Automobiles are responsible for a substantial part of the world's consumption of primary energy, mostly fossil liquid hydrocarbons and the reduction of the fuel...

This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of optical approaches used in brain imaging and therapy. It covers a variety of imaging approaches including diffuse optical imaging, laser speckle imaging, photoacoustic imaging and optical coherence tomography. A number of laser-based therapeutic techniques are reviewed, including...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Theorie endlicher Automaten und den klassischen Resultaten wie den Sätzen von Richard Büchi und Michael Rabin. Die vier Teile des Buchs sind den unterschiedlichen Strukturen gewidmet: endliche Wörter, Bäume, endliche und unendliche Bäume. Jeder Teil endet mit Übungsaufgaben...

Decision makers in large scale interconnected network systems require simulation models for decision support. The behaviour of these systems is determined by many actors, situated in a dynamic, multi-actor, multi-objective and multi-level environment. How can such systems be modelled and how can the socio-technical complexity be captured?...

Auch Unternehmen, die sich hauptsächlich auf die technische Entwicklung und Herstellung ihrer Produkte konzentrieren, müssen neue Kunden gewinnen und langfristig an sich binden. Das Buch bietet eine Anleitung für den Weg hin zum industriellen Dienstleistungsunternehmen: An Beispielen führender Industriebetriebe...

This book provides a completely revised and expanded version of the previous classic edition ‘General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics’. In Part I the foundations of general relativity are thoroughly developed, while Part II is devoted to tests of general relativity and many of its applications. Binary pulsars – our...

In this book mathematical techniques for integral transforms are described in detail but concisely. The techniques are applied to the standard partial differential equations, such as the Laplace equation, the wave equation and elasticity equations. The Green's functions for beams, plates and acoustic media are also shown along with their...

This book is a roadmap of the exact health disparities that burden the health of South Texas residents, especially Hispanics, compared to the rest of Texas and nation. This type of knowledge has the potential to fuel and motivate researchers and public health leaders to create and shape interventions to reverse those health disparities. Most...

This book is dedicated to the analysis and design of analog CMOS nonlinear function synthesizer structures, based on original superior-order approximation functions. A variety of analog function synthesizer structures are discussed, based on accurate approximation functions. Readers will be enabled to implement numerous circuit functions with...

This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and...

In dem Band werden die physikalischen Grundlagen des Spanens unter Berücksichtigung neuester Forschungserkenntnisse dargestellt. Damit verknüpft stellen die Autoren wichtige Anwendungen wie z. B. Hochgeschwindigkeits- und Hochleistungsspanen vor. Sie vermitteln in dem Band die Anforderungen, denen moderne Werkzeuge und...

The purpose of the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2013) held on August 7 - 9, 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic was to bring together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and research results about all aspects...