Composed of nearly a thousand different types of microorganisms - some beneficial, others not - the human gut microbiota plays an important role in health and disease. This is due to the presence of probiotic or beneficial ...

The all-inclusive guide—from theory to practice—for print and Web design. Any well-conceived print or Web design features the dynamic interplay between visual artistry and technical skill. It becomes important, therefore, ...

This book focuses on Agile, DevOps, and Application Lifecycle Management techniques on the Microsoft development stack. It shows you how to use VS Team Services, Visual Studio, and Azure. The book is mainly targeted at ...

This book examines the field of parallel database management systems and illustrates the great variety of solutions based on a shared-storage or a shared-nothing architecture. Constantly dropping memory prices and the ...

Interference alignment is a radical idea that has recently emerged out of the capacity analysis of interference networks. In a relatively short time, this concept has challenged much of the conventional wisdom about the ...

Developers of C# applications with a SQL Server database can learn to connect to a database using classic ADO.NET and look at different methods of developing databases using the Entity Framework. Sander Rossel will take ...

This book provides glycoscientists with a handbook of useful databases that can be applied to glycoscience research. Although many databases are now publicly available, one of the hurdles for their users is the learning ...

Key FeaturesWrite reusable code that defines and makes objects interact with one anotherDiscover the differences in inheritance and polymorphism in Python, JavaScript, and C#Capture objects from real-world elements and ...

Te new field of cryptographic currencies and consensus ledgers, commonly referred to as blockchains, is receiving increasing interest from various different communities. Tese communities are very diverse and amongst others ...

Polymers have proven to be very suitable materials for topographic structuring, in particular in nanoreplication processes. Micro- and Nanografting strategies address the possibility for the formation of chemical patterns ...