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Randomization Masking and Allocation Concealment

Randomization Masking and Allocation Concealment

Randomization Masking and Allocation Concealment is indispensable for any trial researcher who wants to use state of the art randomization methods and also wants to be able to describe these methods correctly. Far too often the subtle nuances that distinguish proper randomization from flawed randomization are completely ignored in trial reports that state only that randomization was used with no additional information. Experience has shown that in many cases the type of randomization that was used was flawed. It is only a matter of time before medical journals and regulatory agencies come to realize that we can no longer rely on (or publish) flawed trials and that flawed randomization in and of itself disqualifies a trial from being robust or high quality even if that trial is of high quality otherwise. This book will help to clarify the role randomization plays in ensuring internal validity and in drawing valid inferences from the data. The various chapters cover a variety of randomization methods and are not limited to the most common (and most flawed) ones. Readers will come away with a profound understanding of what constitutes a valid randomization procedure so that they can distinguish the valid from the flawed among not only existing methods but also methods yet to be developed.

GBP 44.99
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Homelessness and Housing Advocacy The Role of Red-Tape Warriors

Homelessness and Housing Advocacy The Role of Red-Tape Warriors

Through compelling ethnography Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that govern the housing process. Combining in-depth interviews extensive fieldwork and the author’s own professional experience this book considers the perspective of social service providers who work with people experiencing homelessness and chronicles the steps they take to navigate the housing process. With assertive methods of worker-client advocacy at the center of its focus this book beckons attention to the many variables that affect professional attempts to house homeless populations. It conveys the challenges that social service providers encounter while fitting their clients into the criteria for housing eligibility the opposition they receive and the innovative approaches they ultimately take to optimize housing placements for their clients who are or were formerly experiencing homelessness. Weaving as it does between issues of poverty social inequality and social policy Homelessness and Housing Advocacy will appeal to courses in social work sociology and public policy and fill a void for early-career professionals in housing and community services. | Homelessness and Housing Advocacy The Role of Red-Tape Warriors

GBP 35.99
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Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine Patient Credibility Stigma and Misdiagnosis

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine Patient Credibility Stigma and Misdiagnosis

This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients’ credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework it explores health and mental illness across different conditions and across different methodological approaches. Extending work on ethos in clinical encounters and public discourse about biomedicine and presenting new research on the rhetoric of mental health stigma and mental illness the book explores how bias in clinical settings can lead to symptoms labelled in the patient’s head masking treatable medical problems. This notable contribution to the rhetoric of health and medicine will be of interest to all researchers and graduate students of rhetoric and composition studies rhetoric of health and medicine disability studies medical humanities communication and psychology. | Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine Patient Credibility Stigma and Misdiagnosis

GBP 38.99
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Digital Filter Design and Realization

Digital Filter Design and Realization

Analysis design and realization of digital filters have experienced major developments since the 1970s and have now become an integral part of the theory and practice in the field of contemporary digital signal processing. Digital Filter Design and Realization is written to present an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the analysis design and realization of digital filters. It is intended to be used as a text for graduate students as well as a reference book for practitioners in the field. Prerequisites for this book include basic knowledge of calculus linear algebra signal analysis and linear system theory. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Discrete-Time Systems and z-TransformationStability and Coefficient SensitivityState-Space ModelsFIR Digital Filter DesignFrequency-Domain Digital Filter DesignTime-Domain Digital Filter DesignInterpolated and Frequency-Response-Masking FIR Digital Filter DesignComposite Digital Filter DesignFinite Word Length EffectsCoefficient Sensitivity Analysis and MinimizationError Spectrum ShapingRoundoff Noise Analysis and MinimizationGeneralized Transposed Direct-Form IIBlock-State Realization

GBP 79.99
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Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

Create vibrant visual effects with Adobe After Effects. Gain the tips tricks and applied knowledge you need to carry out essential visual effects tasks and bring your digital compositing to the next level. In Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects industry veteran Lee Lanier covers all the common After Effects techniques any serious visual effects artist needs to know combining the latest professionally-vetted studio practices and workflows with multi-chapter projects and hands-on lessons. Engaging full-color tutorials cover: Altering resolutions and frame rates Channel and color space manipulation Rotoscoping and masking Matchmoving and motion tracking Keying green screen Working in the 3D environment and integrating 3D render passes Particle simulation Color grading and distressing Expressions and project management The companion website (www. focalpress. com/cw/lanier) features video image sequences 3D renders matte paintings and other tutorial materials allowing you to immediately apply the techniques taught in the book. | Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

GBP 145.00
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Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a how to book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera. The book focuses on four distinct areas: how to prepare the character how to execute the technical responsibilities that will assist the editor in creating the on-camera performance in post-production tips from industry professionals and how to create effective self-tape auditions. Part One: The Character’s World is packed with tools to analyze the script and fully prepare the character before arriving on set. Part Two: The Actor’s World focuses on developing technical acting skills for the camera that assist the pre- and post-production teams to create a dynamic on-screen performance. In Part Three: The Professional World industry professionals provide tips from inside the film/TV audition room and how to navigate a career in the acting business. The final section Part Four: Self-Tape Like a Pro outlines how to build a self-tape studio in the privacy of your own home and submit high-quality self-tape auditions that will help you stand out from the competition. Written for students enrolled in Acting for the Camera courses Acting for the Camera: Back to One explores techniques that can be practiced and mastered by actors of all levels from the moment they audition for the part through to when they hear that director call cut!

GBP 31.99
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop

Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop

If you already have a good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and are looking to advance your skills Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop is the book you've been waiting for. Renowned photographers Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe impart their Photoshop tips and workflow showing you how to use a vast array of rarely seen advanced Photoshop techniques. Whether the subject is serious retouching work weird and wonderful compositions or planning a shoot before you've even picked up a camera you can be sure that the advice is based on years of practical experience. Full of inspirational photographs and hundreds of full-color screenshots to show you how it's done this book features:-Advice on becoming a retouching master with advanced masking and compositing techniques-A detailed workflow for preparing your images for the best possible output showing you how to meet both deadline and budge without sacrificing quality-26 movie tutorials on the downloadable resources offering over 3 hours of movie contentThe ideal companion to Photoshop CS5 for Photographers this is a must-have resource for any serious user of Adobe Photoshop.

GBP 175.00
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Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook and Professional Guide to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook and Professional Guide to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

This empowering workbook and guide will help children and young people to develop a positive understanding of their autistic identity whilst providing key adults with the tools needed to support their journey and initiate important conversations. The workbook is highly structured and visual broken down into key sections such as Interests and Focus Masking Emotions and My Autistic Identity Statement to create a personal passport and to develop a deeper understanding of what autism means to the young person as an individual. The accompanying guide provides background information covering topics such as the social and medical models of disability and Monotropism as well as a clear approach to help the adult to initiate key conversations with examples of ‘possible prompts’ as well as concrete supportive strategies. Content has been shaped by autistic advisors and contributors with first-hand experiences woven throughout both books. Having a positive understanding of your autistic identity is an indicator of higher self-esteem and wellbeing as an adult. This set supports the development of this and will be valuable for autistic children and young people aged 10+ and the adults working with them. | Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook and Professional Guide to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

GBP 29.99
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PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers

PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers

Written for photographers of all levels PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers is packed with inspirational full-color images and easy-to-follow step-by-step projects that will have you producing great images in PaintShop Pro in no time! Everything you need to enhance and improve your digital photography is right here in this Corel endorsed guide. In this new edition Ken McMahon looks at the pros and cons of the new faster 64-bit version of the software and covers new features including working with the Instant Effects palette using the Smart selection brush mapping photos automatically tagging people and uploading to Facebook Flickr and Google plus. Other program features‘selections masking layers adjustments and effects HDR and scripting are explained through practical examples that are just as relevant for older versions of the software. This book has everything a photographer needs to take their photos to the next level with PaintShop Pro. Learn from PaintShop Pro expert Ken McMahon with the most authoritative book on PaintShop Pro endorsed by Corel. Completely revised and updated with all of the new features in X6 get up to speed with 64-bit processing power new selection tools workspace enhancements and much more. A complete learning package with full-color screen shots and examples and step-by-step projects at the end of each chapter.

GBP 180.00
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CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices

Let food be your medicine medicine your food. Hippocrates 2400 B. C. When the Father of Medicine uttered those famous words spices were as important for medicine embalming preserving food and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum cinnamon garlic ginger onion and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again as the economic costs and knowledge of the side-effects of prescription pharmaceuticals increase. After all each spice contains thousands of useful phytochemicals. Pharmaceuticals usually contain only one or two. Discover the Science behind the FolkloreSpices are important medicines that have withstood the empirical tests of millennia. Nearly 5 000 years ago Charak the father of Ayurvedic medicine claimed that garlic lightens the blood reduces tumors and is an aphrodisiac tonic. Today scientists say it thins the blood prevents cancer and increases libido. For centuries people worldwide have used spices to cure a myriad of ailments and to preserve foods. Now science is proving that these spices may preserve us with their antioxidant and antiseptic activities. Organized by scientific name the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices provides the science behind the folklore of over 60 popular spices. For each spice it lists:Scientific nameCommon nameMedicinal activities and indicationsMultiple activitiesOther uses especially culinaryCultivationChemistryImportant phytochemical constituents and their activitiesThe handbook also includes market and import data culinary uses ecology and cultural information and discusses at length the use of spices as antiseptics and antioxidants.

GBP 59.99
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Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

This empowering workbook will help children and young people to develop a positive understanding of their autistic identity. Highly structured and visual the workbook is broken down into key sections such as 'Interests and focus' 'Masking' 'Emotions and energy levels' and 'My autistic identity statement' to create a personal passport and to develop a deeper understanding of what autism means to the young person as an individual. Content has been shaped by autistic advisors and contributors with first-hand experiences of young people woven throughout. The workbook aims to encourage and build: An understanding of what autism is An understanding of what autism means to them (their autistic identity) A positive sense of self An acknowledgement of things that may be trickier A pride in being autistic. Having a positive understanding of your autistic identity is an indicator of higher self-esteem and wellbeing as an adult. This workbook supports the development of this and will be valuable for autistic children and young people aged 10+ and the adults working with them. It is designed to be used alongside the accompanying guide for most effective use which provides further support for the lead adult and a platform for initiating important conversations. For effective use this workbook should be purchased alongside the guide. Both books can purchased together as a set Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook and Professional Guide to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+ 9781032261027. | Autism Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

GBP 16.99
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Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison N Dhuibhne Hurston and Lavin

Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison N Dhuibhne Hurston and Lavin

Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers the author argues that these authors often employ strategies of indirection via folkloric expression when exploring unpopular topics. This strategy holds the attention of readers who would otherwise reject the subject matter. The author traces the line of descent from Mary Lavin to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and from Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison showing how obstacles to free expression though varying from those Lavin and Hurston faced are still encountered by Morrison and Ní Dhuibhne. The basis for comparing these authors lies in the strategies of indirection they use as influenced by folklore. The folkloric characters these authors depict-wild denizens of the Otherworld and wise women of various traditions-help their creators insert controversy into fiction in ways that charm rather than alienate readers. Forms of rhetorical indirection that appear in the context of folklore such as signifying practices masking sly civility and the grotesque or bizarre come out of the mouths and actions of these writers' magical and magisterial characters. Old traditions can offer new ways of discussing issues such as sexual expression religious beliefs or issues of reproduction. As differences between times and cultures affect what can and cannot be said folkloric indirection may open up a vista to discourses of which we as readers may not even be aware. Finally the folk women of Morrison Ní Dhuibhne Hurston and Lavin open up new points of entry to the discussion of fiction rhetoric censorship and folklore. | Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison N Dhuibhne Hurston and Lavin

GBP 39.99
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Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office—and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay. Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses on Ghana in depth a country often held up as an example of a successful two-party democracy with regular party changes in government. However it is unlikely that candidates and political parties are wealthy enough to finance the increasing costs of campaigns and constituent demands and successful democratic outcomes could be masking a system that actually hinders development progress. Drawing on nearly 200 interviews and extensive fieldwork this book posits that political funds are extracted by an iron square of politicians bureaucrats construction contractors and political-party chairs which rigs the procurement of local-development projects to generate kickbacks. The iron square remains robust across party changes in government due to reciprocity obligations that minimize contractors’ income risks. Ultimately this web of kickbacks diminishes the quality of development by reducing the funds available for projects and distorting incentives to monitor projects. To break this iron square the book recommends replacing sealed-bid procurement—a best practice that ignores on-the-ground realities—with a system that accounts for income stabilization and social obligations. Overall the book argues that scholars of development should advance research on political finance to identify and then alleviate the games that decision makers must play to survive in the political sphere. Political Financing in Developing Countries will be an important and timely resource for scholars across development studies politics economics and African Studies. | Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana

GBP 19.99
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Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

Humans being visually oriented are well versed in camouflage and how animals hide from predators that use vision to locate prey. However many predators do not hunt by sight; they hunt by scent. This raises the question: do survival mechanisms and behaviors exist which allow animals to hide from these olfactory predators? If so what are they and how do they work? Predator-Prey Dynamics: The Role of Olfaction examines environmental as well as biological and behavioral elements of both predators and prey to answer gaps in our current knowledge of the survival dynamics of species. Beginning with a thorough look at the mechanics of olfaction the author explains how predators detect locate and track their prey using odor trails on the ground or odor plumes in the air. Understanding the physics of airflow is the next step to understanding the potential for manipulating and masking scent. While a bush may conceal an animal visually from a predator it will not protect an animal from a predator using olfaction. To hide from the latter an animal needs to hide in locations where turbulence and updrafts will disperse its scent. The book addresses tradeoffs that animals must make given their dual needs to hide from predators and to procure food and water. Studies of mammalian and avian behavior provide examples on the actual use and efficacy of olfactory camouflage tactics. The book concludes with a redefinition of ecological terms based on the physics of airflow and a summary of the theory and implications of olfactory predator-prey dynamics. Introducing the mechanics of olfaction and its influence on the behavior of both predators and prey Predator-Prey Dynamics: The Role of Olfaction presents a new perception of the world and enables us to understand and more effectively manage the delicate survival dynamics of animals in the wild. | Predator-Prey Dynamics The Role of Olfaction

GBP 59.99
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Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

The intent of this book - the author's goal for you — is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. You read that correctly - almost all our fears - and therefore to discard them. The author has expertly coached leaders and managers in the discovery of examination of elimination of and sustained freedom from fears. We all know people who are charming and articulate but flounder on a stage addressing colleagues; musicians who master intricate scores but can’t play the basics when asked to solo; athletes who choke; business people who are strong until it comes time to ask for the business; people who consistently feel like imposters. We are far better at dealing with external tangible fears than our own imagined ones. We purchase insurance watch the safety demonstrations know how to use the Heimlich Maneuver. But those are responses to rare and often never-occurring emergencies. Our mythical and monstrous fears are daily dark clouds masking our talents no less than depression or guilt. It’s time to realize there is no monster under the bed never has been and never will be without having to check nightly and without needing a weapon on the night table. Picture yourself freed of restraints that you could never properly articulate and were loath to discuss but which you carried on your shoulders constantly a dead weight nonetheless. Essentially this book is for entrepreneurs business owners and those who seek a better position for themselves and their talents but who procrastinate delay and hang back. It’s about isolating and overcoming the internal fears that we generate every day like a geyser triggered by time events or shifts in the environment. We are our own worst enemies and we ignore the practical remedies to escape fear because we use our energies instead on blaming everyone else. | Fearless Leadership Overcoming Reticence Procrastination and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head

GBP 22.99
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Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

First published in 1985 this book gives an intimate account of the cultural-political conflict between Australian Aboriginal people and Anglo-Australians presenting the Australian social world from the perspective of the Aboriginal person. Adopting a rigorous ethnomethodological analysis and the techniques of ethnolinguistics Liberman looks at the interactional detail of the everyday life of traditionally oriented Australian Aboriginals. He uses tape transcripts of actual interaction to identify chief characteristics of Aboriginal social life. Liberman goes on to show how differences in systems of interaction have influenced relations between Australian Aboriginals and Anglo-Australians. With its account of the politics of cultural conflict in a multi-cultural environment this book is an apt extension of ethnomethodological issues to political concerns. It also exposes Aboriginal perceptions of Anglo-Australian/Aboriginal interaction to a degree not previously achieved in any sociological or anthropological study. As such this book will be a valuable case study to students of social anthropology race relations intercultural communication and sociolinguistics. | Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

GBP 32.99
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Language Interaction and National Identity Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-in-Interaction

Language Interaction and National Identity Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-in-Interaction

Contemporary political and public discourse has come alive with the issues and conflicts surrounding questions of national identity. Despite the widespread sociological attention it has drawn as a result most studies of national identity have been conducted at considerable analytical distance from the lived reality of national identity talk. This collection brings together the work of contemporary researchers situating the talk and interaction in which national identities are actually expressed and used. The book presents detailed investigations of how persons actually use national identity in their talk the interactional uses to which such expressions are put and the interactional consequences of such identity talk. The studies are based on transcribed tape recordings of naturally occurring talk across a variety of different countries and settings illuminating not only situated national identity talk as a phenomenon in its own right but also providing empirically grounded research for traditional sociological theorising about issues of integration devolution and exclusion. | Language Interaction and National Identity Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity in Talk-in-Interaction

GBP 42.99
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On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews revealing in these two volumes the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films. The interviews were produced and edited by Ron Diamond. Your job is not to be the one with the answers. You should be the one that gets the answers. That’s your job. You need to make friends and get to know your crew. These folks are your talent your bag of tricks. And that’s where you’re going to find answers to the big problems - Andrew Stanton It’s hard. Yet the pain you go through to get what you need for your film enriches you and it enriches the film. – Brenda Chapman Frank and Ollie always used to say that great character animation contains movement that is generated by the character’s thought process. It can’t be plain movement. – John Lasseter The beauty of clay is that it doesn’t have to be too polished or too smooth and sophisticated. You don’t want it to be mechanical and lifeless. – Nick Park The good thing about animation is that tape is very cheap. Let the actor try things. This is where animation gets to play with spontaneity. You want to capture that line as it has never been said before. And most likely if you asked the actor to do it again he or she just can’t repeat that exact performance. But you got it. – Ron Clements | On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

GBP 43.99
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Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

Updates and addendum for the new version of FCPX (10. 0. 3) are available on the companion website fcpxbook. com. Are you an iMovie or Final Cut Express user ready to make the jump to Final Cut Pro? If so look no further. Take your movies to the next level with this easy-to-follow hand-on guide from one of the preeminent Apple trainers in the world today. Author Tom Wolsky starts with the basics of Final Cut Pro X allowing you to easily make the leap from Final Cut Express or iMovie then gradually introduces you to more complex techniques with step-by-step tutorials. Tom specifically shows you how certain techniques and concepts you utilized in iMovie and Final Cut Express translate to Final Cut Pro. More than a button-pushing manual this editing workshop gives your firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing with Final Cut Pro. It includes in-depth information on the application's features interface elements and tools. You will develop a working knowledge of the principles and methods taught in film schools with tutorials that covers the essentials: . Nuances of system set-up to ensure smooth operation . Getting your tape-based and file-based AVCHD and DSLR media into Final Cut Pro and getting it organized . Editing to build and trim a sequence of shots. Working with audio split edits back-timing and level control . Adding transitions. Final Cut Pro titling tools. Color correction image animation and special effects . Compositing to enhance your projects . Outputting your material | Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

GBP 145.00
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Influence of Temperature on Microelectronics and System Reliability A Physics of Failure Approach

Influence of Temperature on Microelectronics and System Reliability A Physics of Failure Approach

This book raises the level of understanding of thermal design criteria. It provides the design team with sufficient knowledge to help them evaluate device architecture trade-offs and the effects of operating temperatures. The author provides readers a sound scientific basis for system operation at realistic steady state temperatures without reliability penalties. Higher temperature performance than is commonly recommended is shown to be cost effective in production for life cycle costs. The microelectronic package considered in the book is assumed to consist of a semiconductor device with first-level interconnects that may be wirebonds flip-chip or tape automated bonds; die attach; substrate; substrate attach; case; lid; lid seal; and lead seal. The temperature effects on electrical parameters of both bipolar and MOSFET devices are discussed and models quantifying the temperature effects on package elements are identified. Temperature-related models have been used to derive derating criteria for determining the maximum and minimum allowable temperature stresses for a given microelectronic package architecture. The first chapter outlines problems with some of the current modeling strategies. The next two chapters present microelectronic device failure mechanisms in terms of their dependence on steady state temperature temperature cycle temperature gradient and rate of change of temperature at the chip and package level. Physics-of-failure based models used to characterize these failure mechanisms are identified and the variabilities in temperature dependence of each of the failure mechanisms are characterized. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the effects of temperature on the performance characteristics of MOS and bipolar devices. Chapter 6 discusses using high-temperature stress screens including burn-in for high-reliability applications. The burn-in conditions used by some manufacturers are examined and a physics-of-failure approach is described. The | Influence of Temperature on Microelectronics and System Reliability A Physics of Failure Approach

GBP 59.99
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Managing Global Supply Chains Contemporary Global Challenges in Supply Chain Management

Managing Global Supply Chains Contemporary Global Challenges in Supply Chain Management

What are the key factors affecting global supply chains today and how can we manage them? Starting from the concept that 'there is no point driving a Ferrari in a traffic jam' Ron Basu provides practical tools and techniques of good supply chain management to add value deliver cost reduction and improve customer satisfaction. This new edition specifically focuses on seven contemporary challenges that have affected global supply chain management. Recent disruptions to global supply chains created by COVID-19 and the Ukraine conflict have resulted in significant geographical shifts in supply and demand. High inflation and the cost of living crisis have in turn created problems for finely-tuned global supply chains. The economic and business environment has also become more demanding due in part to political pressures including nationalism and Brexit: for example supply chain pressures caused by Brexit have resulted in increased red tape. Other factors have had a gradual and positive effect such as climate change initiatives Industry 4. 0 and the digital revolution. The issues that affect the performance of global supply chains are sometimes interrelated but all of them really matter because businesses have become increasingly global. This book addresses these challenges and explores how to deal with them. In addition there are new and updated chapters on lean and agile supply chains e-business emerging markets sustainability and green issues global supply chains for services and event management retail management and major project management. Managing Global Supply Chains is a practical and highly readable text with real-life examples and excellent coverage. It is an ideal companion for post-experience business students learning professionals and anyone interested in supply chain management. | Managing Global Supply Chains Contemporary Global Challenges in Supply Chain Management

GBP 59.99
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Small Signal Audio Design

Small Signal Audio Design

Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. The publication of Electronics for Vinyl has freed up space for new material (though this book still contains a lot on moving-magnet and moving-coil electronics) and this fully revised third edition offers wholly new chapters on tape machines guitar electronics and variable-gain amplifiers plus much more. A major theme is the use of inexpensive and readily available parts to obtain state-of-the-art performance for noise distortion crosstalk frequency response accuracy and other parameters. Virtually every page reveals nuggets of specialized knowledge not found anywhere else. For example you can improve the offness of a fader simply by adding a resistor in the right place- if you know the right place. Essential points of theory that bear on practical audio performance are lucidly and thoroughly explained with the mathematics kept to an absolute minimum. Self’s background in design for manufacture ensures he keeps a wary eye on the cost of things. This book features the engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books. You will learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea the pitfalls of plating gold on copper and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion use humble low-gain transistors to make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 megohms transform the performance of low-cost-opamps build active filters with very low noise and distortion make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics by using load synthesis sum switch clip compress and route audio signals be confident that phase perception is not an issue This expanded and updated third edition contains extensive new material on optimising RIAA equalisation electronics for ribbon microphones summation of noise sources defining system frequency response loudness controls and much more. Including all the crucial theory but with minimal mathematics Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying researching or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.

GBP 74.99
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