Tabla de Contenidos: “…Temporal Tables; 9.1 The Nature of Time; 9.2 The ISO Half-Open Interval Model…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Nomenclature; 1 Introduction; 2 Coal Combustion Technologies; 2.1 Coal demand and coal reserves worldwide; 2.2 Coal utilisation processes; 2.3 Clean coal technologies; 2.3.1 Particulate control; 2.3.2 SO2 control; 2.3.3 NOx control; 2.3.4 Energy efficiency; 2.4 Carbon capture and storage technologies; 2.5 Summary of Chapter 2; Part I: Theoretical Aspects; 3 Theoretical Aspects of Burning Pulverised Fuel in CO2 Atmosphere; 3.1 Differences between air and oxyfuel combustion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Swift Variables and Constants -- Declaring Swift Variables -- Variables Versus Constants -- Type Inference -- Variable Naming -- Working with Variables -- Tuples -- Creating a Tuple -- Optionals -- Declaring an Optional -- Working with Optionals -- Optional nil Values -- Accessing Optional Values -- Force Unwrapping an Optional -- Conditionally Unwrapping Optionals -- The Swift guard Statement -- Activity: Variable Summary -- Swift Data Types -- Numeric Data Types -- Int on 64-Bit Versus 32-Bit Platforms -- Built-In Numeric Data Types -- Choosing the Appropriate Numeric Data Type -- Declaring and Assigning Integer Variables -- Declaring and Assigning Floating Point Numbers -- Numeric Literal Grouping -- Numeric Type Conversions -- Boolean -- Character -- Assigning a Character -- Constructing a Character Literal -- String -- Instantiating a String -- String Concatenation -- Extracting Characters -- String Length -- Activity: Data Type Summary -- Enums -- Basic Enum Syntax -- Enum with Raw Values -- Activity: Using Swift Enums -- Summary -- Swift Operators and Control Flow -- Swift Operators -- Assignment Operator -- Arithmetic Operators -- Standard Arithmetic Operators -- Remainder Operator -- Unary minus Operator -- Compound Assignment Operators -- Comparison Operators -- Equality -- Inequality -- Comparison between Two Values -- Ternary Conditional Operator -- Logical Operators -- Bitwise Operators -- Nil-Coalescing Operator -- Range Operators -- Closed Range Operator -- Half-Open Range Operator -- One-Sided Range Operator -- Activity: Operators -- Branching -- The if Statement -- Condition Lists -- Optional Unwrapping with if -- The switch Statement -- switch Statement Rules -- The break Keyword -- The fallthrough Keyword -- Matching Non-Scalar Values…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Praise Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Basic Packet-Switching Terminology; 1.2 Historical Background; 1.3 The Modern Data Center; 1.4 Traditional Switch Architecture; 1.4.1 Data, Control and Management Planes; 1.4.2 Software-Based Routing and Bridging; 1.4.3 Hardware Lookup of Forwarding Tables; 1.4.4 Generically Programmable Forwarding Rules; 1.5 Autonomous and Dynamic Forwarding Tables; 1.5.1 Layer Two Control; 1.5.2 Layer Three Control; 1.5.3 Protocol Soup or (S)witch's Brew?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Choosing a Back off Time; 3.5. Gigabit Ethernet Half-Duplex Operation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Biography; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Computational Modeling; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Physical problems in engineering; 1.3 Computational modeling using FEM; 1.3.1 Modeling of the geometry; 1.3.2 Meshing; 1.3.3 Material or medium properties; 1.3.4 Boundary, initial, and loading conditions; 1.4 Solution procedure; 1.4.1 Discrete system equations; 1.4.2 Equation solvers; 1.5 Results visualization; 2 Briefing on Mechanics for Solids and Structures; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Equations for three-dimensional solids; 2.2.1 Stress and strain…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Sidebars; Preface; Where to find Part II and other On-line Materials; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Advances in Real-World Sensor Network System; 1 Introduction; 2 Transport Layer; 2.1 Reliable Bulk Data Transfer; 2.1.1 Receiver-Initiated Bulk Data Transfer; 2.1.2 Maximizing Data Collection Under Resource Constraints; 2.2 Rate Controlled Fair Data Transfer; 2.2.1 Rate-Controlled Reliable Data Transfer; 2.2.2 Fair Data Rate Adjustment with Congestion Control; 3 Network Layer; 3.1 Opportunistic Routing; 3.1.1 Data Transfer Using Opportunistic Routing; 3.2 Data Collection; 3.2.1 Reliable Data Collection Protocol; 3.3 Data Dissemination…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Review of Mechanism; 1.1.1 Development of Mechanism; 1.1.2 Brief History of Mobility Analysis of Mechanism; 1.2 Contradiction Between Calculation and Practice of Mobility of Spatial Mechanism; 1.3 Possible Causes for Contradiction between the Calculated DOF and the Actual One; 1.3.1 Cause I; 1.3.2 Cause II; 1.3.3 Cause III; 1.3.4 Cause IV; 1.4 Contents of the Book; References; 2 A Brief Introduction to Screw Theory; 2.1 Plücker Vector; 2.2 Rigid Body's Motion Expression; 2.2.1 Rotation of a Rigid Body…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication 2; Contents; Preface; 1 Fiber Nonlinearity and Capacity: Single-Mode and Multimode Fibers; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Network Traffic and Optical Systems Capacity; 1.3 Information Theory; 1.3.1 Basic concepts; 1.3.2 Link to optical communication; 1.4 Single-Mode Fibers: Single Polarization; 1.4.1 Stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation; 1.4.2 Nonlinear capacity of standard single-mode fiber; 1.4.3 Advanced single-mode fibers; 1.4.3.1 Fiber loss; 1.4.3.2 Fiber nonlinear coefficient; 1.4.3.3 Fiber dispersion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 1 Wireless Infrastructure; Introduction; 1.1 The cellular infrastructure; 1.2 The satellite infrastructure; 1.3 Challenges; 1.4 This book; Conclusive Remarks; 2 CMOS Transceivers for Modern Cellular Terminals; Introduction; 2.1 2G transceiver architecture design; 2.1.1 GSM/EDGE receiver requirement; 2.1.2 GSM/EDGE transmitter requirement; 2.1.2.1 Power and mask requirements; 2.1.2.2 Phase error and EVM requirements; 2.2 3/4G transceiver architecture design; 2.2.1 3G receiver requirements; 2.2.1.1 Sensitivity; 2.2.1.2 Blocking requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Who Is This Book For?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction to Algorithms; 1.1 What is an Algorithm?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 3 Travelling between Ancient and Modern Worlds: The Language of Themes, Motifs, and Topics -- L'imaginaire somatique du multilinguisme dans le mythe et la littérature -- La thématologie et les actualisations des figures mythiques - le cas d'Antigone -- A Typology of the Pygmalion Paradigm -- Three Labyrinths and One Maze: The Motif of the Labyrinth in European Poetry of the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- Harry Tzalas's Farewell to Alexandria and the Alexandrian Mime in Antiquity: The Metaphorical Language of Cultural Identity -- Retelling the Bible: Jewish Women's Midrashic Poems on Abishag the Shunammite -- 4 The Rhetoric of Social Critique and Moral Subversion: Satire, Irony, and the Green Language of Global Concern -- Magistrates, Doctors, and Monks: Satire in the Chinese Jestbook Xiaolin Guangji -- The Satirical Tradition of Collodi and Pinocchio's Nose -- The Verse Novel and Don Juan as a Vehicle for Satire -- A War in Words: James Joyce's Last Comedy (Finnegans Wake) -- Ironie: Eine Spielart der Satire -- Shades of Green Language: Environmentalism in Contemporary Eastern- European Fiction -- "mal sehen, ob die wälder wieder brennen, mal sehen, ob starke hitze uns entgegenschlägt" (Kathrin Röggla) -- Ecopoetic Elements in the Work of Sarah Kirsch, Ahmed Rashid Thani, and Derek Walcott -- 5 Comparing Aesthetic Styles and Forms: The Language of Individual Texts and Literary Genres -- La langue de la littérature pour la jeunesse : une lecture des Confidences de Médor de Micheline Coulibaly et des Cendres du père de Pius Ngandu Nkashama -- La folie du dire dans « la trilogie » de Ben Jelloun -- Die Ästhetik des hohen Nordens -- Depicting Absence: Thematic and Stylistic Paradoxes of Representation in Visual and Literary Imagery -- Putting People in Jail, Putting People in Books: Author Characters in Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett -- Borges's Pierre Menard and Schnitzler's Herr Huber: Language as a Topos in Fiction -- Bounoure, Effenberger et les « réflexions parallèles » de La civilisation surréaliste ou la sémiotique du surréalisme après Breton et Teige…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 MEC AND THE NETWORK; CHAPTER 1 FROM CLOUD COMPUTING TO MULTI -ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING; 1.1 To Edge or Not to Edge; 1.2 The Cloud Part of MEC; 1.3 The Edge Part of MEC; 1.4 The Access Part of MEC; 1.4.1 Real-Time Data Processing; 1.4.2 SLAs and Regulatory Requirements and Critical Infrastructure; 1.4.3 Network Function Virtualization; 1.4.4 Not Your Brother's IT Cloud; 1.5 Who Needs Standards Anyway?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…NETWORK PERFORMANCE ISSUES AND CONCEPTS -- Putting Network Performance in Perspective -- Balancing Network Performance with Key Nonperformance Characteristics -- Performance Measurements: Speed, Bandwidth, Throughput, and Latency -- Speed -- Bandwidth -- Throughput -- Latency -- Summary of Performance Measurements -- Understanding Performance Measurement Units -- Bits and Bytes -- Baud -- Theoretical and Real-World Throughput, and Factors Affecting Network Performance -- Normal Network Overhead -- External Performance Limiters -- Network Configuration Problems -- Asymmetry -- Simplex, Full-Duplex, and Half-Duplex Operation -- Simplex Operation -- Half-Duplex Operation -- Full-Duplex Operation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…R2 (or coefficient of determination) -- Specific (or residual) risk -- Treynor ratio (reward to volatility) -- Appraisal ratio (or Treynor‐Black ratio) -- Factor Models -- Fama decomposition -- Selectivity -- Diversification -- Net selectivity -- Fama‐French three‐factor model -- Three‐factor alpha (or Fama‐French alpha) -- Carhart four‐factor model -- Four‐factor alpha (or Carhart's alpha) -- Multi‐factor models -- Drawdown -- Average drawdown -- Maximum drawdown -- Largest individual drawdown -- Recovery time (or drawdown duration) -- Drawdown deviation -- Ulcer index -- Pain index -- Calmar ratio (or drawdown ratio) -- MAR ratio -- Sterling ratio -- Sterling‐Calmar ratio -- Burke ratio -- Modified Burke ratio -- Martin ratio (or ulcer performance index) -- Pain ratio -- Partial Moments -- Downside risk (or semi‐standard deviation) -- Downside potential -- Pure downside risk -- Half variance (or semi‐variance) -- Upside risk (or upside uncertainty) -- Mean absolute moment -- Omega ratio (Ω) -- Bernardo and Ledoit (or gain-loss) ratio -- d ratio -- Omega-Sharpe ratio -- Sortino ratio -- Reward to half‐variance -- Downside‐risk Sharpe ratio -- Sortino-Satchell ratio -- Upside potential ratio -- Volatility skewness -- Variability skewness -- Farinelli-Tibiletti ratio -- Prospect ratio -- Fixed Income Risk -- Pricing fixed income instruments -- Redemption yield (yield to maturity) -- Weighted average cash flow -- Duration (effective mean term, discounted mean term or volatility) -- Macaulay duration -- Macaulay-Weil duration -- Modified duration -- Portfolio duration -- Effective duration (or option‐adjusted duration) -- Duration to worst -- Convexity -- Modified convexity -- Effective convexity -- Portfolio convexity -- Bond returns -- Duration beta -- Reward to duration -- Miscellaneous Risk Measures -- Hurst index (or Hurst exponent) -- Bias ratio…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Plenary lectures -- Molecular dynamics-based structural mechanics of buildings' resilience -- Century-long durability of concrete structures: Expansiveness of hydration and chemo-mechanics of autogenous shrinkage and swelling -- Regularized continuum damage formulations acting as localization limiters -- Erection of bridges and shells without formwork-challenges for the computational modelling -- Network modelling of fracture processes in fibre-reinforced quasi-brittle materials -- New damage model to simulate ballistic impact on concrete targets -- Multiscale cement and concrete research: Experiments and modeling -- Fishnet model for failure probability of nacre-like imbricated lamellar materials and Monte Carlo verification -- Phase-field modeling of cement paste: Where particle physics meets continuum mechanics -- Towards a mesoscale model of geopolymers: Interaction potential from the molecular scale -- Nanoscale simulations of cement hydrates precipitation mechanisms: Impact on macroscopic self-desiccation and water sorption isotherms -- Atomistic modeling of early hydration of C3S -- Modeling the evolution of C3S-C3S grain interface over hydration time -- Fracture properties of cement hydrates determined from microbending tests and multiscale modeling -- Testing and modelling of micro cement paste cube under indentation splitting -- An adaptive concurrent two-scale FE model to predicting crack propagation in concrete -- Multi-scale modelling of the mechanics of concrete based on the cement paste properties -- Sensitivity estimation of cement paste properties in the microstructural characteristics -- Elastic-plastic multi scale approach for localization problems-the embedded unit cell…”

“…In addition, the book introduces advanced techniques, including scanning probe microscopy. The second half of the book accordingly presents techniques such as X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (commonly equipped in the scanning electron microscope), fl…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- List Of Listings -- Chapter 1 Basic Concepts Of Recursive Programming -- 1.1 Recognizing Recursion -- 1.2 Problem Decomposition -- 1.3 Recursive Code -- 1.4 Induction -- 1.4.1 Mathematical Proofs By Induction -- 1.4.2 Recursive Leap Of Faith -- 1.4.3 Imperative Vs. …”