THIS BOOK is the fully revised and updated second edition of "Consciousness and Robot Sentience". With lots of new material, it will provide new insights into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
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This book provides a thought provoking outline of the solutions already in hand to the challenges now facing humanity with respect to prevalent gross social and economic inequalities, ecological thres
This is the first textbook of a systematic study of oriental management. Oriental management is a modern management science with research focus on theories and practices of both ancient and modern man
The textbook aims to present general relativity and modern cosmology in a friendly form suitable for advanced undergraduates. The text begins with a self-contained introduction to the theory of manifo
The textbook aims to present general relativity and modern cosmology in a friendly form suitable for advanced undergraduates. The text begins with a self-contained introduction to the theory of manifo
This book reports the recent progress in the field of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs), with a comprehensive and extensive discussion on its general theory and applications. It covers the propert
This book presents an integrative and in-depth approach to understanding electricity markets. It combines engineering, economics, and regulatory and public policy, with business analysis. The first pa
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This book contains the general description of the mathematical pendulum subject to constant torque, periodic and random forces. The latter appear in additive and multiplicative form with their possibl
The fourth edition of this book has been widely revised. It includes additional chapters and some sections were complemented with new ones or with an extension of their content. In this edition a comp
This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of emergence, considering theoretical aspects and ap
This book describes the cosmological general relativity and special relativity, along with Einstein’s general relativity and special relativity theories. These theories are discussed in the context of
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This book consists of the lectures for a two-semester course on quantum field theory, and as such is presented in a quite informal and personal manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle
Muller-Kirsten (U. of Kaiserlautern) takes readers through mechanics from Newton to Einstein with detailed explanations and worked examples. combining classical mechanics and relativity he helps the r
This collection brings together the 12 Nobel Lectures delivered by Nobel Laureates in physiology and medicine from 2001 to 2005. Their biographies are given along with the lectures detailing their dis
This introduction to Landau-Lifshitz equations and Landau-Lifshitz-Maxwell equations begins with the work by Yulin Zhou and Boling Guo in the early 1980s and includes most of the recent work done by t
The principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term “entropy” with a more familiar, meaningf
The principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term “entropy” with a more familiar, meaningf
This book is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students with an interest in the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems. Elementary kno
This is the first book to develop both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. Each chapter starts with a theoretical description of one technique or problem area a
The field of nanotubes and nanowires is evolving at a rapid pace, with many potential applications in electronics, optics, and sensors, to name a few. In this book, various prominent researchers summa
From traditional Chinese graphics to Japanese flower graphics and Asian religious graphics, different colours evoke different effects. This book will show you how to recreate the designs with the use
This book presents a unified treatise of the theory of measure and integration. In the setting of a general measure space, every concept is defined precisely and every theorem is presented with a clea
This book presents a unified treatise of the theory of measure and integration. In the setting of a general measure space, every concept is defined precisely and every theorem is presented with a clea
This book adopts a "show and tell" approach to guiding readers in the area of industrial wastewater treatment and the facilities associated with such treatment. It assumes the reader is familiar with
This book adopts a "show and tell" approach to guiding readers in the area of industrial wastewater treatment and the facilities associated with such treatment. It assumes the reader is familiar with
This volume familiarizes the reader with the concepts of imaging and molecular imaging in particular. Basic principles of imaging technologies, reporter moieties for the various imaging modalities and
This textbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the basic ideas in modern quantum optics, beginning with a review of the whole of optics, and culminating in the quantum description of
Peeva and Kyosev, both affiliated with the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, propose methods and universal algorithms for direct and inverse problem resolution in fuzzy relational calculus. Bas
Ma and Gu, both affiliated with the Institute of High Energy Physics in China, explain fundamentals of group theory. A beginning chapter reviews linear algebra, and subsequent chapters cover the conce
The original edition of Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics was used with great success for single-semester courses on nuclear and particle physics offered by American and Canadian universiti
In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into
In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into
Erofeyev (Russian Academy of Sciences) discusses the modern theory of propagation and interaction of elastic waves in solids with microstructure. Different wave effects characteristic of solids with m
This book sets out some important developments in the evolution of capitalism and judges whether this evolution is in accord with fundamental American principles. Particular attention is paid to the c
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Hydrometallurgy is a field of chemical technology concerned with the production of metals from their ores and secondary sources. This book is derived from lectures on the principles upon which hydrome
