Many of the software books available clearly highlight the problems with current software development but don't provide comprehensive, easily actionable, ground-level solutions. Covering the entire secure software development life cycle that ties all development together, this book presents quality software development strategies and practices stressing resilience requirements with precise, actionable, and ground-level inputs that connect directly with their creators. The text helps developers understand fundamental problems and provides them with best practices, principles, design methodology, programming guidance, and testing practices.
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IT Security
Programming & Programming Languages
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Every day, police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty. Coupled with these difficulties is, in some cases, lack of community respect for the officers despite the dangers these men and women confront while protecting the public. Exploring issues of courage, integrity, leadership, and character, this volume examines ways to effect organizational change that helps police officers inspire community trust and support with every citizen contact.
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Personnel and Human Resource Management
Forensic Science - Law
Public Administration & Management
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From a multi-disciplinary point of view, this book examines basic concepts, various processing methodologies, and techniques involved in the preparation and characterization of nanobiomaterials that are specific to biomedical applications. It spans their historical development and reviews their current advances in the field. It describes how basic concepts in nanotechnology are applied to the processing of novel nanobiomaterials, including nanostructured metals and alloys. Presenting illustrative examples and a variety of applications, this text offers a solid framework for understanding present and future trends of biomaterials in human health care systems.
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Biomaterials - Materials Science
Materials Science
Biomedical Engineering
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Undergraduate

Over the past four decades, there has been immense progress in every area of lignin science. This volume provides an up-to-date compendium of research on selected topics. The book discusses commonly used chemical degradation methods, spectroscopic methods, studies of isolated lignins and lignin in situ , polymer properties related to thermal stability and molecular motion of lignin in the solid state, and applications of electronic structure calculations to the chemistry of lignin. Also discussed are lignin reactions that occur during the chemical pulping of wood, bleaching, lignin biodegradation, biopulping and biobleaching, the photochemistry of lignin, and pharmacological properties of lignans.
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Natural Products
Materials Chemistry
Industrial Textiles
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This popular text presents some of the most important and widely used methods for solving PDEs. Along with a new chapter on complex variable methods, this edition includes new sections on Cauchy–Euler equations, Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, spherical harmonics, applications of Fourier transformations, and general hyperbolic equations. It lists additional mathematical models based on PDEs and shows how the methods of separation of variables and eigenfunction expansion work for equations other than heat, wave, and Laplace. The author also added many new worked examples and exercises. Ancillary materials are available for qualifying instructors.
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Differential Equations
Mechanical Engineering
Advanced Mathematics
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Undergraduate

Breaking down the OEE methodology from a historical perspective, this book explores the overall effectiveness of machines and unveils novel design improvement methods, including hazard analysis, rate of change of failure analysis, failure rate finite element analysis, and theory of inventive problem solving. It covers loss of effectiveness, new machinery, electrical maintenance issues, Weibull distribution, measurement techniques, and mechanical and electrical reliability. Highlighting mechanical and electrical opportunities throughout, the text includes a CD with more than 100 pages of appendices and additional resources.
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Business Information Systems
Manufacturing Engineering
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Written by leading experts, this book examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. It focuses on the apparatus of government — the agencies, their values, context, and policies within which they operate. Organized in parallel sections, the book covers the history, public policy processes, organization, HRM, ethics, corruption, intergovernmental relations, performance management, and e-government. The book includes essential knowledge and facts, discussions of emerging issues, and useful resources for further reading.
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Public Administration & Management
Government
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Microfluidics-based biochips combine electronics with biochemistry for newly emerging application areas such as point-of-care medical diagnostics, on-chip DNA analysis, automated drug discovery, and protein crystallization. This book envisions an automated design flow for microfluidic biochips. It offers newly designed automation solutions for problems unique to digital microfluidics. The authors provide a comprehensive methodology for the automated design, test, and use of robust and low-cost manufactured digital microfluidic systems. Using real-life bioassays as examples, they offer a comprehensive set of practical methodologies and tools for chip design and manufacture.
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Biotechnology
Biomedical Engineering
Circuits & Devices
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Designed for students across all of engineering, this text offers the multidisciplinary approach needed to develop a foundation in mechatronics. It covers electrical and mechanical components, sensors and instrumentation, drives and actuators, controls, signal processing, component interfacing, modeling, and design. Practical applications and tools introduced up front are uniformly integrated throughout the book. Cases studies and worked examples that make use of MATLAB ® , Simulink ® , and LabView ® application and case studies are included, as are numerous exercises, most based on real engineering practice.
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Instrumentation, Measurement & Testing
Machine Design
Aerospace Engineering
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Undergraduate

Bringing together many landmark papers on the field, this compendium covers the techniques and applications of optical tweezers. It covers Arthur Ashkin’s initial work on radiation pressure and the immediate progress following his seminal demonstration. The expert contributors explore recent biological, colloidal, and microfluidic applications. They also analyze the mechanisms underpinning basic tweezer force and the interaction among many particles held within multiple tweezer systems. In addition, they explain the conversion of optical tweezers into optical spanners as well as the creation of holographic tweezers using spatial light modulators.
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Molecular Biology
Optics & optoelectronics
Systems Biology
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