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Topics selected to be included in this handbook cover a wide range of issues in the area of maintenance management and engineering to cater for all those interested in maintenance whether practitioners or researchers.

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of emerging distributed-systems technologies and includes many state-of-the-art infrastructures and technologies. It also offers exercises and historical contexts for each of the technologies.

The CDA book provides clear and easy to use guidance to implement the standard, with numerous examples covering many of the nuances of the standard. Readers can learn not only how to implement healthcare IT using the CDA standard, but to "speak" in the language of the standard, and to understand its idioms.

Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky - star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies - within reach of amateur astronomers. This book provides the reader with what he needs to know about what to observe, and how to get superb views of faint and distant astronomical objects.

Features the superb photographs from the original Hatfield Lunar Atlas Detailed key maps for every photograph identify lunar features Inset IAU-standard photographs, to help users learn to identify features on conventional Moon maps

This book emphasizes the application of Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) gain scheduling techniques to the control of wind energy conversion systems.

In addressing the question of how far it is possible to go in knowledge representation and reasoning through graphs, the authors cover basic conceptual graphs, computational aspects, and kernel extensions. The basic mathematical notions are summarized.

A revised and edited collection of key parts of Professor Cross's published work, this book offers a timeline of scholarship and research over the course of 25 years, and a resource for understanding how designers think and work. Coverage includes the nature and nurture of design ability; design discipline versus design science;

This book presents, in a self-contained manner, the essential aspects of model theory needed to understand model theoretic algebra. Includes a complete proof of Ax and Kochen's work on Artin's conjecture about Diophantine properties of p-adic number fields.

Managing Depression in Clinical Practice provides a concise overview of the clinical manifestation, diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition. The book gives practical coverage of depression in special populations, the management of treatment non-response and long-term treatment.

Electronic Value Exchange examines the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today.

As many readers will know, the 20th century was a time when the fields of mathematics and the sciences were seen as two separate entities. Caused by the rapid growth of the physical sciences and an increasing abstraction in mathematical research, each party, physicists and mathematicians alike, suffered a misconception;

This book presents a detailed guide to image registration. It details the principles behind a vast array of tools and methods as well as compares their performances using synthetic and real data.

Imaging and Technology: Principles and Clinical Applications is a practical and user-friendly consolidated source book for urologists, and urologists in training, regarding the basic science of imaging modalities used on a day-to-day basis in urological practice.

The early 21st century has seen a renewed interest in research in the widely-adopted proportional-integral-differential (PID) form of control. Industrial practitioners and manufacturers of control systems with application problems relating to PID will find this to be a practical source of appropriate and advanced solutions.

This book offers accurate, efficient methods for solving stochastic equations, with a focus on formulating equations that apply to problems in engineering and applied sciences. Numerous examples illustrate essential theoretical concepts, models and methods.

highlights the patterns which frequently appear when writing programs, reinforcing the application of these patterns for problem-solving through practice exercises; introduces the use of a debugger tool to inspect a program, enabling students to discover for themselves how programs work and enhance their understanding;

This book covers both simulations using markal model and linear programming (LP) and methods and applications of multi-criteria, fuzzy-sets, algorithm genetics and neural nets (artificial intelligence) to energy systems.

An Introduction to Computer Graphics for Artists is an application-independent, reader-friendly primer for anyone with a serious desire to understand 3D Computer Graphics.

Part II studies some special ciphers including the security of mobile phones, RC4 and related ciphers, the eStream project and the blum-blum-shub generator and related ciphers.

Robust Control Design with MATLAB (R) (second edition) helps the student to learn how to use well-developed advanced robust control design methods in practical cases.

As renewable power generation moves up the energy agenda, this much-needed volume provides a full update on advanced optimization methods for analyzing and controlling voltage stability in networks augmented by wind-generated power supply.

This book introduces the techniques needed to produce realistic simulations and animations of particle and rigid-body systems. Features: examines the problem of computing an hierarchical representation of the geometric description of each simulated object, as well as the simulated world;

This book offers a comprehensive reference to the mathematical modeling of environmental and geophysical problems. It provides an abundance of mathematical models, both simple and complex, and elaborates them with approximation techniques.

Provides a problem-based approach to solutions for common scenarios in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. This book outlines a pathway through management for the clinician, consisting of six phases: Recognition of the condition; General approach; Assessment; Treatment; Management; and, Evidence.

Psychology and Diabetes Care: A Practical Guide is a concise handbook for the practicing diabetes clinician who is interested in gaining a better understanding of his patients, and in learning simple skills and tips to manage patients more effectively.

Mobile Context Awareness presents work from industrial and academic researchers, focusing on novel methods of context acquisition in the mobile environment - particularly through the use of physical and virtual sensors - along with research into new applications utilising this context.

Ankylosing Spondylitis in Clinical Practice is a concise, practical guide on the diagnosis and management of this debilitating condition. This book is aimed at clinicians who treat Ankylosing Spondylitis. It provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the diagnosis, management and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis.

Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems.