CRC Press
Remote sensing of impervious surfaces.
With coverage of recent advances such as high-resolution imagery and current modeling tools, this professional resource focuses on mapping, data extraction and analysis of surfaces such as roads and buildings. Its 20 articles cover digital remote sensing methods, technological advances in impervious surface mapping, transport-related and roof-related surfaces, and data applications, with such topics as estimating and mapping using regression analysis of Landsat imagery, using a neural network approach to estimation with IKONOS imagery, mapping from medium and high spatial resolution multispectral imagery, using models for extraction of data from multiple sites, using fractals or linear spectral mixture analysis, and fusing radar and optical data to identify human settlements. Data applications are diverse and include water abundance and quality, storm runoff, aquatic fauna and population estimation. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
RF and microwave applications and systems.
This handbook provides detailed information about RF and microwave systems used for communications, radar, and heating applications. Part of a set of three independent volumes, the handbook addresses commercial, avionics, medical, and military applications. An overview of commercial communications systems is provided, and various past, current, and emerging cellular systems, navigational systems, and satellite-based systems are discussed. Specific voice and data commercial systems are also investigated. Chapters are aimed at working engineers, managers, and academics who need to understand microwave topics outside their area of expertise. This second edition of the handbook includes expanded and updated coverage of most topics, necessitating the third volume in the set. There is new material in this book on WiMAX, fiber optic links, and wireless PANs. The editor works in the microwave and semiconductor industries. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
RF and microwave passive and active technologies.
This handbook provides detailed information about a range of component technologies used in modern RF and microwave systems and components. Part of a set of three independent volumes, the handbook covers passive technologies, active device technologies, and materials properties. Unique microwave packaging and antenna considerations are also explored. Chapters are aimed at working engineers, managers, and academics who need to understand microwave topics outside their area of expertise. A microwave engineering appendix is included. This second edition of the handbook includes expanded and updated coverage of most topics, necessitating the third volume in the set. There is new material in this book on RFCMOS, Freznel zone plate antennas, and RFICs. The editor works in the microwave and semiconductor industries. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
RFID in logistics; a practical introduction.
Check out the back of the tag next time you buy a shirt. Chances are good you will find a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, designed to track the item through manufacturing, distribution, marketing and sale. To meet mandates by government and retailers, manufacturers and suppliers must integrate RFID technologies into their supply chains. Jones (industrial and management systems engineering, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Chung (industrial engineering, U. of Houston) take engineering and business students and professionals from theory to design to application, describing the common components (tags, scanners, antennas and hosts), and passive components such as tags. They explain active components, system design, important RFID mandates and standards organizations, and explain how to manage RFID systems using Six Sigma models. They offer substantial application overviews in a variety of industries, offer a range of case studies, and describe related software. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Safety management; a guide for facility managers, 2d ed.
Gustin, a regulatory compliance consultant, offers an accessible guide to the world of safety planning and compliance, OSHA inspections, workplace violence, ergonomics, and other related areas. This second edition provides updated statistics, a cross-comparison of old and new OSHA standards, an update on employer compliance requirements to ADA, discussion of new ergonomics standards, and explanations of recent revisions to OSHA workplace inspection and investigation procedures and record-keeping rules. Appendices provide a 45-page directory of sources, an OSHA chronology, and 23 pages of checklists. The book will be used by facility managers, safety compliance officers, risk mangers, human resources managers, and supervisors. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Sampling techniques for forest inventories.
Mandallaz (environmental sciences, ETH Zurich — Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) offers graduate students and professionals a textbook on the current statistical concepts and tools needed to conduct a modern forest inventory. Keeping the treatment as general and concise as possible, he emphasizes the mathematical-statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities. Readers are assumed to have a background in elementary probability theory, statistics, and linear algebra as well as a foundation in forestry theory and practice. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
SiGe and Si strained-layer epitaxy for silicon heterostructure devices.
In the past decade the idea of using these materials in semiconductor devices has become a reality. Now using silicon-germanium (SiGe) and silicon (Si) strained-layer epitaxy, including creating novel Si heterostructure transistors, has become commercially viable, thanks to the efforts of literally thousands of scientists and engineers, and they are well represented in this collection of 13 articles, which includes accounts of the basic science, history and applications of SiGe and Si strained-layer epitaxy. Contributors cover epitaxy by rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition, molecular beam epitaxy growth techniques, ultra-high vacuum and chemical vapor deposition, defects and diffusion in SiGe and stained Si, stability constraints in SiGe epitaxy, electronic properties of strained Si/SiGe and silicon alloys, carbon doping and contact metallization of SiGe, and selective etching techniques for SiGe/SI. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Signal processing for remote sensing.
Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, published by Taylor and Francis in 2006, has been reissued as two volumes, this one containing the material on signal processing, and the other the material on image processing. Most of the literature on remote sensing deals with images, and only recently have developments in signal processing generally been applied to the signal processing aspects of remote sensing, as applied for example to data from microwave and geophysical sensors. Electronic and computer engineers and other technical contributors here describe the current status of the technology and theory. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Simplified TRIZ; new problem solving applications for engineers and manufacturing professionals, 2d ed.
TRIZ is an acronym for a Russian phrase meaning "theory of inventive problem solving." The theory underlies the model of problem solving for business and other organizations described here by Rantanen and Domb, both of whom have long and varied histories and business. Their topics include constructing the new model for problem solving, mapping invisible reserves, separating the best from the rest, 40 ways to create good solutions, and using TRIZ with the theory of constraints. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Smart CMOS image sensors and applications.
Ohta (materials science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) describes the smart functions implemented in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors and their applications, in this book meant for graduate students and engineers entering the field. He introduces MOS imagers and smart CMOS image sensors, followed by chapters on the fundamental elements of CMOS image sensors and optoelectronic device physics; typical structures, such as the active pixel sensor (APS); functions; smart imaging, such as wide dynamic range image sensing; target tracking; and three-dimensional range finding. Examples of applications are included. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Software deployment, updating, and patching.
The authors (both of Microsoft) provide coverage of what they consider to be the most important components of information technology process development and system management: configuration, update, and compliance management. In the first part of the text they describe the people and process elements they find essential to the formation of a consistent and reliable configuration management program and in the second part they explore the supporting services and technologies needed to automate configuration management tasks. While the discussion is meant to be widely applicable, many of the examples used in the text refer to Microsoft technologies. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Software solutions for engineers and scientists.
The authors aim for a balance of background and shortcuts, gearing this programming toolkit and problem-solving resource to the needs (and the intellectual framework) of engineers and scientists who must take on the role of programmers to develop software and applications that fit particular situations and requirements. The material is organized in sections on techniques and code, application development, and project engineering. Appendices supply supporting coverage of C++math unit programming, AB.0 accuracy calculations, C++ indirection, multiple file programs, the MATH32 library, and windows structures. The bibliography offers further support, citing many older foundation works for reference to some basics. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Spatiotemporal patterns in ecology and epidemiology; theory, models, simulation. (CD-ROM included)
Premised on the observation that population dynamics and disease dynamics share similar properties in pattern formation in space and time, this book seeks a unified approach to population dynamics and epidemiology by exploring "ecoepidemiological models where both the basic interspecies interactions of population dynamics and the impact of an infectious disease are considered explicitly." The treatment is organized into four sections that provide a general overview of the relevant phenomena in ecology and epidemiology, examine nonspatial models of population dynamics and epidemiology, consider spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation in deterministic models of population dynamics, and explore the issues of interaction between deterministic and stochastic processes in ecosystem/epidemics dynamics. The CD-ROM contains the MATLAB programs used to produce the numerical results of the text. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Spirulina in human nutrition and health.
Spirulina is a human and animal food supplement primarily consisting of the cyanobacteria Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima. Gershwin (allergy and clinical immunology, U. of California School of Medicine at Davis) and Belay (senior vice president and scientific director, Earthrise Nutritionals, "the largest Spirulina- producing company in the world") present 14 chapters describing nutritional and health aspects of Spirulina. Chapters address production and quality assurance, therapeutic implications as food product, antioxidant effects, hepatoprotective effects, drug-induced nephrotoxicity protection by Spirulina, immunological aspects, Spirulina and antibody production, Spirulina as an antiviral agent, Spirulina and antibacterial activity, and the effects of Spirulina and aging and neurobiology. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Sports nutrition; energy metabolism and exercise.
People tend to either overemphasize or underemphasize the importance of nutrition in exercise performance. So says the introductory chapter in this volume edited by Wolinsky (emeritus, nutrition, U. of Houston) and Driskell (nutrition and health sciences, U. of Nebraska). Following an overview of the principles of bioenergetics and factors that impact energy utilization, North American and UK contributors to nine chapters focus on specific dietary sources of energy, considerations for an athlete's training diet, and methods of calculating metabolic rate as a measure of energy expenditure. Sex and age differences are also considered. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Steel-reinforced concrete structures; assessment, repair, and maintenance of corrosion.
At its birth steel-reinforced concrete was advertised as maintenance free, but it turned out that unmaintained structures of it fell down after 20 years. El-Reedy, with a Cairo-based petroleum company, explains reinforced concrete structure maintenance to junior and senior engineers who design, construct, repair, or maintain them. He keeps in mind the level of chemistry civil engineers have typically been exposed to. In addition to discussing the evaluation, protection, and repair of structures, he suggests how to implement a maintenance program. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Stories of modern technology failures and cognitive engineering successes.
In this behind-the-scenes look at human-technical interface problem-solving in cognitive systems engineering, applied psychologists Cooke (Arizona State U.) and Durso (Texas Tech U.) discuss lessons learned from seven cases of disaster and success in this field. They treat advances, often made in the wake of disasters, relating, e.g., to airline crew resource management, human behavior modeling applications, and safety in the nuclear power industry. The book includes commentaries by cognitive scientists and a human factors historian. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Terahertz spectroscopy; principles and applications.
Terahertz frequencies (0.1 to 30 THz) span the range of low-energy excitations in electronic materials, low-frequency vibrational modes of condensed phase media, and vibrational and rotational transitions in molecules. In this volume, Dexheimer (physics, Washington State U.) presents eight chapters on terahertz spectroscopics techniques, focusing in particular on time-domain methods based on femtosecond laser sources. The volume also discusses applications to investigating carrier dynamics in semiconductors, superconductors, and strongly correlated electron materials; conductivity processes in novel electronic materials; optical response of semiconductor nanostructures; and biomolecules. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Traumatic brain injury; methods for clinical and forensic neuropsychiatric assessment, 2d ed.
Granacher (psychiatry, U. of Kentucky College of Medicine) presents a text that is intended to provide physicians and psychologists with a neuropsychiatric schema for the evaluation of patients with traumatic brain injuries and for the development of treatment plans. It is also intended to aid forensic neuropsychiatric evaluations. Evaluations for treatment are covered in the first eight chapters, which address the epidemiology and pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury, neuropsychiatric and psychiatric syndromes following traumatic brain injury, taking the brain injury history, the neuropsychiatric mental status and neurological examinations following traumatic brain injury, the use of structural and functional imaging in the assessment of traumatic brain injury, standardized neurocognitive assessment, behavioral assessment, and neurobehavioral analysis and treatment planning. The chapters covering forensic examination includes discussion of distinctions from examinations for treatment and the detection of deception; causation, damages, outcome, and impairment determination following traumatic brain injury; and forensic neurobehavioral analysis of traumatic brain injury data. The new edition includes updated case studies and new images and updated discussion of the effects of blast over-pressure found in combat veterans and civilians in Kosovo, Lebanon, and Iraq. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Value added services for next generation networks.
This book presents a perspective on how to conceive value added services for modern communications systems. The author addresses the current position of service providers and explores the landscape of next generation network standards. He also considers business aspects of building a next generation network service provider, discusses issues of charging and rating, and examines necessary technical capabilities. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
