Aircraft Design Projects: For Engineering Students

Written with students of aerospace or aeronautical engineering firmly in mind, this is a practical and wide-ranging book that draws together the various theoretical elements of aircraft design - structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, control and others - and guides the reader in applying them in practice. Based on a range of ...

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos

This book explains the fascinating world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior. Told from an experimental physicist's perspective, it forgoes mathematical complexity, using instead particularly accessible figures and apt analogies. In addition to the story of quarks and leptons, which are regarded as well-accepted fact, ...

Relaxation and Decomposition Methods for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (International Series of Numerical Mathematics)

The book contains many illustrations and an up-to-date bibliography. Because of the emphasis on practical methods, as well as the introduction into the basic theory, it is accessible to a wide audience and can be used both as a research as well as a graduate text. This book presents a comprehensive ...

Handbook of Population (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. The volume's 30 chapters cover the full range of conceptual, empirical, disciplinary, and applied approaches to the study of demographic phenomena. This book is the first effort to ...

Adaptive Control Systems

The book presents the most advanced techniques and algorithms of adaptive control. These include various robust techniques, performance enhancement techniques, techniques with less a-priori knowledge, nonlinear adaptive control techniques and intelligent adaptive techniques. Each technique described has been developed to provide a practical solution to a real-life problem. This volume ...

Complete Dental Bleaching

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta. Practical reference for dentists on the techniques of dental bleaching. Covers the chemistry of bleaching, diagnosis and treatment, specific procedures, and team care. Color illustrations. DNLM: Tooth Bleaching. Hardcover: 165 pages, Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL); 1 edition (January 15, 1995), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0867152907, ISBN-13: 978-0867152906.

Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Disorder: Practical Coping Methods eliminates the confusion common among professionals attempting to treat this disorder and family members affected by it by answering questions about ADD in a logical and systematic manner. The aim is to approach treatment from a whole perspective, using medication as well as coping ...

Understanding Heart Disease

Arthur Selzer, M.D., served for twenty-five years as Chief of Cardiology at the Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco, where he continues to be active. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California School of Medicine and Clinical Professor Emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine. ...