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  • CYBER POWER
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    CYBER POWER
    SOLANGE GHERNAOUTI-HELIE
    This work develops perspectives and approaches to crucial cyber-security issues that are non-political, non-partisan, and non-governmental. It informs readers through high-level summaries and the presentation of a consistent approach to several cyber-risk related domains, both from a civilian and a military perspective. It explains fundamental principles in an interdisciplinary...

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  • OUR SPACE ENVIRONMENT, OPPORTUNITIES, STAKES AND DANGERS
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    OUR SPACE ENVIRONMENT, OPPORTUNITIES, STAKES AND DANGERS
    CLAUDE NICOLLIER
    This book explores the opportunities, the potential and the hazards of Earth's immediate space environment. It covers the physical characteristics of this portion of space, the influence of deeper space, observing and forcasting tools, the problem of space debris, the evolution of satellites, the different orbits and their uses, Earth's place in the solar system and its influen...

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  • DESIGNING RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
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    DESIGNING RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
    LEDA GERBER
    The book discusses a multi-objective optimization approach in LCA that allows the flexible construction of comprehensive Pareto fronts to help understand the weightings and relative importance of its elements. The methodology is applied to the pertinent topics of thermochemical wood conversion, deep geothermal energy, and regional energy planning. ...

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  • MULTIMODAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
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    MULTIMODAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
    HERVÉ BOURLARD
    This book provides a synthesis of the multifaceted field of interactive multimodal information management. The subjects treated include spoken language processing, image and video processing, document and handwriting analysis, identity information and interfaces. The book concludes with an overview of the highlights of the progress of the field dur ...

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  • THE PHYSICS OF EXCITON-POLARITON CONDENSATES
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    THE PHYSICS OF EXCITON-POLARITON CONDENSATES
    KONSTANTINOS LAGOUDAKIS
    After the first demonstration of Bose Einstein condensation in the solid state in 2006 and the establishment of exciton polariton condensates in the wider scientific community, an intense interest has been attracted by this phenomenon at both theoretical and experimental level. This book presents in detail the different aspects of fundamental impor ...

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  • LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERIES
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    LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERIES
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / OLIVIER BÉDUÉ
    Written with a diverse audience in mind, this book describes the current status, development, and future prospects for the critical technology of second-generation biorefineries, specifically with a focus on lignocellulosic materials as feedstock. It provides an overview of the issues behind this technological transition, and it provides, in depth, ...

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  • BIOTHERMODYNAMICS
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    BIOTHERMODYNAMICS
    URS VON STOCKAR
    This book covers the fundamentals of the rapidly growing field of biothermodynamics, showing how thermodynamics can best be applied to applications and processes in biochemical engineering. It describes the rigorous application of thermodynamics in biochemical engineering to rationalize bioprocess development and obviate a substantial fraction of t ...

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  • THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
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    THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
    LUCIEN BOREL / DANIEL FAVRAT / DINH LAN NGUYEN / MAGDI BATATO
    This book illustrates the basic concepts of phenomenological thermodynamics and how to move from theory to practice by considering problems in the fields of thermodynamics and energy-systems analysis. Many subjects are handled from an energetics or exergetics angle: calorimeters, evaporators, condensers, flow meters, sub or supersonic nozzles, ejec ...

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  • THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL WOOD PROCESSING
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    THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL WOOD PROCESSING
    PARVIS NAVI / DICK SANDBERG
    Describing the history and state-of-the-art of the thermo-hydrous manipulation of wood, this book provides either a desk reference or a field manual of wood science. It examines the polymeric components of wood and its multilevel hierarchical structure that confer its unique general-purpose character and faculty for transformation. Exceeding all ot ...

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  • GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF QUASARS
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    GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF QUASARS
    ALEXANDER EIGENBROD
    This book begins with the basics of gravitational lensing, explaining how light is deflected as it passes the vicinity of mass. The focus however, is on applications related to gravitationally lensed quasars. A brief overview of the different classes of active galactic nuclei is given, as well as open questions and unknowns about these objects. Applications of gravitationally l...

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  • AUGMENTING COGNITION
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    AUGMENTING COGNITION
    IDAN SEGEV / HENRY MARKRAM
    The Human brain is only 100,000 years old. Yet, this newly evolved organ endows us with unique creative capabilities beyond all other living creatures, including the gift to understand itself. As our very survival and success in life depends on utilizing our brain's power, intense efforts have begun worldwide to understand the brain, reverse-engine ...

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  • INFORMATION SECURITY EVALUATION
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    INFORMATION SECURITY EVALUATION
    IGLI TASHI / SOLANGE GHERNAOUTI-HELIE
    This book proposes a global and systemic multidimensional integrated approach to the holistic evaluation of the information security posture of an organization. The Information Security Assurance Assessment Model (ISAAM) presented in this book is based on, and integrates, a number of information security best practices, standards, methodologies and sources of research expertise...

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  • ADVANCED FIBER OPTICS
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    ADVANCED FIBER OPTICS
    LUC THEVENAZ
    This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the field of modern fiber optics, beginning with the basics of the field summarized in an introductory chapter. Expert contributors then topics such as polarization effects in optical fibers; photonic crystal fibers; highly-doped optical fibers; non-linear effects; amplification and lasing i ...

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  • PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
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    PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    JEAN-YVES LE BOUDEC
    This book is written for computer engineers and scientists active in the development of software and hardware systems. It supplies the understanding and tools needed to effectively evaluate the performance of individual computer and communication systems. It covers the theoretical foundations of the field as ...

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  • COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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    COMMON KNOWLEDGE
    MOIRA COCKELL
    Knowledge is a living thing, sustained through dynamic reflexive processes. Whether at the level of cellular signaling pathways, Internet design, or sociocultural interactions, human understanding grows and accrues value through bi-directional transmission across networks of emitters and receptors. And the cross-fertilization of ideas from differen ...

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  • MICROFABRICATED CORTICAL NEUROPROSTHESES
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    MICROFABRICATED CORTICAL NEUROPROSTHESES
    ANDRÉ MERCANZINI
    Despite their demonstrated effectiveness, the long term use of microscale neuroprosthetic devices is compromised by the post-implantation tissue reaction that often forms around the device. This book studies ways to improve the tissue reaction to implanted neuroprosthesis by use of a controlled drug release mechanism, quantified by novel measurement techniques. The author descr...

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  • THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS
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    THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS
    ARVIND VICTOR SHAH
    Photovoltaic technology has now developed to the extent that it is close to fulfilling the vision of a "solar-energy world," as devices based on this technology are becoming efficient, low-cost and durable. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of thin-film silicon, a prevalent PV material, in terms of its semiconductor nature, startin ...

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  • DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS
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    DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS
    KUPPUSWAMY KALYANASUNDARAM
    Several forms of thin-film solar cells are being examined as alternatives to silicon-solar cells-one of the most promising technologies is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC), with proven efficiencies that approach 11%. This book, which provides a comprehensive look at this promising technology, is a graduate level text that brings together the fundamentals of DSC from three pe...

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  • CELLULOSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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    CELLULOSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    JEAN-LUC WERTZ / JEAN P. MERCIER / OLIVIER BÉDUÉ
    Cellulose is a major constituent of papers made from plant fibers and combustible component of non-food energy crops. An ideal reference for scientists in natural and synthetic polymer research, this book applies basic biology as well as polymer and sugar chemistry to the study of cellulose. It provides key requirements for understanding the comple ...

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  • MACHINE LEARNING FOR SPATIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
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    MACHINE LEARNING FOR SPATIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
    MIKHAIL KANEVSKI / VADIM TIMONIN / ALEXI POZDNUKHOV
    This book discusses machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks of different architectures, statistical learning theory, and Support Vector Machines used for the classification and mapping of spatially distributed data.  It presents basic geostatistical algorithms as well. The authors describe new trends in machine lea ...

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  • EMERGENT SEMANTICS
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    EMERGENT SEMANTICS
    PHILIPPE CUDRE-MAUROUX
    Peer-to-peer systems are evolving with new information-system architectures, leading to the idea that the principles of decentralization and self-organization will offer new approaches in informatics, especially for systems that scale with the number of users or for which central authorities do not prevail. This book describes a new way of building ...

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  • A VISION OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
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    A VISION OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
    FREDERIC DARBELLAY
    Through a series of original essays, this book unites an international team of renowned researchers and educators around the theme of knowledge dialogue. Spanning topics from natural complexity to neuroscience, from education theory to climate change, from immunology to archaelogy and human migrations, it allows for an atmosphere of constructi ...

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  • SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS
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    SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS
    PAOLO PRANDONI / MARTIN VETTERLI
    Taking a novel, less classical approach to the subject, the authors have written this book with the conviction that signal processing should be fun. Their treatment is less focused on the mathematics and more on the conceptual aspects, allowing students to think about the subject at a higher conceptual level, thus building the foundations for more ...

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  • IMAGING WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
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    IMAGING WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
    DIDIER MASSONNET / JEAN-CLAUDE SOUYRIS
    Describing a field that has been transformed by the recent availability of data from a new generation of space and airborne systems, the authors offer a synthetic geometrical approach to the description of synthetic aperture radar, one that addresses physicists, radar specialists, as well as experts in image processing.   ...

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  • BIO-INSPIRED FLYING ROBOTS
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    BIO-INSPIRED FLYING ROBOTS
    JEAN-CHRISTOPHE ZUFFEREY
    This book demonstrates how bio-inspiration can lead to fully autonomous flying robots without relying on external aids. Most existing aerial robots fly in open skies, far from obstacles, and rely on external beacons, mainly GPS, to localise and navigate. However, these robots are not able to fly at low altitude or in confined environments, and ...

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  • CORROSION AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF METALS
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    CORROSION AND SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF METALS
    DIETER LANDOLT
    Providing a carefully developed and comprehensive overview of the corrosion chemistry of metallic materials, this book covers the principal methods of corrosion prevention. It includes a systematic study of the physical chemistry of the surface supported by state-of-the-art analysis methods. The author builds a scientific foundation by developing t ...

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  • POWER SEMICONDUCTORS
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    POWER SEMICONDUCTORS
    STEFAN LINDER
    Explaining the physics and characteristics of power semiconductor devices, this book presents an overview of various classes of power semiconductors. It provides insight into how they work and the characteristics of the various components from the viewpoint of the user, going through all modern power semiconductor device types. The physics are expl ...

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  • MALLIAVIN CALCULUS WITH APPLICATIONS TO STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
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    MALLIAVIN CALCULUS WITH APPLICATIONS TO STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
    MARTA SANZ-SOLE
    Developed in the 1970s to study the existence and smoothness of density for the probability laws of random vectors, Malliavin calculus--a stochastic calculus of variation on the Wiener space--has proven fruitful in many problems in probability theory, particularly in probabilistic numerical methods in financial mathematics. This book present ...

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  • ANALYTICAL AND PHYSICAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY
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    ANALYTICAL AND PHYSICAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY
    HUBERT H. GIRAULT
    The study of electrochemistry is pertinent to a wide variety of fields, including bioenergetics, environmental sciences, and engineering sciences. In addition, electrochemistry plays a fundamental role in specific applications as diverse as the conversion and storage of energy and the sequencing of DNA. Intended both as a basic course for un ...

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  • ESSENTIALS OF LOGISTICS AND MANAGEMENT
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    ESSENTIALS OF LOGISTICS AND MANAGEMENT
    CORYNNE JAFFEUX / PHILIPPE WIESER
    The logistician plays a critical role in the growth of his or her company - in this third edition of Essentials of Logistics, the conceptual framework in which all the stakes and themes of logistics is systematically analyzed, with a strong focus on the role of the supply chain.Indeed, many elements are critical to the successful logistical strateg ...

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