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This is the sixth volume in a series of books on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black holes and…
the attractor mechanism. The present volume is based upon lectures held in May 2011 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Black Objects in Supergravity (BOSS2011), directed by Stefano Bellucci, with the participation of prestigious lecturers, including G. Lopes Cardoso, W. Chemissany, T. Ortin, J. Perz, O. Vaughan, D. Turton, L. Lusanna and S. Ferrara. All lectures were at a pedagogical, introductory level, a feature which is reflected in the specific "flavor" of this volume, which also benefited greatly from extensive discussions and related reworking of the various contributions.Biosensors and Invasive Monitoring in Clinical Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
Par Martyn Boutelle, Emma C rcoles. 2013
This volume examines the advances of invasive monitoring by means of biosensors and microdialysis Physical and physiological parameters are…
commonly monitored in clinical settings using invasive techniques due to their positive outcome in patients diagnosis and treatment Biochemical parameters however still rely on off-line measurements and require large pieces of equipment Biosensing and sampling devices present excellent capabilities for their use in continuous monitoring of patients biochemical parameters However certain issues remain to be solved in order to ensure a more widespread use of these techniques in today s medical practicesThis thesis addresses the issue of customer complaints in the context of Customer Relationship Management CRM After…
a comprehensive survey of the current literature on CRM the thesis describes the development of a new intelligent CRM I-CRM framework which integrates text analytics type mapping SPSS structural equation modeling and linear and fuzzy approaches This new methodology in contrast to previous ones is able to handle customer complaints with respect to different variables thus allowing organizations to find their key customers and key complaints and to address and provide solution to the major complaints of the key customers hence promoting business development The thesis also describes the successful application of the method to a real-world case represented by the immeasurable truck drivers complaints at the Fremantle port in Western AustraliaCharacterization of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites under Consideration of Defects (Advanced Structured Materials #39)
Par Moones Rahmandoust, Majid Ayatollahi. 2016
This volume presents the characterization methods involved with carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-based composites with a more detailed look…
at computational mechanics approaches namely the finite element method Special emphasis is placed on studies that consider the extent to which imperfections in the structure of the nanomaterials affect their mechanical properties These defects may include random distribution of fibers in the composite structure as well as atom vacancies perturbation and doping in the structure of individual carbon nanotubesAnalogue Gravity Phenomenology: Analogue Spacetimes and Horizons, from Theory to Experiment (Lecture Notes in Physics #870)
Par Ugo Moschella, Vittorio Gorini, Sergio Cacciatori, Francesco Belgiorno, Stefano Liberati, Daniele Faccio. 2013
Analogue Gravity Phenomenology is a collection of contributions that cover a vast range of areas in physics, ranging from surface…
wave propagation in fluids to nonlinear optics. The underlying common aspect of all these topics, and hence the main focus and perspective from which they are explained here, is the attempt to develop analogue models for gravitational systems. The original and main motivation of the field is the verification and study of Hawking radiation from a horizon: the enabling feature is the possibility to generate horizons in the laboratory with a wide range of physical systems that involve a flow of one kind or another. The years around 2010 and onwards witnessed a sudden surge of experimental activity in this expanding field of research. However, building an expertise in analogue gravity requires the researcher to be equipped with a rather broad range of knowledge and interests. The aim of this book is to bring the reader up to date with the latest developments and provide the basic background required in order to appreciate the goals, difficulties, and success stories in the field of analogue gravity. Each chapter of the book treats a different topic explained in detail by the major experts for each specific discipline. The first chapters give an overview of black hole spacetimes and Hawking radiation before moving on to describe the large variety of analogue spacetimes that have been proposed and are currently under investigation. This introductory part is then followed by an in-depth description of what are currently the three most promising analogue spacetime settings, namely surface waves in flowing fluids, acoustic oscillations in Bose-Einstein condensates and electromagnetic waves in nonlinear optics. Both theory and experimental endeavours are explained in detail. The final chapters refer to other aspects of analogue gravity beyond the study of Hawking radiation, such as Lorentz invariance violations and Brownian motion in curved spacetimes, before concluding with a return to the origins of the field and a description of the available observational evidence for horizons in astrophysical black holes.Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden
Par Rhonda Massingham Hart. 2005
From nibbling on fruit bushes to destroying flower beds, unwanted deer pose a frustrating and challenging obstacle to even the…
most patient gardeners. Rhonda Massingham Hart provides insights into deer behavior and offers a variety of proven techniques to keep your deer problem under control. Learn how to choose the best fence types, landscape with plants deer detest, make effective homemade repellents, and much more. You’ll have all the information you need to maintain a pristine, deer-free landscape.A Systems Description of Flow Through Porous Media (SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences)
Par Jan Dirk Jansen. 2013
This text forms part of material taught during a course in advanced reservoir simulation at Delft University of Technology over…
the past 10 years. The contents have also been presented at various short courses for industrial and academic researchers interested in background knowledge needed to perform research in the area of closed-loop reservoir management, also known as smart fields, related to e.g. model-based production optimization, data assimilation (or history matching), model reduction, or upscaling techniques. Each of these topics has connections to system-theoretical concepts. The introductory part of the course, i.e. the systems description of flow through porous media, forms the topic of this brief monograph. The main objective is to present the classic reservoir simulation equations in a notation that facilitates the use of concepts from the systems-and-control literature. Although the theory is limited to the relatively simple situation of horizontal two-phase (oil-water) flow, it covers several typical aspects of porous-media flow. The first chapter gives a brief review of the basic equations to represent single-phase and two-phase flow. It discusses the governing partial-differential equations, their physical interpretation, spatial discretization with finite differences, and the treatment of wells. It contains well-known theory and is primarily meant to form a basis for the next chapter where the equations will be reformulated in terms of systems-and-control notation.The second chapter develops representations in state-space notation of the porous-media flow equations. The systematic use of matrix partitioning to describe the different types of inputs leads to a description in terms of nonlinear ordinary-differential and algebraic equations with (state-dependent) system, input, output and direct-throughput matrices. Other topics include generalized state-space representations, linearization, elimination of prescribed pressures, the tracing of stream lines, lift tables, computational aspects, and the derivation of an energy balance for porous-media flow. The third chapter first treats the analytical solution of linear systems of ordinary differential equations for single-phase flow. Next it moves on to the numerical solution of the two-phase flow equations, covering various aspects like implicit, explicit or mixed (IMPES) time discretizations and associated stability issues, Newton-Raphson iteration, streamline simulation, automatic time-stepping, and other computational aspects. The chapter concludes with simple numerical examples to illustrate these and other aspects such as mobility effects, well-constraint switching, time-stepping statistics, and system-energy accounting. The contents of this brief should be of value to students and researchers interested in the application of systems-and-control concepts to oil and gas reservoir simulation and other applications of subsurface flow simulation such as CO2 storage, geothermal energy, or groundwater remediation.Crystallization of Nanoscaled Colloids (Springer Theses)
Par Philip Born. 2013
This thesis deals with the processes that create ordered assemblies from disordered nanoparticles Ordered packings of nanoscale particles can…
exhibit unusual properties This work investigates the self-assembly of such particles a process widely employed for the generation of ordered structures but not yet well understood In situ methods are used to observe the assembly of sub-micron polymer lattices and sub-10 nm gold particles into crystalline monolayers and aggregates On the basis of these results the book develops new models that describe the competition between different influences such as thermal agitation and directional forces It suggests necessary criteria that lead to the emergence of orderChicken Coops: 45 Building Ideas for Housing Your Flock
Par Judy Pangman. 2006
Just like houses, chicken coops come in all shapes and sizes. Judy Pangman presents how-to drawings and conceptual plans for…
45 coops — from the strictly practical to flights of fancy — guaranteed to meet the needs of every bird owner, however big or small your flock may be. Color photographs and innovative suggestions fill this encouraging guide, while lively anecdotes profile an array of coop builders and their various construction methods. Start building the coop of your chickens’ dreams!Advances in Chemical Bioanalysis (Bioanalytical Reviews #1)
Par Frank. 2014
Expert authors provide critical in-depth reviews of available methods for retrieving selective information out of complex biological systems …
Sensors probes and devices are present and future tools of medicinal diagnostics environmental monitoring food analysis and molecular biology These are based on fluorescence electrochemistry and mass spectrometry Coverage of this volume includes sensor development for the detection of small analytes monitoring of biomolecular interactions analysis of cellular function development of diagnostic toolsHot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change
Par Lisa Palmer. 2017
Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. predictions. With resources already scarce, how will…
we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap. Here, she shares the story of the epic journey to solve the imperfect relationship between two of our planet’s greatest challenges: climate change and global hunger.Hot, Hungry Planet focuses on three key concepts that support food security and resilience in a changing world: social, educational, and agricultural advances; land use and technical actions by farmers; and policy nudges that have the greatest potential for reducing adverse environmental impacts of agriculture while providing more food. Palmer breaks down this difficult subject though seven concise and easily-digestible case studies over the globe and presents the stories of individuals in six key regions—India, sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Indonesia—painting a hopeful picture of both the world we want to live in and the great leaps it will take to get there.Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World: Methodologies and Applications of Map Generalisation (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)
Par C cile Duch ne, William Mackaness. 2014
Research in the field of automated generalisation has faced new challenges in recent years as a result of technological developments…
in web-based processing new visualisation paradigms and access to very large volumes of multi-source data generated by sensors and humans In these contexts map generalisation needs to underpin on-demand mapping a form of mapping that responds to individual user requirements in the thematic selection and visualisation of geographic information It is this new impetus that drives the research of the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation for example through its annual workshops biannual tutorials and publications in international journals This book has a coherent structure each chapter focusing on core concepts and tasks in the map generalisation towards on-demand mapping Each chapter presents a state-of-the-art review together with case studies that illustrate the application of pertinent generalisation methodologies The book addresses issues from data gathering to multi scaled outputs Thus there are chapters devoted to defining user requirements in handling specifications and in the application and evaluation of map generalisation algorithms It explores the application of generalisation methodologies in the context of growing volumes of data and the increasing popularity of user generated contentThe Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Par John Gribbin. 2002
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of…
individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat. In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, and he continues through the centuries, creating an unbroken genealogy of not only the greatest but also the more obscure names of Western science, a dot-to-dot line linking amateur to genius, and accidental discovery to brilliant deduction. By focusing on the scientists themselves, Gribbin has written an anecdotal narrative enlivened with stories of personal drama, success and failure. A bestselling science writer with an international reputation, Gribbin is among the few authors who could even attempt a work of this magnitude. Praised as "a sequence of witty, information-packed tales" and "a terrific read" by The Times upon its recent British publication, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories have been undeservedly neglected. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.Carbon Nanowalls: Synthesis and Emerging Applications
Par Masaru Hori, Mineo Hiramatsu. 2010
Representing the first text to cover this exciting new area of research this book will describe synthesis techniques of…
CNWs their characterization and various expected applications using CNWs Carbon-nanowalls CNWs can be described as two-dimensional graphite nanostructures with edges comprised of stacks of plane graphene sheets standing almost vertically on the substrate These sheets form a wall structure with a high aspect ratio The thickness of CNWs ranges from a few nm to a few tens of nm The large surface area and sharp edges of CNWs may prove useful for a number of applications such as electrochemical devices field electron emitters storage materials for hydrogen gas catalyst support In particular vertically standing CNWs with a high surface-to-volume ratio serve as an ideal material for catalyst support for fuel cells and in gas storage materialsCrystallization Modalities in Polymer Melt Processing: Fundamental Aspects of Structure Formation
Par Hermann Janeschitz. 2010
The first book to explicitly focus on the processing of crystallizing polymers it presents innovative research on diverse interfering…
processes to help clarify the subject The first to address the unexpectedly strong interaction of three transport phenomena heat transfer momentum transfer rheology with crystallization kinetics With many applications most well-known crystalline structures are found in polymers like high and low density polyethylene polypropylene polybutene and their copolymers Common problems such as anisotropic shrinkage warping and split fiber formation are covered In addition to applications on amorphous polymers attempts at numerical simulation on crystallizing polymers are also examined A feeling for the origins of undesired orientations and frozen-in stresses often associated with the manufacturing process is provided to polymer chemists applied physicists rheologists plastics engineers mold makers and material scientistsAtlas of Shear Zone Structures in Meso-scale (Springer Geology)
Par Soumyajit Mukherjee. 2014
Study of structures associated with shear zones is a crucial aspect to understand the deformation mechanism associated with such zones.…
Shear zones have been emphasized since it will lead to many latest applied studies such as radioactive waste disposal, groundwater flow etc. For the sake of brevity, research papers cannot show all possible variation in structures found in shear zones. The proposed book aims to present some of these structures in great details with attractive colour photographs. Each photograph will have a comprehensive caption.In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations…
their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges--Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The "glass universe" of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades--through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography--enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard--and Harvard's first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.Chemical Solution Deposition of Functional Oxide Thin Films
Par David Payne, Theodor Schneller, Marija Kosec. 2013
This is the first text to cover all aspects of solution processed functional oxide thin-films Chemical…
Solution Deposition CSD comprises all solution based thin- film deposition techniques which involve chemical reactions of precursors during the formation of the oxide films i e sol-gel type routes metallo-organic decomposition routes hybrid routes etc While the development of sol-gel type processes for optical coatings on glass by silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide dates from the mid-20th century the first CSD derived electronic oxide thin films such as lead zirconate titanate were prepared in the 1980 s Since then CSD has emerged as a highly flexible and cost-effective technique for the fabrication of a very wide variety of functional oxide thin films Application areas include for example integrated dielectric capacitors ferroelectric random access memories pyroelectric infrared detectors piezoelectric micro-electromechanical systems antireflective coatings optical filters conducting- transparent conducting- and superconducting layers luminescent coatings gas sensors thin film solid-oxide fuel cells and photoelectrocatalytic solar cells In the appendix detailed cooking recipes for selected material systems are offeredDer NRKP umfasst alle der Lebensmittelgewinnung dienenden lebenden und geschlachteten Tierarten sowie Prim rerzeugnisse vom Tier wie Milch…
Eier und Honig Von 1989-1994 enthielt der NRKP Vorgaben f r die berwachung von Rindern Schweinen Schafen und Pferden 1995 wurde zus tzlich auch Gefl gel aufgenommen Seit 1998 werden Fische aus Aquakulturen und seit 1999 auch Kaninchen Wild Eier Milch und Honig nach den EU-weit geltenden Vorschriften kontrolliert Der NRKP gibt j hrlich ein bestimmtes Spektrum an Stoffen vor auf das die entnommenen Proben mindestens zu untersuchen sind Pflichtstoffe Dar ber hinaus k nnen bei einer definierten Anzahl von Tieren und Erzeugnissen die Stoffe nach aktuellen Erfordernissen und entsprechend den speziellen Gegebenheiten in den L ndern frei ausgew hlt werden ber den E P wird ebenfalls das gesamte Spektrum tierischer Prim rprodukte bzw Erzeugnisse abgedeckt die ber Deutschland in die Gemeinschaft eingef hrt werden Das Stoffspektrum und die Untersuchungszahlen der L nder werden entsprechend dem Risikoansatz der Verordnung EG Nr 882 2004 festgelegtSelected Topics on Improved Oil Recovery: Proceedings Of The International Conference On Improved Oil Recovery 2017
Par Sonny Irawan, Taufan Marhaendrajana, Sudjati Rachmat, Andi Wibowo, Hasian Siregar. 2018
This book presents articles from the International Conference on Improved Oil Recovery CIOR 2017 held in Bandung …
Indonesia Highlighting novel technologies in the area of Improved Oil Recovery it discusses a range of topics including enhanced oil recovery hydraulic fracturing production optimization petrophysics and formation evaluation