The twelfth edition of Design of Concrete Structures contains balanced coverage of important topics and is filled with applications that impart an "engineering" flavor, reflecting the authors' practical experience. This respected text leads the reader through a firm understanding of the behavior of reinforced concrete structure before it builds proficiency in the current methods of structural design practice. Particular reference is made to the American Concrete Institute Building Code, incorporating the 1995 ACI Code. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Describes the statistical planning and design of pharmaceutical experiments, covering all stages in the development process—including preformulation, formulation, process study and optimization, scale-up, and robust process and formulation development. Shows how to overcome pharmaceutical, technological, and economic constraints on experiment design.
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This book focuses on a specific engineering problem that is and will continue to be important in the forthcoming information age: namely, the need for highly integrated radio systems that can be embedded in wireless devices for various applications, including portable mobile multimedia wireless communications, wireless appliances, digital cellular, and digital cordless. Traditionally, the design of radio ICs involves a team of engineers trained in a wide range of fields that include networking, communication systems, radio propagation, digital/analog circuits, RF circuits, and process technology. However, as radio ICs become more integrated, the need for a diverse skill set and knowledge becomes essential for professionals as well as students, to broaden beyond their trained area of expertise and to become proficient in related areas. The key to designing an optimized, economical solution for radio systems on a chip hinges on the designer's thorough understanding of the complex trade-offs from communication systems down to circuits.

Designed for introductory genetics courses, "Genetics: A Conceptual Approach" focuses on the important concepts and mechanics of genetics without losing students in a sea of detail. Drawing on more than 20 years of teaching experience, the author makes this often complex subject seem clear and accessible by making important connections between topics, providing advice and encouragement at difficult places, and describing the people, places, and experiments of genetics that make the subject interesting and alive.

A staple of biology classrooms since 1921, Modern Biology continues to set the standard for its field. The unique and carefully balanced combination of the classic and the contemporary has been a hallmark of the text throughout its 80-year history. The program is now available in a new edition that combines coverage of traditional, time-tested topics with the latest in current scientific thought. Modern Biology is the choice for a comprehensive, up-to-date approach to biology instruction.

Advances in Geometric Modeling illustrates the significance of Geometric Modeling in construction, design and manufacture, in not only the traditional industries such as automobile and aircraft manufacturing, but also in modern industry. This includes CAD/CAM, Computer Art, Entertainment, Education and Training, Visualization, robotics, medical imaging, visualisation, painting and media, and others.
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Provide a valuable source focusing on interdisciplinary methods and affiliate research in the area of geometric modeling.
Provide the user community with a variety of advanced geometric modeling techniques and their applications. Collate and disseminate information from various disciplines such as; Curve and Surface Fitting, Geometric Algorithms, Visualization, Computational Geometry, Solid Modeling, Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Splines, Deformation of Objects, Virtual Reality, Mesh Simplification, Multi-resolution, Texture Mapping, Reverse Engineering, etc.

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The central theme of Deadly Dermatologic Diseases book entails disorders capable of directly or indirectly causing death of the patient. The book will be organized around four sections dealing with dermatologic diseases involving serious cutaneous malignancies including melanoma; life-threatening and/or emerging infectious pathogens including anthrax and smallpox; endocrinologic disorders such as myxedema or calciphylaxis; autoimmune disorders and inborn errors of metabolism such as scleroderma and hemochromatosis. The sections are organized alphabetically and color-coded for easy reference. Approximately 40 disease states are discussed with accompanying full-color clinical and microscopic photography. Each entity contains a single clinical photograph accompanied by three photomicrographs detailing the diagnostic features of each case. Subsections detailing the demographic attributes, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, pathologic features, diagnostic adjuncts, treatment, and prognosis with a current bibliography of each disease state are presented in a succinct bullet-style manner.

This book represents the second part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots.
The originality of this work resides in the fact that it combines new formulae for mobility connectivity, redundancy and overconstraint, and the evolutionary morphology in a unified approach of structural synthesis giving interesting innovative solutions for parallel robotic manipulators. This is the first book of robotics presenting solutions of coupled, decoupled, uncoupled, fully-isotropic and maximally regular translational parallel robotic manipulators systematically generated by using the structural synthesis approach proposed in Part 1. Non-redundant/redundant, overconstrained/isostatic solutions with simple/complex limbs actuated by linear/rotary actuators with/without idle mobilities are proposed. Many solutions are presented here for the first time in the literature.