English | 2014 | ISBN: 1118611667 | 536 pages | PDF | 5 MB

A comprehensive text addressing the high demand for network, cloud, and content services through cutting-edge research on data pricing and business strategies

Smart Data Pricing tackles the timely issue of surging demand for network, cloud, and content services and corresponding innovations in pricing these services to benefit consumers, operators, and content providers. The pricing of data traffic and other services is central to the core challenges of network monetization, growth sustainability, and bridging the digital divide. In this book, experts from both academia and industry discuss all aspects of smart data pricing research and development, including economic analyses, system development, user behavior evaluation, and business strategies.

English | 2014 | ISBN: 3527316507 | 420 pages | PDF | 11 MB

The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems.

Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means.

English | 2014 | ISBN: 1118764307 | ISBN-13: 9781118764305 | 208 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB

Explore the frontier of electronic discovery in the cloud

Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery comprehensively covers the quickly-evolving realm of eDiscovery in cloud computing environments, a computing and legal frontier in which the rules and legal precedents are being developed anew seemingly by the day.

2013 | ISBN: 1138001295 | English | 276 pages | PDF | 55 MB

Chemical Engineering III includes the proceedings of the 3rd SREE Conference on Chemical Engineering (CCE 2013, Hong Kong, 28-29 December 2013) and the 2nd SREE Workshop on Energy, Environment and Engineering (WEEE 2013, which was a part of CCE 2013). The contributions discuss current practical challenges and solutions in Chemical Engineering, and cover a wide range of topics:

- Chemical materials

- Chemical processes

- Chemical equipment

- Biochemical engineering

- Chemical engineering and environment

- Oil and gas engineering

- Energy engineering

- New energy

- Environmental engineering

Chemical Engineering III will be invaluable to engineers and academics involved or interested in these areas.

2013 | ISBN: 1138001007 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 35 MB

This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping legal, social, organisational, institutional and governance considerations. Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems. Indeed, there appears to be a growing realisation that some of the most pressing physical problems in the field of hydrogeology - over-abstraction, salinization or pollution - can only really be solved by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues that takes all other related professions into account. Whilst a ‘technical’ solution may be readily deciphered, the larger challenge usually lies in the sustainably-funded and widely-accepted implementation of that measure.

This book ranges from discussion and debate on the hot topic of hydraulic fracturing of wells or ‘fraccing’ for shale gas and its potential to disrupt groundwater systems, to the application of highly technical modelling procedures to help solve complex, real world problems. It is a window on the preoccupations of modern hydrogeologists and an insight into the way in which hydrogeological techniques and methods are being holistically adapted to address problems in the real world. This book is targeted at professional hydrogeologists, sociologists, experts in governance, law and policy as well as ecologists and other professionals that nowadays all sit alongside groundwater understanding. The book will also appeal to politicians, resource managers, regulators and others interested in sustainable water supply.

2011 | ISBN: 0736084037 | English | 272 pages | PDF | 95 MB

Coaching Youth Gymnastics covers all the basics of coaching and gymnastics in a concise style that is customized for entry-level gymnastics coaches. Developed by ASEP in cooperation with USA Gymnastics, this one-of-a-kind book offers a unique blend of general coaching and sport-specific information. The book’s 600-plus photos will help you understand skill technique and decide what skills to teach your athletes.

2011 | ISBN: 0736095667 | English | 184 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Careers in Sport, Fitness, and Exercise is your guide to landing your dream job in one of today’s most exciting, popular, and fastest-growing industries!

Produced by the American Kinesiology Association, this hands-on guide includes detailed job descriptions, information on working conditions, salary ranges, responsibilities, key skills, and required certifications for 36 careers in sport and fitness:

2012 | ISBN: 0749461659 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB

For assessors of QCF qualifications and NVQs, verifiers, school and FE college teachers, providers of training and work-based learning and those working towards PTLLS, CTLLS, DTLLS teaching qualifications, The Vocational Assessor Handbook contains a detailed guide to the following QCF units for assessment and internal quality assurance (verification) enabling readers to: understand the Principles and Practices of Assessment (Knowledge and Understanding Unit); assess Occupational Competence in the Work Environment; assess Vocational Skills, Knowledge and Understanding; understand the Principles and Practices of Internally Assuring the Quality of Assessment (Knowledge and Understanding Unit); internally Assure the Quality of Assessment; and plan, Allocate and Monitor Work in Your Own Area of Responsibility. Packed with the most up to date, detailed and reliable guidance, this is the only book for assessors and verifiers of vocational qualifications and is essential reading for anyone involved in vocational education. It is previously published as The NVQ Assessor, Verifier and Candidate Handbook.

English | 2010 | ISBN: 3034605935 | 184 pages | PDF | 44 MB

Infrastructure is currently a much discussed notion in the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, overarching whole.

The book examines this new and ecologically sustainable approach with essays by well-known experts in the field. It also documents thirteen international examples. The Infrastructure Research Initiative is part of the SWA Group, which was founded in 1957 by Peter Walker and Hideo Sasaki and has since developed into one of the largest and most important landscape planning agencies in the United States. Among the projects of the firm that have captured international attention are the technologically innovative roof domes for Renzo Piano's California Academy of Science in San Francisco ( 2008 ), which were planted with indigenous flora.