Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital r…
Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.e., roughly during first t…
"This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them during social interactions. The human face processing system allows us to extract i…
Invariant recognition is the ability to recognize an object regardless of how it is transformed given that the transformation is allowable. A small change in image will cause a dramatic change in signals. Visual system needs to be able to perform recognition without being influe…
Creep and creep-corrosion, which are the most important degradation mechanisms in structures such as piping used in the nuclear, chemical and petroleum industries, have been studied. Sixty two creep equations have been identified, and further classified into two simple groups of…
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to a number of memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. At best, these errors cause crashes or performance degradation. At worst, they enable security vulnerabilities, allowing denial-of-service or remote code…
The use of systems of differential equations in mathematical modelling in conjunction with epidemiology continues to be an area of focused research. Chapter one briefly acquaints readers with epidemiology, cholera, and the need for effective control strategies. Chapter two of th…
This study proposes a health insurance premium adjustment model to maximize individual's benefit and minimize health insurance company's loss, considering health risk of individuals. Over the years, both optimistic and pessimistic premium adjustment models have been studied in t…
The continuous surge of free trade agreements around the world makes global economic liberalization an important contemporary issue. As a result, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area was established in 1992. Has this economic agreement been advantag…
Resistance switching devices based on transition metal oxides have generated significant research interest over the last decade due to the promise they hold for non-volatile memory applications. Currently they are one of the leading candidates for replacing Flash memory technolo…
The delivery of care that meets both the quality of service (QoS) standards and organizational budgetary constraints is a fundamental objective for every healthcare manager. Designing an efficient service system, by optimally provisioning resources, can help achieve this goal. I…
In this study, the computer model 3D-Move, which is a continuum finite-layer based approach used that has been available for pavement responses to constant moving surface loads, was developed as a windows-based application (3D-Move Analysis). Old version of 3D-Move (DOS based ve…
The method of Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium (RCCE) has been further developed to study the combustion of CH4/Air and C 2H5OH/O2/Diluent mixtures. The method is based on local maximization of entropy or minimization of a relevant free energy at any time during the non-e…
Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet's routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their …
User profiling such as user affiliation prediction in online social network is a challenging task with many important applications in targeted marketing and personalized recommendation. The research task here is to predict some user affiliation attributes that suggest user parti…
This research addresses a process mining methodology to maximize the information obtained from data bases with high levels of event order uncertainty. In healthcare environments, the databases that are easiest to obtain and most representative of a patient's entire hospital stay…
With the explosion of chip transistor counts, the semiconductor industry has struggled with ways to continue scaling computing performance in line with historical trends. In recent years, the de facto solution to utilize excess transistors has been to increase the size of the on…