Author: Saeed Moaveni
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: application, ansys, theory, analysis, element, finite
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $174.00
ISBN-10: 0131890808
ISBN-13: 9780131890800

While many authors cover the theory of finite element modeling, this is the only book available that incorporates ANSYS as an integral part of its content. Moaveni presents the theory of finite element analysis, explores its application as a design/modeling tool, and explains in detail how to use ANSYS intelligently and effectively. Now uses Excel in solving simple finite element problems. Adds a significant number of new problems. Incorporates the latest version of ANSYS throughout. A useful reference for mechanical, civil and environmental engineers.

Authors:Abdullah Saeed, Hassan Saeed,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: islam, apostasy, religion, freedom
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0754630838
ISBN-13: 9780754630838

Debate on freedom of religion as a human right takes place not only in the Western world but also in Muslim communities throughout the world. For Muslims concerned for this freedom, one of the major difficulties is the "punishment for apostasy" - death for those who desert Islam. This book argues that the law of apostasy and its punishment by death in Islamic law is untenable in the modern period. Apostasy conflicts with a variety of foundation texts of Islam and with the current ethos of human rights, in particular the freedom to choose one’s religion. Demonstrating the early developmen

Author: Khalid SaeedKhalid Saeed;Jerzy Pejas;Romuald Mosd
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: intelligence, applications, artificial, systems, computer, security, biometrics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-11-03
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0387362320
ISBN-13: 9780387362328

Author: Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: america, american, iran, iranian, growing, jihad, memoir, lipstick
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1586483781
ISBN-13: 9781586483784

Now in trade paperback with a Reader’s Guide inside: A "compelling...guided tour through the underground youth culture in Tehran...an illuminating book." (The New York Times) A favorite of readers and critics nationwide, Lipstick Jihad is now available in the format most likely to appeal to its natural market-and it now includes a wealth of new material to interest readers and reading groups. Azadeh Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. As far back as she can remember she felt at odds w

Author: Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: danger, iran, love, years, tehran, honeymoon
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-04-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0812977904
ISBN-13: 9780812977905

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad’s strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested f

Authors:A. Khaki-Sedigh, B. Moaveni,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, notes, information, sciences, lecture, plants, configuration, selection, multivariable
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3642031927
ISBN-13: 9783642031922

This book focuses on control configuration selection or the input-output pairing problem, which is defined as the procedure of selecting the appropriate input and output pair for the design of SISO (or block) controllers. An improper input-output pairing selection can be detrimental to closed loop stability and performance. The main objective in selecting an appropriate control configuration is to minimize the loop interactions. This will facilitate the single input single output independent design that is the basis of many industrial control systems. This book is the first monograph to deal i

Author: Saeed V. Vaseghi
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: noise, reduction, processing, signal, digital, advanced
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-03-11
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0470754060
ISBN-13: 9780470754061

Digital signal processing plays a central role in the development of modern communication and information processing systems. The theory and application of signal processing is concerned with the identification, modelling and utilisation of patterns and structures in a signal process. The observation signals are often distorted, incomplete and noisy and therefore noise reduction, the removal of channel distortion, and replacement of lost samples are important parts of a signal processing system. The fourth edition of Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction updates and