Edited by
David Edward Lambert, Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin, USA
Crystal L. Pasiliao, Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin, USA
Benjamin Erzar, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Gramat, France
Benoit Revil-Baudard, University of Florida, REEF, Shalimar, USA
Oana Cazacu, University of Florida, REEF, Shalimar, USA
January 2019
Engineering structures may be subjected to extreme high-rate loading conditions, like those associated with natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, rock falls, etc.) or those of anthropic origin (impacts, fluid–structure interactions, shock wave transm... (Read more)
Pierre Richard Dahoo, University of Versailles St Quentin (UVSQ), France
Azzedine Lakhlifi, University of Franche-Comté, France
January 2019
This book is dedicated to the application of the different theoretical models described in Volume 1 to identify the near-, mid- and far-infrared spectra of linear and nonlinear triatomic molecules in gaseous phase or subjected to environmental constraints,... (Read more)
Cédric Gaucherel, INRA, France
Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Jean-Louis Dessalles, Télécom ParisTech, France
January 2019
This book explores the unity of life. It proposes that the concept of information is the inner essence of what we today call life. The importance of information for our species is obvious. Human beings are highly dependent on information, constantly exc... (Read more)
Abdelhanine Benallou, Consultant
January 2019
Whether in a solar thermal power plant or at the heart of a nuclear reactor, convection is an important mode of energy transfer. This mode is unique; it obeys specific rules and correlations that constitute one of the bases of equipment-sizing equations. ... (Read more)
Irene Votsi, Le Mans University, France
Nikolaos Limnios, University of Technology of Compiègne, France
Eleftheria Papadimitriou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
George Tsaklidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
January 2019
Earthquake occurrence modeling is a rapidly developing research area. This book deals with its critical issues, ranging from theoretical advances to practical applications. The introductory chapter outlines state-of-the-art earthquake modeling approache... (Read more)
Edited by
Joël Priolon, AgroParisTech, France
January 2019
Agricultural, energy or mineral commodities are traded internationally in two market categories: physical markets and financial markets. More specifically, on the financial markets, contracts are negotiated, the price of which depends on the price of a com... (Read more)
Jean-Alain Héraud, University of Strasbourg, France
Fiona Kerr, University of Adelaide, Australia
Thierry Burger-Helmchen, University of Strasbourg, France
January 2019
This book is a general presentation of complex systems, examined from the point of view of management. There is no standard formula to govern such systems, nor to effectively understand and respond to them. The interdisciplinary theory of self-organizat... (Read more)
Corporate Incubator
Pascal Latouche, Consultant
January 2019
The corporate start-up incubator is currently developing in large companies as an essential approach to open innovation. It faces a global system involving varied contexts, issues and actors. Its implementation is an art and to succeed the corporate incuba... (Read more)
New Applications, New Questions
Edited by
Alain Roger and Didier Vinot, Université Lyon 3, iaeLyon, France
January 2019
Managing skills is at the core of Human Resources Management. Based on previous literature and realized with researchers from Magellan, the Research Center in Management of iaeLyon, Skills Management examines how skills can be analyzed at the individual an... (Read more)
Towards a Society of Well-being
Michel Millot, Consultant
January 2019
Product information is excessively commercial and technical. There is no single best product for all, and the price/quality ratio can be deceptive. Word of mouth is growing with opinions shared on the internet. This book calls for the reinvention of a new ... (Read more)
Kamel Gana, University of Bordeaux, France
Guillaume Broc, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France
January 2019
This book presents an introduction to structural equation modeling (SEM) and facilitates the access of students and researchers in various scientific fields to this powerful statistical tool. It offers a didactic initiation to SEM as well as to the open-so... (Read more)
Towards a Geometrization of Thermodynamics
Diogo Queiros-Condé, University of Nanterre, France
Michel Feidt, University of Lorraine, France
December 2018
Entropic-skins geometry and a scale-entropy diffusion equation have previously been developed and applied to describe turbulent flames in combustion, the phenomenon of intermittency in turbulence, the large-scale organization of galaxies in astrophysics an... (Read more)
Geospatial Technologies and Data Management
Hassane Jarar Oulidi, Hassania School for Public Works Engineering (EHTP), Morocco
December 2018
The difficulty of access to water data is the main limitation for the completion of an expert study on water. Spatial Data on Water draws on the author’s extensive experience and a wide range of academic materials to resolve this topical issue. The bo... (Read more)
Maxime Derian, Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1, France
December 2018
Computerized machines can be found in many forms and all around us – in our pockets, and even sometimes in our body. For many of us, they are now essential elements of everyday life. When it comes to smartphones, connected objects, medical digital dev... (Read more)
How Can Engineering be a Player in Health Organization?
Edited by
Marianne Sarazin, Inserm, France
December 2018
Efficiency is an important component of performance measurement. It is the optimization of the consumption of the resources used for the production of a result. Building on this concept, this book brings together the work of researchers, doctors and engine... (Read more)
Toward Time-sensitive and Person-centered Ethics in Home Telecare
Philippe Bardy, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
December 2018
Telemedicine is a response to the challenges facing healthcare provision today: inequalities in access to care, medical demography, decompartmentalization of the system and economic constraints. There is a developing awareness of the need for a multidiscip... (Read more)
Edited by
Robert Picard, Consultant
December 2018
Connected objects are proliferating in our society, including in the health and wellbeing sectors. It is time to make citizens, society and professionals aware that connected health is not simply a medical or a technical issue. The book describes and d... (Read more)
Environmental, Ecological, Health and Socio-economic Consequences
Jean-Claude Amiard, CNRS, France
November 2018
The use of atomic energy for military purposes has given rise to a variety of nuclear accidents from the outset. This applies to all levels of use: from the manufacture of weapons to their commissioning. This book provides an overview of the potential ... (Read more)
Diversity, Bioecology and Exploitation
Mohamed Hichem Kara, University of Annaba, Algeria
Jean-Pierre Quignard, University of Montpellier, France
November 2018
Lagoons and estuaries are transition spaces between earth and sea. Beyond their expanse, geographic repartition, geomorphological, hydroclimatic and ecobiological diversity and biodiversity, they play an important role in regional economies and are some of... (Read more)
Ecology
Edited by
Philippe Lemanceau, INRA, France
Manuel Blouin, AgroSup Dijon, France
November 2018
Soils are environments where a myriad of different organisms evolve, determining a series of functions which translate into ecosystem services that are essential for humanity. Improving our understanding of these organisms, their biodiversity and their int... (Read more)
Degradation and Rehabilitation
Edited by
Christian Valentin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
November 2018
One third of the world's soils have already been degraded. The burden on the land continues to grow under the combined pressures of demography, urbanization, artificialization and mining, and there are increased demands on agricultural land: changing dieta... (Read more)
Soils and Water Quality
Edited by
Guilhem Bourrié, Académie d’Agriculture de France
November 2018
This book provides the most up-to-date knowledge on water in soils and applications for the best use of our water resources. It first addresses the influence of soils on water quality, which is linked to rock weathering, soil formation, acidity and wate... (Read more)
Soils and Water Circulation
Edited by
Guilhem Bourrié, Académie d’Agriculture de France
November 2018
This book invites the reader to look differently at two seemingly mundane resources: soil and water. Water possesses extraordinary properties which form the foundations of life itself. Without water, there would be no life, and without soils, no terrestria... (Read more)
Application to Guidance and Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Flying in a Complex Environment
Jean-Philippe Condomines, ENAC, Toulouse, France
November 2018
This book presents an algorithmic solution for the state estimation problem of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. The necessary usage of multiple miniaturized low-cost and low-performance sensors integrated into mini-RPAS, which are subjected to hard sp... (Read more)
Bilal Abderezzak, University of Khemis Miliana, Algeria
November 2018
Hydrogen presents an interesting alternative to polluting and intermittent sources of energy. It is considered as an energy carrier for storing and transporting energy in its chemical form. Although the PEM fuel cell is an electrochemical converter that... (Read more)
Edited by
Florence Sèdes, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
November 2018
Confronting the questions related to the paradigm shift between a normal operational mode and that of crisis management requires thinking about how this change takes place: through a mechanism for feedback or warning, a decision, or a change in type of gov... (Read more)
Nonlinear Dipoles, Harmonic Oscillators and Switching Circuits
Brahim Haraoubia, École supérieure de technologie, Algiers, Algeria
November 2018
This book uses a gradual approach and an innovative pedagogy that has proved its worth in aiding the assimilation and understanding of complex phenomena related to nonlinear electronics. The book is composed of six chapters, consolidated by exercises wi... (Read more)
Rachid Ababou, University of Toulouse – Institut National Polytechnique, France
November 2018
Capillary phenomena occur in both natural and human-made systems, from equilibria in the presence of solids (grains, walls, metal wires) to multiphase flows in heterogeneous and fractured porous media. This book, composed of two volumes, develops fluid mec... (Read more)
The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Mario Pansera and Richard Owen, University of Bristol, UK
November 2018
Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South. Driven by multinational companies, public–private partnerships and social enterpri... (Read more)
Is a Scientific Assemblage Workable?
Georges Guille-Escuret, CNRS, France
November 2018
Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to c... (Read more)
Henri Samier, École des Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
November 2018
This book explores the scientific perspective on the concept of intuition, particularly in relation to vibration, music and emotion. Taking a multimedia approach, it contains practical exercises that will help the reader to achieve greater intuition and de... (Read more)
Edited by
Jean-Luc Rinaudo, University of Rouen-Normandy, France
November 2018
The different forms of telepresence in education, in distance learning, in student support, in the use of learning environments or even at the heart of robot systems, are developed in universities and higher education facilities specializing in professiona... (Read more)
Magnetics and Electromagnetism
Nicolas Florsch, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Frédéric Muhlach, Val d’Argent Labs, France
Michel Kammenthaler, J.G. Reber College, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
November 2018
“Make the ground transparent”. Such is the aim of applied geophysics, which proposes to characterize the geometry of the subsoil. Since our eyes, which are able to gaze at distant stars, are unable to see through the surface of the floor, we can use el... (Read more)
Jean-François Dupuy, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes, France
November 2018
Overdispersion is a phenomenon commonly encountered when analyzing count data. It occurs in many areas: insurance, economics, epidemiology, sociology, etc. Its causes are varied, for instance the presence of unobserved heterogeneity between individuals or ... (Read more)
Psychiatry, Science and Society
Edited by
Philippe Le Moigne, INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), France
November 2018
Standardized scales and tests have become the rule in the diagnosis of mental disorders in both psychiatry and psychology. However, rarely do we question the origins and fundamental principles of these tests, the reasons for their spread, and their impact ... (Read more)
Jean R. Lobry, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France
November 2018
The patterns of codon usage are shaped by mutational and selective mechanisms at the molecular level. Multivariate analyses are helpful in discovering and interpreting these patterns. This book is a complete step-by-step case study of the extraordinary ... (Read more)
Gilles Maignant and Pascal Staccini, University of Côte d’Azur, France
November 2018
In this transdisciplinary study, Gilles Maignant and Pascal Staccini have combined their respective expertise in environmental mathematical modeling and medical information processing to deliver a unique perspective on the complex links between health and ... (Read more)
MATLAB®, SPSS, Excel and E-Prime
Fabien Mathy and Mustapha Chekaf, University Côte d’Azur, France
November 2018
This book serves as an introduction to the design of experiments and modeling. It describes all the steps involved in leading an experiment, from the initial design through to the creation of automated stimuli and computerized presentations of the stimuli ... (Read more)
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