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Covering topics such as Adsense, access to information, location services, YouTube, Android, and hardware, this short student-friendly book will explore the history, business model, cultural impact, and future of the ubiquitous search engine.

This book focuses on how the interests of corporations and governments to embrace a "new economy" have served to drive the development and uptake of mobile/ubiquitous media.

Provides a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families.

Traditionally, computer programming skills have rarely been emphasized during the education and training of medical physicists, meaning that many individuals enter the workplace without the ability to solve real-world clinical problems.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on world¿s oceans.

Multiple Imputation of Missing Data in Practice: Basic Theory and Analysis Strategies provides a comprehensive introduction to the multiple imputation approach to missing data problems that are often encountered in data analysis.

Designed for researchers primarily interested in what their data are revealing, this book presents statistical methods without burdening readers with matrix algebra and calculus. The book shows how high resolution, publication-ready graphics associated with regression and ANOVA methods are produced with virtually no effort by the SAS user.

For social scientists, it is often confusing how to determine when missing data is a problem in analyses and how to handle it. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the available methods, focusing on which method should be used for specific problems. It features numerous real and simulated data examples to illustrate how the methods can be applied once the appropriate technique has been determined. It also includes exercises, computer-based problems, and suggestions for further reading. R code and the data sets are available on the book¿s website.

This book sets out the basis and provides a state-of-the-art review of the mechanical and physical properties of UHPFRCs and measurement methods. It highlights the differences between the various UHPFRCs available worldwide, giving guidance on the design of sustainable mixes making ample use of supplementary cementing materials and local components. The environmental assessment of construction systems using UHPFRC is also examined.

Beginning with a thorough discussion of electromagnetics, the book achieves two primary objectives. First, the book develops an understanding of electric and magnetic fields so that readers can connect the structure of electromagnetic fields to circuit structures and their lumped element models. Second, it allows the user to gain sufficient facility with electromagnetic waves to appreciate phenomena associated with waves traveling in circuits and on printed circuit boards such as reflection, transmission, dispersion, and loss.

This cross-disciplinary field utilizes the strange effects of quantum mechanics to enable information processing and computing that would be impossible on traditional 'classical' computers. The field has developed rapidly over the last few years due in part to its tremendous technological potential. The theoretical foundations of the subject are clearly established and good textbooks are available. However, many experimental directions are under investigation and hardly any book describing them is available on the market. Quantum cryptography, for example, has already evolved to marketable devices. Most of the books on quantum information and/or quantum computing address the important aspect of optical implementation only briefly. This book solves that by focusing on all light-based approaches to quantum computing.

Flexible bronchoscopy is one of the most exciting and challenging procedures in respiratory medicine today. This unique and comprehensive atlas by an expert practitioner provides an innovative pictorial guide to this procedure. The book is invaluable to those training in respiratory medicine as well as specialist respiratory nurses and practicing pulmonologists who wish to expand their practice and knowledge of the technique. It guides readers through the range of anatomical and pathological possibilities and provides step-by-step instructions for bronchoscopic techniques, interpretation of images, and differential diagnoses.

Emphasizing the finite difference approach for solving differential equations, this revised and updated edition presents a methodology for systematically constructing individual computer programs. The text provides accessible, accurate solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems. Each chapter includes objectives, a discussion of a representative application, and an outline of special features. Chapters conclude with a list of tasks students should be able to complete after reading the chapter-perfect for use as a study guide or for review. In addition, all computer code has been updated to reflect Fortran 95/2003.

Quick changeovers are critical for organizations that want to implement just-in-time or one-piece flow production, since it makes it possible to switch operations and avoid making non-value-added steps for the patient. The Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) system is one of the most effective approaches for shortening changeover time and reducing wasteful activities. Part of the Lean Tools in Healthcare series, this book will improve understanding of this tool. Presented in practical terms, this book, through the use of margin assists, defines key terms, includes healthcare examples, and supplies detailed how-to instructions.

The book fills a void as a textbook with hands-on laboratory exercises designed for biomedical engineering undergraduates in their senior year or the first year of graduate studies specializing in electrical aspects of bioinstrumentation.

With expanded sections and added photographs and illustrations, this second edition reference demonstrates and explains many neuropathologic findings to help investigators of sudden and unexpected death integrate their own findings into the total case context. This new edition features more in-depth discussion of the subject matter, atlas photos, expanded discussion of natural disease topics, new sections on how and why to examine the central nervous system, and new information on normal human neuroanatomy. With more photomicrographs included to aid in histopathology, this book includes 300 new images among its 750 color photographs.

This is a complete guide to quasicrystals and next generation materials based on aperiodically ordered designs with potential uses in high performance technological devices. It is an ideal introductory book for graduates, senior scientists, and researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science & engineering.

Using social equity theory and intersectionality but written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates some of the ways in which LGBTQ citizens have been marginalized for their identity, and argues that the field of public administration has a unique responsibility to prioritize social equity.

This book presents PLS-SEM as a useful practical statistical toolbox that can be used for estimating many different types of research models. In so doing, the authors provide the necessary technical prerequisites and theoretical treatment of various aspects of PLS-SEM prior to practical applications.

This book presents the historical, legal, and social aspects of female criminals and their offenses. It focuses mainly on the United States but also discusses female criminality around the world. It explores the treatment and experiences of female criminals within the context of the social, legal, and criminal justice systems in which they operate. Chapters highlight sociodemographic characteristics, explore myth and legends about notorious female criminals, and discuss the impact of drugs on criminality. The book also discusses gender-specific crimes, and issues related to apprehension and processing.

This book introduces factor analysis methods for the study of multivariate stochastic processes whose structure evolves over time. It introduces the theory of factor analysis and evolutionary stochastic processes and combines that to study evolutionary factor models. The book includes many real examples to illustrate applications from such fields as macroeconomics, finance, neuroscience, communication, and psychology. MATLAB® and R code is included throughout the book for implementation of the methods.

Provides a comprehensive methodological overview of systems analysis (modelling/simulation/quantitative analysis) of livestock systems. It places the method of systems analysis into the epistemological context of livestock science.

Accelerated life tests (ALTs) have become an indispensable tool for reliability engineers to quantify a product's reliability, and for product managers to make product release decisions. However, there are many common misuses of ALTs and misinterpretations of their results. This book provides a framework for the proper design and analysis of ALTs. It compares ALTs with other industrial testing experiments, and provides guidance on their appropriate application. It features lots of examples using real data from industrial experiments, and provides statistical software for their implementation. It can be used as a textbook for students of reliability, or as a reference for practitioners

This book encapsulates the analysis and design of buried gravity flow conduits, including pipe materials and soil materials and their interaction. These range from traditional pipes to open bottom concrete and corrugated metal culverts with long spans, and include culverts, storm drains, sewers, and buried bridges.

Infrastructure needs monitoring, especially when it is sophisticated. Structural Health Monitoring delivers an abundance of information for life cycle assessment, maintenance planning and early warning.This graduate level textbook and professional guide provides an introduction to the more basic and system identification methods of SHM. Both parametric and non-parametric methods are formulated in the time or frequency domain. It also covers state and parameter identification, the task of identifying behavior that lies beyond the usual scope of the elastic region, and non-stationarity. All methods are demonstrated using Python, and example code is provided for the featured examples.