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For more than a half-century, Mats Hillert has contributed greatly to the Science of Materials. He is widely known and respected as an innovator and educator, a scientist with an enormous breadth of interest...

As a body of theoretical knowledge, urban morphology in the West principally emerged within two disciplines and two parts of Europe. On the one hand there is the Anglo-German geographical school, associated...

Undoubtedly, the industrialized countries are already facing a major and even existential problem: that of the transition from societies based on the massive use of fossil fuels to societies that have...

Biofouling on marine vessels and bacterial growth on biomedical surfaces bring huge economic loss to our society. Traditional antifouling and antibacterial surfaces contain toxic substances or antibiotics,...

Abstract algebra is an essential tool in algebra, number theory, geometry, topology, and, to a lesser extent, analysis. It is therefore a core requirement for all mathematics majors. Outside of mathematics,...

Living plant collection and ex situ conservation are not only the core mission of modern botanical gardens, but also the basis of the scientific mission of botanical gardens and the responsibility to...

Taking in account the high level of implications caused by the emergence of industry 4.0, it is important to know and understand the managerial challenges that nowadays organizations are facing, and more...

This multidisciplinary book is the result of a collective work synthesizing presentations made by various specialists during the CNRS «BIODEMAT» school, which took place in October 2014 in La Rochelle...

Material appearance has emerged as a scientific topic in its own right rather recently and an increasing number of professionals concerned by this topic, belonging to various application areas, are entering...

Even in the age of Internet, when information and knowledge are just a click away, few probably know what is psychophysics and what is it for. Psychophysics can be romantically defined as the science...

This book aims to address cutting-edge progress in the area of synthesis and biomedical applications of magnetic nanomaterials. It compiles a broad spectrum from fundamental principles to technological...

This book presents recent results on global well-posedness including asymptotic behavior of global solutions to some fluid models, such as combustion model of radiative gas, radiation hydrodynamics model,...

A true practical guide, this book brings together all elements necessary for the practice of PID control in industries. The first part presents the different characteristics of the PID controller: continuous,...

The first two volumes of the Chinese Plant Names Index (CPNI) cover the years 2000 through 2009, with entries 1 through 5,516, and 2010 through 2017, with entries 5,517 through 10,795. A unique entry...

The significance of the existence of the system is to realize its function and maintain its stability, that is, the reliability and stability of the reliability. Reliability is affected by factors, component...

This book is the result of the 2019 session of the School of Statistics for Astrophysics (Stat4Astro) that took place on October, 6 to 11, 2019, at Autrans near Grenoble, in France. The topic of this...

This book describes and comments on the results of research devoted to the studies of phase assemblages in the CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-Fe oxides chemical system, their stability and their evolution in our environment...

Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2021): The Belt and Road showcases the innovative practice of applying Big Earth Data to the monitoring and evaluating indicators for six...

Physicists know how to produce gases at a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. The cooling methods apply not only to atoms but also to ions and molecules. This field of research has three times...

Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2020) : China presents 42 case studies of "Big Earth Data Science Engineering Program" (CASEarth) on the development of the Sustainable...

Thanks to improved performance and lower manufacturing costs, lithium batteries originally marketed in 1991 by SONY to power portable equipment now play a key role in the expected massive development...

One major task of genetic studies is to construct the genetic map through linkage analysis, and then locate the genetic loci of important traits on the constructed linkage maps, identify favorable alleles...

The exoplanet revolution that began three decades ago has drastically changed our knowledge of the extra-solar systems. Today, we face an extreme diversity and complexity of these systems that can only...

Linear algebra is a core course for science and engineering students in colleges and universities. It is one of the foundations of modern mathematics and has extensive and profound applications in physics,...

Mosses are one of the most ancient terrestrial plants. Their small size and rich species have increased the difficulty in classification and thus there are still many taxonomic issues to be solved. The...

This book presents the latest advances for the frontier cross disciplinary field of robotics, intelligent control and learning. Seven chapters are provided to cover the key common theories and technologies...

Structural Analysis is a basic course for undergraduate students with majors of civil engineering, engineering mechanics, flight vehicle design, mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering...

This book in two volumes provides an overview of continuous, discrete and functional optimization techniques. This second volume is devoted to discrete optimization (problems with integer variables) and...

Pressured apparatuses (such as pressure vessels) are widely used in many fields as key equipment including chemical, petrochemical, mechanical, weaponry, aviation, aerospace, energy, material, food, metallurgical,...

Steels are a class of materials with multiple and complicated transformations; this is true even for steels of the basic cutlery industry. A damascus steel is a fascinating subject to study, rich in multiple...