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Bussysteme in der Automatisierungs- und Prozesstechnik: Grundlagen, Systeme und Anwendungen der industriellen Kommunikation (Vieweg Praxiswissen Ser.)
by Gerhard Schnell Bernhard WiedemannDieses Fachbuch behandelt alle wichtigen in der Automatisierung eingesetzten Bussysteme. Im Vordergrund stehen die Feldbussysteme, seien es Master/Slave- oder Multimaster-Systeme. Eine ausführliche Einführung in die technischen Grundlagen gibt Auskunft über Netzwerktopologien, Kommunikationsmodelle, Buszugriffsverfahren, Datensicherung, Telegrammformate, Standards bei Leitungen, Übertragungsarten und Netzverbindungen. Den Netzwerkhierarchien unter CIM und der internationalen Feldbusnormung sind eigene Kapitel gewidmet. Im zweiten Teil werden die verschiedenen Bussysteme ausführlich beschrieben, auch PC-Busse. Für die 9. Auflage wurden KNX (ehemals EIB) und Sercos neu aufgenommen.
Bussysteme in der Fahrzeugtechnik: Protokolle, Standards und Softwarearchitektur (ATZ/MTZ-Fachbuch)
by Werner Zimmermann Ralf SchmidgallDieses Fachbuch gibt einen Überblick über die in der Kfz-Elektronik verbreiteten Bussysteme wie CAN, FlexRay, LIN oder MOST, deren Protokolle und die Softwarearchitektur moderner Steuergeräte. Die Beschreibung erfolgt aus der Sicht von Ingenieuren, die diese Systeme in der Praxis einsetzen und in Fahrzeuge integrieren müssen. Ausführlich wird auf die höheren Schichten der ISO, SAE und ASAM-Transport- und Diagnoseprotokolle sowie deren Anwendung eingegangen. Neben der Kommunikation wird die Softwarearchitektur der Steuergeräte mit Betriebssystem und Basissoftware vorgestellt, wie sie im Rahmen von AUTOSAR, OSEK/VDX und HIS definiert werden.Neu in dieser Auflage wurden CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, OTX und WWH-OBD aufgenommen.
Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor: How Technical Writing Conventions Perpetuate Injustice (SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication)
by Sarah ReadTraces the linguistic, rhetorical, historical, cultural, and economic origins of our most basic beliefs and practices for successful technical writing to initiate a reckoning about who they serve and who they harm.Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor is a transdisciplinary approach to making visible and explaining the multiple origins of why our most basic beliefs about what makes scientific and technical writing successful are wrong, ineffective, and harmful. These tacitly held beliefs and practices, collectively called the Communication Metaphor, stand in as symbolic for a messier, more reality-based understanding of how writing and communication works. By starting from conventional statements made by scientists, technical professionals, and standard textbooks that "successful technical writing is short and to the point, with the facts only, no opinions," the book traces the histories and structures of the multiple elements of the Communication Metaphor. The text synthesizes survey results, multiple strands of scholarship, personal experience, and original illustrations into a powerful argument for imagining a more just approach to scientific and technical writing.
Butchering Beef: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
by Temple Grandin Adam DanforthLearn how to humanely slaughter cattle and butcher your own beef. In this straightforward guide, Adam Danforth provides clear instructions and step-by-step photography of the entire butchering process, from creating the right preslaughter conditions through killing, skinning, keeping cold, breaking the meat down, and perfecting expert cuts. With plenty of encouragement and expert advice on food safety, packaging, and necessary equipment, this comprehensive guide has all the information you need to start butchering your own beef.
Butchering Chickens: A Guide to Humane, Small-Scale Processing
by Adam DanforthThe space, setup, and equipment required to raise and process poultry are minimal when compared to other types of livestock, which is part of what makes chickens such an appealing choice for small-scale meat producers. Expert butcher and teacher Adam Danforth covers the entire slaughtering and butchering process in this photographic guide specifically geared toward backyard chicken keepers and small-farm operations invested in raising meat responsibly. With step-by-step photos, detailed instructions, and chapters dedicated to necessary tools and equipment, essential food safety measures, how to prepare for slaughter and process the birds quickly and humanely, how to break down the carcasses into cuts, and how to package and freeze the cuts to ensure freshness, this comprehensive handbook gives poultry raisers the information they need to make the most of their meat.
Butchering Livestock at Home: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-65 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)
by Phyllis HobsonThis introductory guide explains the basics of butchering your meat at home, from preparing your animals and equipment through to storing your meat. Covers rabbits, poultry, sheep, goats, veal calves, beef, and hogs and includes information on how to process and use organ meats, pelts and hides, feathers, bones and horns, and fat.
Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
by Adam DanforthSlaughter and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide. Providing detailed photography of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to know to butcher poultry, rabbit, lamb, goat, and pork. Learn how to create the proper slaughtering conditions, break the meat down, and produce flavorful cuts of meat. Stressing proper food safety at all times, Danforth provides expert advice on necessary tools and helpful tips on freezing and packaging. Enjoy the delicious satisfaction that comes with butchering your own meat.
Butchery and Sausage-Making For Dummies
by Tia HarrisonDiscover how to butcher your own meat and make homemade sausageWith interest in a back-to-basics approach to food on the rise, more and more people are becoming interested in butchering their own meat and making high-quality, preservative-free sausages.With easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations, Butchery & Sausage-Making For Dummies offers readers a look at how to butcher poultry, rabbit, beef, pork, lamb, and goats. The book will also explore sausage-making, with tips and recipes, and will look at preserving meat through curing and smoking.Offers natural, healthier alternatives for sausages and preserved meats for people wary of processed foodsProvides helpful tips and guidance for home cooks and beginner butchersProvides needed guidance for those looking to explore this long-overlooked professionButchery & Sausage Making For Dummies is an invaluable resource for home cooks interested in being more responsible about their meat, or those that are looking to save money and enjoy healthier alternatives to what's found in their local grocery store.
Butterfly Optimization Algorithm: Theory and Engineering Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Om Prakash Verma Tarun Kumar SharmaThis book presents theory and applications of recently introduced butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA). It also highlights hybridization process in the basic structure of BOA with in-depth analysis of complexity. This book also describes the constraint handling process. The newly introduced variant is implemented and validated on a set of linear and nonlinear real works problems of engineering and pulp and paper industry. The simulated results are compared with most of the basic algorithms. Comparative and nonparametric statistical result analysis illustrates the efficacy of the algorithm.
Butterfly and Moth Wings: Functional Morphology of the Wings with Scales (Entomology Monographs)
by Akihiro YoshidaThis book explores the various functions of butterfly and moth wings. Lepidoptera wings are covered with variously colored scales and exhibit a wide variety of color patterns, with some functioning as significant signals in behavior. They are also the flight organs, as the wings of the other insects are. Although research on Lepidopteran wings has predominantly focused on the color patterns and flight performance, they have many other functions that contribute to their lives. Chapters in this book examine airflow regulation, behavioral signal sending, friction reduction, sensory signal reception, pheromone secretion, antireflection, and high hydrophobicity. Utilizing the perspectives from biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, the author explores the functions, structures, construction, and development of these functional wings. Since many of the wing functions are attributed to or assisted by the scale functions, an understanding of the scale functions is necessary to understand the wing functions. The book includes chapters on the marginal scale morphology and function of the small moth wing, as well as the development of the wing with scales. Programmed cell death, which plays a crucial role in the development of the functional wing, is also described. The extensive descriptions offer new insights into Lepidoptera wings and may inspire ingenious devices from a physics and engineering perspective. In particular, the physiological approach to the wing mechanoreception in this book is the first for butterfly and moth wings to thoroughly investigate their intricate mechanisms. With numerous figures to aid the understanding of readers, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in entomology, biomimetics and physics.
Buying Defence and Security in Europe
by Martin TrybusBuying Defence and Security in Europe is the first critical evaluation of the EU Defence and Security Procurement Directive 2009/81/EC, which is now the basis for public and private entities buying armaments and sensitive goods and services in the EU. This instrument aims to ensure non-discrimination, competition and transparency in the security sectors. Part one provides a critical analysis of the economical, historical, political, military-strategic and legal contexts of the new EU Defence and Security Procurement Directive. Part two covers the main aspects of the Directive: its scope, procedures, security of supply and information, offsets and subcontracting, and finally its review and remedies system. This book is an essential overview of a legislative milestone in the field.
Buying Time
by Joe HaldemanThe Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out . . . The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling desperately for his next essential million, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life—and makes two chilling discoveries: Not all Stileman &“immortals&” were created the same. And their days may be more numbered than they think . . . From the author of The Hemingway Hoax and Camouflage, and the recipient of multiple science fiction honors including the Hugo, John W. Campbell, and Robert A. Heinlein Awards, Buying Time is &“a mystery/SF hybrid that exhibits the author at his most inventive. . . . The action is fast and furious&” (Publishers Weekly).
Buzz (Insomniacs #05)
by S. R. MartinFrom the warped mind of S. R. Martin comes the story of a kitchen appliance gone berserk. One stormy night, a girl and her baby-sitter watch in amazement as the Slice 'n' Dicer gets zapped by lightning. Suddenly, the machine has a mind of its own, and it's after them!
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor HansonFrom the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence. They've given us sweetness and light, the beauty of flowers, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And, alarmingly, they are at risk of disappearing.As informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect. Read this book and you'll never overlook them again.
By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering
by Brad J. KallenbergBoth engineering and human living take place in a messy world, one chock full of unknowns and contingencies. "Design reasoning" is the way engineers cope with real-world contingency. Because of the messiness, books about engineering design cannot have "ideal solutions" printed in the back in the same way that mathematics textbooks can. Design reasoning does not produce a single, ideally correct answer to a given problem but rather generates a wide variety of rival solutions that vie against each other for their relative level of "satisfactoriness," a reasoning process analogous to design is needed in ethics. <p><p>Since the realm of interpersonal relations is itself a fluid and highly contingent real-world affair, design reasoning offers the promise of a useful paradigm for ethical reasoning. This volume undertakes two tasks. First, it employs design reasoning to illustrate how technological artifacts can be assessed for their inherent moral properties. Second, it uses the design paradigm as a means for bringing engineering ethics into conversation with Christian theology in order to show how each can be for the other a catalyst for the revolutionary task of living by design.
By Design: Why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and other object lessons
by Ralph CaplanThis book vividly shows how design affects our most significant human activities. A network of engrossing stories illuminate the process as it applies to industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic design and the design of business and social situations.
By the Light of the Moon: A gripping thriller of redemption, terror and wonder
by Dean KoontzCan you trust a madman? By the Light of the Moon is a thrilling tale of seedy motels, mad scientists and intrepid heroes from masterful storyteller, Dean Koontz. Perfect for fans of Richard Laymon and Stephen King. 'Perhaps more than any other author, Koontz writes fiction perfectly suited to the mood of America post-September 11: novels that acknowledge the reality and tenacity of evil but also the power of good; that celebrate the common man and woman; that at their best entertain as vastly as they uplift. By the Light of the Moon is one of those best, exciting and deeply moving' - Publishers Weekly When Dylan O'Conner, together with his autistic brother, Shepherd, pulls into a motel off the interstate highway, all he wants is a good night's sleep. Yet within the hour he finds himself bound, gagged and being injected with a mysterious fluid by a lunatic doctor, who claims Dylan will be the carrier of 'his life's work'.Comedian Jillian Jackson is midway through a tour of seedy venues, accompanied by her pet pot-plant Fred. But her plans for stardom are dramatically altered when she too falls victim to the eccentric scientist. The doctor warns his victims that he is being pursued and that they too are now targets. If they are caught, they will be killed. Both are sceptical.Before long, they are beginning to wonder if the lunatic doctor wasn't quite so mad after all... What readers are saying about By the Light of the Moon: 'Dean has style. The characters in his story are so lively and vivid, and he connects every piece of information together in such a manner that makes this book very special''This story has you glued to the plot from the start. Koontz will have you on the edge of your seat throughout''Dean Koontz has created a masterpiece'
Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries: Adding Value for Food, Feed, Pharma and Fuels
by Benjamin K. Simpson Fidel Toldr Alberta N. A. AryeeRanging from biofuels to building materials, and from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals, the list of products that may be manufactured using discards from farming and fishery operations is extensive. Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries examines the procedures and technologies involved in this process of reconstitution, taking an environmentally aware approach as it explores the developing role of value-added byproducts in the spheres of food security, waste management, and climate control. An international group of authors contributes engaging and insightful chapters on a wide selection of animal and plant byproducts, discussing the practical business of byproduct recovery within the vital contexts of shifting socio-economic concerns and the emergence of green chemistry. This important text: Covers recent developments, current research, and emerging technologies in the fields of byproduct recovery and utilization Explores potential opportunities for future research and the prospective socioeconomic benefits of green waste management Includes detailed descriptions of procedures for the transformation of the wastes into of value-added food and non-food products With its combination of practical instruction and broader commentary, Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries offers essential insight and expertise to all students and professionals working in agriculture, environmental science, food science, and any other field concerned with sustainable resources.
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by Michael GrantThe most breathtaking and exhilarating ride you will take this year, this is the first in an incredible new action thriller series from Michael Grant, author of Gone. These are no ordinary soldiers. This is no ordinary war. Welcome to the nano, where the only battle is for sanity. Losing is not an option when a world of madness is at stake. Time is running out for the good guys. But what happens when you don¿t know who the good guys really are? Noah and Sadie: newly initiated to an underground cell so covert that they don¿t even know each other¿s names. Here they will learn what it means to fight on a nano level. Soon they will become the deadliest warriors the world has ever seen. Vincent: feels nothing, cares for no one; fighting his own personal battle with Bug Man, the greatest nano warrior alive. The Armstrong Twins: wealthy, privileged, fanatical. Are they the saviours of mankind or authors of the darkest conspiracy the world has ever seen?The nano is uncharted territory. A terrifying world of discovery. And everything is to play for . . .
Bäume: Lexikon der praktischen Baumbiologie
by Andreas RoloffBaume gehoren zu den groβten Lebewesen auf unserem Planeten. In faszinierender Weise haben diese langlebigen Organismen Strategien entwickelt, nachhaltig zu uberleben und Widrigkeiten, denen sie durch ihre Ortsgebundenheit ausgesetzt sind, standzuhalten. Wie lebende Skulpturen konnen Baume ganze Lebens- und Leidensgeschichten erzahlen. Die Neuaufl age des praxisnahen Ratgebers erlautert in uber 500 Eintragen pragnant die Symptome ihrer Korpersprache, Vorgange im Inneren der Pfl anzen, die Ursachen von Abweichungen in Wuchs, Entwicklung und Erscheinungsform. Von Abholzigkeit bis Zwiesel wird jeder Fachbegriff sachkundig und anschaulich erklart. Das eingangige Bildmaterial zu jedem Beitrag erweitert das Verstandnis, die ubersichtlichen und aussagekraftigen Texte liefern dem Profi wertvolle Informationen und beantworten dem interessierten Laien zahlreiche Fragen. Das neue Werk von Deutschlands renommiertem Baumexperten - nicht nur fur Praktiker, Sachverstandige, Wissenschaftler und Studenten aus den Bereichen Baumpfl ege, Botanik, Forstwissenschaft, Gartenbau, Landschaftsarchitektur, Okologie oder Umweltpadagogik, sondern auch fur Architekten, Designer, Kunstler sowie alle Natur- und Baumliebhaber und jeden, der sich auf dem Weg dorthin befindet.
Böden Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz: Ein Bildatlas
by Peter Schad Holger Joisten Luise Giani Nils Kochan Dieter Kühn Daniela Sauer Herbert SponagelBöden sind eine Lebensgrundlage der Menschheit. Sie kennenzulernen ist nicht nur wichtig, sondern auch außerordentlich faszinierend. Dieser Bildatlas zeigt die Vielfalt unserer Böden, erklärt ihre Entstehung, ihre Eigenschaften, ihre Gefährdung und wie wir sie schützen können.200 Bodenprofile werden mit charakteristischen Boden- und Landschaftsbildern vorgestellt, mit detaillierten Beschreibungen erläutert und durch Analysendaten ergänzt. Jedes Profil wird nach der Bodenkundlichen Kartieranleitung (KA5) boden- und substratsystematisch eingeordnet. Auch werden die Bezeichnungen dieser Böden nach der internationalen „World Reference Base for Soil Resources“ (WRB) angegeben. Zahlreiche Karten zeigen die Verbreitung von Bodenregionen und Bodenklassen. Darstellungen der Abfolge der Böden in der Landschaft (Catenen) ordnen die Böden in ihre Umgebung ein. Zum besseren Verständnis sind wichtige bodenkundliche Sachverhalte in Einführungskapiteln anschaulich erklärt.Dieses Buch ist das Werk von 44 Autorinnen und Autoren sowie sieben Herausgebern, die ihr umfangreiches Experten- und Regionalwissen eingebracht haben. Es richtet sich sowohl an ein Fachpublikum, an Lernende und Lehrende, als auch an diejenigen, die sich bisher nicht mit Böden beschäftigt haben, die jedoch an der Vielfalt unserer Böden, ihrer Schönheit und ihrem landschaftsbezogenen Vorkommen interessiert sind.
C Programming: A Modern Approach
by K. N. KingThis introduction to the C programming language is based on the C ANSI dialect and is usable with all ANSI-compatible compilers and all operating systems. The three main parts of the text are: basic grounding in C; advanced topics and program writing; and a reference apparatus.
C++ Primer
by Stanley B. Lippman Josée Lajoie Barbara E. MooFully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today’s best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its standard library to write efficient, readable, and powerful code. C++ Primer, Fifth Edition, introduces the C++ standard library from the outset, drawing on its common functions and facilities to help you write useful programs without first having to master every language detail. The book’s many examples have been revised to use the new language features and demonstrate how to make the best use of them. This book is a proven tutorial for those new to C++, an authoritative discussion of core C++ concepts and techniques, and a valuable resource for experienced programmers, especially those eager to see C++11 enhancements illuminated. Start Fast and Achieve More Learn how to use the new C++11 language features and the standard library to build robust programs quickly, and get comfortable with high-level programming Learn through examples that illuminate today’s best coding styles and program design techniques Understand the “rationale behind the rules”: why C++11 works as it does Use the extensive crossreferences to help you connect related concepts and insights Benefit from up-to-date learning aids and exercises that emphasize key points, help you to avoid pitfalls, promote good practices, and reinforce what you’ve learned
C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television
by Donald G. GodfreyThis is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death. Jenkins was an inventor who made a difference. As one of America's greatest independent inventors, Jenkins's passion was to meet the needs of his day and the future. In 1895 he produced the first film projector able to show a motion picture on a large screen, coincidentally igniting the first film boycott among his Quaker viewers when the film he screened showed a woman's ankle. Jenkins produced the first American television pictures in 1923, and developed the only fully operating broadcast television station in Washington, D.C. transmitting to ham operators from coast to coast as well as programming for his local audience. Godfrey's biography raises the profile of C. Francis Jenkins from his former place in the footnotes to his rightful position as a true pioneer of today's film and television. Along the way, it provides a window into the earliest days of both motion pictures and television as well as the now-vanished world of the independent inventor.
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity
by John de la MotheThe condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings-most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution-reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.