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Reactive Power Control in AC Power Systems

Fundamentals and Current Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017

This textbook explores reactive power control and voltage stability and explains how they relate to different forms of power generation and transmission. Bringing together international experts in this field, it includes chapters on electric power analysis, design and operational strategies. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016

This book focuses on two challenges posed in robot control by the increasing adoption of robots in the everyday human environment: uncertainty and networked communication. Part I of the book describes learning control to address environmental uncertainty. Part II discusses state estimation, active...

Networks of Dissipative Systems

Compositional Certification of Stability, Performance, and Safety

by Andrew Packard, Chris Meissen, Murat Arcak
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

This book addresses a major problem for today’s large-scale networked systems: certification of the required stability and performance properties using analytical and computational models. On the basis of illustrative case studies, it demonstrates the applicability of theoretical methods to biological...
by Angelo Peccerillo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: "Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics," published in 2005 by Springer. This edition has the same structure as the previous publication, with a general introduction; various chapters dedicated...

Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes

A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD

by Baotang Shen, Ove Stephansson, Mikael Rinne
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013

This text book provides the theoretical background of rock fracture mechanics and displacement discontinuity methods used for the modelling of geomechanical problems. The computer program FRACOD is used to analyse the fracture problems, assessing fracture initiation and propagation in tension (Mode...
by Y.H. Venus Lun, Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Alexander M. Goulielmos
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012

The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. In this comprehensive guide, the authors investigate the industry and describe the shipping market...

Quantitative Plate Tectonics

Physics of the Earth - Plate Kinematics – Geodynamics

by Antonio Schettino
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

This textbook on plate tectonics is designed for students in geology and geophysics to acquire in-depth knowledge of quantitative methods in plate kinematics and dynamics. Quantitative Plate Tectonics can also be used as a reference book by geoscientists who desire to expand their knowledge beyond...
by Takehisa Awaji, Shunichi Teranishi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

In December 1977 we published the first in this series of NGO-oriented reports on Asia's environment, Ajia Kankyo Hakusho 1997/98. This was published in English by Springer-Verlag as The State o/the Environment in Asia 1999/2000. Although only a few years have passed since then, Asia has seen tumultuous...

Weird Weather

Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies

by David A. J. Seargent
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012

This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow space" events as...

India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation

The Unfinished Economic Agenda

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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

This book explores the unfinished India–Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book “India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations” published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement...
by Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, Wade Trappe
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

This Springer Brief provides a new approach to prevent user spoofing by using the physical properties associated with wireless transmissions to detect the presence of user spoofing. The most common method, applying cryptographic authentication, requires additional management and computational power...

The Night Sky Companion

A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching 2009

by Tammy Plotner, Ken Vogt
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009

T. Plotner, The Night Sky Companion, DOI 10. 1007/978-0-387-79509-6_1, 1 Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2009 2 TheNightSkyCompanion Welcome,fellowtravelertothestars!Forthenextyearwewilltakeajourneytogetheracrossthenight sky. In these pages you will find lunar features, planets, meteor showers,...
by Richard J. Huggett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Today, climate-related processes and problems are referred to as Global Change by nearly everyone including scientists, politicians, and economists; citizens worldwide are anxious about the often ob­ served disorientation of our environment under the influence of man. Better information on the Earth's...
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Release Date: October 22, 2010

Emotion is a basic phenomenon of human functioning, most of the time having an adaptive value enhancing our effectiveness in pursuing our goals in the broadest sense. Regulation of these emotions, however, is essential for adaptive functioning, and suboptimal or dysfunctional emotion regulation may...
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