Decrypted

Decrypted

Professor Tikaya Komitopis knew that bringing Admiral Rias Starcrest home to meet her family wouldn’t be easy, not when he led the fleet that decimated her nation during the war. She isn’t surprised when people believe she’s been brainwashed, that Rias is still loyal to the empire, and that he has nefarious plans for her homeland. She is, however, surprised when Rias’s designs to build a submarine lead them to stumble across an ancient secret shrouded in mystery, time, and lies. If revealed, this secret could mean devastation for Tikaya’s entire nation. It could also mean choosing between her people… and the man she loves.

Decrypted

Material Designs and New Physical Properties in MX- and MMX-Chain Compounds

Material Designs and New Physical Properties in MX- and MMX-Chain Compounds

This is the first book to comprehensively address the recent developments in both the experimental and theoretical aspects of quasi-one-dimensional halogen-bridged mono- (MX) and binuclear metal (MMX) chain complexes of Pt, Pd and Ni. These complexes have one-dimensional electronic structures, which cause the various physical properties as well as electronic structures. In most MX-chain complexes, the Pt and Pd units are in M(II)-M(IV) mixed valence or charge density wave (CDW) states due to electron-phonon interactions, and Ni compounds are in Ni(III) averaged valence or Mott-Hubbard states due to the on-site Coulomb repulsion. More recently, Pd(III) Mott-Hubbard (MH) states have been realized in the ground state by using the chemical pressure. Pt and Pd chain complexes undergo photo-induced phase transitions from CDW to MH or metal states, and Ni chain complexes undergo photo-induced phase transitions from MH to metal states. Ni chain complexes with strong electron correlations show tremendous third-order optical nonlinearity and nonlinear electrical conductivities. They can be explained theoretically by using the extended Peierls-Hubbard model. For MMX-chain complexes, averaged valence, CDW, charge polarization, and alternating charge polarization states have been realized by using chemical modification and external stimuli, such as temperature, photo-irradiation, pressure, and water vapor. All of the electronic structures and phase transitions can be explained theoretically.

Material Designs and New Physical Properties in MX- and MMX-Chain Compounds

Digital Self-tuning Controllers

Digital Self-tuning Controllers

A complete course in self-tuning control, beginning with a survey of adaptive control and the formulation of adaptive control problems. Modelling and identification are dealt with before passing on to algebraic design methods. Finally, laboratory verification and experimentation will ground your theoretical knowledge in real plant control. Features: a strong emphasis on practical problem solving with control algorithms clearly laid out in easy-to-follow formats or as MATLAB functions suitable for use in project work; specially written MATLAB toolboxes for the presentation of typical control system and plant properties and ready for use in direct control of real or simulated plants; worked examples and tutorial exercises. This book shows graduate students and advanced undergraduates how to overcome the problems of putting the tools of adaptive control theory into practice. The text will also be of interest to engineers wishing to employ ideas of adaptive control in their designs and plant.

Digital Self-tuning Controllers

Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems

Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems

Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of artificial life and the construction of machines that look and behave like people. As the field of robotics evolves, it demands continuous development of successful systems with high-performance characteristics for practical applications.Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems illustrates original and ambitious mechanical designs and techniques for developing new robot prototypes with successful mechanical operational skills. Case studies are focused on projects in mechatronics that have high growth expectations:humanoid robots,robotics hands,mobile robots,parallel manipulators, andhuman-centred robots.A good control strategy requires good mechanical design, so a chapter has also been devoted to the description of suitable methods for control architecture design. Readers of Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems will discover novel designs for relevant applications in robotic fields, that will be of particular interest to academic and industry-based researchers.

Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems

Sustainable Food Production Includes Human and Environmental Health

Sustainable Food Production Includes Human and Environmental Health

Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values. To provide effective communication regarding status and advances in this field, connections must be established with many disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, environmental sciences, ethics, agriculture, economics, ecology, rural development, sustainability, policy and education, or integrations of these general themes so as to provide integrated points of view that will help lead to a sustainable construction of values. Such designs are inherently complex and dynamic, and go beyond the individual farm to include landscapes, communities, and biogeographic regions by emphasizing their unique agricultural and ecological values, and their biological, societal, and cultural components and processes.

Sustainable Food Production Includes Human and Environmental Health

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

A method of study that will allow beginners to learn the fundamentals of chip carving and help more advanced carvers to hone their skills. This book studies in depth the fundamental techniques of chip carving. It progresses from the easiest to the hardest cuts and includes designs and projects after each exercise.

Basic Chip Carving With Pam Gresham

Magnetic Recording Handbook

Magnetic Recording Handbook

This guide explains everything from tape manufacture to state-of-the-art recording techniques such as digital and laser-beam recording. It provides information on special and unusual head designs, biasing and erasing, and recording drive design. The latest advances are discussed in computer-controlled recording, home video recording, and low-noise electronic system design. The text should be of interest to engineers and technicians in the magnetic recording industry.

Magnetic Recording Handbook

The Dream Dress

The Dream Dress

A seamstress at a swanky bridal boutique, Gabi Delgado dreams of doing more than ripping out seams and fitting dresses to doe-eyed brides. She wants to see her own dress designs gracing the young women of Texas. When Jordan Spencer, the editor of Texas Bride magazine visits the shop to do a feature, Gabi is devastated to lose her job in his very influential presence. Convinced she’ll never get her dreams off the ground now, Gabi needs lots of encouragement–especially from her friend Bella Neeley–to take a chance and start her business. And as she gets to know Jordan, she discovers that she may have to take a chance on love as well. Could it be that she’ll have to design her own wedding dress soon?

The Dream Dress

Boilers and Burners

Boilers and Burners

A joint effort of three continents, this book is about rational utilization of the fossil fuels for generation of heat or power. It provides a synthesis of two scientific traditions: the high-performance, but often proprietary, Western designs, and the elaborate national standards based on less advanced Eastern designs; it presents both in the same Western format. It is intended for engineers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in steam power plants, burners, or furnaces. The text uses a format of practice based on theory: each chapter begins with an explanation of a process, with basic theory developed from first principles; then empirical relationships are presented and, finally, design methods are explained by worked out examples. It will thus provide researchers with a resource for applications of theory to practice. Plant operators will find solutions to and explanations of many of their daily operational problems. Designers will find this book ready with required data, design methods and equations. Finally, consultants will find it very useful for design evaluation.

Boilers and Burners

Advanced Theory of Constraint and Motion Analysis for Robot Mechanisms

Advanced Theory of Constraint and Motion Analysis for Robot Mechanisms

Advanced Theory of Constraint and Motion Analysis for Robot Mechanisms provides a complete analytical approach to the invention of new robot mechanisms and the analysis of existing designs based on a unified mathematical description of the kinematic and geometric constraints of mechanisms.

Advanced Theory of Constraint and Motion Analysis for Robot Mechanisms

Dancers

Dancers

In the bestselling tradition of Designs for Coloring comes Csotumes for Coloring–an exciting new series of coloring books covering fashion of different times. Printed on heavy, non-bleed-through paper, the designs can be colored with crayons, colored pencils, markers, or paints. Dancers takes an enchanting look at dance costumes both ordinary and extraordinary from every corner of the globe.

Dancers

Engineering Design

Engineering Design

Contrary to a lot of popular mythology, the designs of popular products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. The authors believe that symbolic representation, and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts of design to lay a better framework for design research and design education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a substantial body of material concerned with understanding and modeling cognitive processes. This book adopts the vocabulary and paradigms of AI to enhance the presentation and explanation of design. It includes concepts from AI because of their explanatory power and because of their utility as possible ingredients of practical design activity. This second edition has been enriched by the inclusion of recent work on design reasoning, computational design, AI in design, and design cognition, with pointers to a wide cross section of the current literature.

Engineering Design

Leonardos Lost Robots

Leonardos Lost Robots

Leonardo s Lost Robots reinterprets Leonardo da Vincis mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. By identifying his major technological projects, the book revisits Leonardos legacy of notebooks, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardos papers, Rosheim has reconstructed Leonardos programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata: a Robot Lion, a Robot Knight, and a hydraulically powered automaton for striking a bell. Through a readable, lively narrative, Mark Rosheim recounts his adventures rediscovering and reconstructing da Vincis designs. In a foreword, the world-renowned Leonardo scholar Carlo Pedretti details the significance of these reconstructions for our understanding of Leonardos oeuvre.

Leonardos Lost Robots

Victorian Scroll Saw Patterns

Victorian Scroll Saw Patterns

Beautiful and intricate original designs–plus classics from the 19th century. Full-size shaded patterns, complete instructions with close-up drawings and photos. ‘The glory of the Victorian era…shelves, frames, filigree baskets, plant holders, antique inkstands, and dozens more.’– ‘The Craft Digest

Victorian Scroll Saw Patterns

Fantasies and Flowers

Fantasies and Flowers

Following on the tremendous success of quilting bestseller Fabled Flowers, Kumiko Sudo’s new book features 30 completely new fabric origami designs. Returning to the ever-popular floral motif, these stunning quilt designs showcase Kumiko’s incredible range, in the vibrant, glowing colors that are characteristic of her work. Each block combines simple piecing and appliqu techniques, showing even beginning quilters how to make perfect three-dimensional flowers. All are complete with step-by-step drawings, easy-to-follow directions, and full-size templates. There are also assembly instructions for six beautiful floral quilts. The introduction explains the inspiration behind Kumiko’s designs. A special section on ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, demonstrates the similarities between Kumiko’s contemporary quilts and that traditional art form. – Kumiko’s first book on fabric origami, Fabled Flowers, is one of the top-selling books in the quilting industry – Kumiko’s flowers can embellish not just quilts, but all kinds of sewing projects–fashions, home decorations, children’s wear, and so on – More than 100 stunning color photographs of quilts, fabric, and fine handwork Kumiko Sudo is an internationally acclaimed fiber artist. Kumiko’s work is today known and respected in the United States, and her quilts are in several fine public and private collections, including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York.

Fantasies and Flowers

SAS for Linear Models, Fourth Edition

SAS for Linear Models, Fourth Edition

This clear and comprehensive guide provides everything you need for powerful linear model analysis. Using a tutorial approach and plenty of examples, authors Ramon Littell, Walter Stroup, and Rudolf Freund lead you through methods related to analysis of variance with fixed and random effects. You will learn to use the appropriate SAS procedure for most experiment designs (including completely random, randomized blocks, and split plot) as well as factorial treatment designs and repeated measures. SAS for Linear Models, Fourth Edition, also includes analysis of covariance, multivariate linear models, and generalized linear models for non-normal data. Find inside: regression models; balanced ANOVA with both fixed- and random-effects models; unbalanced data with both fixed- and random-effects models; covariance models; generalized linear models; multivariate models; and repeated measures. New in this edition: MIXED and GENMOD procedures, updated examples, new software-related features, and other new material.

SAS for Linear Models, Fourth Edition

Mastering Dojo

Mastering Dojo

Imagine a true thin-client web application environment, with no browser incompatibilities, no plugins, and an interface that’s closer to a desktop app. You can have it all, today. Welcome to The , Toolkit.,

Mastering Dojo walks you through the whole range of modern web , problems, from bringing simple web pages to life with widgets and animation, to designing and building an enterprise-class, single-page Rich Internet Application (RIA).,

Are your web pages becoming more and more complex, with hundreds of lines of sprawling , as clients demand modern Ajax designs? Or maybe you’re about to enter the new world of single-page, Rich Internet Applications? Dojo is the unified toolkit that you need to get the job done.

Mastering Dojo

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

Learn to build cryptographic protocols that work in the real world

Knowing how a camera works does not make you a great photographer. Knowing what cryptographic designs are and how existing cryptographic protocols work does not give you proficiency in using cryptography. You must learn to think like a cryptographer.

That is what this book will teach you. Dive deeply into specific, concrete cryptographic protocols and learn why certain decisions were made. Recognize the challenges and how to overcome them. With this book, which is suitable for both classroom and self-study, you will learn to use cryptography effectively in real-world systems.

• Understand what goes into designing cryptographic protocols


• Develop an understanding of the interface between cryptography and the surrounding system, including people, economics, hardware, software, ethics, policy, and other aspects of the real world


• Look beyond the security protocol to see weaknesses in the surrounding system


• Thwart the adversary by understanding how adversaries think


• Learn how to build cryptography into new products

 

Table of Contents

Preface to Cryptography Engineering.Preface to Practical Cryptography (the 1st Edition).Part I Introduction.Chapter 1 The Context of Cryptography.

Chapter 2 Introduction to Cryptography.

Part II Message Security.

Chapter 3 Block Ciphers.

Chapter 4 Block Cipher Modes.

Chapter 5 Hash Functions.

Chapter 6 Message Authentication Codes.

Chapter 7 The Secure Channel.

Chapter 8 Implementation Issues (I).

Part III Key Negotiation.

Chapter 9 Generating Randomness.

Chapter 10 Primes.

Chapter 11 Diffie-Hellman.

Chapter 12 RSA.

Chapter 13 Introduction to Cryptographic Protocols.

Chapter 14 Key Negotiation.

Chapter 15 Implementation Issues (II).

Part IV Key Management.

Chapter 16 The Clock.

Chapter 17 Key Servers.

Chapter 18 The Dream of PKI.

Chapter 19 PKI Reality.

Chapter 20 PKI Practicalities.

Chapter 21 Storing Secrets.

Part V Miscellaneous.

Chapter 22 Standards and Patents.

Chapter 23 Involving Experts.

Bibliography.

Index.

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

Continuous Testing

Continuous Testing

Feedback. We’re always telling you that you need feedback, with a short feedback gap the time it takes to get feedback on your decisions, your code, your designs. Well, what if you narrowed the feedback gap to near zero while coding? You’d have continuous testing, a powerful idea that lets you fix bugs while they’re still small and fresh.,

Continuous , shows you how to use a combination of tests, tools, and techniques to immediately detect problems in code, before they spread.

Continuous Testing

AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies

AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies

Used by everyone from engineers and architects to interior designers and draftspeople, , 2013 is the world’s leading 2D and , technical drawing program. But, with so many options and features available, finding your way around AutoCAD can be a challenge, even for experienced CAD professionals. AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies is here to help. You’ll learn to build a solid foundation for all your projects, use standard CAD techniques, get familiar with new tools and features, and start sharing your models and designs in no time with this easy-to-follow guide.

AutoCAD 2013 For Dummies