Marcelo: 341 books
by Marcelo J.S. de Lemos
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This short book deals with the mathematical modeling of jets impinging porous media. It starts with a short introduction to models describing turbulences in porous media as well as turbulent heat transfer. In its main part, the book presents the heat transfer of impinging jets using a local and a non-local thermal equilibrium approach.
Turbulence in Porous Media
Modeling and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Turbulence in Porous Media introduces the reader to the characterisation of turbulent flow, heat and mass transfer in permeable media, including analytical data and a review of available experimental data. Such transport processes occurring a relatively high velocity in permeable media are present...
Mitigating Inequality
Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Now more than ever, the issue of access to higher education for all is a matter of global importance. As colleges and universities worldwide increasingly extend their academic programs abroad, develop internationally mixed research teams and create international curricular initiatives, it is essential...
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits...
Embryos in Deep Time
The Rock Record of Biological Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2
Genetics, breeding, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...
Partial Differential Equations
Mathematical Techniques for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
This monograph presents a graduate-level treatment of partial differential equations (PDEs) for engineers. The book begins with a review of the geometrical interpretation of systems of ODEs, the appearance of PDEs in engineering is motivated by the general form of balance laws in continuum physics....
by Marcelo Reguero, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Tania Dutra
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals,...
by Susani Silveira Lemos França, Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Marcelo Jasmin
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Variâncias e constâncias, realidade extralinguística e linguagem: a partir desses dois pares de opostos, este livro traz à tona discussões sobre as especificidades do fazer histórico. A cada ensaio o autor encontrará desdobradas questões que volta e meia são postas como problema para o historiador,...
Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Qualitative Properties of Solutions, Phase Space Analysis, Semilinear Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book provides an overview of different topics related to the theory of partial differential equations. Selected exercises are included at the end of each chapter to prepare readers for the “research project for beginners” proposed at the end of the book. It is a valuable resource for advanced...
Differential Geometry
Basic Notions and Physical Examples
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Differential Geometry offers a concise introduction to some basic notions of modern differential geometry and their applications to solid mechanics and physics.
Concepts such as manifolds, groups, fibre bundles and groupoids are first introduced within a purely topological framework. They are...
Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics
A Handbook of Operational Risk
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
A one-stop guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to operational risk
Providing a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational...
Orchestrating and Automating Security for the Internet of Things
Delivering Advanced Security Capabilities from Edge to Cloud for IoT
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Master powerful techniques and approaches for securing IoT systems of all kinds–current and emerging
Internet of Things (IoT) technology adoption is accelerating, but IoT presents complex new security challenges. Fortunately, IoT standards and standardized architectures are emerging to help...
Internationalization of Law
Globalization, International Law and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The book provides an overview of how international law is today constructed through diverse macro and microprocesses that expand its traditional subjects and sources, with the attribution of sovereign capacity and power to the international plane (moving the international toward the national). Simultaneously,...