The book gives an up-to-date review of the flow features in a hydraulic jump, and its technical applications as an energy dissipator. Based on a vast technical literature, the present ideas are summarised, compared with each other and generalised whenever possible. Particular stress is laid on explaining the basic terms, describing effects of energy dissipation on various neighboring fields and presenting prototype experiences with hydraulic jump dissipators. These structures are also compared with other means of energy dissipation found in dam engineering. As a result civil engineers working both in practice and in research may gain an impression of what is actually being done in a rapidly expanding field of applied hydraulics, and obtain additional information on a subject in which reference books are rare. The book gives an up-to-date review of the flow features in a hydraulic jump, and its technical applications as an energy dissipator. Based on a vast technical literature, the pre… More >>

Energy Dissipators and Hydraulic Jump

Information theory, cybernetics and the theory of finite automata are used to model learning-by-doing, bounded rationality, routine behavior, and the formation of teams. The non-neoclassical characterization of production developed in this book ignores the usual quantitative relationships between inputs and outputs and instead views production strictly as a problem of control and communication. The motivation for this unconventional characterization of production comes from Schumpeter’s critique of neoclassical economic theory. Schumpeter argued that neoclassical economic theory, and the habits of thought engendered by it, was the major obstacle to acquiring an understanding of technological change. The non-neoclassical characterization of production developed in this book is in keeping with how economic historians describe specific technological changes and how they write technological histories about particular machines, firms or industries.Information theory, cybernetics and the the… More >>

Control, Information, and Technological Change

The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture.A variety of scientific genres and forums for presenting science in the public sphere are analysed, including botany and women, teaching and popularizing physics and thermodynamics, scientific theatres, national and international exhibitions, botanical and zoological gardens, popular encyclopaedias, popular medicine an… More >>

Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 18002000

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2006, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2006.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time systems, static analysis, verification, applications, reliability, compilers, and distributed systems. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2006, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2006.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time systems, static analysis, verification, applications, reliability, compilers, and distributed systems. … More >>

Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2006: 11th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Porto, Portugal, June 5-9, … / Programming and Software Engineering)

The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and relevant applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in marketing, finance, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of applications demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques…. More >>

Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation … of Technology, Cottbus, March 12-14, 2003

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A Globle Strategy for Housing in the Third Millennium

The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels is the first volume to be dedicated to the demilitarization of Azerbaijan. It is the product of an exciting workshop which brought together participants from NATO member countries and partner countries to share ideas and experience. This publication investigates the possible treatment methods for hazardous ballistic missile wastes being stored in Azerbaijan. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its interdisciplinary nature with authors coming from a diverse range of fields and experiences. Topics include risk assessment of hazards, environmental and human toxicology, technological options for chemical disposal, and comparative case studies from similar projects in Moldova and Georgia. Also featured is an introduction to the field of demilitarisation and military conversion, and a cultural analysis of the emerging Republic of Azerbaijan. Those in military or civilian administrative positions who face the task of chemical waste disp… More >>

The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels, Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants … II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

Preservation of Foods with Pulsed Electric Fields discusses the basics of high voltage PEF as a low temperature food processing method, and the application of this technology in food preservation. This technology is attracting a great deal of interest around the world because it is more cost effective than conventional systems due to the conservative nature of PEF. This book thoroughly covers the electrical and food engineering aspects, as well as the food science components (i.e. food microbiology, enzyme inactivation kinetics, and sensory evaluation).

Key Features
* Fundamentals of high intensity pulsed electric fields
* Design of PEF processing equipment
* Biological principles for microbial inactivation in electric fields
* PEF-induced biological changes
* PEF inactivation of vegetable cells, spores, and enzymes in foods
* Food processing by PEF
* HACCP in PEF processing
* PEF in the food industry for the new millenniumPreservation of F… More >>