Comprehensively covers the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics with application to automotive mechatronics. Presents a number of different design, analysis and implementation considerations related to automobiles, including power requirements, converters, performance, fuel consumption and vehicle dynamic models.Covers the dynamics, modeling and control of not only the entire vehicle system, but also of key elements of the vehicle such as transmissions, and hybrid systems integration. Includes ex...

First published in 2003, Dental Caries: The Disease and Its Clinical Management has become the leading resource on cariology. In this highly anticipated new edition, the editors maintain the same focus on high-level coverage of the disease etiology and process, clinical management best-practice, and wider public health issues connected with dental caries management, including an enhanced focus on the 'caries control concept'. The aim is to link theory with clinical performance, making prevent...

This book focuses on the tactical planning level for spare parts management. It describes a series of multi-item inventory models and presents exact and heuristic optimization methods, including greedy heuristics that work well for real, life-sized problems. The intended audience consists of graduate students, starting scholars in the field of spare parts inventory control, and spare parts planning specialists in the industry.

In individual chapters the authors consider topics includ...

Zehn Jahre ist es her, dass Peter Zollings große Geschichtserzählung von Deutschlands Weg zu Einheit und Freiheit erstmals erschien. Inzwischen ist vieles geschehen und nachzutragen: Eine weltweite Finanzkrise warf mit neuer Wucht die Frage nach einer gerechten Wirtschaftsordnung auf. Die Ukraine-Krise zeigt, dass der Weltfriede gefährdeter ist, als man nach dem Ende der Sowjetunion glaubte. Und der Terror radikaler Islamisten verstärkt noch den Eindruck, dass die Welt aus den Fugen gerat...

How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed-open, complex, dynamic, and networked-and require a radically different response. In this book, Kees Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to proble...

Ideal for fellows and practicing pulmonologists who need an authoritative, comprehensive reference on all aspects of pulmonary medicine, Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine offers the most definitive content on basic science, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of the full spectrum of respiratory diseases. Included with your print purchase is the Expert Consult eBook version, which offers content updates, videos, review questions, and Thoracic Imaging Cases (TICs), all of whic...

As a result of a rigorous, methodical process that (ISC)(2) follows to routinely update its credential exams, it has announced that enhancements will be made to both the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential, beginning April 15, 2015. (ISC)(2) conducts this process on a regular basis to ensure that the examinations and subsequent training and continuing professional education requirements encompass the topic areas relevant to the roles and responsibilities of ...

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways was written for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want a deeper understanding of the chemical reactions that take place in living organisms. The authors assume readers have a background in organic chemistry at the level of the typical two-semester college course. Although enzymes are crucial to biological reactions, the authors’ focus always remains on the reactivity patterns of the substrate molecules and on the or...

How and why does sail boat performance depend on the configuration and trim of boat and sails? This book provides the yachtsman with answers in a relatively straightforward account of the physical mechanisms of sailing. It presents an accessible overview of the fluid dynamic aspects of sailing and sailing technology, addressing both aeromechanics and hydromechanics. Readers are provided with the basic principles of physics and general mechanics that will assist their understanding of the flui...

Het arbeidsprocesrecht is van groot belang voor het arbeidsrecht. Het bepaalt immers de wijze waarop en mate waarin het arbeidsrecht geldend kan worden gemaakt. In dit boek worden de belangrijkste arbeidsrechtelijke procedures op een praktische manier besproken door auteurs uit de wetenschap, de rechterlijke macht en de advocatuur. In elk hoofdstuk worden de wijzigingen die de Wet werk en zekerheid met zich brengt in het bijzonder toegelicht. Voorts wordt elk hoofdstuk afgesloten met een aant...