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Web developers and page authors who use JavaServer Pages (JSP) know that it is much easier and efficient to implement web pages without reinventing the wheel each time. This title covers the core elements of the JSTL including the four standard tag libraries (core, internationalization/format, XML, and SQL) and expression language.

Provides a methodology for maximizing speed while meeting other design goals. This book examines the implementation bottlenecks that are most often encountered at 4 disparate levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware, and architecture. It addresses the bottlenecks found in different kinds of network devices, and offers ways to break them.

Illustrates the potential for NP applications, helping to lay a theoretical foundation for the architecture, evaluation, and programming of networking processors. This volume emphasizes research in the areas of architecture, tools and techniques, and applications. It also investigates applications of network processor technology at Intel.

The first title to be published in the "BRAT Series on Clinical Psychology", this book presents a critical analysis of the theories and empirical evidence to date regarding the origins of phobias and anxiety disorders, and the reasons why more women than men suffer from them.

Provides heuristics, rules, tips, and tricks that intend to help readers improve their SQL programming style and proficiency, and format and write portable, readable, maintainable SQL code. This book enables readers to give their group a coding standard for internal use, to enable programmers to use a consistent style.

Endocrine and metabolic diseases are common, includes diseases such as diabetes, thyroid disease, and obesity. Suitable for any health professional involved in the administration of endocrine and metabolics mediations, this title surpasses the Physician's Desk Reference by including clinical case studies and independent expert analysis.

Summarizes the adverse effects of a large range of herbal medicines and the active ingredients that they contain. This book includes extensive lists of the families of plants that are used as herbal medicines, including the Latin names of genera and species as well as the common names of individual plants.

Suitable for oncologists and cancer researchers, this work helps to determine effective drug treatments. It features not only anticancer drugs, but also other drugs that act upon related organ systems affected by cancer.

Metal cutting is an essential process throughout engineering design and manufacturing industries. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject that focuses on the features of the behavior of tool and work materials that influence the efficiency of metal cutting operations.

Shows how to develop robust, dependable real-time systems for robotics and other control applications, using open-source tools. This book demonstrates efficient and low-cost embedded hardware and software design techniques, based on Linux as the development platform and operating system and the Atmel AVR as the primary microcontroller.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities involves materials that may be highly radioactive and therefore require sophisticated methods of containment and remote handling. This book describes the techniques used for dismantling redundant nuclear facilities, the safe storage of radioactive wastes and the restoration of nuclear licensed sites.

Written mainly for smaller companies, this work explains how to achieve the ISO 14001 Environmental Certification. It includes a sample manual and sample registers and procedures. It also covers the developments in the interpretation of the standard, and changes in related legislation, such as the EU's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS).

Provides coverage of different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management. This work focuses on the how, what, and why of risk management, using case studies, examples, exercises, as well as end matter.

A guide to VHDL for digital system modeling. It aims to show how VHDL modeling fits into a design flow, starting from high-level design and proceeding through detailed design and verification, synthesis, FPGA place and route, and final timing verification.

Describes a program of research in computable structure theory. This book aims to find definability conditions corresponding to bounds on complexity which persist under isomorphism. It includes necessary background material from recursion theory and model theory.

Immunoassay procedures (isotopic and non-isotopic) have become one of the single most important techniques in diagnostic medicine. This book is designed as an introductory test for the staff of clinical research laboratories who conduct or intend to conduct such techniques, and is suitable for the clinicians who make use of such services.

Devoted to the foundation of mechanics, namely classical Newtonian mechanics, this mechanics text is based mainly on Galileo's principle of relativity and Hamilton's principle of least action. The exposition is simple and leads to a complete and direct means of solving problems in mechanics.

Describes the structure of metallic nanoparticles, the experimental and theoretical techniques by which this is determined, and the models employed to facilitate understanding. This book examines the science behind the potential of metallic nanoparticles in chemical synthesis, catalysis, and the magnetic separation of biomolecules.

Enables practitioners to assess the adverse effects of the complete range of drugs used in cardiovascular medicine, including antihypertensive drugs, and drugs used in the treatment of heart failure, angina, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and enable practitioners to prescribe preventative treatments with medications.

Presents a comprehensive survey of modern chromatography and covers chromatographic techniques. Intended for graduate level courses in the separation sciences, this book also works as a guide for professional chromatographers wishing to refresh their background in this field.

This volume is mainly concerned with a systematic development of the theory of plasmas, the authority being firmly rooted in the pioneering work of Landau. Corresponding rewsults are also given for partially ionized plasmas, relativistic, degenerate or non-ideal plasmas, and solid state plasmas.

Discusses about high-resolution NMR techniques which find use in the structure elucidation of organic molecules and their behavior in solution. This book presents a large number of examples to demonstrate the utility of the methods covered. It is suitable for students and professionals in a chemistry laboratory.

Examines grid computing from a rigorous business perspective, equipping you with the practical knowledge you need to assess your options and determine what grid computing approach is right for your enterprise. This book explains how a grid-based solution can be made to meet key organizational requirements.

A resilient storage network is an environment where data is always available for the needs of the business. This book explains the components, as well as how to design and implement a resilient storage network for workgroup, departmental, and enterprise environments. It covers storage networking technologies and practices.

Intends to assist the security professional in identifying what systems are required to meet security needs as defined by a threat analysis and vulnerability assessment. This book covers the elements necessary to conduct a survey of a facility and the methods used to document the findings of that survey.

Addresses the theories of sound security training and awareness, and then shows the reader how to put the theories into practice when developing or presenting any form of security education, training, motivation or awareness. This book shows how to establish and integrate a structured, internally consistent and coherent program from the ground up.

There are a large and ever-increasing number of structures and buildings worldwide that are in need of refurbishment, rehabilitation and strengthening. This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the established techniques and their applications as well as coverage of emerging methodologies and their uses.

Presents an account of the chemistry of the elements for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. This book covers the inorganic chemistry of the elements, and also analytical, theoretical, industrial, organometallic, bio-inorganic and other cognate areas of chemistry. It discusses it within the context of an underlying theoretical framework.