This book provides for the first time a single comprehensive source of information on the analytical chemistry of nicotine and related alkaloids.The editors have brought together scientists from academia and the tobacco industry to describe the state-of-the-art of the chemistry and analytical methods for measurement of nicotine. Both the scope and detail of the book…
This book presents an in-depth look at lenses free of spherical aberrations and is provided using illustrative examples.Mathematical principles behind lenses free of spherical aberration are included with an introduction to set theory, the conics, continuity, real analysis and topology. Physical principles are covered as well as a step by step guide to mathematical model…
Analytical Chemistry is important and applied, experimental field of science that employs different instruments, and methods for the collection, separation, identification, and quantification of various organic, inorganic, and biological molecules.This interdisciplinary branch is based not only on chemistry but also on other disciplines such as biology, physics, pharmaceutical, and many areas of technology. The book…
Analytical Solution Methods for Boundary Value Problems is an extensively revised, new English language edition of the original 2011 Russian language work, which provides deep analysis methods and exact solutions for mathematical physicists seeking to model germane linear and nonlinear boundary problems.Current analytical solutions of equations within mathematical physics fail completely to meet boundary conditions…
This is an introduction to methods for solving nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs).After the introduction of several PDEs drawn from science and engineering, the reader is introduced to techniques used to obtain exact solutions of NPDEs.The chapters include the following topics: Compatibility, Differential Substitutions, Point and Contact Transformations, First Integrals, and Functional Separability. The reader…
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.The series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science, and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy,…
Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool – analytics – is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and…
Analytics is one of a number of terms which are used to describe a data-driven more scientific approach to management. Ability in analytics is an essential management skill: knowledge of data and analytics helps the manager to analyze decision situations, prevent problem situations from arising, identify new opportunities, and often enables many millions of dollars…
.Analytics in HealthcareAn IntroductionThe editors of the HIMSS Books’ best-seller Health: From Smartphones to Smart Systems have returned to deliver an expansive survey of the initiatives, innovators, and technologies driving the patient-centered mobile healthcare revolution. mHealth Innovation: Best Practices from the Mobile Frontier explores the promise of mHealth as a balance between emerging technologies and…
For courses in decision support systems, computerized decision-making tools, and management support systems.Market-leading guide to modern analytics, for better business decisions Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support is the most comprehensive introduction to technologies collectively called analytics (or business analytics) and the fundamental methods, techniques, and software used to design and…
Die 1894 erstmals erschienenen �Logarithmische Rechentafeln f�r Chemiker” von Friedrich Wilhelm K�ster mauserten sich zu einem Klassiker unter den Nachschlagewerken zur Analytischen Chemie.Im Vordergrund stand und steht immer die Unterst�tzung des Anwenders in Fragen der schnellen, hochqualitativen Versorgung mit Informationen rund um Analysentechniken. Dies ist auch in Zeiten der zunehmenden Dominanz des Internets noch von…
Analyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data mining technologies for analyzing these networks and extracting useful information such as location, demographics, and sentiments of the participants of the network, and (ii) security and privacy technolo Additional ISBNs148224327X, 0367658542, 0429162820, 9781482243277,…
The essential guide to business and real estate appraisals for non-appraiser professionals In Analyzing Complex Appraisals for Business Professionals, renowned business and real estate valuation authorities Shannon P. Pratt and John Lifflander provide the ultimate crash course for evaluating a wide range of properties and enterprises. This guide to understanding, interpreting, and evaluating residential, commercial,…
�In this book, the authors adopt a refreshingly new approach to explaining the intricacies of the security and privacy challenge that is particularly well suited to today’s cybersecurity challenges.Their use of the threat�vulnerability�countermeasure paradigm combined with extensive real-world examples throughout results in a very effective learning methodology.� �Charles C. Palmer, IBM Research The Modern Introduction…
The existence of environmental dilemmas and political conflicts leads us to appreciate the need for individuals and groups to behave strategically in order to achieve their goals and maintain their wellbeing. Global issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution, as well as revolts and protests against corporations, regimes, and other central authorities, are…
Analyzing high-dimensional gene expression and DNA methylation data with R is the first practical book that shows a “pipeline” of analytical methods with concrete examples starting from raw gene expression and DNA methylation data at the genome scale.Methods on quality control, data pre-processing, data mining, and further assessments are presented in the book, and R…