This book includes within its scope studies of the structural, electrical, optical and acoustical properties of bulk, low-dimensional and amorphous...

This book focuses on superconductivity which is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low...

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made progress implementing reforms to the Lifeline Program (Lifeline), which reduces the cost of te...

The book begins with four introductory chapters devoted to Boolean algebraic functions and Binary Decision Diagrams. The rest of the book is based ...

This book provides an up-to-date report on the recent advances in theory and experiment of the unconventional copper-oxide (known as cuprate) and i...

The statistical characteristics of wireless Internet traffic is very interesting and complicated. New tools and concepts are needed to address the ...

America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum. The world is going...

Telecommunications media include radio, cable, satellite services, multimedia, the Internet, cable TV, telephony, broadcast radio and TV. This book...

The growing concern over adolescent health has triggered debate and increasing attention about the role of health education. This book illustrates ...

Wireless technologies and applications are becoming one of the fastest growing and most promising areas in recent years. To accommodate data transm...

Today, the state of the art antenna technology allows the use of different types and models of antennas, depending on the area of application consi...

Through a variety of new mobile applications ("apps"), technology is rapidly changing the way consumers shop. Today's mobile apps offer new benefic...

Millions of Americans currently use mobile devices (eg: cellphones, smartphones, and tablet computers) on a daily basis to communicate, obtain inte...

Mobile Multimedia is defined as a set of protocols and standards for multimedia information exchange over wireless networks. Therefore the book is ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has worked on privacy issues for over forty years, and in 2000 began considering the privacy implications raised...

Robots or biological intelligent machines are characterised by open, adaptive systems which have autonomy and hierarchical structure. In recent yea...

This book deals with control and learning in robotic systems.

This book is intended to discuss the latest mobile interface design beyond the desktop interface design environment, an area of research that is in...

The purpose of this book is to show the main techniques and strategies needed to design and model simple and complex photonic devices, which can be...

The authors hereafter study the modelling of composite multi-layered piezoelectric plates. Their theory is based on an hybrid approach, where the m...

The underlying systems of 911 calls today operate almost exclusively on analogue technology, using an architecture of circuits and switches develop...

The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a device used to amplify or switch electronic signals. It is...