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This book addresses the main issues related to the application of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the road transportation sector. Offers an introductory approach to fuel resources and atmospheric pollution concerns.

The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be "nearly zero energy" (and even sooner for public buildings - by the end of 2018).

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Study Group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, March 1988

Trauma to various organ systems is a common medical problem in the pediatric age group. Injury due to violent action of others such as gunshot and stab wounds are not as common as in the adult population but they are increasing in the teenage group.

All unsuccessful revolutions are the same, but each successful one is different in its own distinctive way. The reason why revolutions occur is that new forces attain increasing significance and classic institutions are incapable of accomodating these forces. These successful revolutions produced a new dynamic and new perspectives.

Written by internationally acclaimed specialists, Breast, Endocrine and Surgical Oncology provides pertinent and concise procedure descriptions spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures.

Written by internationally acclaimed specialists, Cardio-Thoracic, Vascular, Renal and Transplant Surgery provides pertinent and concise procedure descriptions spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures.

Motivation comes from everyday experiences of probability, such as that of a dice or cards, the idea of fairness in games of chance, and the random ways in which, say, birthdays are shared or particular events arise.Applications include branching processes, random walks, Markov chains, queues, renewal theory, and Brownian motion.

Suitable for the practising radiologist, and the more senior radiology resident and fellow, this book includes lists, tables, line drawings and illustrations - ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance images, and scintigraphy.

This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field;

Rapid prototyping is an exciting new technology used to create physical models and functional prototypes directly from CAD models. Rapid tooling concerns the production of tooling using parts manufactured by rapid prototyping. The book describes the characteristics and capabilities of the main known rapid prototyping processes.

Focuses on a class of nonsmooth hybrid dynamical systems, namely finite-dimensional mechanical systems subject to unilateral constraints. This book contains overview of the main problems in mathematics, mechanics, stability and control. It discusses such topics as: shock dynamics; multiple impacts; feedback control; and, Moreau's sweeping process.

This book reports on recent achievements in stability and feedback stabilization of infinite systems. Various control methods such as sensor feedback control and dynamic boundary control are applied to stabilize the equations. Many new theorems and methods are included in the book.

Machine vision systems offer great potential in a large number of areas of manufacturing industry and are used principally for Automated Visual Inspection and Robot Vision. A comprehensive set of image processing subroutines, which together form the basic vocabulary for the versatile image processing language IIPL, is presented.

The recent explosive growth of our ability to generate and store data has created a need for new, scalable and efficient, tools for data analysis.

A long-awaited, updated introductory text by the world leaders in potential theory. This essential reference work covers all aspects of this major field of mathematical research, from basic theory and exercises to more advanced topological ideas. The largely self-contained presentation makes it basically accessible to graduate students.

This work discusses how to use information available on the Web to supply company data warehouses.

Unique in its systematic approach to stochastic systems, this book presents a wide range of techniques that lead to novel strategies for effecting intelligent control of complex systems that are typically characterised by uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, component failure, unpredictable disturbances, multi-modality and high dimensional spaces.

The aim of this book is the classification of symplectic amalgams - structures which are intimately related to the finite simple groups. The classification touches on many important aspects of modern group theory: * p-local analysis * the amalgam method * representation theory over finite fields; and * properties of the finite simple groups.

Fusion bonding is one of three methods used to join composite and dissimilar materials. This text provides an understanding of the physical mechanisms involved, covering: heat transfer in fusion bonding; modelling thermal degradation; consolidation mechanisms; crystallisation kinetics; and more.

Comprehensive treatment of approximation methods for filters and controllers. Balanced truncation, Hankel norm reduction, multiplicative reduction, weighted methods and coprime factorization methods are all discussed.

This book provides a unified approach for developing a fuzzy classifier and explains the advantages and disadvantages of different classifiers through extensive performance evaluation of real data sets. It thus offers new learning paradigms for analyzing neural networks and fuzzy systems, while training fuzzy classifiers.

The world of artificial systems is reaching complexity levels that es cape human understanding. Researchers from many different fields are trying to understand and develop theories for complex man-made systems. The book has grown out of activities in the research program Control of Complex Systems (COSY).

Task analysis approaches to software development encourage a focus on supporting users and their tasks while participatory design approaches encourage users' direct, active contributions to software development work.

The book develops the root-cause approach to reliability - often referred to as "physics of failure" in the reliability engineering field. The book can be used to teach first- or second-year postgraduate students in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing and materials engineering about addressing issues of reliability during product development.

Aims to raise designers' and researchers' awareness of the potential of evolutionary and adaptive computing within engineering design. Generic problem areas investigated include: design decomposition; whole-system design; multi-objective and constraint satisfaction; human-computer interaction; and computational expense.

Includes coverage of the background theory of shell structures; development and implementation of reliable, creative and efficient computational tools for static and free-vibration analysis and structural optimization of variable-thickness shells and folded-plate structures; and, integrated computer-aided curve and surface modelling tools.

Classifier systems are an intriguing approach to a broad range of machine learning problems, based on automated generation and evaluation of condi tion/action rules.

This challenge has attracted a great many researchers including the au thors who have developed a local pattern analysis, a new strategy for dis covering some kinds of potentially useful patterns that cannot be mined in traditional multi-database mining techniques.

Management of Generalized Dermatitis in Clinical Practice translates the mechanisms of dermatitis from basic science evidence to practice based recommendations for clinical care. The role of allergic contact dermatitis in atopic dermatitis is explored in depth.