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Toxic Trauma

A Basic Clinical Guide

by David J. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

This book provides practical guidance to emergency personnel and others in the event of having to manage individual or mass chemical casualties as part of their work in a civilian ambulance service or hospital. The text considers the nature and basic science of the hazards faced as well as the practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012

  The field of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has now taken centre stage in modern clinical practice. With ever changing technologies in the field of MIS, such as robotics, there is now the need to train the surgeon to the next degree. Training by simulation, whether virtual, hybrid, or...
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Elementary Logic

For Software Development

by Robert Lover
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2008

The ability to reason correctly is critical to most aspects of computer science and to software development in particular. This book teaches readers how to better reason about software development, to communicate reasoning, to distinguish between good and bad reasoning, and to read professional literature...
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by Thais Batista, Paulo F. Pires, Flávia C. Delicato
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013

After a brief introduction and contextualization on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) paradigms, this timely new book describes one of the first research initiatives aimed at tackling the several challenges involved in building a middleware-layer infrastructure capable of realizing...
Cover of From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems
by Katia Potiron, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Patrick Taillibert
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013

Faults are a concern for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) designers, especially if the MAS are built for industrial or military use because there must be some guarantee of dependability. Some fault classification exists for classical systems, and is used to define faults. When dependability is at stake,...
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Sensing and Systems in Pervasive Computing

Engineering Context Aware Systems

by Dan Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011

Focus on issues and principles in context awareness, sensor processing and software design (rather than sensor networks or HCI or particular commercial systems). Designed as a textbook, with readings and lab problems in most chapters. Focus on concepts, algorithms and ideas rather than particular technologies.
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by Gerard O'Regan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

This textbook is a systematic guide to the steps in setting up a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) improvement initiative.  Readers will learn the project management practices necessary to deliver high-quality software solutions to the customer on time and on budget.  The text also highlights...
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by Hassan Ugail
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011

The subject of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) which first emerged in the 18th century holds an exciting and special position in the applications relating to the mathematical modelling of physical phenomena. The subject of PDEs has been developed by major names in Applied Mathematics such as...
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The Theory of the Moiré Phenomenon

Volume I: Periodic Layers

by Isaac Amidror
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009

Since the first edition of this book was published several new developments have been made in the field of the moiré theory. The most important of these concern new results that have recently been obtained on moiré effects between correlated aperiodic (or random) structures, a subject that was completely...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

This book provides a concise summary across all aspects of endocrine surgery, covering the major endocrine organs and discussing aspects of surgical care. It comprises five sections covering the major endocrine organs/systems, each with a specialist section editor. Within each section there are...
Cover of Interactive Media: The Semiotics of Embodied Interaction
by Shaleph O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008

The author discusses the existing theoretical approaches of semiotically informed research in HCI, what is useful and the limitations. He proposes a radical rethink to this approach through a re-evaluation of important semiotic concepts and applied semiotic methods. Using a semiotic model of interaction...
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by John Vince
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

John Vinceexplains a wide range of mathematical techniques and problem-solving strategies associated with computer games, computer animation, virtual reality, CAD and other areas of computer graphics in this completely revised and expanded fifth edition. The first five chapters cover a general...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Rae Earnshawand John A. Vince --_. . _----- 1 Introduction The USPresident's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)recently advised the US Senate of the strategic importance of investing in IT for the 21st century, particularlyin the areas of software,human-computer interaction, scalable...
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by John Vince
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Rotation transforms are used everywhere in computer graphics from rotating pictures in editing software, to providing an arbitrary view of a 3D virtual environment. Although the former is a trivial operation, the latter can be a challenging task.  Rotation Transforms for Computer Graphics...
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