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A strong banking system supports economic growth by attracting unproductive capital and injecting it into the economy, increasing the productivity of the country's capital base and leveraging it by attracting outside capital.

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. It explains then some phenomena hardly explained by classical microeconomics: dispersion of prices, variety of industrial structures, financial bubbles.

Image analysis is a computational feat which humans show excellence in, in comp- ison with computers. My modest goal has been to present the frequently used techniques to analyze images in a common framework-directional image processing.

This practice-oriented guidebook collects nearly all methods published since 1975 on the chemical analysis of seawaters.

This book identifies and addresses key issues of automotive energy in China. It covers demography, economics, technology and policy, providing a broad perspective to aid in the planning of sustainable road transport in China.

Combining practical approaches with detailed theoretical underpinnings, this book provides theories, tools, frameworks, and techniques for global operations strategy, and brings real world perspectives to students and managers.

This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance management system - the loosely coupled performance management system.

This book covers the multi-disciplinary nature of process management. It develops a methodology that supports the work of a process management team and provides a tutorial to implement the use of the methodology in healthcare and business case studies.

This book covers equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena. It includes worked examples, problems and exercises.

This concise guide covers the history of rTMS treatment along with its mechanism of action, its uses in treating depression, its side-effects, clinician training and more. Discusses includes potential rTMS applications in other psychiatric conditions.

This book analyzes the stress, strain, electric field and electric displacement in electroelastic structures such as sensors, actuators and other smart materials and structures. Describes the physical variational principle and the inertial entropy theory.

This book surveys converter designs for large electrical machines, and derives methods for calculating machine phenomena, describing how such effects as torque ripple and induced shaft voltages can endanger the mechanical shaft system and bearings.

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This book reports on research on wheel-rail contact carried out by the Railway Technology Lab at Politecnico di Torino in its project to develop a real-time wheel-rail contact model, and provides simulation results obtained with dSpace real-time hardware.

This step-by-step introduction to mathematical modeling of the human urinary bladder reviews recent discoveries in biomechanics of the urinary bladder and presents the systematic development of a mathematical model of the organ as a thin soft biological shell.

This book introduces important concepts in electromagnetics, beginning with clear definitions of position, distance and base vectors. Includes 300 figures, many in 3-D, using real-world data, along with 350 examples and exercises and 280 chapter-end problems.

This book describes the main components of the cell method technique: space-time discretization, problem formulation, solution and representation of the resulting physical fields. Offers solved problems in electromagnetism, elasticity and thermo-elasticity.

This book surveys research on nonlinearities in musical systems, discusses tools for analyzing sounds in the Fourier and the phase space domains, and introduces the Finite-Element and Finite-Difference methods for physical modeling of musical instruments.

This book explores the phenomenon of superconductivity from its discovery in 1911 to today. Unlike typical science history books, it presents close-up views of of leading characters in the research and their role in the story, much of it in their own words.

This book covers geometric architecture and tectonic evolution of the Permian series, using seismic interpretation, field studies and 2D restoration of representative cross sections to show the interaction of multiphase extension, inversion and salt diapirism.

The primary contribution of this book is to integrate the important disciplines which simultaneously impact the investment appraisal process.

This book serves as the standard textbook on elastoplasticity for students, engineers and researchers in applied mechanics. It explains physical concepts in elastoplasticity in detail and offers formulations and derivations/transformations for all equations.

Classical electrodynamics is one of the most beautiful and productive theories in physics. This book differs from the many others on the subject, approaching the theory from an axiomatic perspective and providing well over 100 solved and proposed problems.

In the context of a revival in classical mechanics, this volume provides a general view on analytical formalism and shows how it can be applied to a number of branches of theoretical physics, such as thermodynamics, field theory and relativity theory.

This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history.

This is a thorough and comprehensive treatment of the theory of NP-completeness in the framework of algebraic complexity theory. Coverage includes Valiant's algebraic theory of NP-completeness; interrelations with the classical theory as well as the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation, questions of structural complexity;

This bestselling German textbook, now available in English, presents undergraduates in mechanical and civil engineering with a clear knowledge of engineering mechanics. It covers numerous topics, and each chapter contains a variety of problems and solutions.

Microsoft is injecting new energy into the smart phone marketplace with the sophisticated Windows Phone 7.

Algorithmic design, especially for hard problems, is more essential for success in solving them than any standard improvement of current computer tech nologies.