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For engineers, finite element methods have become important tools for design and optimization, even for solving nonlinear technological problems. This book provides the knowledge needed for finite element analysis in solid mechanics.

This book examines the right to conscientious objection under international human rights law. It analyses the right to conscientious objection and the duties of individuals under international law from various perspectives of public international law.

An analysis of criminal behavior from the perspectives of rational choice theory leading to suggestions for a criminal policy. Previous edition sold 900 copies world wide since its release in June 2001.

This extensive survey summarizes and reviews top-quark physics based on the precision measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, as well as examining in detail the sensitivity of these experiments to new physics.

The purpose of our research is to enhance the efficiency of AI problem solvers by automating representation changes. We have developed a system that improves the description of input problems and selects an appropriate search algorithm for each given problem.

In the last ten years, a true explosion of investigations into fuzzy modeling and its applications in control, diagnostics, decision making, optimization, pattern recognition, robotics, etc.

This book examines all aspects essential for a successful application of geometric algebra to engineering-the theoretical foundations, the representation of geometric constraints, and the numerical estimation from uncertain data.

The authors explore the properties of this generalized convexity in multidimensional Euclidean space, and describ restricted-orientation analogs of lines, hyperplanes, flats, halfspaces, and identify major properties of standard convex sets that also hold for restricted-orientation convexity.

Stiickrad and involved a refined version of the classical technique ofreduc tion to the diagonal: here one starts with the join variety and intersects with successive hyperplanes in general position, laying aside components which fall into the diagonal and intersecting the residual scheme with the next hyperplane;

Electronic business, the integration of IT and the Internet into business processes, has begun to completely revolutionize business and the economy.

At the intersection of environmental science and human biology, this book deals with dry ecosystems, the societies so affected, and the inventiveness of those living under such conditions. It also tries to answer the question of whether long-lasting development is possible in dry environments.

This book gives a comprehensive account of traditional and more recent developments in macroeconomic theory. Thus, the main approaches, like Classical theory, Keynesian theory, theory of portfolio selection, Monetarism, Rational Expectations theory, and Neokeynesian "disequilibrium" theory are presented in historical order.

Wheat, which is the second most important cereal crop in the world, is being grown in a wide range of climates over an area of about 228 945 thou sand ha with a production of about 535 842 MT in the world.

The growing number of published works dedicated to global environmental change leads to the realization that protection of the natural environment has become an urgent problem.

From a review of the previous edition: "I strongly recommend it as an essential reading and reference book for younger and older workers alike". Nature

This book, written by a master of the subject, is primarily devoted to discrete subgroups of finite covolume in semi-simple Lie groups. The author not only proves results in the classical geometry setting, but also obtains theorems of an algebraic nature.

This book provides the foundations of understanding the physical nature of iron and its alloys. Basics and recent developments concerning its constitution and magnetism are presented as well as its thermal properties.

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning.

This monograph addresses the systematic representation of the methods of analysis developed by the authors as applied to such systems. Particular features of dynamic processes in such systems are studied. Special attention is given to an analysis of different resonant phenomena taking unusual and diverse forms.

Density functional theory is an important tool in many-body physics that has found applications in atomic, molecular, solid-state and nuclear physics. This book describes Schrodinger theory from the perspective of fields and quantal sources. It explains the physics underlying the functionals and functional derivatives of traditional DFT.