Berlin: Springer-Verlag. – 1994. – 186 p. — (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1591) The first two chapters of this book are devoted to the exposition of our approach to real and complex Finsler geometry. In the first chapter, after setting the stage introducing the necessary general definitions and objects, we define in a global way the classical Cartan connection, and we discuss...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. – 93 p. The advent of turbo codes has sparked tremendous research activities around the theoretical and practical aspects of turbo codes and turbo-like codes. The crucial novelty in these codes is the iterative decoding. In this work, first a novel high-speed turbo decoder is presented that exploits parallelization. Parallelism is achieved very...
New York: Springer. — 2008. — 463 p. Polymeric materials of the 21st century often contain atoms that are not present in traditional polymers. Polymers containing nontraditional atoms are now of interest because of their unique properties. This book demonstrates the breadth of these properties and some of the specialized analytical techniques that have been developed to...
Berlin: Springer-Verlag. – 2007. – 300 p. (Theory and decision library. Series C: Game theory, Mathematical programming and Operations research. Volume 41) The concept of uncertainty has much evolved since F. Knight wrote his seminal book on Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Economists have generally reduced the concept to the idea that no probability was available, as opposed to...
Boston: Birkhaäuser. – 2005. – 375 p. (Systems and Control: Foundations & Applications) This volume was prepared in conjunction with a Symposium held in Berkeley June 5–7, 2005, as a tribute to Professor Pravin Varaiya. The contributions represent most of the lectures given at the meeting. The Symposium brought together former students, collaborators and friends from throughout...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2004. – 267 p. (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. 302) Nonlinear systems are generic in the mathematical representation of physical phenomena. It is unusual for one to be able to find solutions to most nonlinear equations. However, a certain physically significant subclass of problems admits deep mathematical structure...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2001. — 108 p. (Analytical Chemistry Series) Quality and reliability are two very important parameters in analytical chemistry. High-quality analytical information alone is not enough, as the information must also be reliable. Reliability is defined as the maintenance of quality through time. Although reliable analytical information is characterized by...
Redwood City: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. -1987. - 838 p. In the Spring of 1966, I gave a series of lectures in the Princeton University Department of Physics, aimed at recent mathematical results in mechanics, especially the work of Kolmogorov, Arnold, and Moser and its application to Laplace's question of the stability of the solar system. Mr. Marsden's notes of the...
Leiden: A.A. Balkema Publishers. – 2004. – 316 p. This book is intended as an introduction to those who are new to neural network hydrological modelling and as a useful update for those who have been experimenting with different tools and techniques in this area. The scope for applying neural network modelling to hydrological forecasting and prediction is considerable and it is...
Amsterdam: Elsevier. – 2005. – 331 p. This book is intended to be used by students of chemistry, chemical engineering, biophysics, biology, materials science, electrical, mechanical, and other engineering fields, and physics. It assumes that the reader has some familiarity with the basic concepts of molecular spectroscopy and quantum theory, e.g., the concept of the uncertainty...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. – 281 p. magine the North American wilderness as the explorers Lewis and Clark saw it: forests thick with chestnut trees in the East, prairies teeming with bison and rivers overflowing with salmon in the West. Now picture the continent today: superhighways link colossal cities, suburbs stretch farther and farther into the countryside, industrial...
Singapore: World Scientific. – 2006. – 413 p. The collection of papers on various topics in planets and asteroids Geoscience. Review of Mariner 10 Observations: Mercury Surface Impact Processes Earth Ground-Based Observations of Mercury Exosphere — Magnetosphere — Surface Relations On the Dynamics of Charged Particles in the Magnetosphere of Mercury 17 The Dayside Magnetosphere...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2006. — 144 p. The collection includes mostly the papers of Asian scientists, dedicated to the spread of pollutants in the atmosphere and the predictions of the ocean and atmosphere dynamics. Editors. Reviewers. Sabah Shoreline Management Plan. The Spatial Distribution of Chlorophyll-a and its Responses to Oceanographic Environments in...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2004. — 508 p. The branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic gamma-ray photons – gamma-ray astronomy – is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of non-thermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms. The great potential of the discipline allows an impressive coverage of a...
New York: Springer. – 2007. – 315 p. (Astrophysics and space science library. Volume 346) In this book, I wanted to emphasize three points: The first is that readers should appreciate how much effort is required for new findings to become common knowledge. The contents of one chapter in this book may be condensed into one sentence or one page in a standard textbook. On the...
Chelsea: Ann Arbor Press, 2005. — 230 p. This book is an expression of the myriad ways in which the range of geospatial methods and technologies can be applied to the analysis of issues related to human and environmental health. Since the study and management of the many diverse issues related to human health is one of the most important aspects of human endeavor it is not...
Berlin: Springer-Verlag. – 2008. – 182 p. It is a commonly accepted fact in the mathematical scientific community that the rigorous understanding of turbulence and related questions in hydrodynamics is one of the most important problems in mathematics and one of the challenging tasks for the future development of the theory of partial differential equations in particular, but...
London: Springer-Verlag, 2008. — 270 p. This book is based on lecture notes which I have used over a number of years to teach a course on mathematical methods to senior undergraduate students of mathematics at King Saud University. The course is offered here as a prerequisite for taking partial differential equations in the final (fourth) year of the undergraduate program. In...
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 407 p. — (Sourcebooks in Modern Technology). This book is part of a special series of comprehensive reference volumes that deal with the scientific principles, technical applications, and societal impacts of modern technologies. The present volume serves as your initial, one-stop guide to the very exciting field of space technology. The contents...
2nd Ed. — New York: Springer-Verlag. — 1990. — 216 p. — (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 41). — ISBN: 0-387-97127-0. This volume is a textbook which evolved from a course (Mathematics 160) offered at the California Institute of Technology during the last 25 years. The volume presupposes a background in number theory comparable to that provided in the first volume, together with a...
A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Science. – London: Imperial College London. – 2010. — 117 p. Heat exchanger fouling is a severe and chronic problem in oil refineries. In the U.K. and U.S., the problem accounts for 0.25% of the countries’ GDP, not to mention environmental and safety issues associated. The problem occurs especially at the preheat trains (PHTs) in...
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. — 2006. — 275 p. The transfer of materials through interfaces in fluid media is called mass transfer. Mass transfer phenomena are observed throughout Nature and in many fields of industry. Today, fields of application of mass transfer theories have become widespread, from traditional chemical industries to bioscience and environmental...
Berlin: Springer. – 2007. – 533 p. (ESO Astrophysics Symposia: European Southern Observatory) The year 2005 featured the 100th anniversary of the ‘annus mirabilis’, the year in which Albert Einstein published three of his outstanding scientific papers. The Max-Planck Society with their institutes for extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) and Astrophysik (MPA) together with the...
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. — 354 p. This book mostly stresses the recent findings that model the transport phenomena through the different interfaces present in multiple emulsions. It will be useful for each formulator to understand how he can enhance the stability of multiple emulsions. The achievements include (1) new theoretical approaches and modeling to characterize...
New Jersey: World Scientific. – 2007. – 467 p. (Proceedings of the 12th Regional Conference) These are the proceedings of the 12th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics organized by the National Centre for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 27 March to 1 April, 2006. This series of conferences was initiated by Iranian, Pakistani and Turkish physicists after the...
Amsterdam: Elsevier. – 2002. – 417 p. Teaching transport phenomena is a strange experience. There is so much conceptual content in the subject that one has no hope whatsoever of covering any reasonable fraction of it in a two-semester course; and yet, that’s exactly what one is called upon to do. There is a redeeming feature, however: a textbook which is so obviously a classic,...
New York: Oxford University, 2003. – 363 p. Atkins presents a breathtaking review of present understanding, Madliox J., Times Literary Supplement. a charming and ambitious book, Nature. It is a testament to [Atkins'] skills as a writer and tutors that, despite the subject matter, it is difficult to get lost. Atkins has a gift for making complex principles very clear. . This...
Boca Raton: CRC PRESS. – 2005. – 445 p. This volume comprises a fine selection of the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation held at the School of Geography, University of Southampton. The term GeoComputation has been gathering strength in recent years: it embraces the links between numerical modeling (i.e., computing) and its application to...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005. — 672 p. The second edition of the Handbook of Media for Environmental Microbiology includes descriptions of nearly 2000 media that are used for environmental microbial analyses, e.g., of water quality; for the isolation of microorganisms from soils, waters, and other environmental samples; and for the cultivation and maintenance of environmentally...
New York: Springer Science. – 2006. – 341 p. (Springer Series in optical sciences 120) With the appearance of lasers have come real possibilities of revealing numerous nonlinear phenomena of diverse nature resulting from the interaction of strong electromagnetic field either with matter or with free charged particles. First attempts of investigators, especially...
Imperial College Press, 2006. — 263 p. — (Air Pollution Reviews - Vol. 3). Air pollution affects populations throughout the world, having a significant impact on public health. An important source of these pollutants is the motor vehicle. In our attempt to address some of the issues within the field in this volume, it is clear that there is sufficient material to fill many...
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. – 1958. – 354 p. The powder method-the analysis of polycrystalline or powdered materials by passing x-rays through the sample and recording the resulting diagram is probably the most widely used application of x-ray diffraction, as well as one of the most modern and accurate means of analysis. This book contains a complete exposition of the...
Master of Science Thesis in the Master’s Programme Design for Sustainable Development. Department of Architecture & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Chalmers University of Technology. Göteborg, Sweden. – 2011. – 106 p. Abstract: One important issue that contributes to several negative impacts on our world is the global deforestation. The global deforestation...
Boston: Artech House. – 2003. – 508 p. During the last decade, stimulated by unprecedented growth in the wireless communication application, outstanding progress has been made in the development of low-cost solutions for front-end RF and microwave systems. Lumped elements such as inductors, capacitors, and resistors have played a vital role in the development of such low-cost...
Singapore: Imperial College Press. – 2007. – 521 p. (Imperial College Press Advanced Texts in Mathematics – Vol. 1). This book is divided into two parts. The first part is about Sign-Changing Yamabe-type problems. A Morse Lemma at infinity, under reasonable basic conjectures, is proved for such problems. This work is an attempt to define a new area of research for nonlinear...
Berlin: Springer. – 2007. – 182 p. The history of man's space stations is a long one, and one that is necessary if we are to journey beyond the orbit of our own planet again. The glory days of Apollo are a long way behind us, many more manned ours aboard the ISS the space shuttles, and the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) lay ahead before we can fulfil our destiny to land human...
Berlin: Springer-Verlag. – 2008. – 166 p. Ever since its infancy, humankind has been seeking answers to some very basic and profound questions. Did the Universe begin? If it did, how old is it, and where did it come from? What is its shape? What is it made of? Fascinating myths and brilliant intuitions attempting to solve such enigmas can be found all through the history of...
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company. – 1980. – 701 p. (Les Houches. Session XXXII) Our understanding of the Universe as a whole has grown enormously in the past decade. Cosmology is no longer merely an abstract mathematical construction, but has become a truly physical science where theory begins to be strongly constrained by the observations. The first section of the...
North-Holland Publishing Company: Singapore. – 1981. – 406 p. (Les Houches: Session XXVIII) Recent developments in the quantization and renormalization of gauge theories have led to spectacular progress in a renormalizable unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions, and maybe in the construction of a quantum theory of gravitation. They now seem to find further...
Amsterdam: North-Holland. - 1987. - 246 p. (North-Holland Mathematical Library. Vol. 38) The present book contains the basics of the algebra of operators. It is devoted to the study of so-called linear operators, which corresponds to that of the linear forms аг+ a2x2 + . + anxn of algebra. In this book, I have elected, above all, to gather together results concerning linear...
A Thesis for the degree of Master of Science. — College Station:Texas A&M University. – 2008. – 103 p. Целью данной работы является технико-экономический анализ GTL процесса и его интеграция для снижения потребления энергии и уменьшения вредного воздействия на окружающую среду. Сначала синтезируется базовый вариант технологической схемы процесса. Затем выполняется компьютерное...
New Jersey: World Scientific, 2008. — 1062 p. The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energy and performed in a large variety of environments going from particle accelerators, underground detectors up to satellites and space laboratory. The achievement of these research programs calls for novel...
Статья. Опубликована в журнале Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 563-574, 1996. A technique was developed for evaluation of the eigenvalues for the Graetz problem extended to slip-flow. The first four eigenvalues for Knudsen numbers of 0.02, 0.04 . 0.12 were found. By using a least square curve-fit method, simplified relationships between the eigenvalues and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 272 p. ‘Everything’ is a big subject. Yet modern scientists believe they have stumbled upon a key which unlocks the mathematical secret at the heart of the Universe: a discovery that points them towards a monumental ‘Theory of Everything’ which will unite all the laws of Nature into a single statement that reveals the inevitability of...
Hoboken: John Wiley & Son. – 2007. – 312 p. The gas chromatographic column can be considered the heart of a gas chromatograph. As such, selection of a gas chromatographic column is made with the intended applications in mind and the availability of the appropriate inlet and detector systems. A comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of column selection, performance, and...
New York: Cambridge University Press. – 2003. – 408 p. (Cambridge Astrophysics Series 37) The study of the universe in Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths is a relatively new branch of astronomy. Lying between the X-ray and UV bands, Extreme Ultraviolet has proved to be a valuable wavelength for the study of specific groups of astronomical objects, including white dwarf stars...
New York: Kluwer academic publishers, 2003. — 484 р. Environmental chemistry is becoming an increasingly popular subject in both undergraduate and graduate education in all Asian countries. Courses in ecology, geography, biology, chemistry, environmental science, public health, and environmental engineering all have to include environmental chemistry in their syllabuses to a...
Chippenham: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. – 2005. – 532 p. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was developed over 40 years ago by engineers and mathematicians to solve heat and mass transfer problems in aeronautics, vehicle aerodynamics, chemical engineering, nuclear design and safety, ventilation and industrial design. Environmental applications of CFD thus have some fundamentally...
Boca Raton: CRC Press., 2008. — 697 p. Polymers are one of the modern world's most intriguing and versatile materials, able to assume a near-infinite variety of shapes and properties that permeate almost every aspect of our lives as consumers. The commutative nature of plastics is not only a function of their melt-processing capabilities, but also a reflection of the wide...
Dublin: Published as Contemporary Mathematics 272, A.M.S. – 2000. – 314 p. These are the proceedings of the conference on Quadratic Forms and Their Applications which was held at University College Dublin from 5th to 9th July, 1999. The meeting was attended by 82 participants from Europe and elsewhere. There were 13 one-hour lectures surveying various applications of quadratic...