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This book presents a new decision theory with imperfect decision-relevant information on environment and a decision maker's behavior. This theory is based on the synthesis of the fuzzy sets theory with perception-based information and the probability theory.

This book presents the framework for the versatile specification of physical interaction tasks, as well as the problem of autonomous planning of these tasks. It details novel grasp-task sensor-based control methods using vision, tactile and force feedback.

This book details the development of a nuclear rocket engine reactor, based on simulation experiments and prototype reactor test data. Covers properties and performance of materials and fuels, and reviews prospects for use in piloted and drone spacecraft.

This thorough guide covers the history of macroeconometric model building, summarizes the development and structure of macroeconometric models built in North America, Europe and elsewhere and covers the systematic characteristics of macroeconometric models.

This newly translated addition to the literature provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of geophysical hydrodynamics -as expressed in Dolzhansky's four decades of ground-breaking work at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

This book presents methods of intelligent counting that are human-consistent, are reflections and formalizations of real, human counting procedures. The text is self-contained, systematic and equipped with many examples, figures and tables.

This book examines the effective electron mass in nanodevices, explaining changes in band structure of optoelectronic semiconductors, and offering insight into electronic behavior in doped semiconductors and nanostructures. Includes 200 problems and questions.

Discussing objects with variability timescales as short as years, months, days and hours, down to milli-seconds, this book describes and derives the physical processes of astrophysics and studies objects in which high-energy astrophysics processes are crucial.

The subject of this study is the role of hierarchical structures, based on neural networks, in identifying phonemes in automated speech recognition systems. It shows how the artificial neural network paradigm can simplify the analysis of spoken language.

This book presents the basics of Auger- and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Materials Science in logical order from sample preparation and instrument setup through data acquisition to data evaluation. Offers guidance on problem-solving and worked examples.

Presenting the basics and also the cutting-edge of high-data-rate transmission via plastic optical fibers, this book is a key contribution to the literature on multilevel communication, and features detailed circuit diagrams and accessibly presented results.

This book covers the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. It details several new approaches for real life vision based autonomous navigation algorithms.

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 procurement, production, distribution logistics and compliance.

As the concept of Green Chemistry becomes ever more important, the findings presented in this book may provide efficient and atom-economical approaches to the diversity-oriented synthesis of bioactive compounds containing a complex structure.

This guide is for the non-specialist. It provides all the relevant information to handle the instruments, survey a field, and interpret the computer results for a geophysics operation in archaeology, and it explains all the science as simply as possible.

With no similar books on the market, this volume is a welcome addition. Many current methods use 'shallow integration' that employ output-input linking. This book goes further, setting out a systems biology and tumour modeling method called 'deep integration'.

Pathways of Homoeopathic Medicine studies the progress of homeopathic therapies up to World War II. The volume presents the development of double and complex remedies, and explores how homoeopathy, spagyric, naturopathy and conventional medicine supported medical concepts based on 'holistic' views.

Ranging from plant photonics to theoretical optics, this book covers natural structural colours and biomimetic photonic structures as well complex artificial photonic structures. The photonic effects discussed are supported by state-of-the-art calculations.

This book opens with a glimpse at basic structures and properties of WPCs. Later chapters examine foam technology, flame retardant properties and colour retardant properties of WPCs. Last comes a review of applications of wood-plastic composites in daily life.

Dynamics of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems presents the fundamentals of chaotic time-delay systems and their synchronization, with an emphasis on the effects of time-delay feedback. Special attention is devoted to scalar chaotic/hyperchaotic time-delay systems, which includes some higher order models.

Focusing on the engineering aspects of fluid turbulence, this volume offers solutions to the problem in a number of settings. Emphasizing real-world applications rather than mathematics, it will be a must-read text in both industrial and academic environments.

"To my knowledge [this] is the first book to address specifically the use of high-order discretizations in the time domain to solve wave equations. [...] I recommend the book for its clear and cogent coverage of the material selected by its author." --Physics Today, March 2003

This illustrated book is unique among current literature in that it systematically documents the prenatal structural development of the human brain. It is based on lifelong study using essentially a single staining procedure, the classic rapid Golgi procedure.

This book offers training and expertise on the statistical analysis of data from clinical vaccine trials, i.e., immunogenicity and vaccine field efficacy studies. With many worked-out real-life examples, its scope is more practical than theoretical.

Strategic Social Choice provides the first monograph devoted to the modeling of constitutions with effectivity functions. Written for researchers and students in the field, this volume focuses on social choice functions that admit strong Nash equilibrium.

The Culture Factory presents a model for producing culture by exploring the role creativity plays in the production of culture in a technologically advanced society. From fashion to gastronomy and beyond, the text examines a variety of strategic areas and industries to support its argument.

This book provides the reader with a complete methodology and software environment for creating efficient dynamic compact models for electro-thermal MEMS devices. This tutorial is written for MEMS engineers and is enriched with many case studies which equip readers with the know-how to facilitate the simulation of a specific problem.

Understanding the mind of the consumer is daunting for marketers. As science probes the interplay of reason and emotion in decision-making, this book offers analytical perspective on the brain, using biometric studies to blaze new frontiers in market research.

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications initially provides a history of the Northern Sea Route as an important strategic transport route for supporting the northern regions of Russia and cargo transportation between Europe and the Northern Pacific Basin.