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A significant list of fiber optics terms and definitions, NBS Handbook 140, Optical Waveguide Communications Glossary, was issued in 1982 by the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

It covers systems used throughout the world in chapters detailing the latest on basic system design, baseband transmissions, and digital radio and cable systems.

This book provides practical, up-to-date information that helps in the successful management of diseases on food, fibre and landscape plants for students who do not have a strong background in the biological sciences.

This guide provides information on terms used in basic and clinical nutrition and diet therapy, including charts of RDAs and dietary guidelines. Nearly 4000 terms are covered, ranging across all topics in nutrition, including sports nutrition. There are entries on various diets, past and present.

This book is intended as a tool for architects, interior designers and other professionals to identify the space requirements for domestic or commercial kitchens and food preparation areas.

During the years 1987 and 1988 we published a series of articles on the molding of thermoplastics materials in the magazine British Plastics and Rubber (B P & R).

Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the JPEG is the first colour still image data compression international standard. It consists of 20 explicitly defined processes to encode or decode continuous tone still images.

Fundamentals of Dairy Chemistry has always been a reference text which has attempted to provide a complete treatise on the chemistry of milk and the relevant research.

Packaging is an essential feature of modern life. The science and art of packaging is so vast that no single book or even a multivolume work could hope to cover the entire scope of topics, from Artwork to Zipper.

Written by experts in the field and filled with the latest research data, this comprehensive work presents important information on the nutritional properties of fish oils for human health and the analysis of fatty acids.

Facilities Management Handbook was written from practical experience to con solidate, under one cover, all the necessary information at an adequate depth to guide you effectively through the intricacies of a project that may begin with site search, progress through leasing, new building construction or remodeling, and on to oc cupancy.

Distilling a wide variety of technology and innovation, this broad-based survey of the concepts and techniques of signal processing helps readers develop general skills and apply specific solution in communication technology.

Deals with the nature and genesis of igneous rocks that have crystallized from molten magma, and of metamorphic rocks that are the products of re-crystallization associated with increases in temperature and pressure, mainly at considerable depths in the Earth's crust.

Inventivity is the first book of its kind to utilize analystic methods for judging research productivity. Information on the nature and effectiveness of research organizations is outlined, as are methods and strategies for approaching the work through research people.

This book is a guide to integrated circuits, their history, principles, manufacture and applications.

This text provides managers of architecture/engineering firms with advice on how to organize and streamline their computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) departments.

This book provides a concise but comprehensive overview of fish science and technology written in a straightforward language.

Construction Claims is an important resource professionals can turn to when looking for information on how to avoid, negociate, prosecute, document, and defend construction claims. Special features of this book include standard contract forms, case histories, sample forms, and charts that address any contract situation.

This text describes the structure, functions, transmission and applications of bacterial plasmids. The rate of research and accumulating knowledge on bacterial plasmids since the first edition, has established a need for a thorough revision and update.

With the latest advances in shielding technology come questions about techniques, approaches and economic benefits. This single-source volume has the answers professionals need. This complete, up-to-date reference guide covers the fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and cable shielding.

Updates the introductory textbook on the principles and practice of the postharvest handling and storage of fresh fruit and vegetables. For technical college and university courses, workers in related industries, and interested consumers. Written in Australia, but about products grown worldwide. Ann

Commercial uses include audio CD and digital audio tape. It covers PCM systems from the channel coder at one end to the decoder at the other, including modulation and demodulation functions and a discussion of the communication channel itself.

Covers the satellite principles and their associated technologies while focussing upon the methodology of launching satellites, keeping them there, the environments under which they operate, and other facets particular to their operation. This book is useful for engineers, technicians, communication lawyers, weather professionals, and students.

Known as one of the world's major industrial chemicals natural soda ash plays a critical role in glass and ceramics industries, production of chemicals, cleansing and bleaching, and metallurgy.