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Solid-State Fermentation Bioreactors

Although solid-state fermentation (SSF) has been practiced for many centuries in the preparation of traditional fermented ...

Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme. The book is ideally suited to cover not only the engineering ...

Space Shuttle Challenger

This book details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists ...

Space Systems Failures

The very first book on space systems failures written from an engineering perspective. In the 1960s and 1970s deep space ...

Spacecraft Structures

Space flight is a comprehensive and innovative part of technology. It encompasses many fields of technology. This monograph ...

Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

The book is intended to be a landmark publication to showcase Singapore academics’ and practising planners’ work and ...

Spectral Finite Element Method : Wave Propagation, Diagnostics and Control in Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Structures

This book is the first to apply SFEM to inhomogeneous and anisotropic structures in a unified and systematic manner. The ...

Speculative Coolness : Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual / Bryan Cantley

Offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual ...

Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments

This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments ...

Spring Recipes : A Problem-Solution Approach

Spring Recipes covers Spring 2.5 from basic to advanced, including Spring IoC container, Spring AOP and AspectJ, Spring data ...

Squeezing It In : Designing for compact spaces / Mary Leslie

Demonstrates how to design for compact living, proposing creative solutions that can be applied to a variety of settings. ...

Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security ...

Standardized Functional Verification

Standardized Functional Verification describes the science of functional verification that applies to any digital hardware ...

Stanford University

During the almost thousand-year history of universities, campuses have always been physical spaces. As we end the twentieth ...

Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power

Statistical Analysis and Optimization for VLSI: Timing and Power is the first book summarizing the state-of-the-art in the ...

Statistical Design

Although statistical design is one of the oldest branches of statistics, its importance is ever increasing, especially in ...

Steam Generators : Description and Design

The first part of the book presents the different types of generators which are installed either in industrial plants like ...

Steel Designers' Handbook / Branko E. Gorenc, A. Syam, Ron Tinyou

Steel–concrete composite bridges

Steel Concrete Composite Bridges outlines the various forms that modern steel-concrete composite bridges take, from simple ...

Stepping into Virtual Reality

The first part of the book reviews the basic theoretical and practical concepts involved in the visual aspect of virtual ...