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41. |  Construction Project Management: Theory and Practice By: Kumar Neeraj Jha Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 07-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Construction Project Management: Theory and Practice
Construction Project Management deals with different facets of construction management emphasizing the basic concepts that any engineering student is supposed to know. The major principles of project management have been derived through real life case studies from the field. Simplified examples have been used to facilitate better understanding of the concepts before going into the large and complex problems. The book features computer applications (Primavera and MS Project) used to explain planning, scheduling, resource leveling, monitoring and reporting; it is highly illustrated with line...
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42. |  Electromagnetic Field Theory and Transmission Lines By: G. S. N. Raju Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 05-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electromagnetic Field Theory and Transmission Lines
Electromagnetic Field Theory and Transmission Lines is an ideal textbook for a single semester, first course on Electromagnetic Field Theory (EMFT) at the undergraduate level. This book uses plain and simple English, diagrammatic representations and real life examples to explain the fundamental concepts, notations, representation and principles that govern the field of EMFT. The chapters cover every aspect of EMFT from electrostatics to advanced topics dealing with Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), EMC standards and design methods for EMC. Careful and...
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43. |  Engineering Mathematics, Volume III By: E. Rukmangadachari; E. Keshava Reddy Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 18-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Mathematics, Volume III
Mathematics lays the basic foundation for engineering students to pursue their core subjects. In Engineering Mathematics-III, the topics have been dealt with in a style that is lucid and easy to understand, supported by illustrations that enable the student to assimilate the concepts effortlessly. Each chapter is replete with exercises to help the student gain a deep insight into the subject. The nuances of the subject have been brought out through more than 300 well-chosen, worked-out examples interspersed across the book.
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44. |  Electric Circuits and Networks By: K. S. Suresh Kumar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 18-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electric Circuits and Networks
Electric Circuits and Networks is designed to serve as a textbook for a two-semester undergraduate course on basic electric circuits and networks. The book builds on the subject from its basic principles. Spread over seventeen chapters, the book can be taught with varying degree of emphasis on its six subsections based on the course requirement. Written in a student-friendly manner, its narrative style places adequate stress on the principles that govern the behaviour of electric circuits and networks....
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45. |  Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics By: Pradip Niyogi; S. K. Chakrabartty; M. K. Laha Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 03-FEB-2006 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics is a self-contained introduction to a new subject, arising through the amalgamation of classical fluid dynamics and numerical analysis supported by powerful computers. Written in the style of a text book for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc. students of various science and engineering disciplines. It introduces the reader to finite-difference and finite-volume methods for studying and analyzing linear and non-linear problems of fluid flow governed by inviscid incompressible and compressible Euler equations as also incompressible and...
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46. |  Audio Signal Processing and Coding By: Andreas Spanias; Ted Painter; Venkatraman Atti Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 09-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Audio Signal Processing and Coding
An in-depth treatment of algorithms and standards for perceptual coding of high-fidelity audio, this self-contained reference surveys and addresses all aspects of the field. Coverage includes signal processing and perceptual (psychoacoustic) fundamentals, details on relevant research and signal models, details on standardization and applications, and details on performance measures and perceptual measurement systems. It includes a comprehensive bibliography with over 600 references, computer exercises, and MATLAB-based projects for use in EE multimedia, computer science, and DSP courses. ...
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47. |  Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits: FPGA, ASIC and Embedded Systems By: Jean-Pierre Deschamps; Gery J.A. Bioul; Gustavo D. Sutter Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 10-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits: FPGA, ASIC and Embedded Systems
A new approach to the study of arithmetic circuits
In Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits: FPGA, ASIC and Embedded Systems, the authors take a novel approach of presenting methods and examples for the synthesis of arithmetic circuits that better reflects the needs of today's computer system designers and engineers. Unlike other publications that limit discussion to arithmetic units for general-purpose computers, this text features a practical focus on embedded systems.
Following an introductory chapter, the publication is divided into two parts. The first part, Mathematical Aspects and...
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48. |  Modern Control System Theory and Design, 2nd Edition Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 06-MAY-1998 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Control System Theory and Design, 2nd Edition
The definitive guide to control system design
Modern Control System Theory and Design, Second Edition offers the most comprehensive treatment of control systems available today. Its unique text/software combination integrates classical and modern control system theories, while promoting an interactive, computer-based approach to design solutions. The sheer volume of practical examples, as well as the hundreds of illustrations of control systems from all engineering fields, make this volume accessible to students and indispensable for professional engineers.
This fully updated Second...
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49. |  Voice and Audio Compression for Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition By: Lajos L. Hanzo; Clare Somerville; Jason Woodard Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 24-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Voice and Audio Compression for Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition
Voice communications remains the most important facet of mobile radio services, which may be delivered over conventional fixed links, the Internet or wireless channels. This all-encompassing volume reports on the entire 50-year history of voice compression, on recent audio compression techniques and the protection as well as transmission of these signals in hostile wireless propagation environments.
Audio and Voice Compression for Wireless and Wireline Communications, Second Edition is divided into four parts with Part I covering the basics, while Part II outlines the design of...
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50. |  VoIP Voice and Fax Signal Processing Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 29-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: VoIP Voice and Fax Signal Processing
A complete and systematic treatment of signal processing for VoIP voice and fax
This book presents a consolidated view and basic approach to signal processing for VoIP voice and fax solutions. It provides readers with complete coverage of the topic, from how things work in voice and fax modules, to signal processing aspects, implementation, and testing. Beginning with an overview of VoIP infrastructure, interfaces, and signals, the book systematically covers:
Voice compression
Packet loss concealment techniques
DTMF detection, generation, and rejection
Wideband voice...
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51. |  Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 20-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MIMO Radar Signal Processing
The first book to present a systematic and coherent picture of MIMO radars
Due to its potential to improve target detection and discrimination capability, Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar has generated significant attention and widespread interest in academia, industry, government labs, and funding agencies. This important new work fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of this emerging field.
Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field of MIMO radar research, this book introduces recent developments in the area of MIMO radar to stimulate new concepts,...
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52. |  Hybrid Electric Power Train Engineering and Technology By: Antoni Szumanowski Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hybrid Electric Power Train Engineering and Technology Hybridization is an increasingly popular paradigm in the auto industry, but one that is not fully understood by car manufacturers. In general, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are designed without regard to the mechanics of the power train, which is developed similarly to its counterparts in internal combustion engines. Hybrid Electric Power Train Engineering and Technology: Modeling, Control, and Simulation provides readers with an academic investigation into HEV power train design using mathematical modeling and simulation of various hybrid electric motors and control systems. This book...
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53. |  Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing By: Kostas Kolomvatsos; Christos Anagnostopoulos; Stathes Hadjiefthymiades Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing Pervasive computing enables users to interact with information resources in their everyday lives. The development of computational technologies that can exist in ever smaller devices while simultaneously increasing processing power allows such devices to blend seamlessly into tangible environments. Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing provides an extensive discussion of such technologies, theories and practices in an attempt to shed light on current trends and issues in the adaption of pervasive systems. Within its pages, students and practitioners of computer...
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54. |  By: Richard Maun Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How To Keep Your Job
If you have a job, would you like to keep it? In these difficult and unstable times, the answer is most likely to be a resounding "YES!". This book reveals the secrets of keeping your job. It cuts to the heart of modern working life and examines the big things that trip people up and what you need to know in order to survive.You might be great at the technical side of your job, but it's no longer enough to keep you employed these days. This book is based on first-hand experience of coaching people to keep their job.
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55. |  Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, Second Edition By: Gregory Dudek; Michael Jenkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 30-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, Second Edition
This textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. It concentrates on wheeled and legged mobile robots but discusses a variety of other propulsion systems. The new edition includes advances in robotics and intelligent machines over the last ten years, including significant coverage of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and multi-robot systems. It includes additional mathematical background and an extensive list of sample problems. Various mathematical techniques that were...
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56. |  Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing By: William L. Oberkampf; Christopher J. Roy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 14-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
Advances in scientific computing have made modelling and simulation an important part of the decision-making process in engineering, science, and public policy. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic development of the basic concepts, principles, and procedures for verification and validation of models and simulations. The emphasis is placed on models that are described by partial differential and integral equations and the simulations that result from their numerical solution. The methods described can be applied to a wide range of technical fields, from the physical sciences,...
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57. |  By: Lukas Novotny; Bert Hecht Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Principles of Nano-Optics
Nano-optics is the study of optical phenomena and techniques on the nanometer scale, that is, near or beyond the diffraction limit of light. It is an emerging field of study, motivated by the rapid advance of nanoscience and nanotechnology which require adequate tools and strategies for fabrication, manipulation and characterization at this scale. In this 2006 text the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and experimental concepts necessary to understand and work in nano-optics. With a very broad perspective, they cover optical phenomena relevant to the nanoscale...
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58. |  By: William T. Silfvast Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 12-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Laser Fundamentals
Laser Fundamentals provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the physical and engineering principles of laser operation and design. Simple explanations, based throughout on key underlying concepts, lead the reader logically from the basics of laser action to advanced topics in laser physics and engineering. Much new material has been added to this second edition, especially in the areas of solid-state lasers, semiconductor lasers, and laser cavities. This 2004 edition contains a new chapter on laser operation above threshold, including extensive discussion of laser amplifiers. The...
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59. |  A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations By: Daniel Fleisch Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 10-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate...
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60. |  By: Christopher Gerry; Peter Knight Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 28-OCT-2004 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introductory Quantum Optics
This book provides an elementary introduction to the subject of quantum optics, the study of the quantum mechanical nature of light and its interaction with matter. The presentation is almost entirely concerned with the quantized electromagnetic field. Topics covered include single-mode field quantization in a cavity, quantization of multimode fields, quantum phase, coherent states, quasi-probability distribution in phase space, atom-field interactions, the Jaynes-Cummings model, quantum coherence theory, beam splitters and interferometers, dissipative interactions, nonclassical field...
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