![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
|
Books > Academic & Education > Professional & Technical
Currently, few drugs are available for the effective treatment of
neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Recent
advances in neuroscience research offer hope that future strategies
for treating these brain disorders will include neurogenesis and
neuroenhancement as therapeutic endpoints. This volume reviews
cutting-edge findings related to the pharmacological aspects of
neurogenesis and neuroprotection. A broad range of topics are
covered from basic lab bench research to drug discovery efforts and
important clinical issues. This collection of reviews is a perfect
way to become acquainted with these exciting new fields in the
space of a single volume. Chapters are written with a general
audience in mind, but with enough high-level discussion to appeal
to specialists and experts as well. The authors have done an
excellent job of challenging current paradigms and pushing the
boundaries of exploration in keeping with the pioneering spirit
that gave rise to these emerging areas of research. Consequently,
this will be an indispensable resource for many years to come.
This handbook is volume III in a series devoted to stationary partial differential quations. Similarly as volumes I and II, it is a collection of self contained state-of-the-art surveys written by well known experts in the field. The topics covered by this handbook include singular and higher order equations, problems near critically, problems with anisotropic nonlinearities, dam problem, T-convergence and Schauder-type estimates. These surveys will be useful for both beginners and experts and speed up the progress of corresponding (rapidly developing and fascinating) areas of mathematics. Key features:
This book is a result of many years of author's research and
teaching on random vibration and control. It was used as lecture
notes for a graduate course. It provides a systematic review of
theory of probability, stochastic processes, and stochastic
calculus. The feedback control is also reviewed in the book. Random
vibration analyses of SDOF, MDOF and continuous structural systems
are presented in a pedagogical order. The application of the random
vibration theory to reliability and fatigue analysis is also
discussed. Recent research results on fatigue analysis of
non-Gaussian stress processes are also presented. Classical
feedback control, active damping, covariance control, optimal
control, sliding control of stochastic systems, feedback control of
stochastic time-delayed systems, and probability density tracking
control are studied. Many control results are new in the literature
and included in this book for the first time. The book serves as a
reference to the engineers who design and maintain structures
subject to harsh random excitations including earthquakes, sea
waves, wind gusts, and aerodynamic forces, and would like to reduce
the damages of structural systems due to random excitations.
Six Sigma is a management program that provides tools that help
manufacturers obtain efficient, stream-lined production to coincide
with ultimate high quality products. Lean Six Sigma will show how
the well-regarded analytical tools of Six Sigma quality control can
be successfully brought into the well-established models of "lean
manufacturing," bringing efficient, stream-lined production and
high quality product readily together. This book offers a thorough,
yet concise introduction to the essential mathematics of Six Sigma,
with solid case examples from a variety of industrial settings,
culminating in an extended case study.
This book presents 13 reviews collected to present the new advances
in all areas of addiction research, including knowledge gained from
mapping the human genome, the improved understanding of brain
pathways and functions that are stimulated by addictive drugs,
experimental and clinical psychology approaches to addiction and
treatment, as well as both ethical considerations and social
policy. The book also includes chapters on the history of addictive
substances and some personal narratives of addiction. Introduced by
Sir David King, Science Advisory to the UK Government and head of
the Office of Science and Technology, and Nora Volkow, director of
the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the USA, the book uniquely
covers the full range of disciplines which can provide insight into
the future of addiction, from genetics to the humanities. Written
for a scientific audience, it is also applicable to non-specialists
as well.
With Psycholinguistics in its fifth decade of existence, the second
edition of the Handbook of Psycholinguistics represents a
comprehensive survey of psycholinguistic theory, research and
methodology, with special emphasis on the very best empirical
research conducted in the past decade. Thirty leading experts have
been brought together to present the reader with both broad and
detailed current issues in Language Production, Comprehension and
Development. The handbook is an indispensible single-source guide for
professional researchers, graduate students, advanced
undergraduates, university and college teachers, and other
professionals in the fields of psycholinguistics, language
comprehension, reading, neuropsychology of language, linguistics,
language development, and computational modeling of language. It
will also be a general reference for those in neighboring fields
such as cognitive and developmental psychology and education.
The book presents the recent achievements on bifurcation studies of
nonlinear dynamical systems. The contributing authors of the book
are all distinguished researchers in this interesting subject area.
The first two chapters deal with the fundamental theoretical issues
of bifurcation analysis in smooth and non-smooth dynamical systems.
The cell mapping methods are presented for global bifurcations in
stochastic and deterministic, nonlinear dynamical systems in the
third chapter. The fourth chapter studies bifurcations and chaos in
time-varying, parametrically excited nonlinear dynamical systems.
The fifth chapter presents bifurcation analyses of modal
interactions in distributed, nonlinear, dynamical systems of
circular thin von Karman plates. The theories, methods and results
presented in this book are of great interest to scientists and
engineers in a wide range of disciplines. This book can be adopted
as references for mathematicians, scientists, engineers and
graduate students conducting research in nonlinear dynamical
systems.
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics/B> merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the foundation architecture
for the next generation of mobile phones, wireless-enabled PDAs,
PCs, and so on, delivering multimedia content (audio, video, text,
etc.) over all types of networks. It is essential for network
engineers/administrators and telecommunications engineers to not
only understand IMS architecture but to also be able to apply it at
every stage of the network design process. This book will contain
pragmatic information on how to engineer IMS networks as well as an
applications oriented approach, for engineering and networking
professionals who are responsible for making IMS "play" in the real
world.
Bacon and Osetsky present an atomistic model of
dislocation-particle interactions in metal systems, including
irradiated materials. This work is important in simulating actual
behavior, removing earlier reliance on assumed mechanisms for
dislocation motion. New mechanisms for dislocation generation under
shock loading are presented by Meyers et al. These models provide a
basis for understanding the constitutive behavior of shocked
material. Saada and Dirras provide a new perspective on the
Hall-Petch relation, with particular emphasis on nanocrystals. Of
particular significance, deviations from the traditional stress
proportional to the square-root of grain size relation are
explained. Robertson et al consider a number of effects of hydrogen
on plastic flow and provide a model that provides an explanation of
the broad range of properties. .
This book is devoted to the surgical treatment of epilepsy and its consequences, and provides an extraordinary perspective on the fascinating question of the relationship between brain and mind. Contrary to the current emphasis on statistics and objectivity, this book is dedicated to understanding the whole person, the life and experiences of the individual. It reports on cutting-edge technical skills provided with a human touch. This book reflects the understanding that the temporolimbic seizure originates in tissue providing the substrate for the emotional life and memory. Finally, it emphasizes the value of clinical research - here, conducted in the course of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of epilepsy - in helping to elucidate the relationship between brain and mind.
The rhizosphere in soil environments refers to the narrow zone of soil influenced by the root and exudates. Microbial populations in the rhizosphere can be 10 - 100 times larger than the populations in the bulk soil. Therefore, the rhizosphere is bathed in root exudates and microbial metabolites and the chemistry and biology at the soil-root interface is governed by biotic (plant roots, microbes) and abiotic (physical and chemical) interactions.
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various
branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference
sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced
graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement.
The material collected in this volume reflects the active present
of this area of mathematics, ranging from the abstract theory of
gradient flows to stochastic representations of non-linear
parabolic PDE's.
This book contains selected papers from the First International
Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters
address two main questions: first, what is the current status of
the substantivalism/relationalism debate, and second, what about
the prospects of presentism and becoming within present-day physics
and its philosophy? The overall tenor of the four chapters of the
book's first part is that the prospects of spacetime
substantivalism are bleak, although different possible positions
remain with respect to the ontological status of spacetime. Part II
and Part III of the book are devoted to presentism, eternalism, and
becoming, from two different perspectives. In the six chapters of
Part II it is argued, in different ways, that relativity theory
does not have essential consequences for these issues. It certainly
is true that the structure of time is different, according to
relativity theory, from the one in classical theory. But that does
not mean that a decision is forced between presentism and
eternalism, or that becoming has proved to be an impossible
concept. It may even be asked whether presentism and eternalism
really offer different ontological perspectives at all. The writers
of the last four chapters, in Part III, disagree. They argue that
relativity theory is incompatible with becoming and presentism.
Several of them come up with proposals to go beyond relativity, in
order to restore the prospects of presentism.
This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in
areas of Information Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio,
Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to compare data.
This book is devoted to an important branch of the dynamical systems theory: the study of the fine (fractal) structure of Poincare recurrences -instants of time when the system almost repeats its initial state. The authors were able to write an entirely self-contained text including many insights and examples, as well as providing complete details of proofs. The only prerequisites are a basic knowledge of analysis and topology. Thus this book can serve as a graduate text or self-study guide for courses in applied mathematics or nonlinear dynamics (in the natural sciences). Moreover, the book can be used by specialists in applied nonlinear dynamics following the way in the book. The authors applied the mathematical theory developed in the book to two important problems: distribution of Poincare recurrences for nonpurely chaotic Hamiltonian systems and indication of synchronization regimes in coupled chaotic individual systems.
Optical technology is essential to communications and medical
technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on
optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma
takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems
encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly
written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300
illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins
with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later
in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a
more general and beautiful example of light propagation.
Volcanic seismology represents the main, and often the only, tool to forecast volcanic eruptions and to monitor the eruption process. This book describes the main types of seismic signals at volcanoes, their nature and spatial and temporal distributions at different stages of eruptive activity. Following from the success of the first edition, published in 2003, the second edition consists of 19 chapters including significant revision and five new chapters. Organized into four sections, the book begins with an introduction to the history and topic of volcanic seismology, discussing the theoretical and experimental models that were developed for the study of the origin of volcanic earthquakes. The second section is devoted to the study of volcano-tectonic earthquakes, giving the theoretical basis for their occurrence and swarms as well as case stories of volcano-tectonic activity associated with the eruptions at basaltic, andesitic, and dacitic volcanoes. There were 40 cases of volcanic eruptions at 20 volcanoes that occurred all over the world from 1910 to 2005, which are discussed. General regularities of volcano-tectonic earthquake swarms, their participation in the eruptive process, their source properties, and the hazard of strong volcano-tectonic earthquakes are also described. The third section describes the theoretical basis for the occurrence of eruption earthquakes together with the description of volcanic tremor, the seismic signals associated with pyroclastic flows, rockfalls and lahars, and volcanic explosions, long-period and very-long-period seismic signals at volcanoes, micro-earthquake swarms, and acoustic events. The final section discuss the mitigation of volcanic hazard and include the methodology of seismic monitoring of volcanic activity, the examples of forecasting of volcanic eruptions by seismic methods, and the description of seismic activity in the regions of dormant volcanoes. This book will be essential for students and practitioners of
volcanic seismology to understand the essential elements of
volcanic eruptions.
Customizable processors have been described as the next natural
step in the evolution of the microprocessor business: a step in the
life of a new technology where top performance alone is no longer
sufficient to guarantee market success. Other factors become
fundamental, such as time to market, convenience, energy
efficiency, and ease of customization.
The design of today's semiconductor chips for various applications,
such as telecommunications, poses various challenges due to the
complexity of these systems. These highly complex systems-on-chips
demand new approaches to connect and manage the communication
between on-chip processing and storage components and networks on
chips (NoCs) provide a powerful solution.
Engineering Ethics is the application of philosophical and moral
systems to the proper judgment and behavior by engineers in
conducting their work, including the products and systems they
design and the consulting services they provide. In light of the
work environment that inspired the new Sarbanes/Oxley federal
legislation on whistle-blowing protections, a clear understanding
of Engineering Ethics is needed like never before.
This book is a comprehensive guide to new DFT methods that will
show the readers how to design a testable and quality product,
drive down test cost, improve product quality and yield, and speed
up time-to-market and time-to-volume.
Without sensors most electronic applications would not
exist-sensors perform a vital function, namely providing an
interface to the real world. Hall effect sensors, based on a
magnetic phenomena, are one of the most commonly used sensing
technologies today. In the 1970s it became possible to build Hall
effect sensors on integrated circuits with onboard signal
processing circuitry, vastly reducing the cost and enabling
widespread practical use. One of the first major applications was
in computer keyboards, replacing mechanical contacts. Hundreds of
millions of these devices are now manufactured each year for use in
a great variety of applications, including automobiles, computers,
industrial control systems, cell phones, and many others. |
You may like...
The Appearance of Equality - Racial…
Christophe M Burke
Hardcover
Mentoring Strategies To Facilitate the…
Kerry Karukstis, Bridget Gourley, …
Hardcover
R5,463
Discovery Miles 54 630
Journal of the Philadelphia College of…
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Paperback
R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III
Edwin Constable, Gerard Parkin, …
Hardcover
R171,148
Discovery Miles 1 711 480
Reason, Morality, and Law - The…
John Keown DCL, Robert P George
Hardcover
R3,800
Discovery Miles 38 000
|