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Feaver Fever in Spillage Village is a tale about a young alligator named Archie. Archie is passionate about science and engineering and loves to use his expertise to address challenges that often occur in his village. In this Tale of Whoa, Archie's village is...

The Neolithic saw the spread of the first farmers, and the formation of settled villages throughout Europe. Traditional archaeology has interpreted these changes in terms of population growth, economic pressures and social competition, but in "The Domestication of Europe" Ian Hodder works from a...

This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this...

Webplicity and is a great a resource for those in the process of or thinking about implementing a new web site or web based tool. Author Bill Young brings real world experience guiding clients through the difficult process of launching a well-designed web presence....

This book covers Budgeting and accounting for IT services based on clause 6.4 of ISO/IEC 20000. It introduces financial terms that may be unfamiliar to service management specialists, which will help with understanding the requirements and recommendations. It also covers the relationship between budgeting,...

Gravity is one of the most inexplicable forces of nature, controlling everything, from the expansion of the Universe to the ebb and flow of ocean tides. The search for the laws of motion and gravitation began more than two thousand years ago, a quest...

James Friedman provides a thorough survey of oligopoly theory using numerical examples and careful verbal explanations to make the ideas clear and accessible. While the earlier ideas of Cournot, Hotelling, and Chamberlin are presented, the larger part of the book is devoted to the...

The fifth volume of this definitive edition centres around Newton's Lucasian lectures on algebra, purportedly delivered during 1673-83, and subsequently prepared for publication under the title Arithmetica Universalis many years later. Dr Whiteside first reproduces the text of the lectures deposited by Newton in...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Dieses Buch enthalt eine Sammlung von Dialogen des bekannten Mathematikers Serge Lang mit Schulern. Serge Lang behandelt die Schuler als seinesgleichen und zeigt ihnen mit dem ihm eigenen lebendigen Stil etwas vom Wesen des mathematischen Denkens. Die Begegnungen zwischen Lang und den Schulern sind...

The legacy of Galois was the beginning of Galois theory as well as group theory. From this common origin, the development of group theory took its own course, which led to great advances in the latter half of the 20th cen- tury. It was...

Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great...

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the position of the world's first...

This book is about how in less than one lifetime we have experienced the destruction of the manufacturing sectors in our western societies. and the significant loss of national prosperity, and why the imperative for western economies must be to ....Take Back Manufacturing!The globalized...

The book Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020 is the second book published by MDPI on the topic.It highlights the most recent internationally/nationally funded projects on Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts, providing readers with an overview of the most...

For a sustainable future, the need to use renewable sources to produce electricity is inevitable. Some of these sources-particularly the widely available solar power-are weather-dependent; therefore, utility-scale energy storage will be more and more important. These solar and wind power fluctuations range from minutes...

With the Internet of Things and various information and communication technologies, a city can manage its assets in a smarter way, constituting the urban development vision of a smart city. This facilitates a more efficient use of physical infrastructure and encourages citizen participation. Smart...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Supply Chains.- Chapter 2. Supply Chain Management.- Chapter 3. Supply Chain Dynamics.- Chapter 4. Basic models for SC dynamics.- Chapter 5. The effect of the quality of information in SCD.- Chapter 6. Enriching SC models.- Chapter 7. Closed Loop Supply...

"This publication delves into how virtual technology has evolved to create remote offices and remote teaming in Health, Education, Engineering, and other business solutions, exploring culture in businesses and how individuals may interface, communicate, and collaborate in past, current, and future business models"--Author: Joseph...

Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft. In one extreme case, a $2.2 billion B-2 Spirit bomber crashed soon after takeoff and was...

New quantitative methodology and the development of corpus and experimental linguistics tools have recently made researching lexical comprehension and production more accessible. While several tools and data sets are available in English (Coh-metrix, CELEX) and a few other languages, the development of resources and...

Since the first works introducing the aluminum intercalated clay family in the early 1970s, interest in the synthesis of Pillared InterLayered Clays (PILC) has increased tremendously, especially research into their properties and energetic and environmental applications. After our comprehensive reviews and book on the...

The investigation of rail vehicle running dynamics plays an important role in the more than 200 year development of railway vehicles and infrastructure. Currently, there are a number of new requirements for rail transport associated with the reduced environmental impact, energy consumption and wear,...

The development of modern numerical methods has led to significant advances in the field of fatigue and fracture, which are pivotal issues in structural integrity. Because of the permanent tendency to shorten time-to-market periods and the development cost, the use of the finite element...

Germanium (Ge) chalcogenides are characterized by unique properties that make these materials interesting for a very wide range of applications from phase change memories to ovonic threshold switches and from photonics to thermoelectric and photovoltaic devices. In many cases, their physical properties can be...

Photonic jets (PJs) are important mesoscale optical phenomena arising from electromagnetic waves interacting with dielectric particles. PJs have applications in super-resolution imaging, sensing, detection, patterning, trapping, manipulation, waveguiding, signal amplification and high-efficiency signal collection, among others. This reprint provides an overview of the field...

Practical Chlorine Dioxide is a comprehensive book for those who want to use ClO2 safely and effectively. The subject matter includes safety, environmental, reaction chemistry, generation chemistry and equipment, analytical, and materials of compatibility. In addition, there is a "Frequently Asked Questions" chapter which...

Despite the changes in the marketing landscape caused by the Internet, print remains a valuable marketing tool.Unfortunately in embracing everything digital, many marketers have neglected to learn about how to use print marketing.This book contains 6 practical principles that can be applied to any...

Accelerate the adoption of machine learning by automating away the complex parts of the ML pipeline using H2O.aiKey Features: Learn how to train the best models with a single click using H2O AutoML Get a simple explanation of model performance using H2O Explainability Easily...

The papers here collected are written solely for members of the Masonic Order, constituted under the United Grand Lodge of England. To all such they are offered in the best spirit of fraternity and goodwill and with the wish to render to the Order...

The story of beer and brewing in Britain is a diverse tale. Like a deep, amber ale, the development of the brewing industry is rich and full of depth. The history of brewing in Britain is a cornerstone of the country's culture. Dating back...

For courses in world regional geography. Empower students to address global issues Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World incorporates a contemporary, thematic approach to introduce the latest ideas and concepts in world regional geography. The text provides students with the core materials...

Electrification, automation of vehicle control, digitalization and new mobility are the mega-trends in automotive engineering, and they are strongly connected. While many demonstrations for highly automated vehicles have been made worldwide, many challenges remain in bringing automated vehicles to the market for private and...

This book is purposefully void of any actual export regulations. The book simply aims to provide export control awareness and helpful tips across the board for any company and any person in the aerospace and defense industry to mitigate chances of export violations. This...

This book is purposefully void of any actual export regulations. The book simply aims to provide export control awareness and helpful tips across the board for any company and any person in the aerospace and defense industry to mitigate chances of export violations. This...

With his debut poetry collection, A Stranger's Heart, Philip J. Cozzi joins the ranks of physician poets, enhancing this tradition and offering fresh perspectives of the patient and the curer. These poems shimmer, displaying imaginative range and verbal dexterity. Cozzi's acute sense of empathyinforms...

The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide prepares you, the young investigator, to step up to the challenge of funding your own research. And what a challenge. Writing a successful grant demands much more than a first-class inquisitive scientific mind. As you will soon discover,...

Coping with the complexities of the social world in the 21st century requires deeper quantitative and predictive understanding. Forty-three internationally acclaimed scientists and thinkers share their vision for complexity science in the next decade in this invaluable book. Topics cover how complexity and big...

Author: Nirupama PrakashISBN-10: 9385020714ISBN-13: 9789385020711Publisher: Zorba BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2016Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

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The book describes the Danish Nimbus-C's (1934 - 1959) electrical system, and outline what the owner or rider can easily do himself when somthing goes wrong, and when it's best to seek advice or let the skilled folk take over.Author: Knud Jgensen, Sune NielsenISBN-10:...

A large interconnected power system consists of large and small generating stations and all stations must have same frequency. The objective of providing an Automatic Generation Control (AGC) is to maintain the system frequency at nominal value and the power interchange between different areas...

The speed of a separately excited DC motor can be controlled from below and up to rated speed using DC chopper as a converter. The DC chopper firing circuit receives signals from speed controller and then DC chopper gives variable output voltage to the...

In the present day framework of interactive, intelligent computing, an efficient human-computer interaction is assuming utmost importance in our daily lives. Gesture recognition can be termed as an approach in this direction. It is a process by which the gestures made by the user...

Open-source hardware (OSH) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open- source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and apply a like concept to a variety of components. It...

2D computational analysis is carried out to assess the comparative performance of the absorb-er plate of a solar air heater with T-shape rectangular roughness elements using commercial software packages Fluent 14.5 are investigated at the Reynolds number range from 4000-16000 in which solar air...

Box culverts are the monolithic structure made to pass across a roadway, railway lines etc. Embankments are used to balance the flood water on both sides. Box takes various types of loads generated by water, traffic, cushion, soil etc. The work in this book...

Construction industry relies heavily on conventional material such as cement, sand and gravel for the production of concrete. The river sand and gravels which are most commonly used as fine aggregates and coarse aggregates respectively in the production of concrete, poses the problem of...

The analysis of failures of various equipment in an industry plays a crucial role in order to avoid the breakdown. In this content, Failure Modes & Effect Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process approach is used for prioritizing the risk of failure in turbine auxiliaries...