This easy-to-follow textbook provides a modern, algorithmic introduction to digital image processing. It concentrates on practical applications and working implementations whilst also presenting important formal details and the necessary mathematics.

In this book, the four authors show us the condensed experience how to design ship hull structures from a practical viewpoint. In three parts, the book presents the fundamentals, the theory and the application of structural design of hulls. The topics are treated comprehensively with an emphasis on how to achieve reliable and efficient ship structures.

The authors have in particular introduced their experiences with the rapid increase of ship sizes as well as the introduction of ship types wi...

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...

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De mens is niet gemaakt om stil te zitten en kinderen al helemaal niet! Bewegen geeft plezier en ontspanning, is gezond en heeft een positief effect op de ontwikkeling van het kind.Spelenderwijs bewegen voor 0 tot 4 jaar is een praktisch boek voor pedagogisch medewerkers, vol tips en ideeën. Vijftien inspirerende beweegprogramma's voor dreumesen en peuters vormen het hart van dit boek. Deze zijn makkelijk uitvoerbaar en verantwoord opgebouwd. Bovendien kan iedereen zelf eenvoudig variaties e...

This student-friendly textbook encourages the development of programming skills through active practice by focusing on exercises that support hands-on learning. The Python Workbook provides a compendium of 186 exercises, spanning a variety of academic disciplines and everyday situations. Solutions to selected exercises are also provided, supported by brief annotations that explain the technique used to solve the problem, or highlight a specific point of Python syntax.

This enhanced new editio...

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues. To achieve food security for all and protect health, we need functional, equitable, and sustainable food systems. Food systems are highly complex networks of individuals and institutions that depend on governance and policy leadership. This book explains how interconnected food systems and policies affect diets and nutrition in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. In ...

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand's Westminster-style system of government. A key message is that effective policy advising is less about cycles, stages and steps, and more about relationships, integrity and communication. Policy making is incremental social problem solving.

Policy advising is mostly learned on the job, like an apprenticeship. It starts with ca...

Now in its 6th Edition, this highly acclaimed textbook provides sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices and safe food for food industry personnel as well as students. It addresses the principles related to contamination, cleaning compounds, sanitizers, cleaning equipment. It also presents specific directions for applying these concepts to attain hygienic conditions in food processing or food preparation operations.

New in this edition:

Updated chapters on the fundamentals o...

Dit boek behandelt het complexe onderwerp van de elektrocardiografie. De eenvoudige en doeltreffende benadering maakt het interpreteren van ECG's begrijpelijk. Voor iedereen met minimale ervaring in de interpretatie van ECG’s voorziet dit boek in alle behoeften. Door de combinatie van oefeningen met ECG-uitslagen, testvragen en heldere kleurenafbeeldingen wordt het eenvoudiger om de nodige kennis te verwerven en toe te passen op het ECG als geheel. De tekst is vriendelijk van toon en m...