Hardcover Books

The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany. The following subjects are emphasised: Uranium Mining, Phosphate Mining and Uranium recovery. Cleaning up technologies for water and soil. Analysis and sensor for...

Dwarf galaxy research constitutes an extremely vibrant field of astrophysical research, with many long-standing questions still unsettled and new ones constantly arising. The intriguing diversity of the dwarf galaxy population, observed with advanced ground-based and space-borne observatories over a wide spectral window providing an...

Author: Wensong HuISBN-10: 364221696XISBN-13: 9783642216961Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2011Pages: 1058Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.73lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.39w x 1.83d

Author: Xiaofeng WanISBN-10: 364221746XISBN-13: 9783642217463Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2011Pages: 1036Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.66lbsSize: 9.51h x 6.44w x 1.80d

Author: Mike ChiassonISBN-10: 3642213634ISBN-13: 9783642213632Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2011Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d

One of the most challenging issues for the intelligent decision systems is to effectively manage the large-scale complex distributed environments such as computational clouds, grids, ad hoc and P2P networks, under the different types of users, their relations, and real-world uncertainties. In this context...

Here, leading researchers in production and materials technology work together to address the problem of keeping production competitive and sustainable in high-wage countries. They describe both scientific results and practical industrial applications.Author: Christian BrecherISBN-10: 364221066XISBN-13: 9783642210662Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2011Pages: 1096Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.70lbsSize: 9.40h x...

Author: Simone Fischer-HübnerISBN-10: 3642207685ISBN-13: 9783642207686Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2011Pages: 356Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Pinpointing a scientific question that has gone unanswered, Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants explores the complex role calcium plays in plant life's ability to perceive, respond, and adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions.Author: Sheng LuanISBN-10: 3642208282ISBN-13: 9783642208287Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2011Pages: 268Format:...

Multi-phase flows are part of our natural environment such as tornadoes, typhoons, air and water pollution and volcanic activities as well as part of industrial technology such as power plants, combustion engines, propulsion systems, or chemical and biological industry. The industrial use of multi-phase...

This selection of papers includes material on cutting-edge developments in the field of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. It covers a huge range of topics from the sociocultural aspects of language acquisition to classroom-oriented research.Author: Miroslaw PawlakISBN-10: 3642201407ISBN-13: 9783642201400Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2011Pages:...

Here is the first comprehensive resource on the use of comparable corpora in multilingual Natural Language Processing, which goes beyond such techniques as such as machine translation and terminology mining to utilize non-parallel texts in the same domain.Author: Serge SharoffISBN-10: 364220127XISBN-13: 9783642201271Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Giving equal weight to theory and experimental data, this volume covers the atomistic properties of solids as determined by crystal structure, interatomic forces and atomic displacements influenced by the variables of temperature, stress and electric fields.Author: Dinker B. Sirdeshmukh,Lalitha Sirdeshmukh,K. G. SubhadraISBN-10: 3642199704ISBN-13: 9783642199707Publisher:...

Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is crucial to social and economic development. Turkey's current national water regime that emphasises water resources development...

In this book, attention is paid to prevalent energy issues from a finance perspective. The topics discussed cover markets, prices, regulations and firms. The book has a European focus and contains contributions by scholars from all over the world.Author: André B. DorsmanISBN-10: 3642197086ISBN-13: 9783642197086Publisher:...

This book tells the story of the European People's Party: why it was founded, how it is currently organised and what its guiding ideas, values and principles are. It offers the reader an up-to-date account of the Party's contribution to Europe.Author: Thomas Jansen,Steven Van...

The book investigates how, and which, forgiving road environments (FOR) and self-explaining road measures (SER) will contribute to increasing road safety and also increase network efficiency on the road. It presents both the general approach and the methodology for generating the possible FOR and...

This book constitutes Part I of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China, in October 2010. The 352 revised papers presented were carefully selected from...

This book constitutes Part II of the refereed four-volume post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture, CCTA 2010, held in Nanchang, China, in October 2010. The 352 revised papers presented were carefully selected from...

This book explores progress in modeling and control for industrial robots; mobile robots and autonomous vehicles; adaptive control of electromechanical systems; sensorless control; fault detection and isolation; machine intelligence for robot autonomy and more.Author: Gerasimos RigatosISBN-10: 364217874XISBN-13: 9783642178740Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2011Pages: 379Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize:...

This innovative book offers a rigorous approach to the analysis and design of advice in real-world decision situations, in which the advisor must manage with variously imprecise, unclear, incomplete or conflicting qualitative information. Author: Ivan JuretaISBN-10: 3642180582ISBN-13: 9783642180583Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2011Pages: 301Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize:...

This book investigates the EU's regional growth dynamics and the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It identifies the distinctive features of the European process of innovation.Author: Riccardo Crescenzi,Andrés Rodríguez-PoseISBN-10: 3642177603ISBN-13: 9783642177606Publisher:...

Innovations in Defence Support Systems - 2 presents a sample of the state-of-art research on defence support systems. The focus of the volume is on the design and optimization of socio-technical systems and their performance in defence contexts. Conceptual and methodological considerations for the...

Electrical Machines and Drives play a vital role in industry with an ever increasing importance. This fact necessitates the understanding of machine and drive principles by engineers of many different disciplines. Therefore, this book is intended to give a comprehensive deduction of these principles....

In today's society, prudence and probability calculation permeate our daily lives. This richly illustrated book explores how chance and risk on the one hand, and meaning or significance on the other, compete for attention in art, philosophy, and science. Author: Nicolas BouleauISBN-10: 3642176461ISBN-13: 9783642176463Publisher:...

Knowledge creation and technological experiences resulting from modern production life cycles are definitely the most Economical and important intellectual capitals in the current manufacturing endeavors. These are also the basis for enabling industrial competition through managing and identifying organizational and product related needs and...

WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT provides a detailed introduction to the full range of advanced, multidisciplinary techniques used in the study of water resources from understanding individual aquifers to the protection and management of water in a sustainable way, compatible with the preservation of the...

The world of the twenty-?rst century is, more than ever, global and impersonal. Criminal and terrorist threats, both physical and on the Internet, increase by the day. The demand for better methods of identi?cation is growing, not only in companies and organizations, but also...

The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate. As a first example, the globalization of the economy and the need for performance has led companies to outsource and then to operate inside networks of enterprises...

This volume comprises the 6th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Infor- tion Processing. As the world proceeds quickly into the Information Age, it encounters both successes and challenges, and it is well recognized nowadays that intelligent information processing provides the key to the Information...

This volume provides an overview of neurodegenerative diseases. Topics include the role histone deacetylases plays in neurodegenerative diseases, phosphodiesterase inhibition as a way to target synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease, and more.Author: Celia DominguezISBN-10: 3642167578ISBN-13: 9783642167577Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2010Pages: 196Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.25h x...

Applying a legal framework to outer space is fraught with thorny dilemmas: how, for example, do you legislate for activities that straddle air space and outer space? This book explores current issues such as the accountability of nations already using space.Author: Ruwantissa AbeyratneISBN-10: 3642167012ISBN-13:...

Author: Michael GriebelISBN-10: 3642162282ISBN-13: 9783642162282Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2010Pages: 270Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Enterprise Architecture, Integration, and Interoperability and the Networked enterprise have become the theme of many conferences in the past few years. These conferences were organised by IFIP TC5 with the support of its two working groups: WG 5. 12 (Architectures for Enterprise Integration) and...

This extensively revised and updated second edition includes the latest developments in the study of pyrometamorphism. The material covered has been derived from more than 60 new references, which are accompanied by more than 20 new illustrations.Author: Rodney GrapesISBN-10: 3642155871ISBN-13: 9783642155871Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2010Pages:...

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the conference Arti- cial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2010), which formed part of the 21st World Computer Congress of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Pr- essing (WCC-2010), in Brisbane, Australia...

Soil quality is threatened by human activity but can also be improved by our intervention. This book is a valuable compendium of work on the concept of the 'Anthroscape' that highlights the potential contribution of such research to sustainable development.Author: Selim KapurISBN-10: 364214781XISBN-13: 9783642147814Publisher:...

This book shows how cosmogenic radionuclides can trace and reconstruct the history of a variety of processes. Demonstrates the strength of analytic tools based on cosmogenic radionuclides, and their potential use in solving present and future problems.Author: Jürg Beer,Ken McCracken,Rudolf SteigerISBN-10: 3642146503ISBN-13: 9783642146503Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

The three volumes VIII/1A, B, C document the state of the art of "Laser Physics and Applications". Scientific trends and related technological aspects are considered by compiling results and conclusions from phenomenology, observation and experiments. Reliable data, physical fundamentals and detailed references are presented....

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the Bavarian Competence Network for Technical and Scienti?c High Performance Computing (KONWIHR) publish in the present book results of numerical simulations facilitated by the High P- formance Computer System in Bavaria (HLRB II) within the last two years....

This volume brings to the forefront some of the proponents of the mathematics of the twentieth century who have put at our disposal new and powerful instruments for investigating the reality around us. The portraits present impressive and passionate people.Author: Claudio BartocciISBN-10: 3642136052ISBN-13: 9783642136054Publisher:...

Catalysis and catalyst is a key technology to solve the problems in energy and environment issues to sustain our human society. We believe that comprehensive understanding of the catalysis and catalyst provides us a chance to develop a new catalyst and contributes greatly to...

papers, illustrated with examples. They include wavelet bases, implicit functions de ned on a space grid, etc. It appears that a common pattern is the recovery of a controllable model of the scene, such that the resulting images can be edited (interaction). Changing the...

I want to express my sincere thanks to all authors who submitted research papers to support the Third IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Te- nologies in Agriculture and the Third Symposium on Development of Rural Infor- tion (CCTA 2009) held in China,...

Author: Volker Boehme-NeßlerISBN-10: 3642118887ISBN-13: 9783642118883Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2010Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

It is a privilege for me to introduce this Instructional Lecture book for the 11th EFORT Congress. The format of the Congress combines a National society, SECOT, and the European Federation, EFORT. For this lecture book, the topics selected are original and attractive and...

It is our pleasure to contribute the forewordto this book on symbiotic mul- robot organisms, which is largely based on the scienti?c ?ndings and exp- rations of two major EU research projects, Symbrion and Replicator, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and...

This book explores aspects of multimedia data, including fundamental knowledge and the latest key techniques, and also typical applications and open issues. Coverage includes present and future video coding standards, free-viewpoint TV techniques, and more.Author: Chang Wen ChenISBN-10: 364211685XISBN-13: 9783642116858Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2011Pages: 510Format:...

Chlorinated paraffins are one of the last classes of chlorinated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in high quantities in many applications. They are particularly used in cutting oils in the metal industry, but also as lubricants, plasticizers, flame retardants and...

The book reviews the latest experimental results of charm and bottom flavor physics at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. The measurements of lifetimes, branching ratios and mixing properties of heavy flavored hadrons provide important constraints on fundamental parameters of the standard model - the elements...