This update of a best-selling text presents methods of applied mathematics that are particularly suited to address physical problems in science and engineering. This edition incorporates a new chapter that offers an extensive treatment of numerical methods. It also contains new appendices on vector algebra, calculus, and matrix algebra. The author provides a complete treatment of ODEs and PDEs, covers Green’s functions for unbounded and bounded media, and explores self-adjoint systems and orthogonal series. Numerous examples illustrate the various methods of solution and answers to the end-of-chapter problems are included at the back of the book.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Mathematical Physics
Differential Equations
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Undergraduate

Updated annually, this handbook is the single most comprehensive resource on information security and assurance. Reflecting the latest changes to the CISSP ® Common Body of Knowledge (CBK ® ), Volume 4 updates the benchmark Volume 1 with a wealth of new information on mobile device security, adaptive threat defense, Web 2.0, virtualization, data leakage, and governance. New material also addresses risk management, business continuity planning, disaster recovery planning, and cryptography. The Handbook is also available in a CD-ROM version, which contains the complete contents of Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well as an extra volume's worth of information—including chapters from other security and networking books that have never appeared in the print editions.
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IT Security
Management of IT
Computing & IT Security
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Giving much more attention to noninferiority testing, this second edition provides readers with a rich repertoire of efficient solutions to specific equivalence and noninferiority testing problems frequently encountered in the analysis of real data sets. It also includes new chapters on equivalence tests for multivariate data and tests for relevant differences between treatments. Drawing from real-life medical research, the author uses numerous examples throughout to illustrate the methods. Updated computer programs in SAS, Fortran, and R for facilitating the routine application of testing procedures are available online at www.crcpress.com
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Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Professional

Supplying an accessible introduction, this book details the analysis and design principles in process-centric architecture. Illustrative examples demonstrate how to architect and design enterprise systems based on business processes central to your organization. The text covers the architectural aspects of business process management, the evolution of IT systems, the importance of a business process focus, the role of workflows, business rules, enterprise application integration, and business process modeling languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML. This forward-looking resource explains how to architect enterprise systems using a BPMS technology platform, J2EE components, and Web services.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Business Information Systems
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Exploring the recent achievements that have occurred since the mid-1990s, this book explains how to use modern algorithms to fit geometric contours to observed data in image processing and computer vision. The author covers all facets—geometric, statistical, and computational—of the methods. He looks at how the numerical algorithms relate to one another through underlying ideas, compares the strengths and weaknesses of each algorithm, and illustrates how to combine the algorithms to achieve the best performance. The text also identifies obscure issues that may be relevant in future research. MATLAB ® codes are available on the author’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Algorithms & Complexity
Image Processing
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Focusing on geothermal energy systems, this book examines the background, theory, power generation, applications, strengths, weaknesses, and practical techniques for implementing geothermal energy projects. The volume explains geosciences principles, drilling operations, techniques, types of well pumps, and other equipment. The authors stress the links between acquisition and consumption and the environment, provide numerous real world case studies, and delineate a number of practical implementation steps. The text includes figures, graphs, and formulas with homework problems included in each chapter.
• Energy and the Environment
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
Energy
Power Engineering
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Professional

This book is based upon cutting-edge research conducted in the author’s lab (Cellular Bioengineering), which over the past decade has developed a number of sophisticated techniques to facilitate use of 3D cell based assays or biosensors. This book uses data from peer-reviewed publications to conclusively justify use of 3D cell cultures in cell-based biosensors (assays) for (HTS). The majority of assays performed in accelerated drug discovery processes are biochemical in nature, but there is a growing demand for live cell-based assays. Unlike biochemical ones, cellular assays are functional approximations of in vivo biological conditions and can provide more biologically relevant information.
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Biotechnology
Biopharmaceutics
Biotechnology
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Professional

Exploring the strong features of PSPICE and the powerful functions of MATLAB ® for electronic circuit analysis, this second edition continues to provide an introduction to PSPICE and a simple, hands-on overview of MATLAB. It also demonstrates the combined power of PSPICE and MATLAB for solving electronics problems. This edition includes updated MATLAB topics, schematic capture and text-based PSPICE netlists in several chapters, and a new chapter on PSPICE simulation using the ORCAD schematic capture program. It also contains new examples and problems, along with a revised bibliography in each chapter.
• VLSI Circuits
Physical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Materials Science
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Professional

Along with providing an understanding of the scientific basis of air pollution, this volume helps readers better appreciate social and environmental determinants of public health and apply country-based research evidence to reduce health disparities and environmental inequalities. It also encourages future research and policy action on the health and environmental consequences of air pollution from the local to global level. With contributions from a distinguished group of international experts, the book not only covers general modeling, monitoring, and characterization techniques but also includes field studies and cases that offer valuable insight into region-specific issues.
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Air Pollution
Environmental Health
Environmental
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Considered the definitive work on sex-related homicide, this second edition details the theoretical and psychological basis for sexual homicide and offers practical investigative checklists and directions for processing and interpreting the crime scene. A comprehensive discussion of sexual deviance, it analyzes the typology of offenders to determine their signature aspects. It introduces the latest information on DNA technology, includes a new chapter on the infamous 30-year BTK investigation, offers new research developed from the Working Group of Human Asphyxia (WGHA), and provides a revised chapter on criminal personality profiling and investigative analysis. The new edition contains nearly 400 color photos.
• Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations
Psychological Science
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