Nature Inside: A biophilic design guide by William D. Browning, Catherine O. Ryan
English | September 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1859469035 | 351 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design, this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice, across a range of international case studies - at different scales, and different typologies. Starting with the principles of biophilic design, and the principles and processes in practice, the book then showcases a variety of interior spaces - residential, retail, workplace, hospitality, education, healthcare and manufacturing. The final chapter looks 'outside the walls', giving a case study at the campus and city scale. With practical guidance and real-world solutions that can be directly-applied in day-to-day practice, this is a must-have for designers interested in applying biophilic principles.

Narrative Research in Health and Illness By
2004 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 0727917927 | PDF | 4 MB
This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrative in health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's story and address social, cultural, ethical, psychological, organizational and linguistic issues.This book has been written to help health professionals and social scientists to use narrative more effectively in their everyday work and writing.The book is split into three, comprehensive sections; Narratives, Counter-narratives and Meta-narratives.Content: Chapter 1 The Ethicality of Narrative Medicine (pages 21-36): Rita CharonChapter 2 Soldiers Become Casualties: Doctors' Accounts of the Sars Epidemic (pages 37-51): Eugene Wu, Frances Rapport, Kip Jones and Trisha GreenhalghChapter 3 Poems from the Heart: Living with Heart Failure (pages 52-72): Marilyn Kendall and Scott MurrayChapter 4 Performance Narratives in the Clinical World (pages 73-94): Cheryl MattinglyChapter 5 "I cut because it helps": Narratives of Self?Injury in Teenage Girls (pages 95-114): Petra M Boynton and Annabelle AuerbachChapter 6 The DIPEx Project: Collecting Personal Experiences of Illness and Health Care (pages 115-131): Andrew Herxheimer and Sue ZieblandChapter 7 Narratives of Spirituality and Religion in End?of?Life Care (pages 132-145): Arthur W FrankChapter 8 The Death of the Narrator (pages 146-155): Catherine BellingChapter 9 Narrative, Emotion, and Understanding (pages 156-167): Peter GoldieChapter 10 The Voice of Experience and the Voice of the Expert ? Can they Speak to each Other? (pages 168-186): Yiannis GabrielChapter 11 Wounded or Warrior? Stories of Being or Becoming Deaf (pages 187-204): Lesley Jones and Robin BuntonChapter 12 Narrative Analysis and Contested Allegations of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (pages 205-222): Clive BaldwinChapter 13 Confounding the Experts: The Vindication of Parental Testimony in Shaken Baby Syndrome (pages 223-238): James Le FanuChapter 14 Narratives of Compound Loss: Parents' Stories from the Organ Retention Scandal (pages 239-256): Ruth RichardsonChapter 15 The Power of Stories Over Statistics: Lessons from Neonatal Jaundice and Infant Airplane Safety (pages 257-276): Thomas B NewmanChapter 16 Narratives of Health Inequality: Interpreting the Determinants of Health (pages 277-291): Gareth WilliamsChapter 17 Narratives of Displacement and Identity (pages 292-308): Vieda SkultansChapter 18 A Thrice?Told Tale: New Readings of an Old Story (pages 309-324): Catherine Kohler RiessmanChapter 19 The Role of Stories and Storytelling in Organisational Change Efforts: A Field Study of an Emerging "community of practice" within the UK National Health Service (pages 325-348): Paul BateChapter 20 Meta?Narrative Mapping: A New Approach to the Systematic Review of Complex Evidence (pages 349-381): Trisha GreenhalghChapter 21 How Narratives Work in Psychiatric Science: An Example from the Biological Psychiatry of PTSD (pages 382-396): Allan YoungChapter 22 Storying Policy: Constructions of Risk in Proposals to Reform UK Mental Health Legislation (pages 397-413): David J HarperChapter 23 The Temporal Construction of Medical Narratives (pages 414-427): Brian Hurwitz

Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence By
2013 | 353 Pages | ISBN: 1119976391 | PDF | 3 MB
Presents recent advances in both models and systems for intelligent decision making.Organisations often face complex decisions requiring the assessment of large amounts of data. In recent years Multicriteria Decision Aid (MCDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied with considerable success to support decision making in a wide range of complex real-world problems.The integration of MCDA and AI provides new capabilities relating to the structuring of complex decision problems in static and distributed environments. These include the handling of massive data sets, the modelling of ill-structured information, the construction of advanced decision models, and the development of efficient computational optimization algorithms for problem solving. This book covers a rich set of topics, including intelligent decision support technologies, data mining models for decision making, evidential reasoning, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, fuzzy modelling, as well as applications in management and engineering.Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence:Covers all of the recent advances in intelligent decision making.Includes a presentation of hybrid models and algorithms for preference modelling and optimisation problems.Provides illustrations of new intelligent technologies and architectures for decision making in static and distributed environments.Explores the general topics on preference modelling and learning, along with the coverage of the main techniques and methodologies and applications. Is written by experts in the field. This book provides an excellent reference tool for the increasing number of researchers and practitioners interested in the integration of MCDA and AI for the development of effective hybrid decision support methodologies and systems. Academics and post-graduate students in the fields of operational research, artificial intelligence and management science or decision analysis will also find this book beneficial.Content: Chapter 1 Computational Intelligence Techniques for Multicriteria Decision Aiding: An Overview (pages 1-23): Michael Doumpos and Constantin ZopounidisChapter 2 Intelligent Decision Support Systems (pages 25-44): Gloria Phillips?WrenChapter 3 Designing Distributed Multi?Criteria Decision Support Systems for Complex and Uncertain Situations (pages 45-76): Tina Comes, Niek Wijngaards and Frank SchultmannChapter 4 Preference Representation with Ontologies (pages 77-99): Aida Valls, Antonio Moreno and Joan BorrasChapter 5 Neural Networks in Multicriteria Decision Support (pages 101-126): Thomas HanneChapter 6 Rule?Based Approach to Multicriteria Ranking (pages 127-160): Marcin Szela?g, Salvatore Greco and Roman SlowinskiChapter 7 About the Application of Evidence Theory in Multicriteria Decision Aid (pages 161-187): Mohamed Ayman Boujelben and Yves De SmetChapter 8 Interactive Approaches Applied to Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (pages 189-207): Antonio Lopez Jaimes and Carlos A. Coello CoelloChapter 9 Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis and Computational Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making (pages 209-233): Yeboon Yun and Hirotaka NakayamaChapter 10 Fuzzy Multiobjective Optimization (pages 235-271): Masatoshi SakawaChapter 11 Multiple Criteria Decision Aid and Agents: Supporting Effective Resource Federation in Virtual Organizations (pages 273-284): Pavlos Delias and Nikolaos MatsatsinisChapter 12 Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Using Type?2 Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Warehouse Location Selection (pages 285-308): Irem Ucal Sary, Basar Oztaysi and Cengiz KahramanChapter 13 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Energy Efficiency in Buildings (pages 309-333): Christina Diakaki and Evangelos GrigoroudisChapter 14 Nature?Inspired Intelligence for Pareto Optimality Analysis in Portfolio Optimization (pages 335-345): Vassilios Vassiliadis and Georgios Dounias

Molecular Modeling of Inorganic Compounds, Second Edition By Prof. Dr. Peter Comba, Prof. Dr. Trevor W. Hambley(auth.)
2001 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 3527299157 | PDF | 17 MB
In many branches of chemistry, Molecular Modeling is a well-established and powerful tool for the investigation of complex structures. The second completely revised and enlarged edition of this highly recognized book shows how this method can be successfully applied to inorganic and coordination compounds. The first part of the book gives a general introduction to Molecular Modeling, which will be of use for chemists in all areas. The second part discusses numerous carefully selected examples, chosen to illustrate the wide range of applicability of molecular modeling to metal complexes and the approaches being taken to dealing with some of the difficulties involved. While the general outline is similar to that of the first edition, many of the examples chosen for discussion reflect the changes of the past five years. In the third part, the reader learns how to apply Molecular Modeling to a new system and how to interpret the results. The accompanying software features 20 tutorial lessons based on examples from the literature and the book itself. The authors take special care to highlight possible pitfalls and offer advice on how to avoid them. Therefore, this book will be invaluable to everyone working in or entering the field. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 3-7): Chapter 2 Molecular Modeling Methods in Brief (pages 9-16): Chapter 3 Parameterization, Approximations and Limitations of Molecular Mechanics (pages 17-57): Chapter 4 Computation (pages 59-67): Chapter 5 The Multiple Minima Problem (pages 69-73): Chapter 6 Conclusions (pages 75-76): Chapter 7 Structural Aspects (pages 79-87): Chapter 8 Stereoselectivities (pages 89-102): Chapter 9 Metal Ion Selectivity (pages 103-118): Chapter 10 Spectroscopy (pages 119-139): Chapter 11 Electron Transfer (pages 141-148): Chapter 12 Electronic Effects (pages 149-159): Chapter 13 Bioinorganic Chemistry (pages 161-170): Chapter 14 Organometallics (pages 171-182): Chapter 15 Compounds with s?, p? and f?Block Elements (pages 183-189): Chapter 16 The Model, the Rules and the Pitfalls (pages 193-201): Chapter 17 Tutorial (pages 203-295):

Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Systems: Formalisms and Software Tools By
2008 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 1848210132 | PDF | 5 MB
This title is devoted to presenting some of the most important concepts and techniques for describing real-time systems and analyzing their behavior in order to enable the designer to achieve guarantees of temporal correctness. Topics addressed include mathematical models of real-time systems and associated formal verification techniques such as model checking, probabilistic modeling and verification, programming and description languages, and validation approaches based on testing. With contributions from authors who are experts in their respective fields, this will provide the reader with the state of the art in formal verification of real-time systems and an overview of available software tools.Content: Chapter 1 Time Petri Nets - Analysis Methods and Verification with TINA (pages 19-49): Bernard Berthomieu, Florent Peres and Francois VernadatChapter 2 Validation of Reactive Systems by Means of Verification and Conformance Testing (pages 51-75): Camille Constant, Thierry Jeron, Herve Marchand and Vlad RusuChapter 3 An Introduction to Model Checking (pages 77-110): Stephan MerzChapter 4 Model Checking Timed Automata (pages 111-140): Patricia Bouyer and Francois LaroussinieChapter 5 Specification and Analysis of Asynchronous Systems using CADP (pages 141-169): Radu MateescuChapter 6 Synchronous Program Verification with Lustre/Lesar (pages 171-206): Pascal RaymondChapter 7 Synchronous Functional Programming with Lucid Synchrone (pages 207-247): Paul Caspi, Gregoire Hamon and Marc PouzetChapter 8 Verification of Real?Time Probabilistic Systems (pages 249-288): Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker and Jeremy SprostonChapter 9 Verification of Probabilistic Systems Methods and Tools (pages 289-318): Serge Haddad and Patrice MoreauxChapter 10 Modeling and Verification of Real?Time Systems using the IF Toolset (pages 319-351): Marius Bozga, Susanne Graf, Laurent Mounier and Iulian OberChapter 11 Architecture Description Languages: An Introduction to the SAE AADL (pages 353-383): Anne?Marie Deplanche and Sebastien Faucou

Mineral-Filled Polymer Composites Handbook, Two-Volume Set
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003153269 | 542 pages | True PDF | 177.77 MB
Mineral-filled polymer composites exhibit several advantages that make this material class attractive for a variety of applications, including their low cost, light weight, excellent rigidity, and high mechanical strength. Mineral-Filled Polymer Composites Handbook serves as a comprehensive overview of the latest research, trends, applications, and future directions of advanced mineral fiber-reinforced polymer composites.

Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367701065 | 299 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium explores the evolution of economic theorizing through the lens of metaphors. The edited volume sheds light on metaphors which have been used by a range of key thinkers and schools of thought to describe economic crises, business cycles and economic equilibrium.

Metallische Verbundwerkstoffe By
2003 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 3527305327 | PDF | 6 MB
It is only in the past few years that metal-matrix composites (MMCs) using a light-metal matrix have been successfully used in the automotive and transportation industry, such as partly fiber-reinforced pistons and hybrid reinforced crankcases. These materials also find applications in the aerospace industry. Since the characteristics of MMCs can be incorporated as desired within the material, they represented tailor-made working materials for industrial designers. Written by experienced practitioners from the field, this book presents the current state of developments using MMCs as structural and functional materials, making it a vital reference for all materials scientists and engineers wishing to learn of the potential for MMCs in R&D as well as design.Content: Chapter 1 Grundlagen der Metallmatrix?Verbundwerkstoffe (pages 1-65): Prof. Dr. K. U. KainerChapter 2 Partikel, Fasern und Kurzfasern zur Verstarkung von metallischen Werkstoffen (pages 66-88): H. Dieringa and Prof. Dr. K. U. KainerChapter 3 Preforms zur Verstarkung von Leichtmetallen - Herstellung, Anwendungen, Potenziale (pages 89-108): R. BuschmannChapter 4 Aluminium?Matrix?Verbundwerkstoffe im Verbrennungsmotor (pages 109-123): E. Kohler and J. NiehuesChapter 5 Herstellung von Verbundwerkstoffen bzw. Werkstoffverbunden durch thermische Beschichtungsverfahren (pages 124-159): B. Wielage, A. Wank and J. WildenChapter 6 Zerspantechnologische Aspekte von Al?MMC (pages 160-184): K. Weinert, M. Buschka and M. LangeChapter 7 Mechanisches Verhalten und Ermudungseigenschaften von Metallmatrix?Verbundwerkstoffen (pages 185-209): O. Hartmann and H. BiermannChapter 8 Grenzschichten in Metallmatrix?Kompositen: Charakterisierung und materialwissenschaftliche Bedeutung (pages 210-228): J. Woltersdorf, A. Feldhoff and E. PippelChapter 9 Metallische Verbundwerkstoffe fur die Zylinderlaufbahnen von Verbrennungsmotoren und deren Endbearbeitung durch Honen (pages 229-259): J. Schmid and G. BarbezatChapter 10 Pulvermetallurgisch hergestellte Metall?Matrix?Verbundwerkstoffe (pages 260-295): N. Hort and Prof. Dr. K. U. KainerChapter 11 Spruhkompaktieren - ein alternatives Herstellverfahren fur MMC?Aluminiumlegierungen (pages 296-314): P. Krug and G. SinhaChapter 12 Edel? und Buntmetall?Matrix?Verbundwerkstoffe (pages 315-328): C. Blawert

Medieval Islamic Civilization : An Encyclopedia, Volume II: L - Z (Routledge Revivals)
by Josef W. Meri
English | 2016 by Routledge | ISBN: 1138061336 | 627 Pages | True PDF | 35.2 MB

Medieval Germany : An Encyclopedia (Routledge Revivals)
by John M. Jeep
English | 2016 by Routledge | ISBN: 1138062723 | 969 Pages | True PDF | 45 MB

Mathematik fur Physiker und Mathematiker: Reelle Analysis und Lineare Algebra, Volume 1, 2. Auflage By Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rainer Wust(auth.)
2002 | 591 Pages | ISBN: 3527404023 | PDF | 9 MB
Content: Chapter 1 Einiges uber Logik (pages 1-18): Chapter 2 Relationen - Abbildungen (pages 19-28): Chapter 3 Zahlen (pages 29-60): Chapter 4 Der Grenzwertbegriff (pages 61-148): Chapter 5 Differentiation (pages 149-226): Chapter 6 Integration (pages 227-307): Chapter 7 Limesvertauschungen (pages 308-340): Chapter 8 Lineare Raume (pages 341-385): Chapter 9 Affine Teilraume (pages 386-396): Chapter 10 Lineare Abbildungen und Matrizen (pages 397-438): Chapter 11 Determinanten (pages 439-466): Chapter 12 Lineare Gleichungssysteme (pages 467-484): Chapter 13 Transformation von Koordinaten-Matrixdarstellung linearer Abbildungen (pages 485-499): Chapter 14 Dualraume-Multilinearformen-Tensoren (pages 500-519): Chapter 15 Eigenwerte linearer Abbildungen und Matrizen (pages 520-547):

Mathematical Morphology: From Theory to Applications By Laurent Najman, Hugues Talbot (eds.)
2010 | 507 Pages | ISBN: 1848212151 | PDF | 15 MB
Mathematical Morphology allows for the analysis and processing of geometrical structures using techniques based on the fields of set theory, lattice theory, topology, and random functions. It is the basis of morphological image processing, and finds applications in fields including digital image processing (DSP), as well as areas for graphs, surface meshes, solids, and other spatial structures. This book presents an up-to-date treatment of mathematical morphology, based on the three pillars that made it an important field of theoretical work and practical application: a solid theoretical foundation, a large body of applications and an efficient implementation.The book is divided into five parts and includes 20 chapters. The five parts are structured as follows:Part I sets out the fundamental aspects of the discipline, starting with a general introduction, followed by two more theory-focused chapters, one addressing its mathematical structure and including an updated formalism, which is the result of several decades of work.Part II extends this formalism to some non-deterministic aspects of the theory, in particular detailing links with other disciplines such as stereology, geostatistics and fuzzy logic.Part III addresses the theory of morphological filtering and segmentation, featuring modern connected approaches, from both theoretical and practical aspects.Part IV features practical aspects of mathematical morphology, in particular how to deal with color and multivariate data, links to discrete geometry and topology, and some algorithmic aspects; without which applications would be impossible.Part V showcases all the previously noted fields of work through a sample of interesting, representative and varied applications.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction to Mathematical Morphology (pages 1-33): Laurent Najman and Hugues TalbotChapter 2 Algebraic Foundations of Morphology (pages 35-80): Christian Ronse and Jean SerraChapter 3 Watersheds in Discrete Spaces (pages 81-107): Gilles Bertrand, Michel Couprie, Jean Cousty and Laurent NajmanChapter 4 An Introduction to Measurement Theory for Image Analysis (pages 109-131): Hugues Talbot, Jean Serra and Laurent NajmanChapter 5 Stochastic Methods (pages 133-153): Christian LantuejoulChapter 6 Fuzzy Sets and Mathematical Morphology (pages 155-176): Isabelle BlochChapter 7 Connected Operators based on Tree Pruning Strategies (pages 177-198): Philippe SalembierChapter 8 Levelings (pages 199-228): Jean Serra, Corinne Vachier and Fernand MeyerChapter 9 Segmentation, Minimum Spanning Tree and Hierarchies (pages 229-261): Fernand Meyer and Laurent NajmanChapter 10 Distance, Granulometry and Skeleton (pages 263-289): Michel Couprie and Hugues TalbotChapter 11 Color and Multivariate Images (pages 291-321): Jesus Angulo and Jocelyn ChanussotChapter 12 Algorithms for Mathematical Morphology (pages 323-353): Thierry Geraud, Hugues Talbot and Marc Van DroogenbroeckChapter 13 Diatom Identification with Mathematical Morphology (pages 355-365): Michael Wilkinson, Erik Urbach, Andre Jalba and Jos RoerdinkChapter 14 Spatio?Temporal Cardiac Segmentation (pages 367-373): Jean Cousty, Laurent Najman and Michel CouprieChapter 15 3D Angiographic Image Segmentation (pages 375-383): Benoit Naegel, Nicolas Passat and Christian RonseChapter 16 Compression (pages 385-391): Beatriz Marcotegui and Philippe SalembierChapter 17 Satellite Imagery and Digital Elevation Models (pages 393-405): Pierre SoilleChapter 18 Document Image Applications (pages 407-420): Dan Bloomberg and Luc VincentChapter 19 Analysis and Modeling of 3D Microstructures (pages 421-444): Dominique JeulinChapter 20 Random Spreads and Forest Fires (pages 445-455): Jean Serra

Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises By Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain(auth.)
2012 | 277 Pages | ISBN: 0470936983 | PDF | 10 MB
Systems identification is a general term used to describe mathematical tools and algorithms that build dynamical models from measured data. Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises takes readers step by step through a series of MATLAB exercises that teach how to measure and model linear dynamic systems in the presence of nonlinear distortions from a practical point of view. Each exercise is followed by a short discussion illustrating what lessons can be learned by the reader.The book, with its learn-by-doing approach, also includes:State-of-the-art system identification methods, with both time and frequency domain system identification methods?including the pros and cons of eachSimple writing style with numerous examples and figuresDownloadable author-programmed MATLAB files for each exercise?with detailed solutionsLarger projects that serve as potential assignmentsCovering both classic and recent measurement and identifying methods, this book will appeal to practicing engineers, scientists, and researchers, as well as master's and PhD students in electrical, mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering.Content: Chapter 1 Identification (pages 1-27): Chapter 2 Generation and Analysis of Excitation Signals (pages 29-53): Chapter 3 FRF Measurements (pages 55-90): Chapter 4 Identification of Linear Dynamic Systems (pages 91-136): Chapter 5 Best Linear Approximation of Nonlinear Systems (pages 137-181): Chapter 6 Measuring the Best Linear Approximation of a Nonlinear System (pages 183-238): Chapter 7 Identification of Parametric Models in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions (pages 239-254):

Master Data Management in Practice: Achieving True Customer MDM By Dalton Cervo, Mark Allen(auth.)
2011 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 0470910550 | PDF | 4 MB
In this book, authors Dalton Cervo and Mark Allen show you how to implement Master Data Management (MDM) within your business model to create a more quality controlled approach. Focusing on techniques that can improve data quality management, lower data maintenance costs, reduce corporate and compliance risks, and drive increased efficiency in customer data management practices, the book will guide you in successfully managing and maintaining your customer master data. You'll find the expert guidance you need, complete with tables, graphs, and charts, in planning, implementing, and managing MDM.Content: Chapter 1 Defining Your MDM Scope and Approach (pages 7-28): Chapter 2 Establishing Effective Ownership (pages 29-38): Chapter 3 Priming the MDM Engine (pages 39-63): Chapter 4 Data Governance (pages 65-94): Chapter 5 Data Stewardship (pages 95-110): Chapter 6 Data Quality Management (pages 111-140): Chapter 7 Data Access Management (pages 141-161): Chapter 8 Data Maintenance and Metrics (pages 163-190): Chapter 9 Maturing Your MDM Model (pages 191-199): Chapter 10 Creating the Customer 360В° View (pages 201-214): Chapter 11 Surviving Organizational Change (pages 215-223): Chapter 12 Beyond Customer MDM (pages 225-236):

Markov Processes: Characterization and Convergence By Stewart N. Ethier, Thomas G. Kurtz(auth.)
2005 | 550 Pages | ISBN: 0471081868 | PDF | 13 MB
The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "[A]nyone who works with Markov processes whose state space is uncountably infinite will need this most impressive book as a guide and reference." -American Scientist "There is no question but that space should immediately be reserved for [this] book on the library shelf. Those who aspire to mastery of the contents should also reserve a large number of long winter evenings." -Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete/Mathematics Abstracts "Ethier and Kurtz have produced an excellent treatment of the modern theory of Markov processes that s useful both as a reference work and as a graduate textbook." -Journal of Statistical Physics Markov Processes presents several different approaches to proving weak approximation theorems for Markov processes, emphasizing the interplay of methods of characterization and approximation. Martingale problems for general Markov processes are systematically developed for the first time in book form. Useful to the professional as a reference and suitable for the graduate student as a text, this volume features a table of the interdependencies among the theorems, an extensive bibliography, and end-of-chapter problems. Content: Chapter 1 Operator Semigroups (pages 6-48): Chapter 2 Stochastic Processes and Martingales (pages 49-94): Chapter 3 Convergence of Probability Measures (pages 95-154): Chapter 4 Generators and Markov Processes (pages 155-274): Chapter 5 Stochastic Integral Equations (pages 275-305): Chapter 6 Random Time Changes (pages 306-336): Chapter 7 Invariance Principles and Diffusion Approximations (pages 337-364): Chapter 8 Examples of Generators (pages 365-385): Chapter 9 Branching Processes (pages 386-409): Chapter 10 Genetic Models (pages 410-451): Chapter 11 Density Dependent Population Processes (pages 452-467): Chapter 12 Random Evolutions (pages 468-491):

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Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: Combining Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction By John Hooker(auth.)
2000 | 505 Pages | ISBN: 0471385212 | PDF | 10 MB
A pioneering look at the fundamental role of logic in optimization and constraint satisfaction While recent efforts to combine optimization and constraint satisfaction have received considerable attention, little has been said about using logic in optimization as the key to unifying the two fields. Logic-Based Methods for Optimization develops for the first time a comprehensive conceptual framework for integrating optimization and constraint satisfaction, then goes a step further and shows how extending logical inference to optimization allows for more powerful as well as flexible modeling and solution techniques. Designed to be easily accessible to industry professionals and academics in both operations research and artificial intelligence, the book provides a wealth of examples as well as elegant techniques and modeling frameworks ready for implementation. Timely, original, and thought-provoking, Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: * Demonstrates the advantages of combining the techniques in problem solving * Offers tutorials in constraint satisfaction/constraint programming and logical inference * Clearly explains such concepts as relaxation, cutting planes, nonserial dynamic programming, and Bender's decomposition * Reviews the necessary technologies for software developers seeking to combine the two techniques * Features extensive references to important computational studies * And much moreContent: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1-14): Chapter 2 Some Examples (pages 15-42): Chapter 3 The Logic of Propositions (pages 43-60): Chapter 4 The Logic of Discrete Variables (pages 61-68): Chapter 5 The Logic of 0?1 Inequalities (pages 69-88): Chapter 6 Cardinality Clauses (pages 89-103): Chapter 7 Classical Boolean Methods (pages 105-125): Chapter 8 Logic?Based Modeling (pages 127-148): Chapter 9 Logic?Based Branch and Bound (pages 149-161): Chapter 10 Constraint Generation (pages 163-183): Chapter 11 Domain Reduction (pages 185-202): Chapter 12 Constraint Programming (pages 203-223): Chapter 13 Continuous Relaxations (pages 225-270): Chapter 14 Decomposition Methods (pages 271-284): Chapter 15 Branching Rules (pages 285-304): Chapter 16 Relaxation Duality (pages 305-323): Chapter 17 Inference Duality (pages 325-360): Chapter 18 Search Strategies (pages 361-388): Chapter 19 Logic?Based Benders Decomposition (pages 389-422): Chapter 20 Nonserial Dynamic Programming (pages 423-441): Chapter 21 Discrete Relaxations (pages 443-462):

Liquid Crystals and their Computer Simulations
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108424058 | 703 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
Standing as the first unified textbook on the subject, Liquid Crystals and Their Computer Simulations provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of liquid crystals and of their Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics computer simulations. Liquid crystals have a complex physical nature, and, therefore, computer simulations are a key element of research in this field. This modern text develops a uniform formalism for addressing various spectroscopic techniques and other experimental methods for studying phase transitions of liquid crystals, and emphasises the links between their molecular organisation and observable static and dynamic properties. Aided by the inclusion of a set of Appendices containing detailed mathematical background and derivations, this book is accessible to a broad and multidisciplinary audience. Primarily intended for graduate students and academic researchers, it is also an invaluable reference for industrial researchers working on the development of liquid crystal display technology.

Russell Freedman, "Lincoln: A Photobiography"
English | 1989 | ISBN: 1467656690, 0395518482 | ASIN: B0068Q8CGO | EPUB | pages: 165 | 20.0 mb
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints.

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Learn Flowery Scarves Made Of Crochet by Markrafts Publishing
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Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials: Advances in Chemical Physics Volume 151 By Stuart A. Rice, Aaron R. Dinner(eds.)
2012 | 343 Pages | ISBN: 111816783X | PDF | 3 MB
The Advances in Chemical Physics series?the cutting edge of research in chemical physicsThe Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a cohesive manner not found elsewhere in the literature, each volume of the Advances in Chemical Physics series presents contributions from internationally renowned chemists and serves as the perfect supplement to any advanced graduate class devoted to the study of chemical physics.This volume explores:Kinetics and thermodynamics of fluctuation-induced transitions in multistable systems (G. Nicolis and C. Nicolis)Dynamical rare event simulation techniques for equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems (Titus S. van Erp)Confocal depolarized dynamic light scattering (M. Potenza, T. Sanvito, V. Degiorgio, and M. Giglio)The two-step mechanism and the solution-crystal spinodal for nucleation of crystals in solution (Peter G. Vekilov)Experimental studies of two-step nucleation during two-dimensional crystallization of colloidal particles with short-range attraction (John R. Savage, Liquan Pei, and Anthony D. Dinsmore)On the role of metastable intermediate states in the homogeneous nucleation of solids from solution (James F. Lutsko)Effects of protein size on the high-concentration/low-concentration phase transition (Patrick Grosfils)Geometric constraints in the self-assembly of mineral dendrites and platelets (John J. Kozak)What can mesoscopic level in situ observations teach us about kinetics and thermodynamics of protein crystallization? (Mike Sleutel, Dominique Maes, and Alexander Van Driessche)The ability of silica to induce biomimetic crystallization of calcium carbonate (Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero-GarcIa, Werner Kunz, and Juan Manuel GarcIa-Ruiz)Content: Chapter 1 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Fluctuation?Induced Transitions in Multistable Systems (pages 1-26): Gregoire Nicolis and Catherine NicolisChapter 2 Dynamical Rare Event Simulation Techniques for Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems (pages 27-60): Titus S. Van ErpChapter 3 Confocal Depolarized Dynamic Light Scattering (pages 61-78): M. Potenza, T. Sanvito, V. Degiorgio and M. GiglioChapter 4 The Two?Step Mechanism and The Solution?Crystal Spinodal for Nucleation of Crystals in Solution (pages 79-109): Peter G. VekilovChapter 5 Experimental Studies of Two?Step Nucleation During Two?Dimensional Crystallization of Colloidal Particles with Short?Range Attraction (pages 111-135): John R. Savage, Liquan Pei and Anthony D. DinsmoreChapter 6 On the Role of Metastable Intermediate States in the Homogeneous Nucleation of Solids from Solution (pages 137-172): James F. LutskoChapter 7 Effects of Protein Size on the High?Concentration/Low?Concentration Phase Transition (pages 173-191): Patrick GrosfilsChapter 8 Geometric Constraints in the Self?Assembly of Mineral Dendrites and Platelets (pages 193-222): John J. KozakChapter 9 What can Mesoscopic Level IN SITU Observations Teach us About Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Protein Crystallization? (pages 223-276): Mike Sleutel, Dominique Maes and Alexander Van DriesscheChapter 10 The Ability of Silica to Induce Biomimetic Crystallization of Calcium Carbonate (pages 277-307): Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero?Garcia, Werner Kunz and Juan Manuel Garcia?Ruiz

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