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by Stacey Solomone
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book addresses why China is going into space and provides up- to-date information on all aspects of the Chinese Space Program in terms of launch vehicles, launch sites and infrastructure, crew vehicles for space exploration, satellite applications and scientific exploration capabilities.
Beyond...
Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment
Latest Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of which present challenges to widely held conventional views and remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the question of why Mercury is so dense, and the implications from geochemical data on its planetary formation....
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi ronments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers...
Industrial Crops
Breeding for BioEnergy and Bioproducts
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The volume on Industrial Crop Breeding will be part of the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding. This volume will focus on the emerging area of plant breeding for sustainable production of transportation fuels and bio based products using the current advances in the field. The book is scheduled to consist...
by Jati Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Economic growth of a country depends on its industries. The focus of modern growth theory is basically macroeconomics, although neoclassical models use competitive markets and the optimization behavior of households and firms in general equilibrium framework. The emphasis here is on industry growth,...
From Imagination to Innovation
New Product Development for Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
It is impossible to measure the full economic and psychological benefits of the sewing machine, the polio vaccine, or the Internet. What we know is that these products have changed our lives for the better, generating net benefits well beyond the metric of corporate profits. As forces such as financial...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
It is important to include Tuber and Root Crops in the Handbook of Plant Breeding. They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN International Year of the...
Racism in the 21st Century
An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the United States that it once was. The contributors show that racism has not fallen from the forefront of American society, but is manifest in a different way. According to the authors...
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains
Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data brings together research that provides innovative methodologies for the analysis of commingled human remains. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case studies coming from pre-state to historic periods,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
This timely book covers the need to know clinical practices for all those involved in molecular laboratory science. The field of molecular medicine is evolving at an astounding speed. Propelled by the new insights and technologies, advances are being made at an unprecedented rate. With dual measure...
Infectious Diseases
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Infectious Diseases: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology presents authoritative, peer-reviewed contributions from leading experts on a wide range of major infectious diseases of global importance. Infectious diseases account for more than 17 million deaths...
Scalable Multi-core Architectures
Design Methodologies and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
As Moore’s law continues to unfold, two important trends have recently emerged. First, the growth of chip capacity is translated into a corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, the parallelization of the computation and 3D integration technologies lead to distributed memory architectures....
by Xiao Liu, Dong Yuan, Gaofeng Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Cloud computing is the latest market-oriented computing paradigm which brings software design and development into a new era characterized by “XaaS”, i.e. everything as a service. Cloud workflows, as typical software applications in the cloud, are composed of a set of partially ordered cloud software...
by Min Wu, Bede Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Comprehensive coverage of an important and current hot topic.; Details both theoretical as well as practical aspects.; Presents new data hiding algorithms for images and videos.; Reveals a number of attacks and countermeasures for data hiding systems, with a focus on digital music.