Автор: Robert Horonjeff, Francis McKelvey, William Sproule, Seth Young
Издательство: MgH Professional
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0071446419
Количество страниц: 688
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic text offers definitive guidance on every aspect of planning, design, engineering, and renovating airports and terminals. Planning and Design of Airports, Fifth Edition, includes complete coverage of the latest aircraft and air traffic management technologies, passenger processing technologies, computer-based analytical and design models, new guidelines for estimating required runway lengths and pavement thicknesses, current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, and more.
Автор: James P.Terry
Издательство: Springer Verlag
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0387715428
Количество страниц: 210
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book provides an in-depth analysis of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, discussing both the characteristics and behaviors of tropical cyclones, and ...
Автор: Andrea Prencipe, Andrew Davies, A.J.Wells
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0199263221
Количество страниц: 374
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Over the past decade of so, systems integration has become a key factor in the operations, strategy and competitive advantage of major corporations in a wide variety of sectors (i.e. computing, automotive, telecommunications, military systems and aerospace). Systems integration is a strategic task that pervades business management not only at the technical level but also at the management and strategic levels. This book shows bow and why this new kind of systems integration has evolved into an emerging model of industrial organization whereby firms, and groups of firms join together different types of knowledge, skill and activity, as well as hardware, software and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace. This book is the first to systematically explore systems integration from a business and innovation perspective. Contributors delve deeply into the nature, dimensions and dynamics of the new systems integration, deploying research and analytical techniques from a wide variety of disciplines including the theory of the firm, the history of technology, industrial organization, regional studies, strategic management, and innovation studies. This wealth of research capability provides deep insights into the new model of systems integration and supports this with an abundance of empirical evidence. The book is organized in three main parts. The first part focuses on the history of systems integration. Contributors trace the early history of systems integration using different industrial examples. The second part presents theoretical and analytical aspects of systems integration. Contributions concentrate on the regulatory and cognitive features of systems integration, the relationships between systems integration and regional competitive advantage, and the way in which systems integration supports the competitive advantage of firms. The third part takes industry and firm-level approaches. Contributions focus on different sectors and highlight the specificity of systems integration in various industrial domains, stressing its importance for systems integration in the case of complex capital goods, such as aircraft and telecommunications equipment as well as consumer goods, such as personal computers and automobiles.
Автор: Alessandro Bazzi
Издательство: Intech
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 9533070919
Количество страниц: 722
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
In the last decades the restless evolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) brought to a deep transformation of our habits. The growth of the Internet and the advances in hardware and software implementations modified our way to communicate and to share information. Although conceived for study and working scopes, the presence of ICT infrastructures and services are now pervasive in our life. Their availability is felt as a need that cannot be constrained to a place: people want to have them anytime, anywhere. And the need for wireless connections starts from daily communication and embraces all fields of human life, in an ever increasing way: transportation systems, home management, healthcare, emergency operations. This brought to the large interest and great evolution that characterized radio technologies in the last years all over the world. Since the development of the first wireless systems, great technological advances were performed: spread spectrum and multi-carrier techniques allowed to make transmissions over larger bandwidths with higher data rates for the final users in challenging scenarios where line of sight is not guaranteed and multipath severely affects signal propagation; new coding techniques were developed to increase the efficiency of radio transmissions; advanced link adaptation and power control algorithms were implemented in order to allow optimized trade-off between reliability and data rate; and many other topics shall be cited.
Автор: Min Zhuo
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 7040189542
Количество страниц: 486
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The initial idea for this book came from Dr. Li Bingxiang at Higher Education Press during an international symposium in beautiftil southern China. Unlike traditional textbooks on pain, she proposed I write a new book that included recent progress in the neurobiology of pain. This idea revived my long-term interest in editing a book on molecular pain.
Автор: V.Courtillot
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 0521583926
Количество страниц: 173
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Originally published in France in 1995, this slim volume by a professor of geology at the University of Paris attempts to explain the causes of mass extinctions that have occurred over the past 300 million years. Courtillot does a superb job of presenting evidence for and against the two most likely factors: collisions of large asteroids with the earth and extensive volcanic activity. Although the popular belief is that asteroids are responsible, Courtillot argues persuasively that all available data are more consistent with the volcanic theory. Indeed, seven of the world's mass extinctions occurred when volcanic activity was at its peak, while only one, the extinction that took place 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, among many other species, appears to have coincided with the impact of a major asteroid. Courtillot also discusses the personalities of some of the leading figures on both sides of the debate, as well as the nature of science. The book is fairly technical, however, so its appeal to a general readership may be limited.
Автор: Jacek J.Skrzypek
Издательство: Springer Verlag
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 364212058X
Количество страниц: 279
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book provides at first ideas on the answers that neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation could give in innovative materials science and technology. In particular, non-conventional, unusual or innovative neutron and x-ray scattering experiments (from both the scientific and the instrumental point of view) will be described which either have novel applications or provide a new insight into material science and technology. Moreover, a capability of the existing and the enhanced constitutive models and numerical procedures to predict complex behaviour of the novel multifunctional materials is examined.
Автор: Richard Owusu-Apenten
Издательство: CRC Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1439813639
Количество страниц: 416
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Weight loss is a common reaction to infection, injury, or chronic disease. Many well-known host responses to illness contribute to muscle loss. Ensuring adequate lean body mass is of major concern in health care. Bioactive peptides and medical foods represent new approaches for addressing the metabolic derangements and nutritional defi cits that contribute to unwanted weight loss. This book describes the latest research on the application of bioactive peptides for improving nutrition and health. We present the background science in Chapters 1 through 5 on the relations between illness and muscle weight loss. Chapters 6 through 9 deal with the use of bioative peptides to modify aspects of the host response to illness, including infl ammation, antimicrobial activity, anabolic dysfunction, and anorexia.
Автор: J.A.Zalasiewicz
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0199214972
Количество страниц: 251
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader on a fascinating trip one hundred million years into the future--long after the human race becomes extinct--to explore what will remain of our brief but dramatic sojourn on Earth. He describes how geologists in the far future might piece together the history of the planet, and slowly decipher the history of humanity from the traces we will leave impressed in the rock strata. What story will the rocks tell of us? What kind of fossils will humans leave behind? What will happen to cities, cars, and plastic cups? The trail leads finally to the bones of the inhabitants of petrified cities that have slept deep underground for many millions of years. As thought-provoking as it is engaging, this book simultaneously explains the geological mechanisms that shape our planet, from fossilization to plate tectonics, illuminates the various ingenious ways in which geologists and paleontologist work, and offers a final perspective on humanity and its actions that may prove to be more objective than any other.
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