This book covers the impact of sustainable masonry on the environment, touting the many benefits of utilizing local and/or low embodied energy materials in the construction of sustainable buildings.
A unique book with systematic and thorough coverage of HAP related issues, problems and solutions. Handbook of Broadband Communications from High Altitude Platforms provides a thorough overview and state of the art of the HAP enabling technologies, as well as describing recent research activities with most promising results. It outlines the roadmap for future development of HAPs. Focuses on placin…
Появление OpenTelemetry произвело революцию в сфере наблюдаемости. Вместо того чтобы использовать несколько разрозненных систем, OpenTelemetry интегрирует трассировки, метрики и журналы в общий поток данных, предоставляя возможность оценить недоступные ранее взаимосвязи между ними. В этом практическом руководстве показано, как настраивать, использовать и диагностировать систему наблюдаемости OpenT…
Now in an completely revised, updated, and enlarged Second Edition, Small Antennas in Portable Devices reviews recent significant theoretical and practical developments in the electrically small antenna area. Examining antenna designs that work as well as those that have limitations, this new edition provides practicing engineers and upper level and graduate students with new information on: work …
Разработано в соответствии с программой дисциплины «Технологическая документация и сопровождение производства художественных изделий», которая является одной из завершающих дисциплин обучения бакалавров по образовательной программе «Технология художественной обработки материалов». В пособии рассмотрены главные этапы подготовки производства художественных изделий, изложены основные виды технологиче…
Overcome the risks to ensure safe anesthesia in your young patients The surgical options for children, from birth through adolescence, have mushroomed in recent years. The challenges to anesthetists have consequently increased in scope and complexity. The 5th edition of Gregory's Pediatric Anesthesia introduces you to the basics of pediatric anesthesia, and how they are applied to contemporary pra…
An understanding of the mechanical properties of unsaturated soils is crucial for geotechnical engineers worldwide, as well as to those concerned with the interaction of structures with the ground. This book deals principally with fine-grained clays and silts, or soils containing coarser sand and gravel particles but with a significant percentage of fines. The study of unsaturated soil is a practi…
В книге обобщаются результаты теоретического исследования процесса ускорения электронов в классическом круговом и разрезном микротронах, результаты экспериментов по проверке теоретических выводов и по исследованию свойств ускоренных в микротроне электронов. Рассматриваются пути применения микротронов как источников тормозного излучения, позитронов, нейтронов (быстрых, резонансных и медленных), рен…
The needs of cancer patients and their families are complex. Yet still more complex are the powerful social and cultural forces that shape the delivery of cancer care, and the way in which it experienced. Cancer Nursing: Care in Context addresses this by adopting a unique approach that situates cancer care in the context of society‘s attitudes to the disease, and the broader every-day needs of bot…
Providing an updated and comprehensive account of the properties of solid polymers, the book covers all aspects of mechanical behaviour. This includes finite elastic behavior, linear viscoelasticity and mechanical relaxations, mechanical anisotropy, non-linear viscoelasicity, yield behavior and fracture. New to this edition is coverage of polymer nanocomposites, and molecular interpretations of yi…
Многие думают, что без предпринимательской жилки не стоит и мечтать о собственном бизнесе. Но жилка эта — не какой-то волшебный дар, и взрастить ее в себе может каждый. Например, трансформируя ради любимого дела свои «неподходящие» навыки в нужные и обращая даже невыгодные и безнадежные ситуации в новые точки роста. О том, как этому научиться и успешно применять, рассказывает автор книги Ирина Пу…
Master the numerical simulation process required to design, test and support mobile and parallel computing systems. An accompanying ftp site contains all the Visual C++ based programs discussed in the text to help readers create their own programs. With its focus on problems and solutions, this is an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and a must-have reference for …
Providing up-to-date material for UWB antennas and propagation as used in a wide variety of applications, «Ultra-wideband Antennas and Propagation for Communications, Radar and Imaging» includes fundamental theory, practical design information and extensive discussion of UWB applications from biomedical imaging, through to radar and wireless communications. An in-depth treatment of ultra-wideband …
This book addresses the stochastic modeling of telecommunication networks, introducing the main mathematical tools for that purpose, such as Markov processes, real and spatial point processes and stochastic recursions, and presenting a wide list of results on stability, performances and comparison of systems. The authors propose a comprehensive mathematical construction of the foundations of stoch…
A state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary approach to cancer and aging With the majority of cancers occurring in individuals over the age of 65 against a backdrop of an expanding aging population, there is an urgent need to integrate the areas of clinical oncology and geriatric care. This timely work tackles these issues head-on, presenting a truly multidisciplinary and international perspective on ca…