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Gives the reader a very good insight of the latest enhancements in 3G.

Awesome book about understanding African Psyche. People of color throughout the world should read it.

This book presents a new domain, whose applications might be greatly increased in the coming years. Construction of peptidomimetic molecules it a useful tool for the development of new drugs. The major drawback of peptides as possible drugs is their poor bioavailability and their degradation in the body. Therefore, molecules resembling the tertiary structures of interesting peptides, but having more suitable bioavailability properties might proove very useful as candidate drugs. That is why this discipline is very promising. To date, i haven't found any text books addressing this issue, this book might be the first one. I liked the fact that its contents cover many medical domains. However, I would have liked that the authors have addressed the problem of increasing bacterial resistance, the need to develop new antibacterials, and eventually the possible role of peptidomimetics in that field. Another thing that i would have liked to find in the contents, is a brief review on the phage display technique, its potential of finding useful peptides that might serve for the construction of peptidomimetics.

I am a graduate student doing research using HPLC. I assay specific amino acid and this book gave me practical information in details. It was really helpful when I started my project and if you are in the field of chromatographiy just take a look.

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This book discusses some CPU/computer architecture designs and design principles which should be considered advanced not only for the year of publishing (1982) but for today and for the future also. The book starts with discussion of semantic gap between mechanisms presented by real programming languages and real computers. The book also introduces different measures which can be applied to binary programs e.g. program size, number of bytes transferred etc. It's easily seen that semantic gap impacts software reliability but what's more interesting advanced designs not only minimize this gap improving software reliability and reducing development effort but also improve all the measures of binary applications. The book proves this comparing real IBM System 360 Model 158 with imaginary PL/1 machine implementing subset of PL/1 language and more general SWARD machine. The numbers characterizing advances of the later two are very impressive. It seems that the book can be easily overwritten today with references to C or Java and Pentium or UltraSPARC without changing the conclusion. Some real designs are pictured: forgotten today iAPX432 (which seems had given i286 its memory management), research database machines etc. Author (mostly taken from RadiSys web site) - Glen Myers - President and CEO of RadiSys which he founded in 1987. Prior to that, he held management positions at Intel in the microprocessor components area. Among other things, he was responsible for the definition of the i386 and i960 processors, and he holds three patents on the chip design of the i960. Prior to joining Intel, Myers was with IBM for 13 years, at the IBM Poughkeepsie laboratory and the IBM Systems Research Institute. He is the author of eight books on computer architecture and software engineering (including often mentioned "The Art of Software Testing (1979)". The book is good written and easily read (at least in its Russian translation which is the only one I could read about ten years ago). Since I missed somewhere the first part of it (it was in two volumes in Russian) and don't have the second at hand probably I missed something and I'm not sure for correct spelling SWARD / SWORD for which I couldn't find any reference on the web. I guess the book is worth reading for students in CS and CPU/system designers and all those strange people dealing with computer systems design preferring to think of the things happening not taking ads as definitive source of information. Also it's a good piece of information for those interested in technology/computer history, analyzis and forecasting.

The conference was actually held in Queenstown, New Zealand --NOT
Singapore.

It's very good for me as a space worker when trying to analyze datas and pictures from any source.

Although the papers are categorized into "theory" and "applications", all papers are quite practice-oriented. The first 23 "theoretical" papers present various sub-fields of EC while still providing good entries to the applications of these sub-fields. The other 17 papers focus on the application of EC techniques on very specific problems, be they combinatorial or mostly applied.

The papers are quite well written so that reading from cover to cover is possible without getting a headache...A very good book to get an idea of the applications of EC on real problems.

Advances in Fingerprint Technology edited by Henry C. Lee and R.E. Gaensslen is a specialized book that focuses on the science of fingerprinting. It is an anthology of selected works by recognized experts in the field and includes a chapter by Lee and Gaensslen. The text highlights historical events, fingerprint classification basics, matching latent impression methods, use of laser enhancement, digital image processing techniques and computer applications in AFIS systems. It also examines the development of latent fingerprints by using the application of powders, chemical treatments and fuming compounds. In addition, the text includes a discussion of numerous reagents and chemical compounds for locating latent prints. Easy instructions are given for mixing and using reagents as well as a thorough discussion of the chemical reactions involved. The concluding chapter includes suggestions for testifying in court as an expert witness. This book could be used as a reference to determine methods for developing latent prints, and resourceful defense and prosecuting attorneys could use this text as a reference in preparing their cases. Moreover, fingerprint technicians and forensic scientists would find it helpful in determining which methods would be useful in obtaining latent prints. Forensic science laboratories and identification divisions in law enforcement agencies would also find this text a beneficial reference to have available. It contains a plethora of references for those seeking additional background and information on the topic. Anyone who has an interest in forensic science would find this text not only well documented but informative.