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This book offers a systematic discussion and explanation on what industrial security is, what the influencing factors of industrial security are, how industrial security should be evaluated and how early warnings should work from the viewpoint of developing countries.

This book identifies and addresses key issues of automotive energy in China. It covers demography, economics, technology and policy, providing a broad perspective to aid in the planning of sustainable road transport in China.

In an important antecedent to the spread of more efficient household energy management technology, this book is one of the first to empirically study the acceptance of smart meter technology (SMT) amongst potential customers and a group of SMT users.

This book introduces the TV-Anytime norm, a group of formats and communication protocols allowing development of novel and intelligent services in the audiovisual market. Covers metadata management, customization and personalization, data transfer and more.

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, this book illustrates that space is a concept with the capacity to capture the relationality, dynamics and hybridity of global law. Explores topological thinking in finding concrete perspectives on law.

Combining practical approaches with detailed theoretical underpinnings, this book provides theories, tools, frameworks, and techniques for global operations strategy, and brings real world perspectives to students and managers.

This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance management system - the loosely coupled performance management system.

This book recaps laser physics, defines organic solid-state lasers, reviews performance and surveys recent trends and current challenges such as direct electrical pumping of organic semiconductor lasers. A final chapter explores practical applications.

Based on the spin amplitude conservation idea including zero-point fluctuation amplitude, this book shows that the temperature and magnetic field dependence of magnetization curves, even in the ground state, is determined by the effect of spin fluctuations.

This book gives the reader a deep and efficient introduction to an algorithmic approach to hyperbolic geometry. It addresses the issue of universality in an unconventional model of computation, that of cellular automata in hyperbolic spaces.

This book covers the multi-disciplinary nature of process management. It develops a methodology that supports the work of a process management team and provides a tutorial to implement the use of the methodology in healthcare and business case studies.

This book introduces model studies associated with laser surface processing such as conduction limited heating, surface re-melting, Marangoni flow and its effects on the temperature field, re-melting of multi-layered surfaces, and laser shock processing.

This book introduces the 'Sknowinnov method' along with a decision-making IT model for assessing the value of strategic knowledge resources in companies. The IT tool enables assessment of the rationality, effectiveness and value of investing in knowledge.

This book covers equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena. It includes worked examples, problems and exercises.

This book offers an overview on preservation and restitution of the European bison. This new edition features extensively updated content taking into account recent research carried out on the European bison.

This concise guide covers the history of rTMS treatment along with its mechanism of action, its uses in treating depression, its side-effects, clinician training and more. Discusses includes potential rTMS applications in other psychiatric conditions.

This book reviews the properties of rod- and wire-like nanoparticles with elongated shape. Covers optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical and catalytic properties of nanowires consisting of semiconductors, noble and other metals, metal oxides and alloys.

This book applies a very unique perspective - "vigor" in the Chinese culture - to understand contemporary rural contentious politics, in an attempt to overcome the problem brought by sense and sensibility and the confrontation between power and morality in the current contentious politics studies.

Micro-Nanorobotic Manipulation Systems and their Applications introduces these advanced technologies from the basics and applications aspects of Micro/Nano-Robotics and Automation from the prospective micro/nano-scale manipulation.

Addressing the alarming environmental consequences of China's rapid rate of growth, this report contributes to the literature on Chinese economic growth and broadens the policy analysis in several important new areas, using the most recent data available.

This book analyzes the stress, strain, electric field and electric displacement in electroelastic structures such as sensors, actuators and other smart materials and structures. Describes the physical variational principle and the inertial entropy theory.

This book surveys converter designs for large electrical machines, and derives methods for calculating machine phenomena, describing how such effects as torque ripple and induced shaft voltages can endanger the mechanical shaft system and bearings.

This book reports on research on wheel-rail contact carried out by the Railway Technology Lab at Politecnico di Torino in its project to develop a real-time wheel-rail contact model, and provides simulation results obtained with dSpace real-time hardware.

Presenting topics in discrete biomathematics, this book covers Discrete information and life; Strings and genomes; Algorithms and Biorhythms and Life Strategies, along with Numbers and Measures; Languages and Grammars and Combinations and Chances.

This step-by-step introduction to mathematical modeling of the human urinary bladder reviews recent discoveries in biomechanics of the urinary bladder and presents the systematic development of a mathematical model of the organ as a thin soft biological shell.

This book introduces important concepts in electromagnetics, beginning with clear definitions of position, distance and base vectors. Includes 300 figures, many in 3-D, using real-world data, along with 350 examples and exercises and 280 chapter-end problems.

FairEconomy is a concept for a free and fair market economy. In response to the financial and economic crises of the past years, the authors develop fundamental ideas of how a market economy works, what rules markets need and who safeguards fairness and equal opportunity in such an economy.

This book describes the main components of the cell method technique: space-time discretization, problem formulation, solution and representation of the resulting physical fields. Offers solved problems in electromagnetism, elasticity and thermo-elasticity.

This book surveys research on nonlinearities in musical systems, discusses tools for analyzing sounds in the Fourier and the phase space domains, and introduces the Finite-Element and Finite-Difference methods for physical modeling of musical instruments.

This book reviews state-of-the-art polymer chromatography, combining different analytical techniques in multi-dimensional analysis. Covers basic principles and instrumentation of multi-dimensional chromatography and presents experimental analysis protocols.