BOOKS with Alphabet V (Va, Vb,Vc, Vd, Ve…... )

Overview: New edition include new developments for propulsion systems and optimization methodologies.Focuses on the minimization of fuel and energy consumption.Numerous case studies illustrate the theory, makin.This text provides an introduction to the mathematical modeling and subsequent optimization of vehicle propulsion systems and their supervisory control algorithms..Automobiles are responsible for a substantial part of the world‘s consumption of primary energy, mostly fossil liquid hydrocarbons and the reduction of the fuel consumption of these vehicles has become a top priority. Increas

Overview: First comprehensive volume about VR applications for physical and motor rehabilitation.Discusses VR applications for specific physical and motor disabilities such as stroke, TBI, Parkinson‘s, cerebral.While virtual reality (VR) has influenced fields as varied as gaming, archaeology and the visual arts, some of its most promising applications come from the health sector. Particularly encouraging are the many uses of VR in supporting the recovery of motor skills following accident or illness..Virtual Reality for Physical and Motor Rehabilitation. reviews two decades of progress and ant

Overview: Serves as a comprehensive guide to managing international development and aid projects strategically and holistically.Introduces the practices of Total Quality Management as an integrated part of proj.This book provides practical guidance on managing international development and aid projects for sustainability and lasting impact on the lives of vulnerable people around the globe. Successful management of International development and aid projects is vital for the lives of people and communities in vulnerable contexts. Given its significance, the authors propose an adaptive project m

Overview: .Proceedings of the Fifth International School on Neural Networks "E.R. Caianiello" on Visual Attention MechaProceedings of the Fifth International School on Neural Networks "E.R. Caianiello" on Visual Attention Mechanisms, held 23-28 October 2000 in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.nisms, held 23-28 October 2000 in Vietri sul Mare, Italy. ..The book covers a number of broad themes relevant to visual attention, ranging from computer vision to psychology and physiology of vision. The main theme of the book is the attention processes of vision systems and it aims to point out the analogies and t

Overview: Mit dem Virtual Team Assistant entwickelt Georg Schneider ein System zur Unterstützung von Arbeitsteams bei der ganzheitlichen Prozessbearbeitung. Der Autor fokussiert die Schnittstellen zwischen synchroner und asynchroner computergestützter Arbeit und zeigt diese am Beispiel der Integration von Workflow-Management-Systemen und multimedialen Audio-/Video-Desktopkonferenzen auf. Dabei werden Erkenntnisse aus Sozialpsychologie und CSCW (Computergestützter Gruppenarbeit) untersucht und operationalisiert. Im Vordergrund stehen die Integration von Teams in die Aufbauorganisation eines Unt

Overview: A comprehensive reference on major vegetable crops.The only complete resource for plant breeders that includes the most recent molecular techniques being used across speciesThe production and consumption of vegetables has expanded dramatically in the last years, with a global growth in the production of more than 50% in the last decade, a rate of increase that is much higher than for other plant commodities. Vegetables constitute an important part of a varied and healthy diet and provide significant amounts of vitamins, antioxidants and other substances that prevent diseases and cont

Overview: Standard reference book with selected and easily retrievable data from the fields of chemistry and physics collected from the database of the Texas Research Center by acknowledged international scientThermodynamic properties of fluids are vital information for design, operation and maintenance in the fluid processing or continuous manufacturing industries. Among the thermodynamic properties, some are more important and pervasive with vapor pressure being possibly the most important of all. Practical handling of any fluid requires knowledge of its vapor pressure, and vapor pressure (o

Overview: Presents the proceedings of the third vehicle engineering and vehicle industry conference, VAE2020, Miskolc, Hungary.This book presents the proceedings of the third Vehicle and Automotive Engineering conference, reflecting the outcomes of theoretical and practical studies and outlining future development trends in a broad field of automotive research. The conference’s main themes included design, manufacturing, economic and educational topics..978-981-15-9528-8978-981-15-9529-5Series ISSN 2195-4356 Series E-ISSN 2195-4364

Overview: Aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Beiträge.Includes supplementary material: Videoaufzeichnungen von Unterricht sind seit den 1970er Jahren ein wichtiges Medium der empirischen erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung und der Lehrerausbildung. Die dabei entstandenen Dokumente bilden inzwischen für die historische und vergleichende Unterrichtsforschung eine gänzlich neue Quellengattung, die bislang in deren Arbeiten kaum erschlossen wurde. Durch ihren Aufschluss kann nun auf die Ebene des konkreten Unterrichts in der historischen und vergleichenden Forschung zugegriffen werden. Die AutorI

Overview: A collective book gathering the experience collected during a 15 yr long cooperation between European centers.Written by world-leading clinical investigators in the field involved.At the interface bet.This book provides a comprehensive account on individually rare, but collectively frequent diseases of the liver. In the first part, conditions such as hepatic vascular malformations, ischemic cholangiopathy, hepatic artery occlusion, sinusoidal conditions and Budd-Chiari syndrome are discussed among others. The second part examines the causes of vascular liver disease namely, coagulati

Overview: Provides guidelines on the design of plasma sources and operation parameters for the synthesis of vertically-oriented graphene.Covers emerging applications of vertically-oriented graphene.Describes thThis book introduces the basic concepts, synthesis techniques, and applications of vertically-oriented graphene. The authors detail emerging applications of vertically-oriented graphene such as field emitters, atmospheric nanoscale corona discharges, gas sensors and biosensors, supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells (catalyst supports) and electrochemical transducers. They of

Overview: This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality and explored how traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their relationship to female corporeality and fiction-writing.978-1-349-53552-1978-0-230-60185-7

Overview: Investigates the plants of the biodiverse region of Central Asia.Applies GIS techniques to sustainable management and planning.Discusses new approaches to overcoming problems caused by climate as well.Central Asia is a large and understudied region of varied geography, ranging from the high passes and mountains of Tian Shan, to the vast deserts of Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan to the grassy treeles steppes..This region is faced with adverse conditions, as much of the land is too dry or rugged for farming. Additionally, the rich specific and intraspecific diversity of fruit trees and medicina

Overview: Examines the relationship between vision and verticality.Considers diverse visual artistic approaches to the study of verticality.Establishes a conceptual framework for understanding diverse vertical .This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the s

Overview: State-of-the-art research.Fast-track conference proceedings.Unique visibilityThis book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 19th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2011, held in Hong Kong, China, in October 2011. The 10 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 45 full papers and 16 special session papers presented at the conference. The papers cover a wide range of topics in VLSI technology and advanced research. They address the current trend toward increasing chi

Overview: Das Buch thematisiert die Ausprägung spezifischer Vorläuferfähigkeiten (rezeptive und produktive gesprochen-sprachliche Fähigkeiten sowie Kompetenzen im Bereich der phonologischen Informationsverarbeitung (phonologische Bewusstheit, Benennungsgeschwindigkeit)) und deren Einfluss auf den Schriftspracherwerb im Deutschen im Kontext des monolingualen und bilingualen Erstspracherwerbs sowie des Zweitspracherwerbs. Die empirische Longitudinalstudie zweier Kohorten im ersten Grundschuljahr berücksichtigt neben der sprachlichen Diversität der Kinder auch die besondere Beschulungssituation i

Overview: Describes new encoding tools used in Versatile Video Coding (VVC) intra-frame prediction.Presents a detailed statistical analysis of the encoding effort in VVC intra-frame prediction.Includes a set ofThis book discusses the Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the ISO and ITU state-of-the-art video coding standard. VVC reaches a compression efficiency significantly higher than its predecessor standard (HEVC) and it has a high versatility for efficient use in a broad range of applications and different types of video content, including Ultra-High Definition (UHD), High-Dynamic Range (HDR), s

Overview: Berührt zentrale Themen wie Digitaler Verbraucherschutz und Nachhaltigkeit.über ein junges Forschungsfeld.Der Verbraucher im Mittelpunkt der Digitalisierung.Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch, was bedeutet.In einer Zeit, in der digitale Technologien nahezu jeden Aspekt unseres Lebens durchdringen, ist es unerlässlich, die tieferen Zusammenhänge des digitalen Konsums zu verstehen. Erstmalig bietet dieses open access-Lehrbuch einen Wegweiser durch die vielfältigen Facetten der Digitalisierung des Konsums. Dabei verbindet es die Disziplinen der angewandten Informatik und Verbraucherwissensch

Overview: This Advanced Study Institute (ASI) brought together two distinct ·"schools of approach" to Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of intense, external, electromagnetic fields, in an effort to lay a joint foundation for a needed theoretical explanation of the sharp e+ e- "resonances" observed in the scattering of very heavy IOns. These (GSI/Darmstadt) experiments, whose history, latest reconfirmations, and most recent data were presented in three opening sessions (Bokemeyer, Koenig), show a smooth background of positron (e+) production, as a function of e+ kinetic energy. Supe

Overview: 978-3-7091-4510-4