BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: 978-1-4899-6240-9978-1-4899-6507-3

Overview: Examines in-depth global strategies for minimizing the residential carbon footprint, including district heating, passive solar gain, net-zero residences, as well as preserving the communities‘ naturalThis timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world. Drawing on successful projects from London, New Mexico, Austria, and the Netherlands, "Innovative Sustainable Communities" presents planning concepts that minimize developments‘ carbo

Overview: First of its kind (comparative as well as country-specific) analysis of filiation and foster care/adoption in Muslim jurisdictions.High practical relevance for legal practitioners working in the area This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”, which was convened in Beirut, Lebanon in November 2017..Filiation is a multifaceted concept in Muslim jurisdictions. Beyond its legal aspect, it encompasses the notion of inclusion and belonging, thereby holding si

Overview: Describes the future of snapshot photography in relation to technological advancements, consumer business and social practices..Presents trends for the future..The only book available on the changing .From Snapshots to Social Media. describes the history and future of domestic photography as mediated by technological change. Domestic photography refers to the culture of ordinary people capturing, sharing and using photographs, and is in a particular state of flux today as photos go digital. The book argues that this digital era is the third major chapter in the 170 year history of th

Overview: The food technologist who wishes to produce a gelled product is faced with two basic options for achieving the desired effect; whether to use a protein or a polysaccharide. Although a gel can be formed by either a protein or a polysaccharide, the resultant gels have different characteristics: • Polysaccharide gels are characterised by their fine texture and transparency which is achieved at a low polymer concentration. They can be formed by heating and cooling, pH adjustment or specific ion addition . • Protein gels are characterised by a higher polymer concentration (5-10%) and are

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops held.at the 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data.Security, FC 2016, in Christ Church, Barbados, in February 2016..The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They feature the outcome of the Second Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, BITCOIN 2016, the First Workshop on Secure Voting Systems, VOTING 2016, and the 4th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, WAHC 2016..978-3-662-533

Overview: Discusses the current context and thinking on professional preparation of university students.Reports empirical research carried out in Australia and Sweden by the authors over a decade.Tested effecti.Students entering higher education expect their studies to lead them towards some specific form of professional career. But in this age, complex internationalized professions are the main source of work for graduates, so students need to prepare themselves for a future that can be volatile, changeable and challenging. This book shows how students navigate their way through learning and

Overview: Provides a guide to baseband radio design for Wi-Fi and cellular systems, from an implementation-focused, perspective.Explains how arithmetic is moved to hardware and what the cost of each operation iThis book uses digital radios as a challenging design example, generalized to bridge a typical gap between designers who work on algorithms and those who work to implement those algorithms on silicon. The author shows how such a complex system can be moved from high-level characterization to a form that is ready for hardware implementation. Along the way, readers learn a lot about how al

Overview: 978-3-531-11777-5978-3-322-94345-3

Overview: These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book. The authors propose a thesis about the social direction of scientific research which was the occasion of a lively and often bitter debate in Germany from 1976 to 1982. Their provocative thesis, briefly, is this: that modern science converges, historically, to the development of a number of ‘closed theories‘, i. e. stable and relatively completed sciences, no longer to be improved by small changes but only by major changes in an entire theo

Overview: Information on future mortality trends is essential forpopulation forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, andmany other purposes. Realising the importance of such needs, thisvolume contains contributions to the theory and practice offorecasting mortality in the relatively favourable circumstances indeveloped countries of Western Europe. .In this context techniques from mathematical statistics andeconometrics can provide useful descriptions of past mortality. Thenaive forecast obtained by extrapolating a fitted model may give asgood a forecast as any but forecasting by ext

Overview: Friendly with readers with or without rigorous mathematical training.Bridges the gap between theory and practice.Offers examples and analysis from industrial point of view.This book introduces readers to the financial markets, derivatives, structured products and how the products are modelled and implemented by practitioners. In addition, it equips readers with the necessary knowledge of financial markets needed in order to work as product structurers, traders, sales or risk managers. As the book seeks to unify the derivatives modelling and the financial engineering practice in the m

Overview: 978-3-7091-7825-6978-3-7091-7824-9

Overview: A smooth introduction to laser physics and ultrashort pulses at advanced undergraduate level.Shows how to setup laser experiments.Hands-on reference for graduates and scientistsThis book is an advanced textbook for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science. It is the result of a scientific adventure that started in 1991. At this time, the French Ministry of Education decided that, in view of the growing importance of ultrashort laser pulses for the national scientific community, a Femtosecond Centre should be created in France and devoted to the further education

Overview: David O. Loomis Illinois State University The explosive growth of the Internet has caught most industry experts off guard. While data communications was expected to be the "wave of the future," few industry observers foresaw how rapid the change in focus from voice communications towards data would be. Understanding the data communications revolution has become an urgent priority for many in the telecommunications industry. Demand analysis and forecasting are critical tools to understanding these trends for both Internet access and Internet backbone service. Businesses have led resid

Overview: First book to present a unified theory of what a visual ethics might involve.Presents the new concept of a biovisual ethics.Offers a systematic account of the history of the ethical turn both in literThis book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual ethics, offering a new theory of the relation between film and ethics based on the premise that images are capable of generating their own ethical content. This ethics operates hermeneutically and materializes in cinema’s unique powe

Overview: Ökonomisch begründete Entscheidungen bei der Implementierung oder Reorganisation von PPS-Systemen sind für den Erfolg produzierender Unternehmen von grundlegender Bedeutung. Ein wesentlicher Faktor bei der Gestaltung eines PPS-Systems ist die Festlegung der Bevorratungsebene. Ausgehend von einer Analyse bestehender Verfahren leitet Bülent Akin ein Modell zur Planung der Bevorratungsebene in fertigungstechnischen Unternehmen ab, das kostenrechnerische und wirkungsanalytische Gesichtspunkte explizit berücksichtigt. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse werden anhand einer empirischen Untersuchun

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in October 2011.The 15 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The event builds a common forum for research activities in the general area of combination, modularization and integration of systems, with emphasis on logic-based ones, and of their practical use.978-3-642

Overview: A comprehensive text that starts from the fundamental optical imaging concepts.Guides the readers to the most advanced methods in fluorescence imaging and super-resolution techniques.An essential textThis book starts at an introductory level and leads reader to the most advanced topics in fluorescence imaging and super-resolution techniques that have enabled new developments such as nanobioimaging, multiphoton microscopy, nanometrology and nanosensors. .The interdisciplinary subject of fluorescence microscopy and imaging requires complete knowledge of imaging optics and molecular phy

Overview: This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays, the first to focus on the work of Felicia Hemans, includes new work from important critics in the field - Isobel Armstrong, Stephen Behrendt, Gary Kelly, Susan Wolfson - as well as contributions from emerging scholars. Offering close readings of Heman‘s poetry, new research on her reception, and analyses of her cultural significance, the collection contributes substantially to our understanding of Hemans and to current debates about romanticism, feminism, canonization, and the relations between gender, culture, and poetry.978-0