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Climate change is real and coping with it is major concern in coming days. This book offers recent and customized data on climate change in Asia, making it an ideal resource for those working on the subject in this specific geographic area.

This book details two experiments whose analysis makes an important contribution to understanding 2D complex plasmas: a determination of the coupling parameter and a characterization of the non-equilibrium recrystallization of a two-dimensional system.

This book presents the history and theory of General Morphological Analysis (GMA) and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. It features case studies that illustrate the application of GMA.

Focusing on a recently identified group of neutron stars known as RRATs, this thesis analyses neutron star birthrates and shows how a reassessment of the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey has resulted in the discovery of 19 new transient radio sources.

With its primary focus on the chemical, rather than the biological aspects of biochemistry, this textbook goes back to basics and offers students with some knowledge of organic chemistry a detailed explanation of metabolism and reaction mechanisms.

This book introduces the theory of graphs and random walks on graphs, covers methods for exploring the structure of finite connected graphs and databases, and details applications in electric resistance networks, urban planning, linguistic databases and more.

This book examines applications of the Pi-Theorem to fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer. After introducing the underlying differential equations and treatments, the author offers novel approaches for using the Pi-theorem to understand fluid mechanics.

This book presents a fully statistical approach for modeling the pronunciation of non-native speakers, using a proven and tested method based on a discrete hidden Markov model as a word pronunciation model, initialized on a standard pronunciation dictionary.

This overview conveys the fundamentals of mathematical models, numerical methods and algorithms. Readers will find a tutorial on the most important classes of numerical methods and an introduction to the use of spectral methods as central tools.

This book aims to foster a deeper understanding of urbanism, invoking the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, in grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics.

Not only does this volume outline the prevailing hydrogeological conditions in the Arab Middle East, it also details the region's geological background. It covers key influences on the groundwater of every Arab country from Lebanon, Jordan and Syria to Yemen.

Located at the nexus of condensed matter theory and quantum information theory, this thesis examines entanglement, the purely quantum mechanical part of correlations, in many-body systems, and in doing so employs both numerical and analytical techniques.

This book examines the manipulation of polymer chemical structure and composition to tune scaffold physical properties and optimization of scaffold 3D architecture by a smart use of both fabrication techniques.

This book highlights which European regions have succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the reasons for their success. It also offers an analysis utilizing scenarios based on assumptions of how globalization trends will develop.

This book addresses a large number of open problems in the nanosciences. It examines some of the most advanced and studied supramolecular systems in order to develop better systems.

This book explores the mechanisms, theory, simulations and technological aspects of laser processing. Covering cause-and-effect relations in physical processes, it examines laser quenching, welding, cutting, alloying, selective sintering, ablation and more.

This thorough book on semantically enabled Web service technology includes an overview of significant technological achievements, accompanied by examples from real-world settings, definitions, techniques and potential directions of research and development.

This book is a concise account of the essential elements of knowledge and key skills needed to be a software architect. The explanations encompass the full range of architecture thinking, practices, and supporting technologies, including emerging techologies.

In this well structured book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. The author presents his findings as regards the development of environmental and social responsibility and introduces a theory of management ecology.

This volume examines lakes as oscillators. It covers barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and stratified lakes on the rotating Earth, presents a classification of rotating shallow-water waves and describes Kelvin-type and Poincare-type waves.

This volume offers a geological summary and detailed mapping of paleo sea level markers on Cape Verde. It documents uplift of the islands relative to sea level and uses the uplift features to test various models of hotspot development.

This book covers modularity and independence in classical and nonclassical logic, including many-valued logics and structures, plus neighbourhood semantics and their connection to independence, as well as their common points and differences for various logics.

This volume examines ways of measuring the perceived quality of transmitted speech. It covers WB-PESQ, or wideband-perceptual speech evaluation, as well as the new diagnostic-instrumental method (DIAL), which includes perceptual and cognitive elements.

Equivariant embeddings are essential tools in solving a variety of problems relating to homogenous spaces in linear algebraic groups. This volume classifies these embeddings using a 'combinatorial' data framework, with a special focus on spherical varieties.

The theory of Vector Optimization is developed by a systematic usage of infimum and supremum. This book presents a completely new approach to the topic. It covers the range from theory to algorithms, and includes a self-contained chapter on the linear case.

Using various examples throughout the text, this volume describes the potential of solid base catalysis. Readers will find an overview of solid base catalysis and the versatility of the reactions to which solid base catalysts can be utilized.

This book shows how SAP's business suite supports logistic end-to-end processes, exploring relevant functionality, system and application integration to outline closed-loop supply chain processes in Inventory Management, Warehousing, Transportation.

This book studies important classes of semirings by using currently documented techniques, by developing new methods for investigating the structure of semirings in a fuzzy context, and extending to the setting of fuzzy semimodules over semirings.

This book investigates the EU's regional growth dynamics and the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It identifies the distinctive features of the European process of innovation.

Philosophy in Science explores the concepts of space, time, and causality, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the theories of contemporary science.