The ARENA Workshop in Zeuthen was the first to combine extensively the fields of acoustic and radio detection techniques for high-energetic particle cascades from cosmic neutrino interactions. The articles in this volume comprise the latest research work which was presented by over 50 speakers from 10 countries. The wide coverage includes:...
This practical guide provides a simple, useful reference to commonly raised questions about medical student assessment.The first part of the book provides succinct information on the general aspects of assessment such as purpose and principles of assessment; technical terms such as validity, reliability, and utility of assessment instruments;...
This book is devoted to the structure of Mandelbrot set - a remarkable and important personage of the modern theoretical physics, related to chaos and fractals and simultaneously to analytical functions, Riemann surfaces and phase transitions. This makes Mandelbrot set one of the bridges connecting the worlds of chaos and order (integrability). At...
This book consists of 9 chapters encompassing both the fundamental
aspects of dynamic fracture mechanics as well as the studies of fracture
mechanics in novel engineering materials. The chapters have been
written by leading authorities in various fields of fracture mechanics
from all over the world. These chapters have been arranged...
This is the most systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date book on the theoretical analysis of piezoelectric devices. It is a natural continuation of the author s two previous books: An Introduction to the Theory of Piezoelectricity (Springer, 2005) and The Mechanics of Piezoelectric Structures (World Scientific, 2006). Based on the linear,...
Modern robotics has moved from the industrial manufacturing environment to human environment for service and entertainment in the recent few years. The human environment is typically unstructured and quite often everchanging, the robot is required to be capable of independently learning the dynamic environment as well as continuously adjusting its...
This invaluable textbook serves two purposes. The first is to introduce some traditional topics such as matrix formalism of geometrical optics, wave propagation and diffraction, and some fundamental background on fourier optics. The second is to present the essentials of acousto-optics and electro-optics, and provide the students with experience...
This invaluable textbook serves two purposes. The first is to introduce some traditional topics such as matrix formalism of geometrical optics, wave propagation and diffraction, and some fundamental background on fourier optics. The second is to present the essentials of acousto-optics and electro-optics, and provide the students with...
The effective field approach to a phase transition, used by Pierre Weiss at
the beginning of this century to describe theoretically ferromagnetic transitions
in iron, nickel, and cobalt, is the second oldest (surpassed in this
respect only by Van der Waals theory of liquid-vapor transitions) and certainly
the simplest approach...
This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifespan will have a profound impact on companies' employment policies, and employees' strategies for gaining knowledge. How to manage...
This carefully constructed textbook empowers the reader with an understanding of fundamental economic concepts. There are 31 “one-concept” chapters. Each short chapter highlights one economic principle. The student can study one concept and be reinforced by the learning process before proceeding to another. The writing is lucid...
After decades of research activity, Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP) has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery. In this book, the editors provide both an introduction to the field as well as unique research problems with their solutions in various areas of CSLP. The contributions represent pioneering...
