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NoSQL Data Models
Trends and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The topic of NoSQL databases has recently emerged, to face the Big Data challenge, namely the ever increasing volume of data to be handled. It is now recognized that relational databases are not appropriate in this context, implying that new database models and techniques are needed. This book presents...
Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 2
Semantics, Discourse and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a scientific discipline which is found at the intersection of fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Cognitive Psychology. This book presents in four chapters the state of the art and fundamental concepts of key NLP areas. Are presented in the...
Fatigue of Materials and Structures
Application to Design and Damage
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The design of mechanical structures with predictable and improved durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically the relationships between the microstructure of materials and their fatigue properties.
Written by leading researchers...
Laser Metrology in Fluid Mechanics
Granulometry, Temperature and Concentration Measurements
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In fluid mechanics, non-intrusive measurements are fundamental in order to improve knowledge of the behavior and main physical phenomena of flows in order to further validate codes.
The principles and characteristics of the different techniques available in laser metrology are described in detail...
by Miguel González Velasco, Inés María Del Puerto García, George Petrov Yanev
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive discussion of the available results for discrete time branching processes with random control functions. The independence of individuals’ reproduction is a fundamental assumption in the classical branching processes. Alternatively, the controlled...
by Michel Soustelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book presents all the theoretical and practical basements of heterogeneous kinetics and reactivity of solids. It applies the new concepts of reactivity and spatial function, introduced by the author, for both nucleation and growth processes, with a unified presentation of the reactivity of bulk...
Passive and Active RF-Microwave Circuits
Course and Exercises with Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Microwave and radiofrequency (RF) circuits play an important role in communication systems. Due to the proliferation of radar, satellite, and mobile wireless systems, there is a need for design methods that can satisfy the ever increasing demand for accuracy, reliability, and fast development times....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The principle of tomography is to explore the structure and composition of objects non-destructively along spatial and temporal dimensions, using penetrating radiation, such as X- and gamma-rays, or waves, such as electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Based on computer-assisted image reconstruction,...
Sociobiology vs Socioecology
Consequences of an Unraveling Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary rise of the second.
For...
by Eric Buffetaut, Delphine Angst
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches...
Mechanical Characterization of Materials and Wave Dispersion
Instrumentation and Experiment Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Over the last 50 years, the methods of investigating dynamic properties have resulted in significant advances. This book explores dynamic testing, the methods used, and the experiments performed, placing a particular emphasis on the context of bounded medium elastodynamics. Dynamic tests have proven...
Nanotechnologies
Concepts, Production and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Nanotechnologies: Concepts, Processing and Applications describes and explains how nanotechnologies have entered our everyday lives through scientific and industrial applications with the emphasis placed on the new perspectives in various fields related to societal problems. This book details how...
by Eric Lafontaine, Marc Comet
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
The recent introduction of the “nano” dimension to pyrotechnics has made it possible to develop a new family of highly reactive substances: nanothermites. These have a chemical composition that is comparable to that of thermites at submillimeter or micrometric granulometry, but with a morphology...
Physico-Chemistry of Solid-Gas Interfaces
Concepts and Methodology for Gas Sensor Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Fundamental elementary facts and theoretical tools for the interpretation and model development of solid-gas interactions are first presented in this work. Chemical, physical and electrochemical aspects are presented from a phenomenological, thermodynamic and kinetic point of view. The theoretical...