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Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are an important technology for lightwave voice, video, and data transmission. This title covers such key areas as: modeling light amplification in Er-doped single-mode fibers; fundamentals of noise in optical fiber amplifiers; photodetection of optically amplified signals; and device and system applications of EDFAs.

Expertly combining the fields of computer architecture theory and digital signal processing (DSP), this comprehensive, single-volume resource provides everything circuit designers and computer professionals need to stay on top of the rapid changes in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) design for DSP.

Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique.

Incorporating a large body of new work in the field, this work includes the applications of modern missing data methods to real data. It also examines the theoretical and technical extensions that take advantage of computational advances.

A nuts-and-bolts guide to conducting your own professional-quality surveys without paying professional fees. How can you gauge public support for a cause or test the market for a product or service? What are the best methods for validating opinions for use in a paper or dissertation? A well-documented survey is the answer.

Now in a thoroughly updated second edition, Digital Speech covers all aspects of digital speech coding from an introduction to the background, sampling and analysis, quantization methods, and coders through to the recent research in areas such as voice activity detection and speech enhancement.

A guide to spectroscopy and inorganic materials. It introduces the different optical spectroscopic techniques, used in many laboratories, for material characterisation. It also meets the demand from academia and the science community for an introductory text.

Helps students develop skills when designing experiments, generating results, analysing data and presenting findings to academics and referees. This book shows how to present data in charts using Microsoft Excel. It explains statistical analysis showing how to manipulate data in spreadsheets and analyse results using commonly used tests.

This book provides a clearly written introduction to plant pathology. It includes integrated coverage of the molecular biology of plant disease, emphasizing the importance of plant diseases by showing how they can threaten crops.

The title provides an overview of the current knowledge about the diversity of the living world and the various problems associated with its conservation and sustainable use. Covering both the fundamentals of the subject, along with the latest research, Biodiversity presents key conservation issues within a framework of global case studies.

Written in a clear, accessible style, the book starts with an introduction to key molecular biology techniques and considers techniques used specifically for cloning animals and generating transgenic animals. Later chapters examine the diverse theoretical, technical and ethical issues raised by cloning and transgenesis in both animals and humans.

This applied statistics book examines sampling methods from a biomedical standpoint. The authors draw on their work at the National Cancer Institute, helping practitioners analyze real-world health data even with no prior experience in survey methods.

Offers information on sampling, field techniques, stream analysis, the hydrodynamics of moving water, channel form, sediment transport and commonly used statistical methods such as flow duration and flood frequency analysis. This book includes sections on environmental flows, rehabilitation, measuring stream health and stream classification.

Dyslexia is usually considered a disorder of childhood, but many sufferers continue to have problems during adulthood or were never helped in childhood. In the workplace, dyslexia can be the root cause of under-performance that manifests itself in ways other than those typically associated with child dyslexics.

Offers guidance to forensic scientists with little dependence on mathematical ability. This book helps to assess DNA evidence and present that evidence in a courtroom setting.

Offers an introduction to the action that various drugs have on the brain and behaviour. This book covers drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, LSD and Ecstacy, opiates, CNS stimulants, as well as clinical medications.

Demonstrates how entrenched negative thinking patterns and ongoing avoidance can be addressed to achieve significant change in many people's lives. This book is essential reading for any therapist working with these hard to help patients, such as clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and counsellors.

Land contamination is of global concern with many of the world's industries potentially harming the environment and human health. This book takes into account the different groups involved in contaminated land management and offers a flexible learning approach based on practical experience and research.

Warren Buffet has said that investors need only look at his operating companies to understand his investment approach. This book provides them with that exclusive look. Berkshire Hathaway insider, Robert Miles draws upon his own experiences and those of Berkshire executives, to provide a look at the Berkshire culture and its management principles.

Following on from the successful first edition of Waste Treatment & Disposal, this second edition has been completely updated, and provides comprehensive coverage of waste process engineering and disposal methodologies.

This book reveals the results of a two-year study of Britain's child protection efforts. Revealing to what extent specific problems such as parental stress, isolation, and child behavior were resolved over six months through interventions such as group work, parent training, and volunteer home visits.

Bullying Interventions in Schools outlines the existing methods used to address bullying, describing when and how each method can best be applied. Six major methods are addressed: the disciplinary approach; strengthening the victim; mediation; restorative practice; support group method; and shared concern method.

* Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West * Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West.

This revised edition immerses practicing and aspiring industry professionals in the complex world of RF design.

In situations requiring careful judgment, every individual is influenced by their own biases to some extent. With Bazerman's new seventh edition, readers can quickly learn how to overcome those biases to make better managerial decisions.

This reference for German Shepherd care and training includes information on their history, their special temperament and where to find a breeder or other adoption options. Find out how these dogs can be used in therapy as well as search and rescue operations.

Allows you to study plumbing drawings, material takeoff procedures, and typical system layouts; check your knowledge of plumbing mathematics; understand what plumbing installation inspections involve; and, review residential trailer plumbing standards and private sewage treatment facilities.

This highly instructive, informal text that explains step by step how and why you need to tackle maths within the biological sciences. The skills taught in this informative book are introduced using a problem-solving approach that emphasises the biological background of the book rather than the mathematical theory.

This is an entirely new definitive reference work for anyone involved with planning and development. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the "bible" for the planning field.