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Overview: Provides step by step explanation of airport noise and related annoyance.Discusses the future of aviation noise.Explains how to engage communities when trying to manage aviation noise.This book is ope.This open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches), but not exclusively..The content has a broader theme in order to encompass. regulation issues, the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organizat

Overview: Original research results in digital forensics.Presents innovative applications.Highlights major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigationDigital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the technique

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .These notes are designed as a guide-line for a course in Elementary Particle Physics for undergraduate students. The purpose is providing a rigorous and self-contained presentation of the theoretical framework and of the phenomenological aspects of the physics of interactions among fundamental constituents of matter....The first part of the volume is devoted to the description of scattering processes in the context of relativistic quantum field theory. The use of the semi-classical approximation allows us to illustrate the relevant computation techni

Overview: State-of-the-art research.Fast-track conference proceedings.Unique visibilityThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2011, held in Stavanger, Norway, in September 2011. The 66 revised and extended full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 papers presented at the conference. The papers are organized in 3 parts: production process, supply chain management, and strategy. They represent the breadth and complexity of topics in operations manageme

Overview: Für Assistenzärzte und Fachärzte aus angrenzenden FachgebietenOsteoporose ist keine einfach hinzunehmende „Alterserscheinung“, sondern ein weltweites und zunehmendes Gesundheitsproblem. Die WHO hat die Osteoporose als eine der zehn wichtigsten und teuersten Volkskrankheiten eingestuft. In Europa sind jede dritte Frau und jeder fünfte Mann davon betroffen, mit den Folgen langanhaltender Schmerzen, körperlicher Beeinträchtigung bis hin zur Immobilität, sozialer Isolierung und Pflegebedürftigkeit. Heute ist aber der Knochenschwund in Form der Osteoporose als eine frühdiagnostizierbare,

Overview: Discusses the latest advances in mechanism and machine science.Presents new designs and applications of mechanical systems.Written by leading experts in the field.This book presents the proceedings of the 7th IFToMM Asian Mechanisms and Machine Science Conference (Asian MMS), held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on August 28–30, 2024. It includes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in mechanism and machine science, discussing topics such as biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, the history of mechanism and machine science, gearing and transmissions, multi-body dynamics,

Overview: Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.978-1-349-32615-0978-0-230-31683-6

Overview: A comprehensive social history of boxing in the city of Sheffield, spanning almost 300 years.Explores how sport can be tied to a city, to industry, to race, to class, and other key social indicators.R.A Social History of Sheffield Boxing. combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the m

Overview: Provides a multi-dimensional survey of the recent developments in the field.Covers areas in commutative and non-commutative ring theory that have flourished in the last few decades.Includes open probl.This volume has been curated from two sources:  presentations from the .Conference on Rings and Polynomials., Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, July 19 –24, 2021, and papers intended for presentation at the .Fourth International Meeting on Integer-valued Polynomials and Related Topics., CIRM, Luminy, France, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. The collection ranges widely

Overview: Fast conference proceedings.State-of-the-art report.Up to date resultsThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 17th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2013, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2013. The 26 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies; indexing; data mining; OLAP; XML data processing; querying; similarity search; GPU; querying in parallel architectures; performance

Overview: Comprehensive and coherent reference for the practising engineer.Many concrete calculations, problems and their solutions.Internet addresses given in the appendix.Machining and cutting technologies are still crucial for many manufacturing processes. This reference presents all important machining processes in a comprehensive and coherent way. It provides the practising engineer with many technical information of the manufacturing processes and collects essential aspects such as maximum obtainable precision, errors or reference values. ..Many examples of concrete calculations, problem

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedingsThis two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed papers of the 17th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in January 2011. The 51 revised regular papers, 25 special session papers, 21 poster session papers, and 3 demo session papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 450 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on audio, image video processing, coding and compression; media content browsing and retrieval; multi-camera, multi-view, and 3D systems; multimedia indexing and mining; mul

Overview: Provides a theoretical underpinning for the design of awareness systems.Gives a reflective account of the field, tracking progress from past visions to current trends and future challenges.People go about their daily tasks with an in-built awareness of their social and physical environments. This awareness helps them to work cooperatively in groups, coordinate actions, and to maintain and enhance social communication with others. Networked technology has extended the reach of people‘s awareness to remote and distributed groups and provided access to a much larger social network than

Overview: Empirische Studie zur aktuellen Globalisierungsdebatte im Finanzsektor.Includes supplementary material: Kristina Höly widmet sich im vorliegenden Band der Frage, ob die scheinbare Entterritorialisierung der Finanzwelt auch für deren Akteure gilt. Die Autorin prüft, ob die Internationalisierung des Managements jener der Unternehmen folgt und sich mit der Entstehung einer globalen Elite an Top-Managern auch neue Prinzipien kapitalistischer Unternehmensführung etablieren. Am Beispiel der Top-50-Banken in Hongkong untersucht sie, welche Auswahlmechanismen der Formation einer globalen Ban

Overview: Conventional approach used whereby continuous time signal is used to introduce discrete time signal in later chapters.Includes basics of MATLAB and MATLAB examples throughout the book.Provides detaileThis book presents a systematic, comprehensive treatment of analog and discrete signal analysis and synthesis and an introduction to analog communication theory. This evolved from my 40 years of teaching at Oklahoma State University (OSU). It is based on three courses, Signal Analysis (a second semester junior level course), Active Filters (a first semester senior level course), and Digi

Overview: Presents normal imaging variations of the brain, skull, and craniocervical vasculature.Offers a spectrum of appearances for each variant with accompanying 3D imaging.Explores common artifacts on MR anThis atlas presents normal imaging variations of the brain, skull, and craniocervical vasculature. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and computed tomography (CT) have advanced dramatically in the past 10 years, particularly in regard to new techniques and 3D imaging. One of the major problems experienced by radiologists and clinicians is the interpretation of normal variants as compared wi

Overview: Collects the latest advances in color science, image science, material science, digital media and network technology with applications in the graphic arts, printing and packaging industry.Includes oveThis book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 49th Conference of the International Circle of Educational Institutes for Graphic Arts Technology and Management & 8th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, which was held on May 14-16, 2017 in Beijing, China. The conference was jointly organized by the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, China Acad

Overview: This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones‘ popular A Student‘s Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions‘ interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.978-1-4039-7565-2978-0-230-60182-6Series ISSN 2635-2931 Series E-ISSN 2635-294X

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The volume LNCS 8866 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2014, held in Hong Kong and Macao, China on November/ December 2014. The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. These papers cover all major topics of the theoretical research, empirical study and applications of neural networks research as follows. The focus is on following topics such as analysis, modeling, and applications.978-3-319-12435-3978-3-319-12436-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 S

Overview: Provides a valuable interdisciplinary reference for present and future research.Results are presented in detail with examples and applications to provide a better understanding for the theory.Accessib.In recent years, extensive research has been conducted by eminent mathematicians and engineers whose results and proposed problems are presented in this new volume. It is addressed to graduate students, research mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. Individual contributions are devoted to topics of approximation theory, functional equations and inequalities, fixed point theory, num