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This thesis introduces the preparation of a series of Mg-based thin films with different structures using magnetron sputtering, as well as the systematical investigation of their gaseous and electrochemical hydrogen storage properties under mild conditions.

This thesis focuses onchalcogenide compoundquantum dots with special crystal structures and behaviors inan effort to achieve the synergistic optimization of electrical andthermal transport for high-efficiency thermoelectric materials.

This book examines green management practices among top-performing companies operating on the Chinese mainland. Through in-depth interviews with sustainability leaders and top executives, this Green Management Book will reveal how to systematically create or improve existing green management strategies in China.

In dem Band werden die Grundlagen der Programmierung f r die statistische Datenanalyse vermittelt. Eine breite Palette von Analyseverfahren und ihre Umsetzung als SAS-Programm werden vorgestellt - unter besonderer Ber cksichtigung der grafischen Aufbereitung.

This book examines the requirements needed to ensure safety in human-robot coexistence. It focuses on the biomechanical level of injury assessment, addresses the physical evaluation of robot-human impacts and isolates major factors that cause human injuries.

Das Lehrbuch fuhrt grundlegend und systematisch in die Konzepte, Methoden und Ablaufe des Marketings ein. Jedes Hauptkapitel bietet zur Veranschaulichung eine Fallstudie, in der managementbezogene Fragen beschrieben und problemorientiert analysiert werden.

This book surveys in detail the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering on single, homogeneous, but nonspherical particles. The second edition adds material on group theoretical considerations for nonspherical particles with boundary symmetries and more.

Robots can't climb trees. Or can they? This volume features the work of leading experts who have tackled this kinematic conundrum, with motion analysis of tree-climbing animals and details of a novel robot engineered as a result of this research.

This book describes a number of techniques developed to solve a central problem in the navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). It focuses in particular on localization methods and especially on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).

This resource covering all theoretical aspects of modern geometrical charged-particle optics is aimed at anyone involved in the design of electron optical instruments and beam-guiding systems for charged particles.

This book develops mathematical methods and algorithms that lead to efficient and high performance computational techniques to solve simulation based optimization problems in real-life applications.

This book constitutes the first effort to summarize a large volume of results obtained over the past 20 years in the context of the Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger equation and the physical settings that it describes.

Based on the main findings of nine solar spacecraft missions, this book offers information on key advances in the field. It also provides the scientific objective of those missions and historical perspective on studies of the sun and heliosphere.

The new edition of this comprehensive reference on astronomy observation methods and techniques includes recent developments in astronomical detectors and instrumentation, from the invention of the CCD in 1970 to the current era of huge telescopes.

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe represents one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. This book contains the worked out lectures given at the 36th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "First Light in the Universe" by three eminent scientists in the field.

Das Lehrbuch prasentiert den studienrelevanten Stoff und folgtdabei dem typischen Verfahrensablauf. Kompakt und in klarer Sprache macht der Autor die Struktur des Zivilprozessrechts anschaulich und zeigt Verbindungen zu anderen Rechtsbereichen auf."

Critical questions concerning the origin, structure and functional biology of the bony integument are discussed and intrinsically linked to major steps in vertebrate evolution and phylogeny-the origin of jaws and the origin of teeth.

Here is an overview of fillers in aesthetic medicine and their use in such facial areas as the glabella, nasolabial folds, infraorbital hollow, nose, cheeks, lips and more. The new edition includes chapters on extrafacial indications and treatment planning.