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This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `Quantum Chaos -- Theory and Experiment', held at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, from 28 May to 1 June 1991. The work brings together leading quantum chaos theorists and experimentalists and greatly improves our understanding of the physics of qua...

Rogue clone Wayson Harris is stranded on a frontier plane - until a rebel offensive puts him back in the uniform of a UA Marine, once again leading a strike against the enemy. But the rebels have a powerful ally no one could have imagined.

This successful textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific. The first part...

This book presents a focused and accessible primer on the fundamentals of Java programming, with extensive use of examples and hands-on exercises. Topics and features: provides an introduction to variables, input/output and arithmetic operations; describes objects and contour diagrams, explains selection structures, and demonstrates how iteratio...

This is the newest volume in the softcover series "Update in Intensive Care Medicine". It takes a novel, practical approach to analyzing hemodynamic monitoring, focusing on the patient and outcomes based on disease, treatment options and relevance of monitoring to direct patient care. It will rapidly become a classic in the approach to patient m...

The construction industry has a distressingly poor safety record, whether measured in absolute terms or alongside other industries. Effective tools to tackle the problem include designing, preplanning, training, management commitment and the development of a safety culture.

En este tomo se cierra, en el ecuador del siglo XX, el primer ciclo de esta grandiosa epopeya vampírica, estableciendo un antes y un después en la historia de Skinner Sweet y Pearl Jones. Además, la carretera se tiñe de sangre en el one-shot rockabilly De cabeza al infierno, y algunos de los mejores autores de la industria norteamericana del cóm...

This book presents recent advances in quality measures in data mining.

Intelligent engineering systems try to replicate fundamental abilities of humans and nature in order to achieve sufficient progress in solving complex problems. In an ideal case multi-disciplinary applications of different modern engineering fields can result in synergistic effects. Information technology and computer modeling are the underlying...

This work presents lines of investigation and scientific achievements of the Ukrainian school of optimization theory and adjacent disciplines. These include the development of approaches to mathematical theories, methodologies, methods, and application systems for the solution of applied problems in economy, finances, energy saving, agriculture,...