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The oyster trade worldwide is of huge commercial importance, and the demand for high quality oysters is rising all the time. With wild stocks depleted…

Fisheries buybacks are an important strategy being implemented globally in the efforts to produce a more sustainable and profitable fisheries industry…

Knowledge management has become an important topic for the theory and practice of organisation management. Knowledge Coordination argues that coordina…

Television was one of the inventions that shaped the way society and culture evolved over the second half of the twentieth century. It had the powerfu…

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The world’s stocks of wild fish continue to decline, making the task of finding innovative, sustainable and socially acceptable methods of fisheries m…

Offers a well-rounded, mathematical approach to problems in signal interpretation using the latest time, frequency, and mixed-domain methods Equally u…

UMTS as a technology allows for exciting new applications of some of the best ideas of services in the fixed telecoms, cellular/mobile telecoms, and i…

The 3rd edition of this highly successful text builds on the achievement of the first two editions to provide comprehensive coverage of IMS. It contin…

This book is an essential reference to cutting-edge issues and future directions in information retrieval Information retrieval (IR) can be defined as…

As aquaculture continues to grow at a rapid pace, understanding the engineering behind aquatic production facilities is of increasing importance for a…

A modern mobile phone is a highly complex electronic system made up from a variety of diverse sub-systems, all of which must work seamlessly together.…

Offering an overview of usability, testing, and information architecture for EPOC, WAP, PDAs, handhelds, and handsets, this how-to guide dives into th…

UWB (ultra-wideband) has been investigated for many decades but only recently has it become commercially viable. With the advent of WiMedia UWB techno…

Multimedia technologies and the internet are increasingly intrinsic to our daily lives, and into the future will continue to transform the way we live…

The scallop farming industry continues to expand, providing an important global source of food and revenue. In recent decades over-fishing has caused …

We have telephony to talk to each other, messaging to dispatch mail or instant messages, browsing to read published content and search engines to loca…

New material on computerized optical processes, computerized ray tracing, and the fast Fourier transform, Bibre-Bragg sensors, and temporal phase unwr…

During the last 15 years, the interest in vehicular communication has grown, especially in the automotive industry. Due to the envisioned mass market,…

Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imp…

The current high demand for fish and increased awareness of the role of the environment in supporting human well being has led to a situation where at…

Satellite networking is an exciting and expanding field that has evolved significantly since the launch of the first telecommunications satellite, fro…

Communications technologies increasingly pervade our everyday lives, yet the underlying principles are a mystery to most. Even among engineers and tec…

One of the most important key technologies for digital communication systems as well as storage media is coding theory. It provides a means to transmi…

Learn how to use service modelling to streamline and optimize processes! Information about customer needs, the technical composition of services, and …

Recreational or sport fishing is important for three major reasons: economic (it is a multi-billion dollar world industry); social (it is embedded in …

GPRS is a packet based wireless communication service that offers data rates from 9.05 up to 171.2 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for …

This book provides an introduction to the complex field of ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous Computing (also commonly referred to as Pervasive Computing…

Cognitive networks can dynamically adapt their operational parameters in response to user needs or changing environmental conditions. They can learn f…

Parlay will enable rapid and cost-effective delivery of services based on telecommunications networks, and will be an essential part of the 3G future.…

Fish have the same stress response and powers of nociception as mammals. Their behavioural responses to a variety of situations suggest a considerable…

VSAT Networks: Second Edition covers all the important issues involved with the installation of VSAT systems. Since the first edition was published, t…

“Triple Play”is a combination of Internet access, voice communication (telephony), and entertainment services such as IP television and video on deman…

Everything readers need to implement and support a wireless point-to-point communications environment In order to cope with the tremendous explosion o…

The present information age is enabled by telecommunications and information technology and the continued convergence of their services, technologies …

The percid fishes (or perch family) comprise many species including the perch, pikeperch, yellow perch, walleye and the darters. These species are of …

3rd generation radio systems will be increasingly developed, deployed and operated in the years to come. TDD is one of two main approaches to implemen…

Find out how modern IPTV technologies will change your experience of television. Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is rapidly being deployed as a co…

From stars to terrestrial networks and satellites From outdoors to indoors From ancient to future applications From techniques to technologies . . . T…

IP (internet protocol) Telephony, enabled by softswitches, is going to usher in a new era in telecommunications. By putting voice and data over one IP…

Published in Cooperation with THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY Shrimp is the most important commodity, by value, in the international seafood trade. The …

CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is one type of multiple access system used in radio communication. Other multiple access methods include TDMA, FD…

Benefiting from both time-domain and frequency-domain signal processing techniques, multicarrier systems have the potential for achieving high spectra…

Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employ them successfully! This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and prac…

Access to the Internet is an increasing problem in many areas of the world. As the popularity and usefulness of the Internet increases on a daily basi…