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Engineering dynamics and vibrations has become an essential topic for ensuring structural integrity and operational functionality in different engineering areas. However, practical problems regarding dynamics and vibrations are in many cases handled without success despite large expenditures.

Now in its second edition, the Handbook of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers a review of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) fundamentals, evidence-based group interventions, and practical guidelines for group psychotherapy.

The overarching aim of Finance, Innovation and Geography: Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics in German Biotechnology is to explore linkages between geographies of finance and relational geographies of innovation. This is achieved by questioning how investment activities affect the unfolding of innovations and in turn are affected by it.

This book provides the background that automotive engineers, students and other readers need in order to appreciate the development of the complex machines.

This book contains thirteen chapters, each contributed by experts in their respective fields, and presents a broad spectrum of new information on pure magnesium, magnesium alloys, and magnesium matrix MgMCs composites. It covers topics related to magnesium science and engineering like manufacturing, production, finishing, and applications.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of preferential trade agreements and considers the features of specific regional and bilateral trade agreements without drawing upon systematic features and trends. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of value to those interested in international trade and economic law.

Using a series of historical and contemporary case studies combined with theoretical chapters discussing the general dynamics of technological change, this book discuss the potential for using innovation to reduce energy demand.

This introduces geomaterials characterization at multiple scales -- material characterization methods, experimental techniques for the determination of microstructure and mechanical analysis, computational and numerical techniques for multiscale modelling, and bridging scale methods; with applications in aggregates and cement concrete.

Forensic science controversies-planted evidence, overturned convictions, poor lab testing processes, and general failures of "the system"-have all come to a head. The National Commission's recommendation (Oct. 2014) for universal forensic certification has far-reaching implications. It is the first step in field-wide reform to better train, test, and vet lab personnel. Requiring mandatory certification is not far away. ABC's Molecular Biology exams is the only certification available to test scientists on DNA, biology, and genetics. This study guide follows the guidelines for the exam and will present all the information necessary to prepare professionals to pass the exam.

The nuclear industry renaissance will require a workforce with individuals having diverse engineering backgrounds. Nuclear plant dynamics and control not only require an understanding of nuclear engineering principles but also thorough knowledge of classical and modern control concepts applied to the integrated reactor/plant system. This book uniquely provides a highly theoretical treatment of reactor dynamics and shows how the dynamics of the reactor integrate with the performance of the plant.

This is the first book focusing specifically on the design of experiments for GLMs. Much of the research literature on this topic is at a high mathematical level, and without any information on computation.

This book critically engages with the emerging issues in the Indian water sector. It brings together brings together well-known names in the Indian water sector to engage with critical issues, and also suggests ways forward and a new water vision.

The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. This book explores how these good working conditions are created and maintained. It will be of interest to all students, academics and policy-makers working in the fields of social policy, wellbeing, management studies, employment relations, work sociology and work psychology.

This edited volume focuses on community and rural development theory and practice and the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level.

This edited volume focuses on community and rural development theory and practice and the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level.

Professional Advances in Sports Coaching is a collection of reviews and research on professional issues in coaching and coaching psychology. Seeking to assess and challenge conceptual and theoretical research, the book discusses gender, spirituality, diversity and disability sport, hazing, mental health, disordered eating, and social media.

This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of its literary, non-literary and cultural representations. It examines the ways in which this event has shaped and complicated the relationship between various national and religious identities in contemporary world history. ,

The academic literature has seen growing, interdisciplinary interest in luck, and this volume brings together and explains the most important areas of this research.

This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age.

This book shows how machine learning can be applied to address real-world problems in the fourth industrial revolution and provides the required knowledge and tools to empower readers to build their own solutions based on theory and practice. The book introduces the fourth industrial revolution and its current impact on organizations and society.

Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful tension in considering one's own practices, policies and beliefs.

The book addresses the timely and problematic issue of lack of uniformity in legal standards for international civil aviation. Focusing on discrepancies within the regulatory and antitrust framework, it comprehensively reveals the major legal limitations and conflicts, and presents possible solutions thereto.

Teaching Science offers major leaps forward in understanding knowledge, language and pedagogy that will shape the research agenda far beyond science education.

Social presence continues to emerge as a key factor for successful online and blended learning experiences. This volume addresses the evolution of social presence with three distinct perspectives, outlines the relevant research, and focuses on practical strategies that can immediately impact the teaching and learning experience.

Presents a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students, respect and recognise students' social identities and lived experiences, and are interested in creating community and environments of openness and trust to foster deep-learning, academic success, and meaning-making.

This book addresses the challenges in the software engineering of variability-intensive systems. Variability-intensive systems can support different usage scenarios by accommodating different and unforeseen features and qualities. The book features academic and industrial contributions that discuss the challenges in developing, maintaining and evolving systems, cloud and mobile services for variability-intensive software systems and the scalability requirements they imply. The book explores software engineering approaches that can efficiently deal with variability-intensive systems as well as applications and use cases benefiting from variability-intensive systems.

A collection of essays by American literary critic Francis Fergusson drawn from a variety of works and incorporating criticism on authors including Dante, Shakespeare, James and Eliot and on the modern stage and the modern novel.