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Exact Design of Digital Microfluidic Biochips

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Keszocze (Author), Robert Wille (Author), Rolf Drechsler (Author)This book presents exact, that is minimal, solutions to individual steps in the design process for Digital Microfluidic Biochips (DMFBs), as well as a one-pass approach that combines all these steps in a single process. All of the approaches discussed are based on a formal model that can easily be extended to cope with further design problems. In addition to the exact methods, heuristic app...

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Report copyright infringementby Wasim Ahmed (Author) Number of Pages: 310 Dimensions: 0.65 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: July 12, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Pengcheng Huang (Author), Zuofei Wang (Author) Number of Pages: 382 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: February 27, 2018

Selected Papers from CEES 2021, the first International Conference on Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (Coimbra, 2021), on the top

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Report copyright infringementby Enrico Zacchei (Guest Editor)The construction sector's carbon emissions drive innovation in sustainable materials and systems. As industries modernize, digital transformation becomes essential. This 2022 Special Issue (SI) highlights sustainable technologies, stressing multidisciplinary collaboration to enhance efficiency, meet environmental standards, and support the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) for "peace and prosperity for people and t...

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Report copyright infringementby Donabel Santos (Author) Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2015

Managing Project Complexity and Risk with Systems Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Robert F. Bordley (Author)This book introduces the systems approach as a powerful framework for developing practical and implementable solutions to complex problems. Drawing on the extensive professional and teaching experience of its authors, the text provides readers with both conceptual foundations and real-world insights into the role of systems engineering in guiding successful projects. Written with accessibility in mind, the book is ideal for incoming gr...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Uphill (Author) Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: July 19, 2014

Autodesk 3ds Max 2017: A Comprehensive Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Sham Tickoo Purdue Univ (Author)Autodesk 3ds Max is developed by Autodesk Inc., provides powerful tools for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, dynamics, and compositing. This enables game developers, visual effects artists, architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists to create stunning artwork. Additionally, the intuitive user interface and workflow tools of 3ds Max 2017 have made the job of design visualization specialists easier. Autodesk ...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Batory (Author)This text is about compositional programming, where programs are constructed by composing prewritten software building blocks. Three modern compositional paradigms are covered, listed in order of decreasing emphasis: A Software Product Line is a design for a family of programs. Each program is composed from predefined increments of program functionality. The Linux Kernel is the largest known product line whose family size exceeds 102000 disti...

Social Networks and Surveillance for Society

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Report copyright infringementby Tansel Özyer (Editor), Sambit Bakshi (Editor), Reda Alhajj (Editor)This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures. Such research results in applications related to surveillance and privacy, fraud analysis, cyber forensics, propaganda campaigns, as well as for online social networks such...

Wireless Networks: Characteristics and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Mdpi (Guest Editor)Wireless technology has become extremely important for human life and nearly everyone carries at least one cell/mobile phone. Voice communication affects our daily lives and we are influenced by day-to-day routine. Wireless systems are being explored for numerous applications in addition to their current communication function. One can only imagine the possible innovations from an area is expanding at an unprecedented rate and offers signific...

Blockchain Technology for Secure Social Media Computing

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Singh Bhadoria (Editor), Neetetsh Saxena (Editor), Bharti Nagpal (Editor)Blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions duplicated and distributed across an entire network of computer systems on the blockchain which makes it more difficult to hack or tamper with. The popularity of blockchain has been increasing with the growth of social media and the internet of things (IoT). Social media are interactive digitally mediated technologies that facilitate the...

Promptism: Fluent Machines, Forgotten Questions, and the Fight for Meaning in the Age of AI

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Report copyright infringementby Sune Selsbæk-Reitz (Author)What happens when artificial intelligence becomes so polished, so persuasive, and so effortless that we stop questioning it?In Promptism, Sune Selsb k-Reitz examines a growing cultural habit: our tendency to treat machine-generated language as if it were knowledge. When large language models such as ChatGPT produce confident, fluent answers, it becomes easy to mistake coherence for truth. The result is a subtle shift in how we read, t...

Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for GIS

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Report copyright infringementby Dieter Fritsch (Guest Editor)The book is dealing with recent progress in human-computer interaction (HCI) related to geographic information science (GIS). The Editorial starts with an overview about the evolution of the Internet and first HCI concepts and stimulates recent HCI developments using 3D and 4D apps, running on all mobile devices with OS Android, iOS, Linus, and Windows.Eight research articles present the state-of-the-art in HCI-GIS-related issues, s...

You Want What We've Got: Big Tech V. Big Journalism

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Whittaker (Author)A sharp history of journalism's digital unraveling in the age of algorithms. In the past three decades, the battle between big tech and big journalism has reshaped how we consume the news. Jason Whittaker delves into how tech giants outmaneuvered traditional media companies, siphoning off advertising revenue and audience attention. As journalism struggled to adapt, social media platforms evolved from utopian public spaces into breeding ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chinmaya S. Rathore (Author)AsciiDoc for Beginners - This book offers a detailed and practical introduction to AsciiDoc, a versatile, open-source markup language that simplifies the way documents, articles, manuals, and books are written and published. Unlike conventional word processors that rely on complex interfaces and proprietary formats, AsciiDoc allows users to focus purely on content creation using a simple plain-text editor. The result is a clean, effi...

Discrete and Topological Models in Molecular Biology

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Report copyright infringementby Natasa Jonoska (Editor), Masahico Saito (Editor)Methods allow researchers to "zoom in" on processes at a molecular level Contributing authors are among the leading scientists in this field Reference for researchers in mathematics, theoretical computer science, mathematical biology and bioinformaticsBack JacketTheoretical tools and insights from discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and topology now play essential roles in our understanding of vita...

Robust Digital Processing of Speech Signals

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Report copyright infringementby Branko Kovacevic (Author), Milan M. Milosavljevic (Author), Mladen Veinovic (Author)This book focuses on speech signal phenomena, presenting a robustification of the usual speech generation models with regard to the presumed types of excitation signals, which is equivalent to the introduction of a class of nonlinear models and the corresponding criterion functions for parameter estimation. Compared to the general class of nonlinear models, such as various neura...

Enterprise-Grade Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies: Proven strategies to digitally transform your business with hybrid and multi-cloud solutions

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Report copyright infringementby Sathya Ag (Author), Kunal Das (Foreword by)Leverage cloud technologies, proven strategies, and effective frameworks to drive seamless digital transformation.Key Features- Understand the challenges enterprises face with cloud adoption and the importance of leadership vision- Learn how to build the foundation for a vendor agnostic cloud-ready enterprise- Discover best practices to architect an enterprise cloud strategy and responsibly innovate with emerging techn...

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Studied Assumptions

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Report copyright infringementby Aayush Jain (Author)Software obfuscation is used in cryptography to transform source code to make it unintelligible without altering what it computes. As a software security mechanism, it is essential that software obfuscation have a firm mathematical foundation.The research described in this book, for which the author won the ACM Dissertation Award, establishes the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectur...

JavaScript Native Interface: Build cross-platform apps with native performance

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Gaitatzis (Author)About this Book In mobile development, there is a trade-off between portability code and fast execution. A new feature of React Native called JavaScript Native Interface (JSI) removes that trade-off by allowing developers to write portable code that executes as binary code on the native device. What You Will Learn This book teaches you how to write JSI code so that you can have write-once, run-everywhere mobile apps that feel like they ar...

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Report copyright infringementby Miguel Dequadros (Author) Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: December 24, 2015

Out-Of-Order Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Electronic System-Level Design

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Report copyright infringementby Weiwei Chen (Author)This book offers readers a set of new approaches and tools a set of tools and techniques for facing challenges in parallelization with design of embedded systems. It provides an advanced parallel simulation infrastructure for efficient and effective system-level model validation and development so as to build better products in less time. Since parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) has the potential to exploit the underlying parallel com...

Magento PHP Developer's Guide - Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Allan MacGregor (Author) Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: July 31, 2015

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Otm 2014 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: Coopis and Odbase 2014, Amantea, Italy, Octo

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Meersman (Editor), Herve Panetto (Editor), Tharam Dillon (Editor)This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2014, and Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2014, held as part of OTM 2014 in October 2014 in Amantea, Italy. The 39 full papers presented together with 12 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a to...

Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation

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Report copyright infringementby Igor Ivan (Editor), Itzhak Benenson (Editor), Bin Jiang (Editor)Back JacketThe aim of the book is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges involved in geoinformatics' contribution to making transportation more intelligent, efficient and human-friendly. It covers a wide range of topics related to transportation and geoinformatics. The themes are divided into four main sections: Transport modeling, Sensor data and services, Intelligent transport ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alfonso V. Romero (Author) Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 0.72 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 20, 2010

Hierarchical Device Simulation: The Monte-Carlo Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Christoph Jungemann (Author), Bernd Meinerzhagen (Author)This book summarizes the research of more than a decade. Its early motivation dates back to the eighties and to the memorable talks Dr. C. Moglestue (FHG Freiburg) gave on his Monte-Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation at the NASECODE conferences in Ireland. At that time numerical semiconductor device modeling basically implied the application of the drift-diffusion model. On the one hand, ...

Guide for Life: Grandparents' Libraries of Life Contain Wisdom for Navigating Today's Tech/AI World

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Report copyright infringementby William Crimmins (Author)Grandparents often think about how they might help their grandchildren progress through life's developmental stages. This is particularly true today as we watch our digital age surround and permeate every aspect of their waking time, demanding their attention all day every day.So, drawing upon learnings from my own life plus 3 yrs of reading, research and analyzing relevant subjects - including social media and Artificial Intelligence -...

Navigating Azure: A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft's Cloud Platform

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Report copyright infringementby Kameron Hussain (Author), Frahaan Hussain (Author)Discover the ultimate roadmap to mastering Microsoft's Azure with "Navigating Azure: A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft's Cloud Platform." This essential guidebook is meticulously designed for beginners and advanced users alike, offering a deep dive into the vast ecosystem of Azure services. From fundamental concepts to advanced deployment strategies, this book covers the breadth and depth of Azure's capabilitie...

Digital India: How Technology is Reshaping a Billion Lives

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Report copyright infringementby Ananya Mehta (Author)What happens when a billion people go online-not just to consume technology, but to be transformed by it?This groundbreaking exploration journeys through the heart of the Indian digital revolution, revealing how technology and society are colliding in ways that are reshaping identity, power, and purpose. From rural farmers flying drones to transgender creators finding voice on Instagram, from WhatsApp activism in remote villages to the rise...

30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build: Build production-ready agent systems using proven architectures and patterns

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Report copyright infringementby Imran Ahmad (Author)Learn to transform LLM capabilities into production-ready agent systems using practical patterns and domain-driven approaches, guided by Imran Ahmad, author of 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should KnowFree with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader*Key Features: - Design and implement 30 proven agent architectures used in real-world production environments- Build scalable, secure, and resilient agent workflows ...