Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, "Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone"...

Due in part to an absence of universally accepted standardization methods, nutraceuticals and...

In a unified and carefully developed presentation, this book systematically examines recent developments in VRP. The book focuses on a portfolio of significant technical advances that have evolved over the past few years for modeling and solving vehicle routing problems and VRP variations. Reflecting the most recent scholarship, this book is wri...

We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will

This volume contains an up-to-date, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast and small scales (fractions of a second, a few neurons) to slow and large (a million years, all of mankind). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language l...

Parallel Computing is a compelling vision of how computation can seamlessly scale from a...

This book is based upon lectures presented in the summer of 2009 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Attractor Mechanism, directed by Stefano Bellucci. The symposium included such prestigious lecturers as S. Ferrara, G. Dall'Agata, J.F. Morales, J. Simón and M. Trigiante. All lectures were given at a pedagogical, introductory ...

Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications. From a practical p...

Visualizations are visual representations of non-visual data. They are produced for people to...