This book reports on a new method of fault tolerant control based on the authors’ research findings. The authors develop a theoretical framework for reliable control in linear systems with adaptive mechanisms. They also present guidelines for designing control systems with guaranteed stability and desired performance in the presence of actuator/sensor failures. The book contains valuable reference materials for researchers in reliable control as well as practicing engineers. It provides industrial case studies, including flight tracking control systems design for F-16 fighter jets and also redundant sensors for motors.
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Networks
Aerospace Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
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Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. This volume shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole as well as detailed explanations on how to implement the balanced scorecard to measure and manage performance and projects. It investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques and includes a plethora of resources in its appendices and on the accompanying CD, including instructions for developing a measurement program, a full metrics guide, a sample project plan, and a set of project management fill-in forms.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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Written by HPC experts, this book provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture, dominant parallel programming models, and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. It facilitates an intuitive understanding of performance limitations without relying on heavy computer science knowledge. The authors highlight the importance of performance modeling of applications on all levels of a system’s architecture and include numerous case studies drawn from their experiences in HPC user support, performance optimization, and benchmarking. Downloadable code and an annotated bibliography are available on the book’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science
Computational Numerical Analysis
Computer Engineering
Programming & Programming Languages
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Whether you’re already in the cloud, or determining whether or not it makes sense for your organization, Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques provides you with the technical understanding needed to develop and maintain state-of-the-art cloud computing and software services. From basic concepts and recent research findings to future directions, it gathers the insight of 50 experts from around the world to present the most up-to-date global perspective on the broad range of technical topics related to cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Witten in a manner that makes this complex subject easy to understand, this is an ideal one-stop reference for anyone interested in the technical aspects cloud computing.
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Internet & Multimedia
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Networks
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A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development principles, ecocultural restorative redevelopment is an emerging method for repairing large-scale landscapes. This book explores how to use this approach to address the long-term, sustainable reparation of the fabled marshlands of southern Iraq destroyed by Saddam Hussein. It reviews successfully implemented and celebrated case studies from more than 15 countries around the world which, either in whole or in part, can offer valuable insight into the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi marshlands as well as other devastated ecocultural landscapes such as tsunami hit Indonesia or monsoon ridden Burma.
• Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Sustainable Engineering
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Written by leading pioneers of Bayesian clinical trial designs, this book explores the growing role of Bayesian thinking in clinical trial analysis. Covering Phase I, II, and III clinical trials, it establishes the basic principles before extending them to specific phases and endpoints. The authors also discuss special topics that span different phases of the process, including the use of historical data, equivalence studies, multiplicity and multiple comparisons, and subgroup analysis. They provide many detailed examples drawing on real data sets. Along with other materials, the R and WinBUGS codes used throughout are available on supporting websites.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Clinical Implementation
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Written by internationally renowned experts, this book introduces emerging parallel architectures, their corresponding programming paradigms, and their bioinformatics applications. Providing two introductory chapters to supply necessary background on sequential bioinformatics algorithms and parallel architectures—such as multi-cores, Cell B.E., GPUs, FPGAs—it then presents parallelization strategies and performance evaluations for numerous state-of-the-art bioinformatics algorithms and tools. Topics include pairwise sequence alignment, multiple sequence alignment, BLAST, motif finding, and pattern matching. The book also covers sequence assembly, hidden Markov models, molecular dynamics, and evolutionary tree reconstruction.
• Embedded Multi-Core Systems
Bioinformatics
Systems & Computer Architecture
Digital Signal Processing
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Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body’s antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite. They can also mitigate major metabolic derangements arising from chronic illnesses which result in unwanted weight loss. Presenting data from human studies, clinical trials, and recent research findings, this work summarizes the applications and benefits of this therapy. The book covers host response, quality factors, protein economics, and muscle loss. It includes case studies on aging, AIDS, COPD, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney failure, and tuberculosis.
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Nutrition
Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
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Emphasizing the use of WinBUGS and R to analyze real data, this text presents statistical tools to address scientific questions. It highlights foundational issues in statistics, the importance of making accurate predictions, and the need for scientists and statisticians to collaborate in analyzing data. The authors cover a large number of statistical models, explore numerical approximations via MCMC simulation, and include numerous exercises and real-world examples. The WinBUGS code provided offers a convenient platform to model and analyze a wide range of data. Code and other materials are available on the book’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Statistics & Computing
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Edited by renowned protein scientist and bestselling author Roger Lundblad with the assistance of Fiona Macdonald of CRC Press, this revised CD-ROM version of a venerable handbook gathers information not easily obtained from any single reference source. It provides basic and updated information on proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates. Presented in an organized, concise, and simple-to-use format, this popular reference allows quick access to the most frequently used data. It covers a wide range of topics including amino acids, peptides, synthetic poly acids, vitamins, coenzymes, proteomics, genomics, and cell biology, as well as physical and chemical data. It also details the properties of commonly used biochemicals and laboratory solvents.
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Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
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