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Arsenic Pollution Control in Nonferrous Metallurgy

Springer, 2019

The control of arsenic pollution has attracted worldwide attention, as it is one of the top 20 hazardous substances, and greatly threatens the human health, ecological balance, and industrial development. Arsenic pollution results from natural enrichment and anthropological activities, especially...

Connections for the Digital Age: Multimedia Communications for Mobile, Nomadic and Fixed Devices

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Explores and analyzes past and current technologies and trends in multimedia communication

Digital natives—those persons born in the digital age—have an ever-widening range of wireless-enabled devices at their disposal. They are the drivers of multimedia communications, continually seeking out the technologies...

Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl: An Introduction to Bioinformatics Computing Skills and Practice

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Perl presents an extended tutorial introduction to programming through Perl, the premier programming technology of the bioinformatics community. Even though no previous programming experience is assumed, completing the tutorial equips the reader with the ability to produce powerful custom...

Security, Privacy and Trust in Modern Data Management (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

Springer, 2007

The vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence describes a world of technology which is present anywhere, anytime in the form of smart, sensible devices that communicate with each other and provide personalized services. However, associated with these benefits are concerns with respect to security issues. Open interconnected systems...

Applied Numerical Methods W/MATLAB: for Engineers & Scientists

McGraw-Hill, 2011

This book is designed to support a one-semester course in numerical methods. It has been written for students who want to learn and apply numerical methods in order to solve problems in engineering and science. As such, the methods are motivated by problems rather than by mathematics. That said, sufficient theory is provided so...

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Yale University Press, 2019

A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art

In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy,...