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The Design of Active Crossovers

The Design of Active Crossovers

Active crossovers are used by almost every sound reinforcement system and every recording studio monitoring set-up; but the use of active crossovers is rapidly expanding. This new edition presents all the updates to loudspeaker technology and crossover design. The edition expands on loudspeaker configurations and design issues sound reinforcement issues more on lowpass and highpass filters and may other filters. This new edition is a must read for anyone wanting comprehensive practical knowledge. | The Design of Active Crossovers

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Scott-Brown's Essential Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

Scott-Brown's Essential Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

A portable handbook that provides a concise summary of ENT surgery based on Scott-Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery 8e. Of practical use in clinics the ward and the operating room this evidence -based resource provides easy access to information on clinical presentation investigation and the medical / surgical management of common and emergency ENT conditions. | Scott-Brown's Essential Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

GBP 56.99
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Active and Programmable Networks for Adaptive Architectures and Services

Active and Programmable Networks for Adaptive Architectures and Services

Most conventional networks are passive with only basic traffic monitoring management routing and congestion control. At best they can be called reactive. Deploying new functions and integrating new standards into these architectures is difficult due to the rigid embedding of software and hardware into the network components. Active and Programmable Networks for Adaptive Architectures and Services introduces a new generation of network technologies and architecture that allows the creation customization and management of new services and applications deployed dynamically into network nodes. Following a brief introduction and historical overview the author outlines the architecture of active and programmable networks discusses the enabling technologies for network programmability in detail and introduces several paradigms and prototypes. He then explores packet scheduling management routing and security and examines active wireless and mobile networks. The final chapter presents several real-world examples of currently deployed active and programmable networks. Several tables present information on different schemes and architectures allowing easy comparison among a range of networking options. Placing the new paradigm in contrast with concepts such as TCP/IP and OSI Active and Programmable Networks for Adaptive Architectures and Services makes it easy to see how these new technologies can help you build more flexible and adaptive networks that can seamlessly integrate new functions.

GBP 56.99
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Aging and Diversity An Active Learning Experience

Aging and Diversity An Active Learning Experience

As the older population in the United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse it is important to understand the characteristics the potential and the needs of this population. In this new and fully revised edition of Aging and Diversity Chandra Mehrotra and Lisa Wagner address key topics in diversity and aging discussing how the aging experience is affected by not only race and ethnicity but also gender religious affiliation social class rural-urban community location and sexual orientation and gender identity. Taking this broad view of human diversity allows the authors to convey some of the rich complexities facing our aging population – complexities that provide both challenges to meet the needs of a diverse population of elders and opportunities to learn how to live in a pluralistic society. Mehrotra and Wagner present up-to-date knowledge and scholarship about aging and diversity in a way that engages readers in active learning placing ongoing emphasis on developing readers’ knowledge and skills fostering higher order thinking and encouraging exploration of personal values and attitudes. | Aging and Diversity An Active Learning Experience

GBP 51.99
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Transformative Education A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning

Transformative Education A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning

Transformative Education aims decisively to transform the world of education and to nurture the next generation to become problem-solvers and creative thinkers empowered with the necessary skills to make this world a better place. It provides practical methods for sustainable integrative and active learning and investigates ‘the why’ behind these proven and effective methods. Discussing the different levels of subject integration in school from intradisciplinary to transdisciplinary teaching the authors analyse their potential holistic impact and knowledge retention effectiveness. With a substantial section on the efficacious teaching of the increasingly indispensable field of critical thinking this book is built up first around a discourse of the intended methodology secondly it also includes a very practical mid-section with direct and meticulously described project ideas for teachers to try out and finally a discussion and an analysis on what effects the proposed techniques might have and how teachers and students could be facilitated in their learning processes by school leaders and administrators. This pioneering endeavour is an important text for education professionals globally as well as for the policy makers that regulate their work. It may also be of interest to parents and to a wider society. Additional digital resource content is available online and includes practical examples explanations and video to help support sustainable integrative and active learning. | Transformative Education A Showcase of Sustainable and Integrative Active Learning

GBP 44.99
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Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations Workplace Violence Targeted Violence and Active Shooters

Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations Workplace Violence Targeted Violence and Active Shooters

Organizations of all types and sizes whether they are a business educational institution healthcare provider or house-of-worship need to plan for the possibility of violent acts that may impact its people assets and activities. Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations: Workplace Violence Targeted Violence and Active Shooters provides a comprehensive approach to addressing workplace violence active shooter and assailant events and other forms of targeted violence. The book takes a unique perspective that the prevention and management of violence in an organization is a risk and business management issue rather than a siloed security issue. As such the book’s objective is to help organizations develop a program for preventing and managing violence that can be integrated into their day-to-day overall business management approach. The main theme of the book is that any program to prevent and manage violence in an organization needs to be an inclusive process: where everyone in the organization is viewed as a risk maker and risk taker and therefore a risk manager. The emphasis is on building a risk and security awareness culture in the organization so that everyone throughout the organization is aware and part of the solution. The book recognizes that many if not most organizations do not have a dedicated chief security officer to oversee the prevention and management of violence. It also recognizes that many resource allocation decisions are made by business managers not the security manager. While other books approach this issue from a security perspective this book takes the perspective that providing a safe and secure environment within the organization and protecting its people assets and activities is a business management imperative. Therefore the book emphasizes the need to promote a risk and security awareness culture that is integrated into the organization's system of management and all its activities and functions. The Introduction section of the book includes a brief description of violence in organizations and the imperative for integrating the prevention and management of violence into the organization’s overall business management strategy. The Framework section helps business human resource risk security and safety managers build a programmatic framework to support prevention and management of violence in all the organizations activities. The Tactics and Control Measures section provides tactical and operational advice and tools on methods to prevent respond to and recover from potentially violent events. For organizations that have adopted an ISO Robust Process Improvement or Six-Sigma management systems approach they will immediately recognize that the elements described in the framework can be integrated seamlessly into their overall management system approach. Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations illustrates a systems approach for preventing and managing violence in organizations that can also be used for managing other types of operational risks. Security managers will find the book useful for integrating security in the organization’s day-to-day activities—as an integral part of these activities—rather than an add-on activity. Security professionals will be able to present their program from a business and risk management perspective. | Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations Workplace Violence Targeted Violence and Active Shooters

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Invariant Descriptive Set Theory

Invariant Descriptive Set Theory

Presents Results from a Very Active Area of ResearchExploring an active area of mathematics that studies the complexity of equivalence relations and classification problems Invariant Descriptive Set Theory presents an introduction to the basic concepts methods and results of this theory. It brings together techniques from various areas of mathematics such as algebra topology and logic which have diverse applications to other fields. After reviewing classical and effective descriptive set theory the text studies Polish groups and their actions. It then covers Borel reducibility results on Borel orbit and general definable equivalence relations. The author also provides proofs for numerous fundamental results such as the Glimm–Effros dichotomy the Burgess trichotomy theorem and the Hjorth turbulence theorem. The next part describes connections with the countable model theory of infinitary logic along with Scott analysis and the isomorphism relation on natural classes of countable models such as graphs trees and groups. The book concludes with applications to classification problems and many benchmark equivalence relations. By illustrating the relevance of invariant descriptive set theory to other fields of mathematics this self-contained book encourages readers to further explore this very active area of research.

GBP 59.99
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History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 2: Modern Development

History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 2: Modern Development

Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises called emancipatory opportunities to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. From the birth of modern psychology in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt Volume Two discusses how the early theories of voluntarism structuralism evolution and pragmatism influenced the modern development of psychology. The importance of making unconscious shadow forces in science conscious is explored through the impact of the eugenic movement the controversies surrounding the development of psychological testing and current research biases in psychology. Volume Two describes how clinical psychology emerged as a powerful profession in mental health care. The Four Forces of Psychology are explored through their natural and hermeneutic science influences. Psychoanalytic and Jungian analytical psychology comprise the first force behaviorism the second force humanistic-existential the third force and transpersonal psychology the fourth force that includes a groundbreaking discussion of psychedelic history and research that could revolutionize mental health and drug and alcohol treatment. Rejecting that science transcends historical events this volume provides a political socioeconomic and cultural context for modern psychology and all Four Forces of Psychology. This book is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology and would also be of interest to students practitioners and scholars of science philosophy history and systems religious studies art and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment as well as those interested in applying the lessons of history to daily life. | History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 2: Modern Development

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History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 1: Historic Roots

History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 1: Historic Roots

Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE–200 BCE) defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers. The Axial Age emphasized seeking the universal connection that unites all humanity a focus not on what one believed but how one lived. This includes the human desire to connect to something greater the totality of being human explained by using symbols the universal language. This volume describes the psychological implications of the Axial Age through the developments of Buddhism Hinduism Confucianism Daoism Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as Greek thought. Rooted in the Axial Age Volume One explores how the Christian and Islamic eras influenced psychology which resulted in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution which provided the historic roots of modern psychology. Rejecting the idea that science transcends historical events this volume provides a political socioeconomic and cultural context for all the historic developments. The chapter on the history of mental illness provides inspiration for a new mental health system with specific recommendations for radical system reform. In the spirit of the Axial Age on the importance of how one lives there is an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises called emancipatory opportunities to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. This book is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology and would also be of interest to students practitioners and scholars of science philosophy history and systems religious studies art and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment as well as those interested in applying the lessons of history to daily life. | History of Psychology through Symbols From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 1: Historic Roots

GBP 44.99
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Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings

Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings

Introducing important concepts in the study of earthquakes related to retrofitting of structures to be made earthquake resistant. The book investigates the pounding effects on base-isolated buildings the soil-structure-interaction effects on adjacent buildings due to the impact the seismic protection of adjacent buildings and the mitigation of earthquakeinduced vibrations of two adjacent structures. These concepts call for a new understanding of controlled systems with passive-active dampers and semi-active dampers. The passive control strategy of coupled buildings is investigated for seismic protection in comparison to active and semi-active control strategies. | Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings

GBP 44.99
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Smart Technologies in Healthcare

Smart Technologies in Healthcare

Assistive technologies for the old and people with disabilities is now a very active field of research. It also constitutes a very profitable market (expected to reach US $60 billion p. a. by 2018). The book covers key aspects of this important field and provides guidelines for developing assistive technologies in smart environments. The book also presents the new paradigm of open innovation used by the most prolific research teams around the world. The latest developments in the field are given. Overall this book will be a reference for researchers practitioners and engineers. | Smart Technologies in Healthcare

GBP 44.99
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Nanocatalysis Applications and Technologies

Nanocatalysis Applications and Technologies

Synthesis and design of new nanocatalysts is an important area of research that aims to introduce multiple types of useful applications in a greener market. The necessity of nanostructuring the active sites has emerged as the key point in a successful design of the catalysts. The book covers the progress in this research area done in the last ten years. It includes the classification of catalysts and structure of active sites at the nanoscale. The book covers examples to present the concept evolution of nanocatalysts from the perspective of chemistry of materials and their applications. | Nanocatalysis Applications and Technologies

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Power Quality Issues Current Harmonics

Power Quality Issues Current Harmonics

Power Quality Issues: Current Harmonics provides solutions for the mitigation of power quality problems related to harmonics. Focusing on active power filters (APFs) due to their excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase) three-wire (three-phase without neutral) and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) AC power networks with nonlinear loads the text:Introduces the APF technology describing various APF configurations and offering guidelines for the selection of APFs for specific application considerationsCompares shunt active filter (SHAF) control strategies for extracting three-phase reference currents evaluating their performance under a number of source voltage conditions using a proportional-integral (PI) controllerPresents PI controller-based SHAF instantaneous active and reactive power (p-q) and instantaneous active and reactive current (Id-Iq) control strategies supplying detailed MATLAB®/Simulink simulation resultsProposes SHAF control strategies using type 1 and type 2 fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) with different fuzzy membership functions (MFs) analyzing their harmonic mitigation and DC link voltage regulationVerifies the proposed type 2 FLC-based SHAF control strategies with trapezoidal triangular and Gaussian fuzzy MFs using RT-LAB a real-time digital simulation software from OPAL-RT TechnologiesPower Quality Issues: Current Harmonics is a useful resource for those tackling electrical power quality challenges. The compensation techniques described in this book alleviate harmonic issues that can distort voltage waveforms fry a building’s wiring trigger nuisance tripping overheat transformer units and cause random end-user equipment failure. | Power Quality Issues Current Harmonics

GBP 44.99
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Biopackaging

Biopackaging

This book examines the whole range of modern packaging options. It covers edible packaging based on carbohydrates proteins antioxidative and antimicrobial packaging and the chemistry of food and food packaging such as plasticization and polymer morphology. Issues related to shelf life and biodegradability are also discussed in addition to newly discovered processing and preservation techniques most notably modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and active packaging (AP). | Biopackaging

GBP 44.99
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Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes methods and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation. Topics include biomedical instrumentation and basic and advanced interferometry. Optical metrology is discussed including point and full-field methods. Active and adaptive optics holography radiometry the human eye and visible light are covered as well as materials including photonics nanophotonics anisotropic materials and metamaterials.

GBP 74.99
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Design of Optimal Feedback for Structural Control

Design of Optimal Feedback for Structural Control

Structural control is an approach aimed at the suppressing unwanted dynamic phenomena in civil structures. It proposes the use of methods and tools from control theory for the analysis and manipulation of a structure’s dynamic behavior with emphasis on suppression of seismic and wind responses. This book addresses problems in optimal structural control. Its goal is to provide solutions and techniques for these problems by using optimal control theory. Thus it deals with the solution of optimal control design problems related to passive and semi-active controlled structures. The formulated problems consider constraints and excitations which are common in structural control. Optimal control theory is used in order to solve these problems in a rigorous manner. Even though there are many works in this field none comprise optimization techniques with firm theoretical background that address the solution of passive and semi-active structural control design problems. The book begins with a discussion on models which are commonly used for civil structures and control actuators. Modern theoretical notions such as dissipativity and passivity of dynamic systems are discussed in context of the addressed problems. Optimal control theory and suitable successive methods are reviewed. Novel solutions for optimal passive and semi-active control design problems are derived based on firm theoretical foundations. These results are verified by numerical simulations of typical civil structures which are subjected to different types of dynamic excitations. | Design of Optimal Feedback for Structural Control

GBP 52.99
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Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology

Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology

The first edition of Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology published in 2003 was deemed the seminal book on pharmaceutical extrusion. Now it is expanded and improved just like the usage of extrusion has expanded improved and evolved into an accepted manufacturing technology to continuously mix active pharmaceutical ingredients with excipients for a myriad of traditional and novel dosage forms. Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology Second Edition reflects how this has spawned numerous research activities in addition to hardware and process advancements. It offers new authors expanded chapters and contains all the extrusion related technical information necessary for the development manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Key Features:Reviews how extrusion has become an accepted technology to continuously mix active pharmaceutical ingredients with excipientsFocuses on equipment and process technologyExplains various extrusion system configurations as a manufacturing methodology for a variety of dosage formsPresents new opportunities available only via extrusion and future trendsIncludes contributions of experts from the process and equipment fields

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Naturally Ventilated Buildings Building for the senses the economy and society

Naturally Ventilated Buildings Building for the senses the economy and society

While there are many historical examples of successful naturally ventilated buildings standards for indoor climate have tended to emphasise active mechanical airflow systems rather than passive natural systems. Despite its importance knowledge about the performance of naturally ventilated buildings has remained comparatively sparse. With ten key research papers this book seeks to address this lack of information. | Naturally Ventilated Buildings Building for the senses the economy and society

GBP 59.99
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Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot character formation and style in the British novel from the 1760s to the 1830s Katrin Berndt argues that friendship functions as a literary expression of philosophical values in a genre that explores the psychology and the interactions of the individual in modern society. In the literary historical period in which the novel became established as a modern genre friend characters were omnipresent reflecting enlightenment philosophy’s definition of friendship as a bond that civilized public and private interactions and was considered essential for the attainment of happiness. Berndt’s analyses of genre-defining novels by Frances Brooke Mary Shelley Sarah Scott Helen Maria Williams Charlotte Lennox Walter Scott Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth show that the significance of friendship and the increasing variety of novelistic forms and topics represent an overlooked dynamic in the novel’s literary history. Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades Berndt’s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to but in interaction with society continuing Enlightenment debates about how to share the lives and the experiences of others. | Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

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Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Extensively revised and updated Planning in the USA fifth edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use urban planning and environmental protection policies this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified defined and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of • education and equity in planning; • the City Beautiful Movement; • Daniel Burnham’s plan for Chicago; • segregation; • Knick v. Township of Scott; • reforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use; • Daniel Parolek’s ‘Missing Middle Housing’; • climate change mitigation adaptation and resiliency; • the drinking water crisis in Flint Michigan; • sharing programs for cars bicycles and scooters; • hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles; • Vision Zero; • COVID-19 relief for housing; • Innovation Districts Promise Zones and Opportunity Zones; • the sharing gig and creative economies; • scenic views and vistas monuments statues and remembering the past; and • healthy cities Health Impact Assessment and active living. This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process the fallibility of experts and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA fifth edition is an essential book for students of urban planning urban politics environmental geography and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems. | Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

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Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation

Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation

Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation fills a gap in the existing literature by providing step-by-step guidance for the design of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers from analytical formulation to simulation implementation and measurement. Featuring numerous illustrations and examples of real-world engineering applications this book:Gives an overview of intermodulation and elaborates on the difference between linear and nonlinear amplifiersDescribes the high-frequency model and transient characteristics of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistorsDetails active device modeling techniques for transistors and parasitic extraction methods for active devicesExplores network and scattering parameters resonators matching networks and tools such as the Smith chartCovers power-sensing devices including four-port directional couplers and new types of reflectometersPresents RF filter designs for power amplifiers as well as application examples of special filter typesDemonstrates the use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools implementing systematic design techniquesBlending theory with practice Introduction to RF Power Amplifier Design and Simulation supplies engineers researchers and RF/microwave engineering students with a valuable resource for the creation of efficient better-performing low-profile high-power RF amplifiers.

GBP 52.99
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