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This text is directed at the heart of Engineering Geology where geology is used to identify potential problems arising from ground conditions. It describes how to investigate those conditions and to define an engineering response that will either avoid or reduce or even eliminate the problems revealed.

This book offers a systematic approach to the numerical solution for a wide range of spatial contact problems of geotechnics. Special attention is given to the formulation and analysis of the spatial contact models for elastic bases.

This is an in-depth look, including analysis of future hazards, at two lakes that are an important link in the Caspian-Baltic-White Sea waterway system. Their ecological state affects the water quality of the Neva River, the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea.

This book provides practical information on how to communicate, negotiate, and interact with Indian colleagues. It is a start on the journey of cultural appreciation for managers, project leaders, and offshore coordinators.

This book examines the mechanisms of debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries coordinated by the IMF and the World Bank. It includes a case study that illustrates the process and provides insight into the collaboration between creditors and debtors.

This book explores the basics and the latest in the integration of sociology and complexity science. It offers an array of real-life applications and showcases a new method for studying social complexity called the Social Systems Toolbox.

This book describes modern approaches, including theoretical and numerical models, applied to explain the physical origin of anomalous waves on the sea surface. It takes into account wind flow above waves as well as variable bathymetry and currents.

This text explains the epistemic structure of the relationships among uncertainty, expectations, risk, possibility and probability. It then probes how fuzzy paradigm and fuzzy rationality bring new understanding to those relationships.

This book presents the latest research on a robotic camera simultaneously controlled by multiple online users. It offers solutions for application and technology problems and demonstrates the vast market potential of Internet-based infrastructures.

This volume is the second in a series on the role of fuzzy paradigm and fuzzy rationality within the theory of knowledge. This one is devoted to unified epistemic models and theories of decision-choice under total uncertainties.

This text offers the general scientific community the epistemic framework of fuzzy paradigm and the rationality it induces for approximate reasoning. It also describes the role fuzzy rationality plays in our information-knowledge enterprise.

This book provides an introduction to basic as well as advanced macrodynamics, viewed as a disequilibrium theory of fluctuating growth. It offers a rigorous alternative to mainstream macrodynamics with applications to the UK and the US.

This research monograph introduces the reader to two specific aspects-- clustering techniques and dimensionality reduction--in the context of complex network analysis.

This book focuses on management of complex system structures in product design. It offers a methodology for analysis, control and optimization of complex structures. It also addresses applicability of domain-spanning problems.

Elisa Bertino and her coauthors provide a comprehensive guide to security for Web services and SOA. They cover all standards addressing Web service security, as well as recent research on access control and advanced digital identity management techniques.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of regional integration processes in the territory of the former USSR. It introduces core concepts and presents a solid foundation of factual information regarding relevant regional integration agreements (RIAs).

This book brings together an extensive body of knowledge regarding complex dynamics from various academic disciplines. It includes numerous examples and applications, almost 700 illustrations and numerical simulations based on the use of Matlab.

This book discusses the Kuhn-Tucker Optimality, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions in presence of various types of generalized convexity assumptions. It details the present state of knowledge on research done in this area.

This fully updated second edition presents powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, in a way that lets readers apply them immediately in practice. It is a rich source for ideas for the improvement of any kind of organization.

This heavily-illustrated book analyzes high-resolution MRI scans and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. It is the first of its kind to show color-coded DCE-MRI scans of prostate cancer and to correlate these imaging findings with tumor grading.

Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two books on probability theory emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This book, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classics.

This is an expanded edition of a popular textbook that provides a purely algebraic, self-contained and in-depth exposition of the theory of function fields. It contains numerous exercises, some fairly simple, some quite difficult.

Software product management and pricing are key success factors for any organization providing software. This book defines the term "software product" and looks at the business and organizational sides. The focus is on the optimization of long-term success.

Devoted to new optical measurement techniques in industry as well as the life sciences, this book has a fresh perspective on the development of modern optical sensors, which are essential for the control of parameters in industrial and biomedical applications.

This book has long been the leading reference on food chemistry and technology. This latest edition covers new topics such as BSE detection, or acrylamide, and offers expanded treatment of food allergies and alcoholic drinks, or phytosterols.

The revised third edition of this eminently practical, hands-on book discusses the range of launch vehicles in use today throughout the world, and includes the very latest details of some of the advanced propulsion systems currently being developed.

This text on optics and elasticity covers the field in-depth, discusses equations in an easy-to-understand manner, includes a portrait gallery of pioneers in the field, and provides students the tools conduct their own astronomical optics projects.

This book describes Supply Chain Management (SCM) using a pyramidal framework and relates it to the SAP SCM Solution Map. It formulates desired features of IT support for SCM and shows the extent to which SAP systems provide these features.

The technological evolution of silicon detectors and their impact on high-energy particle physics are described in this monograph, which draws on the author's first-hand experience. Both the basic principles and final large-scale applications are covered.