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NMR Spectra of Polymers and Polymer Additives

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NMR Spectra of Polymers and Polymer Additives

Anita J. Brandolini, Deborah D. Hills
NMR Spectra of Polymers and Polymer Additives
CRC | ISBN: 0824789709 | 2000 | 634 pages | PDF | 12.2 MB

Compiles nearly 400 fully assigned NMR spectra of approximately 300 polymers and polymer additives, representing all major clases of materials: polyolefins, styrenics, acrylates, methacrylates, vinyl polymers, elastomers, polyethers, polyesters, polymides, silicones, cellulosics, polyurethanes, plasticizers, and antioxidants.

Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications

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Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications

Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications
edited by Yan-Qing Zhang, A. Kandel, T. Y. Lin, Y. Y. Yao
World Scientific | ISBN: 9812388273 | 2004 | 559 pages | PDF | 27.4 MB

This review volume introduces the novel intelligent Web theory called computational Web intelligence (CWI) based on computational intelligence (CI) and Web technology (WT). It takes an in-depth look at hybrid Web intelligence (HWI), which is based on artificial biological and computational intelligence with Web technology and is used to build hybrid intelligent Web systems that serve wired and wireless users more efficiently. The basic principles of CWI and various e-applications of CWI and HWI are discussed. For completeness, six major CWI techniques — fuzzy Web intelligence, neural Web intelligence, evolutionary Web intelligence, granular Web intelligence, rough Web Intelligence and probabilistic Web intelligence — are described. With the huge potential for intelligent e-business applications of CWI and HWI, these techniques represent the future of intelligent Web applications.

Making Concrete Garden Ornaments

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Making Concrete Garden Ornaments

Sherri Warner Hunter
Making Concrete Garden Ornaments
Lark Books | ISBN: 1579903185 | 2002 | 144 pages | PDF | 30.7 MB

Strong, versatile, and amazingly easy to work with, concrete is the ideal medium for outdoor art and long-lasting, practical projects for the garden. And, best of all, it doesn't cost a lot of money or require special equipment; everything you need is right at the local home improvement center, ready and waiting. A celebrated teacher has gathered the tried-and-true techniques used by sculptors and folk artists, and then tailored them perfectly for low-tech surroundings and personal expression. Work with molds; form over armatures; model or carve with concrete; take advantage of technical advances to develop lighter, stronger structures; and treat concrete surfaces with mosaics, embedded objects, incising, and coloring. For dazzling outdoor embellishment, craft Garden Critter Stepping Stones, a Trough Planter, Birdbath, Little Lady Fountain, and a jazzy border. Every one of the 25 projects will open up new creative horizons!

Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

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Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

Randall J. LeVeque
Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521810876 | 2002 | 578 pages | PDF | 11.2 MB

This book contains an introduction to hyperbolic partial differential equations and a powerful class of numerical methods for approximating their solution, (including both linear problems and nonlinear conservation laws). These equations describe a wide range of wave propagation and transport phenomena arising in nearly every scientific and engineering discipline. Several applications are described in a self-contained manner, along with much of the mathematical theory of hyperbolic problems. High-resolution versions of Godunov's method are developed, in which Riemann problems are solved to determine the local wave structure and limiters are applied to eliminate numerical oscillations. The methods were orginally designed to capture shock waves accurately, but are also useful tools for studying linear wave-progagation problems, particulary in heterogenous material. The methods studied are in the CLAWPACK software package. Source code for all the examples presented can be found on the web, along with animations of many of the simulations. This provides an excellent learning environment for understanding wave propagation phenomena and finite volume methods.

Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 2

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Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 2

M. A. Crisfield
Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 2
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 047195649X | 1997 | 508 pages | PDF | 24.2 MB

Non-linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures Volume 2: Advanced Topics M. A. Crisfield Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK In such fields as aeronautical, civil, mechanical and structural engineering, non-linear analysis techniques are becoming widely used for the solution of practical engineering problems. Taking an engineering rather than a mathematical bias, this comprehensive book builds on the fundamental ideas explained in Volume One, introducing the reader to more detailed, advanced topics. Large strains and large rotations, plasticity with a range of yield criteria and hardening rules, stability theory and advanced solution procedures including branch-switching techniques, contact and friction, and nonlinear dynamics, are covered in depth.

Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 1

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Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 1

M. A. Crisfield
Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures, Vol. 1
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 047197059X | 1996 | 362 pages | PDF | 11.8 MB

Taking an engineering rather than a mathematical bias, this comprehensive book details the fundamentals of non-linear finite element analysis. The author explains how non-linear techniques can be used to solve practical problems. The main ideas of geometric non-linearity, continuum mechanics, plasticity, element technology and stability theory are explored in detail. The reader is also introduced to the recent research in this developing field.

Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos, 2nd edition

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Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos, 2nd edition

Stephen Wiggins
Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Springer | ISBN: 0387001778 | 2003 | 808 pages | PDF | 7.0 MB

This volume is intended for advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students as an introduction to applied nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The author has placed emphasis on teaching the techniques and ideas that will enable students to take specific dynamical systems and obtain some quantitative information about the behavior of these systems. He has included the basic core material that is necessary for higher levels of study and research. Thus, people who do not necessarily have an extensive mathematical background, such as students in engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology, will find this text as useful as students of mathematics.
This new edition contains extensive new material on invariant manifold theory and normal forms (in particular, Hamiltonian normal forms and the role of symmetry). Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, gradient, and reversible dynamical systems are also discussed. Elementary Hamiltonian bifurcations are covered, as well as the basic properties of circle maps. The book contains an extensive bibliography as well as a detailed glossary of terms, making it a comprehensive book on applied nonlinear dynamical systems from a geometrical and analytical point of view.

Emotions in Organizational Behavior

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Emotions in Organizational Behavior

Emotions in Organizational Behavior
edited by Charmine Hartel, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Wilfred Zerbe
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | ISBN 0805850988 | 2005 | 456 Pages | PDF | 24.4 Mb

This edition was conceived and compiled to meet the need for a comprehensive book for practitioners, academics, and students on the research of emotions in organizational behavior. The book is the first of its kind to incorporate organizational behavior and bounded emotionality. The editors' primary aim is to communicate the research presented at the bi-annual International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life to a wider audience. This edition looks at the range of research on emotions within an organizational behavior framework; organized in terms of the individual, interpersonal, and organizational levels. Particular emphasis has been placed on obtaining the leading research in the international sphere. This book is intended to be useful to the student of organizational behavior, as well as to the managers of organizations.

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

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Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

Ana Cannas da Silva
Lectures on Symplectic Geometry
Springer | ISBN: 3540421955 | 2001 | 217 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB

The goal of these notes is to provide a fast introduction to symplectic geometry for graduate students with some knowledge of differential geometry, de Rham theory and classical Lie groups. This text covers symplectomorphisms, local forms, contact manifold, compatible almost complex structures, Kaehler manifolds, hamiltonian mechanics, moments maps, symplectic reduction and symplectic toric manifolds. It contains guided problems, called homework, designed to complement the exposition or extend the reader's understanding. There are by now excellent references on symplectic geometry, a subset of which is in the bibliography of this book. However, the most efficient introduction to a subject is often a short elementary treatment, and these notes attempt to serve that purpose. This text provides a taste of areas of current research and will prepare the reader to explore recent papers and extensive books on symplectic geometry where the pace is much faster.

Multicultural Assessment: Principles, Applications and Examples

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Multicultural Assessment: Principles, Applications and Examples

Richard H. Dana
Multicultural Assessment: Principles, Applications and Examples
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | ISBN: 080585200X | 2005 | 352 pages | 17.6 MB

Psychologists throughout the world are being asked to assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Most are ill-equipped by training and experience to understand, assess, and subsequently treat such clients competently and ethically. Virtually all agree on the need for culture-sensitive assessment, but it has proven difficult to provide adequate services, despite good intentions and funding. Too often, clients who may have different worldview and health-illness beliefs are marginalized.
For many reasons, standard assessment instruments designed, researched, and normed on a few groups in the United States–the MMPI-2, the Rorschach, and the TAT–are used as though they were universally applicable. Most busy practitioners have little time to investigate alternatives developed for use with one new group or another, focused on one issue or another, generally in a research context.

Research Methods for Organizational Studies

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Research Methods for Organizational Studies

Donald P. Schwab
Research Methods for Organizational Studies
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | ISBN: 0805847278 | 2004 | 352 pages | PDF | 18.2 MB

This revision of a best selling research methods textbook introduces social science methods as applied broadly to the study of issues that arise as part of organizational life. These include issues involving organizational participants such as managers, teachers, customers, patients and clients, and transactions within and between organizations.
In this new edition, chapter 19 now focuses on describing the modeling process and outcomes. An entirely new chapter 20 now addresses challenges to modeling. It goes substantially beyond a discussion of statistical inference. It also discusses issues in interpreting variance, explained estimates, and standardized and unstandardized regression coefficients. A new capstone chapter 21 helps students recognize good research. This textbook is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual for course use.

Quantum Statistical Theory of Superconductivity

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Quantum Statistical Theory of Superconductivity

Shigeji Fujita, Salvador Godoy
Quantum Statistical Theory of Superconductivity
Kluwer Academic Publishers | ISBN: 0306453630 | 2002 | 338 pages | PDF | 2.3 MB

In this text, Shigeji Fujita and Salvador Godoy guide first and second-year graduate students through the essential aspects of superconductivity. The authors open with five preparatory chapters thoroughly reviewing a number of advanced physical concepts-such as free-electron model of a metal, theory of lattice vibrations, and Bloch electrons. The remaining chapters deal with the theory of superconductivity-describing the basic properties of type I, type II compound, and high-Tc superconductors as well as treating quasi-particles using Heisenberg's equation of motion. The book includes step-by-step derivations of mathematical formulas, sample problems, and illustrations.

Circuit Design for RF Transceivers

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Circuit Design for RF Transceivers

Circuit Design for RF Transceivers
Domine Leenaerts, J. van der Tang, Cicero S. Vaucher
Kluwer Academic Publishers | ISBN: 0792375513 | 2001 | 344 pages | PDF | 12.8 MB

Circuit Design for RF Transceivers covers key building blocks which are needed to make an integrated transceiver for wireless and cellular applications, that is low-noise amplifiers, mixers, voltage controlled oscillators, RF power amplifiers and phase-locked loop systems. Starting from detailed RF concepts and specifications, the authors discuss the circuits in detail and provide solutions to many design problems. The circuits are implemented in a wide range of modern technology processes. Production requirements are taken into account, and measurement results are presented and discussed. Several of the presented circuits are used in IC products. The text also includes several RF technologies (for example double-poly, Silicon-on-Anything, SiGe-bipolar, RF-CMOS, etc.) and microwave design techniques, such as transmission line concepts. In addition, the problem of connecting the RF signals on-chip to the PCB and to the antenna will be discussed, including the influence of the package, ESD and bond pads.

Kiss the Frog: Integrating and Transforming Your Business with BPI

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Kiss the Frog: Integrating and Transforming Your Business with BPI

Richard Schultz
Kiss the Frog: Integrating and Transforming Your Business with BPI
Aspatore Books | ISBN: 158762351X | 2003 | 117 pages | CHM | 0.7 MB

Risky, expensive, complicated…organizations apply these labels to integration because—let’s face it—gluing together the incompatible systems scattered throughout the enterprise can be a downright ugly task. Kiss the Frog: Integrating and Transforming Your Business with BPI offers key insights on a surprisingly affordable and business-friendly set of tools that is radically changing the way businesses approach integration. No longer the exclusive domain of highly technical companies with seemingly unlimited budgets, integration technology is moving firmly within the grasp of any company that is willing to face the challenge head on.

Sliding Mode Control in Engineering (Control Engineering Series, 11)

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Sliding Mode Control in Engineering (Control Engineering Series, 11)

Sliding Mode Control in Engineering (Control Engineering Series, 11)
edited by Wilfrid Perruquetti, Jean-Pierre Barbot
CRC | ISBN: 0824706714 | 2002 | 432 pages | PDF | 13.5 MB

This work examines modern trends in sliding mode control, effective methods to reduce the occurrence of chattering, new theoretical developments in practical realization, stabilization techniques for optimal system performance, and comparisons among popular first-order sliding and higher-order sliding controllers. It presents techniques such as nonlinear gains, dynamic extensions, and higher-order sliding mode (HOSM) control for increased robustness and stability and decreased breaking and wear in industrial and manufacturing processes. It also discusses the effect of time delay on system behavior, adaptive control, passivity and flatness, and dynamical output controllers.