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Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft: A Case Study
This book demonstrates the potential of the blended wing body (BWB) concept for significant improvement in both fuel efficiency and noise reduction and addresses the considerable challenges raised for control engineers because of characteristics like open-loop instability, large flexible structure, and slow control surfaces. This text describes state-of-the-art and novel modeling and control de…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-34340-2
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- XIV
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- Advances in Industrial Control
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TMD and Orthodontics
This evidence-based book, featuring contributions from world-renowned experts, discusses in detail the functional anatomy of the temporomandibular joint as well as the aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and medicolegal implications of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD).Despite advances in our understanding of the aetiology of TMD and in developing current treatment rationales, a numbe…
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- 978-3-319-19782-1
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- XIV, 148
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Modeling and Evaluating Denial of Service Attacks for Wireless and Mobile App…
This SpringerBrief covers modeling and analysis of Denial-of-Service attacks in emerging wireless and mobile applications. It uses an application-specific methodology to model and evaluate denial-of-service attacks. Three emerging applications are explored: multi-modal CSMA/CA networks, time-critical networks for the smart grid, and smart phone applications. The authors define a new performance…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-23287-4
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- XIII
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- SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
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Multiphase Flow Dynamics 1
In its fifth extended edition the successful monograph package “Multiphase Flow Dynamics” contains theory, methods and practical experience for describing complex transient multi-phase processes in arbitrary geometrical configurations, providing a systematic presentation of the theory and practice of numerical multi-phase fluid dynamics. In the present first volume the local volume and time…
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- 5
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- 978-3-319-15295-0
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- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
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Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes
Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formation of a new rulin…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-09510-9
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- XII, 148
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- Studien zur Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today.
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- 9781108921855
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- 091 LEV h
Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.
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- 9781108914895
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- 325.3 LEE h
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
It is widely agreed that Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. But how did he manage this seminal accomplishment? In this book,Benjamin Folit-Weinberg finally provides an answer.
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- 9781009047562
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- 880 WEI h
Multimodal Computational Attention for Scene Understanding and Robotics
This book presents state-of-the-art computational attention models that have been successfully tested in diverse application areas and can build the foundation for artificial systems to efficiently explore, analyze, and understand natural scenes. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most recent computational attention models for processing visual and acoustic input. It covers the biological…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-33794-4
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- XXIV, 203
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- Cognitive Systems Monographs
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