BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: Provides the reader with the tools for extending and using the CVBEM in various applications.Guides the reader through the key topics necessary for an understanding of the development of the CVBEM in This book explains and examines the theoretical underpinnings of the Complex Variable Boundary Element Method (CVBEM) as applied to higher dimensions, providing the reader with the tools for extending and using the CVBEM in various applications. Relevant mathematics and principles are assembled and the reader is guided through the key topics necessary for an understanding of the developm

Overview: Organized according to the role of FDG PET/CT in the evaluation and management of oncology patients.100 informative cases reflecting the issues that clinicians address in their daily practice.Ideal fo.FDG PET/CT has rapidly emerged as an invaluable combined imaging modality that provides both anatomic and functional information. This book, comprising a collection of images from oncology cases, is organized according to the role of FDG PET/CT in the evaluation and management of oncology patients, and only secondarily by organ or tumor entity. In this way, it reflects the issues that c

Overview: This book draws together contributions from forest economists in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, with co-authors from institutions around the world. It represents our common belief that rigorous empirical analysis in an economic framework can inform forest policy. We intend the book as a guide to the empirical methods that we have found most useful for addressing both traditional and modem areas of concern in forest policy, including timber production and markets, multiple use forestry, and valuation of non-market benefits. ‘The book editors and most chapter authors are affi

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-642-90568-1978-3-642-92425-5

Overview: .Fundamentals of Family Medicine, Third Edition, describes the current approach to common problems in family practice. The book tells how family physicians provide high-quality, comprehensive, and ongoing health care for patients and families, based on current evidence and time-tested methods in clinical practice..Clinical scenarios that include case studies and questions for group discussion reinforce the book‘s clinical topics. The clinical scenarios all concern members of the Nelson family- a multigenerational extended family whose members visit the family physician with a variety

Overview: Written in ?engaging prose that tells the stories of fire danger and human heroics.Offers perceptive observations about the growing impact wildfire will have on communities, economies, and nature.ContIn this book, the author visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. The author weaves a heart-pumping narrativ

Overview: Describes basic concepts of fuzzy sets for analytics.Reports on fuzzy optimization models for analytics.Discusses important applications, such as fuzzy transportation problems.The book offers a comprehensive, practice-oriented introduction to the field of fuzzy mathematical programming (FMP) as key topic of modern analytics.  FMP plays a fundamental role in dealing with a varied range of problems, such as those concerning smart cities, sustainability, and renewable energies. This book includes an introduction to the basic concepts, together with extensive information on the computati

Overview: Describes the fatigue behavior of several types of composite materials - Presents basic fatigue issues, as well as innovative theories in a very comprehensive way - Gives novel methods for modelling/p.Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material. .Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced Composites. explains these highly scientific subjects in a simple yet thorough way..Fa

Overview: Offers a thorough analysis of the scientific advances in FPA.Features an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to FPA.Identifies emerging theoretical treThis book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological pitfalls and major case-studies and is designed to be a key entry point for graduate students, upper-level undergraduates and scholars into t

Overview: Draws upon discourse analysis, narrative, social semiotics, and media communication.Analyzes four key linguistic features: recipe telling, storytelling, evaluations, and humor.Has global appeal, given.Food Discourse .explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows. It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the American television channel .Food Network .conveys a pseudo-relationship between the celebrity chef host and viewers. Excerpts are drawn from a variety of cooking show genres (how-to, travel,

Overview: Describes the fabrication process of heat-resistant and plastic-formable silicon nitride.Explains in detail the results of both the creep test and instant break test to provide a conceptual view of ma.In this book, improvements in the heat resistance of silicon nitride (Si.3.N.4.) ceramics using grain boundary control and in plasticity at high temperatures using grain size control in order to reduce the cost of shaping Si.3.N.4. are described.. .The heat resistance of Si.3.N.4. is improved by mixing a slight amount of sintering additive as an impurity into the original material powde

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-663-00550-6978-3-663-02463-7

Overview: What has prompted the shift toward sustainability in numerous financial areas? Can investors‘ mindsets be changed to embrace a long-term view? Can shareholders and activists play a greater role in encouraging financial actors to behave more responsibly? These are some of the relevant topics that are explored in this forward-looking set of essays.978-0-230-23575-5

Overview: Brings together all of the methods needed for measuring and monitoring forest carbon pools and fluxes into one volume.Presents a roadmap for creating forest carbon monitoring sites that can be used asIn the summer of 2003, a workshop was held in Portsmouth, NH, to discuss land measurement techniques for the North American Carbon Program. Over 40 sci- tists representing government agencies, academia and nonprofit research organi- tions located in Canada, the US and Mexico participated. During the course of the workshop a number of topics were discussed, with an emphasis on the followi

Overview: This book is the proceedings of two symposia, on Proteins of the Nervous System and Myelin Proteins, held as part of the Third Meeting of the International Society of Neurochemistry in Budapest, July 1971. If confirmation of the utility for such a book was needed, it was obtained with the independent publication of a review on Proteins of the Nervous System (1) covering essentially the same ground. This review is an excellent collection of the earlier litera­ ture. The present volume summarizes the more recent advances in this field, and in addition covers those areas, glycoproteins

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Overview: Wichtige Sammlung von Originaltexten zur Entwicklung der FernsehprogrammeReader, die auf Quellen zurückgreifen, wie dieser vorliegende Band, stehen immer vor der gleichen Grundproblematik. Die Fülle des Materials machte eine strikte Auswahl erforderlich, die letzten Endes immer aus der Perspektive der Gegenwart vergangene Entwicklungen beurteilen und auf subjektiven Einschätzungen beruhen. Ich habe versucht, zentrale Aussagen aus öffentlich geäußerten, einflußreichen Programmkonzeptionen und einige Auszüge aus Diskussionen um 1 wichtige Programmentwicklungen zu dokumentieren. Die jew

Overview: Offers a systematic, up-to-date treatment of spacecraft attitude and orbit control.Describes original orbit control applications, including optimal orbital transfer with finite and infinite thrust.IncThis book is an up-to-date compendium on spacecraft attitude and orbit control (AOC) that offers a systematic and complete treatment of the subject with the aim of imparting the theoretical and practical knowledge that is required by designers, engineers, and researchers. After an introduction on the kinematics of the flexible and agile space vehicles, the modern architecture and functio

Overview: Provides an updated and analytical retelling of the Swedish experience of banking and banking regulation.Combines political and financial history.Role of shadow banking over time is also considered.Pl.This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015. It puts the experiences of the past in the context of today’s debate on the future of banking, and argues that the experiences of the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2007 warrants new understandings of the role of bank regulation. The book also analyses how shifts

Overview: First book to show how fragmentation of natural systems influences human welfare, economies.Unique in global coverage, integration of social, natural sciences of fragmentation in rangelands.Complex syCasual readers of the title of this book might be forgiven for thinking that it is a little esoteric, far-removed from the pressing day-to-day concerns of humans and wildlife in the drylands of the world. But they could not be more wrong. It addresses an issue of the utmost practical importance in the world today, yet does so on the basis of exciting new theory about how the world operat