Author: Dan Necsulescu
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: distributed, systems, spatially, control, mechatronics, monitoring, advanced
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-11-06
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 9812771816
ISBN-13: 9789812771810

This unique book extends mechatronics to spatially distributed systems. Issues regarding remote measurements and indirect monitoring and control of distributed systems is presented in the general framework of the recently developed ill-posed inverse problems. The book starts with an overview of the main results in the inverse problem theory and continues with the presentation of basic results in discrete inverse theory. The second part presents various forward and inverse problems resulting from modeling, monitoring and controlling mechanical, acoustic, fluid and thermal systems. Finally, indi

Authors:Eileen J Napoleon, Erin A Brook,
Publisher: ESRI Press
Keywords: gis, education, level, world, thinking, using, spatially
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1589481801
ISBN-13: 9781589481800

Early exposure to geography, spatial thinking, and geographic information systems (GIS) helps students gain an understanding of the world around them. This work helps students improve their basic map-reading skills and extend those skills by analyzing and thinking critically about the data. Thinking Spatially Using GIS contains teacher materials, lesson plans, a resource CD with exercises, and ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education software.

Authors:Michael F. Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: information, systems, spatial, science, integrated, social, spatially
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $119.99
ISBN-10: 0195152700
ISBN-13: 9780195152708

Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume covers outstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for this work is as trans-disciplinary as its authorship because it contains approaches and methodologies use

Authors:Sarah Codd, Joseph D. Seymour,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: nmr, techniques, applications, resolved, spatially, resonance, microscopy, magnetic
Number of Pages: 566
Published: 2009-02-04
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 3527320083
ISBN-13: 9783527320080

This handbook and ready reference covers materials science applications as well as microfluidic, biomedical and dental applications and the monitoring of physicochemical processes. It includes the latest in hardware, methodology and applications of spatially resolved magnetic resonance, such as portable imaging and single-sided spectroscopy. For materials scientists, spectroscopists, chemists, physicists, and medicinal chemists.

Authors:Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Jose Sancho,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nonlinear, science, institute, systems, spatially, extended, noise
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1999-06-22
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0387988556
ISBN-13: 9780387988559

Intended for graduate students and researchers in physics, chemistry, biology, and applied mathematics, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to current research in fluctuations in spatially extended systems. It offers a practical introduction to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and gives an overview of the effects of external noise on dynamical systems with spatial degrees of freedom. The text begins with a general introduction to noise-induced phenomena in dynamical systems followed by an extensive discussion of analytical and numerical tools needed to get i

Authors:A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Char
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: varying, relationships, spatially, analysis, weighted, regression, geographically
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2002-10-18
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0471496162
ISBN-13: 9780471496168

Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships is based on the premise that relationships between variables measured at different locations might not be constant over space. The prevailing assumption is that such relationships are constant, an assumption that would appear to be the result of convenience rather than of any serious examination of the issues. If relationships do vary significantly over space, then serious questions are raised about the reliability of traditional, global-level analyses. Geographically Weighted Regression, as part of a broader

Authors:Timothy G. Gregoire, David R. Brillinger, Peter J. D
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, notes, statistics, data, correlated, longitudinal, spatially, modelling
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1997-05-29
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0387982167
ISBN-13: 9780387982168

This volume focuses on the statistical treatment of continuous and discrete data measured at different points in time, locations in space, and/or across combined spatio-temporal dimensions. Linear, nonlinear, and generalized linear models and methods are presented, as are new developments to handle messy data. The volume provides an examination of the historical development of approaches to model spatially and temporally correlated data and the ongoing convergence of these methods. The papers are based on ones presented at a conference in Nantucket, Massachusetts in October 1996.