Achieving a balance between theory and practice, this text presents the foundational topics of distributed systems and their relationships to real-world applications. With a set of exercises featured in each chapter, the book covers system models, correctness criteria, and proof techniques. It also presents numerous important paradigms in distributed systems, including logical clocks, distributed snapshots, deadlock detection, termination detection, election, and graph algorithms. The author addresses failures and fault-tolerance techniques in diverse applications, such as consensus, transactions, group communication, replicated data management, and self-stabilization. He also explores real-world issues, including distributed discrete-event simulation and security, and sensor and peer-to-peer networks.
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Computer Science (General)
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Networks
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Undergraduate

Analysis, design and flow control problems in hydraulic systems can best be dealt with by network synthesis. This approach aims to directly determine design variables in order to achieve a specified behaviour of the system under steady state or transient flow conditions.
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Water Management and Sustainability
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Este libro parte de una premisa sorprendente: todos podemos transformar el mundo en que vivimos, si estamos dispuestos a intentarlo. La realidad, tal y como la conocemos, viene determinada por una batería de hábitos arraigados en nuestra mente. Todas nuestras dudas y expectativas, e incluso las cosas negativas que creemos que dominan nuestra existencia, no son más que la interpretación que hacemos, sin darnos cuenta, del entorno en que transcurre nuestra vida personal y laboral. La buena noticia es que esta interpretación puede cambiarse, y Are you ready to succeed? nos muestra el camino: mediante ejemplos que abarcan desde el mundo de los negocios hasta la tradición espiritual de Oriente, Srikumar S. Rao ofrece una visión reveladora de situaciones a las que todos nos hemos enfrentado; y propone una serie de ejercicios que nos permitirán escoger otro modelo de pensamiento y aprender a utilizar nuestro potencial oculto.

Bond graphs have become a part of undergraduate and postgraduate curricula at many engineering institutes. Many industries, organizations, universities, and academic institutions have included bond graphs in their research, development, and design activities. In recent years, the range of applications of bond graphs has enhanced owing to sustained research in this field. This book is an outcome of the authors' teaching through bond graphs for the last 15 years. It is organized into 16 chapters and is narrative in style to make it easily comprehensible to students. Each chapter is appended with a set of problems divided into two groups: problems to be solved by students for usual practice and project-type problems.
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Energy
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This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of geosynthtic engineering, especially meeting the requirements of students in civil engineering, as well as those of practising civil engineers who have not been educated on geosynthetics during their university training.
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Foundations & Piling
Pavement Engineering
Soil Mechanics
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Postgraduate

Presenting the latest economically and environmentally friendly methods for managing weeds, this compendium focuses on designing future weed management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological balance, and increase food production. It provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists, agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists. Tables, figures, and more than 125 illustrations – including a color photo section – make complex information easy to access and understand. This comprehensive book, valuable to both professionals and students, is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century.
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Crop Science
Botany
Agriculture
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Professional

Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions is a must-have reference guide for all Oracle professionals. It provides much-needed information on best practices, tips, and techniques in debugging, installation, deployment, and tuning of the Oracle 10g database. You can draw upon the experience and knowledge of these authors to find creative ways to put your Oracle database to work. The authors will also address common and not-so-common installation concerns, database administration, development, and tuning. Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions will bring you the insider information that you can't get anywhere else.

Providing new opportunities for product development, Ingredient Interactions: Effects on Food Quality examines how major food ingredients such as water, starches, lipids, and proteins interact with other constituents and affect food quality. This second edition considers both real foods and model food systems, discussing rheological concepts and the application of microscopic techniques to study ingredient interactions. It describes the transformations mediated by water and the structure-function relationship of starches with different chemical classes of ingredients. The text also covers interactions involving sweeteners, proteins, enzymes, lipids, emulsifiers, and flavor components.
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Food Microbiology
Food Chemistry
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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book lays a pedagogical foundation in the concepts underlying developments in hydroinformatics. It begins with an introduction to data representation through unified modeling language (UML), followed by digital libraries, metadata, the basics of data models, and Modelshed, the new hydrological data model. From this platform, the book discusses integrating and managing diverse data in large datasets, data communication issues such as XML and Grid computing, the basic principles of data processing and analysis including feature selection and spatial registration, and modern methods of soft computing such as neural networks and genetic algorithms.
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Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Hydraulic Engineering
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