Author: R. J. Chapuis
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: telephone, switching, computers, electronics, years
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1586033727
ISBN-13: 9781586033729

This book explores both the technology and marketing decision-making in a world-wide industry where product purchasers represent long-term decisions and where the rate of change of the technology has been incredibly rapid. The context in which switching systems were developed and deployed is sometimes as important as system descriptions. The reader should consider the contents of this book as a whole and not just as a reference to a specific system of interest. The book deals essentially with the mainstream switching systems required for the public network. It does not cover the history of swi

Author: Oscar Chapuis
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, asian, studies, duc, bang, vietnam, hong, history
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-08-30
List price: $126.95
ISBN-10: 0313296227
ISBN-13: 9780313296222

The first work to chronicle the history of Vietnam beginning in the legendary past--a memory that is so significant to the Vietnamese identity and belief system. Written by a native, this history portrays the Sino-Viet interdependence that lasted for 1,000 years and had such an influence on Vietnamese culture. When in the 15th century, the Vietnamese finally evicted their Chinese masters, they were subsequently overrun with the forces of Westernization, the spice trade and industrialization. Chapuis’s history takes us to the French conquest through the regimes of Emperors Gia Long, Ming

Authors:Robert J. Chapuis, Amos E. Joel,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: switching, electromechanical, manual, years, telephone
Number of Pages: 2
Published: 2003-08
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1586033492
ISBN-13: 9781586033491

In this work, not only the principles by which manual and automatic systems function are distinguished, but also the background to the invention is given. This is done from the perspective of an unbiased international observer.

Authors:Ted Janssen, Gervais Chapuis, Marc de Boissieu,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: crystallography, union, monographs, international, quasicrystals, crystals, modulated, phases, aperiodic
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-07-19
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0198567774
ISBN-13: 9780198567776

Until the 1970s all materials studied consisted of periodic arrays of unit cells, or were amorphous. In the last decades a new class of solid state matter, called aperiodic crystals, has been found. It is a long range ordered structure, but without lattice periodicity. It is found in a wide range of materials: organic and anorganic compounds, minerals (including a substantial portion of the earths crust), and metallic alloys, under various pressures and temperatures. Because of the lack of periodicity the usual techniques for the study of structure and physical properties no longer work, and