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David Harland's definitive work on the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role in the assembly of the International Space Station.

This book contains everything an amateur astronomer needs to know to begin observing whilst going relatively deeply into the subject for those who are already involved. Contributions by leading amateurs astronomers from the USA and Europe.

To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view. Organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photographs.

Detailed case studies illustrate interoperability issues between the two major routing vendors, Cisco Systems and Juniper NetworksHighly pratical: explains why IS-IS works the way it does to how IS-IS behaves in the real world of routers and networks

The second edition of "Model Predictive Control" provides a thorough introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the most commonly used MPC strategies. It bridges the gap between the powerful but often abstract techniques of control researchers and the more empirical approach of practitioners.

This book meets the need to understand performance metrics for haptic interfaces and their implications on device design, use and application. The authors propose evaluation practices including a combined physical and psychophysical experimental methodology.

This book reviews GPP LTE physical layer and dataflow-based prototyping and programming, focusing on automatic partitioning and scheduling, load balancing and computation latency reduction in systems based on heterogeneous multi-core Digital Signal Processors.

This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. discusses privacy impact assessments for the cloud, and examines the use of cloud audits to attenuate cloud security problems;

This monograph offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of bone marrow lymphoid infiltrates, in the context of their wide spectrum of benign, borderline and malignant expressions.

Industrial energy efficiency is a key element of our efforts to mitigate global warming, and this combination of engineering and social science approaches does much to enhance our understanding in both technical-industrial and policy-making contexts.

Because adult ADHD can be treated effectively but is still not always recognised by professionals, this book, now in its updated, expanded 3rd edition, offers a concise overview of the current state of science and of methods used in diagnosis and treatment.

This book approaches mathematics based on the needs of computer science students, teaching logic by means of the method of semantic tableaux. The third edition is entirely rewritten, and includes new chapters on SAT solvers and model checking.

Presents novel ways for helping HCI designers communicate why they want to promote users' contact with cultural diversity, presenting five cultural viewpoint metaphors supporting reasoning and decision-making in dimensions of intercultural experience.

Sports Medicine is now a specialty in its own right. This book utilises the excellent sports medicine section originally published within International Advances in Foot and Ankle Surgery and present it in a quick reference format for residents and trainees in orthopedic sports medicine.

examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

This book is the second of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. describes simulations of social networks, and the representation and analysis of social networks, with a focus on issues of security, privacy, and anonymization;

Reflex seizures and related epileptic syndromes provides a concise, authoritative guide to this category of epilepsies. The clinical manifestations, aetiology, diagnosis, prognosis and management of the main types of visually induced seizures and epilepsies and also the main types of complex reflex epilepsies are described.

Idiopathic generalised epilepsies provides a concise, authoritative guide to this category of epilepsies. Each syndrome of idiopathic generalised epilepsy is detailed in regard to demographic data, clinical manifestations, aetiology, diagnosis, prognosis and management.

Here is a practical reference on recent research in supply chain integration focusing on distributed decision-making problems. It examines recent applications of various decision-making tools for integrating supply chains.

There is no standard textbook at this time on endovascular management of thoracic aortic pathologies.

In a well ordered presentation of recently identified techniques for overcoming the complications inherent in wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, this volume is a searching exploration of problems in kinematics, dynamics modeling, and other topics.

This book provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. It examines the industry and describes the shipping market and its structure as well as forecasting, location plan, and the transportation chain.

Aimed at clinicians who are thinking about undertaking research, those who are about to begin a project, and those who are new to the work of supervising researchers, this book helps people make the best use of time and effort.

With fully one third of the world's males having undergone the procedure, a focused guide to circumcision is long overdue. This superbly illustrated surgical reference covers protocols and historiography and explains the operation's administrative aspects.

When a person suffers from advanced, progressive illness, palliative care - treatments that improve the physical and psychological quality of life of patients and their families - can be just as important as treatments that aim to slow or prevent disease progression.

Multidisciplinary Care of Urinary Incontinence - a Handbook for Health Professionals effectively uses a multidisciplinary approach to assist health professionals in their care of patients with urinary incontinence.

A huge number of new technologies have been introduced in recent years to aid in this diagnostic pathway in the form of urine tests, blood tests and imaging modalities. The book focuses on the diagnostic pathways involved, bringing together international leaders in the field who describe the current status of urological investigation.

Nutritional Influences on Bone Health presents a collection of papers from the 8th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, the primary forum for and only regular meeting exclusively devoted to the topic of nutritional influences on bone health.

Sickle Cell Disease is the most common genetic disease world wide and in the UK. Sickle Cell Disease can be associated with acute life threatening complications, when clear, easily available advice is needed, and with chronic long term complications which may need liaison with other health professionals.

This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore's classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Packs a great deal of valuable information into appendices which make up almost half the book. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place.