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You already know you can create amazing things with LEGO, but did you know you can also make vehicles that roll and model plans that include landing gear and flaps that actually extend and retract?

This is a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. Its many examples are backed by real-time performance measurements and size analyses that quantify the true cost of the code to the last byte and microsecond.

Chapter 1. Know-How! New corporate responsibility for the digital society.- Chapter 2. Watch it! Thinking digitalization and sustainability together.- Chapter 3. Zoom in! Assessing Digital Responsibility in the Company.- Chapter 4. Just do! Implementing CDR in the company.- Chapter 5. Mind the Gap! Mastering challenges in practice.- Chapter 6. Go for impact! Show effectiveness.

This book will acquaint beginners with the basics of musculoskeletal ultrasound, while more advanced sonologists and sonographers will learn new skills, means of avoiding pitfalls, and ways of effectively relating the ultrasound study to the clinical background.

A discussion of raw-material structure and the features used for species identification in pulp is followed up by the description of 117 fiber species. Informative micrographs, identification tables, and distribution maps aid species differentiation, making this atlas ideal for everyone interested in fiber identification.

In its fully revised 2nd edition, this book provides the background needed for a fundamental understanding of biophysics, spanning the whole range of life from a biophysical view, from the molecular, cellular and organismic level to environmental factors.

Up-to-date and richly illustrated, this book covers breast carcinoma, with guidance on differential diagnosis and pre- and postoperative ultrasound appearances. Includes benign diseases, age-related features, breast abnormalities in men and lymph nodes.

Underwater acoustics has become one of the major technologies used in the exploration and exploitation of the oceans. This book provides an updated and extended overview of current underwater acoustics. It emphasizes practical approaches to actual problems.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of requirements engineering. The book includes numerous real-world examples to illustrate all aspects of requirements engineering.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an essential means to cope with the challenges of global competition. This is the first English-language book on PLM that introduces the reader to the basic terms and fundamentals of PLM.

This is the most complete text available on the economics of health behavior and health care delivery. The text provides the key analytical tools required to understand current research and models existing complexities as they are.

This book offers a coherent modeling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations, allowing the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. Introduces the ArchiMate(R) language for enterprise architecture.

This thought-provoking book considers organizational sales performance at a high, strategic level, offering specific guidance in managing the entire organization's sales function. The authors introduce and apply a practical checklist-based scoring system.

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.

The fourth edition of this standard textbook of modern graph theory has been revised, updated, and substantially extended. Covering all major recent developments, it can be used both as a reliable textbook for an introductory course and as a graduate text.

This book is a major work that focuses exclusively on ship finance and includes contributions on the increasingly complex field of ship finance, which has over the last two decades become a key aspect in the world of shipping and ship owning.

You'll discover keyboard shortcuts and gestures to help save time-whether you're on a iMac, Mac mini, Macbook Pro, Air, or other Mac computer. In terms of apps, you'll learn about iLife, iCal, Mail, Mac App Store, Safari, Address Book and more.

Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET teaches the essential skill of asynchronous programming in .NET. Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET is your practical guide to using this important programming skill anywhere on the .NET platform.

This is the first truly ecosystem-oriented book on peatlands. It adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. A recurring theme is the legacy of boreal peatlands as impressive accumulators of carbon as peat over millennia.

All individuals who operate in the business sphere, whether as consumers, employers, employees, entrepreneurs, or financial traders to name a few constituents, share a common biological heritage and are defined by a universal human nature.  As such, it is surprising that so few business scholars have incorporated biological and evolutionary-informed theories within their conceptual toolboxes.  This edited book addresses this lacuna by culling chapters at the intersection of the evolutionary behavioral sciences and specific business contexts including in marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, innovation and creativity, intertemporal choice, negotiations, competition and cooperation in organizational settings, sex differences in workplace patterns, executive leadership, business ethics, store design, behavioral decision making, and electronic communication.  To reword the famous aphorism of T. G. Dobzhansky, nothing in business makes sense except in the light of evolution.