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

Overview: Represents a one-stop reference in this key area of alternate energy and sustainability research.Covers solid oxide, molten carbonate, phosphoric acid, and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.DiscThe expected end of the “oil age” will lead to increasing focus and reliance on alternative energy conversion devices, among which fuel cells have the potential to play an important role.  Not only can phosphoric acid and solid oxide fuel cells already efficiently convert today’s fossil fuels, including methane, into electricity, but other types of fuel cells, such as polymer electrolyte

Overview: Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach towards natural language semantics which, some thirteen years ago, arose out of attempts to deal with two distinct problems. The first of those was the semantic puzzle that had been brought to contempo­ rary attention by Geach‘s notorious "donkey sentences" - sentences like If Pedro owns some don

Overview: Compact and homogeneous, contains basic information on application of ultrasound in cancer diagnosis.Richly illustrated with up to 800 imagesIt is a remarkable observation that human creativity can be fostered by spectacular scenery, itself usually the result of tectonic activity which raises mountains of beauty but carries the sting of earthquakes and eruptions. Think of Silicon Valley in Ca- fornia or of the Tokyo-Kyoto corridor in Eastern Japan. Another is the glorious Amalfi coast around Naples, where the authors of this new textbook work in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. Is it th

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Overview: Presents a formal approach to the metaphysics of perspective.Offers a novel analysis of metaphysical grounding.Includes a historical survey of relativism in the philosophy of science.This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view are real structures that ground properties and objects as well as perspectives. The notion of point of view

Overview: Like the first three volumes, published in 1981, 1984 and 1987 and met with a lively response, the present volume is collecting contributions stressed on methodology or successful industrial applications. The papers are classified under three main headings; sampling inspection, process quality control and experimental design. In the first group there are nine papers on acceptance sampling. The second large group of papers deal with control charts and process control and the third group of papers includes contributions on experimental design.978-3-7908-0642-7978-3-662-11789-7Series IS

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, FTSCS 2013, held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in October 2013. The 17 revised full papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers address various topics related to the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems.978-3-319-05415-5978-3-319-05416-2Series ISSN 1865-0929 Series E-ISSN 1865-0937

Overview: Sooner or later, people develop a fairly stable set of ways for thinking, judging and responding; this is called one‘s habitual domain. Our habitual domains (HDs) grow and go wherever we go and have great impact on our behavior and decision making. When we are vital and growing our HDs are expanding and flexible; and when we find ourselves in ruts, not growing, it is because our HDs have become rigid and inflexible, as in death. This book discusses all aspects of habitual domains: their foundations, expansion, dynamics and applications to various nontrivial decision problems in our l

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Overview: Offers a treatise on evolution of life and intelligence.Covers an Earth science-based view of evolution.Presents a discussion of the origin of complexity in nature.The permutation of basic atoms—nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and  phosphorus―into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved in cells and brains, defining the origin of life and intelligence, remains unexplained. Equally the origin of the genetic information and the intertwined nature of ‘.hardware.’ and ‘.software.’ involved in the evolution of bio-molecules and the cells are shrouded in mystery. This treatis

Overview: This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church‘s dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.978-1-349-46621-4978-1-137-34237-9Series ISSN 2945-6975 Series E-ISSN 2945-6983

Overview: Angesichts zunehmender Globalisierung und Internationalisierung ergeben sich neue Herausforderungen für politische Akteure. Im Buch wird untersucht, inwiefern ausgewählte Interessengruppen (Industrieverbände, Gewerkschaften, Umweltgruppen) bei ihrer Arbeit zu einem globalen Politikproblem wie dem Klimawandel mit grenzüberschreitenden Aktionen und Vernetzungsaktivitäten reagieren und was dies für die demokratische Legitimität klimapolitischer ,Global Governance‘ bedeutet. Interessengruppen werden wichtige Aufgaben im Rahmen nationaler Demokratien zugesprochen. Im Band wird diskutiert,

Overview: Covers, in a single source, the full road to treat standard variational problems in solid analytical foundation.The style facilitates progressive understanding, while the set of solved exercises helpsThis book aims at introducing students into the modern analytical foundations to treat problems and situations in the Calculus of Variations solidly and rigorously. Since no background is taken for granted or assumed, as the textbook pretends to be self-contained, areas like basic Functional Analysis and Sobolev spaces are studied to the point that chapters devoted to these topics can be

Overview: An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy‘s foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world.978-1-349-31204-7978-0-230-28168-4

Overview: Flammability has been recognized as an increasingly important social and scientific problem. Fire statistics in the United States (Report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. "America Burning:‘ 1973) emphasized the vast devastation to life and property--12.000 lives lost annually due to fire. and these deaths are usually caused by inhaling smoke or toxic gases: 300.000 fire injuries: 11.4 billion dollars in fire cost at which 2.7 billion dollars is related to property loss: a billion dollars to burn injury treatment: and 3.3 billion dollars in productivity loss.

Overview: Honorary volume dedicated to Catherine A. Meadows on the occasion of her 65th birthday.Written by well-known experts.Features research topics in the field of cryptographic protocol specification and v.This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Catherine A. Meadows and contains essays presented at the Catherine Meadows Festschrift Symposium held in Fredericksburg, VA, USA, in May 2019..Catherine A. Meadows has been a pioneer in developing symbolic formal verification methods and tools. Her NRL Protocol Analyzer, a tool and methodology that embodies symbolic model checking techni

Overview: A more integrated view of the topic than existing titles, combining social and ecological aspects.Emphasis on landscape scale.Balanced international perspectives and examples, including developing nat.Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration pa

Overview: 978-3-642-63425-3978-3-642-57988-2Series ISSN 0255-769X

Overview: In order to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary - the third lustrum - of our Center, we at CHEPS decided to collectively write a book on the issue of how higher education institutions deal with the demand for change. Institutional change is without any doubt one of the burning issues for researchers in higher education and policy studies in general, but even more so for administrators at the institutional level (institutional leadership, deans) and planners of higher education in public life (government agencies, intermediary organisations, international organisations). Whereas the l

Overview: 978-3-8255-0768-8978-3-86226-404-9Series ISSN 2509-4904 Series E-ISSN 2509-4912