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This book, as a volume of the Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, is primarily concerned with detonation waves or compression shock waves in reactive heterogeneous media, including mixtures of solid, liquid and gas phases. The topics involve a variety of energy release and control processes in such media - a contemporary research field that has found wide applications in propulsion and power, hazard prevention as well as mili...

Der Autor gibt aus ingenieurwissenschaftlicher Sicht einen Überblick über die wesentlichen Erkenntnisse der Hydromechanik von Freistrahlturbinen. Die Strömungsprozesse und alle relevanten hydromechanischen Aspekte werden möglichst vollständig und systematisch beschrieben. Sämtliche Verluste, inklusive der hydraulischen Reibungseffekte, werden behandelt und quantifiziert. Das Nachschlagewerk richtet sich an Ingenieure, Turbinenhersteller, Kraft...

Based on years of fieldwork and interviews with 129 human smugglers, as well as scores of government and law enforcement officials, this book presents a rare look into the secretive world of the "snakeheads" ( human smugglers), whose ingenious endeavors have transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States and other Western countries.

The I-V characteristics of Tin films in the superconducting transition have been measured when ac current was applied. The experimental results suggest that the electrical response in ac is not satisfied with the I-V equation in dc. A new equation was suggested to describe the vortex motion and the vortex pair separation in the two dimensional superconducting transition with ac current. The excess noises of Tin films in the superconducting tra...

There has been considerable analysis of the potential for spontaneous combustion of individual kegs of self-heating materials, such as calcium hypochlorite. However, when arrays of such kegs are shipped in a single closed container, interaction effects become significant, and the critical value of the external temperature for self-ignition is significantly lowered. In this book, we consider the extent to which simple models, which are amenabl...

Messaging is a basic service in sensor networks (a.k.a, sensornets). Yet the unique system and application properties of sensornets pose substantial challenges for the messaging design: 1) dynamic wireless links, constrained resources, and application diversity challenge the architecture and protocol design of sensornet messaging, and 2) complex faults and large system scale introduce new challenges to the design of fault-tolerant prot...

Designers, engineers and ergonomists are seeking to exploit the opportunities offered by the 3D anthropometric technologies. These technologies make 3D measurements possible and provide us with a more detailed description of human body in comparison with the traditional 1D or 2D data processing. In many industrial design cases, there is a need to take into consideration various postures of the human body when the product is designed. This book...

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An adaptive controller can be classified as identifier or non-identifier based, depending on the property of the adaptive strategy. Non-identifier based adaptive controllers adjust control parameters without explicitly estimating unknown parameters, but they generally lead to poor transient performance. Identifier based adaptive controllers can actively track system changes and tune control parameters to counteract them, but their stability an...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2008, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2008. The 68 revised full papers presented together with 10 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on market equilibrium, congestion games, information markets, nash equilibrium, network games, solution c...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2008. The 42 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation, constraints, planning, grammar and languag...

Diploma Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 1, 3, University of Northampton, 85 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Information services and products today constitute one of the world's largest economic sectors. Computers and the networks that connect them have become a dominant force in virtu...

Intelligent agents will be the necessity of the coming century. Software agents will pilot us through the vast sea of information, by communicating with other agents. A group of cooperating agents may accomplish a task which cannot be done by any subset of them. This volume consists of selected papers from PRIMA'99, the second Paci c Rim InternationalWorkshop on Multi-Agents, held in Kyoto, Japan, on Dec- ber 2-3, 1999. PRIMA constitutes a ser...

Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics, 2nd Edition, aims to help researchers deal with current genomic challenges. During the three years after the publication of the first edition of this book, the computational and statistical research in genomics have become increasingly more important and indispensable for understanding cellular behavior under a variety of environmental conditions and for tackling challenging clinical proble...

Introduction to THz Wave Photonics examines the science and technology related to terahertz wave technologies, taking a dual approach between presenting the field’s history while simultaneously providing an overview of existing technology. The latest research in developing THz areas such as electromagnetic waves are presented, along with an introduction to continuous wave THz technology. Authors X.-C. Zhang and Jingzhou Xu place particular emp...

A gap in phase-space, the loss cone (LC), is openedup by a supermassive black hole (MBH) as it disruptsor accretes stars in a galactic centre. If a starenters the LC then, depending on its properties, itsinteraction with the MBH will either generate aluminous electromagnetic flare or give rise togravitational radiation, both of which are expectedto have directly observable consequences.The thesis begins with a brief review of dynamicalmodellin...

This book illustrates a novel RF MEMS capacitiveswitch design that is Complementary Metal-OxideSemiconductor (CMOS) process-compatible. The switchstructure is cantilever with fingers for capacitivecoupling. The vertical bending characteristic ofbimorph cantilever beams under different temperaturesis utilized to turn the switch on and off. A set ofelectrical, mechanical, and thermal models isestablished, and cross-domainelectro-thermo-mechanica...

The pricing problem in a multi-period setting is a challenging problem and has attracted much attention in recent years. In this book, we consider a monopoly and an oligopoly pricing problem. The products are assumed to be differentiated and substitutable. Each seller has the option to set prices for her products at each time period, and her goal is to find a pricing policy that will yield the maximum overall profit. In this book, we address b...

Noninvasive estimation of myocardial electrical activity traditionally used potential measurements on the human body surface, such as body surface potentials(BSPs, pl.) or electrocardiograms (ECGs, pl.). But because of non-unique mapping between myocardial electrophysiological activity and sparse body potential measurements, the performances of previous efforts have not been well accepted. In this book, a different aspect to understand myocar...