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Guides readers through implementation and deployment of IPv6. This edition offers comprehensive coverage of important topics including router and server configuration, security, the impact of IPv6 on mobile networks, and evaluating the impact of IPv6-enabled networks globally.

A guide to the components of efficient real-time collision detection systems. It provides the tools and know-how needed to implement industrial-strength collision detection for the detailed dynamic environments of applications such as 3D games, virtual reality applications, and physical simulators.

Provides security professionals with a basic understanding of digital technology. This book traces the stream of digital video flow from the computer industry through compression, transmission, display and storage, and explains how analog video signal is converted into a digital signal.

A follow up to the successful "What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters", this book focuses on procedural changes that can be made, not only at the technical or engineering levels, but at the managerial level, to prevent disasters from happening.

For years, paranormal scientists have explored the detection and documentation of spirits, auras, ESP, hypnosis, and many more phenomena through electronics. This book provides information on building practical circuits and projects, and applying the knowledge to unique experiments in the paranormal field.

These papers gather together observations at a macro-social level about the changing nature of lives in Western societies. They examine how the lives of women and men may be changing across countries, as part of a more general process of modernization.

Presents fundamental theory, concepts, and terminology of switching power supplies. This book covers the core essentials of power supply theory and design while keeping mathematics to the absolute minimum necessary. It describes the main switching power supply designs, including flyback, forward conversion, bridge, and boost/buck topologies.

Suitable for internal medicine physicians and general practitioners who prescribe antibiotic drugs, like penicillin and tetracycline that cure bacterial infections, and antiviral drugs used to treat patients with HIV and herpes viruses.

Begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. This title examines four main aspects of the application of semantics to systems, including: how do we infer meaning from unstructured information, how do application systems make meaning as they operate, and more.

Explores TCP/IP networking that can benefit newcomers and veterans alike. This book reflects technological changes, including the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the Blocks architecture for application protocols, and the Transport Layer Security Protocol (TLS).

Covers the various items of ships' electrical equipment and explains operating principles. This book caters for marine engineer candidates for Department of Transport Certification as Marine Engineer Class One and Class Two.

Presents a collection of common-sense techniques which provide quick solutions to your engineering problems. This book offers descriptions on fluids, heat transfer, thermodynamics, seals, pumps, and compressors, drivers, gears, and bearings, as well as piping and pressure vessels. It also covers tribology, vibrations, materials and stress.

Presents Web project management method for building commercial Web sites. This book aims to enable you to closely manage your project's contributors, quality, costs, and schedules. It also details how to define, measure and understand the success of your project on an ongoing basis.

OpenMP is an industry standard for programming shared-memory and distributed shared-memory multiprocessors. This book teaches the parallel programmers how to program using this standard. It presents the basic OpenMP constructs in FORTRAN, C, and C++. It emphasizes practical concepts to address the concerns of real application developers.

Paradigms of AI Programming teaches advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI systems.

Focuses on the Sockets API, the de facto standard for writing network applications in various programming languages. Starting with simple client and server programs that use TCP/IP (the Internet protocol suite), this book helps students and practitioners learn basics and advanced topics including non-blocking sockets, multiplexing, and threads.

Offers a multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies. This book provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines.

A designer's guide to some of the most important topics in analog electronics - such as Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog conversion, operational amplifiers, filters, and integrating analog and digital systems. It examines fundamental topics, such as noise and how to use analog test and measurement equipment.

Shows the engineer how to select, install, maintain, and troubleshoot critical plant machinery, equipment, and systems. This book also includes a chapter on inspections, providing practical guidelines for effective visual inspections, the key to effective preventive maintenance.

Introduces descriptive physical oceanography. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this title covers such topics as: the physical properties of seawater, heat and salt budgets, instrumentation, data analysis methods, introductory dynamics, oceanography and climate variability of the oceans and of the global ocean.

This modern, still relevant text is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and professionals in mathematics, operational research, economics, sociology; and psychology, defence and strategic studies, and war games.

Focuses on the electronics of audio design and explores the principles and techniques that underly the successful design and usage of analog and digital equipment. This second edition includes material on the developments in the field: digital radio and television, Nicam 728, and the Dolby noise reduction systems.

Suitable for mechanical engineers and students of mechanical engineering, this book brings together the data and information that is required to-hand when designing, making or repairing mechanical systems. It places emphasis on the engineering practice and is supported by accounts of the fundamental principles of mechanical engineering.

Intends to bring together the interdisciplinary areas of biomedical engineering education. This book reviews the advances in biomedical engineering research through an educational perspective. It includes topics ranging from biosignal analysis and nanotechnology to biophotonics and cardiovascular medical devices.

"Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" is a complete and accessible account of the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible reasoning under uncertainty. The author provides a coherent explication of probability as a language for reasoning with partial belief and offers a unifying perspective on other AI approaches to uncertainty, such as the Dempster-Shafer formalism, truth maintenance systems, and nonmonotonic logic.The author distinguishes syntactic and semantic approaches to uncertainty--and offers techniques, based on belief networks, that provide a mechanism for making semantics-based systems operational. Specifically, network-propagation techniques serve as a mechanism for combining the theoretical coherence of probability theory with modern demands of reasoning-systems technology: modular declarative inputs, conceptually meaningful inferences, and parallel distributed computation. Application areas include diagnosis, forecasting, image interpretation, multi-sensor fusion, decision support systems, plan recognition, planning, speech recognition--in short, almost every task requiring that conclusions be drawn from uncertain clues and incomplete information."Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" will be of special interest to scholars and researchers in AI, decision theory, statistics, logic, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and the management sciences. Professionals in the areas of knowledge-based systems, operations research, engineering, and statistics will find theoretical and computational tools of immediate practical use. The book can also be used as an excellent text for graduate-level courses in AI,operations research, or applied probability.

Offers information on debugging and troubleshooting analog circuits. This book gives advice on using simple equipment to troubleshoot; and step-by-step procedures for analog troubleshooting methods. It provides proven methods for troubleshooting analog circuits.

An account of the basic principles, developments and applications of the theory of nucleation. It addresses the thermodynamics of nucleation, the kinetics of nucleation, the effect of various factors on nucleation and the application of the theory to other processes, which involve nucleation.