Presents superconductivity from a theoretical phenomenological viewpoint and describes technological applications. This text contains information on the history of superconductivity and gas liquefaction, types of superconductors, and their structures and…

Specifically, one part of the book focuses on maximizing/optimizing computational performance under power or thermal constraints, while another part focuses on minimizing energy consumption under performance (or real-time) constraints.

This book is a concise guide to the clinical diagnosis and management of chronic pancreatitis, presenting the latest research into the disease. It also offers comprehensive descriptions of 4 diagnostic…

Constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of eight international workshops held in conjunction with the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2005, held in Nanjing, China…

This volume, which includes both Chinese and leading Western researchers, will be of interest to all those studying reading and visual symbol processing. For cognitive psychologists and cognitive scientists as…

This book presents research advances in intelligent transportation and smart cities in detail, mainly focusing on green traffic and urban utility tunnels, presented at the 3rd International Symposium for Intelligent…

An interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. This theoretically sophisticated…

Furthermore, certain steady flows are inherently unsteady in the presence of flow separation, as for example the unsteady flow caused by the Karman vortex shedding downstream of a cylin der…