As a growing number of companies reject intellectual property (IP) monopoly-based business models to embrace libre product development of free and open source hardware and software, there is an urgent need to refurbish the instruments of university-corporate research partnerships. These...

Digital Library initiatives are gaining momentum and many open source digital library software emerged. These developments necessitate universal standard for digital library software. Conforming the software to universal standard means compromising local requirements. No matter how general the...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What a Program Manager Does -- Why Program Management Is Important -- Why You Want This Book -- 1. Manage the Program -- Take the Big Picture View -- Balance Priorities -- Manage Risks -- Report Status -- Do Everything -- Manage...

Commercial softwares dedicated to providing thermodynamic properties of complex mixtures in general have high-cost licenses and high computational cost, which makes its use limited for undergraduate students in remote classes or research tasks. Therefore, an open-source software was developed in...