Author: Andre E. Blondel
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: motors, synchronous
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1437540449
ISBN-13: 9781437540444

Authors:Vincent D. Blondel, Alexandre Megretski,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: control, theory, systems, mathematical, problems, unsolved
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691117489
ISBN-13: 9780691117485

This book provides clear presentations of more than sixty important unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory. Each of the problems included here is proposed by a leading expert and set forth in an accessible manner. Covering a wide range of areas, the book will be an ideal reference for anyone interested in the latest developments in the field, including specialists in applied mathematics, engineering, and computer science. The book consists of ten parts representing various problem areas, and each chapter sets forth a different problem presented by a researcher in the p

Authors:Jacques Blondel, James Aronson, Jean-Yves Bodiou, Gil
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: time, space, diversity, biological, region, mediterranean
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-04-05
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199557985
ISBN-13: 9780199557981

It is becoming clear that the Mediterranean region is one of the "hottest" of the biodiversity hotspots on the planet. There is also an increasing concern for the conservation, adaptive management, and restoration of the unique natural ecosystems and cultural landscapes that characterize this area. The region’s biological and cultural heritage as well as its huge wealth of biodiversity is now at real risk. This brings a further urgency to the task of communicating detailed but readily accessible information on the Mediterranean biota, and an ecological, historical and evolutionary perspe

Authors:Nick Manning, Naazneen Barma, Jean Blondel, Elsa Pili
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: obstacles, sector, studies, series, underpinnings, institutional, decisionmaking, cabinet, government, strategic
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 1999-12
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 082134627X
ISBN-13: 9780821346273

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: solid, mechanics, applications, plasticity, elasticity, behaviour, materials, volume, mechanical
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 079234894X
ISBN-13: 9780792348948

Advances in technology are demanding ever-increasing mastery over the materials being used: the challenge is to gain a better understanding of their behaviour, and more particularly of the relations between their microstructure and their macroscopic properties. This two-volume work, of which this is the first volume, aims to provide the means by which this challenge may be met. Starting from the mechanics of deformation, it develops the laws governing macroscopic behaviour -- expressed as the constitutive equations -- always taking account of the physical phenomena which underlie rheological b

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, contact, solid, applications, fracture, damage, behaviour, materials, volume, viscoplasticity, mechanical
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0792348958
ISBN-13: 9780792348955

Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers, and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of material behaviour. The first volume of this two-volume work deals with elastic and elastoplastic behaviour; this second volume continues with viscoelasticity, damage, fracture (resistance to cracking) and contact mechanics. As in Volume I, the treatment starts from the active mechanisms on the microscopic scale and develops the laws of macroscopic behaviour. Chapter I deals with

Authors:Andre Bationo, Andre Bationo, Boaz Waswa, Job Kihara,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: saharan, africa, challenges, opportunities, sub, management, integrated, soil, fertility, advances
Number of Pages: 1094
Published: 2007-11-14
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 1402057598
ISBN-13: 9781402057595

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Investments in technology, policy and institutional reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity to ensure food security and sustained national economies. Past research has generated numerous soil f