This report concerns itself with the state of the American auto industry and its potential for increased fuel economy and alternative fuel sources.This report concerns itself with the state of the American auto industry and its potential for increased fuel economy and alternative fuel sources…. More >>

2010 Vehicle Technologies Market Report

Nanostructured Materials: Selected Synthesis Methods, Properties and Applications presents several important recent advances in synthesis methods for nanostructured materials and processing of nano-objects into macroscopic samples, such as nanocrystalline ceramics. This book will not cover the whole spectrum of possible synthesis techniques, which would be limitless, but it presents especially interesting highlights in the domains of research of the editors.
Subjects that are covered include the following:
*”chimie douce” approaches for preparation of a large variety of nanostructured materials, including metals, alloys, semiconductors and oxides;
*hydrothermal synthesis with water as solvent and reaction medium can be specifically adapted to nanostructured materials;
*”electrospraying” as a powerful new route for the preparation of nanoparticles, especially of oxides for electroceramics;
*nanoparticles processed into nanostructured ceramics, by us… More >>

Nanostructured Materials: Selected Synthesis Methods, Properties and Applications

Explores the role of individual, business, and government activities related to ethically responsible commerce and socially beneficial business activity.Explores the role of individual, business, and government activities related to ethically responsible commerce and socially beneficial business activity…. More >>

Collective Articles for your MBA: Business Ethics

Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetal treatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatable tendencies within today’s reproductive medicine: the translation of ever more medical problems basically unrelated to women’s own reproductive health – and, in the case of fetal diagnosis and treatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such – into medical indications for invasive, often highly experimental interventions in women’s bodies. The analyses show how, through the operations and workings of reproductive technologies themselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms within scientific language, today’s recasting of men’s fertility problems and children’s congenital anomalies as… More >>

Prosthetic Bodies: The Construction of the Fetus and the Couple as Patients in Reproductive Technologies

This is the third book in a series of ten electronic books designed to educate young children and school-age students about information technologies and the digital world they live in.

Who will benefit from this book?
This book is most suitable for young people in their third or fourth grade level.
For students with little or no prior knowledge of ICT and computing, it is effective when used in conjunction with Books Two.
It may also be helpful for teachers introducing ICT or integrating it into the curriculum.

Contents:
Book Three comprises three modules:

Module 1: Discovering Types of Information
This module explores various types of information and how they can be understood and effectively used. It also introduces calculating, information storing, measurement, and LOGO-based programming, designs and control processes.
Adventure One: Let’s Discover How Information is Stored
Adventure Two: Let’s Discover Counting an… More >>

Information Technology Book Three: Discovering Information

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.
Topics in this series include:
- The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
- Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources
- Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
- Ad-Hoc Networking
- Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility
- The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond
- History of Computing and Education
- Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing
- Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice
- Applications in Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced… More >>

Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, V: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress,TC-6, 5th IFIP International Conference on Network … in Information and Communication Technology)

Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. It has been estimated that some 50% of new products and processes will originate outside the primary developer; academic and other research institutions are obvious sources of much of this new technology.
In the NATO Co-operating countries, however, technology transfer is in its infancy; it is crucial for wealth creation and improvement in the quality of life that this mechanism is developed. The papers selected for inclusion in this book discuss issues related to the development of technology transfer in NATO Co-operating countries. The book identifies crucial research issues for science and technology policy researchers and, as a conclusion, offers some policy recommendations. The authors are drawn from NATO and Co-operating partner countries, from other parts of the world, and from international organisations. The focus of the book is on the institutional fram… More >>

Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2003, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2003 in conjunction with VLDB 2003.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are current issues on various aspects of e-services, in particular Web services, service composition, service aggregation, service integration, cooperative process control, business process modeling, DAML-S, scalable Web services, shared Web services, context-aware services, and location-based services. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2003, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2003 in conjunction with VLDB 2003.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are current issues on various aspec… More >>

Technologies for E-Services: 4th International Workshop, TES 2003, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2003, Proceedings

Radiologists have joined their clinical colleagues in the quest to detect breast cancer as early as possible, well before potentially lethal metastases develop. This article reviews the value and limitations of mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and other imaging techniques. In addition, Dr Samuels discusses terminology used in breast imaging reports and reviews interventional procedures.

Original Publication Date: November 1998Radiologists have joined their clinical colleagues in the quest to detect breast cancer as early as possible, well before potentially lethal metastases develop. This article reviews the value and limitations of mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and other imaging techniques. In addition, Dr Samuels discusses terminology used in breast imaging reports and reviews interventional procedures.

Original Publication Date: November 1998… More >>

BREAST IMAGING: A look at current and future technologies

Several long-term trends in technology evolution have become apparent since these symposia began in 1989. Earlier presenters more frequently discussed treatment methods involving harsh and extensive human intervention. As the symposia have continued, the number of presentations describing extremely harsh and expensive treatment technologies have gradually been supplanted by more subtle and gentler methods. Such methods include subsurface-engineered barriers, phytoremediation, and bioremediation.
Nineteen manuscripts were selected for inclusion in this volume, based upon peer review, scientific merit, the editors’ perceptions of lasting value or innovative features, and the general applicability of either the technology itself or the scientific methods and scholarly details provided by the authors. General topics include: soil treatment, groundwater treatment, and radioactive waste treatment.Several long-term trends in technology evolution have become apparent since these symposia… More >>

Emerging Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management 8: Bk. 8