Tabla de Contenidos: “…MORPHING AEROSPACE VEHICLES AND STRUCTURES; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Early Years: Bio-Inspiration; 1.3 The Middle Years: Variable Geometry; 1.4 The Later Years: A Return to Bio-Inspiration; 1.5 Conclusion; References; Part I BIO-INSPIRATION; 2 Wing Morphing in Insects, Birds and Bats: Mechanism and Function; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Insects; 2.2.1 Wing Structure and Mechanism; 2.2.2 Gross Wing Morphing; 2.3 Birds; 2.3.1 Wing Structure and Mechanism; 2.3.2 Gross Wing Morphing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Profile AA; 2.5. Conclusion; Chapter 3: Fractal Inversion; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Seismic Inversion; 3.2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mental Skills -- 1.1 Mental arithmetic and algebra -- 1.2 Direct and inverse procedures -- 1.3 Structural arithmetic -- 1.4 Pythagoras' Theorem -- 1.5 Visualisation -- 1.6 Trigonometry and radians -- 1.7 Regular polygons and regular polyhedra -- 1.8 Chapter 1: Comments and solutions -- II. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Functions; 1.1 Introduction to functions; 1.2 Linear functions; 1.3 Quadratic functions; 1.4 Inverse functions; 1.5 Circular functions; 1.6 Exponential functions; 1.7 Log functions; 1.8 Hyperbolic functions; Chapter 2. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Multivariate analysis in a nutshell; 1.2 The path that lies ahead; Chapter 2 Vector and function spaces; 2.1 Metric spaces; 2.2 Vector and normed spaces; 2.3 Banach and Lp spaces; 2.4 Inner Product and Hilbert spaces; 2.5 The projection theorem and orthogonal decomposition; 2.6 Vector integrals; 2.7 Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces; 2.8 Sobolev spaces; Chapter 3 Linear operator and functionals; 3.1 Operators; 3.2 Linear functionals; 3.3 Adjoint operator; 3.4 Nonnegative, square-root, and projection operators; 3.5 Operator inverses…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- 2. The Moon Test -- 3. The Inferences Summarized -- 4. Elliptical Orbits and the Inverse Square Law -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Graph Theory: A Tool for Reliability Evaluation -- 1.1.1 Undirected Networks -- 1.1.2 Directed Networks -- 1.1.3 Mixed Networks -- 1.2 Large versus Complex System -- 1.2.1 Large System -- 1.2.2 Complex System -- 1.2.3 Large and Complex System -- 1.3 Network Reliability Measures: Deterministic versus Probabilistic -- 1.3.1 Terminal-pair Reliability Measure -- 1.3.2 All-Terminal Reliability Measure -- 1.3.3 k-terminal Reliability Measure -- 1.4 Common Assumptions -- 1.5 Approaches for NSP Network Reliability Evaluation -- 1.5.1 Non Path or Cut Sets Based Techniques -- 1.5.1.1 State Enumeration Technique -- 1.5.1.2 Network Decomposition Technique -- 1.5.1.3 Probability Transformation Technique -- 1.5.1.4 Binary Decision Diagram Based Technique -- 1.5.2 Minimal POC Based Techniques -- 1.5.2.1 Inclusion-Exclusion Technique -- 1.5.2.2 Monte-Carlo Simulation Based Technique -- 1.5.2.3 Domination Theory Based Technique -- 1.5.2.4 Reliability Bounds Technique -- 1.5.2.5 Sum-of-disjoint Product Based Technique -- Exercises -- References -- 2 Reliability Evaluation of General SP-Networks -- 2.1 Notation and Assumptions -- 2.2 Unit-Reliability and Failure Models -- 2.2.1 Constant-Hazard Model -- 2.2.2 Linear-Hazard Model -- 2.2.3 Weibull-Hazard Model -- 2.2.4 Extreme Value-Hazard Model -- 2.3 Module Representation of Reliability Graphs -- 2.3.1 Single-Unit Module -- 2.3.2 Multi-Unit Module -- 2.3.2.1 Series Model -- 2.3.2.2 Parallel Model -- 2.3.2.3 Standby Model -- 2.3.2.4 k-out-of-m Model -- 2.4 Misra Matrix Method -- 2.5 Algorithm -- 2.6 Implementation and Documentation -- 2.6.1 Main Module -- 2.6.2 Function formCmat -- 2.6.3 Function processCmat -- 2.6.4 Function systDetail -- 2.7 Remarks -- Exercises -- References -- 3 Path Sets Enumeration…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.2.1 First-Order Small-Perturbation Model5.2.2 The Integral Equation Model; 5.3 Example Bare Surface Soil Moisture Inversion Models; 5.3.1 The First-Order Small-Perturbation Model; 5.3.2 Algorithm Proposed by Oh et al. (1992); 5.3.3 Algorithm Proposed by Dubois et al.; 5.3.4 Algorithm Proposed by Shi et al. (1997); 5.4 Comparison of the Performance of Bare Surface Inversion Models; 5.5 Parameterizing Scattering Models; 5.6 Inverting the IEM Model; 5.6.1 Using a Data Cube; 5.7 Scattering from Vegetated Terrain; 5.7.1 Scattering from the Vegetation Layer (Scattering Path 1)…”