This book forms an introduction to important aspects of shock-wave propagation in solid materials. Emphasis is on the regime of moderate compression that can be produced by high-velocity impact or...
This volume presents the latest on the use of whole-body ultrasound on the critically ill. It covers improvements, revised definitions, and updated algorithms, and it clearly presents findings on...
This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the wood and bark anatomies of 3,000 dicotyledonous plants of 120 families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of...
This book intends to provide the readers a good understanding on how to achieve Fault Tolerant Control goal of Hybrid Systems. The book can be used as a reference for the academic research on Fault...
The book highlights the phylogenetic diversity of dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere. Presented are microsections of the xylem and phloem of herbs, shrubs and trees of 1200 species of...
This book details new developments in the field of durability, service life prediction methodologies, the durability approach for historical and old buildings, asset and maintenance management and...
1 Der Aufbau der vorliegenden, wesentlich erganzten 3. Auflage dieses Werk stattbuches solI iill Sinne des Verfassers der ersten Auflagen, KARL IRRESBERGER sen. Den Anforderungen der Praxis des...
The handbook focuses on a complete outline of Lithium-ion batteries. Just before starting with an exposition of the fundamentals of this system, the book gives a short explanation of the newest...
- How did the Sun come into existence? §- How was the Earth formed? §- How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? §- How do you define life? §- How...
Many companies feel that their spendings on training and coaching for their sales force are a waste of time and money. They complain about the lack of improvement and continued low performance....
In diesem kompetent geschriebenen Lehrbuch wird, ausgehend von der Beschreibung unserer Milchstraße, die Astronomie der Galaxien und ihrer großräumigen Verteilung eingehend dargestellt und...
Performance problems are rarely "problems" per se. They are more often "crises" during which you're pressured for results aby a manager standing outside your cubicle while your...
Creating fun, sophisticated games for Windows devices large or small has never been easier! With masses of example code and fully working games for you to download and run straight away Windows 8...
With a wealth of updated material, rewritten chapters and additional case studies, this fourth edition of a hugely important work gives an up-to-date overview of the concepts underlying APS....
Now in a second updated edition, this unique in-depth reference covers all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases and presents the latest on their management. International...
Phagocytic cells and complement are probably the most important components of host defense against bacteria which, after overcoming the mucosal and epithelial barriers, multiply in the...
In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Manhattan Project clearly explains the underlying science behind the development of the atomic bomb, including how atomic bombs work, the...
Dieses Buch will weder ein Lehrbuch der Funktionalanalysis noch eines der numerischen Mathematik sein; sondern es möchte nur zeigen, wie sich in der numerischen Mathematik in neuerer Zeit ein...
This book describes Supply Chain Management (SCM) using a pyramidal framework and relates it to the SAP SCM Solution Map. It formulates desired features of IT support for SCM and shows the extent...
This full presentation of the cutting-edge and highly applicable topic of crystalline metamaterials emphasizes acoustic wave propagation phenomena at interfaces such as refraction, in particular...
Zwei Entwicklungsstufen fiihren zum fertigen Bauwerk: Die Planung oder Konstruktion und der Herstellungsvorgang. Es kennzeichnet die betriebs technischen Unterschiede zwischen Maschinen- und...
This book examines in detail the role of transfontanellar pulsed and color Doppler imaging in the fetus and neonate. After an introductory chapter its use in the normal neonate is considered....
In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Manhattan Project clearly explains the underlying science behind the development of the atomic bomb, including how atomic bombs work, the...
The contributions for this book have been gathered over several years from conferences held in the series of Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, the latest of which was held in Ankara,...