's Handbook and Design Engineer's Case Studies and
Examples, this textbook covers a range of basic engineering
concepts and common applications including: * Mathematics *
Numerical analysis * Statics and kinematics * Mechanical vibrations
* Control system modeling * Basic thermodynamics * Fluid mechanics
and linkages An entry-level text for students needing to understand
the underlying principles before progressing to a more advanced
level, Design Engineer's Reference Guide: Mathematics, Mechanics,
and Thermodynamics is also a basic reference for mechanical,
manufacturing, and design engineers.
Author Keith L. Richards believes that design engineers spend only
a small fraction of time actually designing and drawing, and the
remainder of their time finding relevant design information for a
specific method or problem. He draws on his own experience as a
mechanical engineering designer to offer assistance to other
practicing and student engineers facing the same struggle. Design
Engineer's Reference Guide: Mathematics, Mechanics, and
Thermodynamics provides engineers with a roadmap for navigating
through common situations or dilemmas. This book starts off by
introducing reference information on the coverage of differential
and integral calculus, Laplace's transforms, determinants, and
matrices. It provides a numerical analysis on numerical methods of
integration, Newton-Raphson's methods, the Jacobi iterative method,
and the Gauss-Seidel method. It also contains reference
information, as well as examples and illustrations that reinforce
the topics of most chapter subjects. A companion to the Design
Engineer's Handbook and Design Engineer's Case Studies and
Examples, this textbook covers a range of basic engineering
concepts and common applications including: * Mathematics *
Numerical analysis * Statics and kinematics * Mechanical vibrations
* Control system modeling * Basic thermodynamics * Fluid mechanics
and linkages An entry-level text for students needing to understand
the underlying principles before progressing to a more advanced
level, Design Engineer's Reference Guide: Mathematics, Mechanics,
and Thermodynamics is also a basic reference for mechanical,
manufacturing, and design engineers.
This book is about the varied range of emerging applications using
specially trained detection dogs to monitor and protect aquatic
ecosystems, animals, plants and related resources. Featuring
contributions from those at the forefront of converging disciplines
ranging from canine training, ecological and biological monitoring,
water resource management, law enforcement, and eco-toxicology, it
addresses everyone already immersed in these or related fields, and
anyone seeking to gain a broader understanding of them. Chapters
cover several common themes including monitoring presence/absence
through biological and ecological surveys; maintaining and
evaluating water quality; law enforcement and anti-poaching
initiatives; public education, awareness and compliance; standards
and best practices; optimal uses of dogs in relation to and in
conjunction with other available tools and pragmatic considerations
for selecting and working with dogs and handlers. The aim of the
book is to stimulate new ideas, promote the sharing and
dissemination of information and findings - and, ideally, to
catalyze new and innovative partnerships, to strengthen the
preservation and conservation of our aquatic heritage.
Student design engineers often require a "cookbook" approach to
solving certain problems in mechanical engineering. With this focus
on providing simplified information that is easy to retrieve,
retired mechanical design engineer Keith L. Richards has written
Design Engineer's Handbook. This book conveys the author's insights
from his decades of experience in fields ranging from machine tools
to aerospace. Sharing the vast knowledge and experience that has
served him well in his own career, this book is specifically aimed
at the student design engineer who has left full- or part-time
academic studies and requires a handy reference handbook to use in
practice. Full of material often left out of many academic
references, this book includes important in-depth coverage of key
topics, such as: Effects of fatigue and fracture in catastrophic
failures Lugs and shear pins Helical compression springs
Thick-walled or compound cylinders Cam and follower design Beams
and torsion Limits and fits and gear systems Use of Mohr's circle
in both analytical and experimental stress analysis This guide has
been written not to replace established primary reference books but
to provide a secondary handbook that gives student designers
additional guidance. Helping readers determine the most efficiently
designed and cost-effective solutions to a variety of engineering
problems, this book offers a wealth of tables, graphs, and detailed
design examples that will benefit new mechanical engineers from all
walks.
This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of
violence against women--rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and
sexual harassment--in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes
why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they
are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors
have compiled original data that allow them to test various
hypotheses related to whether international law drives the
enactment of domestic legal protections. They also examine the ways
in which these legal protections are related to economic,
political, and social institutions, and how transnational society
affects the presence and strength of these laws. The original data
produced for this book make a major contribution to comparisons and
analyses of gender violence and law worldwide.
About Tsereteli relatively little has been written in historical
literature. A study of his political career fits well into the
current, gradually widening interest in the men who were the losers
in the Russian revolution. A biography of Tsereteli is certainly
not out of place alongside S. H. Baron's biography of Plekhanov, I.
Getzler's work on Martov and the biography of Aksel'rod by A.
Ascher. While Plekhanov, Martov and Aksel'rod laid down the
theoretical principles of Menshe vism, Tsereteli was certainly
their superior in the field of practical politics. The quantity and
quality of the available source material is un equally divided over
the different periods of Tsereteli's life. There is very little
more about his youth than the brief notes which he himself made
much later in his life, and the recollections which Boris Niko
laevskii and Tsereteli's sister Eliko noted down from things he
said. There is quite a lot of material about the student movement
in Moscow between I900 and I902, in which he took an active part,
so that it is possible to get a good general picture. Since the
students often acted anonymously, however, it is not easy to
determine Tsereteli's role."
Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits presents a
technique for automating the design of analog circuits. Market
competition and the astounding pace of technological innovation
exert tremendous pressure on circuit design engineers to turn ideas
into products quickly and get them to market. In digital
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, computer
aided design (CAD) tools have substantially eased this pressure by
automating many of the laborious steps in the design process,
thereby allowing the designer to maximise his design expertise. But
the world is not solely digital. Cellular telephones, magnetic disk
drives, neural networks and speech recognition systems are a few of
the recent technological innovations that rely on a core of analog
circuitry and exploit the density and performance of mixed
analog/digital ASICs. To maximize profit, these mixed-signal ASICs
must also make it to market as quickly as possible. However,
although the engineer working on the digital portion of the ASIC
can rely on sophisticated CAD tools to automate much of the design
process, there is little help for the engineer working on the
analog portion of the chip. With the exception of simulators to
verify the circuit design when it is complete, there are almost no
general purpose CAD tools that an analog design engineer can take
advantage of to automate the analog design flow and reduce his time
to market. Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits
presents a new variation-tolerant analog synthesis strategy that is
a significant step towards ending the wait for a practical analog
synthesis tool. A new synthesis strategy is presented that can
fully automate the path from a circuit topology and performance
specifications to a sized variation-tolerant circuit schematic.
This strategy relies on asymptotic waveform evaluation to predict
circuit performance and simulated annealing to solve a novel
non-linear infinite programming optimization formulation of the
circuit synthesis problem via a sequence of smaller optimization
problems. Practical Synthesis of High-Performance Analog Circuits
will be of interest to analog circuit designers, CAD EDA industry
professionals, academics and students.
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