Vladimir Vladimir: 813 books
Discrete Cosine and Sine Transforms
General Properties, Fast Algorithms and Integer Approximations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is used in many applications by the scientific, engineering and research communities and in data compression in particular. Fast algorithms and applications of the DCT Type II (DCT-II) have become the heart of many established international image/video coding standards....
Mathematics of Autonomy
Mathematical Methods for Cyber-Physical-Cognitive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Mathematics of Autonomy provides solid mathematical foundations for building useful Autonomous Systems. It clarifies what makes a system autonomous rather than simply automated, and reveals the inherent limitations of systems currently incorrectly labeled as autonomous in reference to the specific...
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Field Planning and Development Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Enhanced-Oil Recovery (EOR) evaluations focused on asset acquisition or rejuvenation involve a combination of complex decisions, using different data sources. EOR projects have been traditionally associated with high CAPEX and OPEX, as well as high financial risk, which tend to limit the number of...
Scanning Probe Microscopy of Soft Matter
Fundamentals and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Well-structured and adopting a pedagogical approach, this self-contained monograph covers the fundamentals of scanning probe microscopy,
showing how to use the techniques for investigating physical and chemical properties on the nanoscale and how they can be used for a wide
range of soft materials....
Fuel Cells
Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The comprehensive, accessible introduction to fuel cells, their applications, and the challenges they pose
Fuel cells—electrochemical energy devices that produce electricity and heat—present a significant opportunity for cleaner, easier, and more practical energy. However, the excitement...
Isotope Geochemistry
The Origin and Formation of Manganese Rocks and Ores
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Isotope Geochemistry: The Origin and Formation of Manganese Rocks and Ores is a comprehensive reference on global manganese deposits, including their origins and formations. Manganese is both a significant industrial chemical, critical for steel-making, and a strategic mineral, occurring in abundance...
Handbook of Mechanical Stability in Engineering
(In 3 Volumes)Vol. 1: General Theorems and Individual Members of Mechanical SystemsVol. 2: Stability of Elastically Deformable Mechanical SystemsVol. 3: More Challenges in Stability Theories and Codification Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Handbook of Mechanical Stability in Engineering (In 3 Volumes) is a systematic presentation of mathematical statements and methods of solution for problems of structural stability. It also presents a connection between the solutions of the problems and the actual design practice.
This comprehensive...
by Oxana Sadovskaya, Vladimir Sadovskii, Holm Altenbach
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
This monograph contains original results in the field of mathematical and numerical modeling of mechanical behavior of granular materials and materials with different strengths. It proposes new models helping to define zones of the strain localization. The book shows how to analyze processes of the...
An Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them
A Case Study from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most damaging legacies of the San Sebastian mine in eastern...
Occupy
Movimentos de protesto que tomaram as ruas
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 23, 2015
A memória coletiva marcará 2011 como o ano em que as pessoas tomaram as ruas de diversos países em uma onda de mobilizações e protestos sociais: um fenômeno que começou no norte da África, derrubando ditaduras na Tunísia, no Egito, na Líbia e no Iêmen; estendeu-se à Europa, com ocupações...
Romania Confronts Its Communist Past
Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Reckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundations. In the case of Romania, such an analysis requires an interpretation of the role of personality in the construction of a uniquely grotesque and unrepentant...
PLUTONIA
An Adventure through Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Welcome to the Russian Jurassic Park!
A good science-fiction novel must be plausible; its reader must be convinced that all the events described could take place in certain circumstances, that there is nothing supernatural in them. If the novel is full of miracles of one sort and another then it is...
Hybrid Ship Hulls
Engineering Design Rationales
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Hybrid Ship Hulls provides an overview of cutting-edge developments in hybrid composite-metal marine ship hulls, covering the critical differences in material processing and structural behavior that must be taken into account to maximise benefits and performance. Supporting the design of effective...
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia
Oil, Gas, and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
By the end of the 2000s, the term 'resource curse' had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world-_like the term 'modernization'...