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Colliding Bodies Optimization
Extensions and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This book presents and applies a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) for various optimization problems. The first part of the book introduces the concepts and methods involved, while the second is devoted to the applications. Though optimal...
Geosciences of Azerbaijan
Volume II: Economic Geology and Applied Geophysics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book provides a review of Azerbaijan’s water reserves and main economic deposits (both hydrocarbon and hard) and describes the integrated application of geophysical methods (land, airborne, shipborne and satellite) for studying near-surface and environmental features and regional tectonic-geophysical...
Culpa compartida
Antología de narrativa panameña y colombiana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2019
El libro Culpa compartida reúne veinte narraciones, diez de autores panameños y el resto de colombianos, que examinan la identidad de sus respectivos países. Las selecciones son antecedidas por escritos de sus antólogos. En el caso panameño, Álvaro Valderas fue quien cumplió con la encomienda, y Betuel Bonilla Rojas lo hizo por Colombia.
by J H Hamilton, A V Ramayya
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
These proceedings are the fifth in the series of International Conferences covering fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei, which are at the forefront of nuclear research. The time interval of 5 years between each conference allows for significant new results to be achieved. Recently, world...
Piezoelectric Actuators and Generators for Energy Harvesting
Research and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book presents new approaches to R&D of piezoelectric actuators and generators of different types based on established, original constructions and contemporary research into framework of theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods of physics, mechanics, and materials science. Improved...
by A. R. Ahlawat, V. B. Dongre, G. S. Sonawane
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The book Advances in Scientific Interventions to Enhance Bovine Production” consists of 18 chapters. These are specialized chapters by experts in their respective fields. Most of chapters have undergone significant revisions and discussions with updated information and thereby enriched the knowledge....
by Cornelius Mathews, Illustrated by John McLenan, Engraved by A. V. S. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Indian fairy tales have been, time out of mind, in their original form, recited around the lodge-fires and under the trees, by the Indian story-tellers, for the entertainment of the red children of the West. They were originally interpreted from the old tales and legends by the late Henry R. Schoolcraft,...
Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A myth-busting account of the tragedies, trials, and successes of undocumented immigration in the United States.
For decades now, America’s polarizing debate over immigration revolved around a set of one-dimensional characters and unchallenged stereotypes. The resulting policies—from the...
by Moosa, I.A., Ramiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation presents a thorough investigation into environmental regulation, its economic and financial effects and the associated costs and benefits. A variety of issues, pertaining to regulation in general and environmental regulation in particular, are examined....
History as Prelude
Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...
Renal and Adrenal Tumors
Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Magnetic Resonance (MRI), Therapy, Immunology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors,...
by Iván Francisco García-Tejero, Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo, José Luis Muriel-Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in many parts of the world are biologically, economically,...
Six Years in Bolivia
The Adventures of a Mining Engineer (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Six Years in Bolivia is the amazing adventure of Anslem Guise, a mining engineer who worked on a tin mine in Bolivia.
by M.D. Glinchuk, A.V. Ragulya, Vladimir A. Stephanovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book covers the physical properties of nanosized ferroics, also called nanoferroics. Nanoferroics are an important class of ceramic materials that substitute conventional ceramic ferroics in modern electronic devices. They include ferroelectric, ferroelastic, magnetic and multiferroic nanostructured...