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Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Laser explains the recent research developments in studies on acoustic velocity and depicts their application to innovated causes. Techniques once developed for fluid mechanics are applied to acoustic velocity with informative and educational results.

Transport systems have to meet the mobility needs of people and commodities on all scales, from the local to the global level. Concerns about the energy, fumes and sound emissions produced, and about the safety, service quality, intelligence and lifecycle of the systems, etc. can all be included in a systemic approach.

Subject to tremendous redesign and development in the last decade, wireless sensor networks are advanced and highly in demand, but continue to fall short of their widely perceived potential. This text addresses attempts to scale wireless sensor networks to larger regions and augment their functionality.

With a unique approach to biosensing topics, Nanotechnology discusses biomolecules? immunization methods onto solid surfaces, fluidics issues, and transduction techniques.

In a fast changing global economy governed by Enterprise Servicesand the Future Internet, enterprises and virtual factories willself-organize in distributed, interoperable, innovation Ecosystemswhere the issues of Enterprise Interoperability need to be solvedin a multi-view of information, services and processes throughoutEnterprise Networks.

More and more organizations are becoming aware of the importance of tacit and explicit knowledge owned by their members which corresponds to their experience and accumulated knowledge about the firm activities.

In risk studies, engineers often have to consider the consequences of an accident leading to a shock on a construction. This can concern the impact of a ground vehicle or aircraft, or the effects of an explosion on an industrial site.

This text introduces the principles of routing protocols and metrics as they affect wireless networking environments, specifically in urban areas. Timely because of the recent rise in small city life, this topic includes the consideration of ad hoc, mesh, vehicular, sensor, and delay tolerant networks.

Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies is a review of recent analyses of joint optimization within intelligent maintenance and production strategies. The articles analyzed cover a variety of constraints, including production management, subtracting environmental degradation, inspection, and product quality.

Conventional topographic databases, obtained by capture on aerial or spatial images provide a simplified 3D modeling of our urban environment, answering the needs of numerous applications (development, risk prevention, mobility management, etc.).

This book contains mathematical preliminaries in which basic definitions of fractional derivatives and spaces are presented. The central part of the book contains various applications in classical mechanics including fields such as: viscoelasticity, heat conduction, wave propagation and variational Hamilton type principles.

This book is focused on the theoretical and practical design of reinforced concrete beams, columns and frame structures.

Because of their flexibility and ease-of-use, switching systems is at the basis of the electronics and mechanical industries. This text describes the control techniques and methods of stability analysis in switching systems. It also addresses acceptable control rules and tactics for avoiding unsafe regions of parameter saturation.

Recent advances in Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) technologies have enabled various engineering applications with potential product implementation. WPT can be utilized to charge batteries in various pieces of equipment without the need for a wired connection.

A presentation of the use of computer vision systems to control manufacturing processes and product quality in the hard disk drive industry. Visual Inspection Technology in the Hard Disk Drive Industry is an application-oriented book borne out of collaborative research with the world s leading hard disk drive companies.

Linear current-voltage pattern, has been and continues to be the basis for characterizing, evaluating performance, and designing integrated circuits, but is shown not to hold its supremacy as channel lengths are being scaled down.

Developed with high-bandwidth mobile access, 4G standard LTE/LTE-Advanced is intended to increase customer satisfaction with modern data-heavy products. This text provides and overview of basic LTE concepts and guidelines for understanding the discontinuous reception mechanism within LTE.

Lithium batteries were introduced relatively recently in comparison to lead- or nickel-based batteries, which have been around for over 100 years. Nevertheless, in the space of 20 years, they have acquired a considerable market share particularly for the supply of mobile devices.

Crowdsourcing is a relatively recent phenomenon that first appeared in 2006. It keeps on growing and diversifying, generating subcategories such as crowdfunding and crowdcontrol. This book reviews the concept of crowdsourcing, showing how it leads to the creation of value and to the emergence of new organizational forms.

Targeted at scientists, researchers, and industrial engineers, this text is a study of various aspects of geographic information retrieval. Author Christian Sallaberry didactically explains spatial information retrieval, temporal information retrieval, and geographic information retrieval.

This book presents the basics of the non-invasive geophysical method for groundwater investigation, called Magnetic Resonance Sounding (MRS) or Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SNMR), and its practical application to the problems of groundwater localization and aquifer characterization.

Control theory is the main subject of this title, in particular analysis and control design for hybrid dynamic systems. The notion of hybrid systems offers a strong theoretical and unified framework to cope with the modeling, analysis and control design of systems where both continuous and discrete dynamics interact.

During the reception of a piece of information, we are never passive. Depending on its origin and content, from our personal beliefs and convictions, we bestow upon this piece of information, spontaneously or after reflection, a certain amount of confidence.

It is commonly recognized that logistics has become a major strategic issue for all companies, whether they are part of the primary, secondary or tertiary sector. Faced with the external pressures of globalization and competition, logistics optimizes processes and reduces production and delivery cycles.

This practical work bridges the gap between highly specialized mathematical literature and real-world engineering applications, providing researchers and engineers in diverse technical fields with a framework of non smooth stochastic differential systems and applications involving stochastic excitations.

It is clear that the majority of urban centers is composed of old buildings, designed according to the concepts and rules inadequate to seismic context. How to assess the vulnerability of existing buildings is an essential step to improve the management of seismic risk and its prevention policy.

Reverse Engineering in Control Design presents a variety of practical approaches for building a standard H problem, taking into account an initial controller. These approaches facilitate the mixing of various control objectives as well as the initialization of procedures for fixed-structure controller design.

The first comprehensive text to cover non-local elasticity theory for static, dynamic, and stability analysis of wide-ranging nanostructures, Non-local Structural Mechanics gives science and engineering graduates and researchers a detailed understanding of the methods of non-local analysis necessary for nanoscale structures.

While viscous damping figures in a huge range of engineering applications, this approach is often adopted more for mathematical convenience than modeling the physics of vibration damping. Over the past decade extensive research has been done on more general non-viscous damping models and vibration of non-viscously damped systems.

The objective of this book is to provide those interested in the field of flexible robotics with an overview of several scientific and technological advances in the practical field of robotic manipulation.