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Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Springer, 2008

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. It has deep roots in...

Logic of Analog and Digital Machines

Nova Press, 2010

Computer Science is a very young discipline compared to most others. Alan Turing published the seminal paper of the field in 1936. Around the same time, the militaries in Germany, UK, and US commissioned the first digital electronic computer projects. One of these, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in the UK, was used to break the...

Energy Supply and Renewable Resources

Facts on File, 2007

One has only to read a newspaper or magazine to realize the importance of energy at this early juncture of the 21st century. It will surely become more critical as world demand for oil continues to increase and its supply peaks and begins to fall.

Industrialized nations have become addicted to an ever-increasing...

Frying: Improving quality (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition)

Woodhead Publishing, 2001

Pan-frying and deep-frying have been very popular and ancient methods of food preparations for more than 4000 years. Pre-fried and fried food products like potato crisps, fish fingers or French fries have become a main component of our diet. It is estimated that the total usage of frying fats and oils in restaurants,...

Failure Criteria in Fibre-Reinforced-Polymer Composites

Elsevier Limited, 2004

Fibre Reinforced Polymer composite materials (FRP’s) are now widely utilised in many applications including aircraft, yachts, motor vehicles, chemical and process plant, sporting goods and a wide range of military equipment. They are an extremely broad and versatile class of material, encompassing a wide range of fibre and...

Theory and Design of CNC Systems (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)

Springer, 2008

CNC controllers, working as a brain for manufacturing automation, are high valueadded products accounting for over 30% of the price of machine tools. CNC technology is generally considered as a measure of the level of manufacturing technology of a nation, and is currently led by major advanced countries such as USA, Japan, and...

Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration (European Studies 20)

Rodopi, 2004

The accelerated pace of European integration since the early 1990s has been accompanied by the emergence of increasingly prominent and multiform oppositions to the process. The term Euroscepticism has appeared with growing frequency in a range of political, media, and academic discourses. Yet, the label is applied to a wide range of...

Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XV (v. 15)

Springer, 2002

This volume contains the papers and poster abstracts presented at the 25th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, during 15-19 October 2001. This ITM was jointly organized by the University of Aveiro, Portugal (Pilot country) and by the Catholic University of...

Panther vs T-34: Ukraine 1943 (Duel)

Osprey Publishing, 2007

Robert A. Forczyk provides a riveting and intense description of the design and development of these two deadly opponents, the Panther and the T-34, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and describing their tactics, weaponry and training. Moreover he gives an insight into the lives of the tank crews themselves, who were caught up in the...

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)

Springer, 2010

The work described in this book was first presented at the Eighth Workshop on Genetic Programming, Theory and Practice, organized by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 20-22, 2010. The goal of this workshop series is to promote the exchange of research results and ideas...

Introduction to Microsystem Design (RWTHedition)

Springer, 2011

This book was developed from lectures held at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Tsinghua University at Beijing, P.R. China. It may be used as a basis for similar lectures on designing of microsystems. For this purpose, it is recommended to follow the sequence of this book, because it is arranged such that following chapters are...

The Nidoviruses: Toward Control of SARS and other Nidovirus Diseases (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Springer, 2006

This book summarizes the keynote and plenary speeches and posters of the “Xth International Nidovirus Symposium: Toward Control of SARS and Other Nidovirus Diseases” that was held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 25–30, 2005. The nine previous meetings of scientists investigating the molecular biology and...

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