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    • Embedded RTOS Design

      • 1st Edition
      • December 3, 2020
      • Colin Walls
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Embedded RTOS Design: Insights and Implementation combines explanations of RTOS concepts with detailed, practical implementation. It gives a detailed description of the implementation of a basic real-time kernel designed to be limited in scope and simple to understand, which could be used for a real design of modest complexity. The kernel features upward-compatibility to a commercial real-time operating system: Nucleus RTOS. Code is provided which can be used without restriction. Gain practical information on: Scheduling, preemption, and interrupts Information flow (queues, semaphores, etc.) and how they work Signaling between tasks (signals, events, etc.) Memory management (Where does each task get its stack from? What happens if the stack overflows?) The CPU context: storage and retrieval after a context switch With this book you will be able to: Utilize a basic real-time kernel to develop your own prototype Design RTOS features Understand the facilities of a commercial RTOS

    • Encyclopedia of Geology

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 2, 2020
      • Scott Elias + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Encyclopedia of Geology, Second Edition presents in six volumes state-of-the-art reviews on the various aspects of geologic research, all of which have moved on considerably since the writing of the first edition. New areas of discussion include extinctions, origins of life, plate tectonics and its influence on faunal provinces, new types of mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, new methods of dating rocks, and geological processes. Users will find this to be a fundamental resource for teachers and students of geology, as well as researchers and non-geology professionals seeking up-to-date reviews of geologic research.

    • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 78
      • December 2, 2020
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 78, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including Vinyl Sulfone-Modified Carbohydrates: Michael Acceptors and 2π Partners for the Synthesis of Functionalized Sugars, Enantiomerically Pure Carbocycles and Heterocycles and a Biographical Memoire for Leslie Hough.

    • Food, Medical, and Environmental Applications of Polysaccharides

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2020
      • Kunal Pal + 6 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Food, Medical, and Environmental Applications of Polysaccharides provides a detailed resource for those interested in the design and preparation of polysaccharides for state-of-the-art applications. The book begins with an introductory section covering sources, chemistry, architectures, bioactivity, and chemical modifications of polysaccharides. Subsequent parts of the book are organized by field, with chapters focusing on specific applications across food, medicine, and the environment. This is an extremely valuable book for researchers, scientists, and advanced students in biopolymers, polymer science, polymer chemistry, biomaterials, materials science, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, cosmetics, medicine, food science, and environmental science. This important class of biopolymer can offer attractive properties and modification potential, enabling its use in groundbreaking areas across food, medical, and environmental fields. The book will be of interest to scientists, R&D professionals, designers, and engineers who utilize polysaccharide-based materials.

    • Definitive Guide to Arm Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 Processors

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Joseph Yiu
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Definitive Guide to Arm® Cortex®-M23 and Cortex-M33 Processors focuses on the Armv8-M architecture and the features that are available in the Cortex-M23 and Cortex- M33 processors. This book covers a range of topics, including the instruction set, the programmer’s model, interrupt handling, OS support, and debug features. It demonstrates how to create software for the Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 processors by way of a range of examples, which will enable embedded software developers to understand the Armv8-M architecture. This book also covers the TrustZone® technology in detail, including how it benefits security in IoT applications, itsoperations, how the technology affects the processor’s hardware (e.g., memory architecture, interrupt handling, etc.),and various other considerations in creating secure software.

    • Sustainable Materials for Next Generation Energy Devices

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Kuan Yew Cheong + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sustainable Materials for Next Generation Energy Devices: Challenges and Opportunities presents the latest state-of-the-art knowledge and innovation related to environmentally-frie... functional materials that can be developed for, and employed in, producing a feasible next generation of energy storage and conversion devices. The book is broken up into three sections, covering Energy Storage, Energy Conversion and Advanced Concepts. It will be an important reference for researchers, engineers and students who want to gain extensive knowledge in green and/or sustainable functional materials and their applications.

    • Applications of Hypothesis Testing for Environmental Science

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Abbas F.M. Alkarkhi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Applications of Hypothesis Testing for Environmental Science presents the theory and application of hypothesis testing in environmental science, allowing researchers to carry out suitable tests for decision-making on a variety of issues. This book works as a step-by-step resource to provide understanding of the concepts and applications of hypothesis testing in the field of environmental science. The tests are presented in simplified form without relying on complex mathematical proofs to allow researchers to easily locate the most appropriate test and apply it to real-world situations. Each example is accompanied by a case study showing the application of the method to realistic data. This book provides step-by-step guidance in analyzing and testing various environmental data for researchers, postgraduates and graduates of environmental sciences, as well as academics looking for a book that includes case studies of the applications of hypothesis testing. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers in other related fields and those who are not familiar with the use of statistics who may need to analyze data or perform hypothesis tests in their research.

    • Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Composites

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Sooraj M.P. + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Molecular Imprinted Polymer Composites: Synthesis, Characterisation and Applications covers the design of composite materials containing nanostructures and molecular imprinted polymers that has materialized the ever-sought out vision of homogeneous molecular imprinted polymers. The inherent high surface-to-volume ratio of nanostructures has served well in increasing the surface area of conventional bulk polymers. In recent decades, molecularly imprinted polymer nanocomposite materials have attracted much attention for their potential applications in the fields of separation science, sensing, drug delivery, waste water treatment and catalysis, hence this book provides a much needed update on progress.

    • Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Pijush Samui + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering is a one stop reference for a range of computational models, the theory explaining how they work, and case studies describing how to apply them. Drawing on the expertise of contributors from a range of disciplines including geomechanics, optimization, and computational engineering, this book provides an interdisciplinary guide to this subject which is suitable for readers from a range of backgrounds. Before tackling the computational approaches, a theoretical understanding of the physical systems is provided that helps readers to fully grasp the significance of the numerical methods. The various models are presented in detail, and advice is provided on how to select the correct model for your application.

    • Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2020
      • Mei Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Are you a computer scientist working on image analysis? Are you a biologist seeking tools to process the microscopy data from image-based experiments? Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion of modern computer vision techniques, in particular deep learning, for microscopy image analysis that will advance your efforts.Progress in imaging techniques has enabled the acquisition of large volumes of microscopy data and made it possible to conduct large-scale, image-based experiments for biomedical discovery. The main challenge and bottleneck in such experiments is the conversion of "big visual data" into interpretable information.Visual analysis of large-scale microscopy data is a daunting task. Computer vision has the potential to automate this task. One key advantage is that computers perform analysis more reproducibly and less subjectively than human annotators. Moreover, high-throughput microscopy calls for effective and efficient techniques as there are not enough human resources to advance science by manual annotation.This book articulates the strong need for biologists and computer vision experts to collaborate to overcome the limits of human visual perception, and devotes a chapter each to the major steps in analyzing microscopy images, such as detection and segmentation, classification, tracking, and event detection.

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