Based on the quantification and analysis of more than 3000 facial images, this seminal work lays the foundation for future forensic facial comparison, computer applications development, and research in face shape variation and analysis. Using experimental and real case data, it demonstrates the influence of illumination, image resolution, perspective, and pose angle on landmark visibility. Two DVDs are included which contain the raw 3D landmark datasets for 3000 faces, additional datasets used in 2D analysis, and computer programs and spreadsheets used in analysis and in the development of prototypic applications software.
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Image Processing
Forensic Science - Law
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Describing the challenges and opportunities of communication in a project environment, this detailed guide highlights the range of tools available to the project manager and instructs on their effective use and application. Written from a practical standpoint, this book provides the tools and best practices needed for successful communication management. It deals primarily with written communication, including plans, reports, guidelines, procedures, messages, and presentations. Using easy to understand language, this book highlights the various project communication tools available for use including email and PowerPoint ® .
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Management of IT
Business & Management
Engineering Project Management
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This book concentrates on the modern methods and technology used in the analysis and design of new steel superstructures for modern railway bridges. While the focus is on replacement superstructures, many of the principles and methods outlined will also be useful in the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing steel railway bridges. The author provides introductory and general information and then examines topics including load development, structural analysis, and the detailed design of modern steel railway bridge superstructures. A practical reference for experienced bridge engineers and researchers, this book is also a learning tool for students and engineers new to the field.
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Transportation Engineering
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Professional

Written at a level suitable for senior students of marine engineering and entry-level marine engineers, this book covers main propulsion machineries, auxiliaries, and all ship-board systems and equipments that come under the purview of a marine engineer. The chapters progress from working principles to construction and design features to operation and maintenance. A separate chapter covers inherent hazards in a running engine and the built-in safety features and fail-safe devices to combat it. Copious line drawings and composite diagrams demonstrate the concepts and intricacies of design. An added feature is the section on watch-keeping, since that is truly a test of skill and competence of a sailing engineer.
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Transportation Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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Focusing on pollutant reduction, abatement, and control, this book provides the necessary tools and methodologies to solve urban stormwater problems. The authors present theories and fundamental concepts of wet weather pollution as a basis for solving engineering problems in practice. The book contains mathematical formulations for modeling the prediction of pollutant transport into both surface waters and soil systems. The entire urban wastewater system—including the drainage catchment and networks, treatment systems and local receiving waters—are examined in this context. The authors also address key points in the analysis, design, and management of urban drainage systems.
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Water Quality & Pollution
Storm Water
Surface Water
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With significant applications in drug delivery and formulation science, colloids offer the same advantages of typical materials used for release but can be tailored to specific bulk material properties such as release profiles. Colloidal systems have the potential to increase the shelf life and improve efficacy of a drug, thus reducing the required dosage concentrations and the frequency of administration. Featuring contributions from an international panel of scientists and researchers, this book presents the most recent findings on the application of colloidal properties in drug delivery systems, contributing to the understanding and improved design of novel and advanced drug delivery applications.
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Drug Design & Development
Physical Chemistry
Biomaterials - Materials Science
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The interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering requires its practitioners to know and master not only engineering skills, but also a diversity of material in the biological sciences. This text helps biomedical engineering students and professionals strengthen their skills in the network of applied mathematics that ties together these diverse disciplines. Based on the author's 30 years of experience in teaching as well as his personal research on neurosensory systems, this book, now in its second edition, provides a ready source of information on the specialized mathematical techniques most useful in describing and analyzing biomedical signals.
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Biomedical Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
Systems & Controls
Textbook
Undergraduate

Recognizing electrocatalysis as an interfacial approach to a dynamic interdisciplinary science, this volume focuses on important developments in the field that are the most relevant to new technologies. The book gives readers a clear view of the problems inside electrocatalytic reactions, presenting both the limitations of electrocatalysis in the laboratory along with its possibilities in industry. Topics discussed include the current uses of electrocatalysis and future perspectives; the quantum nature of the electron transfer; Müller-Calandra, Srinivasan-Gileadi, and instantaneous nucleation-growth overlap models; and the production, storage, use, and delivery of hydrogen in industrial electrochemistry.
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Physical Chemistry
Catalysis
Industrial Chemistry
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Professional

This book presents the constructive and operational aspects of equipment used in combustion and gasification of solid fuels such as coal, biomass, solid residues, etc. This equipment includes boilers and gasifiers, which are used to transform coal or other solid fuels into gases that can be burned in turbines, in which moving generators are able to produce electrical power. The author details basic aspects of solid and gas combustion phenomena, which are essential to improvements and optimized design in existing boilers and gasifiers. He also introduces the methods to formulate a mathematical basis for this equipment, demonstrating possible routes from models to workable computer simulation problems.
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Energy
Combustion Engineering
Thermodynamics
Reference
Professional

As a result of resurgent interest in renewable energy systems, the application of nanotechnology to photovoltaics has seen major advances in recent years. This book describes such efforts with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and discussions of the associated technical challenges. Each chapter offers a brief review of the nanostructure class considered, key applications beyond photovoltaics, and synthetic methods. The text also addresses the advantages and disadvantages of each nanostructure approach. Chapters dealing with physics and the properties of nanostructures provide sufficient background to understand the basic principles underlying current and future strategies.
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
Energy
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Professional