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Broadband telecommunications, the delivery of lightning fast internet access to the home or office, is a field confusing, competing technologies: DSL, cable, wireless, optical, and many more. This book breaks down each broadband technology and explains it by function, asking Bates' 3 Questions: What is it, what will it do for me, and what is it going to cost me?...

This product is a concise and useful reference for industrial engineers, scientists, designers, managers, research personnel and students. It covers an extensive range of topics that encompass the subject of measurement, instrumentation, and sensors.The Measurement Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook on CD-ROM provides easy access to the instrumentation and techniques for practical measurements required in engineering, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences....

The Fortran 2003 Handbook is a definitive and comprehensive guide to Fortran 2003 and its use. Fortran 2003, the latest standard version of Fortran, has many excellent features that assist the programmer in writing efficient, portable and maintainable programs. This all-inclusive volume offers a reader-friendly, easy-to-follow and informal description of Fortran 2003, and has been developed to provide not only a readable explanation of features, but also some rationale for the inclusion of features and their use. This highly versatile handbook is intended for anyone who wants a comprehensive survey of Fortran 2003....

Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly adopted new technology in the world: more than one of every three people worldwide possesses a mobile phone. This volume offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Leading scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange, from the "aspirational consumption" of middle class families in India to the belief in parts of Africa and Asia that mobile phones can communicate with the...