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The authors lay out engineering problems in underground rock engineering and how to study and solve them. The book specially emphasizes mechanical and hydraulic couplings in rock engineering for wellbore stability, mining near aquifers and other underground structures where inflow is a problem.

This book provides an extensive treatment of Potential Theory for sub-Laplacians on stratified Lie groups. It also provides a largely self-contained presentation of stratified Lie groups, and of their Lie algebra of left-invariant vector fields.

A Nobel Laureate presents his view of developments in the field of superconductivity, superfluidity and related theory. The book contains Ginzburg's amended version of the Nobel lecture in Physics 2003, as well as his expanded autobiography.

In the new global economy, more countries have opened up to international competition and rapid capital flows. The analysis also picks up European and US labor market issues in the context of economic globalization and raises the question of which EU policies in the field of labor market reform and of innovation policies are adequate.

This is the first focused and detailed textbook on acoustic virtual reality. Auralization is the creation of audible acoustic sceneries from computer-generated data. This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of basics, methodology and strategies of acoustic simulation and auralization.

This book describes significant tractable models-new and old-used in solid mechanics. They are selected to illustrate the concepts allowing scientists to describe complicated effects in a simple manner, and to clarify basic notations of solid mechanics.

This fascinating new book examines the issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive way.

This book develops the method of "algebraic patching" to realize finite groups and, more generally, to solve finite split embedding problems over fields. The method succeeds over rational function fields of one variable over "ample fields".

The computational approach to understanding nature and technology is currently flowering in many fields such as physics, geophysics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, and most engineering disciplines. It is our goal to teach principles and ideas that carry over from field to field.

This volume reviews selected aspects related to surface magnetism. It emphasizes the correlation of structural, electronic and magnetic properties in rare earth metal systems and ferromagnetic transition metals.

Studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. These are higher-dimensional issues. The policy targets are price stability and full employment. The policy makers follow cold-turkey or gradualist strategies.

The monograph Micropolar Theory of Elasticity is devoted to the asymmetric theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity, aiming at researchers and postgraduate students in solid mechanics and applied mathematics, as well as mechanical engineers.

Cultural history enthusiasts have asserted the urgent need to protect digital information from imminent loss. It justifies this methodology using 20th century theory of knowledge communication, and outlines the requirements and architecture for the software needed.

Results of experimental research on aerodynamic and acoustic control of subsonic turbulent jets by acoustic excitation are presented.

This book offers a basic introduction to genetic algorithms. It provides a detailed explanation of genetic algorithm concepts and examines numerous genetic algorithm optimization problems.

This new edition also treats smart materials and artificial life. A new chapter on information and computational dynamics takes up many recent discussions in the community.

The dramatic impact of low dimensional semiconductor structures on c- rent and future device applications cannot be overstated. The modi?ed electronic structure of semiconductor quantum structures results in transport and optical properties, which di?er from those of constituent bulk materials.

Evolutionary computation, a broad field that includes genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming, has proven to offer well-suited techniques for industrial and management tasks - therefore receiving considerable attention from scientists and engineers during the last decade.

E-commerce has passed through a number of stages in the minds of most readers of the daily press. Indeed, the term e-commerce itself is coming to mean only the transaction-based component of e-business-'any process that a business organisation conducts over a computer-mediated network' as Thomas Mesenbourg ofthe U.

This monograph is devoted to advances in nonlinear dynamics of continuous elastic systems. A major part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of non-homogenous continua.

'Therefore, vibrations of the objects including, for ex ample, rod elastic elements excite the vibrations of these elements, which can produce a substantial effect on dynamic characteristics of moving objects and on readings of instruments.

A fascinating insight into the state-of-the-art in silicon microphotonics and on what we can expect in the near future. It concentrates mainly on low dimensional silicon structures, like quantum dots, wires and wells, but covers also alternative approaches like porous silicon and the doping of silicon with rare-earths.

A biography that sheds light on different facets of Zermelo's life and achievements.

A survey of the state of the art of deterministic resource-constrained project scheduling with time windows.

From Nucleons to Nucleus deals with single-particle and collective features of spherical nuclei. The book is based on lectures on nuclear physics given by the author. Its main scope is thus to serve as a textbook for advanced students.

Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 appeared in a Symposium on Chaotic Dynamical Systems in Economic Theory (Volume 4, Number 5, 1994). For a course on dynamic optimization addressed to students with a good background in economic theory and real analysis, one can assign Chapter 2 as a partial introduction to the basic tech niques.

This second volume introduces general topology, the theory of correspondences on and into topological spaces, Banach spaces, topological vector spaces, and maximum, fixed-point, and selection theorems for such spaces

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Since voting is and has always been an essential instrument of democratic rule, it is of some in terest to find out how voting paradoxes are being dealt with by past and present methods of voting.