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Book SynopsisDieses Standardwerk gibt dem Leser umfassend und zuverlässig Informationen zur Theorie und Praxis der Vakuumtechnik. Eine große Anzahl von Beispielen sowie aussagekräftigen Abbildungen erläutern und visualisieren überzeugend die theoretischen Sachverhalte. Die aktuelle Auflage wurde zur besseren Lesbarkeit der gleichzeitigen Onlineveröffentlichung in kürzere Kapitel gefasst und durchgehend überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Im Kapitel zu Turbomolekularpumpen wurde ein neuer Abschnitt zu regenerativen Pumpen eingefügt. Das Kapitel über passive Sorptionspumpen wurde neu geschrieben.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that comprehensively describes the history of the game software industry in Japan. A major objective here is to identify the key determinants of the emergence of the business, the maturing of the market, and the changes brought about by innovations, based on the history of the Japanese industry. To date, similar books have focused only on particular topics of the game software industry, such as the success of Nintendo and Sony and the uniqueness of the Japanese industry. There are no books that interpret the development process of this industry from the point of view of innovation. To fully understand the business and derive insightful lessons from it, however, requires a careful and thorough examination of its development process. Currently, many companies aim to improve efficiency by using information and communications technology (ICT), but it is difficult to maintain a balance between the pursuit of efficiency and the encouragement of creativity. In the case of Japan’s game software industry, firms have pursued higher efficiency in product development to build competitive advantage, resulting in a low rate of radical innovation and causing the slow growth of the industry. In certain situations, the development activities that target the creation of new products may, in themselves, hinder the creation of truly new products. This book conceptualizes this phenomenon as a “development productivity dilemma” and clarifies the mechanisms behind it. The dilemma, like the productivity dilemma in the manufacturing industry, evokes a certain innovation pattern and prevents potential growth. Understanding the lessons from the game software business presented in this book, managers, researchers, and policymakers can gain insight into the mechanisms leading to industrial maturity and clues to avoid the development productivity dilemma.Table of ContentsCh1. A fundamental dilemma: efficiency versus creativity.- Ch2. Analytical framework and the research design: Innovation pattern and evolution of industry.- Ch3. The origins of the game software business in Japan: the movement till 1970’s.- Ch4. Creating New Demand: the start-up of the new industry in early 1980s.- Ch5. The transition of the industry: the market expansion and establishment of major firms after 1980s.- Ch6. Decline in demand creation: the impasse of industry in late 1990s.- Ch7. The innovation pattern in the digital age: The lesson from the game software industry.- Ch8. The development productivity dilemma and its consequences.- Ch9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe book introduces a variety of latest techniques designed to represent, enhance, and empower multi-disciplinary approaches of geographic information system (GIS), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), machine learning, and cloud computing research in healthcare. It provides a unique compendium of the current and emerging use of geospatial data for healthcare and reflects the diversity, complexity, and depth and breadth of this multi-disciplinary area. This book addresses various aspects of how smart healthcare devices can be used to detect and analyze diseases. Further, it describes various tools and techniques to evaluate the efficacy, suitability, and efficiency of geospatial data for health-related applications. It features illustrative case studies, including future applications and healthcare challenges. This book is beneficial for computer science and engineering students and researchers, medical professionals, and anyone interested in using geospatial data in healthcare. It is also intended for experts, offering them a valuable retrospective and a global vision for the future, as well as for non-experts who are curious to learn about this important subject. The book presents an effort to draw how we can build health-related applications using geospatial big data and their subsequent analysis.Table of Contents1. Geospatial data science in healthcare: Literature Survey 2. Geomatics tools and techniques to collect and analyse geospatial data 4. Big data and cloud computing support in health informatics 5. Hospital records management using cloud technology 6. Relevance of spatio-temporal data visualisation techniques in health science 7. GIS in public health for a futuristic society 8. Infectious diseases and their tracking in GIS 9. Wearable technology in healthcare 10. Health intelligence using AI and data science 11.IoT empowered smart health cities 12.ICT for real-time health monitoring 13. Role of ICT in telemedicines 14. Low cost device for healthcare 15. Geospatial data in health insurance 16. Role of social media in healthcare 17. Issues and challenge in healthcare using geospatial big data

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management, promote the reform of prison security, fair law enforcement, educational correction and other management modes brought about by strengthening the police with science and technology, deepen the practice of administering prison according to law, and promote the modernization of prison governance system and governance capacity. This book is suitable for the personnel engaged in the management and informatization construction of prisons, drug rehabilitation centers, detention houses, and community correction institutions as professional book and is also suitable as the teaching, training, and reference book of criminal execution, prison management, community correction, judicial information technology, prison information technology, and other majors in the colledge of criminal justice.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisOptical lenses have many important applications, from telescopes and spectacles, to microscopes and lasers. This concise, introductory book provides an overview of the subtle art of lens design. It covers the fundamental, optical theory, and the practical methods and tools employed in lens design, in a succinct and accessible manner. Topics covered include first-order optics, optical aberrations, achromatic doublets, optical relays, lens tolerances, designing with off-the-shelf lenses, miniature lenses, and zoom lenses. Covering all the key concepts of lens design, and providing suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this book is an essential resource for graduate students working in optics and photonics, in addition to engineers and technicians working in the optics and imaging industries.Trade Review'This book's strength lies in delivering a vast amount of knowledge on optical lens design in a succinct manner. It comprehensively describes the fundamental optical theory and state-of-the-art of lens design, including aberrations, achromatic doublets, and lens tolerances. This field has strong impacts in several technologies from telescopes to lasers to microscopes. The target audience for this text is graduate students in optical design and photonics engineers, but anyone concerned with imaging industries will profit from reading this book.' Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics NewsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical imaging, first-order imaging, and imaging aberrations; 3. Aspheric surfaces; 4. Thin lenses; 5. Ray tracing; 6. Radiometry in a lens system; 7. Achromatic and athermal lenses; 8. Combinations of achromatic doublets; 9. Image evaluation; 10. Lens tolerancing; 11. Using lens design software; 12. Petzval portrait objective, Cooke triplet and double Gauss lens; 13. Lens system combinations; 14. Ghost image analysis; 15. Designing with off-the-shelf lenses; 16. Mirror systems; 17. Miniature lenses; 18. Zoom lenses; Appendix 1: tables of imaging aberrations; Appendix 2: tables of pupil aberrations; Appendix 3: tables of structural aberration coefficients; Appendix 4: table of aberrations of a plane symmetric system; Appendix 5: the sine condition; Glossary; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisResearchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms.Transmission is the research moment when invention meets dissemination—the tactical combination of making (how theory, methods, and data shape research) and communicating (how research is shown and shared). In this book, researchers from a range of disciplines examine tactics for the transmission of research, exploring such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms. Focusing on transmissions draws attention to a critical part of the research process commonly overlooked and undervalued. Too often, the results of radically experimental research methodologies are pressed into conventional formats. The contributors to Transmissions rethink tactics for making and communicating resear

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Book SynopsisThe instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing   What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next -- from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's trademark comi

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Book SynopsisAs accessible as it is fascinating, The Large Hadron Collider reveals the inner workings of this masterful achievement of technology, along with the mind-blowing discoveries that will keep it at the center of the scientific frontier for the foreseeable future.Trade ReviewThe book is a fast read brimming with personality. Reading about the Large Hadron Collider, with its spinning particle streams, hypercontrolled collisions, and awesome implications, is like learning about what wizards do. -- Anna Call Foreword Reviews Lincoln's tales of the LHC... offer readers fresh insight into some of the most significant research in modern physics. Publishers Weekly Laypersons interested in the building blocks of the universe and/or the newsworthy LHC will learn a lot from this work and enjoy the process. Library Journal Physics blends with some amazing stories of the Higgs boson and other details in a powerful scientific survey packed with insights that are both scientifically detailed and widely accessible to general-interest readers. California Bookwatch This engaging story will be appreciated by readers interested in the frontiers of science... Highly recommended. Choice Written in accessible language and an engaging manner. Metascience I was pleased to see how Lincoln's sense of humor... lightens what might otherwise be a tedious enumeration of technical details. MetascienceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Beginnings and Building Blocks2. Stuff We Already Know3. Accelerators and the LHC4. Incredible Detectors5. Teething Pains and Triumphs6. The Dramatic Higgs Saga7. Looking for Something New8. The Future Is Bright!Suggested ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisAn amusing and informative illustrated guide to life beyond our own planet that covers everything from training for and living in space to the future of space travel and tourismNow that suborbital space tourism is predicted to become a billion-dollar industry in the next ten years and NASA has announced its plans for landing humans on Mars in the 2030s, the dream of traveling and living in space is taking on new reality. But given that life on Earth can be complicated enough, how can we survive and thrive in the zero-gravity, absolute-zero far reaches of space? Look no further: How to Live in Space is chock-full of all the essential information you need to equip yourself for life beyond our blue planet.Grounded in space science, planetary biology, and rocket science, this accessible guide propels readers through takeoff, life in orbit, terraforming, and the long-term effects of space on the human body. Infographics and full-color illustrations help How to Live in Space to answer your burning questions, including: How do you sleep in microgravity? How do you grow food without water? Will your muscles waste away out there? How do you protect yourself from radiation? This is a light-hearted yet informative guide to a life far from terra firma.

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Book SynopsisBased on the paradigms of economics and management, inspired by the history of technology and the sociology of technological change, the concepts of shared inventions and competitive innovations make it possible to analyze the industrialization of the world in a fresh and efficient way. As a new approach, shared inventions are classified in this book as a set of existing knowledge that�s often associated with the rediscovery of old techniques. Determining capitalized and collective intelligence, this knowledge and reinvention allows us to create inventions which will be shared, first in their construction, then in their use. Another new approach is that these competitive innovations are defined in World Industrialization by associations of experiences of competitively-motivated actors – actors seeking to complement existing techniques by increasing their competitive power. These shared inventions and competitive innovations will also be defined by trajectories identifying their modes of creation, enabling us to overcome the peculiarities of these actions and competitions. This book also highlights four key areas in global industrialization: the emergence of machinism with the defense of Arts and Crafts from 1698–1760; the changes the Industrial Revolution wrought in developed nations from 1760–1850; the link between technology and social relations within modern companies from 1850–1914; and, from 1914 onwards, the birth of extended machinism, its world wars and its global crises.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part 1 Industrialization and its Conceptualizations 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1 The Notion of Industrialization and Other Related Notions 5 1.1 The notion of industrialization 5 1.1.1 The birth of the notion of industrialization 5 1.1.2 Industrialization according to economists 8 1.1.3 Industrialization according to management sciences 18 1.1.4 Sociologies of technology and knowledge 20 1.1.5 Industrialization according to technological historians 21 1.1.6 The objectives of histories of technology 23 1.1.7 The different histories of technology 28 1.1.8 The synthesis of these contributions: continuity or discontinuity? 35 1.2 The links between industrialization, technological revolutions and machinism 37 1.2.1 Industrialization and industrial revolutions 37 1.2.2 Industrialization and the various revolutions 38 1.2.3 Industrialization and machinism 38 Chapter 2 Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations 41 2.1 Social dynamics 42 2.1.1 The glorification of arts and crafts: from guilds to arts and crafts communities 43 2.1.2 The defense and glory of nations 47 2.1.3 The links between technology, social relations and people at work 48 2.2 Evolution of the notions of technological change, invention and innovation 50 2.2.1 Technological changes and the temptation of symbols and representations 50 2.2.2 The ambiguities of the notion of invention 51 2.2.3 The enigmas of innovation 52 2.2.4 The end of the technological change/invention/innovation triangle? 53 2.3 Shared inventions 55 2.3.1 From the sharing of inventions to shared inventions 55 2.3.2 The first definitions of shared inventions 56 2.3.3 A definition of shared inventions 57 2.3.4 The trajectories of shared inventions 59 2.4 Competitive innovations 60 2.4.1 The first definitions of competitive innovations 60 2.4.2 The competition principles adopted 61 2.4.3 The trajectories of competitive innovations 62 Part 2 Historical Periods, Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations 65 Introduction to Part 2 67 Chapter 3 1698–1760 or the Emergence of Machinism 69 3.1 The situation in 1698 69 3.1.1 Major changes in social relations, religions and manufactories 69 3.1.2 Manufactories and the organization of work in France and England 71 3.1.3 New models of manufactory organization 72 3.1.4 Performance of manufactories versus development of nations 73 3.1.5 Statement of account 74 3.2 1698–1760: industrialization and major changes 75 3.2.1 Conflicts between religions and the economy 75 3.2.2 Conflicts between nations 76 3.2.3 The willingness of governments to enact change in public affairs 76 3.3 The precursors and inventions of steam engines 77 3.3.1 The era of the Enlightenment and other imaginative inventors 77 3.3.2 The appearance of the true inventors 78 3.4 Steam engines and shared inventions 79 3.4.1 The first steam engine and its first patent 79 3.4.2 The first sharing of steam engines 81 3.5 Coke metallurgy 83 3.5.1 Reinventions 83 3.5.2 The search for substitutes 83 3.5.3 The invention of puddling 85 3.6 Sharing around the inventions of the textile industry 87 3.6.1 Weaving and the fly-shuttle 87 3.6.2 Perforated ribbons and weaving machines 87 3.7 “Printed cotton indiennes” or copies of inventions and the organization of factories 88 3.7.1 Sectoral characteristics of the shared inventions of this period 91 3.7.2 Strong tensions 93 Chapter 4 1760–1850 or the Industrial Revolution and its Competitive Innovations 95 4.1 The transition from the emergence of machinism and its shared inventions to the Industrial Revolution and its competitive innovations 95 4.2 The Industrial Revolution and competitive innovations (1760–1850) 96 4.2.1 Competitive innovations 97 4.2.2 The contradictions of the steam engine industry 98 4.2.3 The contradictions of the textile sector 100 4.2.4 The inescapable contradictions of machine tool production 103 4.3 1851: an inventory? 104 Chapter 5 1850–1914 or the New Shared Inventions and the Birth of the Modern Large Company 107 5.1 The invention of the modern large company 107 5.2 Precursors 109 5.2.1 The “ébauches” of Frédéric Japy (1771) 109 5.2.2 Oliver Evans’ “endless mill” (1784) 110 5.2.3 Honoré Blanc’s rifles and the Springfield Armory (1790, 1819) 110 5.2.4 Thomas Tassel-Grant’s “sea biscuits” (1830) 111 5.2.5 The inventions of Mr Johann Georg Bodmer (1833 onwards) 111 5.3 The Singer Manufacturing Company and the Civil War uniforms 111 5.3.1 The sewing machine, its invention and innovations 111 5.3.2 The true birth of the sewing machine can be traced from 1849 to 1850 113 5.3.3 The sewing machine and the organization of the company 114 5.4 The Chicago Yards and their integrated slaughterhouses 115 5.4.1 The actors involved in the creation of Union Stock Yards 116 5.4.2 The operating modes of the Union Stock Yards 119 5.5 The Swiss example 121 5.6 An almost totally invented inauguration and improbable analyses 122 5.7 The management of these shared inventions 125 5.7.1 The invention of the commercialization of products 125 5.7.2 The invention of marketing 126 5.7.3 Labor and employee management 127 5.7.4 The importance of the links between management tools and shared inventions 129 Chapter 6 1914 or the Birth of Extended Machinism 131 6.1 Major changes in social dynamics 131 6.1.1 World wars 131 6.1.2 The increasing number of crises 131 6.1.3 Profound changes in terms of social dynamics 132 6.2 Large shared inventions combined with competitive innovations 134 6.2.1 The irresistible growth of electricity 134 6.2.2 The extraordinary growth of gas and oil 136 6.2.3 Maritime and air transport 137 6.2.4 Metallurgy 137 6.2.5 Machine tools 139 6.2.6 Chemistry 140 6.2.7 Agriculture 140 6.2.8 Lifestyles 141 6.2.9 Computing and the reinvention of calculating machines 143 6.2.10 Automation 146 Conclusion 149 References 157 Index 171

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