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Immunoglobulin genetics perspectives from species such as sea lamprey, cattle, marsupial, bat, rat, rabbit, and swine are relevant to antibody design and engineering. These new perspectives find direct application in the cutting-edge areas of antibody design, engineering and therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, and novel antibody-based vaccines. Covering significant knowledge that has emerged during the last two decades, this book provides novel antibody phylogenetic perspectives relevant to the development of new antibody-based therapeutics and vaccines.

In this book, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries, one of the industry¿s leading visual effects packages, and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code.

This book provides a theoretical and technical basis for advanced research on visual data compression and communication. It presents the results of the author's research on visual data compression and transmission. Studying scalable video coding (SVC), it considers the fundamental problem to be solved in SVC-motion compensation. It explores directional transforms, extends the current coding framework by visual synthesis and reconstruction, and explains how to apply compressive sensing to solve the compression problems in transmission. It also develops the pseudo-analog transmission for image and video.

Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end.

This how-to guide to intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship explores what constitutes entrepreneurial timber and the leadership skills required to raise all the needed capital. Demystifying the process of founding a firm from scratch, the book provides aspiring entrepreneurs with concrete action plans and detailed guidance written in plain English. Identifying the unique set of characteristics that are shared by successful entrepreneurs, this guide will be especially helpful to those seeking to start new ventures that require a high degree of scientific knowledge.

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Smartphones and tablets have become more powerful and popular, with many of these devices now containing confidential business, financial, and personal information. This has led to a greater focus on mobile software security. Establishing mobile software security should be of primary concern to every mobile application developer. This book explains how you can create mobile social applications that incorporate security throughout the development process. Although there are many books that address security issues, most do not explain how to incorporate security into the building process. Secure Development for Mobile Apps does exactly that. Its step-by-step guidance shows you how to integrate security measures into social apps running on mobile platforms. You'll learn how to design and code apps with security as part of the process and not an afterthought. The author outlines best practices to help you build better, more secure software. This book provides a comprehensive guide to techniques for secure development practices. It covers PHP security practices and tools, project layout templates, PHP and PDO, PHP encryption, and guidelines for secure session management, form validation, and file uploading. The book also demonstrates how to develop secure mobile apps using the APIs for Google Maps, YouTube, jQuery Mobile, Twitter, and Facebook. While this is not a beginner's guide to programming, you should have no problem following along if you've spent some time developing with PHP and MySQL.

This book combines the knowledge, skills, and risks taken by a young entrepreneur with those acquired by a senior entrepreneur. Dr. Harrington is well-known for his work with many organizations around the world at refining and improving their manufacturing and business processes, organizational structure, and strategic planning. The two authors have combined their experiences to define the process to roadmaps that minimize the risk of failure and cycle time required to go from concept to an established profitable organization. This newly defined entrepreneurial process provides a breakthrough in thinking on activity-by-activity root to entrepreneurial success.

This book is the proceedings of the 40th annual Graphics Interface conference-the oldest continuously scheduled conference in the field. The book includes high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics from around the world. It covers the following topics: shading and rendering, geometric modeling and meshing, image-based rendering, image synthesis and realism, computer animation, real-time rendering, non-photorealistic rendering, interaction techniques, human interface devices, augmented reality, data and information visualization, mobile computing, haptic and tangible interfaces, and perception.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This book provides a valuable and informative overview of the field of bioinformatics and statistical methodology. The chapters show various approaches to bias correction and error estimation, as well as quantitative methods for genome and proteome analysis. The text covers RNA-Seq, microarrays, various genome-wide association studies, and proteomics. It demonstrates approaches to bias correction and error estimation and presents quantitative methods for genome and proteome analysis.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) refers to a set of technologies and methods for the mitigation, remediation, and storage of industrial CO2 emissions, the most imminent and virile of the greenhouse gases (GHG). The book addresses the methods and technologies currently being applied, developed, and most in need of further research. It discusses methods of carbon capture in industrial settings, presents biological and geological approaches to carbon sequestration, covers ionic liquids as a method of carbon capture, and introduces new approaches to capturing CO2 from ambient air.

This new book, Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

This new book is the first in the new series on micro irrigation, which offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. Written by experienced scientists from various parts of the world, the chapters in this book offer basic principles, knowledge, and techniques of micro irrigation management, which are essential in designing, developing, and evaluating an agricultural irrigation management system. The methods and techniques have worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

This book discusses the role good governance plays in achieving sustainable development and eradicating extreme poverty in Africa. It examines a number of the roadblocks to development in Africa and analyzes the complexity and interrelatedness of these problems. It looks at economic development from the perspective of human security, with a focus on strengthening the human resource component of African economies to achieve better governance as part of a sustainable development process. The book includes contributed chapters from leading practitioners and scholars on global development.

Penetration testing remains one of the best ways to test the security of private, government, military and corporate computer networks. This book provides step-by-step instruction on how to use tools, available mostly for free, to perform effective penetration tests of today¿s computer networks. Covering basic and advanced tools and procedures, it categorizes tools according to their use within the standard testing framework. Readers will learn how to perform an organized and efficient penetration test as well as techniques used to bypass anti-virus software and capture keystrokes of remote systems.

This book covers topics on the basic models, assessments, and techniques to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) for practical applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban science. This simple and thorough guide provides the information and techniques necessary to develop, manage, interpret, and apply evapotranspiration ET data to practical applications. The simplicity of the contents assists technicians in developing ET data for effective water management.

The book provides a thorough review of current food safety and sanitation information with practical applications of current research findings included. The book surveys and examines the prevailing research and applications and reviews specific operational issues such as power or water emergencies. It also covers food safety and sanitation in various environments, such as restaurants, schools, and fairs and festivals. It is multidisciplinary in that it comprises culinary, hospitality, microbiology, and operations analysis.

This book addresses a wide range of topics, from the principles of evidence-based practice to the process and dissemination of research to unique considerations such as clinical trials, patenting, and health services research. The case for evidence-based practice and a collaborative research culture is made first, followed by a series of chapters walking the reader through the research process by way of the scientific method. One of the more unique aspects of the scope of this book is the inclusion of chapters relating to the dissemination of knowledge, manuscript publication, and how to build an academic research program. Each chapter focuses on introducing the reader to foundational principles, methodology, and terminology, and highlight case studies of radiation therapist research or experience that is relevant to provide contextual examples and inspiration to the reader.

With contributions from experts from both the industry and academia, this book presents the latest developments in the identified areas. In addition, a thorough and updated coverage of the traditional aspects of heterogeneous catalysis such as preparation, characterization and use in well-established technologies such as nitration, ammoxidation and hydrofluorination is included. This book incorporates appropriate case studies, explanatory notes, and schematics for more clarity and better understanding.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This new book presents a variety of important research on functional foods¿foods that have another role related to disease prevention or health. The first section of the book includes chapters on the complicated relationships between nutrition, physical and mental health, and disease. Section two focuses on the connection between health science and food, and presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of functional foods. The book discusses important methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases such as obesity and other prominent health concerns in modern society.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased worldwide in recent decades. Obesity in childhood is associated with a wide range of serious health complications and an increased risk of premature illness and death later in life. This book presents childhood o

The need for economically feasible and multifunctional materials becomes more acute as the natural physical and chemical resources reveal either their limits or reveal the difficulties and increasing costs in storage, transport, and conversion. This reference presents the work from contributors from various fields, of various ages and from different countries, creating a valuable collection of research that will advance the fundamental and innovative techniques of nanosystems and their interactions. The authors cover self-assembly, self-regenerating, storage, and directional properties of intelligent materials. It helps readers respond to the challenges in this field.

This book details original, theoretical, and important experimental results that use non-routine methodologies often unfamiliar to most readers. It also includes papers on novel applications of more familiar experimental techniques and analyses of composite problems. The book provides comprehensive coverage on the latest developments of research in the ever-expanding area of composite materials and their applications to broad scientific fields spanning physics, chemistry, biology, materials, and more.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This book explores recent research by experts in the field pertaining to the role played by genetic factors in human pathology. A range of perspectives creates a well-rounded picture, including host-pathogen interactions, causal relationships between genes and the environment, the effects of environmental chemicals on gene expression, and DNA methylation. The book also covers the analysis and provides models for understanding the epigenetics-pathology connection.