Technology: general issues

Results from several applications of particle image velocimetry (PIV) to unsteady flows at a laboratory scale have been published, and commercial products are now available for more general laboratory use, but for certain industrially important applications, reliable equipment is often available only from in-house research and development teams.

In recent years approximation theory and the theory of orthogonal polynomials have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of solutions of difficult and previously untouchable problems.

In order to obtain more reliable optimal solutions of concrete technical/economic problems, e.

Process Technology for Semiconductor Lasers describes the design principles of semiconductor lasers, mainly from the fabrication point of view.

How well is Nature simulated by the varied asymptotic models that imaginative scientists have invented?

The Blaubeuren Conference "e;Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling"e; has become a meeting place for leading experts from industrial and academic research institutions, CAD system developers and experienced users to exchange new ideas and to discuss new concepts and future directions in geometric modeling.

Neuen Materialien sind der Schlüssel für die Entwicklung innovativer Produkte.

Das Buch spannt den Bogen zwischen der "akademischen" Ethik und den Anwendungsproblemen und -bedingungen in der Technikgestaltung und sollte von daher sowohl für Theoretiker als auch für Praktiker von Interesse sein.

Dieses Buch dokumentiert den Stand der Diskussion um wissenschaftliche Konzepte im Umgang mit Technikfolgen.

In the context of conducting research on the consequences of scientific and tech- nological advance, the Europaische Akademie is also concerned with the support of scientists in the doctoral or post-doctoral phase who are working on topics or methods within its research spectrum.

Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden aus naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischer, soziologischer, ökonomischer, juristischer und philosophischer Perspektive Notwendigkeit, Realisierbarkeit und Konsequenzen von Umweltstandards für kombinierte Expositionen untersucht.

One way to shape technology and its embedding in society in the 21st century is through the visions that guide their development, especially concerning the long-term societal perspective.

Microcluster Physics provides a lucid account of the fundamental physics of all types of microclusters, outlining the dynamics and static properties of this new phase of matter intermediate between a solid and a molecule.

and should therefore constitute a part of every area of economic 3 theory.

Increasing customer requirements, product variety, and market competition demand for service and cost improvements by model based inventory control in supply chains.

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media covers almost all important problems of the interaction of different types of surface acoustic waves with surface inhomogeneities.

This is a book guaranteed to delight the reader.

th Although photography has its beginning in the 17 century, it was only in the 1920's that photography emerged as a science.

Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top of the brain's slowly-changing anatomical connectivity.

This book introduces the fundamentals and applications of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) property of noble metallic nanoparticles, with an emphasis on the biosensing applications of plasmonic nanoparticles, especially in living cell imaging and photothermal therapy.

This treatment of molecular and atomic physics is primarily meant as a textbook.

Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials reviews the latest advances in the development of lanthanide-doped luminescent inorganic nanoparticles for potential bioapplications.

Behandelt werden die Berechnungsgrundlagen für den Einsatz von Federn aus metallischen Werkstoffen.

This book is a monograph devoted to logic synthesis and optimization for CPLDs.

This book focuses mainly on fractional Brownian fields and their extensions.

This book provides an up-to-date review of nanometer-scale magnetism and focuses on the investigation of the basic properties of magnetic nanostructures.

Semiconductor heterostructures represent the backbone for an increasing variety of electronic and photonic devices, for applications including information storage, communication and material treatment, to name but a few.

In the last decade, optically functionalized materials have developed rapidly, from bulk matters to structured forms.

This book is a short introduction to power system planning and operation using advanced geometrical methods.

This book provides recent information on nanocomposites tribology.

Due to the increasing security and reliability demand of actual industrial process control systems, the study on fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamic systems has received considerable attention.

Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity.

Nanomagnetism and spintronics is a rapidly expanding and increasingly important field of research with many applications already on the market and many more to be expected in the near future.

This book presents highlighted results coming up from NanoCarbon2011, a Brazilian Carbon event.

This book presents theoretical studies of electronic structure, optical and spectroscopic properties of a number of compounds such as porphyrins, fullerenes and heteroatomic single-wall nanotubes.

The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems.

This thesis presents the theory of three key elements of optical spectroscopy of the electronic excitations in bilayer graphene: angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), visible range Raman spectroscopy, and far-infrared (FIR) magneto-spectroscopy.

The Wheels That Drove New York tells the fascinating story of how a public transportation system helped transform a small trading community on the southern tip of Manhattan island to a world financial capital that is home to more than 8,000,000 people.

Deniz Yilmaz' thesis describes a combination of orthogonal supramolecular interactions for the design of functional monolayer architectures on surfaces, that can be used as chemical and biosensors in a wide range of applications.

Nanobioelectrochemistry covers the modern aspects of bioelectrochemistry, nanoscience and materials science.

Society is complicated.

The book describes from a historical point of view how cosmic rays were discovered.

This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and its potential for application to interdisciplinary topics.

In this self-consistent monograph, the author gathers and describes different mathematical techniques and combines all together to form practical procedures for the inverse analyses.

The concept of fractals is often considered to describe surface roughness.