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This book creates a feedback-rich simulation model for analyzing the effects of different administrative policies on energy demand, the improvement of energy efficiency by means of building codes, and reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions.

Investigates whether the effects of economic integration differ according to the size of countries. This title reflects the key economic characteristics of economies in order to provide an appropriate benchmark for each size group in the empirical analysis of the effects of asymmetric economic integration.

This outstanding review of the literature on the core theoretical foundations of applied statistical pattern recognition defines a novel mode of pattern recognition and classification, based on independent component analysis mixture modeling (ICAMM).

Written by a recognized leader in the field, this is the first book on deploying space-time processing and precoding design to cancel multi-antenna interference, and includes design procedures and in-depth performance data for a series of multi-user systems.

Covering leading-edge research, and with a focus on new developments in non-linear functional analysis, this is a vital addition to the literature that details theory as well as applications, providing relevant academics with a trusty guide to the field.

Detailing novel, cutting-edge methods of evaluating brittle fracture and fatigue, this book includes enhancements to the Neuber concept of fictitious notch rounding and new applications of the DJ-integral approach to assessing cyclic plasticity crack growth.

It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible.

This book presents a novel approach for exploratory data analysis with ensembles of various neuro-fuzzy systems. It places emphasis on ensembles that can work on incomplete data, thanks to rough set theory.

This book aids managers dealing with innovation in China, offering concrete advice on how Western firms can benefit, even in a climate of insufficient protection of intellectual property. Includes helpful examples and checklists for decision makers.

This book examines the content and influence of selected books published over the last fifty years that have influenced improvements in animal welfare. Offers the necessary basis for an informed and comprehensive approach to improving the welfare of animals.

This book presents the first jet measurement at the LHC, confronting experimental challenges of precision measurements. Inclusive jet cross section data illustrate the momentum distribution of quarks and gluons in the proton, the magnitude of the strong force.

This book offers high-quality illustrations showing the ovarian follicles, the corpus luteum and the interstitial cortex, clearly depicting physiologic cell death forms and leukocyte subtypes and demonstrating in detail the steps in the ovulatory process.

This book presents and demonstrates a coarse-grained model of DNA, simulating DNA tweezers, an iconic nanodevice, and a two-footed DNA walker - it represents the first time that coarse-grained modelling has been applied to dynamic DNA nanotechnology.

An introduction to the meteorological boundary conditions for power generation from onshore and offshore wind, this book reviews the derivation of wind laws and wind profile descriptions, and discusses the efficiency of large wind parks and their wakes.

Motivated by the discovery of intriguing effects that arise when electromagnetic radiation interacts with metallic nanostructures, this book focuses on fabrication of extended-area plasmonic nanostructures, and the optimization of their optical response.

This book presents a coherent picture of mesoscopic effects in quantum Hall systems, which accounts for integer and fractional filling factors and ranges from microscopic theory to effective models, and covers both equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena.

This book surveys the physics and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and their applications in optics, electronics, chemistry and biotechnology. The text illustrates major fabrication methods in detail, particularly the most widely used PECVD growth techniques.

This book tells the fascinating story of how the development of a public transportation system helped transform a small trading community at the southern tip of Manhattan Island into a world financial capital that is today home to more than 8,000,000 people.

Equally useful to those new to the field as well as experienced engineers, this comprehensive reference includes step-by-step details of derivations and implementation, providing an up-to-date guide to the core elements of INS and GPS.

Updating the decades-old description of groundwater resources in Ethiopia, this exhaustive analysis deploys the latest geoscientific research in redefining our groundwater maps in Ethiopia, with implications for research across Africa as a whole.

This unconventional microscopy book focuses on biological soft matter and varieties of polymer now visible via new techniques such as AFM, SEM and TEM. It provides answers to questions on characterization and covers qualitative and quantitative analysis.

This richly illustrated book is unique in exploring Einstein's relativity at a higher level for the non-specialist than ever before, using nothing more than grade-school algebra. It also explains how the theory applies to phenomena such as black holes.

This updated second edition of the basic theoretical book on low dimensional systems and nanostructures delivers a comprehensive survey of the main features of LCAO methods for first principle calculations of the electronic structure of periodic systems.

This book examines the use of the corrole to combat atherosclerosis. It examines the effects of three rationally designed corrole-metal complexes on some of the many variables which contribute to the development of atherosclerosis.

This book is devoted to ab initio studies of self-assembled organic molecules on a gold surface. It describes new methods and results relevant for physicists and chemists working on the assemblies of organic molecules on crystal surfaces.

Rich with examples and illustrations, this book surveys advances in electromagnetics: electromagnetic-quantum equations in modeling of microwave-quantum integrated circuits, topological methods for analyzing the boundary value problem and many more innovations.

This book addresses the most challenging steps in creating large-area image mosaics: global alignment and fast estimation of topology. Thus it advances the state of the art in underwater surveys using low-cost vehicles equipped with very limited sensor arrays.

This book surveys multi-quantum MRI imaging in diagnosis of brain disorders. Part I covers the basics of single- and MQ-MRI. Part II explores quantum level interactions between magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole behavior of useful nuclei in the brain.

Since the fIrst edition of this book was published in the 1994, the theory of wave scattering from rough surfaces has continued to develop intensively. In preparing the second edition, I was challenged by the problem of se- lecting new material from the many important results obtained recently.

In this highly readable book, H.S. Green, a former student of Max Born and well known as an author in physics and in the philosophy of science, presents a timely analysis of theoretical physics and related fundamental problems.