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Creating a truly sustainable legal system requires bold moves and a complete reorientation of the current legal-environmental paradigm. The purpose of this book is not to identify and revise every leg
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Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists Using MATLAB®, Second Edition provides background material and a broad introduction to the essentials of MATLAB, specifically its use with numerical meth
As the list of regulated chemicals deemed environmental and/or occupational toxins grows, so go components of building materials. This book consolidates extensive research into plastics and functional
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This textbook reviews reliability and risk analysis techniques and their applications and limitations for those in engineering, focusing on reliability analysis. It defines reliability, availabili
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This comprehensive textbook combines classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis and develops them concurrently. It is widely used by civil and structural engineering lecturers and stude
Documentation of our cultural heritage is experiencing an explosion of innovation. New tools have appeared in recent decades including laser scanning, rapid prototyping, high dynamic range spherical a
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction of the fundamental concepts along with effective solutions to the major issues related to network design. It provides a comprehensive ove
Big Data offers both unprecedented opportunities and overwhelming challenges. This book is intended to provide biologists, biomedical scientists, bioinformaticians and computer data analysts a pragmat
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This book is about the application of analytics knowledge processes to organizations in Latin American and emerging economies. The selected cases illustrate all the steps in the analytics knowledge pr
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In Generalized Barycentric Coordinates in Computer Graphics and Computational Mechanics, eminent computer graphics and computational mechanics researchers provide a state-of-the-art overview of genera
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In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, "The Lady Tasting Tea," David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders an
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This book reviews advances in important and practically relevant homogeneous catalytic transformations, such as single-site olefin polymerizations and chemo- and stereo-selective oxidations. Close att
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Underserved minority children in the United States face a vicious cycle. They suffer from health disparities which affect their educational success; in turn, educational inequalities further the cycle
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This book provides a thorough treatment of the performance modeling strategies and control algorithms required for the design and use of information-gathering autonomous agents comprised of unmanned v
The second edition of this book covers new topics that satisfy a growing need in the GIS, professional surveyor, machine control, and Big Data communities while continuing to embrace the earth center
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There are a number of books on computational intelligence (CI), but they tend to cover a broad range of CI paradigms and algorithms rather than provide an in-depth exploration in learning and adaptive
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Iterative processes are the tools used to generate sequences approximating solutions of equations describing real life problems. Intended for researchers in computational sciences and as a reference b
Compiled by two experts in Reproductive Medicine, with contributions from internationally respected specialists, this innovative text lets the whole team in Reproductive Medicine get literally on the
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Agile is a set of values, principles, techniques, and frameworks for the adaptable, incremental, and efficient delivery of work. Big Data is a rapidly growing field that encompasses crucial aspects of
This book outlines the geospatial technologies and analytical tools needed for safeguarding built infrastructure assets from natural disasters, and preparing for disaster resilience and risk reduction
