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Starting with considerations to be initiated in the boardroom and at group management level, this book examines the factors involved in process innovation. It also reviews various aspects of the design of a process innovation organisation. It advocates the importance of delineating and clarifying corporate work processes for process innovation.

Covers the understanding of the role of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) in the generation of antibody response to antigenic challenge.

Focuses on what is generally taught in the first two years of an undergraduate university chemistry program. This textbook contains topics in electronic structure of atoms and molecules, biochemistry, chemical reactions, energy production and even modern topics such as quantum chemistry and molecular orbital theory.

Presents a description of various developments in the field of finite element analysis, with a particular emphasis on the multiscale finite element modeling of transport phenomena and flow problem.

Offers an introduction to a wide body of knowledge on nonlinear dynamics and chaos. This book emphasises the understanding of basic concepts and the nontrivial character of nonlinear response, contrasting it with the intuitively simple linear response. It explains the theoretical framework using pedagogical examples from fluid dynamics.

Diffusion, or the widespread adoption of innovations, is a critical yet under-researched topic. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary and managerial process approach to understanding and promoting the adoption of innovations, based on the research and practice. It is of interest to graduates and researchers in marketing and innovation courses.

Takes a look at how companies ought to be managed. This book argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm's cash. It suggests that companies that follow their paradigm are more likely to survive tumultuous times, provide higher returns to their investors, and have a conducive work environment.

What exactly is human ageing? Can it be slowed down? These questions have puzzled scientists and laymen alike for generations, and continue to do so. This title addresses these issues by challenging pre-conceived notions of age-perception, age-acceptance and inter-age relations.

This work shows how the analytical properties in the complex energy plane of the Green's functions of many particle systems account for the physical effects (level shifts, damping, instabilities) characteristic of interacting systems.

Presents an introduction to the surprising nature of change and explains how the Law of Unintended Consequences arises from the waves of change following one simple change. This book is suitable for professionals in system building or business change management, and to students studying systems in a variety of fields.

Many important problems in global optimization, algebra, probability and statistics, applied mathematics, control theory, and financial mathematics can be modeled as a particular instance of the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP). This book introduces a general methodology to solve the GMP when its data are polynomials and basic semi-algebraic sets.

Presents an introduction to classical fluid dynamics. This book includes estimation theory, both classical and quantum, using information geometry.

A guide to geo-political impact of sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises on global markets. It highlights the interplay between legal, corporate and policy imperatives associated with the regulation of state capital. It is suitable for those in the fields of finance and business.

Addresses significant problems in physical biology and adjacent disciplines. This volume provides a perspective on the methods and concepts at the heart of chemical and biological behavior, covering the topics of visualization; theory and computation for complexity; and macromolecular function, protein folding, and protein misfolding.

Develops rational principles for the design of associative memories, with a view to applying these principles to models with irregularly oscillatory operation so evident in biological neural systems, and necessitated by the meaninglessness of absolute signal levels.

Microstrip patch antennas have become the favorite of antenna designers because of its versatility and advantages of planar profile, ease of fabrication, compatibility with integrated circuit technology, and conformability with a shaped surface. This book is suitable for graduate students and practicing engineers.

Presents an introduction to advanced computational methods for free energy calculations. This book is suitable for practitioners interested in a mathematical treatment, and for applied mathematicians interested in molecular dynamics.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is part of a range of microscopic methods for biologists which offer the magnification range of both the light and electron microscope, but allow imaging under the 'natural' conditions usually associated with the light microscope. This book provides an appreciation of the advantages and limitations of the technique.

Starting with the ideas of ancient civilizations that air, earth, fire and water were the basic ingredients of all matter, this title traces the development of the science of chemistry beginning within the ranks of the alchemists.

The calculus of variations is one of the oldest subjects in mathematics. Suitable for a course at both undergraduate and graduate levels, this title helps the non-specialist discover the subject's most important problems, results and techniques. It also includes a chapter on regularity, and features 103 exercises with detailed solutions.

Explosive pulsed power generators are devices that either convert the chemical energy stored in explosives into electrical energy or use the shock waves generated by explosives to release energy stored in ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. This book intends to acquaint the reader with the principles of operation of explosive generators.

Offers an overview of the author's work on the fields of fractional calculus and waves in linear viscoelastic media, which includes his contributions on the applications of special functions of the Mittag-Leffler and Wright types. This title is intended to serve as a general introduction to the above-mentioned areas of mathematical modeling.

Plasma Polymer Films examines the current status of the deposition and characterization of fluorocarbon-, hydrocarbon- and silicon-containing plasma polymer films and nanocomposites, with plasma polymer matrix. It introduces plasma polymerization process diagnostics such as optical emission spectroscopy (OES, AOES), and describes special deposition techniques such as atmospheric pressure glow discharge. Important issues for applications such as degradation and stability are treated in detail, and structural characterization, basic electrical and optical properties and biomedical applications are discussed.

An introduction to the subject of black holes. It is designed for advanced undergraduates and first year postgraduates as a useful stepping-stone to the advanced literature. It provides an accessible introduction to the exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations describing spherical and axisymmetric (rotating) black holes.

Addresses significant problems in physical biology and adjacent disciplines. This volume provides a perspective on the methods and concepts at the heart of chemical and biological behavior, covering the topics of visualization; theory and computation for complexity; and macromolecular function, protein folding, and protein misfolding.

Polymers have been used in various forms such as bulk, films, and composites in applications where their friction, wear resistance, and other surface-related properties have been effectively utilized. This book deals with the field of friction, wear, and other surface-related mechanical phenomena for polymers.

Offers a comprehensive treatment of combinatorial development of heterogeneous catalysts. The book describes evolutionary optimization in a broader context of methods of searching for optimal catalytic materials, including statistical design of experiments, as well as presents neural networks in a broader context of data analysis.

A monograph about the polypeptide vasopressin which covers various aspects relating to the production, control of release, and actions of this molecule within the body, including its roles as a hormone and as a central neurotransmitter. It also looks at the evolution of the molecule across the species and includes a brief historical perspective.

Addresses various ways computability and theoretical computer science enable scientists and philosophers to deal with mathematical and real-world issues. This book covers problems related to logic, mathematics, physical processes, real computation and learning theory.

A biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield.