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This book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition of the logistics development in China to the English-reading community at large in the spirit of the four predecessor volumes, published in previous years. This book is the fifth volume in a series...

This volume brings together contributions representing the state-of-the-art in new multimedia and future technology information research, currently a major topic in computer science and electronic engineering. Researchers aim to interoperate multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. This book...

This concise textbook for students preferably of a postgraduate level, but also for engineers in practice, contains the basic kinematical and kinetic structures of dynamics together with carefully selected applications. The book is a condensed introduction to the fundamental laws of kinematics and kinetics,...

This fifteenth volume in the EUROPEAN INSTRUCTIONAL LECTURES series continues the format of educational chapters from across Orthopaedics and Traumatology contributed by distinguished Orthopaedic Educators in Europe. It provides current material and major advances covering a range of topics including General Orthopaedics, Basic Science...

This edited volume presents comparative research on how the courts in Southeast Europe apply international law. After the introductory Part I, Part II discusses specific areas of international law, notably the law of Association Agreements between the EU and third countries, the law of...

This book describes developments in the field of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy or nanoscopy. In 11 chapters, distinguished scientists and leaders in their respective fields describe different nanoscopy approaches, various labeling technologies, and concrete applications. The topics covered include the principles and applications of the...

Author: Jingfu LiuISBN-10: 3662460696ISBN-13: 9783662460696Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken...

Stress is such an over-used word that it is at time difficult to define its core features. When is an environment stressful? What does a stressful environment do to the brain and to the body? What are the biological mechanisms by which a stressor...

This guide to dermatological treatments provides concise yet comprehensive, up-to-date overviews of treatment guidelines and pearls for a plethora of skin diseases. It is divided into three main sections that address the many different skin diseases, the drugs available for dermatological treatments, and the...

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials. Progress in material science has led to a wide variety of options that are available today. For the first time, these novel functional electrode coating materials are reviewed in this monograph, written by and...

This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earth's gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere...

This book explains how training in arthroscopic skills is best carried out in order to keep up to date with advances in arthroscopy, meet the ever-increasing demand for high-quality care, and respond to changes in available training time. State of the art developments regarding...

The integrated and advanced science research topic man-machine-environment system engineering (MMESE) was first established in China by Professor Shengzhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, Xuesen Qian. In a letter to Shengzhao Long from October 22nd,...

This book, part of the series Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, reviews recent developments in the theory of vertex operator algebras (VOAs) and their applications to mathematics and physics.The mathematical theory of VOAs originated from the famous monstrous moonshine conjectures of J.H. Conway...

This book shows how companies can - and must - adapt their sales strategies and processes to changing customer expectations in times of digital transformation and markets volatility. How can sales address, win and retain the modern customer, an intangible PHANTOM in the digital...

This book presents a complete human-centered design process (ISO 9241:210) that had two goals: to design universal, intuitive, and permanent pictograms and to develop a process for designing suitable pictograms. The book analyzes characteristics of visual representations, grounded in semiotics. It develops requirements for...

This book takes a critical view on corporate practice, governmental action and the general approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. It draws on experience from the Workplace Innovation movement and argues that, as with motherhood and apple pie, it is hard to oppose CSR, with...

Author: Helmut Münstedt,Friedrich Rudolf SchwarzlISBN-10: 3642554083ISBN-13: 9783642554087Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2014Pages: 558Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.25d

Author: Kees Van MontfortISBN-10: 3642553443ISBN-13: 9783642553448Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2014Pages: 361Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) was invented in the mid-1990s at Loma Linda University, USA, with the aim of introducing a material for use as a root-end filler that would set and develop its properties in the presence of moisture. MTA is a mixture of...

A gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier (gyro-TWT) with the high-power and broad-band capabilities is considered as a turn-on key for next generation high-resolution radar. The book presents the most advanced theory, methods and physics in a gyro-TWT. The most challenging problem of instability competition has been...

This textbook aims to provide the reader with a complete understanding of distal radius fractures, their inherent problems, and how to manage them successfully. It is written by widely published experts from a part of the globe where distal radius fractures are very common,...

Filaggrin gene mutations are common in Europeans and their descendants, as well as in Asians, reaching a prevalence of up to 10%. Filaggrin proteins are crucial for skin homeostasis as their metabolites maintain skin hydration, keep the skin pH low, and provide protection against...

In this fast moving field the main goal of this volume is to provide up-to-date information on the molecular and functional properties and pharmacology of mammalian TRP channels. Leading experts in the field will describe properties of a single TRP protein/channel or portray more...

The book presents twelve state of the art contributions in the field of numerical modeling of materials subjected to large strain, high strain rates, large pressure and high stress triaxialities, organized into two sections. The first part is focused on high strain rate-high pressures...

This volume offers a guide to the state of the art in the fast evolving field of biometric recognition to newcomers and experienced practitioners. It is focused on the emerging strategies to perform biometric recognition under uncontrolled data acquisition conditions. The mainstream research work...

This book shows how fuzzy sets and fuzzy decision-making can be used in supply chain management. It presents recently developed fuzzy models and techniques, including fuzzy PROMETHEE, fuzzy AHP, fuzzy ANP, fuzzy VIKOR, and fuzzy inference systems.Author: Cengiz KahramanISBN-10: 3642539386ISBN-13: 9783642539381Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2014Pages:...

This Springer Handbook provides, for the first time, a complete and consistent overview over the methods, applications, and products in the field of marine biotechnology. A large portion of the surface of the earth (ca. 70%) is covered by the oceans. More than 80%...

The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an 'armour' of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms. This book reviews the major changes that have occurred in the vertebrate integument from its beginnings to the...

This practical and instructional guidebook, written by international experts in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, covers all challenging aspects of ACL rupture in the acute and chronic setting. It covers the latest, spectacular anatomical findings, treatment of partial ACL tears, various techniques for single-...

Tooth sensitivity, or dentin hypersensitivity, has a high prevalence among the general population and is a very common cause of visits to the dentist. This concise, easy-to-read guide provides the clinician with the most important information required for the correct diagnosis and effective management...

Systematically analyzing for the first time the production output from electricity consumption for enterprises, sectors, and industries, this study uses the function of EAI (electricity as input), and includes national E-GDP figures for more than 20 countries.Author: Zhaoguang Hu,Zheng HuISBN-10: 3642407560ISBN-13: 9783642407567Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book offers an overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America; surveys of seven individual countries and comparative analyses of common problems: migration, education, labor, poverty, decentralization, exports and foreign direct investment.Author: Juan R. Cuadrado-RouraISBN-10: 3642396739ISBN-13: 9783642396731Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2014Pages: 569Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning is based on the 8th International Symposium of the same name (ISHVAC2013), which took place in Xi'an on October 19-21, 2013. The conference series was initiated at Tsinghua University in 1991 and...

Paul Erdös was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, whose work in number theory, combinatorics, set theory, analysis, and other branches of mathematics has determined the development of large areas of these fields. In 1999, a conference was organized to...

This volume presents systematic treatments for the families and genera of the Malpighiales, which more recently have been recognised as a new major group of the eudicots. Apart from several herbaceous lineages (already treated in Vol. IX of this series), the order consists mainly...

This book examines the trends, concepts and directions in cartography and mapping in modernism and post-modernism. It explores philosophical and epistemological issues in cartography from positivist-empiricist, neo-positivist and post-structuralist stances.Author: Pablo Iván Azócar Fernández,Manfred Ferdinand BuchroithnerISBN-10: 3642388922ISBN-13: 9783642388927Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2013Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize:...

Christopher M. Cheatum and Amnon Kohen, Relationship of Femtosecond-Picosecond Dynamics to Enzyme-Catalyzed H-Transfer. Cindy Schulenburg and Donald Hilvert, Protein Conformational Disorder and Enzyme Catalysis. A. Joshua Wand, Veronica R. Moorman and Kyle W. Harpole, A Surprising Role for Conformational Entropy in Protein Function. Travis...

Plants possess a range of potential cellular mechanisms that may be involved in the detoxification of heavy metals and thus tolerance to metal stress. Metal toxicity causes multiple direct and indirect effects in plants that concern practically all physiological functions. The main purpose of...

Author: Kyandoghere KyamakyaISBN-10: 3642377807ISBN-13: 9783642377808Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2013Pages: 476Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d

This book gathers and discusses concepts, tools, frameworks and best practices to cope with the emerging challenges of climate faced by cities today. The book will benifit policy makers, city planners, practitioners and academics.Author: Anshuman KhareISBN-10: 3642370292ISBN-13: 9783642370298Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2013Pages: 281Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize:...

This handbook presents some of the most recent topics in neural information processing, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. The contributions include: Deep architectures Recurrent, recursive, and graph neural networks Cellular neural networks Bayesian networks Approximation capabilities of neural networks Semi-supervised learning Statistical...

Owing to the decline in domestic investment and trade with the rest of the world, China's real GDP in the first half of 2012 was lower than expected. Based on forecasts from China's Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM), the slowdown of the growth rate in...

Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. It offers concise and complete descriptions of some 5,000 enzymes and their application areas. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence and the volumes themselves are arranged according to enzyme classes. This...

This book offers in-depth information and data for proper choice and construction of reference electrodes, covering applications such as aqueous and non-aqueous solutions, ionic liquids, glass melts and membrane electrodes. Illustrated with some 200 figures.Author: György InzeltISBN-10: 3642361870ISBN-13: 9783642361876Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2013Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight:...

As a research subject, the biomechanics of the urinary bladder are relatively young, yet medical problems associated with them are as old as mankind. Offering an update on recent achievements in the field, the authors highlight the underlying biological, chemical and physical processes of...

This book discusses ethical concerns around solving the climate dilemma through mitigation processes and scientific research, keeping in mind vulnerable groups in developing countries whose livelihood depends on responsible land use practice.Author: Sunil NautiyalISBN-10: 3642361420ISBN-13: 9783642361425Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2013Pages: 720Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 9.20h x...

Emerging to the forefront of sustainable production and consumption are a promising and rapidly evolving concept known as Voluntary Standard Systems (VSS). They encompass the three pillars of sustainability - social, environmental and economic aspects and consequently they can be considered as a tool,...

Addressing a hugely diverse range of topics, both fundamental and applied, this anthology of papers from leading researchers in non-linear and complex dynamics honors the seminal contributions to the field made by Spanish professor Manual G. Velarde.Author: Ramon G. RubioISBN-10: 3642340695ISBN-13: 9783642340697Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...