Mechanical Properties of Aging Soft Tissues

Exploring the structure and mechanics of aging soft tissues, this edited volume presents authoritative reviews from leading experts on a range of tissues including skin, tendons, vasculature and plantar soft tissues. It provides an overview of in vivo and in vitro measurement techniques including state-of-the-art methodologies, as well as focusing on the structural changes that occur within the…

Mechanical Systems: A Unified Approach to Vibrations and Controls

This essential textbook concerns analysis and control of engineering mechanisms, which includes almost any apparatus with moving parts used in daily life, from musical instruments to robots. A particular characteristic of this book is that it presents with considerable breadth and rigor both vibrations and controls. Many contemporary texts combine both of these topics in a single, one term cour…

Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-137-56172-5

Collation

XVI, 171

Series Title

Expanding Capacities

Call Number

351.856

Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Modern Structure and Component Design

This book presents the latest findings on mechanical and materials engineering as applied to the design of modern engineering materials and components. The contributions cover the classical fields of mechanical, civil and materials engineering, as well as bioengineering and advanced materials processing and optimization. The materials and structures discussed can be categorized into modern stee…

Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM: A History of People, Events, and Communitie

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Mechanics and Mathematics of Fluids of the Differential Type

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Mechanics of Advanced Materials: Analysis of Properties and Performance

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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living beings and God or Ultimate Reality. In this sense, spirituality is a vital source in social and economic life. The volume examines the spiritual orientations to nature and business in different cultural t…

The Spectrum of Hyperbolic Surfaces

This text is an introduction to the spectral theory of the Laplacian on compact or finite area hyperbolic surfaces. For some of these surfaces, called “arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces”, the eigenfunctions are of arithmetic nature, and one may use analytic tools as well as powerful methods in number theory to study them. After an introduction to the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces, with a …

The Sorghum Genome

This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct outcomes for plant breeders. The advent of affordable whole genome sequencing in combination with existing cereal functional genomics data has…