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Game Design Deep Dive: Horror

Game Design Deep Dive: Horror

The Game Design Deep Dive series examines a specific game system or mechanic over the course of the history of the industry. This entry will examine the history and design of the horror genre and elements in video games. The author analyzes early video game examples including the differences between survival action-horror and psychological horror. Thanks to recent hits like Five Night’s at Freddy’s Bendy and the Ink Machine and recent Resident Evil titles the horror genre has seen a strong resurgence. For this book in the Game Design Deep Dive series Joshua Bycer will go over the evolution of horror in video games and game design and what it means to create a terrifying and chilling experience. FEATURES • Written for anyone interested in the horror genre anyone who wants to understand game design or anyone simply curious from a historical standpoint • Includes real game examples to highlight the discussed topics and mechanics • Explores the philosophy and aspects of horror that can be applied to any medium • Serves as a perfect companion for someone building their first game or as part of a game design classroom Joshua Bycer is a game design critic with more than eight years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. In that time through Game-Wisdom he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games. He also strives to raise awareness about the importance of studying game design by giving lectures and presentations. His first book was 20 Essential Games to Study. He continues to work on the Game Design Deep Dive series. | Game Design Deep Dive: Horror

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Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

This text provides a concise and practical guide to timber design using both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It suits students in civil structural and construction engineering programs as well as engineering technology and architecture programs and also serves as a valuable resource for the practicing engineer. The examples based on real-world design problems reflect a holistic view of the design process that better equip the reader for timber design in practice. This new editionnow includes the LRFD method with some design examples using LRFD for joists girders and axially load members. is based on the 2015 NDS and 2015 IBC model code. includes a more in-depth discussion of framing and framing systems commonly used in practice such as metal plate connected trusses rafter and collar tie framing and pre-engineered framing. includes sample drawings drawing notes and specifications that might typically be used in practice. includes updated floor joist span charts that are more practical and are easy to use. includes a chapter on practical considerations covering topics like flitch beams wood poles used for footings reinforcement of existing structures and historical data on wood properties. includes a section on long span and high rise wood structuresincludes an enhanced student design project | Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

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Game Design Tools Cognitive Psychological and Practical Approaches

Game Design Tools Cognitive Psychological and Practical Approaches

This book provides a series of transdisciplinary tools to help game designers improve their design pipeline and design output. Using approaches from psychology anthropology and sociology it offers practical tools for all the main aspects of game design from conception through to testing. Drawing on game design theory the book looks at the relationship between game design and other disciplines to create a toolbox of modern tools for game designers. It covers archetypes praxeology behavioural game design and emotional game design. Covering a wide breadth of content the book includes chapters on: Documentation Production Evaluation Analysis and Marketing tools This book will be of great interest to students on game design courses as well as early-career game designers and those looking to break into the industry. It will also be of interest to more experienced game designers looking for new game design tools. | Game Design Tools Cognitive Psychological and Practical Approaches

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Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2

Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2

The design of structures in general and prestressed concrete structures in particular requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members and structures both at service loads and at ultimate loads and in doing so provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to structural design. Much of the text is based on first principles and relies only on the principles of mechanics and the properties of concrete and steel with numerous worked examples. However where the design requirements are code specific this book refers to the provisions of Eurocode 2: Design of Concrete Structures and where possible the notation is the same as in Eurocode 2. A parallel volume is written to the Australian Standard for Concrete Structures AS3600-2009. The text runs from an introduction to the fundamentals to in-depth treatments of more advanced topics in modern prestressed concrete structures. It suits senior undergraduate and graduate students and also practising engineers who want comprehensive introduction to the design of prestressed concrete structures. It retains the clear and concise explanations and the easy-to-read style of the first edition but the content has been extensively re-organised and considerably expanded and updated. New chapters cover design procedures actions and loads; prestressing systems and construction requirements; connections and detailing; and design concepts for prestressed concrete bridges. The topic of serviceability is developed extensively throughout. All the authors have been researching and teaching the behaviour and design of prestressed concrete structures for over thirty-five years and the proposed new edition of the book reflects this wealth of experience. The work has also gained much from Professor Gilbert active and long-time involvement in the development of standards for concrete buildings and concrete bridges. | Design of Prestressed Concrete to Eurocode 2

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Business Process Modeling Simulation and Design

Business Process Modeling Simulation and Design

Business Process Modeling Simulation and Design Third Edition provides students with a comprehensive coverage of a range of analytical tools used to model analyze understand and ultimately design business processes. The new edition of this very successful textbook includes a wide range of approaches such as graphical flowcharting tools cycle time and capacity analyses queuing models discrete-event simulation simulation-optimization and data mining for process analytics. While most textbooks on business process management either focus on the intricacies of computer simulation or managerial aspects of business processes this textbook does both. It presents the tools to design business processes and management techniques on operating them efficiently. The book focuses on the use of discrete event simulation as the main tool for analyzing modeling and designing effective business processes. The integration of graphic user-friendly simulation software enables a systematic approach to create optimal designs.

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Game Design Deep Dive Role Playing Games

Game Design Deep Dive Role Playing Games

Game Design Critic Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series to discuss the Role-Playing Game genre. Arguably one of the most recognizable in the industry today what is and what isn’t an RPG has changed over the years. From the origins in the tabletop market to now having its design featured all over it is one of the most popular genres to draw inspiration from and build games around. This is a genre that looks easy from the outside to make but requires understanding a variety of topics to do right. A breakdown of RPG mechanics and systems perfect for anyone wanting to study or make one themselves The history of the genre – from tabletop beginnings to its worldwide appeal The reach of the genre – a look at just some of the many different takes on RPGs that have grown over the past 40 years An examination of how RPG systems can be combined with other designs to create brand new takes | Game Design Deep Dive Role Playing Games

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Microwave Integrated Circuit Components Design through MATLAB

Microwave Integrated Circuit Components Design through MATLAB

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPONENTS DESIGN THROUGH MATLAB® This book teaches the student community microwave integrated circuit component design through MATLAB® helping the reader to become conversant in using codes and thereafter commercial software for verification purposes only. Microwave circuit theory and its comparisons transmission line networks S-parameters ABCD parameters basic design parameters of planar transmission lines (striplines microstrips slot lines coplanar waveguides finlines) filter theory Smith chart inverted Smith chart stability circles noise figure circles and microwave components are thoroughly explained in the book. The chapters are planned in such a way that readers get a thorough understanding to ensure expertise in design. Aimed at senior undergraduates graduates and researchers in electrical engineering electromagnetics microwave circuit design and communications engineering this book: • Explains basic tools for design and analysis of microwave circuits such as the Smith chart and network parameters • Gives the advantage of realizing the output without wiring the circuit by simulating through MATLAB code • Compares distributed theory with network theory • Includes microwave components filters and amplifiers S. Raghavan was a Senior Professor (HAG) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy India and has 39 years of teaching and research experience at the Institute. His interests include: microwave integrated circuits RF MEMS Bio MEMS metamaterial frequency selective surfaces (FSS) substrate integrated waveguides (SIW) biomedical engineering and microwave engineering. He has established state-of-the-art MICs and microwave research laboratories at NIT Trichy with funding from the Indian government. He is a Fellow/Senior Member in more than 24 professional societies including: IEEE (MTT EMBS APS) IETE IEI CSI TSI ISSS ILA and ISOI. He is twice a recipient of the Best Teacher Award and has received the Life Time Achievement Award Distinguished Professor of Microwave Integrated Circuit Award and Best Researcher Award.

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Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials

Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials

With new statistical and scientific issues arising in adaptive clinical trial design including the U. S. FDA’s recent draft guidance a new edition of one of the first books on the topic is needed. Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials Second Edition reflects recent developments and regulatory positions on the use of adaptive designs in clinical trials. It unifies the vast and continuously growing literature and research activities on regulatory requirements scientific and practical issues and statistical methodology. New to the Second EditionAlong with revisions throughout the text this edition significantly updates the chapters on protocol amendment and clinical trial simulation to incorporate the latest changes. It also includes five entirely new chapters on two-stage adaptive design biomarker adaptive trials target clinical trials sample size and power estimation and regulatory perspectives. Following in the tradition of its acclaimed predecessor this second edition continues to offer an up-to-date resource for clinical scientists and researchers in academia regulatory agencies and the pharmaceutical industry. Written in an intuitive style at a basic mathematical and statistical level the book maintains its practical approach with an emphasis on concepts via numerous examples and illustrations.

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Curved-Folding Origami Design

Curved-Folding Origami Design

The origami introduced in this book is based on simple techniques. Some were previously known by origami artists and some were discovered by the author. Curved-Folding Origami Design shows a way to explore new area of origami composed of curved folds. Each technique is introduced in a step-by-step fashion followed by some beautiful artwork examples. A commentary explaining the theory behind the technique is placed at the end of each chapter. Features Explains the techniques for designing curved-folding origami in seven chapters Contains many illustrations and photos (over 140 figures) with simple instructions Contains photos of 24 beautiful origami artworks as well as their crease patterns Some basic theories behind the techniques are introduced

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Creative Character Design for Games and Animation

Creative Character Design for Games and Animation

This book takes you through all the basic steps of character design for games and animation from brainstorming and references to the development phase and final render. It covers a range of styles such as cartoon stylized and semi-realistic and explains how to differentiate between them and use them effectively. Using a step-by-step approach for each stage of the process this book guides you through the process of creating a new character from scratch. It contains a wealth of design tips and tricks as well as checklists and worksheets for you to use in your own projects. This book covers how to work with briefs as well as providing advice and practical strategies for working with clients and creating art as a product that can be tailored and sold. This book will be a valuable resource for all junior artists hobby artists and art students looking to develop and improve their character development skills for games and animation. | Creative Character Design for Games and Animation

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Advanced VLSI Design and Testability Issues

Advanced VLSI Design and Testability Issues

This book facilitates the VLSI-interested individuals with not only in-depth knowledge but also the broad aspects of it by explaining its applications in different fields including image processing and biomedical. The deep understanding of basic concepts gives you the power to develop a new application aspect which is very well taken care of in this book by using simple language in explaining the concepts. In the VLSI world the importance of hardware description languages cannot be ignored as the designing of such dense and complex circuits is not possible without them. Both Verilog and VHDL languages are used here for designing. The current needs of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) including low power devices and new emerging materials which can play a very important role in achieving new functionalities are the most interesting part of the book. The testing of VLSI circuits becomes more crucial than the designing of the circuits in this nanometer technology era. The role of fault simulation algorithms is very well explained and its implementation using Verilog is the key aspect of this book. This book is well organized into 20 chapters. Chapter 1 emphasizes on uses of FPGA on various image processing and biomedical applications. Then the descriptions enlighten the basic understanding of digital design from the perspective of HDL in Chapters 2–5. The performance enhancement with alternate material or geometry for silicon-based FET designs is focused in Chapters 6 and 7. Chapters 8 and 9 describe the study of bimolecular interactions with biosensing FETs. Chapters 10–13 deal with advanced FET structures available in various shapes materials such as nanowire HFET and their comparison in terms of device performance metrics calculation. Chapters 14–18 describe different application-specific VLSI design techniques and challenges for analog and digital circuit designs. Chapter 19 explains the VLSI testability issues with the description of simulation and its categorization into logic and fault simulation for test pattern generation using Verilog HDL. Chapter 20 deals with a secured VLSI design with hardware obfuscation by hiding the IC’s structure and function which makes it much more difficult to reverse engineer. | Advanced VLSI Design and Testability Issues

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GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations. With new features and significant updates that address these changes this edition remains faithful to the original vision that cartography instruction should be software agnostic. Discussing map design theory and technique rather than map design tools this book focuses on digital cartography and its best practices. This third edition has completely new sections on how to deal with maps that go viral and the ethics therein; new presentation ideas; new features such as amenities climate data and hazards; the new Equal Earth projection; and vector tile design considerations. All chapters are thoroughly updated with new illustrations and new sections for datasets that didn’t exist when the second edition was published as well as new techniques and trends in cartography. New in the third edition: A true textbook written with a friendly style and excellent examples explaining everything from layout design to fonts and colors to specific design considerations for individual feature types to static and dynamic cartography issues. Thoroughly updated with new features such as points of interest climate data hazards and buildings; new projections such as the Equal Earth projection and the Spilhaus projection; and vector tile design considerations such as label placement techniques and tricks for making world-class basemaps. Includes over 70 new map examples that display the latest techniques in cartography. Reflects on new developments in color palettes; visualization patterns; datums; and non-static output media such as animation interaction and large-format cinematic techniques that weren’t available for the second edition. Defines and illustrates new terms that have made their way into the profession over the last few years such as story maps flow maps Dorling cartograms spec sheets bivariate choropleths firefly cartography Tanaka contours and value-by-alpha. In this third edition author Gretchen Peterson takes a don’t let the technology get in the way approach to the presentation focusing on the elements of good design what makes a good map and how to get there rather than specific software tools. She provides a reference that you can thumb through time and again as you create your maps. Copiously illustrated the third edition explores novel concepts that kick-start your pursuit of map-making excellence. The book doesn’t just teach you how to design and create good maps it teaches you how to design and create superior maps. | GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

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Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

This overview of the analysis and design of buildings runs from basic principles and elementary structural analysis to the selection of structural systems and materials and on to foundations and retaining structures. It presents a variety of approaches and methodologies while featuring realistic design examples. As a comprehensive guide and desk reference for practicing structural and civil engineers and for engineering students it draws on the author’s teaching experience at The City College of New York and his work as a design engineer and architect. It is especially useful for those taking the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying SE exam. | Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

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Force: Animal Drawing Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators

Force: Animal Drawing Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators

This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and an enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for your library. Readers will also adapt key industry techniques that will help personify animal animations as well as endowing their creations with human-like expressions and unique animal movement. content can be found at DrawingFORCE. com Key Features: • This full-color 10th Anniversary Edition makes FORCE even easier to understand through great diagrams and illustrations • Color-coded page edges help you find more easily the animal you want to draw • Learn about key specifications for each mammal such as their weight range food they eat and how fast they run • Video content can be found at DrawingFORCE. com | Force: Animal Drawing Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators

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Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

The competition between airports demands higher-quality services to satisfy passengers. A Baggage Handling System (BHS) serves functions such as baggage sorting screening and storage. A successful BHS means bags move between areas as travellers do. Handlers load/unload bags and transfer them between the airport's areas. Automation can save money and bring safety and operational benefits. Warehouses as well as the automotive industry are more advanced technologically in comparison to the airport and especially the baggage handling business. The concept of the Baggage Factory (BF) is an approach (based on Industry 4. 0) that simplifies the processes from the moment passengers drop off their bags at check-in till the destination (chutes carousels and so forth). Airport Baggage Handling Systems: Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes introduces the features of the BF concept and presents how BHS designers can use AI technology to tackle many BHS problems and concerns. The book bridges the gap between airport BHS designers and experts in AI and optimisation. It describes in detail the field of baggage handling using algorithms for sorting bags or optimising the flow. The way the systems are designed is discussed and a behind-the-scenes look at the BHS industry and how it affects the daily lives of travellers is presented. International and multidisciplinary in approach this book is an ideal resource for practitioners students and researchers involved in the air transportation industry Tourism Systems Engineering Layout and Design Artificial Intelligence Assembly Automation and Logistics fields. | Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

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3D Printing Technology Applications and Selection

3D Printing Technology Applications and Selection

3D Printing is a faster more cost-effective method for building prototypes from three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawings. 3D Printing provides a fundamental overview of the general product design and manufacturing process and presents the technology and application for designing and fabricating parts in a format that makes learning easy. This user-friendly book clearly covers the 3D printing process for designers teachers students and hobbyists and can also be used as a reference book in a product design and process development. | 3D Printing Technology Applications and Selection

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Deep Excavations in Soil

Deep Excavations in Soil

The book describes the theory and current practices for design of earth lateral support for deep excavations in soil. It addresses basic principles of soil mechanics and explains how these principles are embodied in design methods including hand calculations. It then introduces the use of numerical methods including the fundamental “beam on springs” models and then more sophisticated computer programmes which can model soil as a continuum in two or three dimensions. Constitutive relationships are introduced that are in use for representing the behaviour of soil including a strain hardening model and a Cam Clay model including groundwater flow and coupled consolidation. These methods are illustrated by reference to practical applications and case histories from the author’s direct experience and some of the pitfalls that can occur are discussed. Theory and design are strongly tied to construction practice with emphasis on monitoring the retaining structures and movement of surrounding ground and structures in the context of safety and the Observational Method. Examples are presented for conventional “Bottom-up” and “Top-down” sequences along with hybrid sequences giving tips on how to optimise the design and effect economies of cost and time for construction. It is written for practising geotechnical civil and structural engineers and especially for senior and MSc students.

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Branching Story Unlocked Dialogue Designing and Writing Visual Novels

Branching Story Unlocked Dialogue Designing and Writing Visual Novels

This book covers the distinguishing characteristics and tropes of visual novels (VNs) as choice-based games and analyzes VNs like 999: Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors; Hatoful Boyfriend; and Monster Prom some of the best examples of the genre as illustrations. The author covers structuring branching narrative and plot designing impactful and compelling choices writing entertaining relationships and character interactions understanding the importance of a VN’s prose and planning a VN’s overall narrative design and story delivery. The book contains exercises at the end of chapters to practice the techniques discussed. By the end of the book if the reader finishes all the exercises they may have several portfolio pieces or a significant portion of their own VN project designed. Features: Discusses different aspects and genres of VNs what makes them enjoyable and successful techniques developers can incorporate into their own games Analyzes various VNs and choice-based games that use these successful techniques Shares tips from developers on portfolio pieces hiring a team to work on VNs and plotting and outlining VNs Branching Story Unlocked Dialogue: Designing and Writing Visual Novels is a valuable resource for developers and narrative designers interested in working on VNs. The book will show them how they can design their own VN projects design branching narratives develop entertaining plots and relationships design impactful and compelling choices and write prose that’s a pleasure to read. | Branching Story Unlocked Dialogue Designing and Writing Visual Novels

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Precast Concrete Structures

Precast Concrete Structures

This second edition of Precast Concrete Structures introduces the conceptual design ideas for the prefabrication of concrete structures and presents a number of worked examples that translate designs from BS 8110 to Eurocode EC2 before going into the detail of the design manufacture and construction of precast concrete multi-storey buildings. Detailed structural analysis of precast concrete and its use is provided and some details are presented of recent precast skeletal frames of up to forty storeys. The theory is supported by numerous worked examples to Eurocodes and European Product Standards for precast reinforced and prestressed concrete elements composite construction joints and connections and frame stability together with extensive specifications for precast concrete structures. The book is extensively illustrated with over 500 photographs and line drawings.

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Traffic and Pavement Engineering

Traffic and Pavement Engineering

Traffic and Pavement Engineering presents the latest engineering concepts techniques practices principles standard procedures and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate traffic systems road pavement structures and alternative transportation systems to ultimately achieve greater safety sustainability efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It provides in-depth coverage of the major areas of transportation engineering and includes a broad range of practical problems and solutions related to theory concepts practice and applications. Solutions for each problem follow step-by-step procedures that include the theory and the derivation of the formulas and computations where applicable. Additionally numerical methods linear algebraic methods and least squares regression techniques are presented to assist in problem solving. Features: Presents coverage of major areas in transportation engineering: traffic engineering and pavement materials analysis and design. Provides solutions to numerous practical problems in traffic and pavement engineering including terminology theory practice computation and design. Offers downloadable and user-friendly MS Excel spreadsheets as well as numerical methods and optimization tools and techniques. Includes several practical case studies throughout. Utilizes a unique approach in presenting the different topics of transportation engineering. Traffic and Pavement Engineering will help academics and professionals alike to find practical solutions across the broad spectrum of traffic and pavement engineering issues.

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Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems: From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop provides a comprehensive technical guide on up-to-date new secure defending theories and technologies novel design and systematic understanding of secure architecture with practical applications. The book consists of 10 chapters which are divided into three parts. The first three chapters extensively introduce secure state estimation technologies providing a systematic presentation on the latest progress in security issues regarding state estimation. The next five chapters focus on the design of secure feedback control technologies in industrial control systems displaying an extraordinary difference from that of traditional secure defending approaches from the viewpoint of network and communication. The last two chapters elaborate on the systematic secure control architecture and algorithms for various concrete application scenarios. The authors provide detailed descriptions on attack model and strategy analysis intrusion detection secure state estimation and control game theory in closed-loop systems and various cyber security applications. The book is useful to anyone interested in secure theories and technologies for industrial control systems. | Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

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Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

This book aims to highlight the research activities in the domain of thermal-aware testing. Thermal-aware testing can be employed both at circuit level and at system levelDescribes range of algorithms for addressing thermal-aware test issue presents comparison of temperature reduction with power-aware techniques and include results on benchmark circuits and systems for different techniquesThis book will be suitable for researchers working on power- and thermal-aware design and the testing of digital VLSI chips | Thermal-Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems

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Foundation Systems for High-Rise Structures

Foundation Systems for High-Rise Structures

The book deals with the geotechnical analysis and design of foundation systems for high-rise buildings and other complex structures with a distinctive soil-structure interaction. The basics of the analysis of stability and serviceability necessary soil investigations important technical regulations and quality and safety assurance are explained and possibilities for optimised foundation systems are given. Additionally special aspects of foundation systems such as geothermal activated foundation systems and the reuse of existing foundations are described and illustrated by examples from engineering practice. | Foundation Systems for High-Rise Structures

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Principles and Applications of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Healthcare

Principles and Applications of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Healthcare

Principles and Applications of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Healthcare introduces concepts principles construction and applications of therapeutic ultrasound: from bench to bedside. A comprehensive examination of the industry and medical application of ultrasound therapy this book highlights working principles research progress and system structures of therapeutic ultrasound. It describes the principles of therapeutic ultrasound details the system construction introduces current and emerging applications and discusses developing therapeutic ultrasound technologies. Divided into two parts the book first introduces the fundamentals of biomedical acoustics discusses ultrasound calibration methods and the structures of available therapeutic ultrasound systems before moving on to the various applications of ultrasound therapy used in clinics. It includes a variety of extensive clinical trials outcome photos and illustrating figures and a critical commentary on the challenges in this field. The author discusses topics that include:The derivation of wave equationThe mathematical solution of the wave propagationThe phenomena of reflectionRefraction and transmission in the acoustic field from different acoustic sourcesThe radiation pattern of the ultrasound transducerThe acoustical properties of biological tissuesUltrasound-induced bioeffectsCavitationThe design of the ultrasound transducerThe characterization method of the produced acoustic fieldAn easy reference offering full coverage of popular ultrasound therapies Principles and Applications of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Healthcare provides a simple explanation of fundamental acoustics including wave equation propagation nonlinearity and transducer design. It also discusses other potential applications and is geared toward academia industry and researchers.

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Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Looking closely at the human blueprint it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this ‘junk’ code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our ‘junk code’ in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI. The book author Eve Poole received an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to education and gender equality. | Robot Souls Programming in Humanity

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