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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth...
Einstein's Relativity
The Ultimate Key to the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
This richly illustrated book is unique in bringing Einstein's relativity to a higher level for the non-specialist than has ever been attempted before, using nothing more than grade-school algebra. Bondi's approach with spacetime diagrams is simplified and expanded, clarifying the famous asymmetric...
Journeys to Data Mining
Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Data mining, an interdisciplinary field combining methods from artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems, has grown tremendously over the last 20 years and produced core results for applications like business intelligence, spatio-temporal data analysis, bioinformatics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The legacy of Leo Hendrik Baekeland and his development of phenol formal- hyde resins are recognized as the cornerstone of the Plastics Industry in the early twentieth century, and phenolic resins continue to ?ourish after a century of robust growth. On July 13, 1907, Baekeland ?led his “heat and...
Coating Substrates and Textiles
A Practical Guide to Coating and Laminating Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
This book provides knowledge on the finishing of substrates with a functionalising coating, emphasizing on technical textiles. The spectrum of topics covers different substrates and coating materials, process engineering and equipment components as well as complex machinery. The reader is presented...
Advertising Worldwide
Advertising Conditions in Selected Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
This book addresses the following questions: What are the social, cultural or religious particularities of advertising and advertising practices? Are there any taboos? What about legal restrictions? How is the advertising infrastructure? Are there any institutions, federations or boards of advertising?...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter, production of wood and other resources, and conservation of biodiversity and habitats; they also have special signi?cance in social and cultural contexts. Initiated...
The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds
Different Understandings of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same...
Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age
An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the existing technologies and social structures. The city represents the accretion and accumulation of successive...
Cement Replacement Materials
Properties, Durability, Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The aim of this book is to present the latest findings in the properties and application of Supplementary Cementing Materials and blended cements currently used in the world in concrete. Sustainability is an important issue all over the world. Carbon dioxide emission has been a serious problem in...
Stone in Architecture
Properties, Durability
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The weathering of historical buildings and, indeed, of monuments and sculptures of natural stone is a problem that has been encountered for hundreds of years. However, a dramatic increase in deterioration in the structure of our built heritage has been observed during the past century. To understand...
The Technological Singularity
Managing the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the
central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity.
In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active research
scientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes beyond philosophical
discussion...
Singularity Hypotheses
A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole...
Static Analysis
23rd International Symposium, SAS 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 8-10, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016.
The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary...