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This book constitutes the synthesis of the new biodegradable polyurethanes and their applications for tissue engineering and drug delivery.The novel polyurehtanes are highly elastic, biodegradable, chemically functional, environmental stimuli sensitive and exhibited the potential for drug delivery, scaffold fabrication by ink-jet printing technique and other potential applications. In addition to the general knowledge of the polyurethane and i...

Due to the complexity and non-linearity of most ecological problems, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have attracted attention from ecologists and environmental scientists in recent years. As these networks are increasingly being used in ecology for modeling, simulation, function approximation, prediction, classification and data mining, this unique and self-contained book will be the first comprehensive treatment of this subject, by providin...

Control engineering seeks to understand physical systems, using mathematical modeling, in terms of inputs, outputs and various components with different behaviors. It has an essential role in a wide range of control systems, from household appliances to space flight. This book provides an in-depth view of the technologies that are implemented in most varieties of modern industrial control engineering. A solid grounding is provided in tradition...

Alzheimer''s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with complex and strong genetic inheritance. The central pathological event in AD is believed to be the regulated intramembrane proteolysis of the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which generates accumulable amyloid-beta peptide and the APP intracellular domain (AICD). The genetic cause of AD is not fully identified, and up to 70% of the heritability of AD is unknown. In...

Recently, high-power driver linacs have been widely proposed in Asia, Europe and North America to generate various useful secondary particles by bombarding a certain target with energetic light ions. For such a large-scale linac, the beam dynamics is most complicated in the low- and medium-energy part due to the space-charge effects. This book focuses on the conceptual studies performed with respect to the front-ends of the three accelerator-b...

Classical courtyard houses of Beijing (siheyuan) as a housing typology have attracted interest of people from all walks of life. Due to deterioration, the large-scale demolition of these houses since the 1990s has given rise to heated debates, nationally and internationally. In this book, the author traced the history and design philosophy of the classical Chinese courtyard house, introduced, evaluated, and examined some modern interpretations...

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Atmospheric carbonaceous particulate matter is of great interest due to their high abundances in the ambient air and significant adverse impacts on environment and human health. Prior to designing effective regulatory control strategies, one important task is source apportionment. A source apportionment model, Chemical Mass Balance, based on molecular markers, has previously been applied effectively in many regions, yet its precision depends o...

Carbon fibre reinforced polymer matrix composites are currently standard structural materials for aircraft applications due to their high potential for weight savings and improved fatigue behaviour. Conventional autoclave processing cannot meet the increasing demand of advanced composite structures due to its associated high equipment, labour cost and long cycle times. QuickstepTM offers an alternative to autoclave technology and provides high...

While the emerging economics of China calls attention of all practitioners and scholars, the specific phenomenon of Spanish firms in China is much less studied. The book devotes several years of research on this context to explore from the angle of strategic human resource management. Practically it describes many interesting facts about Spanish managing business in China, theoretically it contributes to a dynamic adaptive logic of strategic h...

Covers topics such as discoveries in Web services, integrated design of e-banking architecture, object-oriented architecture, online SOA application testing, process mining in service oriented architecture, QoS-based Web services design, situation-aware service-based systems, SOA reference architecture, and trends in Web services.

Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Computer Science and Engineering: Trends for Emerging Applications introduces Higher Order Neural Networks (HONNs) to computer scientists and computer engineers as an open box neural networks tool when compared to traditional artificial neural networks. Since HONNs are open box models, they can be easily used in information science, information technology, management, economics, and business. This bo...

The present book is devoted to a study of relative Pr¿fer rings and Manis valuations, with an eye to application in real and p-adic geometry. If one wants to expand on the usual algebraic geometry over a non-algebraically closed base field, e.g. a real closed field or p-adically closed field, one typically meets lots of valuation domains. Usually they are not discrete and hence not noetherian. Thus, for a further develomemt of real algebraic a...

The field activated sintering technique (FAST) is a powder consolidation process via the application of pulsed current and pressure. Compared with conventional hot pressing and hot isostatic pressing, FAST has demonstrated a rapid densification process that has the potential to minimize grain growth, which is crucial to achieving excellent physical properties. This work covers the physical phenomena, multi-scale analytical and numerical models...

This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male fertility rates as compared to those of females in 43 countries and places, over time. Data used in the aggregate level analysis come from multiple sources, including the 2001 United Nations Demograph...

This collection provides a critical reexamination of the development and current status of comparative literature studies that engage the literary practices of both China and the West. It attempts to refashion literary methodologies and cultural theories in Chinese studies and reread several noncanonical texts in ways that cut across disciplines, genders, and modernities.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been an enigma since their discoveries. What are the nature of progenitors and the central engine for GRBs? It is usually proposed that hyperaccreting disks surrounding stellar-mass black holes are GRB central engines. My thesis focus on the hyperaccreting neutron-star disks cooled via neutrino emission as another potential central engine of GRBs. We study the structure and neutrino emission of such a neutron-star ...

Security enforcement is an enabler for databases to meet mandatory regulatory compliance and privacy requirements. A well-rounded yet efficient security mechanism would make a database product eligible for high profile government contracts and new markets in the financial sector, and make it trustworthy among many third party applications that are likely to be built on top of it. This book reviews traditional database paradigm and proposes arc...

From 1978, the Chinese government attempted to develop secondary vocational and technical education (VTE) on a large scale, streaming 50% of senior secondary students into the VTE, with the rhetoric that China needed tens of millions of skilled workers for the economic construction. During the 1980s and 1990s, the system went through three periods: restoring the old system developed before the "Cultural Revolution" from the end of 1970s, refor...

Because of massively parallel distributed nature and very fast convergence rates, recurrent neural networks (RNN) are widely applied to solving many problems in optimization, control and robotic systems, etc. Hence, this book investigates the following RNN models which solve some practical problems, together with their corresponding analysis on stability and convergence. A type of multilayer pole-assignment neural networks is applied to online...