This volume contains two of the three lectures that were given at the 33rd Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 6-23, 2003). Amir Dembo’s course is devoted to recent studies of the fractal nature of random sets, focusing on some fine properties of the sample path of random walk and Brownian motion. In particular, the cover time for Markov chains, the dimension of discrete limsup ran…
Evolution and progress accomplished during previous French-Japanese symposiums of Oceanography -- Challenge to resolve problems in the ocean and coastal waters in future Earth with stronger cooperation between the two Societies -- Slower decrease in radioactive concentrations in some fish species after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster -- Relationship between patterns of fish b…
Task Modelling -- The Influence of Improved Task Models on Dialogues -- Task-Based Web Modelling: The Web Object Life Cycle Modelling Concept -- Hypermedia and Web-Based Systems -- Model-Based Design of Online Help Systems -- A Design Toolkit for Hypermedia Applications Based on Ariadne Development Method -- SWCEditor: A Model-Based Tool for Interactive Modelling of Web Navigation -- Model-Base…
Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies -- Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation -- Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory -- Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy -- A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality…
Radioactivity -- Origins and Discovery -- Nuclear Energetics -- Radioactivity and Nuclear Reactions -- Types of Radioactive Decay -- Radionuclides -- Transmutation Research -- Archaeology and Dating -- Radioisotopes in Medicine -- Scientific and Industrial Applications -- Radiation -- Radiation and the Environment.RADIOACTIVITY – RADIONUCLIDES – RADIATION is suitable for a general audience …
Background on Continuum Damage Mechanics -- Numerical Analysis of Damage -- Ductile Failures -- Low Cycle Fatigue -- Creep, Creep-Fatigue, and Dynamic Failures -- High Cycle Fatigue -- Failure of Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials.Engineering Damage Mechanics is deliberately oriented toward applications of Continuum Damage Mechanics to failures of mechanical and civil engineering components in…
Conservation Equations for Mass and Momentum for Incompressible Flows -- Boundary-Layer Equations for Incompressible Flows -- Two-Dimensional Incompressible Laminar Flows -- Transition in Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flows -- Two-Dimensional Incompressible Turbulent Flows -- Three-Dimensional Incompressible Laminar and Turbulent Flows -- Transition in Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flows --…
Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike. However, the proliferation of communication channels in this digital era requires a fundamental re-thinking of the nature of literacy and the pedagogy of literacy teaching and teacher education. This text brings together papers by experts in…
Views on the Human Breathing Behavior -- Different Profile in Ventilatory vs. Respiratory Sensation Responses to CO2 with Varying Po2 -- Amygdala and Emotional Breathing in Humans -- Immediate Effects of Bilateral Carotid Body Resection on Total Respiratory Resistance and Compliance in Humans -- Memories of Yoshiyuki Honda, MD, PhD -- Memories of Dr. Yoshiyuki Honda -- Mechanisms of Central and…