Business Models: Networking, Innovating and Globalizing

Business Models: Networking, Innovating and Globalizing: This book emphasizes how three major tendencies in business -- networking, innovating and globalizing -- are achieved through a business model perspective and how business models and profitability to greater extent become intertwined.

Multivariable Calculus: Applications and Theory

Multivariable Calculus: Applications and Theory: This book presents the necessary linear algebra and then uses it as a framework upon which to build multivariable calculus. This is the correct approach, leaving open the possibility that at least some students will understand the topics presented.

Organic Pollutants: Monitoring, Risk and Treatment

Organic Pollutants: Monitoring, Risk and Treatment: Organic pollutants cause several environmental problems if discharged to air or water body. The occurrence of organic pollutants in the ecosystem is a very important issue. This book deals with several aspects of organic pollutants.

Notes on Galois Theory

Notes on Galois Theory: From the table of contents: Basic ring theory, polynomial rings; Finite fields; Extensions of rings and fields; Computing Galois groups of polynomials; Galois groups and prime ideals; Cyclotomic extensions and abelian numbers.

Discrete Optimization

Discrete Optimization: From the table of contents: Preliminaries (Optimization Problems); Minimum Spanning Trees; Matroids; Shortest Paths; Maximum Flows; Minimum Cost Flows; Matchings; Integrality of Polyhedra; Complexity Theory; Approximation Algorithms.

Lectures on Linear Algebra and Matrices

Lectures on Linear Algebra and Matrices: Contents: Vectors and Vector Spaces; Matrices and Linear Algebra; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Unitary Matrices; Hermitian Theory; Normal Matrices; Factorization Theorems; Jordan Normal Form; Hermitian and Symmetric Matrices; Nonnegative Matrices.

Motion and Mass: First Steps into Physics

Motion and Mass: First Steps into Physics: From these simple ideas about mass and motion, and a few experiments that anyone can do, we can lay the foundations of Physics: they are expressed mathematically in the 'laws of motion', which form the starting point for the Physical Sciences.

Arts and Creative Platform for the 2012 Guimarães European Capital of Culture Guimarães, Portugal

Arts and Creative Platform for the 2012 Guimarães European Capital of Culture Guimarães, Portugal:

Arts and Creative Platform for the 2012 Guimarães European Capital of Culture

Guimarães, Portugal

by Pitágoras Arquitectos



via  Archmov

Cooling buildings in Abu Dhabi's heat

Cooling buildings in Abu Dhabi's heat:

Cooling buildings in Abu Dhabi's heat

via  einstainmc2

Relationships, Change and Mathematical Analysis

Relationships, Change and Mathematical Analysis: This book deals with the mathematics we need in describing the relationships among the quantities we measure in Physics. This leads us into the study of relationships and change, the starting point for Mathematical Analysis and the Calculus.

Calculus and Differential Equations

Calculus and Differential Equations: The book places emphasis on Mathematics as a human activity and on the people who made it. From the table of contents: Historical background; Differential calculus; Integral calculus; Differential equations; Solutions to the problems.

Instructional Technology

Instructional Technology: Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. This book is an effort to provide an introduction to the field of Instructional Technology.

Thermodynamic Extension of Density-functional Theory

Thermodynamic Extension of Density-functional Theory: Topics: Basic Massieu function, its Legendre and Massieu-Planck transforms for equilibrium state in terms of density matrix; Finite-temperature ensemble spin-density functional theory; Zero-temperature limit of the ensemble spin-density theory.

Numerical Solutions of Engineering Problems

Numerical Solutions of Engineering Problems: Contents: On mathematical models; Single nonlinear algebraic equation; System of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations; Numerical differentiation and integration; Ordinary differential equations; Boundary value problems; etc.

Greening IT

Greening IT: IT industry can provide the technological solutions we need to optimise resource use, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We call this Greening IT. This book looks into the great potential of greening society with IT.

Offshore Hydromechanics

Offshore Hydromechanics: This text book is an attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of hydromechanics for offshore engineers. The treatment of the selected topics includes both the background theory and its applications to realistic problems.

OpenIntro Statistics

OpenIntro Statistics: OpenIntro Statistics is intended for introductory statistics courses at the high school through university levels. There are a large selection of exercises at the end of each chapter useful for practice or homework assignments.

Calculus in Context

Calculus in Context: In this course you will learn to use calculus both as a tool and as a language in which you can think coherently about the problems you will be studying. The computer or the graphing calculator is a tool that that you will need for this course.

Notes on Symmetric Spaces

Notes on Symmetric Spaces: Contents: Affine connections and transformations; Symmetric spaces; Orthogonal symmetric Lie algebras; Examples; Noncompact symmetric spaces; Compact semisimple Lie groups; Hermitian symmetric spaces; Classification of real simple Lie algebras.

Stress and Work/Life Balance: Insights for Managers

Stress and Work/Life Balance: Insights for Managers: My guiding aim in writing this book was to make it readable, down to earth and useful. It carries a conviction that managers vulnerability to stress can be lessened by them standing back from the coal face occasionally ...

Fractal Analysis and Chaos in Geosciences

Fractal Analysis and Chaos in Geosciences: Fractal analysis is becoming a very useful tool to process obtained data from chaotic systems in geosciences. It can be used to resolve many ambiguities in this domain. This book shows the recent applications of the fractal analysis in geosciences.

The Development and Application of Microwave Heating

The Development and Application of Microwave Heating: Microwave heating has found many applications ranging from the microwave ovens in kitchen to heat food, to materials processing in the various fields. Microwave heating demonstrates significant advantages over conventional methods.

Symplectic Reflection Algebras

Symplectic Reflection Algebras: The emphasis throughout is on examples to illustrate the many different facets of symplectic reflection algebras. Exercises are included at the end of each lecture in order for the student to get a better feel for these algebras.

Environmental Land Use Planning

Environmental Land Use Planning: The book discusses such issues as predicting changes in land use pattern, ecological footprint analysis, socioeconomic and behavioral modeling, and flood control approaches. It is an important reference material on environmental management.

Corporate Governance and Risk Management

Corporate Governance and Risk Management: It is clearly accepted that good governance is fundamental to the successfully continuing operating of any organisation. One factor which is significantly affected by such governance is that of risk assessment and management ...