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    • Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2014
      • Allan Liska
      • English
      • Paperback
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      As recently as five years ago, securing a network meant putting in a firewall, intrusion detection system, and installing antivirus software on the desktop. Unfortunately, attackers have grown more nimble and effective, meaning that traditional security programs are no longer effective. Today's effective cyber security programs take these best practices and overlay them with intelligence. Adding cyber threat intelligence can help security teams uncover events not detected by traditional security platforms and correlate seemingly disparate events across the network. Properly-implemented intelligence also makes the life of the security practitioner easier by helping him more effectively prioritize and respond to security incidents. The problem with current efforts is that many security practitioners don't know how to properly implement an intelligence-led program, or are afraid that it is out of their budget. Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program is the first book to show how to implement an intelligence-led program in your enterprise on any budget. It will show you how to implement a security information a security information and event management system, collect and analyze logs, and how to practice real cyber threat intelligence. You'll learn how to understand your network in-depth so that you can protect it in the best possible way.

    • Advances in Batteries for Medium and Large-Scale Energy Storage

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2014
      • C Menictas + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      As energy produced from renewable sources is increasingly integrated into the electricity grid, interest in energy storage technologies for grid stabilisation is growing. This book reviews advances in battery technologies and applications for medium and large-scale energy storage. Chapters address advances in nickel, sodium and lithium-based batteries. Other chapters review other emerging battery technologies such as metal-air batteries and flow batteries. The final section of the book discuses design considerations and applications of batteries in remote locations and for grid-scale storage.

    • View-based 3-D Object Retrieval

      • 1st Edition
      • December 4, 2014
      • Yue Gao + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Content-based 3-D object retrieval has attracted extensive attention recently and has applications in a variety of fields, such as, computer-aided design, tele-medicine,mobile multimedia, virtual reality, and entertainment. The development of efficient and effective content-based 3-D object retrieval techniques has enabled the use of fast 3-D reconstruction and model design. Recent technical progress, such as the development of camera technologies, has made it possible to capture the views of 3-D objects. As a result, view-based 3-D object retrieval has become an essential but challenging research topic. View-based 3-D Object Retrieval introduces and discusses the fundamental challenges in view-based 3-D object retrieval, proposes a collection of selected state-of-the-art methods for accomplishing this task developed by the authors, and summarizes recent achievements in view-based 3-D object retrieval. Part I presents an Introduction to View-based 3-D Object Retrieval, Part II discusses View Extraction, Selection, and Representation, Part III provides a deep dive into View-Based 3-D Object Comparison, and Part IV looks at future research and developments including Big Data application and geographical location-based applications.

    • Top-Down Digital VLSI Design

      • 1st Edition
      • December 4, 2014
      • Hubert Kaeslin
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching circuit design, Doctor Kaeslin’s approach follows the natural VLSI design flow and makes circuit design accessible for professionals with a background in systems engineering or digital signal processing. It begins with hardware architecture and promotes a system-level view, first considering the type of intended application and letting that guide your design choices. Doctor Kaeslin presents modern considerations for handling circuit complexity, throughput, and energy efficiency while preserving functionality. The book focuses on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which along with FPGAs are increasingly used to develop products with applications in telecommunications, IT security, biomedical, automotive, and computer vision industries. Topics include field-programmable logic, algorithms, verification, modeling hardware, synchronous clocking, and more.

    • Natural Products and Cancer Signaling: Isoprenoids, Polyphenols and Flavonoids

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36
      • December 3, 2014
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Natural compounds from a variety of natural resources including plants have emerged as important source of anticancer drug development. This special issue will highlight the significant advance in elucidating mechanisms of action of these natural compounds, focusing especially on isoprenoids and polyphenols/flavonoi...

    • Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 10
      • December 3, 2014
      • Ralph A. Wheeler
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry provides timely and critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as applied to all chemical disciplines. Topics covered include quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education, and applications in academic and industrial settings. Focusing on the most recent literature and advances in the field, each article covers a specific topic of importance to computational chemists.

    • Advances in Space Science and Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5
      • December 3, 2014
      • Frederick I. Ordway
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Space Science and Technology, Volume 5 looks into the major unsolved solar problems of thermodynamic structure, geometrical structure, velocity fields, flares and other transient phenomena, solar magnetic fields, and corpuscular emission. This book discusses the design, development, and testing of launching rockets. Organized into five chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the role of space observations in solar physics. This text then examines the progress in communication relay satellite techniques, which is a very important aspect of space technology. Other chapters provide a comprehensive review of solid propellant rocker technology, treating such subjects as factors affecting propellant performance, ignition, grain design, testing, quality control, and thrust vector control. This book discusses as well the characteristics of an environmental control compatible with requirements within the manned space vehicle. The final chapter deals with orbital operations. This book is a valuable resource for astronautical researchers, astronomers, and scientists.

    • Methods of Contour Integration

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 3
      • December 3, 2014
      • M. L. Rasulov
      • H. A. Lauwerier + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Methods of Contour Integration contains two parts: (1) a systematic exposition of the computational method for solving boundary and mixed problems, and (2) the contour-integral method for investigating general linear mixed problems. The first part includes formulae for expanding arbitrary vector-valued functions in series from integral residues of solutions of boundary-value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with discontinuous coefficients. These formulae give residue representations of solutions of the corresponding one-dimensional mixed problems for equations with discontinuous coefficients. The book also explains a computational method of separating the variables which is a generalization of the ordinary method of separating variables to the case of nonself-adjoint operators. In part two, the text discusses one-dimensional mixed problems for equations with discontinuous coefficients. Under regular boundary conditions, it proves the existence of solutions for these problems and the representability of the solutions in the form of contour integrals with a complex parameter. The text points out that the contour-integral method is also applicable to parabolic equations and to equations in which the coefficients are functions of time. The book is ideal for mathematicians, students, and professor of calculus and advanced mathematics.

    • Online Arab Spring

      • 1st Edition
      • December 3, 2014
      • Reza Jamali
      • English
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      What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? <I>Online Arab Spring</I> responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples. The book asks why the penetration rate for social media differs in different countries: are psychological and social factors at play? Each chapter considers national identity, the legitimacy crisis, social capital, information and media literacy, and socialization. Religious attitudes are introduced as a key factor in social media, with Arabic countries in the Middle East and North Africa being characterized by Islamic trends. The insight gained will be helpful for analysing online social media effects internationally, and predicting future movements in a social context.

    • Heterogeneous Combustion

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 15
      • December 3, 2014
      • Hans G. Wolfhard + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics—Volume 15: Heterogeneous Combustion focuses on the processes, reactions, methodologies, and techniques involved in heterogeneous combustion. The selection first offers information on the techniques for the study of combustion of beryllium and aluminum particles, study of quenched aluminum particle combustion, and spectroscopic investigation of metal combustion. Discussions focus on the combustion of metal particles in a hot oxidizing atmosphere, experimental apparatus and procedure, selected examples of residue observations, ignition of beryllium, and photographic study of particle combustion. The text then takes a look at the analytical developments, experimental observations in oxygen atmospheres, and experimental observations in carbon dioxide atmospheres of vapor-phase diffusion flames in the combustion of magnesium and aluminum. The publication ponders on the combustion of elemental boron with fluorine, combustion of pyrolytic boron nitride, characteristics of diborane flames, oxidation of diethyldiborane, and reaction of pentaborane and hydrazine and structure of the adduct. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in heterogeneous combustion.

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