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In this lay reader's introduction to the most spectacular and devastating of all geological events, Rolf Schick describes how earthquakes and volcanoes are related, and how they are an integral part of Earth's structure.

This text integrates different mobility data handling processes, from database management to multi-dimensional analysis and mining, into a unified presentation driven by the spectrum of requirements raised by real-world applications.

The book describes the effects of natural as well as artificial electromagnetic energies covering the en tire measurable frequency range from the highest frequencies, x-rays, through microwaves, radio waves, and finally extremely low frequency (ELF) waves.

Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983).

This standard guide to electron energy-loss spectroscopy covers instrumentation, physics, procedures and results. The 3rd edition adds new equipment, advances in electron-scattering theory, spectral and image processing, and new applications in nanotechnology.

, "Uber die analytische Methoden in der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung," Math Ann. , "Zur Theorie der stochastischen Prozesse," Math Ann. , "Stochastic processes depending on a continuous parameter, " TAMS 42 (1937)) still appeared impregnable to all but the most erudite.

This book clearly explains the important theorems of single variable calculus. It includes an elementary introduction to complex numbers and complex-valued functions, key applications of calculus, and an introduction to probability and information theory.

In its new edition, this book reviews developments in automotive, aerospace, electronics and consumer applications, including continuous fiber reinforced MMCs for power transmission cables, particulate MMCs in aircraft and automotive applications, and more.

This book presents an extensive collection of state-of-the-art results and references in nonlinear functional analysis demonstrating how the generic approach proves to be very useful in solving many interesting and important problems.

Covering design techniques both at circuit block and system levels, this book enables readers to develop a complex short-range wireless communications system suitable for deployment in a healthcare context and able to acquire and convey biomedical signals.

This book surveys statistical aspects of designing, analyzing and interpreting results of genome-wide association scans for genetic causes of disease, using unrelated subjects. Covers bioinformatics and data handling methods needed to ready data for analysis.

This volume provides an in-depth view of IEC, an emerging method of generating fusion power with a unique approach to plasma confinement offering a range of spin-off applications likely to enhance the fusion energy production process, even at larger scales.

Here is a valuable resource that serves as a quick reference guide for the diagnosis of usual and unusual diseases of the liver. It features visual diagnostic criteria with detailed figure legends and is supplemented with radiographic and special study images.

Written by faculty members at Moscow State University, this updated second edition has succinct and authoritative coverage of an array of biophysical topics and models. It deploys mathematical approaches relevant to a wide range of simulated systems.

The intracarotid amobarbital (or Amytal) procedure is commonly referred to as the Wada test in tribute to Juhn Wada, the physician who devised the technique and performed the fIrst basic animal research and clinical studies with this method.

Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive development is espe cially appropriate at this time The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several authors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors.

This book offers an introduction to epidemiology suitable for Medical and Public Health Schools in developing and transition countries and in workshops in these countries, based on examples and practical work drawn from the present state of health in Vietnam.

This book offers a wealth of psychotherapeutic considerations and techniques for families coping with the effects of brain injury in a loved one, describing conceptual approaches to psychotherapeutic interventions, as well as useful "hands-on" approaches.

This updated new edition includes a wealth of additional material. As well as its integration of mathematical theory and numerical algorithm development, it features new chapters on topics such as the calculus of variations, integration, and block relaxation.

Based on the author's extensive experience in both statistics and education, this book imparts the basics of designing and carrying out Bayesian analyses, and interpreting and communicating the results. Demonstrates applications to real-world data.

Offering a breakthrough resource, this book places children with special needs in the contexts of indigenous communities and education services. Emphasizes collaboration between indigenous parents of children with disabilities and school professionals.

I am honored and delighted to write the foreword to this very first book about SystemC. " As the new system-level specification and design language, SystemC - rectly contributes to these two solutions.

This book presents various results and techniques from the theory of stochastic processes that are useful in the study of stochastic problems in the natural sciences.

This book presents a unified theory on nonlinear electro-magnetomechanical interactions of soft materials capable of large elastic deformations. It features equations that solve boundary-value problems for nonlinear magnetoelasticity and electroelasticity.

This book offers senior-level managers methods for decoding complex organizational systems and behavior. Each chapter takes a high-level view of an aspect of organizational psychology, focusing on elements that shape companies and drive operational efficiency.

This Atlas pairs photos with microscopic images and diagnostic studies for abnormalities and diseases of the esophagus and stomach. Covers developmental abnormalities, toxic insults, infectious diseases, inflammatory and autoimmune conditions and neoplasia.

This book describes the integration of several different approaches to examine questions regarding the function of interesting plant metabolites. This new edition generates new syntheses and conclusions about the biogeochemistry of the Hubbard Brook Valley.