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In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicle.

Compared with forces occurring in soil mechanics problems in civil engineering, the forces that are applied to soil in farming operations generally have a short duration, less than a few seconds, a small loaded area, no more than a few square decimeters, and small intensities, 10 bar being a high value.

A more complete understanding of soil chemistry and plant nutrition has led to greater fertilizer use with improved fertilization methods and crop cultural practices. The modem fertilizer industry and with it fertilization practices began in the humid countries of the world.

Although it is possible to describe complex systems of living organisms in holistic terms, the most useful descriptions are found in terms of the birth, growth and death of individ uals.

In recent years, a number of textbooks on forensic science have been published, most of them directed to two groups, viz. In this book, while covering fundamental concepts, we try to go a little further and address also active workers in the field of forensic chemistry.

The concept of controlled release has attracted increasing attention over the last two decades, with the applications of this technology proliferating in diverse fields in cluding medicine, agriculture and biotechnology. The number and variety of controlled release systems, differing in their physical and chemical makeup, are increasing rapidly.

KROMPECHER had made a step forwards in the matter of chondrogenesis when he abandoned the shear theory postulated by Roux and held that compression was the only effective stimulus for the forma tion of cartilage. The research concerning the healing of fractures relies partly on the theory of KROMPECHER which was new at that time.

This book offers a clear, thorough introduction to Petri nets. The explanations are supported throughout with fully integrated graphical illustrations, with only the analysis and verification presented in a formal manner.

This volume covers the basics and applications of thermoelectricity and thermoelectric materials. It presents the theory in sufficient detail to enable researchers to understand their observations and develop improved thermoelectric materials.

This book provides basic tools to understand relations between plants and soil. It also details methods to interpret x-ray diffraction spectra used to identify clay minerals.

Integrating the concepts of classical and elementary particle interaction, this volume includes stripped-down model equations adaptable to numerous systems showing particle-like structures, making it a valuable source for researchers and graduate students.

This book surveys recent developments in plasmonic nanosensor design, covering such discoveries as the optimal shape for plasmonic nanoparticles used for sensing, experimental methods and topics ranging from nanoparticle growth to membrane protein attachment.

This book explores the many facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies, describing and discussing the latest challenges and suitable solutions, and outlining future trends. Includes practice-oriented case studies.

Written in an accessible style without sacrificing depth of analysis, this book examines central issues in the public debate on environmental problems and policy, from the perspective of economics. Provides a concise introduction to micro- and macroeconomics.

Part one of this book offers comprehensive advice on methods and techniques for experiment design, modeling and optimization. The second part presents practical applications, focused mainly in the field of thermodynamics and fluid dymanics.

This inaugural volume on a topic of increasing importance collates research on databases, statistics, information retrieval, data mining and machine learning to provide a detailed discussion of the practical aspects and limitations of data matching.

Linking the differing techniques deployed in describing space-filling curves to their corresponding algorithms, this book introduces SFCs as tools in scientific computing, focusing in particular on the representation of SFCs and on the resulting algorithms.