Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fifth Edition, 2 Volumes

James R. Pfafflin, Edward N. Ziegler, "Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fifth Edition, 2 Volumes"
CRC; 5 edition (January 13, 2006) | ISBN-10: 0849398436 | 1440 Pages | PDF | 13,4 MB

Completely revised and updated, Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fifth Edition spans the entire spectrum of environmental science and engineering. Still the most comprehensive, authoritative reference available in this field, the monumental two-volume encyclopedia has expanded to include 87 articles on topics ranging from acid rain, air pollution, and community health, to environmental law, instrumentation, modeling, alternative energy, toxicology, radioactive waste, and water treatment. The articles have been extensively revised and updated, new ones have been added to cover the latest developments related to today's environmental problems. The result is a reference work that provides the information necessary to understand, manage, and respond to threats to the human environment.

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Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines

Pentti O. Haikonen, "Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines"
Wiley-Interscience | 2007 | ISBN: 0470062045 | 224 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB

Haikonen envisions autonomous robots that perceive and understand the world directly, acting in it in a natural human-like way without the need of programs and numerical representation of information. By developing higher-level cognitive functions through the power of artificial associative neuron architectures, the author approaches the issues of machine consciousness.
Robot Brains expertly outlines a complete system approach to cognitive machines, offering practical design guidelines for the creation of non-numeric autonomous creative machines. It details topics such as component parts and realization principles, so that different pieces may be implemented in hardware or software. Real-world examples for designers and researchers are provided, including circuit and systems examples that few books on this topic give.
In novel technical and practical detail, this book also considers:
the limitations and remedies of traditional neural associators in creating true machine cognition;
basic circuit assemblies cognitive neural architectures;
how motors can be interfaced with the associative neural system in order for fluent motion to be achieved without numeric computations;
memorization, imagination, planning and reasoning in the machine;
the concept of machine emotions for motivation and value systems;
an approach towards the use and understanding of natural language in robots.
The methods presented in this book have important implications for computer vision, signal processing, speech recognition and other information technology fields. Systematic and thoroughly logical, it will appeal to practising engineers involved in the development and design of robots and cognitive machines, also researchers in Artificial Intelligence. Postgraduate students in computational neuroscience and robotics, and neuromorphic engineers will find it an exciting source of information.

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Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits

Rudolf Graf, William Sheets, "Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 1"
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (January 1, 1985) | ISBN-10: 0830619380 | 795 Pages | PDF | 22,7 MB

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Diagrams and describes the basic circuits used in alarms, switches, voltmeters, battery chargers, modulators, receivers, transmitters, oscillators, amplifiers, converters, pulse generators, and field strength meters.

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