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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This innovative and thought-provoking study puts forth a compelling
analysis of the constitutive nexus at the heart of the European
refugee conundrum. It maps and historically contextualises some of
the distinctive challenges that pervasive ethnic and cultural
pluralism present to real politics as on the level of political
theorizing. By systematically integrating hitherto insufficiently
linked research perspectives in a novel way, it lays open a number
of paradoxical constellations and regressive tendencies in
contemporary European democracy. It thereby redirects attention to
the ways in which liberal thought and liberal democratic
institutions shape, interact with, and may even provide
justification for illiberal and exclusionary practices. This book
thus makes an important contribution to the analysis of
post-migrant realities in Europe and the ways in which they are
defined by imperial legacies, punitive migration regimes, the
culturalization of mainstream politics, and the discursive
construction of a European Other.
This book traces the origins and activities of the longest-standing
collaborative teacher group in education, the Portfolio Group. Each
chapter documents, historically and conceptually, the main
intellectual moments in the evolution of the idea of knowledge
communities. Authors illuminate the expansive work, research, and
the leading/learning influence that the Portfolio Group has had in
the local education community as well as on the international
education landscape. In doing so, they illustrate the journey of a
school-based, cross-institutional knowledge community and provide
the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel for so many novice
and newly formed groups seeking sustainability. The book
demonstrates through the shared experiences of five
teachers/teacher educators the ways in which varied collaborations
aimed at professional development lead to teacher growth in
practice, leadership, and career.
Drawing on such process thinkers as Whitehead, Deleuze and
Stengers, Innovation and Biomedicine develops a powerful framework
for the analysis of Biomedical Innovation. With its sustained focus
on the Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for the prevention of
HIV infection, the volume explores the ethical, medical and
political elements entailed in the pill's testing through offshore
randomized control trials (RCTs). To this end, the key concept of
'eventuation' is elaborated and deployed in the scrutiny of the
'gold standard' status of RCTs, the role of ethics in RCTs, and the
enactment of the PrEP pill as a singular entity. Further, the
authors engage with affective, topological and virtual dimensions
to show how PrEP's eventuation also allows for new scientific and
ethical questions to be crafted. Innovation and Biomedicine is a
major contribution to science and technology studies, medical
sociology, and the multi-disciplinary study of HIV.
Thermal Spreading and Contact Resistance is the first book to
provide a single source of information for engineers who need
understand thermal spreading and contact resistance for a wide
range of applications. Written by two of the leading experts in the
field, it covers applications of problems where heat transfer from
discrete heat sources is prevalent, including contact conductance,
mass transfer, transport from super-hydrophobic surfaces,
droplet/surface phase change problems, tribology, and heat transfer
in micro-devices and thermal spreaders. After opening with an
introduction to fundamental principles, the book goes on to cover
thermal spreading in isotropic half-space regions, circular flux
tubes and disc spreaders, rectangular flux channels and spreaders,
orthotropic systems, and multi-source applications. Further
chapters explore topics such as systems with non-uniform sink plane
conductance, transient spreading resistance, and contact resistance
between both non-conforming and conforming surfaces. Numerous
predictive models and examples and included throughout and a useful
appendix provides special functions and series solutions that
readers can use to further their own research.
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VLSI Design (Hardcover)
M. Michael Vai; Series edited by Richard C. Dorf, Wai-Kai Chen
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R4,172
Discovery Miles 41 720
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has become a necessity rather than a specialization for electrical and computer engineers. This unique text provides Engineering and Computer Science students with a comprehensive study of the subject, covering VLSI from basic design techniques to working principles of physical design automation tools to leading edge application-specific array processors.
Beginning with CMOS design, the author describes VLSI design from the viewpoint of a digital circuit engineer. He develops physical pictures for CMOS circuits and demonstrates the top-down design methodology using two design projects - a microprocessor and a field programmable gate array. The author then discusses VLSI testing and dedicates an entire chapter to the working principles, strengths, and weaknesses of ubiquitous physical design tools. Finally, he unveils the frontiers of VLSI. He emphasizes its use as a tool to develop innovative algorithms and architecture to solve previously intractable problems.
VLSI Design answers not only the question of "what is VLSI," but also shows how to use VLSI. It provides graduate and upper level undergraduate students with a complete and congregated view of VLSI engineering.
Over the years enormous effort was invested in proving ergodicity,
but for a number of reasons, con?dence in the fruitfulness of this
approach has waned. - Y. Ben-Menahem and I. Pitowsky [1] Abstract
The basic motivation behind the present text is threefold: To give
a new explanation for the emergence of thermodynamics, to
investigate the interplay between quantum mechanics and
thermodynamics, and to explore possible ext- sions of the common
validity range of thermodynamics. Originally, thermodynamics has
been a purely phenomenological science. Early s- entists (Galileo,
Santorio, Celsius, Fahrenheit) tried to give de?nitions for
quantities which were intuitively obvious to the observer, like
pressure or temperature, and studied their interconnections. The
idea that these phenomena might be linked to other ?elds of
physics, like classical mechanics, e.g., was not common in those
days. Such a connection was basically introduced when Joule
calculated the heat equ- alent in 1840 showing that heat was a form
of energy, just like kinetic or potential energy in the theory of
mechanics. At the end of the 19th century, when the atomic theory
became popular, researchers began to think of a gas as a huge
amount of bouncing balls inside a box.
While there are no shortages of books about the Cyprus Conflict,
this book offers the best summary of the negotiations around. The
book comes at a critical time for the partitioned island-state of
Cyprus and for those associated with the conflict and attempts to
resolve it. By placing the conflict in its historical, ideological,
ethno-political and geostrategic context, the book extends beyond
conventional realist approaches and lays bare those less visible
dimensions that are often ignored by analysts and policy-makers
alike. The book is of direct interest not only to experts and
students but to all those engaged in the practice of conflict
resolution.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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