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Understanding the characteristics of material contact and
lubrication at tribological interfaces is of great importance to
engineering researchers and machine designers. Traditionally,
contact and lubrication are separately studied due to technical
difficulties, although they often coexist in reality and they are
actually on the same physical ground. Fast research advancements in
recent years have enabled the development and application of
unified models and numerical approaches to simulate contact and
lubrication, merging their studies into the domain of Interfacial
Mechanics. This book provides updated information based on recent
research progresses in related areas, which includes new concepts,
theories, methods, and results for contact and lubrication problems
involving elastic or inelastic materials, homogeneous or
inhomogeneous contacting bodies, using stochastic or deterministic
models for dealing with rough surfaces. It also contains unified
models and numerical methods for mixed lubrication studies,
analyses of interfacial frictional and thermal behaviors, as well
as theories for studying the effects of multiple fields on
interfacial characteristics. The book intends to reflect the recent
trends of research by focusing on numerical simulation and problem
solving techniques for practical interfaces of engineered surfaces
and materials. This book is written primarily for graduate and
senior undergraduate students, engineers, and researchers in the
fields of tribology, lubrication, surface engineering, materials
science and engineering, and mechanical engineering.
This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in
Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was
held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at
the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010. The subject
matter ranged widely from observational data to theoretical
mechanics, and reflected the broad scope of the workshop. In both
the prepared presentations and in the informal discussions, the
workshop engaged exchanges across disciplines and invited a lively
interaction between modelers and observers. The articles in this
volume were invited and fully refereed. They provide a
representative if necessarily incomplete account of the field of
natural locomotion during a period of rapid growth and expansion.
The papers presented at the workshop, and the contributions to the
present volume, can be roughly divided into those pertaining to
swimming on the scale of marine organisms, swimming of
microorganisms at low Reynolds numbers, animal flight, and sliding
and other related examples of locomotion.
This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in
Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was
held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at
the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010. The subject
matter ranged widely from observational data to theoretical
mechanics, and reflected the broad scope of the workshop. In both
the prepared presentations and in the informal discussions, the
workshop engaged exchanges across disciplines and invited a lively
interaction between modelers and observers. The articles in this
volume were invited and fully refereed. They provide a
representative if necessarily incomplete account of the field of
natural locomotion during a period of rapid growth and expansion.
The papers presented at the workshop, and the contributions to the
present volume, can be roughly divided into those pertaining to
swimming on the scale of marine organisms, swimming of
microorganisms at low Reynolds numbers, animal flight, and sliding
and other related examples of locomotion.
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Artificial Intelligence - First CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2021, Hangzhou, China, June 5-6, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Lu Fang, Yiran Chen, Guangtao Zhai, Jane Wang, Ruiping Wang, …
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This two-volume set LNCS 13069-13070 constitutes selected papers
presented at the First CAAI International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, held in Hangzhou, China, in June 2021. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online. The 105
papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 307 qualified
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
applications of AI; computer vision; data mining; explainability,
understandability, and verifiability of AI; machine learning;
natural language processing; robotics; and other AI related topics.
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Artificial Intelligence - First CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2021, Hangzhou, China, June 5-6, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Lu Fang, Yiran Chen, Guangtao Zhai, Jane Wang, Ruiping Wang, …
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This two-volume set LNCS 13069-13070 constitutes selected papers
presented at the First CAAI International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, held in Hangzhou, China, in June 2021. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online. The 105
papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 307 qualified
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
applications of AI; computer vision; data mining; explainability,
understandability, and verifiability of AI; machine learning;
natural language processing; robotics; and other AI related topics.
In the last 100 years, there have been three major influenza
pandemics: the Spanish Flu in 1918, the Asian Flu in 1957, and the
Hong Kong Flu in 1968. These pandemics claimed the lives of
approximately 50 million, 2 million, and 1 million people
respectively. Added to this is the annual death toll from influenza
of 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide, with a further 3 to 4
million people suffering severe illness. These statistics make
influenza an extremely important pathogen. In 1997, the alarming
emergence of a new, highly pathogenic subtype, H5N1, which has a
50% mortality rate, provided a major impetus for renewed influenza
research. However, the battle against influenza is difficult.
Recently another subtype, H1N1, has emerged. This subtype causes a
relatively mild infection in humans, however it is highly
transmittable between people and a new influenza pandemic has been
declared by the World Health Organization. If this virus were to
acquire some of the lethal capabilities of H5N1, then the ensuing
pandemic could be devastating. In this timely book, internationally
renowned scientists critically review the current research and the
most important discoveries in this highly topical field. Subjects
covered include the NS1 protein of influenza A virus, the structure
of influenza NS1, influenza B hemagglutinin, influenza A
nucleoprotein, influenza A hemagglutinin glycoproteins, the M2
channel, virulence genes of the 1918 H1N1 influenza, influenza
virus polymerase, gene diagnostic microarrays, and
computer-assisted vaccine design. Highly informative and well
referenced, Influenza: Molecular Virology is essential reading for
all influenza specialists and is recommended reading for all
virologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, public health
scientists, and research scientists in pharmaceutical companies.
This is the 2nd edition of the original "Nanostructures and
Nanomaterials" written by Guozhong Cao and published by Imperial
College Press in 2004. This important book focuses not only on the
synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and nanomaterials, but
also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and
nanomaterials, particularly inorganic nanomaterials. It provides
balanced and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and
processing techniques with regard to synthesis, characterization,
properties, and applications of nanostructures and nanomaterials.
Both chemical processing and lithographic techniques are presented
in a systematic and coherent manner for the synthesis and
fabrication of 0-D, 1-D, and 2-D nanostructures, as well as special
nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and ordered mesoporous
oxides. The book will serve as a general introduction to
nanomaterials and nanotechnology for teaching and self-study
purposes.
This is the 2nd edition of the original "Nanostructures and
Nanomaterials" written by Guozhong Cao and published by Imperial
College Press in 2004. This important book focuses not only on the
synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and nanomaterials, but
also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and
nanomaterials, particularly inorganic nanomaterials. It provides
balanced and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and
processing techniques with regard to synthesis, characterization,
properties, and applications of nanostructures and nanomaterials.
Both chemical processing and lithographic techniques are presented
in a systematic and coherent manner for the synthesis and
fabrication of 0-D, 1-D, and 2-D nanostructures, as well as special
nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and ordered mesoporous
oxides. The book will serve as a general introduction to
nanomaterials and nanotechnology for teaching and self-study
purposes.
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