Other technologies and applied sciences

This text closes the gap between traditional textbooks on structural dynamics and how structural dynamics is practiced in a world driven by commercial software, where performance-based design is increasingly important.

This book provides a systematic and standardized approach based on the authors' over 30 years of research experience with weight function methods, as well as the relevant literature.

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A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveriesFor centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them.

This book develops a discursive 'equalitarian' theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions.

This thesis presents the first successful realization of a compact, low-noise, and few-cycle light source in the mid-infrared wavelength region.

Just Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace engineer Eric Choi spanning his 25 year writing career.

This book focuses on original theories and approaches in the field of mechanics.

The volume comprises proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Aviation.

This book presents a detailed review of the mineral deposits and occurrences in the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS), including their distribution, mineralization styles, economic importance, and geological controls on the mineralization.

This book offers readers an overview of some of the most recent advances in the field of technology for X-ray medical imaging.

This book discusses light, its properties as an electromagnetic wave, interaction with matter, and laser as an optical device.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and didactic introduction from the basics to the current state of the art in the field of EEG/MEG source reconstruction.

A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travelWith known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing distant worlds may one day become a reality.

This book includes a selection of reviewed and enhanced contributions presented at the SpaceOps 2021, the 16th International Conference on Space Operations, held virtually in May 2021.

This atlas offers stunning color electron scanning micrographs and exceptional light microscopy pictures of capillaries, vessels and diverse histomorphological tissues and organs of Xenopus laevis.

The present book describes the development history of turbojet engines, mainly in the web-type triangle Great Britain (USA) - Germany - Switzerland from early beginnings in the 1920s up to the first practical usage in the 1950s, before the still unbroken, grand impact of aero propulsion technology on global air traffic started.

The book presents principles of operation of radar and radionavigation systems.

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This updated, augmented third edition is aimed at hobbyists, students, engineers, and others who would like to learn more about the design and operation of electronic circuits used by guitarists.

The advent of flotation, with selective interaction of reagents with minerals at its core, has greatly advanced the development of modern mining.

This is the comprehensive story of NASA's pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Planet.

This book introduces readers to a range of jamming principles and techniques for new radars, combining a wealth of theoretical analyses, test data, calculations, and charts.

Phytoremediation: Methods and Reviews presents the most innovative recent methodological developments in phytoremediation research, and outlines a variety of the contexts in which phytoremediation has begun to be applied.

Imaging Neuroinflammation provides an overview of the molecular and cellular basis of inflammation and its effects on neuroanatomy, reviews state-of-the-art imaging tools available to measure neuroinflammation, and describes the application of those tools to both preclinical animal disease models and human disease.

Das Buch stellt eine wichtige Datenquelle von physikalisch-chemischen Eigenschaften der Fasergläser, Glasfasern und der für ihre Herstellung eingesetzten Glasrohstoffe und technologischen Prozessparameter dar.

This book presents an analytical framework for calculating the fracture toughness of generally layered beam structures with an elastically coupled response and hygrothermal stresses.

This book, now in a comprehensively revised and expanded third edition, covers the full spectrum of applications of Doppler ultrasound within Obstetrics and Gynecology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of marine control system design related to underwater robotics applications.

This book provides research results using computational methods for fluid dynamics and engineering problems in aeronautics and other scientific and industrial applications.

This book mainly introduces the research overview, research results, and follow-up prospects of "e;Key Basic Scientific Problems on Near-Space Vehicles"e;, a major research plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as the Plan).

A practical guide to optical system design and developmentOptical Systems Engineering emphasizes first-order, system-level estimates of optical performance.

This book is a must-read for all those interested in the evolution of airplanes.

This book describes the resilient navigation techniques under the background of collaboration in swarm.

This book consolidates the current knowledge of how short and long-duration spaceflight affects the anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system.

This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to use ultrasound to understand human physiology both in the clinical setting and the classroom.

In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective.

This book opens a new avenue to an engendering field of applied physics, located at the "e;crossing"e; of modern photonics, electromagnetics, acoustics and material science.

This book, now in its fourth edition, is a well-known classic on the ultrafast nonlinear and linear processes responsible for supercontinuum generation.

Few aspects of daily existence are untouched by technology.

Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of sound effects, soundtracks, and voice production, as well as learning how to make sense of a truly effective soundscape.

Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of sound effects, soundtracks, and voice production, as well as learning how to make sense of a truly effective soundscape.

This new, up dated edition of Introduction to Mineral Exploration provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of mineral exploration.

Estudiar Potosí, el centro minero del Alto Perú que inundó de plata los caminos y rutas que vinculaban a América con Europa y a Europa con Asia en el siglo XVI y la primera mitad del siglo XVII, parecería no tener sentido, gracias a las innumerables investigaciones acerca de su importancia en la economía mundial.

Bringing together contributions from leading experts in the field, this book reviews laser processing concepts that allow the structuring of material beyond optical limits, and methods that facilitate direct observation of the underlying mechanisms by exploring direct structuring and self-organization phenomena.

Now in a revised fourth edition, this course-tested textbook explains the basic principles and underlying theory of the core avionic systems in modern civil and military aircraft.

This second edition offers a unique and focused study of the use of ultrasound during the first trimester, a critical time in a fetus' development.

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.