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Next generation optical communication systems will feature increased data transmission, dynamic adaptation to real-time traffic demands and improved energy efficiency. This book shows how to design fiber-optic networks-and operate them-effectively.

Now in a fresh updated and extended edition, this third volume of the series on multiphase flow dynamics focuses on turbulence and includes the basics of the single-phase boundary layer theory including important scales and flow oscillation characteristics.

Volume 2 is devoted to the important constitutive relations for mathematical description of the mechanical and thermal interactions. The emphasis is on the practical use of these relationships, and this edition includes updates, extensions and improvements.

This volume provides an authoritative study of German social policy, set in a multidisciplinary and international context. The text presents the German tradition's contribution to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Law of Business Organizations offers a concise introduction to the German law of business organizations. The text outlines the corporate legal framework within Germany, and addresses basic issues of international and European business law.

Here is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It features many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.

Detailing the anisotropy and multiband effects in newly discovered unconventional superconductors such as borocarbides and magnesium diboride, this volume compares theoretical results and experimental data and explains a variety of contextual effects.

This book presents a step-by-step method for implementing the business rules approach to application development, covering the entire lifecycle from planning through rule discovery and analysis, rule and application design, to implementation and maintenance.

This book offers an accessible treatment of mind versus matter. It discusses the ethical consequences of the mind versus matter debate, and describes how quantum mechanics can radically change our understanding of the connection between mind and brain.

This innovative book offers a rigorous approach to the analysis and design of advice in real-world decision situations, in which the advisor must manage with variously imprecise, unclear, incomplete or conflicting qualitative information.

Extremal Combinatorics provides a concise, up-to-date introduction to extremal combinatorics for nonspecialists. The text emphasizes theorems with particularly elegant and informative proofs, and presents a wide range of combinatorial tools.

Setting out the principles and methods of force measurement, this volume then assesses the components of strain-gauge force transducers, including digital and intelligent subsystems, the 'elastic element' and the Wheatstone bridge in parametrical transducers.

This book explores the ways in which both sides in the so-called 'war on terror' use schoolchildren as tools of propaganda even as they put those children's security at grave risk. It argues that secure schooling free from violence is a right too often absent.

Addressing advanced issues of digital preservation, beyond keeping the bits and the ability to render, this book explores concepts of understandability, usability and interoperability for digital objects, as well as concerns over issues such as authenticity.

This text takes a problem-based approach to explaining analytical quality assurance. After dealing with the fundamentals, it covers a range of topics including statistical tests, linear regression and calibration, tool qualification and method validation.

In this book, 78 leading attorneys in California and New York describe how they evaluate, negotiate and resolve litigation cases. These attorneys identify the key factors in case evaluation and share successful strategies.

It can be argued that architecture principles form the cornerstone of any architecture. The focus of this book is on the role of architecture principles. It provides both a balanced perspective on architecture principles, and is the first book on the topic.

This book reexamines the validity of theoretical models, based on a diversity of experimental data resulting from new observational techniques, to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the fine structure of solar radio bursts.

Covering one of the hot topics in alternative energy generation, this volume explains the basics of thermophotovoltaics-deriving power from heat-and explains applications such as energy production from waste heat recovery and concentrated solar power.

Giving equal weight to theory and experimental data, this volume covers the atomistic properties of solids as determined by crystal structure, interatomic forces and atomic displacements influenced by the variables of temperature, stress and electric fields.

This book features research that can revolutionize the design and applications of particle accelerators. The results of this work will be invaluable in future research on electron beam acceleration.

This monograph is a follow-up to the first FRPPP book by Gerard Caneba. It includes additional conceptual results, implementation of the FRRPP process in emulsion media to produce various block copolymers, and other FRRPP-related supplementary topics.

The main theme of this book is the interaction of electrons with electromagnetic waves in the presence of periodic and quasi-periodic structures in vacuum. The book aims to provide the reader with a self-contained and detailed introduction to the field.

This volume sets out a holistic approach that allows companies operating internationally to secure reduced import duties in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) through the creation of a single, auditable, global platform that facilitates preferential origin claims.

This volume discusses various aspects of the capacity/achievable data rate of stationary Rayleigh fading channels, studying among other topics the achievable rate with receivers based on synchronized detection and a code-aided channel estimation.

This book examines numerical methods for two-phase incompressible flow problems. It details the complete simulation track, from modeling via development and analysis of numerical methods to numerical experiments.

Software architects work within a very multi-facetted and dynamic environment. This book aids programmers, software developers, and software architects in understanding, classifying, as well as assessing all of these developments and innovations.