Authors:George I. Bourdopoulos, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, V
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: design, applications, modeling, modulators, sigma, delta
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2003-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1860943691
ISBN-13: 9781860943690

This important book deals with the modeling and design of higher-order single-stage delta sigma modulators. It provides an overview of the architectures, the quantizer models, the design techniques and the implementation issues encountered in the study of the delta sigma modulators. A number of applications are discussed, with emphasis on use in the design of analog-to-digital converters and in frequency synthesis. The book is education- rather than research-oriented, containing numerical examples and unsolved problems. It is aimed at introducing the final-year undergraduate, the graduate stud

Author: Ivan K. Cohen
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: management, financial, focus
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2005-03
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1860944795
ISBN-13: 9781860944796

Focus on Financial Management by Ivan Cohen offers a concise, enthusiastic and highly focused approach to introducing finance to both undergraduates and MBAs. It closely integrates practical applications and the underlying financial concepts so that the reader gets a clear picture of theory and how it can be applied in practice. The book has been carefully crafted and classroom-tested to provide an easy-to-read textbook that will engage the student and instructor alike. It has been designed to be used by students of business, finance and economics, and is equally accessible to students in o

Author: Steven W. Anderson
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: management, engineering, business, sciences, building, technology, strategic, bridges
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1860949266
ISBN-13: 9781860949265

Two recent major trends in today’s complex and competitive high technology global society have underscored the importance for a textbook on strategic technology management. The first is the desire of major global corporations and high technology firms to hire graduates who are able to understand engineering and science, and make sound strategic business decisions. The second is the increasing interest among engineering and science students to take courses in business management. This invaluable book attempts to bridge business and scientific management practices so as to foster better

Authors:Majid Mirmehdi, Xianghua Xie, Jasjit Suri,
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: analysis, texture, handbook
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $191.00
ISBN-10: 1848161158
ISBN-13: 9781848161153

Texture analysis is one of the fundamental aspects of human vision by which we discriminate between surfaces and objects. In a similar manner, computer vision can take advantage of the cues provided by surface texture to distinguish and recognize objects. In computer vision, texture analysis may be used alone or in combination with other sensed features (e.g. color, shape, or motion) to perform the task of recognition. Either way, it is a feature of paramount importance and boasts a tremendous body of work in terms of both research and applications.Currently, the main approaches to texture ana

Author: Christiane Tretter
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: matrices, applications, operator, block, theory, spectral
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 1860947689
ISBN-13: 9781860947681

This book presents a wide panorama of methods to investigate the spectral properties of block operator matrices. Particular emphasis is placed on classes of block operator matrices to which standard operator theoretical methods do not readily apply: non-self-adjoint block operator matrices, block operator matrices with unbounded entries, non-semibounded block operator matrices, and classes of block operator matrices arising in mathematical physics. The main topics include: localization of the spectrum by means of new concepts of numerical range; investigation of the essential spectrum; vari

Author: Nicolas J. Cerf
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: atoms, light, variables, continuous, information, quantum
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2007-02-06
List price: $164.00
ISBN-10: 1860947603
ISBN-13: 9781860947605

This book presents the state of the art of quantum information with continuous quantum variables. The individual chapters discuss results achieved in QUICOV and presented at the first five CVQIP conferences from 2002 2006. Many world-leading scientists working on continuous variables outside Europe also contribute to the book.

Authors:John H Mason, Sergiy Klymchuk,
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: calculus, examples, counter, using
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2009-05-25
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1848163606
ISBN-13: 9781848163607

This book makes accessible to calculus students in high school, college and university a range of counter-examples to conjectures that many students erroneously make. In addition, it urges readers to construct their own examples by tinkering with the ones shown here in order to enrich the example spaces to which they have access, and to deepen their appreciation of conspectus and conditions applying to theorems.