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1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done.

This book details both the basic concepts of software performance analysis and state-of-the-art methodologies. It starts from performance primers and goes through software and performance modeling notations to the latest transformation-based methodologies.

This bestselling German textbook, now available in English, presents undergraduates in mechanical and civil engineering with a clear knowledge of engineering mechanics. It covers numerous topics, and each chapter contains a variety of problems and solutions.

An advanced textbook giving a broad, modern view of the computational complexity theory of boolean circuits, with extensive references, for theoretical computer scientists and mathematicians.

Microsoft is injecting new energy into the smart phone marketplace with the sophisticated Windows Phone 7.

Algorithmic design, especially for hard problems, is more essential for success in solving them than any standard improvement of current computer tech nologies.

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet.

This book provides a solid and uniform derivation of the various properties Bezier and B-spline representations have, and shows the beauty of the underlying rich mathematical structure.

The main part of the book describes the behaviour of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field, and the electrodynamics of plasmas, liquid crystals and superconductors.

This monograph contains a number of problems with signal detection theory, presenting a generalized observation model for signal detection problems. The model includes several interesting and common special cases, such as those describing additive noise, multiplicative noise and signal-dependent noise.

Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general.

This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and the best current practices of data warehouses.

The 6th edition of this classic text includes revised discussion of solar system radio astronomy, dust emission and radio supernovae, technical aspects of radio astronomy and receivers, new material on radiation from the early universe and new worked examples.

Addresses the central role played by development in cognition. This book focuses on applying our knowledge of development in natural cognitive systems, specifically human infants, to the problem of creating artificial cognitive systems in the guise of humanoid robots.

This book presents a Bayesian framework for operational risk that can be used by banks to resolve quantitative challenges with implementation of Basel II advanced measurement approach. Numerous examples help risk practitioners quantify operational risks.

Focusing on classical oligopoly theory from 1840-1940, this volume uses topology and numerics to reconsider work by early oligopoly researchers in the light of modern dynamics. It resuscitates some of the field's original ideas after decades of oblivion.

The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000.

This book depicts the interconnected histories of life and oxygen. It depict how changes in the earth's atmosphere have been interrelated with the origin of life and delineate the important implications for human health and humanity's future.

This exercise book is written for students of physics concentrating on Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Electromagnetism. Each of its 13 chapters includes a brief but thorough summary and essential formulas, plus typical problems and detailed solutions.

This book explains the definition and dissemination of units of mass, starting with an introduction to metrology and mass determination. Coverage also includes metrological requirements for weighing instruments, weight pieces, and measuring conditions.

This introductory course on quantum mechanics is the basic lecture that precedes and completes the author's second book Advanced Quantum Mechanics. This new edition is up-to-date and has been revised.

sections dealing with fuzzy functions and fuzzy random functions are certain to be of special interest. The methods of fuzzy structural analysis and fuzzy probabilistic structural analysis developed in Chap. The most important forms of the latter are the Fuzzy Finite Element Method (FFEM) and the Fuzzy Stochastic Finite Element Method (FSFEM).

This monograph covers theoretical aspects of simultaneous localization and map building for mobile robots. One of the most relevant topics covered in this monograph is the theoretical formalism of partial observability in SLAM.

The main concept of a symmetry action is defined as a group homomorphism from a given group, the group of symmetries, to the automorphism group of quantum mechanics. The structure of symmetry actions is determined under the assumption that the symmetry group is a Lie group.

This monograph combines the knowledge of both the field of nonlinear dynamics and non-smooth mechanics, presenting a framework for a class of non-smooth mechanical systems using techniques from both fields.

* The formulas should be error-free (though such a goal is not achievable in full) since in the ?nancial and insurance framework one publishes sometimes in a h- tic way various untried formulas and methods that may be incorrect.

This volume of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology features contributions from recognized experts on the actions of different xanthines, focusing on caffeine and theophylline. There is a special chapter on theobromine, an active component of chocolate.

This book deals with the exploration of phononic properties ofmeso- and nanostructured colloid-based composite materials at hypersonic (GHz) frequencies. It contains new research results in the emerging field of phononics.

Social media represents a challenge to the traditional model of mass media, which in turn represents a challenge to traditional mass marketing. This book examines multiple facets of the new media experience through the lens of game theory concepts.