The field of structured P2P systems has seen fast growth upon the introduction of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in the early 2000s. The first proposals, including Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, were gradually improved to cope with scalability, locality and security issues. By utilizing the processing and bandwidth resources of end users, the...
This book provides health professionals with sound clinical advice on management of the obese patient admitted into hospital. It addresses all aspects of the patient's care, as well as serving as a resource to facilitate the management of services, use of clinical information, and negotiation of ethical issues that occur in intensive...
Nobody spends more time with Apple’s computers and software than the writers and editors at Macworld, the world’s foremost Mac authority.
Now, let Macworld’s team of experts take you on a tour of Apple’s newest operating system, Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion. Rebuilt to incorporate many of the lessons learned from...
A straightforward, step-by-step introduction to clear and elegant object-oriented programming. Using a language that's perfect for this kind of programming, the book has been tested in numerous courses and workshops over ten years.
Programming Smalltalk is particularly suited for readers with no prior programming...
The updated edition of the bestselling guide to Android app development
If you have ambitions to build an Android app, this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to dig into the development process and turn your great idea into a reality! In this new edition of Android App Development For Dummies, you'll...
Topics in Experimental Dynamics Substructuring, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the second volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings...
The resilience of computing systems includes their dependability as well as their fault tolerance and security. It defines the ability of a computing system to perform properly in the presence of various kinds of disturbances and to recover from any service degradation. These properties are immensely important in a world where many aspects of...
The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012. Written by experts in their respective fields, the contributions are organized into five parts: - Part I Invited Lectures, consisting of full-length technical papers...
Daily rhythms are a ubiquitous feature of living systems. Generally, these rhythms are not just passive consequences of cyclic fluctuations in the environment, but instead originate within the organism. In mammals, including humans, the master pacemaker controlling 24-hour rhythms is localized in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus...
The book gives an overview of recent numerical techniques for the integration of partial differential equations, especially hyperbolic systems of balance laws in one space dimension (Part I) and weakly nonlinear kinetic equations (Part II). Several of its salient features are:
âThe last decades have seen remarkable advances in computerâaided design, engineering and manufacturing technologies, multiâvariable simulation tools, medical imaging, biomimetic design, rapid prototyping, micro and nanomanufacturing methods and information management resources, all of which provide new horizons for the...
