Ingenieurswissenschaften

Global Product

John Stark

<P>Based on interviews with top executives from companies of different sizes and in different industries, this book explains the benefits and challenges of Global Product Development. "G...

Handbook of Mathematics

I.N. Bronshtein / Heiner Mühlig / K.A. Semendyayev / Gerhard Musiol

<P>This incredibly useful guide book to mathematics contains the fundamental working knowledge of mathematics which is needed as an everyday guide for working scientists and engineers, as we...

Materialflusssysteme

Lars Nagel / Michael Hompel / Thorsten Schmidt

<P>Intralogistik: lagern – transportieren - zusammenführen – verteilen. Auch die 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage gibt einen grundlegenden und vollständigen Überblick über alle Ko...

Reliability Engineering

Alessandro Birolini

<P>This book presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice. It provides design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality. This...

Advances in Construction Materials 2007

<P>The book is a compilation of recent research results on building construction materials. Civil Engineers and Materials Scientists from all over the world present their ideas for further m...

Theory of Periodic Conjugate Heat Transfer

Yuri B. Zudin

<P>Here is a new method for calculating heat transfer in coupled convective-conductive fluid-wall systems under periodical intensity oscillations in fluid flow. The true steady state mean va...

ROV Manual

Many underwater operations that were once carried out by divers can now be carried out more efficiently and with less risk with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). This is the first ROV 'how-...

Liquid Crystals: Frontiers In Biomedical Applications

History of the Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of...

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2006

The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value. The correct functionin...

Deformable Models

<p>This book covers the complete spectrum of deformable models, its evolution as an imagery field and its use in many biomedical engineering and clinical application disciplines. The book fo...

Nanoscale

An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life <p>Because truly transformative technologies have far-reaching consequenc...

Complex Systems Concurrent Engineering

<P>This volume features the proceedings of the 14th ISPE Conference on Concurrent Engineering, held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, on the 16th – 20th of July 2007. It highli...

Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy

<P>This book brings together a number of papers that represent seminal contributions underlying mobile and wireless network security and privacy. It provides a foundation for implementation ...

Fundamentals of Space Medicine

Gilles Clément

<P>This readable text presents findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. It provides an insight into the space medical community and the real chal...

Newbold's Biometric Dictionary

Richard D. Newbold

Biometrics is an exciting dynamic field. As such, the language of biometrics continues to evolve. This reference was designed with the practitioner in mind. Do not let confusing terms and an alpha...

Advances in Intelligent Web Mastering

<P>This book contains papers presented at the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, AWIC’2007, held in Fontainbleau, France, in June 2007, and organized by Esigetel, Technical Universi...

Biopacemaking

<P>The development of a bio-engineered pacemaker is of substantial clinical and also scientific interest because it promises to overcome several limitations of electronic pacemakers. Moreove...

Lean Combustion

Combustion under sufficiently fuel-lean conditions can have the desirable attributes of high efficiency and low emissions, this being particularly important in light of recent and rapid increases ...

Soft Computing in Industrial Applications

<P>Here is a collection of papers presented at the 11th On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, held in September-October 2006. This carefully edited book prov...