crc press jun 2015 (31 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Workbooks containing both step-by-step guides to practical tasks as well as revision exercises. Endorsed by the Institute of the Motor Industry.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This IMI Student Worksheets and Assignments forbook for Level 1 students contains practical exercises and tests to reinforce the automotive theory that you will learn in the classroom.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book is designed to become a foundational text for the new science of AI safety engineering. While specific predictions regarding the consequences of an intelligence singularity vary from potential economic hardship to the complete extinction of humankind, many of the involved researchers agree that the issue is of utmost importance and needs to be seriously addressed. The book directly addresses this issue and consolidates research aimed at making sure that emerging superintelligence is beneficial to humanity.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Testing and Measurement: Techniques and Applications is divided into 6 sections: Microwave, Ultrasonic and Acoustic Measurement and Application; Material Performance and Measuring and Testing Technique; Laser, Optics Fiber and Sensor; Industrial Autoimmunization and Measurement; Artificial Intelligence and Application; and Image, Signal and Information Processing. The book presents a broad and deep understanding of recent achievements and future trends of testing and measuring technology.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to the latest release of AutoCAD. Covering all the basic principles and acting as an introduction to 2D drawing, it also contains extensive coverage of all 3D topics, including 3D solid modelling and rendering.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An indispensable resource for electrical trainees of all ability levels, both during their training and once qualified, Advanced Electrical Science walks readers through the subject in a logical order, providing a historical overview alongside modern electrical theory and practice.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is one of the first parallel computing books to focus exclusively on parallel data structures, algorithms, software tools, and applications in data science. The book prepares readers to write effective parallel code in various languages and learn more about different R packages and other tools. It covers the classic 'n observations, p variables' matrix format and common data structures. Many examples illustrate the range of issues encountered in parallel programming.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Taking a learning-by-doing approach, this tutorial-style book helps newcomers quickly and easily grasp the essence of adaptive designs as well as the foundations of adaptive design methods. It reduces the mathematics to a minimum and makes the material as practical as possible. The author includes R functions that enable readers to better understand the algorithms and customize the designs to meet their needs. For those with no R experience, an appendix provides a 30-minute R tutorial.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This text presents classroom-tested material on computational linear algebra and its application to numerical solutions of PDEs and ODEs. It covers the fundamentals needed in numerical linear algebra and describes many methods for solving a range of linear equations. The book expresses the numerical methods using pseudo-code or a detailed MATLAB® program. Numerous exercises and computer projects test students' understanding of the mathematics of numerical methods and the art of computer programming.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book shows decision makers how to build Bayesian models for the strategic calculation of their opponents, enabling decision makers to maximize their expected utility or minimize their expected loss. Many examples throughout illustrate the application of the ARA approach to a variety of games and strategic situations. A case study based on a real application in railway security provides a blueprint for how to perform ARA in similar security situations. In addition, multi-agent influence diagrams help readers visualize complex information structures.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book explains how to use the empirical likelihood method for right censored survival data. It focuses on all the standard survival analysis topics treated with empirical likelihood, including hazard functions, cumulative distribution functions, analysis of the Cox model, and computation of empirical likelihood for censored data. The author uses R for calculating empirical likelihood and includes many worked out examples with the associated R code. The datasets and code are available for download on his website and CRAN.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This classroom-tested text provides a one-semester, calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics for first-year undergraduate students. The authors introduce the three conservation laws as fundamental laws of nature from which secondary concepts are derived and organize topics around the conservation laws. They also illustrate many topics through real, contemporary applications in astronomy, planetary science, and space travel. The book includes short exercises throughout the text as well as novel problems at the end of each chapter.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This text takes a semiclassical approach to teaching the principles, structure, and applications of semiconductor lasers. The first half presents basic concepts, such as semiconductor physics, p-n junction theory, alloys, heterostructures, quantum nanostructures, k.p theory, waveguides, resonators, filters, and optical processes. The remainder of the book describes various lasers, including double heterostructure, quantum wire, quantum dot, quantum cascade, vertical-cavity surface-emitting, single-mode and tunable, nitride, group IV, and transistor lasers.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book covers wind energy system types, operation, modeling, analysis, integration, and control. Featuring numerous models, illustrations, examples, and exercises, the text explains the aerodynamic theories that govern the operation of wind turbines, highlights the differences between the most common types of wind turbines, analyzes the main power electronic circuits used in wind energy, details the electrical generators from the basic principle of induced voltage to the steady-state and dynamic models, and discusses the main integration challenges of wind energy systems with electric utility systems.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This new edition of a pioneering text will facilitate diagnosis of hair and nail disorders as well as provide important clues about disease stage and progression. Topics covered include alopecias, hair shaft disorders, hair root evaluation, pediatric hair disorders, hair weathering, inflammatory scalp disorders, infections, dermoscopy of the black scalp, body hair disorders, and dermoscopy-guided biopsies. Also covered is dermoscopy of the nail plate, the proximal nail fold, the hyponychium, and the distal edge of the nail plate. The book discusses inflammatory nail disorders, traumatic nail disorders, onychomycosis, melanonychia, and nail tumors.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The observation and manipulation of individual molecules is one of the most exciting developments in modern molecular science, and the utility of single-molecule methods has proven invaluable in such fields as nanoscience and molecular biology. This book provides a general framework necessary for understanding single-molecule phenomena. It introduces the relevant mathematical and physical concepts, and then discusses various approaches to the problem of interpreting single-molecule data. It thoroughly explains the physical principles underlying the major classes of single-molecule experiments, such as fluorescence measurements, force-probe spectroscopy, and nanopore experiments.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a multidisciplinary review of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing. It examines various technical, environmental, scientific, and social aspects pertaining to hydraulic fracturing. The chapters present balanced coverage of the benefits and potential negative impacts of fracturing by bringing together subject-matter experts from various disciplines. The text identifies emerging technologies, regulatory instruments, and management tools to ensure that unconventional oil and gas production will be sustainable and have a small footprint on the environment and society.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Adding new results that have appeared in the last 15 years, this second edition provides an easy way for researchers to locate an inequality by name or subject. This edition offers an up-to-date, alphabetical listing of each inequality with a short statement of the result, some comments, references to related inequalities, and sources of information on proofs and other details. It includes more than 100 new inequalities, a new name index, and an updated bibliography that contains URLs for important references.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a thorough introduction to the theory of nonlinear PDEs with a variable exponent, particularly those of elliptic type. It presents the most important variational methods for elliptic PDEs described by nonhomogeneous differential operators and containing one or more power-type nonlinearities with a variable exponent. The authors give a systematic treatment of the basic mathematical theory and constructive methods for these classes of nonlinear elliptic equations as well as their applications to various processes arising in the applied sciences.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the captivating and diverse photonic systems seen in nature and explores how we take inspiration from them to create new photonic materials and devices. The author walks readers through examples taken from nature, delves into their characterization and performance, and describes the unique features of their performance. She interweaves this material with discussions on fabricating synthetic versions of the systems as well as aspects of the biological examples that researchers are leveraging in their own work.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book covers modeling, simulation, and adaptive control of a multi-stage flash (MSF) seawater desalination plant. It outlines the principles of MSF desalination and highlights the importance of the various control systems for large MSF plants. Topics include a satisfactory dynamical model of the plant, an optimal method of approximating the model to the standard first-order-plus-dead-time (FODT) form, a dependable method of simulation and optimization that can handle the original unreduced model, and an optimal controller tuning based on integral criteria.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book examines how to program artificial search agents so that they act optimally or demonstrate the same behavior as predicted by the foraging theory for living organisms. It discusses foraging theory as well as search and screening theory in the same mathematical and algorithmic framework. It presents an overview of the main ideas and methods of foraging and search theories, making the concepts of one theory accessible to specialists of the other. Numerical examples illustrate the application of both theories.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Well-illustrated with approximately 325 photographs, Nutritional Freshwater Life details the characteristics of more than 300 species of nutritionally important freshwater animals and plants. It covers algae and plants, crustaceans (prawns, crayfish, and crabs), mollusks (bivalves and gastropods), fish, and frogs. For each species of freshwater life identified, the book provides their characteristics such as classification, common names, habitats, global distribution, nutritional facts, and biological features.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Suitable for everyone interested in carp, from scholars to anglers, this book presents informative and engaging contributions from renowned experts. Thirteen cross-linked chapters provide an exhaustive yet easily accessible treatise of carp aquaculture, natural and artificial reproduction, feeding and growth, ecosystem effects, and the effects of disease agents and toxic substances. Color illustrations and infoboxes help readers navigate technical terms and complex concepts.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The contributions in Environmental Science and Information Application Technology discuss all aspects of global environmental change and ecosystems management, graphic and image processing, spatial information systems, applications of remote sensing and spatial information systems, and will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in these areas.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The 2014 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Applications was held in Shanghai, December 27-28, 2014. These CSAC-2014 proceedings include 105 selected papers, which focus not only on the research of science and technology of computer sciences, but also on the research of applications, aiming at a quick and immediate effect on daily life in the near future.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a review of a rapidly developing field of viral nanotechnology in the context of immunology, virology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, and mathematical modeling. Viral nanotechnology is founded on the unexpected properties of viral nanoparticles. It emphasizes applications of viral nanotechnology to improving health and advancing material technologies. These applications include developing vaccines for prevention of disease, developing drugs and genetic therapies for treatment of disease, and developing diagnostic reagents and novel imaging technologies for detecting disease and infectious agents causing disease.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This second edition provides a single source of information covering all aspects of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), including the systematic investigation of organic light-emitting materials, device physics and engineering, and manufacturing and performance measurement techniques. Featuring chapters authored by internationally recognized academic and industrial experts, this authoritative text discusses recent advances in OLED technology and explores the challenges facing future development. It offers a comprehensive overview of the OLED field and can serve as a primary reference for those needing additional information on organic electroluminescence.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book explains how to properly engineer and optimize a hydraulically fractured well by selecting the right materials, evaluating the economic benefits, and ensuring the safety and success of the people, project, environment, and equipment. From data estimation to design, operation, and performance, the text presents a logical, step-by-step process for hydraulic fracturing that aids in proper engineering decision making when stimulating a particular reservoir. Numerous problem sets reinforce the learning and aid in risk assessment. Additional material is available from the CRC Press website.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport, and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media models which can be used to improve the accuracy of modeling in a variety of practical applications. Featuring contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the book provides a valuable reference for addressing some of the most challenging issues in engineering and the hydrogeological, biological, and biomedical sciences, further enhancing cross-disciplinary research and cooperation between engineers and scientists.