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Written by the leading names in this field, this book covers the technical properties, fabrication details, measurement results and applications of three-dimensional silicon radiation sensors. It explains the essential features of silicon particle detectors, interactions of radiation with matter, radiation damage effects, and micro-fabrication.

This two-volume set of introductory textbooks are the first exclusively devoted to radio astronomy, and the telescopes, observation methods, and astrophysical processes that furnish this exciting field. The set enables instructors to pick and choose topics from the two volumes that best fit their courses.

This undergraduate textbook presents an extensive introduction to the astrophysical processes that enable radio astronomy. It discusses the physical phenomena that give rise to radio emissions, presenting examples of astronomical objects, and illustrating how the physical parameters of astronomical sources can be obtained from radio observations.

Understanding Victim Response to Interpersonal Violence provides direct, accessible information for criminal justice personnel 'in the trenches' with the victims.

Musielak-Orlicz spaces came under a new light when applications to electrorheological hydrodynamics forced the particular case of the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces into the center stage.

Combining theory and practice, this is a comprehensive analysis of suffocation, asphyxiation, and neck pressure deaths.

The ever-increasing number of food products and preservation techniques creates a great demand for an up to date handbook that will facilitate understanding of the methods, technology, and science involved in the manipulation of these conventional and sophisticated preservation methods. Extensively revised, reorganized, and expanded from 43 to 66 chapters, the Handbook of Food Preservation, Third Edition, remains the definitive resource on food preservation. An entirely new section is devoted to issues related to and that impact food preservation, including biotechnology, food security and sustainability, food labeling and food laws and regulations.

Analysis and design of optical/photonic systems call for applications of principles of optics of varying degrees of approximation at different stages. This book is designed to provide adequate material for 'self-learning' and also act as a handy reference for the students of related Masters and Doctoral courses.

Written in a unique and innovative style, and including video links and plentiful images, this book presents pediatric surgery in an interactive clinical context. Each chapter is built upon a specific disease, beginning with a typical case, presented interactively, just as it would be in encountered in clinical practice.

This second edition of Fundamentals of Ceramics adds a section on density functional theory calculations for shedding light on properties. It also adds more on applications, including solid oxide fuel cells as a case study and a major overhaul of the last chapter on optical properties.

This book covers all important, new and conventional aspects of building electrical systems, power distribution, lighting, transformers and rotating electric machines, wiring and building installations.

The Renewable Energy Systems: Fundamentals and Source Characteristics is a set book coming in two volumes. The first volume is "Fundamentals and Source Characteristics of Renewable Energy Systems and the second volume is called "Energy Storage, Grid Integration, Energy Economics and the Environment".

The textbook provides a comprehensive overview of smart grids, their role in the development of electricity systems, as well as issues and problems related to smart grid evolution, operation, management, control, protection, entities, and components.

This book is a well-recognized and leading guidebook on High Performance Computing for a broad audience of readers from industry and academia. The new edition is completely reorganized and updated to include the latest research in HPC. A new introductory chapter and a new chapter on accelerated computing have been added to the book to keep pace with recent advances.

Unlike other textbooks that provide sequential studies on various types of processing, this book entails a problem-oriented approach, focusing on the product rather than the operation.

This new edition reflects the dramatic changes that have taken place across the world in higher education in the decade since the first was published, and addresses how they specifically impact international education and inform the role of senior international officer today.

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy is a cutting-edge collection of empirical research conducted by top scholars focusing on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), and offering a direct contribution to second language pedagogy by closing the gap between research and practice.

Clinical trials require strategic thinking and innovative methods since some traditional methods are not adequate for the 21st century.To solve these problems requires good methodological skills, but also an in-depth knowledge of the practical problems we are dealing with and a strategic vision of the pig picture.

Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful tension in considering one's own practices, policies and beliefs.

The first portion of the book is on the algorithms. The second portion of the book is about applications, covering some of the major areas like computational imaging, medical imaging, biomedical signal processing and machine learning. The concentration of this book is on algorithms and applications.

In Populism and Passions, twleve scholars engage with discourse analysis, democratic theory, and post structural political thought to study the political logic of passion for contemporary populism.

In Populism and Passions, twleve scholars engage with discourse analysis, democratic theory, and post structural political thought to study the political logic of passion for contemporary populism.

Andrea Catanzaro's new theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes' lesser known works against the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.

Rooted deep in the literature on both public policy and semiotics, Christopher L. Atkinson evaluates several key areas of public policy that are heavily dependent on narrative, naming, sign, and branding to create meaning.

Based on the observation of economic reality, this book provides for the foundations of a new structure of national payment systems. It will challenge policy makers and professionals and lead them on a thought-provoking journey through the realm of macroeconomics.

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology on relative and relational sociocultural positions, Mu and Pang assess how historical, contemporary, and ongoing changes across social spaces of family, school, and community come to shape the intergenerational educational, cultural, and social reproduction of Chinese diasporic populations.

Psychological Aspects of Sport-Related Concussions is the first book to set out the psychological effects of the injury and the sport psychologist's role in concussion prevention and rehabilitation. It offers a global understanding and is crucial reading for any upper-level student, researcher, sport scientist, coach or allied health professional.