This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications. This latest edition focuses on the sensing technologies driven by the expanding use of sensors in mobile devices. These new miniature sensors will be described, with an emphasis on smart sensors which have embedded processing systems.

The chapter on chemical sensors has also been expanded ...

This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation.

The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vul...

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students.Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the U...

The current, second edition of this book reflects the 15 years of practical experience with the Six Sigma+Lean toolbox. It is a comprehensive collection of all the tools necessary for project work and running workshops when improving processes. All tools have been illustrated in a clear and comprehensible structure with examples and tips for applying the tools included.

The chronology corresponds to the procedure of an improvement project comprising the steps D(efine), M(easure), A(nalyze), I...

Awarded the Literature Prize of the VCIThis comprehensive textbook describes the synthesis, characterization and technical and engineering applications of polymers. Polymers are unique molecules and have properties different from any other class of materials. We encounter them in everyday life, not only in the form of the well-known, large-volume plastics such as PE or PP or the many other special polymers, some of which are very specifically modified but also in nature as polymeric biomolecu...

Familiar combinations of ingredients and processing make the structures that give food its properties. For example in ice cream, the emulsifiers and proteins stabilize partly crystalline milk fat as an emulsion, freezing (crystallization) of some of the water gives the product its hardness and polysaccharide stabilizers keep it smooth. Why different recipes work as they do is largely governed by the rules of physical chemistry.

This textbook introduces the physical chemistry essential to unde...

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology.

Proper design of printed circuit boards can make the difference between a product passing emissions requirements during the first cycle or not. Traditional EMC design practices have been simply rule-based, that is, a list of rules-of-thumb are presented to the board designers to implement. When a particular rule-of-thumb is difficult to implement, it is often ignored. After the product is built, it will often fail emission requirements and various time consuming and costly add-ons are then re...

De kans dat u een patiënt in uw stoel krijgt die ouder is dan 45 jaar, is tegenwoordig behoorlijk groot. De vergrijzing! Als u geen speciale maatregelen treft, neemt hierdoor de kans toe op medische calamiteiten in uw praktijk. Het afnemen van een medische anamnese voorkomt zo'n vervelende confrontatie.

Het 'Europese Medisch Risico Registrerend Historie-systeem' is een preventiemethode, die gebruikmaakt van een door de patiënt in te vullen lijst, die de tandarts verifieert...

Nog duidelijker, handiger en actueler. Drie in een! Het nieuwe 'Handboek wondzorg' is een nieuwe actualisering van de in 2004 verschenen bundeling van het 'Basisboek wondzorg' en 'Specifieke wondzorg deel 1 en 2', oorspronkelijk uitgebracht in 1997. 

Deze derde, herziene druk speelt in op de huidige trends en vernieuwingen in de dynamische wereld van de wondzorg. Kleurenillustraties ondersteunen de herziene teksten. De productbijlage is niet alleen samen met wondproductfabrikanten geactua...