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Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction: Updated contributions reflecting new…
This book addresses flow separation within the context of fluid-structure interaction phenomena. Here, new findings from two research communities focusing on fluids and structures are brought together, emphasizing the importance of a unified multidisciplinary approach. The book covers the theory, experimental findings, numerical simulations, and modeling in fluid dynamics and structural mechan…
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- Ed. 1, Cet. 1
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- 978-3-319-27386-0
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- IX, 361
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- Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
- Call Number
- 515 ADV a
Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis
This book presents the state-of-the-art in face detection and analysis. It outlines new research directions, including in particular psychology-based facial dynamics recognition, aimed at various applications such as behavior analysis, deception detection, and diagnosis of various psychological disorders. Topics of interest include face and facial landmark detection, face recognition, facial ex…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-25958-1
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- X, 434
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- -
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- 004.2 ADV a
Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization a…
This book contains state-of-the-art contributions in the field of evolutionary and deterministic methods for design, optimization and control in engineering and sciences. Specialists have written each of the 34 chapters as extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applicat…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-11541-2
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- XI, 522
- Series Title
- Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
- Call Number
- 004.2 ADV a
Wild Words Essays on Alberta Literature
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk’s Literary History of Alberta.
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- -
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- 9781897425305.01
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- 219 pages
Selves and Subjectivities Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
As critic Diana Brydon has argued, contemporary Canadian writers are “not transcending nation but resituating it.” Drawing together themes of gender and sexuality, trauma and displacement, performativity, and linguistic diversity, Selves and Subjectivities offers an exciting new contribution to the multivocal dialogue surrounding the Canadian sense of identity.
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- 9781926836492.01
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- -
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- 275 pages
The Complexity of Tax Simplification
Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages. However, attempts to simplify tax systems are only likely to be successful and enduring if they take account of the reasons why taxation is complex. There are strong pressures on tax systems to accommodate a range of important factors, as well as complex and changing national and international environments within which modern tax sys…
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- 978-1-137-47869-6
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- XIV, 273
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- -
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The Complex Lives of Star Clusters
As with the author’s recent books Extreme Explosions and Under a Crimson Sun, the complex topic of star clusters is broken down and made accessible with clear links to other areas of astronomy in a language which the non-specialist can easily read and enjoy. The full range of topics are addressed regarding how star clusters are formed. Why is it some are dense conglomerates of stars while oth…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-14234-0
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- XV, 343
- Series Title
- Astronomers' Universe
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- -
Reading Vincent van Gogh A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters—foremost among them the motifs of suffering, love, imagination, and the ineffable. In this indispensable, synoptic view of the letters, Patrick Grant makes the main lines of Vincent van Gogh’s thinking accessible and displays th…
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- -
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- 9781771991872.01
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- 5 x 8, 198 pages
The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz’s Planetary Theory
This book presents new insights into Leibniz’s research on planetary theory and his system of pre-established harmony. Although some aspects of this theory have been explored in the literature, others are less well known. In particular, the book offers new contributions on the connection between the planetary theory and the theory of gravitation. It also provides an in-depth discussion of Kep…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-21236-4
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- X, 188
- Series Title
- Science Networks. Historical Studies
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- -
Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and I…
This book presents a treatise on the theory and modeling of second-order stationary processes, including an exposition on selected application areas that are important in the engineering and applied sciences. The foundational issues regarding stationary processes dealt with in the beginning of the book have a long history, starting in the 1940s with the work of Kolmogorov, Wiener, Cramér and h…
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- 978-3-662-45750-4
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