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Sensor Design -- Measurement System -- Characterization -- Applications -- Conclusions and Outlook.This monograph is intended for wire bonding and flip-chip packaging professionals and for scientists and engineers working in the field of mechanical microsensors. New measurement technologies are introduced that allow in situ and real-time examination of physical processes during the packaging pr…
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from on…
Part I: Words of Welcome from All Continents: -- Greeting to the launch of the Yearbook from an African Perspective -- Audit of Soil Governance .-Soils need international governance - A European perspective for the first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy -- North American Soils and World Food -- Soils Governance, an Australian perspective Striving for Land-Soil Sustai…
Computer-Generated Plants - Introduction -- Plants - Botanical Description -- Some Mathematics -- Plants as Mathematical Objects -- Procedural Modeling - Programming of Plants -- Rule-Based Modeling - Single Plants are 'Emerging' -- Rule-Based Object Production - Interactive Modeling -- Modeling Terrain - The Basis -- Modeling Vegetation - A Landscape Evolves -- Rendering - Creating 'Virtual Re…
Systems Biology -- Structural Protein Interactions Predict Kinase-Inhibitor Interactions in Upregulated Pancreas Tumour Genes Expression Data -- Biochemical Pathway Analysis via Signature Mining -- Recurrent Neuro-fuzzy Network Models for Reverse Engineering Gene Regulatory Interactions -- Data Analysis and Integration -- Some Applications of Dummy Point Scatterers for Phasing in Macromolecular…
Today, given the well-publicized impacts of events such as El Niño, there is an unequaled public awareness of how climate affects the quality of life and environment. Such awareness has created an increasing demand for accurate climatological information. This information is now available in one convenient, accessible source, the Encyclopedia of World Climatology. This comprehensive volume cov…
The Europerean Automotive Industry in a Global Context -- Competitiveness: A Market Perspective -- Innovation and Competitiveness -- The Regulation and Industrial Policy -- Challenges and Opportunities for the European Automotive Industry -- Summary and Conclusions.The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and one of Europe’s key industries. There can hardly be an…