These applications have, in turn, stimulated research into new Monte Carlo methods and renewed interest in some older techniques.This book develops the use... Læs mere
Using the most popular commercially made filter gratings – Rainbow Optics (US) and Star Analyzer (UK) – as examples, this book provides the reader with information on how to set up and use the grating one needs to obtain stellar spectrograms.
This handbook gathers the many elements of this burgeoning field and organizes them into a concise, powerful, dynamic knowledge base - theory, research, and applications. Its chapters are written by leading experts, including the primary developers of PBS.
Stochastic Calculus for Finance evolved from the first ten years of the Carnegie Mellon Professional Master's program in Computational Finance.
From the reviews: "! The notes and problems at the end of each chapter are very helpful. [!] In the final analysis, the book is definitely worth owning. [!] It is an extremely well written -- but unusual -- book that I highly recommend for all physicists." The Physics Teacher
The Bone Book: An Orthopedic Pocket Manual is a complete guide to the essentials of orthopedics in today's busy hospital and outpatient settings.
This comprehensive textbook, covering all aspects of the perioperative management of patients undergoing organ transplantation, serves as the... Læs mere
Each chapter focuses on a particular technique, but the book as a whole covers all types of astronomical image processing, including processing of events such as eclipses, using DSLRs, and deep-sky, planetary, widefield, and high resolution astronomical image processing.
The field of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), also termed multiple criteria decision aid, or multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), has developed rapidly over the past quarter century and in the process a number of divergent schools of thought have emerged.
This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed with... Læs mere
Complete with hundreds of color illustrations, The Atlas of Strabismus Surgery, Fourth Edition covers the management of a wide range of strabismus disorders, from the relatively simple horizontal strabismus, to the complex cyclo-vertical deviations.
IN 1959-61, while the huge Saarinen-designed research laboratory at Yorktown Heights was being built, much of IBM's Research was housed nearby. My group occupied one of the many little houses on the Lamb Estate complex which had been a sanatorium housing wealthy alcoholics.