Handbook of Biomaterial Properties, Second Edition

Handbook of Biomaterial Properties, Second Edition
Springer | Biomaterials | July 13, 2016 | ISBN-10: 1493933035 | 686 pages | pdf | 16.24 mb

Editors: Murphy, William, Black, Jonathan, Hastings, Garth (Eds.)

Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of biomaterial properties
Includes new areas such as diseased tissue properties
Gives updates of existing materials such as alumina, UHMWPE, elastomers, HA, titanium inc microstructure diagrams, degradable biomaterials, composites; scaffold materials for tissue engineering; new surface modification technology; dental implants; sterilization effects on material properties; new metallic alloys and much more

This book provides tabular and text data relating to normal and diseased tissue materials and materials used in medical devices. Comprehensive and practical for students, researchers, engineers, and practicing physicians who use implants, this book considers the materials aspects of both implantable materials and natural tissues and fluids. Examples of materials and topics covered include titanium, elastomers, degradable biomaterials, composites, scaffold materials for tissue engineering, dental implants, sterilization effects on material properties, metallic alloys, and much more. Each chapter author considers the intrinsic and interactive properties of biomaterials, as well as their appropriate applications and historical contexts. Now in an updated second edition, this book also contains two new chapters on the cornea and on vocal folds, as well as updated insights, data, and citations for several chapters.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

43 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

Additional Information

2nd Edition

Topics

Biomaterials

Biomedical Engineering

Biophysics and Biological Physics

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Seed Today - Second Quarter 2016

Seed Today – Second Quarter 2016

English | True PDF | 178 Pages | 55.33 MB

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Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Second Edition

Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Second Edition
Springer | Theoretical Computer Science | March 14 2016 | ISBN-10: 1493928635 | 2389 pages | pdf | 48.84 mb

Editors: Kao, Ming-Yang (Ed.)

Covers a wealth of problems currently relevant in diverse fields including biology, economics, financial software and computer science, amongst others
Presents accessible, updated and enhanced, A-Z entries with useful cross-references
Features examples from growing areas such as bioinformatics and social networks
Ensures a balanced coverage through a top-quality, scientifically and geographically diverse editorial board
Offers literature references for those looking to study a topic in more detailAbout this Reference Work

This dynamic reference work provides solutions to vital algorithmic problems for scholars, researchers, practitioners, teachers and students in fields such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, economics, financial software, and medical informatics.

This second edition is broadly expanded, building upon the success of its former edition with more than 450 new and updated entries. These entries are designed to ensure algorithms are presented from growing areas of research such as bioinformatics, combinatorial group testing, differential privacy, enumeration algorithms, game theory, massive data algorithms, modern learning theory, social networks, and VLSI CAD algorithms.

Over 630 entries are organized alphabetically by problem, with subentries allowing for distinct solutions. Each entry includes a description of the basic algorithmic problem; the input and output specifications; key results; examples of applications; citations to key literature, open problems, experimental results, links to data sets and downloadable code.

All entries are peer-reviewed, written by leading experts in the field—and each entry contains links to a summary of the author’s research work.

This defining reference is available in both print and online—a dynamic living work with hyperlinks to related entries, cross references citations, and a myriad other valuable URLs.

New and Updated entries include:

Algorithmic Aspects of Distributed Sensor Networks,

Algorithms for Modern Computers

Bioinformatics

Certified Reconstruction and Mesh Generation

Combinatorial Group Testing

Compression of Text and Data Structures

Computational Counting

Computational Economics

Computational Geometry

Differential Privacy

Enumeration Algorithms

Exact Exponential Algorithms

Game Theory

Graph Drawing

Group Testing

Internet Algorithms

Kernels and Compressions

Massive Data Algorithms

Mathematical Optimization

Modern Learning Theory

Social Networks

Stable Marriage Problems, k-SAT Algorithms

Sublinear Algorithms

Tile Self-Assembly

VLSI CAD Algorithms

Number of Illustrations and Tables

263 b/w illustrations, 116 illustrations in colour

Topics

Theory of Computation

Electrical Engineering

Applications of Mathematics

Computing Methodologies

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

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A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, Second Edition

A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, Second Edition by David A. Moss
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1625271964 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4,3 MB

Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global Economy

In this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language.

This guidebook covers the essentials of macroeconomics and examines, in a simple and intuitive way, the core ideas of output, money, and expectations. Early chapters leave you with an understanding of everything from fiscal policy and central banking to business cycles and international trade. Later chapters provide a brief monetary history of the United States as well as the basics of macroeconomic accounting. You’ll learn why countries trade, why exchange rates move, and what makes an economy grow.

Moss’s detailed examples will arm you with a clear picture of how the economy works and how key variables impact business and will equip you to anticipate and respond to major macroeconomic events, such as a sudden depreciation of the real exchange rate or a steep hike in the federal funds rate.

Read this book from start to finish for a complete overview of macroeconomics, or use it as a reference when you’re confronted with specific challenges, like the need to make sense of monetary policy or to read a balance of payments statement. Either way, you’ll come away with a broad understanding of the subject and its key pieces, and you’ll be empowered to make smarter business decisions.

Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice: Companion and Aviary Birds, Second Edition

Bob Doneley, “Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice: Companion and Aviary Birds, Second Edition”
2016 | ISBN-10: 1482260204 | 495 pages | PDF | 83 MB

Avian Medicine and Surgery in Practice is an invaluable quick reference resource for clinicians and a useful study guide for veterinary students.

In this practical and beautifully illustrated book, early chapters cover physical examination, advice on interpreting diagnostic tests, and avian anatomy and physiology. Disorders affecting the different body regions and systems make up the majority of the book from the external―skin, feathers, eyes, legs and feet―to the internal including the gastrointestinal tract and the cardiovascular system. Further aspects of avian medicine discussed in the book include behavioural problems, incubation of eggs, paediatrics and surgery.

Written by an expert with more than 30 years of clinical experience in avian medicine, the new edition is thoroughly revised with updated diseases, new and expanded clinical techniques, and over 100 new color illustrations. It also adds four important new chapters: Husbandry, Grooming and Nutrition, Diagnostic Imaging, Endoscopy, and Oncology as well as new sections on cardiovascular anatomy and neuroanatomy.

ENGLISH COURSE • Speakout • Elementary • Writing Extra • Second Edition (2016)

Speakout • Elementary • Second EditionWriting Extra with Answer Key

PEARSON | 2016 | English | PDF | 5.17 MB

Discover the new edition of the award-winning course for teaching English as it is spoken. Using content from the BBC, Speakout 2nd Edition builds the skills and knowledge students need to communicate confidently. Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier. It follows a balanced approach to topics, language development and skills work. Speaking activities are prominent, but not at the expense of the other core skills of reading, writing and listening, which are developed systematically throughout.

Ben Zion Sandler - Robotics, Second Edition: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery

Ben Zion Sandler – Robotics, Second Edition: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery
1999 | ISBN: 0126185204 | English | 445 pages | PDF | 9.1 MB

Robotics, Second Edition is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.

This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.

* Answers the questions: How are machines built? How do they work? How does one best approach the design process for a specific machine?

* Thoroughly updated with new coverage of modern concepts and techniques, such as rapid modeling, automated assembly, parallel-driven robots and mechatronic systems

* Calculations for design completed with Mathematica which will help the reader through its ease of use, time-saving methods, solutions to nonlinear equations, and graphical display of design processes

* Use of real-world examples and problems that every reader can understand without difficulty

* Large number of high-quality illustrations

* Self-study and homework problems are integrated into the text along with their solutions so that the engineering professional and the student will each find the text very useful

Larissa L. Bailey, B. V. Ball - Honey Bee Pathology, Second Edition

Larissa L. Bailey, B. V. Ball – Honey Bee Pathology, Second Edition
1991 | ISBN: 0120734818 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 6.3 MB

Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1982, investigation into the pathology of honey bees has progressed considerably. Furthermore, several different agents of disease, some newly discovered, have been causing increasing concern in recent years in many parts of the world.

The book contains separate chapters on viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, mites, nematode and insect parasites, non-infectious diseases, and the treatment of diseases. The contents are a thorough revision of the previous edition and incorporate much new information, especially with respect to viruses, bacteria, fungi, and mites. Specific organisms, such as the mite Varroa jacobsoni and the secondary diseases resulting from its presence, are considered in detail.

Knowledge of the subject is central to well-managed beekeeping, an industry that, besides producing honey and wax for man, is increasingly valuable ecologically for pollinating wild as well as cultivated plants. Apart from its value for beekeeping and apicultural research, this book will also be of interest to ecologists, microbiologists, virologists, parasitologists, and general entomologists.

Key Features

* Serves as a thorough revision of the first edition

* Focuses particular attention to new materials on viral diseases of bees, particularly the Varroa virus

ENGLISH COURSE • Speakout • Pre-Intermediate • BBC Interviews Extra • Second Edition (2016)

Speakout • Pre-Intermediate • Second EditionBBC Interviews Extra • Video and Worksheets

PEARSON | 2016 | English | MP4, PDF | 611.29 MB

Discover the new edition of the award-winning course for teaching English as it is spoken. Using content from the BBC, Speakout 2nd Edition builds the skills and knowledge students need to communicate confidently. Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier. It follows a balanced approach to topics, language development and skills work. Speaking activities are prominent, but not at the expense of the other core skills of reading, writing and listening, which are developed systematically throughout.

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe (Repost)

Richard Aldrich, “Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe”
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0552151084 | PDF | pages: 923 | 39,9 mb

WITNESS TO WAR is an eye-opening retelling of the war experience through the private diaries kept by people from all walks of life and from many countries. The twentieth century’s Second World War announced its arrival from a distance, and as early as spring 1938 city-dwellers across Europe expected destruction on an epic scale. Men, women and children, most of whom had never kept a diary before, began to chronicle their own responses to what they knew would be a unique moment in world history. The cast of characters represented in these diaries – more than three hundred in number – ranges from politicians, soldiers and spies to ordinary citizens and housewives, from a London schoolboy watching V-1 doodlebugs from his bedroom window to an interned German refugee robbed and beaten by British troops. Many others are famous, and this collection includes rare material from figures such as Joseph Goebbels, Joyce Grenfell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Evelyn Waugh and Noël Coward. It also contains the insights of many who were close to Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Most of these diaries involved a degree of danger and secrecy. In occupied Europe a captured diary could betray friends and relatives to the enemy. Some were downright illegal, such as those kept by soldiers on the front line. More than half a century after the end of the war, these hidden treasures – the voices of the past – are still being unearthed. Many of these accounts languished unread, unpublished and gathering dust in scholarly archives around the world. Richard Aldrich has devoted two decades to sustained research in more than a dozen countries.This is war at first hand described in the most immediate terms, not mediated through the voice of peripheral observers or shaded by fading memory or political allegiances.

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ENGLISH COURSE • Speakout • Intermediate • Writing Extra • Second Edition (2016)

Speakout • Intermediate • Second EditionWriting Extra with Answer Key

PEARSON | 2016 | English | PDF | 3.89 MB

Discover the new edition of the award-winning course for teaching English as it is spoken. Using content from the BBC, Speakout 2nd Edition builds the skills and knowledge students need to communicate confidently. Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier. It follows a balanced approach to topics, language development and skills work. Speaking activities are prominent, but not at the expense of the other core skills of reading, writing and listening, which are developed systematically throughout.

American Atheist - Second Quarter 2016

American Atheist – Second Quarter 2016
English | 48 pages | True PDF | 7,9 MB

Introducing Geology: A Guide to the World of Rocks, Second Edition

Introducing Geology: A Guide to the World of Rocks, Second Edition (Introducing Earth and Environmental ciences)by Graham Park
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1906716218 | 144 pages | EPUB | 12,6 MB

This introductory book explains in simple terms what geology can tell us about the world. Many objects of great beauty which excite our curiosity, such as crystals or fossils, are to be found by examining rocks. Those searching for and examining such objects gain much more by knowing how and when they originated. Fossils, while interesting in themselves, tell us from their context in geological time of biological evolution, and these clues give an insight into the origins of life on Earth. Copiously illustrated, this second edition of Introducing Geology is for those whose interest in geology has been awakened. It is also an ideal primer for those considering taking a course in Earth Science. Technical terms are kept to a minimum and are explained in a glossary. [Subject: Geology, Natural Science]

Vasant C. Joshi - E-Finance: The Future is Here, Second Edition [Repost]

Vasant C. Joshi – E-Finance: The Future is Here, Second Edition
2010 | ISBN: 8132102452 | English | 212 pages | PDF | 12 MB

The Second Edition of E-Finance exhorts the Indian banking industry to use their post-crisis advantages like safe business practices, technology competence, and lower costs to attract business from overseas customers. V.C. Joshi considers not only the planning aspect, but also the process of e-banking. He discusses the internet business model that banks can adhere to and examines the working of e-banking, e-insurance, e-broking, and the development of alternate systems of trading in areas like treasuries and foreign exchange. The security aspects are discussed exhaustively and the author highlights the difficulties in enforcing claims through the judicial. The book is enriched with many recent examples.

Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems, Second Edition

Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni, “Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems, Second Edition”
2009 | ISBN-10: 1439808759 | 564 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Based on the author’s more than 25 years of teaching experience, Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems, Second Edition covers the most important classes of stochastic processes used in the modeling of diverse systems, from supply chains and inventory systems to genetics and biological systems. For each class of stochastic process, the text includes its definition, characterization, applications, transient and limiting behavior, first passage times, and cost/reward models. Along with reorganizing the material, this edition revises and adds new exercises and examples. New to the second edition: a new chapter on diffusion processes that gives an accessible and non-measure-theoretic treatment with applications to finance; a more streamlined, application-oriented approach to renewal, regenerative, and Markov regenerative processes; and, two appendices that collect relevant results from analysis and differential and difference equations. Rather than offer special tricks that work in specific problems, this book provides thorough coverage of general tools that enable the solution and analysis of stochastic models. After mastering the material in the text, students will be well-equipped to build and analyze useful stochastic models for various situations. A collection of MATLAB[registered]-based programs can be downloaded from the author’s website and a solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.