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This book explores the essentials of RFID and the EPCglobal Network from the perspective of a practitioner that needs to make business decisions concerning the adoption of the technology. The perspective is from the supply chain management standpoint.

Therefore, the basic goal of the mono graph "Advanced Theory of Vibrations 1" is to help students studying vibration theory for gaining experience in application of this theory for solving particular problems.

This monograph presents the first comprehensive and detailed explanation for the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune, exploring their striking, recently discovered structures such as narrow ringlets, spiral waves, and chain of vortices.

This book is devoted to dispersion theory in linear and nonlinear optics. Dispersion relations and methods of analysis in optical spectroscopy are derived with the aid of complex analysis. In addition, it presents the dispersion theory of the nonlinear optical processes which are essential in modern optical spectroscopy.

Devoted to the simplest kind of Green's functions, namely the solutions of linear differential equations with a -function source. This book demonstrates the powerful and unifying formalism of Green's functions across many applications, including transport properties, carbon nanotubes, and photonics and photonic crystals.

The author applies methods of nonlinear elasticity to investigate the defects in the crystal structure of solids such as dislocations and disclinations that characterize the plastic and strength properties of many materials.

This work by two accomplished Polish researchers provides medical technicians and researchers alike with detailed descriptions of up-to-date methods used for computer processing and interpretation of medical images. The introduction provides a general overview of the computer vision methods designed for medical images.

This book concerns the numerical simulation of dynamical systems whose trajec- ries may not be differentiable everywhere. Usually nonsmooth dynamical systems are represented as differential inclusions, complementarity systems, evolution va- ational inequalities, each of these classes itself being split into several subclasses.

Information visualization offers a way to reveal hidden patterns in a visual presentation and allows users to seek information from a visual perspective. Readers of this book will gain an in-depth understanding of the current state of information retrieval visualization.

Since the individuals are not just stimulus-response machines but more complex beings that think and are simultaneously conscious of their thought, re?exivity is potentially involved in all human acts of cognition and in all conceptualizations.

The authors of this timely reference provide an updated and global view on ocean wave energy conversion - and they do so for wave energy developers as well as for students and professors. It describes the actual principles applied to machines that convert wave power to electricity and examines state-of-the-art modern systems.

In transition economies, they were characterized by especially poor performance and high access deficits, as telecommunications were considered to be a non-profit-oriented production process intended to support the socio-economic superstructures.

Based on several recent courses given to mathematical physics students, this volume is an introduction to bundle theory. A fundamental theme, emphasized in the book, centers around the gluing of local bundle data related to bundles into a global object.

This concise and readable book addresses primarily readers with a background in classical statistical physics and introduces quantum mechanical notions as required.

In this book, the fundamentals of chemical engineering are presented with respect to applications in micro system technology, microfluidics, and transport processes within microstructures.

Third Edition explores the theory and applications of linear models. It presents a unified theory of inference from linear models and its generalizations with minimal assumptions, using least squares theory and alternative methods of estimation and testing.

This book presents an introduction into the entire science of Continuum Mechanics in three parts. The presentation is modern and comprehensive. Its introduction into tensors is very gentle. The book contains many examples and exercises, and is intended for scientists, practitioners and students of mechanics.

This book introduces a new approach to macroeconomics based on endogenous market structures (EMSs), with a close focus on business cycles, international trade and policy and growth.

This monograph provides an insightful analysis of dynamic modeling in econometrics by bridging the structural with the time series approaches, and by focusing on representation theorems of integrated processes.

This book covers fundamental aspects of spatial data modelling specifically on the aspect of three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. Realisation of "true" 3D GIS spatial system needs a lot of effort, and the process is taking place in various research centres and universities in some countries.

The book concentrates on powder flow properties, their measurement and applications. A wide range of problems are discussed - such as flow obstructions, segregation, and vibrations. The goal is to provide a deeper understanding of the powder flow, and to show practical solutions.

This book evaluates the requirement for specificity as a criterion for property rights in securities evidenced by electronic entries made on securities accounts. It compares English, US and Swedish law with the aim of finding viable solutions.

Not only does this book provide a hugely practical approach that uses geostatistical as well as petrophysical methods, it can also be used as course material to integrate geology, geophysics and engineering. Lucia's book focuses on the improvement of geological, petrophysical, and geostatistical methods in oil prospecting.

This book details algorithms for large-scale unconstrained and bound constrained optimization. It shows optimization techniques from a conjugate gradient algorithm perspective as well as methods of shortest residuals, which have been developed by the author.

This is a much-needed text that comprehensively encapsulates for the first time the fundamentals of modeling Logistic Operating Curves for production and storage processes. The text includes information on how they can be derived and calculated based on standard operating data.

Presents a range of investment appraisal methods and models to help readers make good investment decisions.

In offering a wealth of geographic and climatic data from Africa, this book provides the basis for comparison between various African regions, and between Africa and other continents, for such topics as rural development, agriculture, and ecosystems.

This introduction to Exploration Geophysics explains in simple language all the terms used in the industry. It also describes how seismic data is acquired in 2-D and 3-D and how that data is interpreted and converted into meaningful information.

The book provides an in-depth study of the legal aspects concerning the limits of the outer continental shelf. It addresses the interpretation and application of the respective rules and formulas.