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The role of franchising on industry evolution is explored in this book both in terms of the emergence of franchising and its impact on industry structure. the emergence or franchising and the contextual drivers prompting its adoption, and the impact of franchising on industry-level structural changes.

This book presents in detail the most important driving and engine cycles used for the certification and testing of new vehicles and engines around the world.

This book explores Bernard Shaw's journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great War-a period in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful and socially relevant journalism the western world has experienced.

This book provides a general overview of several concepts of synchronization and brings together related approaches to secure communication in chaotic systems.

This book addresses the role of domestic courts in the enforcement of international trade agreements by examining the experiences of Brazilian and the European Union courts.

This book presents the theory of quantum effects used in metrology and results of the author's own research in the field of quantum electronics.

This work provides a detailed and up-to-the-minute survey of the various stability problems that can affect suspension bridges. The book then surveys conventional mathematical models for suspension bridges and suggests new nonlinear alternatives, which can potentially supply answers to some stability questions.

One accusation directed at 18th century aesthetics has been that it realised into "Art" what had previously been a living, rich tissue of meaning: this work shows how Figurative Theo humanism's attention to aesthetic values was never detached from deeper theological and humanistic considerations.

This book describes mathematical techniques for integral transforms in a detailed but concise manner. Further, an exact closed form Green's function for torsional waves is presented, as well as an application technique of the complex integral, which includes the square root function and an application technique of the complex integral.

This book explores the rotordynamics of automotive turbochargers, which encompasses analysis of the dynamics of machines rotating at very high speeds. Benefits both working practioners and graduate students in mechanical engineering.

This book presents advanced methodologies in two areas related to electroencephalogram (EEG) signals: detection of epileptic seizures and identification of mental states in brain computer interface (BCI) systems.

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. Taking into account families' fertility decisions, it examines not only the demographic changes due to longer life expectancy but also the effects of social security policy on demography and labor supply/individual retirement behaviors.

Taking Los Angeles-the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora-as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans.

It is reasonable to combine them together to achieve impressive classification performance, as the combined feature takes the advantages of the two kinds of features in different aspects. Finally, the authors design a Co-occurrence Differential Texton (CoDT) feature to represent the local image patches of HEp-2 cells.

This book offers the reader an overview of recent developments of multivariable dynamic calculus on time scales, taking readers beyond the traditional calculus texts.

Other topics include Kalman filtering for systems with correlated noise or colored noise, limiting Kalman filtering for time-invariant systems, extended Kalman filtering for nonlinear systems, interval Kalman filtering for uncertain systems, and wavelet Kalman filtering for multiresolution analysis of random signals.

This book examines changes in Taiwan's policies toward Mainland China under former Republic of China (ROC) President Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16) and considers their implications for US policy toward the Taiwan Strait.

This book describes the design of microelectronic circuits for energy harvesting, broadband energy conversion, new methods and technologies for energy conversion.

The book has an appeal to researchers, students, teachers, and those with an interest in the history and philosophy of science, as well as to the broader public, as it brings life back into biology by emphasizing that organisms, including humans, are the key active players in evolution and thus in the future of life on this wonderful planet.

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication.

This book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict.

This book investigates the economic, political and cultural factors that influence regional economic integration processes as well as international political cooperation in the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).