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Overview: Of interest to both scientists and practitioners.A comprehensive review.Richly illustrated throughout.Includes supplementary material: .This volume offers a review of measures taken at different levels to prevent oil inputs to the North Sea from sources such as shipping and oil installations. A range of data from satellites, remote sensing, aerial surveillance, in-situ monitoring, oil spill sampling and beached bird surveys presents a comprehensive portrait of trends in oil pollution over many years. Topics include Bonn Agreement-based actions to eliminate illegal and accidental poll

Overview: Focuses on microlearning as a teacher professional development mode.Provides strategies for customizing microlearning initiatives to suit diverse teacher needs and learning preferences.Showcases metho.This book examines teacher professional development (TPD) models to integrate microlearning into TPD training and serves as a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field. This book covers critical teacher professional development and microlearning aspects, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed modalities. It is an important starting poi

Overview: Deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation.Examines how the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain causes false information online.Based on a rich, .This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Bas

Overview: .Observation, Prediction and Simulation of Phase Transitionsin. .Complex Fluids. presents an overview of the phasetransitions that occur in a variety of soft-matter systems: colloidalsuspensions of spherical or rod-like particles and their mixtures,directed polymers and polymer blends, colloid--polymer mixtures, andliquid-forming mesogens. This modern and fascinating branch ofcondensed matter physics is presented from three complementaryviewpoints. The first section, written by experimentalists, emphasisesthe observation of basic phenomena (by light scattering, for example).The secon

Overview: Linguistic theory has recently experienced a shift in its conceptual approach from the formulation of descriptively adequate accounts of languages to the definition of principles and parameters claimed to reflect the initial structure of the language faculty, often termed Universal Grammar (UG). Linguistic experience is said to have the effect of guiding the child/linguist in fixing the unspecified parameters of U G to determine the grammar of his/her language. The study of anaphora has been of central concern as it addresses directly the innateness vs. experience issue. On the one h

Overview: Comprises a collection of contributions from experts in diverse aspects of optimization.Includes introductory surveys and in-depth technical papers.Covers a wide variety of topics that interest resear.Optimization in Science and Engineering. is dedicated in honor of the 60th birthday of Distinguished Professor Panos M. Pardalos. Pardalos’s past and ongoing work has made a significant impact on several theoretical and applied areas in modern optimization. As tribute to the diversity of Dr. Pardalos’s work in Optimization, this book comprises a collection of contributions from experts

Overview: close circle of anaesthetic scientists but, with the help of computer technology, has greatly influenced the practice of the modern clinical anaesthesiologist. The efforts of anaesthesiologists, pharmaceutical companies, and the development of the internet has lead to a situation that now almost every anaesthesiologist can be in close contact to anaesthetic pharmacology computer simulation pro­ grams and target controlled infusion devices. These two tools allow us to in­ crease our understanding and improve the controllability of anaesthetic drug administration, on site, in the opera

Overview: .Optimization in Quality Control. presents a broad surveyof the state of the art in optimization in quality, and focuses onindustrial and national competitiveness. Each chapter has beencarefully developed and refereed anonymously by experts in the area ofoptimization in quality control. Some of the topics covered in thisvolume include: .fundamentals of optimizationtechniques ..contemporary approaches to optimization models inprocess control ..economic design of control charts..determining optimal target values in multiple criteria economicselection models ..examining quality improvem

Overview: The book serves as a valuable resource as a case-study of how PBL is reinvented across disciplines.Documents a unique approach to Problem-based Learning pioneered at Republic Polytechnic.Combines resu.One-day, one-problem is a unique adaptation of problem-based learning (PBL) pioneered at Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Here students are challenged each day with a problem from their domain and attain the necessary learning outcomes in the process of responding to the problem. Throughout the day students would engage in small group discussions, self-directed learning and conversation

Overview: Describes the challenges concerning an issue of national security and the merging of electric grids.Provides solutions for how to develop systems engineering techniques to solve many problems involved.This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on “Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges.” The authors have compiled and integrated different aspects of applied systems optimization research to smart grids, and also describe some of its critical challenges and requirements..The promise of a smarter electricity grid could significantly change how consumer

Overview: The only full-length book to discuss the interconnections between oligopoly theory, auction theory and market quality theory.Provides an up-to-date review of market quality theory.Discusses some speci.This book provides an economic analysis of various aspects of ‘market quality’, a new concept which emerged in the 21st century, using the tools of ‘oligopoly theory’ and ‘auction theory’ that evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries. In the economics literature the link between the theories of oligopoly and auctions with market quality remains largely unexplored. This book attempts to

Overview: .Operational Logistics: The Art and Science of Sustaining Military Operations. explores military logistics in terms of the theoretical foundations of operational logistics (OpLog) and its applications. The theoretical foundations are examined with regard to two dimensions. First, the artistic or qualitative aspects of contemporary logistics are looked at in the context of the operational level of war. These OpLog aspects include principles, imperatives and tenets, which are stated and analyzed. The second dimension relates to the scientific aspects of logistics. It is manifested by a

Overview: Focuses on the development of fast and robust algorithms for online damage detection in structural systems.Compares the performances of Kalman, particle and hybrid filters using numerical examples.AssThis monograph assesses in depth the application of recursive Bayesian filters in structural health monitoring. Although the methods and algorithms used here are well established in the field of automatic control, their application in the realm of civil engineering has to date been limited. The monograph is therefore intended as a reference for structural and civil engineers who wish to

Overview: Neuauflage komplett überarbeitet.Neueste Forschungsergebnisse und Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Arbeitsvorbereitung.Ausführliche Beschreibung der Planungshilfsmittel und Planungsmethoden.Möglichkeiten dDieser Band enthält eine umfassende Darstellung der Aufgaben sowie der anzuwendenden Methoden und Hilfsmittel im Bereich der Arbeitsvorbereitung. Er richtet sich an Studenten des Maschinenbaus und Praktiker aus dem Bereich der Arbeitsvorbereitung. Aus diesem Grund liegen die Schwerpunkte einerseits in der Vermittlung des erforderlichen Grundwissens zu diesem Produktionsbereich. Andererse

Overview: An easy to read, user friendly resource guide to understanding WTO Law on Trade in Services in general and Mode 4 in particular.A special chapter on the next frontier in WTO engagement on labor mobili.The Mode 4 commitments of WTO Members are narrow and shallow. Even though trade negotiations for enhanced Mode 4 access started well before the launch of the DDA- prospects for success are thin. These negotiations followed a traditional mercantilist approach- with limited attention to the underlying difficulties countries face in letting people into their borders, either generally, or o

Overview: Very comprehensive and practical special textbook..The book explains even the most complicated cases clearly, is didactically good, and covers the full spectrum of oscillations and waves..The author iIn the course of over thirty years of research in various fields of physics and teaching experimental physics to undergraduate and graduate students of physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, chemistry and natural sciences I missed an introductory comprehensive book on the mathematics of linear and nonlinear oscillations and waves from the point of view of physicists and engineers.

Overview: Maximises the automotive engineer’s ability to meet increasingly stringent requirements in emissions, fuel economy and driveability.Enriches and extends the academic researcher’s understanding of theo.This book demonstrates the use of the optimization techniques that are becoming essential to meet the increasing stringency and variety of requirements for automotive systems. It shows the reader how to move away from earlier approaches, based on some degree of heuristics, to the use of more and more common systematic methods. Even systematic methods can be developed and applied in a la

Overview: A comprehensive treatment of optimal stopping and free-boundary problems ranging from pure theoretical aspects describing methods of solution to specific examples worked out in full detail.Marries theThe present monograph, based mainly on studies of the authors and their - authors, and also on lectures given by the authors in the past few years, has the following particular aims: To present basic results (with proofs) of optimal stopping theory in both discrete and continuous time using both martingale and Mar- vian approaches; To select a seriesof concrete problems ofgeneral interes

Overview: Covers trends in modern biotechnology.All aspects of this interdisciplinary technology, where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemicOf all things natural, light is the most sublime. From the very existential belief of the origins of the universe to its role in the evolution of life on earth, light has been inextricably woven into every aspect of our lives. I am grateful to Springer-Verlag and Thomas Scheper for this invitation to organize this volume that continues to expand the use of light to create next generation