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This exploration of the causes of- and solutions to - rising income inequality in the US and Europe presents interviews with top business executives, politicians and labor leaders from trades unionist John Monks to former World Bank president James Wolfensohn.

Providing insight on the free-radical retrograde-precipitation polymerization process, this volume examines the phenomenological aspects in comparison to other materials, such as nanoscale confinement behavior and nucleated hot spots.

As well as an overview of UML and the more recent SysML, Debbabi and his co-authors investigate varied methodologies and techniques for the automatic verification and validation of systems engineering design models expressed in standardized modeling languages.

Including didactic introductions to the main topics in the theory of fields, this text gives students of the subject concise explanations of the fundamentals essential for applying the theory as well as covering frontier research in theoretical physics.

By adopting a complexity-theoretical perspective, he derives general limitations for black-box optimization, yielding lower bounds on the performance of evolutionary algorithms, and then develops general methods for deriving upper and lower bounds step by step.

The legal consequence of superior orders of defense has long been debated as one of the major problems in international criminal law. This volume provides an overview of the relevant debates at the international level, analyzes the conflicting views, and more.

Concrete-Fracture Models and Applications provides a basic introduction to nonlinear concrete fracture models. Readers will find a state-of-the-art review on various aspects of the material behavior and development of different concrete fracture models.

Applying a legal framework to outer space is fraught with thorny dilemmas: how, for example, do you legislate for activities that straddle air space and outer space? This book explores current issues such as the accountability of nations already using space.

X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography presents the fundamental properties of X-rays, geometry analysis of crystals, X-ray scattering and diffraction in polycrystalline samples. Readers will find a number of exercises calculate specific values for typical examples.

Using the model system of a photorefractive nonlinearity, this volume presents a comprehensive picture of the control of nonlinear and quantum optics phenomena in photonic lattices. The test describes resonant transitions in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices, for the first time.

Reinforcement learning has evolved to tackle domains that are yet to be fully understood, or are too complex for a closed description. In this book the author investigates whether suitable abstraction methods can overcome the discipline's deficiencies.

This book shows how runtime behavior can be analyzed in a rigorous way and for combinatorial optimization in particular. It presents well-known problems such as minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, maximum matching, and covering and scheduling problems.

Photovoltaic Industrial Systems investigates the situation of photovoltaic systems regarding environmental questions and energy efficiency in the European Industry. The text presents a model of energy management based on economical, technical and administrative aspects.

Reviewing the state-of-the-art in the field, this volume describes the importance of mobile ions presented in oxide structures. The text defines the MOS structure, and provides an overview of onic transport mechanisms and techniques for measuring the mobile ions concentration in the oxides.

Aerosols play a critical role in a broad range of scientific disciplines. This book explores a new technique for capturing single or multiple particles using light and for characterizing these particles by Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy.

This book offers a solid introduction to evolutionary computation for use in applied statistics research. It guides readers through the crucial issues of optimization problems in statistical settings and the implementation of tailored methods.

This book examines the potential of the ensemble meta-algorithm by describing and testing a technique based on the combination of ensembles and statistical PCA that is able to determine the presence of outliers in high-dimensional data sets.

This book presents fundamental theory, methods, and practical applications of grey systems theory, absorbing recent theoretical and applied advances, and vividly presenting the overall picture of this new theory and its frontal research activities.

Starting with a self-contained overview of atomic collision theory, this monograph looks at recent developments in R-matrix theory and its applications to a range of atomic, molecular and optical processes, including electron and photon collisions with atoms.

This book deals with the numerical analysis and efficient numerical treatment of high-dimensional integrals using sparse grids and other dimension-wise integration techniques with applications to finance and insurance.

This book offers comprehensive coverage on geoinformation metadata in INSPIRE Directive and Spatial Information Infrastructures. It details required ISO and OGC standards as well as creating and publishing geoinformation metadata.

This book presents the biophysics of hair. It covers the structure of hair, its mechanical properties, nanomechanical characterization, tensile deformation, tribological characterization, the thickness distribution and binding interactions on hair surface.

This book develops and describes state of the art methodologies covering all aspects of full waveform tomography. It provides a variety of case studies on all scales from local to global based on a large number of examples involving real data.

This work examines electrical and magnetic properties in nanometric materials with a range of scales: atomic-sized nanoconstrictions, micro- and nanowires and thin films. It describes an approach to tailoring magnetic and other properties of nanostructures.

As well as serving as a general reference on digital signal processing, this book contributes to the advancement of engineering education in its discussion of core topics, essential applications, signal processing and more advanced DSP techniques.

This book presents a complete tour of formal advances and experimental results associated with the notion of scaling, in physics, chemistry and biology. The text offers a thorough conceptual background and a simple account of a wide range of applications.

This book shows how cosmogenic radionuclides can trace and reconstruct the history of a variety of processes. Demonstrates the strength of analytic tools based on cosmogenic radionuclides, and their potential use in solving present and future problems.

This book presents a detailed blueprint for developing experimental facilities necessary to control the behavior of piles during installation and loading. There is sufficient detail to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs.

Volume 1 of the Manufacturing Processes series addresses the basics of machining with geometrically defined cutting edges. Covers loads and stress-appropriate design of machining tools, and sensible application of cutting materials.