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This book reviews five new smartphone/tablet applications that use persuasion and information design to influence behavior. Three, the Green, Health and Money Machines, won awards from the International Institute for Information Design, Vienna.

Search and Classification Using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles provides a comprehensive study of decision-making strategies for domain search and object classification using multiple autonomous vehicles (MAV) under both deterministic and probabilistic frameworks.

In the context of growing evidence that switchgrass is one of the most promising biomass crops for energy production and thus for a 'biophilic' economy, this comprehensive guide covers their social benefits as well as relevant agronomy and marketing.

Saturated Switching Systems treats the problem of actuator saturation, inherent in all dynamical systems by using two approaches: positive invariance in which the controller is designed to work within a region of non-saturating linear behaviour;

Three chapters focus on endothelial injury: one on the nitric oxide pathway in physiology and pathology, a second on the activation of endothelial cells, and a third on the monocyte and endothelial injury.

Professor Sluzalec is a well-known and respected authority in the field of Computational Mechanics, and his personal experience forms the basis of the book. The scope includes theoretical aspects and their rational application in thermal problems, thermo-elastoplasticity, finite strain thermoplasticity and coupled thermoplasticity.

Sponsored by ISLI Europe, Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry, Swedish National Food Administration, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), European Communities

For the first time both the physiological and the psychological aspects of water and beverage consumption are examined in one volume. The many recent developments concerning how a lack of water is signalled physiologically and processed neurally to affect drinking behavior are critically surveyed.

Particles in this state are termed "superfine particles", and are distinct from ordinary particles. The size of the superfine particles, that is to say the size limit below which particle behavior is completely different from the behavior of the original solid, varies a good deal depending on the physical properties of the substance in question.

In their preface, the authors highlight the great social and medical importance of hearing loss in the elderly, an ever-increasing prob lem.

A variety of new techniques that promise to revolutionize the clinical management of early pregnancy are fully detailed in this state-of-the-art book. Even more important, diagnostic tests using sophisticated techniques of molecular biology can be run on single cells before the embryo is replaced in the uterus.

The newer procedures of GIFf, embryo freezing and donor oocyte IVF have become established and are dealt with in several chapters. Male factor infertility has been dealt with by IVF in mild and moderate cases, but newer techniques will be required to deal with severe problems in the male.

This book covers the production, purification, storage, pipeline transport, usage and safety of biohydrogen. It also discusses issues of biohydrogen economy, policy and environmental impact and reviews all the modern biomass-based transportation fuels.

In our complex times, simple, powerful systems are an ideal of interaction design. This book traces the development of Minimalism, defines the four types of Minimalism in interaction design, and considers various applications of them.

This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older lung cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research. The authors come from a broad geographic spread including the UK, mainland Europe and North America to ensure a worldwide relevance.

While the main design guidelines for point-to point optical links are now well established, much research work remains to be done in the area of optical networking, where the resources of many interconnected point-to point optical links are time shared.

Measurement consists of comparison of an unknown entity with a set of standard scales or dimensions having numerical attributes in preassigned degree. The dimensions of a complex waveform are elementary waveforms from which that waveform can be built by simple addition.

A unique dictionary of astronomy specifically written for practical amateur astronomers. In addition to definitions, it provides an invaluable reference source for terms, techniques, instruments, formulas and processes for practising observers, both amateur and professional.

If you have picked up this book and are browsing the Preface, you may well be asking yourself"What makes this book different from the large number I can find on amazon. after all, surely requirements come from people so all requirements should be user-centred.

Two previous volumes in this CSCW book series [2, 3] have examined related aspects of research on YEs - social navigation and collaboration - although they do not always deal with VRIVEs in the sense that it is used here (see the definition in Chapter 1).

Suitable for researchers, decision makers and policy experts, this book brings leading figures from business, academia, and governments to address the challenges and opportunities involved in working towards sustainable mobility. It addresses and explores the challenges and opportunities for energy supply, road transport, urban mobility, and more.

Using minimal mathematics, this book reviews core concepts and methods of image processing and video processing, focusing on methods for designing and implementing real image data processiong systems. Coverage ranges from image acquisition to visual effects.

These are: database modelling of 3D content, security in 3D environments, describing interactivity of content, searching content, visualization of search results, modelling mixed reality content, and efficient creation of interactive 3D content.

Contains papers presented at the twentieth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, UK, in February 2012. This title covers such topics as: vulnerabilities in global navigation satellite systems; safety culture and community; transport safety; cyber-attacks on safety-critical systems; and, safety standards and safety levels.

This book offers broad coverage key propulsion systems, including gas turbine engines, propeller and helicopter rotors, and rocket engines. It allows observations and comparisons to be made across systems. Includes 126 color illustrations.

Contains papers presented at AI-2011, the Thirty-first SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2011 in both the technical and the application streams. This title features sections on Planning, Evolutionary Algorithms, Speech and Vision, and more.

Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain defines relevant target specifications for a product throughout its life cycle, from conception and design to the end of its operating life.

Opening with a detailed review of techniques for selective encryption, this book examines algorithms that combine encryption and compression. Presents a selection of specific examples of the design and implementation of secure embedded multimedia systems.

This book examines the structural materials for nuclear power plants with an emphasis on advanced design concepts. It details important components and materials currently in use as well as the damage mechanisms responsible for plant ageing.

As ever more interactive computer displays come on stream in museums, performance venues and even on city streets, this book documents the design issues emerging from the changing role of technology and provides practical solutions to design challenges.