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This volume provides the academic and industrial community with a medium for presenting original research and applications related to information a...

This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theorem Provers in Circuit Design (TPCD '94) jointly organized by th...

Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems: they control or reason about motion and perception in the physical world. They receive i...

This book presents some of the most recent research results on the applications of computational intelligence in healthcare. The contents include: ...

Das Buch Semantic Web Grundlagen vermittelt als erstes deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch die Grundlagen des Semantic Web in verstandlicher Weise. Es ermog...

Product Description This book presents the fundamental concepts of fuzzy logic and fuzzy control, chaos theory and chaos control. It also provides...

Polymer science and technology occupy a central position among potential growth areas in the greater African region (Africa and Indian Ocean Island...

Materials scientists, polymer chemists, surface physicists and materials engineers will find this book a complete and detailed treatise on the fiel...

Two exciting worlds of science and technology - the nano and micro dimensions. The former is a booming new field of research, the latter the establ...

This volume contains the contributions of the 1st French Brazilian Symposium on "Advanced Polymeric Materials", held at Florianopolis, Brazil, on A...

With its assessment and linking of study reports into a coherent narrative, this book accurately describes the technological and economic opportuni...

The goal of visualization is the accurate, interactive, and intuitive presentation of data. Complex numerical simulations, high-resolution imaging ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Techno...

The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techn...

Biotechnological Applications of Photosynthetic Proteins: Biochips, Biosensors and Biodevices provides an overview of the recent photosystem II res...

You can accelerate your dreamweaver skills with this practical, sophisticated guide. "Dreamweaver 8 Accelerated: A Full Color Guide" gets you up an...

The Complete Guide to VR will help you get to grips with this exciting new technology from first principles, so you know what's out there, and what...

Win it all with exclusive tips and tricks in Epic Games' ONLY official Battle Royale handbook, including sleek full-color tutorials and featuring t...

Cassini orbiter, Huygens probe and future exploration concepts. An insight into the technology, mission planning and operation of spacecraft design...

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million...

Review "[A] marvelously told story . . . The author provides a terrific backdrop to the 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' era in which his story takes pla...

Now available in paperback, this reference book has everything we need to make sense of today's world. 366 digitally modified maps - known as carto...

'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times 'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve Jobs What conne...

We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phon...

We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Despite advice from experts, governments and dieticians about the dangers...

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ide...

One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works. Ho...

Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques that have en...

World-renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto reveals the truths of human perception and devises a cognitive toolkit for how to succeed in a world of u...

Fully updated throughout and with a new foreword for this edition. Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight,...

"This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, stan...

This volume contains the lectures and participant contributions delivered at the Sixth Training Course in the Physics of Correlated Electron System...

Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to blame for your children's plum...

This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort of experimental biophysicists...

This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to know what role mathematics can play in attempting to comprehend the dynamics of the human bra...

Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that...

The brain is the most important part of our anatomy - the master controller that tells the other parts of the body what to do and when to do it. Th...

'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into beguil...

Glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins and glycolipids play important roles in cell-cell interaction events, including development, differentiation,...

This book presents a functional approach to the construction, use and approximation of Green's functions and their associated ordered exponentials....

This authoritative textbook - the second volume of a comprehensive three-volume course on theoretical astrophysics - deals with stellar physics. De...

This 1998 book describes the physics of superconductivity and superfluidity, macroscopic quantum phenomena found in many conductors at low temperat...

This concise guide to planning, writing, and presenting research is intended for biology students of all levels, especially those in behavioral eco...

This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for ...

Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we have used them in a vast numb...

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory...