Rui M: 11 books

In this collection of love and nature inspired tales you will find: adventures, fairy dreams and an enchanted Princess. From the sea to the mountains nature will embrace you in every tale and you will be taken to a plain, by a group of small boys... In the tale “Invisible Tale” you discover a hidden history... In the tales “Four Tales one History” you are taken to the old vineyards.

Esta é uma colecção de pequenos poemas que mostram sentimentos tais como amor, esperança e ternura. Trata-se de uma viagem interior aos nossos corações.

O segundo livro de uma colecção de poesia. Neste volume o mar surge com toda a força e envolve o leitor nas suas ondas e sentimentos. Uma aventura em forma de poesia.

This book presents a new computational finance approach combining a Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) technique with an optimization kernel based on genetic algorithms (GA). While the SAX representation is used to describe the financial time series, the evolutionary optimization kernel is used...

This book describes methods for adaptive control of distributed-collector solar fields: plants that collect solar energy and deliver it in thermal form. Controller design methods are presented that can overcome difficulties found in these type of plants: they are distributed-parameter systems,...

The management of financial portfolios or funds constitutes a widely known problematic in financial markets which normally requires a rigorous analysis in order to select the most profitable assets. This subject is becoming popular among computer scientists which try to adapt known Intelligent Computation...

Polymers from natural sources are particularly useful as biomaterials and in regenerative medicine, given their similarity to the extracellular matrix and other polymers in the human body. This important book reviews the wealth of research on both tried and promising new natural-based biomedical polymers,...

This book provides a succinct account of the ways in which nano technology is being applied to improve energy efficiency. The coverage includes current scanning probe techniques for electrical energy storage, energy harvesting systems and local electrochemistry as well as emerging techniques of relevance...

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what...

Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives. However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive...

Doze autores (seis escritoras e seis escritores, portugueses e brasileiros) escrevem histórias cujo cenário é o período natalício. A paixão, a sensualidade, o amor e o humor, na atmosfera do Natal (as luzes, os aromas, os sons e os reencontros), são ingredientes para que esta coletânea permita uma leitura íntima, descontraída e nostálgica da festa mais importante do ano.