Free Download | Client-Side Communication ActionScript Dictionary

This document is designed to be used in conjunction with the information in the online Flash ActionScript Dictionary in the Flash MX Help menu. To write Macromedia Flash  Communication Server MX applications, you must be familiar with writing ActionScript in general. Refer to that document for general scripting information, and use this document to add Flash Communication Server functionality to your Flash applications. For an overview of the Flash Communication Server objects, see Developing Applications with Flash Communication Server. Entries in this document are alphabetical by class name and then by method, property, or event handler name. The following table lists all classes, methods, properties, and event handlers individually in alphabetical order.

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Free Download | ActionScript Dictionary

This dictionary describes the syntax and use of ActionScript elements in Macromedia Flash MX. To use examples in a script, copy the example code from the ActionScript Dictionary and paste it in the Actions panel in expert mode.The dictionary lists all ActionScript elements—operators, keywords, statements, actions, properties, functions, objects, components, and methods. For an overview of all dictionary entries, see “Contents of the dictionary” on page 23; the tables in this section are a good starting point for looking up symbolic operators or methods whose object or component class you don’ tknow. ActionScript follows the ECMA-262 Standard (the specification written by the European Computer Manufacturers Association) unless otherwise noted. Some Flash 5 (and earlier) ActionScript elements have been deprecated and replaced with new ActionScript elements that correspond to the ECMA Standard. It is recommended that you use the new Flash MX elements, although deprecated elements are still supported by Flash Player 5. 

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Free Download | Synthetic Nitrogen Products | pdf

Industrial products that are made from, or contain, nitrogen are described in parts of some  encyclopedias and standard  reference works. However it is not always simple to determine from these varied  sources the  present status of the technology and markets for various nitrogen products. We therefore  perceived a need for a  text that provides a comprehensive description of: 1) products that are made from or  that contain nitrogen; 2) the processes that produce  these  products; and 3) the markets  that  consume  these products. I have attempted to present the material  in a standardized  format that should  make this  book easy to use and  helpful to the  readers. The standard format for  each  product is:  Introduction, Process,  Production, and Uses,  with some variations in different chapters. This information could be useful to companies in most regions of the world: North American companies, South  American companies, Asian Pacific Companies, Middle East companies, European companies, Central American and Caribbean companies, and  South African companies.

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Free Download | Handbook of Materials for Product Design

The second set of three chapters covers polymeric materials first, the all-important group of plastic materials, then, second, that specially reinforced group of plastics known as composites, and third, that important group of rubbery polymeric materials known as elastomers. Next come two chapters on the two major groups of nonmetallic, inorganic materials, namely, ceramics and glasses. These are followed by two chapters on finishes, first organic finishes and paints, and second, electrodeposited or electroplated metallic finishes. Following all of the above chapters on specific groups of materials are two chapters on the always critical and often difficult areas of bonding materials. First is a chapter on the joining of plastics, with explanations of the various processes and their trade-offs. Next comes a very practical and useful chapter on the many adhesive bonding materials, techniques, and processes, along with their trade-offs.  The final two chapters in the book are both increasingly important and critical in modern product design applications. First is a chapter on materials testing and reliability, and second is a chapter on material recycling. These are especially important, since they affect not only optimum product design but also environmental and even legal issues. The result of these presentations is an extremely complete and comprehensive single reference text—a must for the desk of anyone involved in product design, development, and application. This Handbook of Materials for Product Design will also be invaluable for every reference library.As will be evident from a review of the subject and author listings, I have had the good fortune to be able to bring together a team of outstanding chapter authors, each with a great depth of experience in his or her field. Together, they offer the reader a base of knowledge as perhaps no other group could. Hence, I would like to give special credit to these authors in this preface. It is my hope and expectation that this Handbook of Materials for Product Design will serve its readers well. Any comments or suggestions will be welcomed.

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Free Download | Electrochemistry and Corrosion Science

The interpretation of the above equations indicate  that an anodic reaction, which is equivalent to what is known as oxidation, loses  metal electrons and the cathodic reaction accepts or gains  electrons for reducing pertinent ions. Consequently,  both  anodic and cathodic reactions  are coupled in a corrosion process. Adding eqs. (1.1a) and (1.1b) yields eq. (1.1c). Thus, REDOX (RED = reduction and OX = oxidation) is the resultant reaction equation, eq. (1.1c), and represents the overall reaction at equilibrium where the anodic and cathodic reaction rates are equal.

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Free Download | Basic Concepts in Biochemistry

Since the first edition of this series, we have witnessed the birth of “molecular medicine,” using biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics to diagnose and treat disease. Consequently, the basic sciences are becoming more important to the practice of medicine. This puts a new pressure on the student—to understand the basis of molecular medicine and the molecular sciences. I still think that it’s easier to remember things that you understand, things that make sense. That’s the idea behind the Basic Concepts series and that’s why I have been so pleased with the expansion of the Basic Concepts series beyond Biochemistry. The revisions in the second edition include two new chapters, “Membranes and Membrane Proteins” and “Signal Transduction Pathways.” These topics are related to the explosion of new information about cell signaling and signal transduction pathways. In addition, I’ve added some tables of information that I think will be helpful in seeing the big picture (and remembering some of the more important details). As before, the major topics and things to remember are set off in boxes so that if you already know everything in the box, you can skip the rest of the section. The first page of each chapter presents an index. A title-summary box for each section presents a short summary and memory jogger intended to be helpful for review.

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Free Download | Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry

The electrical double layer has been  dealt with in countless papers and in a number of reviews, including those published in previous volumes of the Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry series. 1–9  The experimental double layer data have  been  reported and  commented on in  several important works in which various theories of the structure of the double layer have been postulated.

Nevertheless, many double layer-related problems have not been solved yet, mainly because certain important parameters describing the interface  cannot be  measured. This applies to the electric permittivity, dipole moments, surface density, and other physical quantities that are influenced by the electric field at the interface. It is also often difficult to separate the electrostatic and specific interactions of the solvent and the adsorbate with the electrode. To acquire necessary knowledge about the metal/solution  interface, different metals, solvents, and adsorbates have been studied.  

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Free Download | College Chemistry

Most of the measurements and calculations in chemistry are concerned with quantities such as pressure, volume, mass, and energy. Every quantity includes both a number and a unit. The unit simultaneously identifies the kind of dimension and the magnitude of the reference quantity used as a basis for  comparison. The number indicates how many of the reference units are contained in the quantity being measured. If we say that the mass of a sample is 20 grams, we mean that the mass is 20 times the mass of 1 gram, the unit of mass chosen for comparison. Although 20 grams has the dimension of mass, 20 is a pure dimensionless number, being the ratio of two masses, that of the sample and that of the reference, 1 gram.

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Free Download | Power Electronics For Distributed Energy System

Power electronics can provide utilities the ability to more effectively deliver power to their customers while providing increased reliability  to the bulk power system. In general, power electronics is the process of using semiconductor switching devices to control and convertelectrical power flow from one form to another to meet a specific need. These conversion techniques have revolutionized modern life by streamlining manufacturing processes, increasing product efficiencies, and increasing the quality of life by enhancing many modern conveniences such as computers, and they can help to improve the delivery of reliable power from utilities.

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Free Download | The New Cognitive Neurosciences Second Edition

Here we are on the brink of the twenty-first century. While the history of neurological and psychological research goes back at least two hundred years, the heavy work commenced in the twentieth century. In a hundred short years the basic outlines of the nervous system have been articulated. The biochemical, physiological, pharmacological, and structural features of the vertebrate brain have been described and in many instances defined. So too have the basic perceptual, emotional, mnemonic, attentional, and cognitive functions. In the past 20 years these fundamentals have accelerated at an exponential rate, leaving the field of brain and cognitive science swamped with riches of information. As we stand poised for the Century of the Brain, never mind the Decade of the Brain, our aspirations have expanded, our know-how has been refined, and our will to tackle the central mysteries of mind/brain relationships has been energized. Five years after the first edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences was published, another Summer Institute convened in Squaw Valley to produce its successor: this book. Once again the distinguished section editors led their handpicked colleagues through the maze of new data on the brain and mind.

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Free Download | Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis

This book is the result of collective endeavor of several noted engineering and computer scientists, mathematicians, medical doctors, physicists, and radiologists. The editors are indebted to all of their efforts and outstanding scientific contributions. The editors are particularly grateful to Drs. Petia Reveda, Alex Falco, Andrew Laine, David Breen, David Chopp, C. C. Lu, Gary Christensen, Dirk Vandermeulen, Aly Farag, Alejandro Frangi, Gilson Antonio Giraldi, Gabor Szekely, Pierre Hellier, Gabor Herman, Ardeshir Coshtasby, Jan Kybic, JeffWeiss, Jean-Claude Klein, Majid Mirmehdi, Maria Kallergi, Yangming Zhu, Sunanda Mitra, Sameer Singh, Alessandro Sarti, Xioping Shen, Calvin R. Maurer, Jr., Yoshinobu Sato, Koon-PongWong, Avdhesh Sharma, Rakesh Sharma, and Chun Yuan and their team members for working with us so closely in meeting all of the deadlines of the book. They would like to express their appreciation to Kluwer Publishers for helping create this invitational handbook. They are particularly thankful to Aaron Johnson, the acquisition editor and Shoshana Sternlicht for their excellent coordination for the book at every stage. Dr. Suri would like to thank Philips Medical Systems, Inc. for the MR datasets and encouragements during his experiments and research. Special thanks are due to Dr. Larry Kasuboski and Dr. Elaine Keeler at Philips Medical Systems, Inc. for their support and motivations. Thanks are also due to his past Ph.D. committee research professors, particularly Professors Linda Shapiro, Robert M. Haralick, Dean Lytle and Arun Somani, for their encouragements. 

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Free Download | Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology

The biological sciences have become more quantitative and information-driven since emerging computational and mathematical tools facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of biological data.Complexity analysis of biological systems provides biological knowledge for the organization, management, and mining of biological data by using advanced computational tools. The biological data are inherently complex, nonuniform, and collected at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The investigations of complex biological systems and processes require an extensive collaboration among biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers to improve our understanding of complex biological process from gene to system. Lectures in the summer school expose attendees to the latest developments in these emerging computational technologies and facilitate rapid diffusion of these mathematical and computational tools in the biological sciences. These computational tools have become powerful tools for the study of complex biological systems and signals and can be used for characterizing variability and uncertainty of biological signals across scales of space and time since the biological signals are direct indicators of the biological state of the corresponding cells or organs in the body.

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Free Download | Molecular and Cellular Biology of Neuroprotection in the CNS

This book brings together experts from cellular and molecular neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, neuroimmunology and neurology. It is my hope that the book serves as a reference text for both basic neuroscientists and clinicians, offering a fresh look at many (certainly not all) of the highly intertwined processes that determine the fate of CNS neurons in the face of acute or chronic insults. The book is written mostly from the viewpoint of the basic scientist who works at the cellular and molecular level, but who also develops and tests new hypotheses using animal models of acute and chronic brain injury. Although many of the new findings hold promise for therapeutic interventions, their translation into clinically relevant neuroprotective strategies is still in its infancy. If this book helps to bridge this gap, it will certainly be worth the effort. The adult mammalian brain is not well equipped for self-repair. Although neuronal loss re-installs parts of the molecular machinery that is essential for neuronal development, other factors and processes actively impede regeneration of the damaged brain. Many therapeutic efforts thus aim to promote or inhibit these endogenous pathways. In addition, more radical approaches appear on the horizon, such as replacement of lost neurons with grafted tissue.

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Free Download | Comprehensive Enzyme Kinetics

This textbook for  advanced  courses in  enzyme chemistry  and enzyme kinetics covers the field of steady state enzyme kinetics from the basic principles inherent in the Michaelis Menten equation to the expressions that describe the multi-substrate enzyme reactions. The purpose of this book is to provide a simple but comprehensive framework for the study of enzymes with the aid of kinetic studies of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The aim of enzyme kinetics is twofold: to study the kinetic mechanism of enzyme reactions, and to study the chemical mechanism of action  enzymes. By the kinetic mechanism of enzyme reactions, we understand: (a) the kinetic mechanism, which is a qualitative description of the order of substrate combination and product release from the enzyme, and (b) the determination of ratelimiting steps from quantitative analysis of the kinetic mechanism. By chemical mechanism of action of  enzyme, we understand: (a) the identification of any intermediates, (b) the identification of any groups on the enzyme acting as acid base catalysts, (c) the roles of any cofactors, and (d) the nature of the transition state for the chemical reaction catalyzed by enzyme.

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Free Download | WordPress for Business Bloggers

WordPress for Business Bloggers provides advanced strategies and techniques to  take your WordPress business blog from average to extraordinary. Whether you  already have a blog, or are still in the planning stages, this book will show you how  to use WordPress to create a highly successful blog for your business. The release of version 2.6 has confirmed the status of WordPress as the leading  blogging platform. This book has been written for and tested on WordPress 2.6, so all  the screenshots and tutorials are accurate for users of that version of the software. This is a practical, hands-on book based around a fictitious case-study blog, which  you will build using a development server on your own computer. The vast majority  of tutorials and examples will be applied to the case study blog.

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Free Download | Numerical Analysis Using MATLAB® and Spreadsheets

Numerical analysis is the branch of mathematics that is used to  find approximations to difficult problems such as finding the roots of non-linear equations, integration involving complex expressions and solving differential equations for which analytical solutions do not exist. It is applied to a wide variety of disciplines such as business, all fields of engineering, computer science, education, geology, meteorology, and others.  Years ago, high-speed computers did not exist, and if they did, the largest corporations could only afford them; consequently, the manual computation required lots of time and hard work. But now that computers have become indispensable for research work in science, engineering and other fields, numerical analysis has become a much easier and more pleasant task.

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Free Download | Power Electronics Handbook

The first electronics revolution began in 1948 with the invention of the silicon transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories by Bardeen, Bratain, and Schockley. Most of today’s advanced electronic technologies are traceable to that invention, and modern microelectronics has evolved over the years from these silicon semiconductors. The second electronics revolution began with the development of a commercial thyristor by the General Electric Company in 1958. That was the beginning of a new era of power electronics. Since then, many different types of power semiconductor devices and conversion techniques have been introduced. The demand for energy, particularly in electrical forms, is ever-increasing in order to improve the standard of living. Power electronics helps with the efficient use of electricity, thereby reducing power consumption. Semiconductor devices are used as switches for power conversion or processing, as are solid state electronics for efficient control of the amount of power and energy flow. Higher efficiency and lower losses are sought for devices for a range of applications, from microwave ovens to high-voltage dc transmission. New devices and power electronic systems are now evolving for even more effective control of power and energy. Power electronics has already found an important place in modern technology and has revolutionized control of power and energy. As the voltage and current ratings and switching characteristics of power semiconductor devices keep improving, the range of applications continues to expand in areas such as lamp controls, power supplies to motion control, factory automation, transportation, energy storage, multi-megawatt industrial drives, and electric power transmission and distribution.

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Free Download | Photoshop CS All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies

There’s a reason why Photoshop is the world’s industry standard in image-editing software. The depth and breadth of the program is unheralded. Photoshop immediately sucks you in with its easy-to-use interface and powerful tools and commands. It is so feature rich that you soon begin to lose track of time and start blowing off your commitments just to try one more thing. And just when you think you’ve finally explored every nook and cranny and mastered the program, you suddenly read a tip in a book or magazine that enlightens you about something you didn’t know. Or even more likely, you stumble upon some great effect while working on a late-night project. That’s the beauty of Photoshop. It’s the program that just keeps giving. The depth and breadth of Photoshop has downsides, too, of course. You must make a major time commitment and invest much effort to master it — hence the large number of books written on the program. Walk into your neighborhood bookstore or type Photoshop in the Search field at any online bookseller’s site, and you’ll see a barrage of choices. Some books are general reference books, some are targeted toward the novice user, and others focus on a specific mission, such as color management or restoration and retouching.

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Free Download | Mac For Dummies

If you bought a Mac, you’re unbelievably smart (or lucky). You’ve neatly eliminated much of the hassle, frustration, and annoyance that normally comes with buying a computer. You have a computer that doesn’t just look a heck of a lot better than other kinds of computers — it works better, too, because both its hardware and its software were designed by a single company. And not a single computer virus has yet surfaced that can affect the Mac’s operating software. (You know how your friends and your newspaper are always going on about viruses and hackers? They’re talking about Windows computers. The Mac doesn’t do Windows.) The Mac also has everything you need built in: a modem (so you can use the Internet and e-mail), a CD burner (great for making backups), or even a DVD burner (for preserving your home movies on DVD), and a huge assortment of free programs. If the Mac is so simple, then who needs a book about it?

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Free Download | BEA WebLogic Server 8 For Dummies | pdf

Welcome to BEA WebLogic Server 8 For Dummies. Whether you are an administrator, a developer, a manager, or all of the above, you will find something in this book to make your job easier. WebLogic is the most widely used application server on the market today. You can use WebLogic in large or small projects and to develop both traditional client-server as well as web-based applications. This book gives you a broad understanding of BEA WebLogic Server. The main audience consists of developers and administrators, but anyone involved in a WebLogic project will benefit from reading this book. Managers can gain an overview of the components that make up their system. Quality assurance personnel can benefit from the same understanding. For developers, this book shows quick examples to get you up and running in many of the technologies supported by WebLogic. Rather than give you extensive application examples, I focus on short, easy-to-follow examples than can become the starting point for something more complex. For administrators, I step you through many common WebLogic tasks and the configuration settings you should use.

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Free Download | Crystal Report 10 For Dummies

Crystal Reports 10 is the latest in a long and celebrated series of report writers for personal computers. Crystal Reports is by far the best-selling report writer package in the world, even though you may have never heard of it. In the past, it has been bundled with many of the most popular applications without being acknowledged by name. (A version of Crystal Reports is currently bundled into Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET, and Crystal Reports 10 is sold as a standalone product.) If you want to produce a high-quality report quickly, Crystal Reports is the top choice to do the job. Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies is an introductory level book that gets you using Crystal Reports quickly and effectively. It covers all the major capabilities of Crystal Reports but doesn’t bog you down in intricate detail. The objective is to give you the information you need to produce the types of reports that most people need most of the time. I also get into some out-of-the-ordinary report types that you might be called upon to generate on occasion.

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Free Download | Mac OS X Panther Timesaving Techniques For Dummies

We’re fairly smart people, and presumably you’re a really smart person (you are looking at the right book, after all), but it still seems like technology has eclipsed our ability to understand it. Even the magical Mac — the symbol of all things easy in computers — is overladen with features and gadgets and pretty lights. Make no mistake: We all like features and gadgets and pretty lights, but how are we supposed to make sense of it all and just do what we want to do, quickly and easily? By reading this book, of course! But if that isn’t enough to convince you (and we can’t imagine why not; after all, we’ve never lied to you before), take a moment or two to read through this Introduction. You’ll see where we’re coming from, what this book offers, and how it’ll make you fall in love with your Mac all over again.  The Timesaving Techniques For Dummies books focus on high-payoff techniques that save you time, either on the spot or somewhere down the road. And these books get to the point in a hurry, with step-by-step instructions to pace you through the tasks you need to do, without any of the fluff you don’t want. We’ve identified more than 60 Techniques that Mac OS X Panther users need to know to make the most of their time. In addition, each Technique includes lots of figures that make following along a breeze.

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Free Download | Firewalls For Dummies

Welcome to Firewalls For Dummies, a book written to help the average Joe understand how firewalls work and how to configure a firewall. This book meets the needs of the person just finding out about computers, as well as the network administrator who needs to implement his or her first firewall. But what is a firewall, you may ask? The quick-and-dirty definition is that a firewall is a boundary network device that resides between a private network and the Internet. The firewall is configured to inspect the network traffic that passes between the Internet and your network and only allows the network protocols that you desire to pass through the firewall. If a protocol isn’t included in the approved list, the firewall discards the packets of data and prevents them from entering the network. Firewalls bring to mind visions of the computer geek at the office, sitting in a darkened closet with his router and handy toolkit, warding off hackers as they attack from the Internet. This book attempts to shed some light on thesubject by breaking down the myths around the firewall so that you can understand what a firewall does and how it’s configured.

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Free Download | Open-Source Robotics and Process Control Cookbook

Over the course of roughly a year, after completing my first book, I resurrected an old pet project of building an autonomous submarine (referred to as the E-2 project) with certain fairly challenging functionality requirements. In the course of developing this idea, I spent many hours on the Internet and elsewhere, researching techniques for rapid development of various electromechanical control systems and platforms to run fairly complex signal-processing algorithms. Although there are, of course, thousands of useful projects and snippets of information to be obtained from the Internet and books on hobbyist robotics, I found that nobody else seemed to have my exact priorities. In particular, there is apparently no single reference that gathers together at least introductory solutions to all the embedded design issues that affected my project: a need to use low-cost (open-source) tools and operating systems, a requirement for several features with fairly hard real-time requirements, and a desire to use cheap, off-the-shelf consumer grade components wherever possible.

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Free Download | Network Control And Engineering For Qos, Security And Mobility, III

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for Quality of Service, Security and Mobility (Net-Con’2004), celebrated in Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears, Spain) during November 2-5, 2004. This IFIP TC6 Conference was organized by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and sponsored by the following Working Groups: WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications). The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. The adoption of Internet as the global network infrastructure places the issue of quality of service among one of the hot topics nowadays: a huge diversity of applications with quite different service requirements must be supported over a basic core of protocols. Also, the open and uncontrolled nature of Internet enforces the need to guarantee secure transactions among users, thus placing security as another hot topic. Finally, the explosion of mobility and its integration as part of the global infrastructure are probably now the most challenging issues in the networking field.

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Free Download | Model Predictive Control Toolbox For Use with MATLAB

The Model Predictive Control (MPC) Toolbox is a collection of functions (commands) developed for the analysis and design of model predictive control (MPC) systems. Model predictive control was conceived in the 1970s primarily by industry. Its popularity steadily increased throughout the 1980s. At present, there is little doubt that it is the most widely used multivariable control algorithm in the chemical process industries and in other areas. Some of the popular names associated with model predictive control are DynamicMatrix Control (DMC), IDCOM, model algorithmic control, etc.While these algorithms differ in certain details, the main ideas behind them are very similar. Indeed, in its basic unconstrained formMPC is closely related to linear quadratic optimal control. In the constrained case, however, MPC leads to an optimization problem which is solved on-line in real time at each sampling interval. MPC takes full advantage of the power available in today’s control computer hardware. This software and the accompanying manual are not intended to teach the user the basic ideas behind MPC. Background material is available in standard textbooks like those authored by Seborg, Edgar and Mellichamp (1989)1, Deshpande and Ash (1988)2 and the monograph devoted solely to this topic authored byMorari and coworkers (Morari et al., 1994)3. This section provides a basic introduction to the main ideas behind MPC and the specific form of implementation chosen for this toolbox. The algorithms used here are consistent with those described in the monograph by Morari et al. Indeed, the software is meant to accompany the monograph and vice versa.

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Free Download | IEEE Guide For Control Of Hydroelectric Power Plants

IEEE Standards documents are developed within the Technical Committees of the IEEE Societies and the Standards Coordinating Committees of the IEEE Standards Board. Members of the committees serve voluntarily and without compensation. They are not necessarily members of the Institute. The standards developed within IEEE represent a consensus of the broad expertise on the subject within the Institute as well as those activities outside of IEEE which have expressed an interest in participating in the development of the standard. Use of an IEEE Standard is wholly voluntary. The existence of an IEEE Standard does not imply that there are no other ways to produce, test, measure, purchase, market, or provide other goods and services related to the scope of the IEEE Standard.

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Free Download | Fuzzy Expert Systems And Fuzzy Reasoning

Fuzzy Expert Systems And Fuzzy Reasoning  pdf | Free Download | In this book, we will explore the emulation of human thought, capable of dealing with uncertainties, ambiguities, and contradictions.We agree with Anderson (1993) that much human thought can be expressed in rules (Anderson, 1993). To handle uncertainties, ambiguities, and contradictions, we will use fuzzy systems techniques, implemented by a fuzzy expert system. We supply the fuzzy expert system language FLOPS with this book, so that the readers can actually use our supplied example programs and write their own programs. An overwhelmingly important fact about human reasoning is that it is not a static process. Data are gathered; some preliminary hypotheses are advanced and tested; some of these may be rejected, and new hypotheses advanced; more data may be required, until finally some conclusion is reached. A computer program to emulate reasoning must proceed similarly. Unfortunately, in much mathematical description of the thought process the dynamic nature is lost. We cannot afford to make this error. Expert systems are computer programs, designed to make available some of the skills of an expert to nonexperts. Since such programs attempt to emulate in some way an expert’s thinking patterns, it is natural that the first work here was done in Artificial Intelligence (AI) circles. Among the first expert systems were the 1965 Dendral programs (Feigenbaum and Buchanan, 1993), which determined molecular structure from mass spectrometer data; R1 (McDermott, 1980) used to configure computer systems; and MYCIN (Shortliffe, 1976) for medical diagnosis. Since the middle 1960s there have been many expert systems created for fields ranging from space shuttle operations through intensive-care-unit patient alarm systems to financial decision making.

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Free Download | Fuzzy Control Systems Design And Analysis

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of model-based fuzzy control  systems. The central subject of this book is a systematic framework for the stability and design of nonlinear fuzzy control systems. Building on the so-called Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model, a number of most important issues in fuzzy control systems are addressed. These include stability analysis, systematic design procedures, incorporation of performance specifications, robustness, optimality, numerical implementations, and last but not the least, applications. The guiding philosophy of this book is to arrive at a middle ground between conventional fuzzy control practice and established rigor and systematic synthesis of systems and control theory. The authors view this balanced approach as an attempt to blend the best of both worlds. On one hand, fuzzy logic provides a simple and straightforward way to decompose the task of modeling and control design into a group of local tasks, which tend to be easier to handle. In the end, fuzzy logic also provides the mechanism to blend these local tasks together to deliver the overall model and control design. On the other hand, advances in modern control have made available a large number of powerful design tools. This is especially true in the case of linear control designs. These tools for linear systems range from elegant state space optimal control to the more recent robust control paradigms. By employing the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model, which utilizes local linear system description for each rule, we devise a control methodology to fully take advantage of the advances of modern control theory. We have witnessed  rapidly growing interest in fuzzy control in recent years.

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Free Download | Foundations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Engineering

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The symbolic AI systems have been associated in the last decades with two main issues—the representation issue and the processing (reasoning) issue. They have proved effective in handling problems characterized by exact and complete representation. Their reasoning methods are sequential by nature. Typical AI techniques are propositional logic, predicate logic, and production systems. However, the symbolic AI systems have very little power in dealing with inexact, uncertain, corrupted, imprecise, or ambiguous information. Neural networks and fuzzy systems are different approaches to introducing human like reasoning to knowledge-based intelligent systems. They represent different paradigms of information processing, but they have similarities that make their common teaching, reading, and practical use quite natural and logical. Both paradigms have been useful for representing inexact, incomplete, corrupted data, and for approximate reasoning over uncertain knowledge. Fuzzy systems, which are based on Zadeh's fuzzy logic theory, are effective in representing explicit but ambiguous commonsense knowledge, whereas neural networks provide excellent facilities for approximating data, learning knowledge from data, approximate reasoning, and parallel processing. Evidence from research on the brain shows that the way we think is formed by sequential and parallel processes. Knowledge engineering benefits greatly from combining symbolic, neural computation, and fuzzy computation.

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Free Download | Essentials of Process Control

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As the field of process control has matured over the last 30 years, it has become one of the core areas in chemical engineering along with thermodynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and reactor kinetics. Any chemical engineering. graduate should have some knowledge not only of these traditional areas but also of the fundamentals of process control. For those of us who have been part of this period of development, the attainment of parity with the traditional areas has been long overdue. The literature in process control is enormous: over a dozen textbooks and thousands of papers have been published during the last three decades. This body of knowledge has become so large that it is impossible to cover it all at the undergraduate level. Therefore, we present in this book only those topics we feel are essential for gaining an understanding of the basic principles of process control.

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Free Download | Design Of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers In CMOS Technologies

In the last years, the astonishing growth of the Japanese industry in producing a substantial number of consumer appliances using Fuzzy Controllers put Fuzzy Logic on the focus of the scientific community. At the beginning, the most popular applications of Fuzzy Logic were found in the domain of Control System. Nowadays, the application of this soft-computing technique has been extended to other fields such as Signal Processing, Image Processing and Switching Power Control, for instance. As real-time applications need ever faster, more autonomous and less power-consuming circuits the choice of on-chip.

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Free Download | Classical Feedback Control With Matlab

The book presents the design techniques which the authors found most useful in designing control system for industry, telecommunication, and space program. It also prepares the readefro r research in the area of high-performance nonlinear controllers. Phnt and compensator. In classical control, the object of control (plant) is characterized either by its measured frequency response over the range of effective! feedback or by a rather simple input/output mathematical model. Classical design does not utilize the plant’s internal variables and/or their estimates for compensation, unlike the full-state feedback approach. The appropriate loop responses are achieved by a stand-alone high-order compensator. Thesaer e the reasons this book starts with feedback, disturbance rejection, loop shaping, and compensator design, and not with extensive plant modeling. The easiest way to comprehend complex systems is to break them into building blocks.  The block diagram method became standard in computer aided analysis and design. Understanding systems relies on understanding the blocks’ interaction and, particularly, on understanding the feedback. The term feedback was applied to closed-loop system engineering .by Harold Black of The Bell Laboratoriesin the 1920s. It describes regulation processes in engineering and in biological, economical, social and political systems - everywhere where information about the results comes back and influences the input.

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Free Download | Automating Manufacturing Systems with PLCs

Designing software for control systems is difficult. Experienced controls engineers  have learned many techniques that allow them to solve problems. This book was written to present methods for designing controls software using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). It is my personal hope that by employing the knowledge in the book that you will be able to quickly write controls programs that work as expected (and avoid having to learn by costly mistakes.) This book has been designed for students with some knowledge of technology, including limited electricity, who wish to learn the discipline of practical control system design on commonly used hardware. To this end the book will use the Allen Bradley ControlLogix processors to allow depth. Although the chapters will focus on specific hardware, the techniques are portable to other PLCs. Whenever possible the IEC 61131 programming standards will be used to help in the use of other PLCs. In some cases the material will build upon the content found in a linear controls course. But, a heavy emphasis is placed on discrete control systems. Figure 1.1 crudely shows some of the basic categories of control system problems. Logical and sequential control is preferred for system design. These systems are more stable, and often lower cost. Most continuous systems can be controlled logically. But, some times we will encounter a system that must be controlled continuously. When this occurs the control system design becomes more demanding. When improperly controlled, continuous systems may be unstable and become dangerous. When a system is well behaved we say it is self regulating. These systems don’t need to be closely monitored, and we use open loop control. An open loop controller will set a desired position for a system, but no sensors are used to verify the position. When a loop. A cruise control in a car is an excellent example. This will monitor the actual speed of a car, and adjust the speed to meet a set target speed.

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Free Download | Ham Radio For Dummies

Amateur or ham radio has been around for nearly a century. In that time, it’s grown, branched, morphed, and amplified itself into a worldwide community of licensed hams tickling the airwaves with every conceivable means of communications technology. Its practitioners range in age from preschoolers to septuagenarians. Ham radio’s siren call attracts those who have never held a microphone as well as deep technical experts who grew up with a soldering iron and computer. You may have come across ham radio in any number of ways: in movies such as Frequency or Contact, in books (the comic book hero TinTin is a ham), from seeing them in action performing emergency communications services, or maybe from a friend or relative who enjoys the hobby. Interestingly enough, ham radio has room for all of these activities. Yes, even a mad scientist or two are in the ham ranks. Most, however, are just like you. The storied vision finds the ham bent over a glowing radio, surrounded by all manner of electronic gadgets and flicking meters, tapping out messages on a telegraph key or speaking into a large, round, silvery microphone.

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Free Download | TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator For Dummies

Although this book does not tell you how to do everything the calculator is capable of doing, it gets pretty close. It covers more than just the basics of using the calculator, paying special attention to warning you of the problems you could encounter if you knew only the basics of using the calculator. This is a reference book. It’s process-driven, not applicationdriven.

You won’t be given a problem to solve and then be told how to use the calculator to solve that particular problem. Instead, you’re given the steps needed to get the calculator to perform a particular task, such as constructing a histogram. This book is designed so that you do not have to read it from cover to cover.

You don’t even have to start reading at the beginning of a chapter. When you want to know how to get the calculator to do something, just start reading at the beginning of the appropriate section. The Index and Table Of Contents should help you find whatever you’re looking for.

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Free Download | Windows XP For Dummies

Don’t try to read this book in one sitting; there’s no need. Instead, treat this book like a dictionary or an encyclopedia. Turn to the page with the information you need and say, “Ah, so that’s what they’re talking about.” Then put down the book and move on.  Don’t bother trying to remember all the Windows XP buzzwords, such as “Select the menu item from the drop-down list box.” Leave that stuff for the computer gurus. In fact, if anything technical comes up in a chapter, a road sign warns you well in advance. That way, you can either slow down to read it or speed on around it. You won’t find any fancy computer jargon in this book. Instead, you’ll find subjects like these, discussed in plain old English. Something in Windows XP will eventually leave you scratching your head. No other program brings so many buttons, bars, and babble to the screen. When something in Windows XP has you stumped, use this book as a reference.

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Free Download | GPS For Dummies

As you may have guessed from the title, this book is about GPS (the satellite-based Global Positioning System) and maps; digital maps to be exact. I remember back in 1989 when Magellan introduced the first handheld GPS receiver, the NAV 1000. (Don’t worry. This isn’t going to be one of those “I used to walk 20 miles to school in the snow when I was your age,” stories.) The NAV 1000 was the size of a brick, and weighed a little less than two pounds. It was single channel receiver, could only track four satellites, and just supported latitude and longitude coordinates. It could save 100 waypoints and you could have a single route with up to 10 waypoints. It cost $2,500. Fast forward to the present.

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Free Download | C++ For Dummies

C++ For Dummies is an introduction to the C++ language. C++ For Dummies starts from the beginning (where else?) and works its way from early concepts and through more sophisticated techniques. It doesn’t assume that you have any prior knowledge, at least, not of programming. C++ For Dummies is rife with examples. Every concept is documented in numerous snippets and several complete programs. Unlike other C++ programming books, C++ For Dummies considers the “why” just as important as the “how.” The features of C++ are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Rather than just present the features, I think it’s important that you understand how they fit together. If you don’t understand why a particular feature is in the language, you won’t truly understand how it works. After you finish this book, you’ll be able to write a reasonable C++ program, and, just as important, you’ll understand why and how it works. C++ For Dummies can also be used as a reference: If you want to understand what’s going on with all the template stuff, just flip to Chapter 27, and you’re there. Each chapter contains necessary references to other earlier chapters in case you don’t read the chapters in sequence. C++ For Dummies is not operating- or system-specific. It is just as useful to Unix or Linux programmers as it is to Windows-based developers. C++ For Dummies doesn’t cover Windows or .NET programming. You have to master C++ before you can move on to Windows and .NET programming. C++ is an object-oriented, low-level ANSI and ISO standard programming language. As a low-level language similar to and compatible with its predecessor C, C++ can generate very efficient, very fast programs. As an object-oriented language, C++ has the power and extensibility to write large-scale programs. C++ is one of the most popular programming languages for all types of programs. Most of the programs you use on your PC every day are written in C++.

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