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This fascinating book discusses the emergence of humanlike robots into our everyday world. It covers the trends, possibilities, and concerns we will all feel with their emergence. State-of-the-art photos and futuristic illustrations are included.

A professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois, he is the author of "Stars and Their Spectra" (Cambridge), "Stars" (Freeman/Scientific American Library), "Cosmic Clouds" (Freeman/Scientific American Library), and numerous articles for popular and professional astronomy magazines.

In this fascinating narrative, Peter Bond provides an overview of key twentieth century unmanned missions to nearly every corner of our solar system, telling the story of the mission planners and engineers who made possible these unprecedented achievements in scientific exploration.

The Micro-Tomographic Atlas of the Mouse Skeleton provides a unique systematic description of all calcified components of the mouse. It includes about 200 high resolution, two and three dimensional m CT images of the exterior and interiors of all bones and joints.

This book discusses the strengths and weaknesses of widely used diagnostic approaches for learning disabilities, offers examples of assessment protocols and report writing, and case reports illustrating diagnostic issues. Includes Q&As with leading experts.

Unit 3, Inventory Management in the Supply Chain Environment, provides an in-depth review of managing supply chain inventories, statistical inventory management, and inventory management in a multiechelon channel environment.

This book covers advanced mass and heat transfer and vapor compression refrigeration systems and shows how the performance of an automotive air-conditioning system is affected by two-phase flow and oil concentration.

This text discusses the concept of symmetry and its application to various areas of physics. It includes a detailed introduction to the theory of groups, plus a more general discussion of the nature of symmetry and its role in science.

In this lay reader's introduction to the most spectacular and devastating of all geological events, Rolf Schick describes how earthquakes and volcanoes are related, and how they are an integral part of Earth's structure.

This text integrates different mobility data handling processes, from database management to multi-dimensional analysis and mining, into a unified presentation driven by the spectrum of requirements raised by real-world applications.

The book describes the effects of natural as well as artificial electromagnetic energies covering the en tire measurable frequency range from the highest frequencies, x-rays, through microwaves, radio waves, and finally extremely low frequency (ELF) waves.

Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver is at one level about the impact of specific drinking-driving countermeasures (punishments imposed by courts on convicted offenders and random breath testing) in a particular place (New South Wales, Australia) in two particular years (1972 and 1983).

This standard guide to electron energy-loss spectroscopy covers instrumentation, physics, procedures and results. The 3rd edition adds new equipment, advances in electron-scattering theory, spectral and image processing, and new applications in nanotechnology.

This book clearly explains the important theorems of single variable calculus. It includes an elementary introduction to complex numbers and complex-valued functions, key applications of calculus, and an introduction to probability and information theory.

, "Uber die analytische Methoden in der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung," Math Ann. , "Zur Theorie der stochastischen Prozesse," Math Ann. , "Stochastic processes depending on a continuous parameter, " TAMS 42 (1937)) still appeared impregnable to all but the most erudite.

In its new edition, this book reviews developments in automotive, aerospace, electronics and consumer applications, including continuous fiber reinforced MMCs for power transmission cables, particulate MMCs in aircraft and automotive applications, and more.

This book presents an extensive collection of state-of-the-art results and references in nonlinear functional analysis demonstrating how the generic approach proves to be very useful in solving many interesting and important problems.

Covering design techniques both at circuit block and system levels, this book enables readers to develop a complex short-range wireless communications system suitable for deployment in a healthcare context and able to acquire and convey biomedical signals.

This book surveys statistical aspects of designing, analyzing and interpreting results of genome-wide association scans for genetic causes of disease, using unrelated subjects. Covers bioinformatics and data handling methods needed to ready data for analysis.

This volume provides an in-depth view of IEC, an emerging method of generating fusion power with a unique approach to plasma confinement offering a range of spin-off applications likely to enhance the fusion energy production process, even at larger scales.

Here is a valuable resource that serves as a quick reference guide for the diagnosis of usual and unusual diseases of the liver. It features visual diagnostic criteria with detailed figure legends and is supplemented with radiographic and special study images.

Written by faculty members at Moscow State University, this updated second edition has succinct and authoritative coverage of an array of biophysical topics and models. It deploys mathematical approaches relevant to a wide range of simulated systems.

The intracarotid amobarbital (or Amytal) procedure is commonly referred to as the Wada test in tribute to Juhn Wada, the physician who devised the technique and performed the fIrst basic animal research and clinical studies with this method.

Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive development is espe cially appropriate at this time The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several authors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors.

This book offers an introduction to epidemiology suitable for Medical and Public Health Schools in developing and transition countries and in workshops in these countries, based on examples and practical work drawn from the present state of health in Vietnam.