Other technologies and applied sciences

Irak, Kosovo, Tchétchénie : le rêve suscité par la fin de la guerre froide achève de se dissiper sous nos yeux.

This book provides a broad overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the Koopman operator theory and control theory.

Partez a la decouverte de l'acoustique architecturale avec ce Grand Article Universalis !

Partez a la decouverte des illusions auditives avec ce Grand Article Universalis !

Extrait : "C'est à l'Orient qu'est due l'invention des appareils névro-balistiques dérivés de l'arc ; l'origine de cette découverte se perd dans la nuit des âges.

Extrait : "La substance que l'on doit employer de préférence est le résidu qu'on obtient par l'évaporation de l'huile essentielle de lavande, appliqué en couche très mince, par le moyen de sa dissolution dans l'alcool.

Extrait : "Le milieu du dix-septième siècle fut une des périodes les plus glorieuses pour la pensée humaine.

Fields is the last link to the other five books, it shows how the Dust in Heaven follows the macroscopic rules to make the Black Hole Fields, the Galaxy Fields, the Star Fields, and the Planetary and Moon Fields.

';If you are curious about life as a sommelier, this charming book makes an easy, nutritious appetizer.

An illuminating guide to a career as a baker, written by acclaimed journalist Glynnis MacNicol and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the fieldessential reading for someone considering a path to this challenging, yet rewarding profession.

Based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field, an immersive, accessible guide to a career in hairstyling brought to life by acclaimed writer Kate Bolickessential reading for anyone interested in this creative and dynamic profession.

Award-winning journalist and food writer Patric Kuh explores the restaurant industrybased on the experiences of Lien Ta and Jonathan Whitener's Here's Looking at You restaurant in Los Angelesand reveals essential details for anyone considering a path to this risky profession.

Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.

Phase change material (PCM)-based composite heat sinks have attracted great interest in recent decades, especially in the context of thermal management of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants, and notebooks.

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Control proposes novel automatic control strategies for nonlinear systems developed by means of artificial neural networks and pays special attention to robust and fault-tolerant approaches.

Here are the very latest sniper training tactics and techniques as taught by the U.

Its time to take control of your health and start living.

Phase change material (PCM)-based composite heat sinks have attracted great interest in recent decades, especially in the context of thermal management of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants, and notebooks.

Parametric array loudspeakers (PALs) are capable of generating highly directional audio beams from nonlinear interactions of intense airborne ultrasound waves.

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Structural health monitoring (SHM) can be characterized as the integration of sensing and intelligence to enable the potential damage to be monitored, analyzed, localized, and predicted in real time and in a nondestructive manner.

Over the past two decades, extensive research has been conducted on the application of fiber-optic sensors (FOSs) in structural health monitoring (SHM).

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New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B.

New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of coded optical imaging.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of coded optical imaging.

Industrial Explosives and their Applications for Rock Excavation focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works.

'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.

A pandemic is a biological war with an invisible enemy.

This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today.

Learn the ancient craft of making artisan pots, from clay preparation and drying to glazing and firing.

Having shown us how to master monsters in Edward's Crochet Imaginarium and capture our friends and family in Edward's Crochet Doll Emporium, Kerry Lord is back with patterns for everyone's favourite pups in her new book Edward's Menagerie: Dogs.

With this guide to mending and patching, you don't have to say goodbye to your worn favourite clothes.

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This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, present experimental status and important applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions.

Spacecraft Power Technologies is the first comprehensive text devoted to the technologies critical to the development of spacecraft electrical power systems.

The analysis of well tests constitutes one of the most powerful tools for the effective description of a petroleum reservoir and its subsequent management.

Modeling is now a major tool for important environmental strategies.

This invaluable book provides an introduction to space science.

The focus of this book lies at the meeting point of electromagnetic waveguides and photonic crystals.

In December 1949, I, as a young man of 18, arrived in a different world - RAF Shaibah, 7 miles or so from Basra in Iraq, to do my (extended) two-year National Service.

This proceedings volume presents the very latest developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics.

This volume takes a much needed multiphysical approach to the numerical and experimental evaluation of the mechanical properties of MEMS and NEMS.

It is through images that we understand the form and function of material objects, from the fundamental particles that are the constituents of matter to galaxies that are the constituents of the Universe.

A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO).

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate instruction manual for mitigation measures to minimise man-made acoustical and physical disturbances to marine mammals from industrial and defence activities.

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate instruction manual for mitigation measures to minimise man-made acoustical and physical disturbances to marine mammals from industrial and defence activities.

This ambitious work which took the better part of a decade to produce will be essential reading for all serious defence study students, and of absorbing interest to military professionals and lay people concerned with the future of warfare and all aspects of response to military attack.