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Gary Wobeser's successful book from 1994 has been completely updated and enlarged in a new second edition. The subjects are illustrated with examples drawn from around the world, with emphasis on the special requirements involved in working with wild animals. The book draws on the author's training as a wildlife biologist.

Sight and touch are two elementary, but highly complementary senses - for humans as well as for robots. This monograph develops an integrated vision/force control approach for robotics, combining the advantages of both types of sensors while overcoming their individual drawbacks.

A book providing an overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus is given to identification, prevention, and remediation techniques, and the book bridges the gap between research and application.

A comprehensive monograph for scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians, as well as graduate students in fluid dynamics, this book analyzes typical vortex structures in laminar, translational, and turbulent flows, including stratified and rotational fluids.

The book provides an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Alternative models address unobserved heterogeneity, state dependence, selectivity, endogeneity, underreporting, and clustered sampling.

This book focuses on three sources of pharmaceutical innovation: new management methods in the drug development pipeline, new technologies as enablers for cutting-edge R&D, and new forms of internationalisation, such as outside-in innovation in the early phases of R&D.

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment.

The book reviews recent developments and research results on excavations and foundations found in and on soft soil deposits. It gives an overview of the material properties of soft soils and offers new foundation improvement techniques in road and railways.

The most important classes of problems are surveyed and presented by means of mathematical formulations, followed by solution methods and a discussion of a variety of "what-if" scenarios. Non-simplex based solution methods and newer developments such as interior point methods are covered.

This book combines material from our previous books FP (Fuzzy Probabilities: New Approach and Applications,Physica-Verlag, 2003) and FS (Fuzzy Statistics, Springer, 2004), plus has about one third new results.

Acoustics of Layered Media II presents the theory of sound propagation and reflection of spherical waves and bounded beams in layered media. Both moving and stationary media, discretely and continuously layered, including a range-dependent environment, are treated for various types of acoustic wave sources.

Reiner Horst May 1992 Hoang Tuy PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The enormous practical need for solving global optimization problems coupled with a rapidly advancing computer technology has allowed one to consider problems which a few years aga would have been considered computationally intractable.

They offer concise descriptions of markup and document description languages like TIFF, PDF, HTML, and XML, explain important techniques such as migration and emulation, and present the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model.

This book will serve as a valuable source of information about triangulations for the graduate student and researcher. In particular, the book gives a tour through the theory behind the Delaunay triangulation, including algorithms and software issues.

This book offers a detailed guide on the journey towards the minimal supersymmetric standard model down the orbifold road. It takes the viewpoint that the chirality of matter fermions is an essential aspect that orbifold compactification allows to derive from higher-dimensional string theories in a straightforward manner.

Exact solutions to Einstein's equations have been useful for the understanding of general relativity in many respects. They have led to such physical concepts as black holes and event horizons, and helped to visualize interesting features of the theory.

The author shows through a careful analysis of the law that restrictive immunity does not have vox populi in developing countries, and that it lacks usus.

Viewed from database technology, information modeling in databases can be identified at two levels: (conceptual) data modeling and (logical) database modeling. Generally a conceptual data model is designed and then the designed conceptual data model will be transformed into a chosen logical database schema.

Shape theory, an extension of homotopy theory from the realm of CW-complexes to arbitrary spaces, was introduced by Borsuk 30 years ago and Mardesic contributed greatly to it. One expert says: "If we need a book in the field, this is it! It is thorough, careful and complete."

This volume completes the second edition series of Surgical Neuroangiography. It offers a complete and richly illustrated overview of all treatment modalities. The authors' 30 years of experience have helped establish the natural history of these rare diseases.

The random-cluster model has emerged as a key tool in the mathematical study of ferromagnetism. The Random-Cluster Model contains accounts of the subcritical and supercritical phases, together with clear statements of important open problems.

This interdisciplinary atlas is the fruit of cooperation among radiologists, orthopedic surgeons, traumatologists, and neurosurgeons. Numerous illustrations are supplemented by concise descriptions of anatomy and pathophysiology, normal and abnormal MRI appearance, diagnostic pitfalls, and the clinical significance of MRI.

Examines how the paradigm of the 'enabling welfare state' might offer a different perspective for European social policy. This work seeks to shed light on whether European social policy ought to play a role and, if so, what sort of role that could be. It is useful for scholars, policymakers, students of welfare and labour economics, and sociology.

This acclaimed book examines the topic of symbolic integration in comprehensive detail, incorporating new results along the way. The second edition offers a new chapter on parallel integration, and a number of other improvements including additional exercises.

Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise-- independently, but with many deep and fascinating connections--in diverse fields. This book presents a wealth of results, from different mathematical disciplines, in a unified comprehensive manner.

This exhaustive new edition offers the fundamentals of sidescan sonar imagery and bathymetry and explains the tricky science of interpreting them. It also covers all recent advances in the field regarding both technology and knowledge of marine structures.

This book provides the essentials to write a successful business plan. The reader gets acquainted with the skills and competencies as well as tools, required for the planning and development of the business plan project.

This monograph discusses issues related to estimation, control, and motion planning for mobile robots operating in rough terrain, with particular attention to planetary exploration rovers. Specific addressed topics are: wheel terrain interaction modeling, including terrain parameter estimation and wheel terrain contact angle estimation;

This book is devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in fuzzy system engineering. This monograph presents novel developments of the fuzzy theory as well as interesting applications of the fuzzy logic exploiting the theory to engineer intelligent systems.