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Reflects various developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. This book conveys both the progress that has been made by economists in understanding the forces shaping population processes, including the behavior of families, and the many questions, empirical and theoretical.

Provides an introduction to the principles and applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. This work describes the fundamental principles of pulse NMR experiment and 2D NMR spectra. It also gives a rational description of NMR spectroscopy without complicated mathematics. It is suitable to an undergraduate student in chemistry.

Applies the techniques of variational calculus and stochastic analysis, like Fokker-Plank equation to various models, to produce exact or approximate solutions, or in worst case numeric procedures. This book takes up issues for the coherent phenomena in stochastic dynamical systems, described by ordinary and partial differential equations.

Functional analysis is a powerful tool when applied to mathematical problems arising from physical situations. This book presents the reader with a keen understanding of applied functional analysis, building progressively from simple background material to the deepest and most significant results.

Presents readers with an overview of lake management problems and the tools that can be applied to solve probelms. Lake management tools are presented in detail, including environmental technological methods, ecotechnological methods and the application of models to assess the best management strategy.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the batteries used in portable electric and electronic, as well as medical devices. This book covers many batteries, ranging from the cellular phone to portable CD and cardiac pacemakers to remote micro-sensors. It looks at the behaviour of batteries in the conditions encountered in the above applications.

Powder technology is a rapidly expanding technology and nowhere more than in particle characterization. This book includes a text covering various aspects of powder technology and handling of particulate solids including characterization, handling and applications.

Geometric Function Theory is that part of Complex Analysis which covers the theory of conformal and quasiconformal mappings. This work is a collection of independent survey articles in the field of Geometric Function Theory. It covers existence theorems and qualitative properties of conformal and quasiconformal mappings.

Provides information on the application of fractals to help in modeling the analyte/receptor binding and dissociation kinetics on biosensor surfaces. This book shows that the applications of biosensors can be found in: the protection of civilian structures and infrastructures; protection from biological and chemical threats; and health care.

Offers practical information on the fundamentals of absorption and fluorescence, showing that it is possible to interpret the same result in different ways. This book is aimed at students and researchers wishing to discover or use absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, and scientists working on the structure and dynamics of macromolecules.

Identifies practical reasoning as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. This work is intended for researchers in logic, belief dynamics, computer science, AI, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, argumentation theory, and other fields.

Presents a collection of short articles - most of which having a review component - describing the developments of Nonparametric Statistics. This work includes topics such as: algorithic approaches; wavelets and nonlinear smoothers; graphical methods and data mining; biostatistics and bioinformatics; bagging and boosting; and more.

The articles that comprise this volume address a range of topics that concern mathematical fluid dynamics including: the Boltzman equation, collisional kinetic theory, viscous heat conducting compressible fluids and dynamic flows in liquids and vapours.

This overview of current research on cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements includes peer-reviewed chapters based on a selection of papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Eye Movements (Turku, Finland 2001), supplemented by invited contributions.

It is widely recognized that analytical technologies and techniques are playing a pioneering role in a range of foremost challenging scientific endeavours, including especially biological and biomedical research. This book covers a wide range of protein and genomic material analysis techniques.

One of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human players. Despite early optimism in the field, the progress only began in the 1990s. This book documents the progress made in computers playing games and puzzles.

Intended for finance and economics professors and lecturers, professional researchers, and graduate students, this volume presents research focusing on heavy tailed distributions in finance. It covers methodological issues, as well as the applications of the stable and other non-Gaussian models in finance and risk management.

Contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. This title covers the following aspects of mathematics: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items.

Seagrasses provide food for sea turtles. They also support complex food webs. This book presents a set of globally applicable techniques for seagrass research. It provides methods for various aspects of seagrass science from basic plant collection to statistical approaches and investigations of plant-animal interaction.

Attempts to give a systematic presentation of both logic and type theory from a categorical perspective, using the unifying concept of fibred category. This book is useful for logicians, type theorists, category theorists and (theoretical) computer scientists.

Contains papers that are from the workshop on Protein Flexibility and Folding held in Traverse City, Michigan from August 13-17, 2000. The three-day workshop was organized so that the first day covered Flexibility and Dynamics, the second day Folding and Unfolding, and the third day Evolution and Design.

This second volume of "Handbook of Automated Reasoning" covers topics such as higher-order logic and logical frameworks, higher-order unification and matching, logical frameworks, proof-assistants using dependent type systems, and nonclassical logics.

Emphasises on the generality of the fixed-point notation, and on the connections between mu-calculus, games, and automata, explained in an algebraic way. This book is aimed at researchers and students interested in logic in computer science, computer aided verification, and general aspects of automata theory.

Codes on Euclidean spheres are often referred to as spherical codes. They are of interest from mathematical, physical and engineering points of view. This book offers an account of the mathematical theory of codes on Euclidean spheres. It focuses on the engineering applications and illustrates the theory by using many examples.

New methods of breaking into corporate networks are resulting in major losses. This book provides the information on how to guard against attacks and informs the IT manager of the products that can detect and prevent break-ins. It also explains concepts such as authentication and encryption.

In this work, Dhillo compiles information on designing modern engineering systems to reduce the time and expense required for maintenance, estimated by some to be typically over 60 per cent. He considers both traditional and innovative maintainability concepts and includes references.

Featuring a companion web site containing details on using Encore 1.5, this book helps you increase your productivity with Encore DVD; learn to take advantage of integration with Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere; and includes DVD with tutorials. It also shows how to avoid common pitfalls and learn about the DVD authoring workflow.

This edition of an established book has become necessary to enable the marine engineer to keep abreast of new developments in the design and manufacture of marine diesel engines. It continues to meet the requirements of Marine Engineer Officers preparing for examinations.

Reveals how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people's attitudes and behavior. This book contains key term definitions in persuasive computing. It provides frameworks for understanding this domain. It describes real examples of persuasive technologies.

Provides tools to design and implement network-orientated applications in .NET. Written in two languages C# and VB.NET, this book covers information on Telephony in .NET and packet-level networking. It also addresses real-world issues facing professional developers, such as using third-party components as opposed in-house development.