Bøker utgitt av Elsevier Science & Technology

Describes the vulnerability assessment process, from the start of planning through final analysis and out brief to senior management. This book addresses the spectrum of a VA, including negotiating tasks with the customer, project management and planning of the VA, team membership, details for performing the VA and data collection and analysis.

Provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware. This book presents the advancements in digital cameras and digital recorders, remote monitoring via the Internet, and CCTV integration with other security systems.

The rapidly-expanding aerospace industry is a prime developer and user of advanced metallic and composite materials in its many products. This book concentrates on the manufacturing technology necessary to fabricate and assemble these materials into useful and effective structural components.

Focuses on designing with Microchip's mid-range PIC line using MBASIC, a powerful but easy to learn programming language. This book illustrates MBASIC's abilities through a series of design examples, beginning with simple PIC-based projects and proceeding through more advanced designs.

Offers practical techniques helpful for petrophysicists and engineers in their day-to-day jobs. This work features chapters on NMR logging, core analysis, sampling, and interpretation of the data. It covers various aspects of well logging and formation evaluation.

Provides information needed to successfully design and implement any type of wireless network. This title covers various aspects of RF engineering necessary for wireless networks.

Offers a combination of technical data, example code, and descriptive prose you can find anywhere. This book can bring you up to speed quickly on PSoC, from memory management to interconnects. It helps you add brains and capable signal conditioning to a design with one chip, giving you extreme flexibility for a relatively low price.

Presents a description of the field of engine used oils, collected in the networks of services-stations and garages. This book describes the manufacture of base oils in refineries, and mentions the main additives playing an essential role in the quality of the marketed finished oils.

Presents a comprehensive account of cake filtration studies including analyses of cake formation and growth, results of filtration experiments and data interpretation, measurements and determinations of filtercake properties, and incorporation of cake filtration theories to the analysis of several solid fluid separation processes.

Presents the theories and methods supporting models that align a firm's operations and tactics with its uncertain environment.

Suitable for those who want to learn the fundamentals of Maya, how to automate tasks, personalize user interfaces, build custom tools and solve problems with MEL, this work features chapters on fixing programming bottlenecks, advanced user interface techniques and optimizing character rigs.

Provides artists and programmers with an understanding of the way Maya works and how it can be enhanced and customized through programming. This book offers an introduction to the core ideas of computer graphics. It discusses problem solving with MEL (Maya's scripting language) and C++ API, with many code examples for each.

Focuses on "remote" sensing using evidence from cosmochemical, seismic, petrologic and geochemical approaches. This book examines mantle composition through descriptions of mantle samples brought to Earth's surface through tectonic, volcanic and volatile-outgassing processes. It looks at processes that modify the composition of mantle and core.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the field on knowledge management with an emphasis on translating theory into practice. Using everyday language and illustrations, this book integrates theory and practice to provide students with a comprehensive and practical knowledge management skill set.

Presents the proven techniques for fatigue data acquisition, data analysis, and test planning and practice. This book covers the comprehensive methods to capture the component load, to characterize the scatter of product fatigue resistance and loading, and to perform the fatigue damage assessment of a product.

Constraint satisfaction is a simple but powerful tool. Constraint problems are used to model cognitive tasks in vision, language comprehension, default reasoning, diagnosis, scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning. This title provides an examination of the theory that underlies constraint processing algorithms.

This book is a guide to the C4.5 system as implemented in C for the UNIX environment. It contains a guide to the system's use, the source code (about 8,800 lines), and implementation notes. The source code and sample datasets are also available on a 3.5-inch floppy diskette for a Sun workstation.

Describes what you need to know about designing, planning, and implementing an Exchange 2003 environment. This book discusses the requisite infrastructure requirements of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. It describes various deployment topologies and environments to cater for a multitude of different organizational requirements.

Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for 'real time' coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens 'text' to each other day and night. This book looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives.

Details for system administrators the tools, technologies, and techniques by which they can configure, maintain, and tune computers running Hewlett-Packard's high-performance OpenVMS operating system. This book helps system administrators to perform more efficiently and effectively those everyday tasks critical to an OpenVMS system.

Learning Maya, the world's leading 3D animation and effects package, is a challenge. This guide helps the reader learn how to customize and extend Maya with scripts and plugins that take control and productivity to new levels. It includes real-world examples illustrating applications of Maya programming.

While many architects use PHP for projects, they are often not aware of the power of PHP in creating enterprise-level applications. This book covers the PHP version 5 and focuses on its capabilities within a multi-tier application framework. It makes use of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services as implemented in PHP and NuSOAP.

Introduces the theory and concepts behind ultra wideband (UWB) systems as well as their applications. This book is divided into three parts: introduction to UWB, different techniques available, and applications. It also discusses US and international ultra wideband regulations.

Focuses on the academic and theoretical side of the profession in the areas of financial accounting, accounting education and auditing. The articles in this series range from empirical, to analytical, to the development of technologies.

Zeolite synthesis is an active field of research. This title includes XRD patterns that have been recorded using different instrument settings and are intended to conform to typical X-ray diffraction practice.

Suitable for students of secondary school and amateur technology enthusiasts, this book simplifies the process of finding basic circuits to perform simple tasks, such as how to control a DC or step motor, and provides instruction on creating moving robotic parts, such as an 'eye' or an 'ear'.

Describes the challenges of using XML in a manner that promotes simplification of integration, and a high degree of schema reuse. This book also describes syntactical capabilities of XML and XML Schemas, and the similarities of XML DTDs. It presents combinations of architectural approaches to using XML as well as syntactical and working examples.

Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? This book is a practical, how-to guide that prepares you to create and test paper prototypes of various kinds of user interfaces. It includes case studies and images that show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work.