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Advanced Finite Element Technologies
The book presents an overview of the state of research of advanced finite element technologies. Besides the mathematical analysis, the finite element development and their engineering applications are shown to the reader. The authors give a survey of the methods and technologies concerning efficiency, robustness and performance aspects. The book covers the topics of mathematical foundations for…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-31925-4
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- VII, 236
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- CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
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- 620.1 ADV a
Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls Book II (Chapters 10-14)
Process controls is a mixture between the statistics and engineering discipline that deals with the mechanism, architectures, and algorithms for controlling a process. Some examples of controlled processes are: •Controlling the temperature of a water stream by controlling the amount of steam added to the shell of a heat exchanger. •Operating a jacketed reactor isothermally by controlling …
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- 540 WOO c
Educating Desire
This impressionistic autobiographical inquiry is an attempt to connect the personal with the socio-historical—addiction with Addiction; it is also an attempt to demonstrate that knowledge production can be generated through radically non-traditional means. Narrative serves as method and methodology in a mostly first person account of a fictional open AA meeting. A suspicious hermeneutics is a…
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-145-8
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- XVIII, 82
Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
This text is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to technological advances the field trauma, critical care and many aspects of surgical science and practice. Care of these patients and clinical conditions can be quite complex, and materials have been collected from the most current, evidence-based resources. The sections of the text…
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- 978-1-4939-4349-4
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- XXV, 659
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Large Deviations and Asymptotic Methods in Finance
Topics covered in this volume (large deviations, differential geometry, asymptotic expansions, central limit theorems) give a full picture of the current advances in the application of asymptotic methods in mathematical finance, and thereby provide rigorous solutions to important mathematical and financial issues, such as implied volatility asymptotics, local volatility extrapolation, systemic …
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- 978-3-319-11605-1
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Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation
This volume covers the current status of research in the neurobiology of motivated behaviors in humans and other animals in healthy condition. This includes consideration of the psychological processes that drive motivated behavior and the anatomical, electrophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms which drive these processes and regulate behavioural output. The volume also includes chapters …
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- 978-3-319-26935-1
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- XIV, 587
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- -
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- 616.8
Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy
Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy collects results and conclusions of recent neutron-based investigations of materials that are important in the development of sustainable energy. Chapters are authored by leading scientists with hands-on experience in the field, providing overviews, recent highlights, and case-studies to illustrate the applicability of one or more neutron-based techn…
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- 978-3-319-34321-1
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- X
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- Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques
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Global Research of Cities
This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and linkage so as to identify the differences in its overall development in comparison with other wo…
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- 978-981-287-980-6
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- XVIII, 205
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- 330 TAY g
TP-Model Transformation-Based-Control Design Frameworks
This book covers new aspects and frameworks of control, design, and optimization based on the TP model transformation and its various extensions. The author outlines the three main steps of polytopic and LMI based control design: 1) development of the qLPV state-space model, 2) generation of the polytopic model; and 3) application of LMI to derive controller and observer. He goes on to describe…
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- 978-3-319-19605-3
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- XXVI, 230
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Modern Corporate Finance, Investments and Taxation
This monograph is devoted to the modern theory of capital cost and capital structure and its application to the real economy. In particular, it presents a possible explanation to the causes of global financial crisis. The authors of the book modify the theory of Nobel Prize winners Modigliani and Miller to describe an alternative theory of capital cost and capital structure that can be applied …
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- 978-3-319-38395-8
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- XVI, 368
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