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This book shows that technological complexity is an important factor in the formation of highly specific production networks, and why, for a number of production systems, fragmentation and clustering are two sides of the same coin.

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. This thoughtful book explores the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The authors are eminent cosmologists and theologists.

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This book presents Bayes' theorem, the estimation of unknown parameters, the determination of confidence regions and the derivation of tests of hypotheses for the unknown parameters.

The aim of this second edition is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction. A thorough understanding of friction phenomena can lead to improvements like the reduction of noise and maintenance costs, increased useful life of machines and improved energy efficiency.

This book surveys the theory of free, linear, isentropic oscillations in spherically symmetric, gaseous equilibrium stars, from basic concepts to asymptotic representations of normal modes and with slow period changes in rapidly evolving pulsating stars.

Providing the first comprehensive treatment, this book covers all aspects of the laser Doppler and phase Doppler measurement techniques, including light scattering from small particles, fundamental optics, system design, signal and data processing, tracer particle generation, and applications in single and two-phase flows.

The authors present a comprehensive study of efficient protocols and techniques for secure two-party computation. They study both general constructions that can be used to securely compute any functionality, and protocols for specific problems of interest.

This book presents an Entropy Encoder for the H.264 or MPEG-4 standard, starting with the fundamentals and a review on existing code design. It opens a way to impressive compression performance and new multimedia applications.

This book deals with diffraction radiation, which implies the boundary problems of electromagnetic radiation theory. It presents different analytical models of diffraction radiation and results of recent experimental studies.

Providing a toolbox for mathematical equations, this volume presents various approaches to the analysis of nonlinear models. Topics include phase changes, diffusion of electromagnetic, acoustic and seismoacoustic waves, as well as quantum mechanical effects.

The first of two volumes dealing with mathematical methods for earth data processing, this volume describes the generalization of various approaches to analyzing nonlinear models. Readers will find a toolbox for problems in geophysics and earth sciences.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the ways and means of efficiently reducing global warming through the forestry options in Bangladesh, with the implications of CDM. The book emphasizes the role of the biomass in the CDM forestry projects.

The first edition of this book was written in 1961 when I was Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard. I have felt that graduate students or others beginning research in magnetic resonance needed a book which really went into the details of calculations, yet was aimed at the beginner rather than the expert.

In this research monograph, the author constructs deterministic extractors for several types of sources, using a methodology of recycling randomness which enables increasing the output length of deterministic extractors to near optimal length.

This book sets out the concept of a fuzzy network with rule bases as nodes whose connections are the interactions between the rule bases in the form of outputs fed as inputs. This systematic study will improve the feasibility and transparency of fuzzy models.

The textbook is suitable both for graduate students and for engineers working in the fields of electrical engineering, information technology, mechatronics, microtechnology, and mechanical and medical engineering.

Correspondingly, major revisions have been done for second edition of the German Textbook (Springer 2003), which is present here in the English translation.The presentation was adjusted, novel improvements of manufacturing and design are described, and modern aspects of production are incorporated.

It was an honor and a privilege to chair the 24th IFIP International Information Se- rity Conference (SEC 2009), a 24-year-old event that has become a tradition for - formation security professionals around the world. SEC 2009 was organized by the Technical Committee 11 (TC-11) of IFIP, and took place in Pafos, Cyprus, during May 18-20, 2009.

More and more, software systems involve autonomous and distributed software components that have to execute and interact in open and dynamic environments, such as in pervasive, autonomous, and mobile applications.

This book originates from 35 years of teaching Steam Generators to graduate students at the Politecnico of Milan, and from 45 years of professional activity in this area.

With a new chapter on quantum entanglement and quantum information, this fourth edition of the brilliant work on quantum optics has been much updated. It still provides all the information necessary to understand and carry out research in laser physics and quantum optics.

The present impetus to drive down the overall cost of space missions is leading to ever-increasing demands for more efficient design techniques over a wide range of interplanetary missions, and the methods now being utilised to do this are described in this timely and authoritative work.

In this book, regular structures are de ned as periodic structures consisting of repeated elements (translational symmetry) as well as structures with a geom- ric symmetry.

This fully revised second edition is a comprehensive account that covers recent advances in the field. It discusses ultrasound anatomy, explains examination procedures, describes normal and pathological findings, and assesses the clinical impact of ultrasound.

Leading quantum physicist Stapp focuses in this book on the problem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allows causally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural way with the physical brain made of neurons and atoms.

This book details the state-of-the art in the field of space storms. The topics range from the storms in the solar atmosphere through the solar wind, magnetosphere and ionosphere to the production of the storm-related geoelectric field on the ground.

Connecting progress in biochemistry and molecular biology to dental-related areas of physiology, nutrition, anatomy, histology, microbiology and immunology, this book offers better diagnosis, treatment and control of dental caries and periodontal disease.

Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems, this book covers advanced models involving due-dates, sequence dependent changeover times and batching. Among the methods used to solve these problems are linear programming, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound algorithms, and local search heuristics.

This book presents linguistic fuzzy logic methods applied to social sciences. It presents an approach to the analysis of decision making processes, strategic interactions, causality, and data analysis in social sciences.