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Suitable for software architects, designers and programmers, hardware developers, system testers and network operators - and also for managers and other decision-makers, this work provides a practical look at GMPLS protocols for signaling, routing, link and resource management and traffic engineering.

Presents overviews of the individual areas of chemiluminescence and immunoassay with emphasis on the requirements for interfacing chemiluminescent and immunochemical reactions. This book is aimed at researchers and laboratory staff in the life sciences and also at those interested in industrial applications of the technology.

Focuses on one of the more significant developments in environmental remediation. This title provides an overview on both the fundamentals and applications of ultrasound in environmental protection. It covers such topics as: reactor design, integrated unltrasonic/ biological treatment, ultrasound in disinfection, and leaching by ultrasound.

Covering various types of automobile engines, this book provides a comprehensive reference for anyone studying the way in which modern vehicle engines work, and why they are designed as they are. It deals with a range of engines encountered in production vehicles, offers over 1200 diagrams of individual parts and whole assemblies, and more.

Focuses on the hands-on knowledge that can lead to improved equipment productivity and reduced maintenance costs. This book helps to identify, prevent, and fix common electrical equipment and control circuits. It also provides a tool-kit of skills in solving electrical problems, ranging from control circuits to motors and variable speed drives.

Includes twelve more problems.

Intended for IT managers and technical staff involved in the creation, administration, or maintenance of a data management infrastructure that includes XML. This book provides the guidance for data managers to make measured decisions about XML within their organizations.

Demonstrates how to create and use simulation models for verifying ASIC and FPGA designs and board-level designs that use off-the-shelf digital components. This book illustrates how ASICs and FPGAs can be verified in the larger context of a board or a system.

Features four important reviews of research on alkaloids. This title offers a comprehensive review of the carbon-13 and proton NMR shift assignments and physical constants of diterpene alkaloids and their derivatives. It summarizes advances in the synthesis of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids, a class of naturally-occurring bases and neutral compounds.

Talks about installing and configuring a firewall. This book also helps you learn how to allow access to key Web services while maintaining your organization's security, as well as how to implement firewall-to-firewall virtual private networks (VPNs).

Helps plant, process, maintenance and reliability managers and engineers to develop and implement a comprehensive maintenance management program, providing proven strategies for regularly monitoring critical process equipment and systems, predicting machine failures, and scheduling maintenance accordingly.

This fourth edition contains seven new sections with chapters on general relativity, gravitational waves and relativistic cosmology. The text has been thoroughly revised and additional problems have been inserted.

Shows what OpenVMS and UNIX have in common, and helps you to transfer your knowledge and experience in OpenVMS over to the world of UNIX. This book includes references to VMS, incorporates suggestions, and recognizes other UNIX implementations in addition to HP's Tru64.

Cavitation, the result of insufficient pressure in a pump inlet, is not only the major cause of loss in pump performance, but also of reduced cost effectiveness. This practical guide provides advice on various aspects of cavitation and NPSH, to help the end user to improve all the factors involved.

Presents the practical guidance needed to start and advance a data quality program. This book describes important data quality problems facing the typical organization, and outlines what an organization must do to improve. It contains sections that describe why leaders, whether CIOs, CFOs, or CEOs, should be concerned with data quality.

Provides a practical design guide to design effective and working electronic filters. This book contains questions at the end of each chapter and includes electronic simulation tools. It also presents background information and equations, and keeps heavy mathematics to a minimum.

The ERP implementation cycle is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and a long time-scale. It is about people and issues that affect the business - it is a multi-disciplinary effort. This book offers information that you need in relation to the many issues and events within the implementation cycle.

Covering not only the ordinary theory of the deformation of solids, this book also covers topics such as thermal conduction and viscosity in solids.

Provides key tools for System administrators, Network Administrators, IT project managers, and consultants who must evaluate and deploy open source software. This book details open source successes and explains which scenarios are the most realistic opportunities. It gives the details needed to select these solutions.

Introduces practitioners to the fundamental issues and technology constraints concerning various aspects of sensor networks such as information organization, querying, routing, and self-organization using concrete examples and does so by using concrete examples from current research and implementation efforts.

Introduces multicast concepts, frameworks, and APIs. This book offers an introduction to multicasting. It helps readers learn how to write a multicast program.

Whatever your programming language, whatever your platform, you probably tap into linker and loader functions. This book deals with these deep-seated compile-time and run-time processes. It begins with a comparative account of linking and loading that illustrates the differences among various compilers and operating systems.

Intended for an audience with some knowledge of operating systems such as Windows, UNIX and Linux, this work introduces the reader to the OpenVMS approach. It helps readers learn the OpenVMS terminology and approach to common concepts such as processes and threads, queues, user profiles, command line and GUI interfaces and networking.

Teaches readers the techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types built on Exchange 2003. This book is intended for Exchange administrators and designers.

Dedicated to the field of microporous ceramic membranes with separating layers of pore diameter less than 2nm, this book covers a range of issues, namely fundamentals of complex sorption and transport processes in micropore structures, innovative methods of preparation of microporous membranes and examples of their commercial applications.