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This book explores and summarises recent research on where dust storms originate, why dust storms are generated, where dust is transported and deposited, the nature of dust deposits and the changing frequency of dust storms over a range of time-scales.

Part textbook, part exploratory work, this book aims to raise the awareness of students, physicists, and engineers in turbulence on the modeling of gravitationally induced turbulent mixing flows as produced, for instance, by Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

Crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data has attracted considerable and ever growing interest in the last decades. Powder diffraction today is used in X-ray and neutron diffraction, where it is a powerful method in neutron diffraction for the determination of magnetic structures.

Here is a basic introduction to Lattice Boltzmann models that emphasizes intuition and simplistic conceptualization of processes, while avoiding the complex mathematics that underlies LB models. Beginners and those whose interest is in model application over detailed mathematics will find this a powerful 'quick start' guide.

Dramatic advances in understanding global tectonics have been made in the last half century and the information and specific data acquired on the floor of the World Ocean by the scientific community probably has exc- ded that available in all previous time.

The LES-method is rapidly developing in many practical applications in engineeringThe mathematical background is presented here for the first time in book form by one of the leaders in the field

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how aerosols form in the atmosphere through in situ processes as well as via transport from the surface (dust storms, seas spray, biogenic emissions, forest fires etc.).

Models should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. This book provides an introduction to the kinetic theory and computer simulation methods needed to handle such models and to interpret the results. It also includes a number of sample applications and computer codes.

This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive interpretation, and innovative implementation.

"The second volume of the authors' 'Computational commutative algebra'...covers on its 586 pages a wealth of interesting material with several unexpected applications. The text is recommended for all those who want to learn and enjoy an algebraic tool that becomes more and more relevant to different fields of applications."

This book represents the compilation of several research approaches on opera tional freight carrier planning carried out at the Chair of Logistics, University of Bremen. In addition, I have to thank Prof. On behalf of all my colleagues, who supported me in numerous ways, I have to say thank you to Prof. Dr. Christian Bierwirth, Henner Gratz, Prof.

Rock Joints deals exclusively with the mechanical genesis of joints in rocks. The background is an offshoot of the author's courses on "Genesis of Rock Joints" in the Department of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.

Presents the contemporary developments of control theory and its applications. This textbook covers the methods that are introduced in a practice-oriented and easy-to-apply way, for use in computer control and management systems.

Deals with the theoretical, analytical and advanced numerical study of the structure and dynamics of one-dimensional as well as two- and three-dimensional solitons and nonlinear waves described by Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP), nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) and derivative NLS (DNLS) classes of equations.

Addresses the reality that there exists no consensus on the extent to which innovations can really contribute to reconciling ever-growing energy consumption, availability of resources and the environment, and the structural demands on any energy system.

This stimulating, carefully-researched book on The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life by Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer is the second volume of a new series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. The series of Demographic Research Monographs is under the editorial supervision of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Thus, m the space of states (phase space) is a subset M of an Euclidean space M . For continuous time systems, the evolution rule may be a differential eq- tion: to each state x G M one associates the speed and direction in which the system is going to evolve from that state.

Planetary Aeronomy is a modern and concise introduction to the underlying physical and chemical processes that govern the formation and evolution of the upper atmospheres of planets.

This book presents a modern and self-contained treatment of the Liapunov method for stability analysis, in the framework of mathematical nonlinear control theory.

Process Management, with its key concepts of internal customer and process ownership, is becoming one of the most important competitive weapons for firms and can determine a strategic change in the way business is carried out (Business Process Reengineering - B.P.R.).

This book presents the results of thirty-four case studies in an EU-sponsored project on heavily modified water bodies. The contents are the basis for the agreed European Guidance on artificial and heavily modified water bodies to be used by practitioners in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

Some Historical Background This book deals with the cohomology of groups, particularly finite ones. In number theory, group cohomology arose as a natural device for describing the main theorems of class field theory and, in particular, for describing and analyzing the Brauer group of a field.

High levels of uncertainty are a trademark of geological investigations, such as the search for oil, diamonds, and uranium. While uncertainties, geological risks and natural hazards are often mentioned in geological textbooks, conferences papers, and articles, no comprehensive and systematic evaluation has so far been attempted.

Combustion in Piston Engines presents the technique of pressure diagnostics to measure the fuel consumption in an engine cylinder and to monitor the operation of micro-electronic systems for its control.

Aims to support modularisation of systemic properties and their subsequent composition with other parts of the system. This book shows how the use of AOP can transform the way we develop, use and maintain database systems. It also discusses how database systems can support AOP by providing means for storage and retrieval of aspects.

Generalizes Gaussian error intervals to situations in which the data follow distributions other than Gaussian. This book - based on Bayes' theorem, symmetries and differential geometry - states that this usually occurs because the observed parameter is barely above the background or the histogram of multiparametric data contains many empty bins.

After a brief review of the existing incomplete information literature, the effect of incomplete information on investors' exptected utility, risky asset prices, and interest rates is described. It is demonstrated that increasing the quality of investors' information need not increase their expected utility and the prices of risky assets.

What does "excellent manufacturing management" mean? And secondly, pay attention to the dimension of management quality, direction setting, integration and delegation, communication, participation, measurement, and employee development.

Well written textbook on industrial applications of Statistical Measurement Theory. Each topic starts with an informal introduction followed by an example, the rigorous problem formulation, solution method, and a detailed numerical solution.

The book describes the main physical processes and phenomena in pulsed electric breakdown. Such high-voltage micro- and nanosecond pulses find wide application in experimental physics, electro discharge technology, physics of dielectrics, radar detection and ranging, high-speed photography.