The field encompassed by rheumatology has evolved rapidly over the last decade to include multiple immune-modulating and biologic medications, new classification criteria, significant updates on bone metabolism, and completely new paradigms of treatment based on groundbreaking studies published within the last 5 years. Although much has been...

The study of Asia and its plural legal systems is of increasing significance, both within and outside Asia. Lawyers, whether in Australia, America or Europe, or working within an Asian jurisdiction, require a sound knowledge of how the law operates across this fast-growing and diverse region. Law and Legal Institutions of Asia is the first...

• Master the key concepts behind Hadoop security as well as how to secure a Hadoop-based Big Data ecosystem
• Understand and deploy authentication, authorization, and data encryption in a Hadoop-based Big Data platform
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Nonlinear models of elastic and visco-elastic onedimensional continuous structures (beams and cables) are formulated by the authors of this title. Several models of increasing complexity are presented: straight/curved, planar/non-planar, extensible/inextensible, shearable/unshearable, warpingunsensitive/ sensitive, prestressed/unprestressed...

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and...

• Understand the concepts of collective code review using Gerrit through a set of simple examples
• Integrate code review functionality into Continuous Integration with Jenkins
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This book is a fast-paced guide full of step-by-step instructions that teach you how to visualize social data using HTML5 and JavaScript. This book is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others. Developers who are interested in the data which can be extracted from social networks will also find...

Java I/O, NIO and NIO.2 is a power-packed book that is an accelerated guide and reference on buffers, files, sockets, datagrams, and pipe channels as found in the Java I/O, NIO, and NIO.2 reference implementations. In this book, you'll also learn how and when to use selectors, regular expressions, including patterns, matchers and...

• Create your own Minecraft server mods
• Set up a Bukkit server that all your Minecraft friends can play on
• Step by step instructions guide you through the creation of several...

Increasing performance demands in integrated circuits, together with limited energy budgets, force IC designers to find new ways of saving power. One innovative way is the presented adaptive voltage scaling scheme, which tunes the supply voltage according to the present process, voltage and temperature variations as well as aging. The voltage...

• Design efficient, real-world database solutions and extend your knowledge of database concepts
• Learn how to program using native PostgreSQL procedural languages to write custom functions
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