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Explains how materials are transformed from their raw-materials state to useful products. This encyclopedia covers articles on casting techniques, deformation processing, crystal growth, heat-treatment, machining and joining techniques, as well as the production and consolidation of powders. It offers information on materials processing.

Features articles that fall into several categories, including - ocean circulation, heat and water balance, the cryosphere, the marine record of paleoclimate, and the carbon system. This title references related articles on climate and oceans to facilitate research. It offers an introductory overview of climate-related oceanography.

Over the last few decades magnetism has seen an enormous expansion into a variety of different areas of research, notably the magnetism of several classes of novel materials that share with truly ferromagnetic materials only the presence of magnetic moments. . Volume 23 of the Handbook of Magnetic Materials, like the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. With contributions from leading authorities in the field, it includes a variety of self-contained introductions to a given area in the field of magnetism without requiring recourse to the published literature. It is also a reference for scientists active in magnetism research, providing readers with novel trends and achievements in magnetism.In each of these articles an extensive description is given in graphical as well as in tabular form, with much emphasis being placed on the discussion of the experimental material within the framework of physics, chemistry and material science.

A useful tool for obtaining pertinent rock data to evaluate reserves and optimize well location and performance. This guide emphasizes geological, petrophysical, and rock mechanics to complement other studies of the subject that use well logging and classical engineering approaches.

Revolutionary tools are emerging from research labs that enable all computer users to customize and automate their use of the Web without learning how to program. This book takes cutting edge material from academic and industry leaders - the people creating these tools.

Covers topics of vector algebra and geometry, the various geometric primitives of interest in a collision system, the powerful method of separating axes for the purposes of intersection testing, and the equally powerful Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm for computing the distance between convex objects.

Aimed at those who are learning or using M, this work addresses features such as transaction processing, networking, structured system variables, and interfaces to other standards. It also covers an overview of M for readers familiar with other languages; M and the Windows environment; interaction between M and the underlying system; and more.

Provides piping estimating data including installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation used in monitoring various process systems. This edition includes installation of pneumatic mechanical instrumentation, which is used in monitoring various process systems.

Focuses on the nature of development economics have been selected. This book is organised around the implications of different sets of assumptions and their associated research programs. It deals with the structural transformation of economies. It focuses on the role that human resources play in economic development.

Focuses on philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. This book contains essays that cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines.

Suitable for those new to nonlinear editing as well as experienced editors new to Final Cut Express, this book offers an introduction to Apple's editing software package and the digital video format in general. It teaches how to use Final Cut Express in the real world and offers an overview of the digital video format.

Provides methodological tools both for the engineering design of structures and for the prediction of performance and environmental impacts of such structures. This book shows readers how to perform an integrated design of coastal defense schemes. It also presents insights on hydro-morphodynamics induced by structures.

Offers fundamental, basic knowledge of the intricacies of drilling fluid, drilled solids management, drill bits, drill string design, directional drilling, cementing, casing, hydraulic optimization, and a discussion of predominant problems such as stuck pipe and lost circulation.

Covers properties of natural rocks and fluids that are important in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. This book places emphasis on fluid storage in reservoir rocks and in flow of fluids through the rock's pore structure.

Designed for technical professionals who need a 'quick look up' reference for solving day-to-day engineering, management, and optimization problems, this working guide provides those new to reservoir engineering a starting point for understanding the basics and going on to formulate effective workflow solutions.

Suitable for architects, builders, engineers, facility managers, developers, contractors, and design consultants, this book covers the costs and benefits of smart buildings, and the basic design foundations, technology systems, and management systems encompassed within a smart building.

Albert Cohen's main objectives are to survey the theoretical results that are involved in the numerical analysis of wavelet methods, and more generally of multiscale decomposition methods, for numerical simulation problems, and to provide relevant examples and applications.

Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. This title includes articles that consider the best ways to establish optimal incentives in technological progress. It examines science and innovation at the intersections of the marketplace, policy, and social welfare.

Focuses on the formation of Earth. This title includes topics such as: the differention of the core, mantle and crust; the formation of the ocean basins and continents; outgassing and volcanism; the initiation of plate tectonics, the origin and persistence of Earth's magnetic field; and, changes in mantle convection through time.

The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially. This book presents a comprehensive picture of the manifold philosophically interesting impacts of the developments in understanding nonlinear systems and the unique aspects of their complexity.

Featuring chapters on minerals and on dislocations in colloidal crystals, this title extends the first principles calculations of kink configurations in bcc metals to high pressures, including the use of flexible boundary conditions to model dilatational effects. It also includes observations of dislocations in colloidal crystals.

Presents critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as applied to various chemical disciplines. This title covers topics that include quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education, and applications in academic and industrial settings.

Addresses the science of fossil insects by demonstrating their contribution to our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental and climatological record of the past 2.6 million years. This survey also reviews the fossil insect record from Quaternary deposits throughout the world, and points to rewarding areas for future research.