Whether you’re already in the cloud, or determining whether or not it makes sense for your organization, Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques provides you with the technical understanding needed to develop and maintain state-of-the-art cloud computing and software services. From basic concepts and recent research findings to future directions, it gathers the insight of 50 experts from around the world to present the most up-to-date global perspective on the broad range of technical topics related to cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Witten in a manner that makes this complex subject easy to understand, this is an ideal one-stop reference for anyone interested in the technical aspects cloud computing.
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Internet & Multimedia
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Networks
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Based on recent research and the latest developments, this book presents techniques and applications of ultra-short pulse lasers. It describes principal methods for mode-locking of lightwave and provides the operations of the laser source in both linear and nonlinear regimes. The book discusses the fundamental aspects for understanding the phenomena of lightwave pulse sequence whose width is extremely short. It also covers applications of such laser source in high speed communication systems and networks are described so that readers can be familiar with technological development for next generations of the optical Internet.
• Optics and Photonics
Telecommunications
Optics & optoelectronics
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Cultivated in an increasing number of countries, vanilla is a universally appreciated flavor that is consumed worldwide. However, most users are unaware of the plant from which the product comes. This book presents up-to-date reviews on the cultivation, curing, and uses of vanilla. The latest scientific data provides information on genetic status, resources, pests, diseases, cultural practices, biosynthesis of aromatic compounds, and aroma development. Leading contributors from around the world examine emergent countries for vanilla production, including China, India, and Uganda. The text also explores the relationship between fruit development anatomy and flavor quality.
• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles
Botany
Natural Products
Chemistry
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With coverage ranging from the complex characteristics and behaviors of enterprises to the challenges they pose for engineering and technology, this book examines the impacts of enterprise processes and leading-edge technologies on the evolution of an enterprise. It discusses new and emerging modes of thought that are increasingly being recognized as essential to successful systems engineering, defining and examining key building blocks of this evolving field. It addresses the issues of the changing nature of SE, lays out a recommended direction for the future, and provides a unified basis for moving toward a mature discipline with the expanded scope.
• Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Engineering Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them. The volume represents a wide array of studies on natural and anthropogenic drivers of change in coastal lagoons located in different regions of the world. Although a significant number of journal articles on the subject can be found in the literature, this book provides a single-source reference for coastal lagoons within the arena of the global environment.
• Marine Science
Marine & Aquatic Science
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Biodiversity
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Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. This volume shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole as well as detailed explanations on how to implement the balanced scorecard to measure and manage performance and projects. It investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques and includes a plethora of resources in its appendices and on the accompanying CD, including instructions for developing a measurement program, a full metrics guide, a sample project plan, and a set of project management fill-in forms.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development principles, ecocultural restorative redevelopment is an emerging method for repairing large-scale landscapes. This book explores how to use this approach to address the long-term, sustainable reparation of the fabled marshlands of southern Iraq destroyed by Saddam Hussein. It reviews successfully implemented and celebrated case studies from more than 15 countries around the world which, either in whole or in part, can offer valuable insight into the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi marshlands as well as other devastated ecocultural landscapes such as tsunami hit Indonesia or monsoon ridden Burma.
• Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Sustainable Engineering
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Explaining how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently different from that of large-scale monolithic systems, this book supplies the vocabulary and framework needed to explore the issues relevant to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into a diagnostic tool that helps readers to understand the nature and context of the system at hand and, on that basis, select the most appropriate processes, tools, and techniques. The text examines commercial and government applications of mega-systems and includes two case studies in engineering mega-systems that illustrate valuable lessons learned and highlight emerging practices.
• CRC Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Manufacturing Engineering
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Several studies have demonstrated that mycorrhizal associations play vital role in plant nutrition. They greatly increase the efficiency of nutrient and water uptake, enhance resistance to pathogens, and buffer plant species against several environmental stresses and drought resistance. Mycorrhizae also improve plant growth and survival in soils contaminated by heavy metals. This book emphasizes the biotechnological application of mycorrhizae to promote the production of food while maintaining ecologically and economically sustainable production systems.
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Agriculture
Botany
Soil Science
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Polymer nanoparticles are an important class of polymeric materials that are required for a number of commercial applications. This book presents the tremendous developments in the synthesis and surface modification techniques to generate advanced polymer nanoparticles. After a brief introduction to polymer latex technology, the text discusses emulsion polymerization, miniemulsion polymerization, as well as batch, semi-batch, and continuous polymerization. It then details the synthesis and surface modification of various types of polymer nanoparticles, including polymers with core-shell morphologies; dendrimers modified polymer nanoparticles; and porous and hollow polymer nanoparticles.
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Polymer Science
Polymers & Plastics
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