A delineation of the basics of sensory analysis and how it applies to shelf-life studies, this book includes discussions of experimental design aspects, survival analysis methodology, and its extensions. It provides detailed instructions and software functions for performing SSL estimations, accompanied by data sets and the R Statistical Package functions that are available for download. The author presents the cut-off point methodology used to estimate SSL when the survival analysis methods get complicated. He includes a chapter on accelerated storage covering kinetics, calculations of prediction confidence intervals and potential pitfalls.
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Food Packaging
Food Microbiology
Product Development
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A companion to Volume V: Applications of Ion Trapping Devices , this volume explores the latest advances in this expanding field. It covers new methods for trapping ions, such as the Orbitrap™, the digital ion trap, the rectilinear ion trap, and the toroidal ion trap; the development and application of the quadrupole ion trap and the quadrupole linear ion trap; and the introduction of high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry. The book explains all terms, acronyms, procedures, and equations in a style readily accessible at the graduate level and presents a common writing style that enables readers to appreciate the commonalities of topics.
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Chemical Spectroscopy
Analytical Chemistry
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Many tribological devices act as viable bearings in contrast to basic hydrodynamic theory. Similarly, powder films possess quasi-hydrodynamic features that allow them to act as conventional fluid film bearings. These phenomena have led to a novel definition of lubricants as intermediate layers, detailed in the present volume. Tribology of Interface Layers illustrates that the various lubrication modes, from dry to hydrodynamic to powder lubrication, overlap to such a degree that they exist on a tribological spectrum. Based on experimental and theoretical work, this text shows how the interdependence of powder and hydrodynamic lubrication exemplify this continuum in tribological processes.
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Metals & Alloys
Mechanics
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A culmination of the authors’ years of extensive research on the topic, this book provides a complete, self-contained introduction to advances in relational data clustering. It presents a novel theoretical framework as well as the most state-of-the-art models for relational data clustering. The authors also describe a family of new algorithms for various relational clustering problems arising in a wide range of important applications. Concepts and theory are explained through detailed application examples and the book includes a comprehensive reference list of related literature.
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Data Preparation & Mining
Statistics & Computing
Machine Learning
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Highlighting the differences between terrestrial and underwater sensor networks, this book investigates the fundamental aspects of underwater communication. Prominent researchers consider the challenges in the development of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UW-ASNs). They introduce an effective cross-layer approach for effectively integrating communication functionalities as well as a realistic acoustic model characterized by channel utilization efficiency that enables proper setting of the optimal packet size for underwater communications. Discussing architectures for two- and three-dimensional sensor networks, the text covers the wide range of topics relating to UW-ASNs.
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Digital & Wireless Communication
Communications System Design
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Focusing on Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, and Human Systems Dynamics, this guide provides new tools for managing and sustaining process improvement in today’s complex non-linear environments and helps readers apply new, relevant theory to their own management practices. With more than 50 combined years of change management and process improvement consulting experience, the authors offer valuable practical insights for creating dynamic organizational change. They describe the impact of both linear and adaptive approaches to process improvement. Case studies reveal ways to avoid common mistakes and demonstrate how to integrate new processes with past efforts.
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Quality Control & Reliability
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This text covers the major areas of modern time series models and theory, including time and spectral domain and univariate and multivariate time series methods. It also discusses recent techniques for modeling time series data, such as dynamic graphical models, SMC methods, and nonlinear/non-Gaussian dynamic models. Emphasizing model-based, computationally intensive analysis of structured time series, the authors present analyses of real time series data in numerous examples and case studies to illustrate the flexibility and practical impact of the models and methods. Many of the data sets, R and MATLAB ® code, and other material are available on the authors’ websites.
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Statistics & Computing
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Emphasizing applications and practical computing aspects, this book presents an up-to-date review of Bayesian hierarchical methods. It provides a complete treatment of the main modeling settings, including meta-analysis, time series, nonlinear regression, and multilevel, multivariate, panel, spatial, and survival data. The text includes realistic worked examples from the social and health sciences, mainly employing the WinBUGS package but also incorporating BayesX code. The author also illustrates MCMC sampling from first principles using R. A set of programs linked to the worked examples is available on www.crcpress.com
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Statistical Theory & Methods
Statistics & Computing
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
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Edited by renowned protein scientist and bestselling author Roger Lundblad, with the assistance of Fiona Macdonald of CRC Press, this volume represents a dramatic revision — the first in two decades — of one of biochemistry's most referenced works. Presented in a simple-to-use format, this popular reference allows quick access to the most frequently used data on proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates. Covering a wide range of topics, from classical biochemistry to proteomics and genomics, it also details the properties of commonly used biochemicals, laboratory solvents, and reagents.
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Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
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The second edition of a bestseller, System Management: Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment demonstrates how to make systems development work for any organization. Updated with new chapters, new examples, and new figures, it discusses the optimum marriage between specific program planning and a company's generic identity. The author focuses on the management aspects of the functional departments and programs and highlights the areas that must be improved in order to implement outstanding systems capability.
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Production Systems
Systems & Control Engineering
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