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This text covers the mathematical theory of linear elliptic equations and systems and the related function spaces framework. It provides an introduction to the modern theory of partial differential equations, the theory of weak solutions and related topics.

This book reviews results of charm and bottom flavor physics at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. It provides a detailed summary of the status of heavy flavor physics at the end of the Tevatron data taking period and the start of the LHC program.

This book offers an introduction to image analysis in the earth sciences. Coverage includes image analysis, extraction of objects (segmentation), analysis of shape and size distributions, fabric analysis, texture analysis, and orientation imaging.

As sonography has become a routine component of prenatal care, many intrinsic errors of skeletal development are diagnosed prenatally. This book is designed to assist in postnatal diagnosis of errors detected in fetal radiographic studies.

This is the first book to present a computational intelligence architecture capable of learning in unsupervised, supervised, or reinforcement learning modes. It is also the first to cover applications of time scales mathematics to engineering applications.

This book argues that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters' preferences become more mutually coherent. It also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that pairwise majority rule winner should be chosen as the election winner.

Arguing that transparent synthetic materials can be used to study 3-D deformation and flow problems in natural soils, this book presents the geotechnical behavior of many families of transparent soils that can be combined to meet model-test requirements.

The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China killed over 69,000 people and displaced millions. This book describes the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the Chuan-Dian region, the nucleation of the Wenchuan earthquake, occurrence and aftershocks.

Three eminent scientists, each well known for the clarity of their writing, present for students and researchers what is known about the internal structure, origin and evolution of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes, all objects at the final stage of stellar evolution.

Here is a concise introduction to a fascinating new field which draws on ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology to better understand financial markets. The book includes recent results in behavioral finance that help to explain puzzles in traditional finance.

This text explains the basics of vehicle dynamics and offers the rules for building simulation models, thus enabling the reader to develop his own simulation model for vehicle dynamics and to apply commercial simulation programmes.

This book offers complete documentation for Cinderella.2. New components feature algorithms via a specially developed scripting language, which interacts smoothly with the geometry and physics components. Cinderella.2 is Math in Motion all the way, and this book is an indispensable companion.

Offers a presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. This book develops general curvilinear coordinator kinematics of the continuum deformation using general curvilinear coordinates.

To promote further the development of the aerodynamics, meet the challenge in the new century, summary the experience, cultivate the professional personnel and to serve better the cause of aeronautics and astronautics and the national economy, the present Series of Modern Aerodynamics is organized and published.

This book presents the hardware implementation of control algorithms represented by graph-schemes of algorithm. It includes new methods of logic synthesis and optimization for logic circuits of Mealy and Moore FSMs oriented on both ASIC and FPLD.

This book serves as a concise reference for the fast solution of practical problems in heat transmission. It analyzes heat transfer by radiation, illustrates the required behavior when examining heat transfer in heat exchangers, and discusses pressure drops.

This book describes the factory planning process with its manifold practical characteristics. With the methodology developed by the authors themselves and presented here, new factory types can be realized, tailor-made to the necessary requirements.

This book presents practical paradigms in insurance as well as numerous exercises with solutions. This second edition emphasizes the implementation of all covered techniques through the use of R, the de facto standard for statistical computation.

Based on general continuum mechanics, the different initial-boundary-value problems for the flow of ice sheets, ice shelves, ice caps and glaciers are systematically derived. Emphasis is put on developing approximation hierarchies for the different systems.

Evolutionary algorithms, such as evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, or evolutionary programming, have found broad acceptance in the last ten years. This monograph provides the framework and the first steps toward the theoretical analysis of Evolution Strategies (ES).

Despite decades of work in evolutionary algorithms, there remains an uncertainty as to the relative benefits and detriments of using recombination or mutation. It integrates important prior work and introduces new theoretical techniques for studying evolutionary algorithms.

Calendar and time units and specialized units, such as business days and academic years, play a major role in a wide range of information system applications. Practitioners can learn about critical aspects that must be taken into account when designing and implementing databases supporting temporal information.

This book, based on the analogy between contact mechanics and fracture mechanics proposed by the author twenty years ago, starts with a treatment of the surface energy and tension of solids and surface thermodynamics. Contact mechanics and the contact and adherence of rough solids are also covered.

Pathology and Pathobiology of Rheumatic Diseases glows with the uncommon precision of the pathologist, the clarity of the tea cher, and the unswerving commitment of the investigator.

Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease.

This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.

This book presents issues concerning the neurophysiological aspects of executing cognitive thought processes and the basics of cognitive informatics and new proposals of UBIAS systems dedicated to the meaning-based analysis of selected types of medical images.

This book develops a thorough analysis of relativistic effects to address the question of what is the nature (the ontological status) of spacetime. In this new edition, arguments are strengthened, and new developments in the field are presented and integrated.

Vortex wakes of Aircrafts provides mathematical modeling methods for high and low altitude take-off-landing regimes. Integral methods are combined with an extensive application of the discrete vortices technique, resulting in a time-efficient approach.