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Fate and Prediction of Environmental Chemicals in Soils, Plants,
and Aquatic Systems focuses on the chemical persistence and
ecotoxicological behavior of pesticides in soil, water, and plants.
The book examines recent developments in research on various
substances and relays information regarding transport, adsorption,
absorption, accumulation, degradation, biological effects, toxicity
to aquatic organisms, air pollution, exposure, and risk estimation.
Leading international scientists present their advances in
analytical methodology and instrumentation in the fields of
agrochemicals and environmental chemistry. This useful review of
data, methods, and principles will benefit environmental
researchers, managers, biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, and
others interested in assessing the potential for contamination of
soil, air, water, and plants.
Robust Control is one of the fastest growing and promising areas of
research today. In many practical systems there exist uncertainties
which have to be considered in the analysis and design of control
systems. In the last decade methods were developed for dealing with
dynamic systems with unstructured uncertainties such as HOO_ and
GBPI-optimal control. For systems with parameter uncertainties, the
seminal paper of V. L. Kharitonov has triggered a large amount of
very promising research. An international workshop dealing with all
aspects of robust control was successfully organized by S. P.
Bhattacharyya and L. H. Keel in San Antonio, Texas, USA in March
1991. We organized the second international workshop in this area
in Ascona, Switzer land in April 1992. However, this second
workshop was restricted to robust control of dynamic systems with
parameter uncertainties with the objective to concentrate on some
aspects of robust control. This book contains a collection of
papers presented at the International Workshop on Robust Control
held at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzer
land on April 12-17, 1992 as well as a list of open problems
presented during a dis cussion session at the workshop. Thirtyfive
leading researchers from all over the world working in the area of
robust control of dynamic systems with parameter uncertainties were
invited to present their recent results and to discuss with their
colleagues the recent advances in this field.
This book contains the historical development of the seminal paper
of Adolf Hurwitz, professor in mathematics at ETH (1892 1919), and
its impact on other fields. The major emphasis, however, is on
modern results in stability theory and its application in the
theory of control and numerics. In particular, stability of the
following problems is treated: linear, nonlinear and time-dependent
systems, discretizations of ordinary and partial differential
equations, systems with time delay on multidimensional systems. In
addition robust stability, pole placement and problems related to
the stability radius are treated. The book is an outgrowth of the
international conference "Centennial Hurwitz on Stability Theory"
which was held to honor Adolf Hurwitz, whose arti cle on the
location of roots of a polynomial was published one hundred years
ago. The conference took place at the Centro Stefano Franscini,
Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, on May 21 26, 1995. This book
contains a collection of the papers and open problem: discussed all
that occasion. Leading researchers from allover the world working
on stability theory and its application were invited to present
their recent results. In one paper the historic development
initiated by Hurwitz's article was discussed."
This book contains the historical development of the seminal paper
of Adolf Hurwitz, professor in mathematics at ETH (1892 1919), and
its impact on other fields. The major emphasis, however, is on
modern results in stability theory and its application in the
theory of control and numerics. In particular, stability of the
following problems is treated: linear, nonlinear and time-dependent
systems, discretizations of ordinary and partial differential
equations, systems with time delay on multidimensional systems. In
addition robust stability, pole placement and problems related to
the stability radius are treated. The book is an outgrowth of the
international conference "Centennial Hurwitz on Stability Theory"
which was held to honor Adolf Hurwitz, whose arti cle on the
location of roots of a polynomial was published one hundred years
ago. The conference took place at the Centro Stefano Franscini,
Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, on May 21 26, 1995. This book
contains a collection of the papers and open problem: discussed all
that occasion. Leading researchers from allover the world working
on stability theory and its application were invited to present
their recent results. In one paper the historic development
initiated by Hurwitz's article was discussed."
Mohamed Mansour has spent his life fighting adversity. Born in
Egypt in the post-war period, his childhood was halted abruptly
when, aged ten, he almost lost a leg in a devastating car accident.
At 18, he had to support himself through college in the US when his
family's assets were seized by the Egyptian government. Aged 20, he
fought cancer. Then, at 25, he returned to Egypt to help revive the
fortunes of his family's once thriving business group as it
steadily diversified into sectors from automobiles to construction
equipment, fast food to venture capital. Almost five decades on, he
and his family stand at the helm of some of the largest companies
in North Africa and the Middle East. They have partnered with
global brands from General Motors and Caterpillar to McDonald's and
invested early in Silicon Valley successes such as Facebook, Uber
and Airbnb. He also served as Egypt's Transport Minister from 2005
to 2009. Filled with hard-won wisdoms, Mohamed Mansour's
inspirational story demonstrates the importance of learning from
experience and never giving up in the drive to succeed.
This book looks at the modern electrical energy meter reading. It
investigates the application for power line carrier as the
communication medium between the meters and the power system.
Electric meters are the building blocks of the future smart network
applications. Moreover, it illustrates the use of meters as a means
for load control which is a necessary aspect for modern Demand Side
management. The proposed concepts have been experimentally verified
over a sample low voltage distribution network.
This research on the international multilateral system has its
raison-de-etre in the problems of lack of effective global
governance manifested in areas such as global politics, security,
economy, environment and others. A fundamental focus of the
research is on the latest changes in world politics, including
state power shifts, power diffusion from state to non-state actors
and the implications of the rapid evolution of globalization over
the last two decades, with its proliferating challenges and
opportunities. In addition, the research examines reform efforts in
multilateral institutions and some of the reform proposals
suggested in academic circles. The main objective of the research
is to provide a holistic analysis of the current state of the
multilateral system, the imperatives of reform in the system, its
potential future scenarios as well as some suggestions for the
future. No doubt, the United Nations (UN) is the core hub of the
current system. Hence, the research principally approaches its
subject from the perspective of the UN. In particular, the UN
General Assembly is the subject of a case study that aims, among
others, to highlight its predicament and potential."
In this book, group methods are presented for finding the
similarity solutions for some systems of partial differential
equations, which govern the problems of convective flow in the
boundary layer of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid. We will use
three methods for finding the similarity representations (i)
Scaling transformations, (ii) Infinitesimal Lie group analysis and
(iii) Suitable similarity transformations. Lie groups, and hence
their infinitesimal generators, can be naturally extended or
"prolonged" to act on the space of independent variables, dependent
variables and derivatives of the dependent variables up to any
finite order. As a consequence, the seemingly intractable nonlinear
conditions of group invariance of a given system of differential
equations reduce to linear homogeneous equations determining the
infinitesimal generators of the group. Since these determining
equations form an over determined system of linear homogeneous
partial differential equations. If a system of partial differential
equations is invariant under a Lie group of point transformations,
one can find, constructively, special solutions, called similarity
solutions or invariant solutions.
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