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Looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how professionals make these mistakes, and how you can avoid them. This book covers bloopers in a range of categories: GUI controls, graphic design and layout, text messages, and interaction strategies.

Offers information on how to produce a well-integrated pumping station that is reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and free from design mistakes. This book includes: design information, the use of computers for pump selection, references to Hydraulic Institute Standards and more.

Discusses the fundamentals of solution chemistry of mineral/surfactant systems, as well as the important calculations involved. This book presents the influence of relevant physico-chemical conditions, and also the relationship between the molecular structure of the flotation regents of solution chemistry and its characteristics.

Offers solutions to typical embedded software debugging problems from a fresh perspective.

Covers a spectrum of engineering materials which are useful to engineers and researchers. This book contains chapters devoted to direct industrial application and presents some of the important works that are being conducted. It demonstrates real-life applications within industry.

Beginning with MIPS design principles, this book describes the MIPS instruction set and programmers resources. It uses the MIPS32 standard as a baseline from which to compare all other versions of the architecture and assumes that MIPS64 is the main option. It also provides examples of operating system low level code.

Discusses the ontological status of spacetime and the processes occurring in it from a point of view that is conceptual and philosophical. This book discusses space and time in present-day physics and philosophy. It offers an introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time. It features a spectrum of different approaches.

Presents an approach to the design and fabrication of optical elements that are based on the use of one- or two-dimensional randomly rough surfaces to reflect or transmit light in specified ways. This book provides an introduction to analytical methods for the solution of direct problems in rough surface scattering, and fabrication techniques.

Presents review articles on six major topics that are connected by information-theoretic tools and characterized by valuable perspectives and important questions for future research. This volume covers a wide range of issues pertaining to the designs of securities, institutions, trading mechanisms and markets, industry structure, and regulation.

Provides a pedagogical introduction to the various aspects of both particle physics beyond the Standard Model and Cosmology of the Early Universe. This book offers necessary tools to build theoretical models addressing various issues both in cosmology and particle physics.

Deals with the mechanics and modeling aspects of discontinuous and continuous fiber composites and familarizes with the critical and fundamental issues of material processing and transport phenomena in polymeric composites. Divided into three parts, this book also deals with the deformation science or rheology of these filled materials.

Features an integrated approach towards the applications of coal petrology and discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics. This book focuses on the applications of coal petrology to modern society. It synthesises possibilities of the organic petrology as a tool for coal utilization in various applications.

Tuning a data warehouse database focuses on large transactions, mostly requiring what is known as throughput. Throughput is the passing of large amounts of information through a server, network and Internet environment, backwards and forwards, constantly. This title explores critical issues in running efficient data warehouse applications.

Uses a theoretical and pragmatic approach to modelling mechanical systems and to analysing the responses of these systems. This book presents a study of fluid-structure interactions that covers the coupled dynamics of solids and fluids, restricted to the case of oscillatory motions about a state of static equilibrium.

Contemporary portable communication and computing devices need high image quality, light weight, thin, and low power flat panel displays. The answer to this need is the color Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD). This title seeks to serve as a guide to the theory and applications of AMLCDs.

Offers fundamental theories and design principles by presenting physical and intuitive explanations of switched-capacitor circuits. This book discusses numerous circuit examples and focuses on the important principles involved in implementing switched-capacitor circuits for analog signal processing and power management applications.

Covering a spectrum of investigative issues, this work contains practical self-evaluation exercises that can be applied in both a formal or informal training environment. It also serves as a guide for those responsible for the security function without prior experience, that is, Director of Human Resources.

Suitable for those interested in the development of logic, including researchers, students of logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science, AI, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, and the history of ideas, this book includes chapters covering a range of modal logic.

Provides detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the range of modal logic. This title contains the scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights that answer various questions in the field of logic. It is intended for those interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic.

Focuses on the development of modal logic in the 20th century, one of the most important undertakings in logic's long history. This book explores the logics of necessity and possibility, knowledge and belief, obligation and permission, time, tense and change, relevance, and more.

Offers an elementary and unified introduction to the non-perturbative results obtained in relativistic quantum field theory based on classical soliton and instanton solutions. This book also describes vacuum tunneling, u-vacua and the dilute-instanton-gas approximation.

Provides an introduction to chemical thermodynamics for engineers. This book presents the main concepts of thermodynamic quantities such as enthalpy and entropy. It discusses the intricate formulae in thermodynamics as functionally unified sets of formulae to understand their meaning rather than to mathematically derive them in detail.

Addresses the operational and day-to-day security management requirements of business stability and disaster recovery planning specifically tailored for the needs and requirements of an Information Security Officer. This book also provides critical strategies for maintaining basic business functions when and if systems are shut down.

Provides an understanding of Remote Installation Services. This work gives Network and Systems Administrators real tools to manage up grades, program modifications and system and security related tools. It shows how an enterprise can save the cost adding a costly third party software package like Alteris to the enterprise network.

Without sensors most electronic applications would not exist-sensors perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world. Hall effect sensors, based on a magnetic phenomena, are one of the most commonly used sensing technologies today. This book covers the physics behind Hall effect sensors.

In an embedded system, firmware is the software that directly interfaces with the microcontroller, controlling the system's function. This book covers every aspect of design from the system level to the component level, including system timing, communicating with the hardware, integration and testing.

A guide to understanding the fundamentals of lasers, experimental methods of modern laser spectroscopy and applications. It provides information on the fundamentals of many aspects of laser physics, nonlinear optics, and molecular spectroscopy; and issues that are essential to understanding broad areas of physical, chemical and biological science.

Deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements. This work features chapters that offer a comprehensive review of a particular segment of the field.

Presents basic mathematical aspects of the ranking methods using a didactical approach. This book covers a wide range of applications, from the environment and toxicology to DNA sequencing. It can be applied in several different fields, such as decision support, toxicology, EU priority lists of toxic chemicals, and environmental problems.

Aims to give an account of the algorithms for calculating with finite-dimensional Lie algebras; and to provide an introduction into the theory of finite-dimensional Lie algebras.