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Transactions on Computational Science XVII


Free Download Transactions on Computational Science XVII By Madjid Maidi, Malik Mallem, Laredj Benchikh, Samir Otmane (auth.), Marina L. Gavrilova, C. J. Kenneth Tan (eds.)
2013 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 364235839X | PDF | 6 MB
The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings, and solutions and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods. The 17th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal consists of two parts. The first part is comprised of four papers, spanning the areas of robotics and augmented reality, computer game evaluation strategies, cognitive perception in crowd control simulation, and reversible processor design using look-ahead. The second part consists of five papers covering the topics of secure congestion adaptive routing, cryptographic schemes for wireless sensor networks, intersection attacks on anonymity, and reliable message delivery in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET).

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Security Protocols XVII 17th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 1-3, 2009. Revised Selected Papers


Free Download Security Protocols XVII: 17th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 1-3, 2009. Revised Selected Papers By Bruce Christianson (auth.), Bruce Christianson, James A. Malcolm, Vashek Matyáš, Michael Roe (eds.)
2013 | 367 Pages | ISBN: 3642362125 | PDF | 5 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Security Protocols, SP 2009, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2009. The 17 revised full papers presented together with edited transcriptions of some of the discussions following the presentations have gone through multiple rounds of reviewing, revision, and selection. The theme of this workshop was "Brief Encounters". In the old days, security protocols were typically run first as preliminaries to, and later to maintain, relatively stable continuing relationships between relatively unchanging individual entities. Pervasive computing, e-bay and second life have shifted the ground: we now frequently desire a secure commitment to a particular community of entities, but relatively transient relationships with individual members of it, and we are often more interested in validating attributes than identity. The papers and discussions in this volume examine the theme from the standpoint of various different applications and adversaries.

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Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVII


Free Download Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVII By Kenneth Sugioka (auth.), C. Ince, J. Kesecioglu, L. Telci, K. Akpir (eds.)
1996 | 654 Pages | ISBN: 1461380022 | PDF | 17 MB
nd The 22 meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (LS. O. T. T. ) of which this volume is the scientific proceedings, was held in Istanbul, Turkey on August 22-26, 1994. It was a historical occasion in that it was almost 200 years to the day that one of the founding fathers of oxygen research, Antoine Lavoisier, on May 8, 1794 found his early demise at the hands of the guillotine. This spirit of history set the tone of the conference and in the opening lecture the contribution that this part of the world has given to the understanding of oxygen transport to tissue was highlighted. In particular, the contribution of Galen of Pergamon (129-200) was discussed who for the first time demon strated that blood flowed through the arteries and whose view on the physiology of the circulation dominated the ancient world for well over a millennium. A forgotten chapter in the history of the circulation of the blood is the contribution made by Ibn al Nafis of Damascus (1210-1280) who for the first time described the importance of the pulmonary circulation by stating that all venous blood entering the right ventricle ofthe heart passes to the left ventricle, not through pores in the septum of the heart as had been postulated by Galen, but through the circulation of the lungs.

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII Prose, 1668-1691 An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works


Free Download The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII: Prose, 1668-1691: An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works By Monk, Samuel Holt; Dearing, Vinton Adams; Maurer, A. E. Wallace; Dryden, John
2014 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0520018141 | PDF | 27 MB
This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."

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Critical Infrastructure Protection XVII


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031495845 | 424 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 31 MB
The information infrastructure – comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems – is vital to operations in every sector: chemicals, commercial facilities, communications, critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial base, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture, government facilities, healthcare and public health, information technology, nuclear reactors, materials and waste, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems. Global business and industry, governments, indeed society itself, cannot function if major components of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed.

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