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Service Availability ; Vol. 4328 ; 3rd International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2006, Helsinki, Finland, May 15-16, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2006, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2006. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on availability modeling, estimation and analysis, dependability techniques and their applications, performability: measurements and assessments, service availability standards: experience reports and futures.
Sequence Analysis and Modern C++ : The Creation of the SeqAn3 Bioinformatics Library
Every developer who previously worked with C++ will enjoy the in-depth chapter on important changes in the language from C++11 up to and including C++20. In contrast to many resources on Modern C++ that present new features only in small isolated examples, this book represents a more holistic approach: readers will understand the relevance of new features and how they interact in the context of a large software project and not just within a "toy example". Previous experience in creating software with C++ is highly recommended to fully appreciate these aspects. SeqAn3 is a new, re-designed software library. The conception and implementation process is detailed in this book, including a critical reflection on the previous versions of the library. This is particularly helpful to readers who are about to create a large software project themselves, or who are planning a major overhaul of an existing library or framework. While the focus of the book is clearly on software development and design, it also touches on various organisational and administrative aspects like licensing, dependency management and quality control.
Sensors : Advancements in Modeling, Design Issues, Fabrication and Practical Applications
Sensors are the most important component in any system and engineers in any field need to understand the fundamentals of how these components work, how to select them properly and how to integrate them into an overall system. This book has outlined the fundamentals, analytical concepts, modelling and design issues, technical details and practical applications of different types of sensors, electromagnetic, capacitive, ultrasonic, vision, Terahertz, displacement, fibre-optic and so on. The book addresses the identification, modeling, selection, operation and integration of a wide variety of sensors,demonstrates the concepts of different sensors technology through simulation, design and real implementations,discusses the design and fabrication of high performance modern sensors technology,presents a selection of cutting-edge applications.
Self-Service Data Analytics and Governance for Managers
Motivated by the promise of control and efficiency benefits, the widespread adoption of data analytics tools has created a new fast-moving environment of digital transformation in the finance, accounting, and operations world, where entire functions spend their days processing in spreadsheets. With the decentralization of application development as users perform their own analysis on data sets and automate spreadsheet processing without the involvement of IT, governance must be revisited to maintain process control in the new environment.
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators : A New Brand of Multitarget Drugs
The concept of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) has emerged recently in modern medicine. Two main features, the evidence of the wide expression of estrogen receptors in organs and systems and the growing information on the determinants of estrogen action, have allowed the envisioning of compounds with "a la carte" estrogenic profiles. The availability of substances performing as agonists wherever the estrogenic action is beneficial and as antagonists where it is not, is becoming less of a dream than of a closer reality. This book is an up-to-date review of the principal basic mechanisms and the clinical data integrating the actual current knowledge on SERMs
Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World ; 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-13, 2017, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2017.The 8 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: security management; management of cloud environments and services, evaluation and experimental study of rich network services; security, intrusion detection, and configuration; autonomic and self-management solutions; and methods for the protection of infrastructure.
Security in computer and information sciences ; 1st International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, London, UK, February 26-27, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, held in London, UK, in February 2018.The 12 full papers presented together with an overview paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. Security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, and the Internet of Things has become a crucial aspect of the performance of computer systems. The papers deal with these issues, with a specific focus on societally critical systems such as health informatics systems, the Internet of Things, energy systems, digital cities, digital economy, mobile networks, and the underlying physical and network infrastructures.
Secondary Education at the Crossroads : International Perspectives Relevant to the Asia-Pacific Region
Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce more productive, more harmonious and healthier citizens. Yet, in every setting there is deep dissatisfaction with the overall performance of education and there are major moves towards reform, sometimes superficial but more often fundamental. These reform processes have had only moderate and very uneven success. Too often they are episodic, reflecting a short-term approach which is frequently changed for the latest enthusiasm or the most recent administration. In Asia and the Pacific countries many systems are in the process of construction or reconstruction.
Search Engines, Link Analysis, and Users Web Behavior : A Unifying Web Mining Approach
This book presents a specific and unified approach framework to three major components: Search Engines Performance, Link Analysis, and User’s Web Behavior. The explosive growth and the widespread accessibility of the WWW has led to a surge of research activity in the area of information retrieval on the WWW. The book can be used by researchers in the fields of information sciences, engineering (especially software), computer science, statistics and management, who are looking for a unified theoretical approach to finding relevant information on the WWW and a way of interpreting it from a data perspective to a user perspective. It specifically stresses the importance of the involvement of the user looking for information to the relevance of information sought to the performance of the medium used to find information on the WWW.
Screw Compressors : Three Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics and Solid Fluid Interaction
This book - the authors' second book on screw compressors – presents the results of the most up to date methods of three-dimensional modeling of the fluid dymanics and the solid-fluid interaction within these machines, which are still being developed. By including them in the design process, it is possible, not only to predict flow patterns more accurately, and hence improve the design of the critical components, but also to determine how the pressure and temperature distribution within the compressor distorts the rotors and casing and how this, in turn, has an interactive effect on the performance.
Screw Compressors : Mathematical Modelling and Performance Calculation
The first part of "Screw Compressors" gives a review of recent developments in screw compressor design.The second part presents a generalized mathematical definition of screw machine rotors and describes some well known lobe shapes in detail.The third part treats the mathematical modelling of the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics of compression and expansion processes.The fourth and fifth parts discuss the principles used and describe the application of the analytical procedures and rotor profiling techniques, presented in the earlier chapters, to the design of a number of twin screw compressors, currently manufactured including the examples of combining expansion and compression in the same machine.
Scientific Pharmaceutical Research and Competition : Between Doctors and Pharmacists
The profession of pharmacist and pharmacology is a science that researches drugs, their properties, the composition of drugs and what is related to them.we will describe in our study the differences between the pharmacsit and Physicians,and how the pharmacsit outperforms the Physicians in many things, including pharmacology and presecbting. Pharmacists and physicians need to work together to provide pharmaceutical care, but differences in the ‘language’ of the two disciplines often impair this collaboration. Pharmacy students have a better knowledge of basic pharmacology, but not of the application of pharmacology knowledge, than medical students, whereas medical students are better at writing prescriptions.
Scientific applications of grid computing ; First International Workshop, SAG 2004, Beijing, China, September, Revised Selected and Invited Papers
This workshop was held in September 2004, in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004). The WI and IAT conferences have provided, for several years, a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery, and data mining, intelligent agents and social network intelligence) and advanced information technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, the Wisdom Web, and data/knowledge grids), and to examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology.
Science and technology of semiconductor-on-insulator structures and devices operating in a harsh environment ; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on science and technology of semiconductor-on-insulator structures and devices operating in a harsh environment, Kiev, Ukraine, 26-30 April 2004
This proceedings volume archives the contributions of the speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment” held at the Sanatorium Puscha Ozerna, th th Kyiv, Ukraine, from 25 to 29 April 2004. The semiconductor industry has maintained a very rapid growth during the last three decades through impressive technological achievements which have resulted in products with higher performance and lower cost per function.
Scheins Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery
Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battlefield for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the second edition of this 'simple' book emergency abdominal surgery is discussed in an informal and no nonsense fashion - as practiced in the 'trenches' of the ER and the OR. The preferred approach for a given situation is discussed in context; it has to fulfill certain prerequisites: save live, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly.
Scenographic design drawing : Performative drawing in an expanded field
Scenographic design drawings visualize the images in the designer’s ‘mind’s eye’ early in the design process. They are the initial design tool in the creative engagement with theatre, opera, dance, and non-text-based performance. It is, in particular, this body of drawings that is unique as both a performative and a theatrical representation of multiple worlds within the ‘stage space’. Sue Field illuminates this illustration process and identifies how these drawings have functioned and developed over time.
Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation
Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation presents recent advancements in symbolic simulation-based solutions which radically improve scalability. It overviews current verification techniques, both based on logic simulation and formal verification methods, and unveils the inner workings of symbolic simulation.
Safety and Biological Effects in MRI
In vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has evolved into a versatile and critical, if not ‘gold standard’, imaging tool with applications ranging from the physical sciences to the clinical ‘-ology’. In addition, there is a vast amount of accumulated but unpublished inside knowledge on what is needed to perform a safe, in vivo MRI. The goal of this comprehensive text, written by an outstanding group of world experts, is to present information about the effect of the MRI environment on the human body, and tools and methods to quantify such effects.
Runtime Verification ; 8th International Workshop, RV 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 30, 2008. Selected Papers
The subject covers several technical fields such as runtime verification, runtime checking, runtime monitoring, and security and safety matters.
RP2040 Assembly Language Programming : ARM Cortex-M0+ on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Learn to program the Raspberry Pi Pico’s dual ARM Cortex M0+ CPUs in Assembly Language. The Pico contains a customer System on a Chip (SoC) called the RP2040, making it the Foundation’s first entry into the low-cost microcontroller market. The RP2040 contains a wealth of coprocessors for performing arithmetic as well as performing specialized I/O functionality. This book will show you how these CPUs work from a low level, easy-to-learn perspective. You will: Read and understand the Assembly Language code that is part of the Pico’s SDK Integrate Assembly Language and C code together into one program Interface to available options for DIY electronics and IoT projects
