This volume explores and addresses the challenges of high-k gate dielectric materials, one of the major concerns in the evolving semiconductor industry and the International Technology Roadmap for Sem
Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspec
The fifth edition of the?Feminist Theory Reader?assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers
This book examines protist-, animal- or plant-bacterial interactions and symbioses. These symbioses rely on continuous cell-to-cell communications. The goals of this book are to explore, explain
This book introduces Raspberry Pi, using real world applications in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning. It provides a detailed, step-by-step, approach to application development for
Gives a comprehensive and systematic account of high-dimensional data analysis, including variable selection via regularization methods and sure independent feature screening methods. It is a valuable
The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order, offers a wide range of perspectives on this community’s establishment and lasting resonance. Part One explores the order’s rise
Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. With recent scholarship having abandoned the link between the two fields, this
The main objective of this book is to highlight the importance of fundamental results and techniques of the theory of complex analysis for differential equations and PDEs. It emphasizes on articles de
Popular Musicology and Identity?paves new paths for studying popular music’s entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors
This Handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, ins
Drawing on neuroscientific research and metacognitive theory, this ground-breaking volume examines the theoretical implications that are elicited when neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are iden
This volume aims to deepen our understanding of how emerging technologies, such as AI, in combination with automation, are combining with political trends and dynamics to influence and shape the emerg
This book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for current numerical techniques used in a wide variety of fluid structure interaction problems within a coastal engineering context. Chapters present
This book addresses fabrication as well as characterization and modeling of semiconductor nanostructures in the optical regime, with a focus on nonlinear effects. The visible range as well as near and
This book aims to map and explain the expansion of the United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM), and places AFRICOM in a context of a US global expansion embedded in a broader system of acc
When States Take Rights Back draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizen
This multiauthor book focuses on the application of nanotechnology to cement-based materials for engineering applications. The addition of novel smart nanofillers allows the development of multifuncti
Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have been regarded as a viable alternative to silica fibers in a variety of sensing applications. Fiber optic sensors offer key advantages over other sensing technologies
Power and Energy Engineering are important and pressing topics globally, covering issues such as shifting paradigms of energy generation and consumption, intelligent grids, green energy and environmen
Education is an important aspect of the environmental influences on autism and effective education can have a significant effect on outcome for those on the autism spectrum. This handbook is a definit
An electric machine is a device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy or vice versa. It can take the form of an electric generator, electric motor, or transformer. Electric generators
This book provides comprehensive information needed to assist with all aspects of designing, deliverying, or evaluating transportation systems for use by older adults, and presents the necessary backg
A selection of papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Materials Mechanics and Management 2017 (IMMM 2017), Kerala, India. Covering Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
This volume brings together two dozen original chapters that provide a unique examination of the issues of science, technology, and art in international relations.
Multifunctional Antennas (MFA) are comparatively a new area for antenna research and finds applications in various modern wireless radios, like Cognitive Radio (CR) in Software Defined Radio (SDR) tec
