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by Robin J. Knops, L.E. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The classical result for uniqueness in elasticity theory is due to Kirchhoff. It states that the standard mixed boundary value problem for a homogeneous isotropic linear elastic material in equilibrium and occupying a bounded three-dimensional region of space possesses at most one solution in the...
by Patrick Hennig, Christoph Meinel, Philipp Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, which in their entirety form the blogosphere....
Scientists in Search of Their Conscience
Proceedings of a Symposium on The Impact of Science on Society organised by The European Committee of The Weizmann Institute of Science Brussels, June 28–29, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Scientists in Search of Their Conscience" is the edited proceedings of the European Symposium on the effects of science on society held in Brussels in 1971. Organised by The European Committee of The Weizmann Institute, Israel, the Conference gave scientists from varied disciplines and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Wind power is currently considered as the fastest growing energy resource in the world. Technological advances and government subsidies have contributed in the rapid rise of Wind power systems. The Handbook on Wind Power Systems provides an overview on several aspects of wind power systems and is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nearly all medical specialities treat patients whose illnesses necessitate a means of nutrition which bypasses the gastrointestinal tract. Parenteral nutrition consequent ly means the administration of nutrient and building materials in qualitatively utilizable form and in quantitatively adequate...
Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1
Interpreting Desert and Fluvial Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs. Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment. ...
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Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Chemie! Als Schulfach wird sie von wenigen geliebt und von vielen gefürchtet. Im Alltag ist sie allgegenwärtig, unverzichtbar und doch häufig Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher Kontroversen. Wie sich die Kluft zwischen Ansehen und Bedeutung der Chemie überbrücken lässt, ist die Leitfrage dieses Bandes....
Viscometric Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids
Theory and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We here attempt to give a complete but concise treatment of the theory of steady viscometric flows of simple (non-Newtonian) fluids and to use that theory to discuss the design and interpretation of ex periments. We are able to present the theory with less mathematical machinery than was used in...
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The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.” These “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink –...
Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
Environmental and Human Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Radionuclides produced by past nuclear weapon test explosions comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. This volume presents data and models about the fate of the released radionuclides and their possible effects on human health. It is...
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Thriller
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Eine mörderische Wirklichkeit. Vier Studenten werden vermisst. Sie alle haben dasselbe Online-Computerspiel gespielt – und offenbar die reale Welt, in der sie leben, für eine Simulation gehalten. Während Hauptkommissar Eisenberg noch rätselt, ob überhaupt ein Verbrechen vorliegt, verschwindet...
Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage
Case Study Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
How should firms’ control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance? This book offers some thought-provoking suggestions.
It contains empirical studies of such diverse manufacturing enterprises...
EcoProduction and Logistics
Emerging Trends and Business Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The question "Why are there so many species?" has puzzled ecologist for a long time. Initially, an academic question, it has gained practical interest by the recent awareness of global biodiversity loss. Species diversity in local ecosystems has always been discussed in relation to the problem...