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Explores the definition, sources and role of randomness. This book explains as to why rules and randomness cannot exist by themselves, but instead have to coexist. It also presents examples, ranging from pure mathematical to natural and social processes, that demonstrate how the combination of rules and randomness produces the world we live in.

Contains solutions to 370 problems, many with illustrations, and Tables of Data on fuel supply.

Pile foundations are the most common form of deep foundations that used both onshore and offshore to transfer large superstructure loads into competent soil strata. This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthquake loading and soil liquefaction.

Covers the field of multiscale modeling in solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on computational approaches. This book presents an introduction to the theories on which different multiscale approaches are based, with regards to linear homogenization as well as various nonlinear approaches.

A study of group theory and Einstein's theory of gravitation. It contains a discussion on general relativity from the viewpoint of group theory and gauge fields. It also puts together in one volume many scattered, original works on the use of group theory in general relativity theory.

Space-time array communications' superior performance in practical multipath propagation environments has established it as a core aspect in the next generation mobile networks. This book looks at the integration of two technologies from an array manifold perspective - space-time array processing and spread spectrum multiple access communications.

Compares the merits of coherent electron waves with those of synchrotron radiation. This book exposes the paradigm concepts and the developed techniques that can be executed to gain knowledge in the entire domain of biological and physical science, and in the four dimensions of space and time.

Presents an overview of methods that are used to evaluate the performance of computer systems and networks, manufacturing systems, and interconnected services systems. This title includes chapters on numerical methods for queueing models and on G-networks.

Offers the reader practical methods to compute the option prices in the incomplete asset markets. This title shows that the geometric Levy process (GLP) is a typical example of the incomplete market, and that the MEMM (minimal entropy martingale measure) is an extremely powerful pricing measure. It also introduces the [GLP \& MEMM] pricing models.

The vast majority of automatic controllers used to compensate industrial processes are PI or PID type. This book covers the tuning rules for these controllers proposed from 1935 to 2008. It discusses controller architecture and process modeling issues, as well as the performance and robustness of loops compensated with PI or PID controllers.

Introduces readers to the world of disordered systems and to some of the remarkable probabilistic techniques developed in the field. This volume explores a class of directed polymer models to which much attention has been devoted, in particular in the fields of physical and biological sciences.

Presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. This book provides a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics. It emphasises on interacting systems. It considers the weakly interacting systems, and then examines the system where interactions lead to phase transitions.

Deals with how electric currents behave at the nanometer scale. This book ties together several aspects of research on current flow at the nanoscale, including its relevance in defects, grain boundaries, tunneling, and atomic contacts; and its effects through nanostructures, particularly for transistor miniaturization.

Provides physical intuition and key entries to the body of literature. This book includes historical perspective of the theories.

Modeling is a major tool for important environmental strategies. This book helps to understand and criticize the models of the shallow sea and coastal environments. It includes topics that cover the numerical schemes used, the modeling of the sea bed, modeling of shallow sea dynamics, and the modeling of ecosystems and animals.

Aims to represent a comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, experimental status, and applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions. This book looks at the physical phenomena, which arise as a result of this form of "light-matter" interaction.

Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon but not rare aggressive cutaneous malignancy. This book summarizes the knowledge about Merkel cell carcinoma and provides a perspective on future opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic advances. It also offers practical how to advice on diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

An introduction to basic ideas in differential topology, covering smooth manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using differential forms, and applications. Each chapter contains exercises and solutions are provided.

Aims to counteract the fashion for theories of "chaos" and unpredictability by describing a theory that underpins the accuracy of deterministic weather forecasts. This book suggests that further improvements are possible.

Covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway.

A description of models and algorithms that are capable of performing face recognition in a dynamic setting. The key question is how to design computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms that can operate robustly and quickly under poorly-controlled and changing conditions.

Builds on the fluid and kinetic theory of equilibria and waves presented in a companion textbook, "Basic Space Plasma Physics". The book provides a representative selection of the many possible macro- and microinstabilities in a space plasma.

Addresses one of the key problems facing the EU such as: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, this book looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it.

Structures cannot be created without engineering theory, and design rules have existed from the earliest times for building Greek temples, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals ΓÇö and later, for steel skyscrapers and the frames for aircraft. This book is, however, not concerned with the description of historical feats, but with the way the structural engineer sets about his business. Galileo, in the seventeenth century, was the first to introduce recognizably modern science into the calculation of structures; he determined the breaking strength of beams. In the eighteenth century engineers moved away from this ΓÇÿultimate loadΓÇÖ approach, and early in the nineteenth century a formal philosophy of design had been established ΓÇö a structure should remain elastic, with a safety factor on stress built into the analysis. This philosophy held sway for over a century, until the first tests on real structures showed that the stresses confidently calculated by designers could not actually be measured in practice. Structural engineering has taken a completely different path since the middle of the twentieth century; plastic analysis reverts to Galileo''s objective of the calculation of ultimate strength, and powerful new theorems now underpin the activities of the structural engineer.This book deals with a technical subject, but the presentation is completely non-mathematical. It makes available to the engineer, the architect and the general reader the principles of structural design.

This volume introduces the important methods used in the solution of partial differential equations. Aimed at second-year and final-year students taking physics and engineering courses, it should also be of value to mathematicians studying mathematical methods as part of their course.

An introduction to the physics of the photovoltaic cell. It covers the fundamental principles of semiconductor physics and simple models used to describe solar cell operation. It presents theoretical approaches to efficient solar cell design and examines the main practical types of solar cell.

Concern about groundwater contamination has focused attention on the processes that influence chemical fate in soil water systems. This work presents estimation techniques and transfer processes of required input data from existing databases in geographic information systems.

Brodmann's text is often considered on of the major classics in the neurological world and forms the basis for so-called "localization" of function in the cerebral cortex, but few have seen the original 1909 monograph. This book provides a translation of the original text.