B. Rao

Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. There has, however, been no book that expounds holistically the key role of technology in shaping and influencing competitive strategy. This book is an insightful analysis of the several ways in which technology drives competitive strategy. The book's unique contributions lie in the classification of firms based on the concept of technology pyramid and articulation of characteristic strategies of innovators, differentiators and followers. The book develops a distinctive five forces model of technology and proposes three generic technology competitive strategies. It also focuses on the linkages between strategy, technology and regulation. Multiple themes are weaved together by the myriad threads of technology in a seamless and simple manner. It is loaded with innumerable real life examples which validate the constructs. The book would inspire technologists and strategists as well as academicians and administrators to deploy technology not only for competitive advantage at firm level but also for national comparative advantage and broader socio-economic equity.

Focusing on three principal systems - GPS, GALILEO, and GLONAS - this practical resource provides a thorough treatment of GNSS antennas. The book presents a number of key applications, describing corresponding receiver architectures and antenna details. You find important discussions on antenna characteristics, including theory of operation, gain, bandwidth, polarization, phase center, mutual coupling effects, and integration with active components. The book offers expert guidance on the key considerations that effect GNSS antenna performance. This unique reference also considers various augmentation systems, such as the U. S. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). Addressing critical GNSS antenna requirements, this in-depth book explains the relationships between antenna gain, satellite visibility, geometric dilution of precision, and the carrier-to-noise density ratio. The book delineates requirements for both dual-band and tri-band antennas. You get detailed coverage of a wide range of antenna designs, including microstrip patch, quadrafilar helix, axial mode helix, spiral, inverted L, and planar inverted F antennas. Moreover, you find a discussion on new magnetic "metamaterial" substrates and other dielectric substrate materials. Further, this comprehensive book presents designs for very compact GNSS antennas for PCS, PDAs, and automobiles. From multipath limiting antennas, multiple element array designs for reducing interference, and multi-system multi-band antenna design, to GNSS antenna measurement characteristics, cosite interference, and adaptive antenna arrays and anti-jam signal processing techniques, this unique volume offers one-stop coverage of this increasingly important area of GNSS technology.

Today's bioimaging technologies generate mountains of biological data that can simply overwhelm conventional analysis methods. This groundbreaking book helps researchers blast through the computational bottleneck with high-performance computing (HPC) techniques that are blazing the way to never-before bioimaging, image analysis, and data mining capabilities and revolutionizing the study of cellular and organ-level systems. This innovative volume surveys the latest advances in scanning electron microscopy, knife-edge scanning microscopy, and 4D imaging of multi-component biological systems. The book includes detailed case studies that show how key techniques have been successfully deployed in medical image analysis, drug discovery, tissue analysis, functional MRI data analysis, and other areas.