Category: Nonfiction 14

By Anne Kvithyld, Christina Meskers, Randolph Kirchain, Greg Krumdick, Brajendra Mishra, Markus Reuter, Cong Wang, Mark Schlesinger, Gabrielle Gaustad, Diana Lados, Jeffrey Spangenberger

This quantity compiles issues from the REWAS 2013 symposium on the TMS Annual assembly, targeting varied points of sustainability. It discusses how you can observe sustainability in such components as transportation, the equipped setting, electric and digital gear and infrastructure, strength construction, and water platforms. allowing sustainability themes comprise using metals and fabrics processing, recycling and restoration, in addition to procedure layout and modeling. The ebook makes a speciality of knowing sustainability via lifestyles cycle administration and research, structures modeling and layout, and schooling and shopper awareness.

By Mahesh Abegaonkar, Lalithendra Kurra, Shiban Kishen Koul

This ebook is a reference for researchers who are looking to know about resonant periodic buildings for functions in microstrip circuits. The readers can examine basic how you can study those buildings utilizing commercially to be had software program and similar circuit modelling. the applying examples proven within the e-book will open up new study principles during this field.

By Theresa Bauer

This research investigates the notice and perform of liable lobbying within the ecu and analyzes advantages and antecedents. A multidimensional version of in charge lobbying is constructed which gives normative directions and enables opting for the measure of accountable lobbying in perform. The empirical half analyzes in charge lobbying within the european by means of combining a quantitative research according to a survey between 142 lobbyists with a qualitative exam in keeping with interviews. The research finds that standards of in charge lobbying are fulfilled to a wide quantity in response to the lobbyists. This examine comes at a time while researchers and practitioners more and more realize the necessity to determine in charge lobbying through aligning company Social accountability (CSR) and lobbying.

By Thomas Perkins Abernethy

The Formative interval in Alabama, 1815-1828

By Eleni Sideri, Lydia Efthymia Roupakia

This ebook makes a speciality of the interconnections of faith and migration within the Black Sea area via case reviews that discover moving identities, group, and nationwide barriers, in addition to social practices and networks.
During the earlier few many years the Black Sea has been remodeled from a principally closed zone, a result of chilly conflict, to a bridge for human, fiscal, and cultural capital flows. because the zone unfolded, understandings and practices of faith have been re-signified because of new and numerous mobilities and resettlements. This quantity addresses and responds to the present shortage of educational learn at the repercussion of political reform, migration, and modernization within the components surrounding the Black Sea. members discover and consider the pivotal function of faith in present cultural contestations happening during this strategic zone. enticing with a variety of case stories, the ebook deals a clean, comparative exam of migration because it pertains to varied international locations and spiritual teams within the region.

By Enqing Chen, Yihong Gong, Yun Tie

The two-volume court cases LNCS 9916 and 9917, represent the lawsuits of the 17^th Pacific-Rim convention on Multimedia, PCM 2016, held in Xi`an, China, in September 2016.

The overall of 128 papers provided in those complaints was once rigorously reviewed and chosen from 202 submissions.

The concentration of the convention was once as follows in multimedia content material research, multimedia sign processing and communications, and multimedia functions and services.

By Hemanta Hazarika, Motoki Kazama, Wei F. Lee

This booklet is a suite of papers awarded on the overseas Workshop on Geotechnical typical dangers held July 12–15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The workshop was once the 6th within the sequence of Japan–Taiwan Joint Workshops on Geotechnical risks from huge Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls, held below the auspices of the Asian Technical Committee No. three on Geotechnology for average risks of the foreign Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. It used to be co-organized by means of the japanese Geotechnical Society and the Taiwanese Geotechnical Society.

The contents of this publication concentrate on geotechnical and common hazard-related concerns in Asia reminiscent of earthquakes, tsunami, rainfall-induced particles flows, slope disasters, and landslides. The e-book comprises the most recent info and mitigation expertise on earthquake- and rainfall-induced geotechnical ordinary dangers. by way of dissemination of the most recent state of the art learn within the quarter, the knowledge contained during this ebook might help researchers, designers, specialists, executive officers, and academicians taken with the mitigation of typical risks. The findings and different details supplied this is anticipated to give a contribution towards the advance of a brand new bankruptcy in catastrophe prevention and mitigation of geotechnical structures.

By Ping Wang, Chunsheng Wu, Ning Hu, K. Jimmy Hsia

This booklet makes a speciality of cellphone- and molecule-based biosensors utilizing micro/nano units as transducers. After offering simple info on micro/nano mobile- and molecule-based biosensors, it introduces readers to the fundamental constructions and houses of micro/nano fabrics and their purposes. the themes coated supply a accomplished evaluation of the present state-of-the-art in micro/nano telephone- and molecule-based biosensors in addition to their destiny improvement tendencies, making sure the ebook might be of significant curiosity to the interdisciplinary neighborhood lively during this sector: researchers, engineers, biologists, scientific scientists, and all these whose paintings contains similar interdisciplinary study and applications.

Dr. Ping Wang is a Professor in division of Biomedical Engineering at Zhejiang college, Hangzhou, China. Dr. Chunsheng Wu is a Professor in scientific university at Xi’an Jiaotong collage, Xi’an, China. Dr. Ning Hu is an Assistant researcher in division of Biomedical Engineering at Zhejiang collage and a Postdoctoral researcher in scientific institution at Harvard college, Boston, united states. Dr. ok. Jimmy Hsia is a Professor in division of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon college, Pittsburgh, USA.

By Mabel L Lang

From millions of fragments of plaster the writer has assembled clues to the scheme of the wall portray during this royal palace destroyed by way of hearth on the finish of the 13th century B.C.

Originally released in 1969.

The Princeton Legacy Library makes use of the most recent print-on-demand expertise to back make to be had formerly out-of-print books from the celebrated backlist of Princeton college Press. those variants protect the unique texts of those very important books whereas providing them in sturdy paperback and hardcover versions. The aim of the Princeton Legacy Library is to drastically raise entry to the wealthy scholarly history present in the hundreds of thousands of books released via Princeton college Press considering that its founding in 1905.

By George A. Anastassiou

This compact publication makes a speciality of self-adjoint operators’ recognized named inequalities and Korovkin approximation idea, either in a Hilbert house surroundings. it's the first e-book to check those features, and all chapters are self-contained and will be learn independently. extra, every one bankruptcy contains an intensive record of references for extra reading.
The book’s effects are anticipated to discover purposes in lots of parts of natural and utilized arithmetic. Given its concise structure, it truly is specially compatible to be used in similar graduate sessions and study initiatives. As such, the booklet bargains a worthwhile source for researchers and graduate scholars alike, in addition to a key addition to all technological know-how and engineering libraries.