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Technology For The Stars: Extending Our Reach Annual Report ... NASA-TM-108501 ... Mar. 7, 1997
Author: Research And Technology 1995 Annual Report Final Report ... NASA-TM-111467 ... Mar. 7, 1997
Author: CREATING THE FUTURE: RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT... NASA/TM-1998-108501... APR. 29, 1999
Author: Beyond Our Boundaries: Research and Technology Annual Report ... Nasa/tm-97-108530 ... Aug. 13, 1998
Author: A handbook on flood hazard mapping methodologies
Author: Andrés Díez HerreroPublisher: IGME
ISBN: 9788478408139
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Technology for the Stars: Extending Our Reach. Research and Technology Annual Report of the Marshall Space Flight Center Held in Alabama
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Marshall Space Flight Center's greatest assets are its people highly qualified engineers and scientists who perform the daily analysis, development, and engineering necessary to extend humankind's grasp. Propulsion is the foundation that enables America's future in space. MSFC's talented team continues to achieve new advances through focused efforts in space propulsion, materials and processes, structures and dynamics, and avionics. Microgravity at MSFC provides invaluable insights into biotechnology processes and materials science/technology which are enabled by and exploit the unique space-flight environment. Dedicated scientific experts are making it possible to continue exploration of the physics of the Earth and the Universe. The Advanced Studies, Research, Technology, and Technology Transfer projects summarized in this report represent a sampling of MSFC's contributions to inspire and serve America and to benefit the quality of life for humankind.
Research And Technology Report ... Goddard Space Flight Center Annual Report ... NASA-TM-111703 ... Mar. 14, 1997
Author: Coastal and Marine Environments
Author: José Simão Antunes Do CarmoPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789843596
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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This book systematizes the concepts of contemporary coastal zone management and suggests possible structural and non-structural management tools for decision-making processes. Some successful adaptation measures and case studies on oceanic processes and coastal protection are discussed. High-frequency communications in coastal and marine environments are also addressed.All chapters contribute relevant information and useful content to scientists and other readers interested or concerned about the lack of adequate management actions and the installation of appropriate protections or their ineffectiveness in containing coastal vulnerabilities and risks.
Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering
Author: Lynn E. JohnsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420069144
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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State-of-the-art GIS spatial data management and analysis tools are revolutionizing the field of water resource engineering. Familiarity with these technologies is now a prerequisite for success in engineers' and planners' efforts to create a reliable infrastructure.GIS in Water Resource Engineering presents a review of the concepts and application
Complexity and Criticality
Author: Kim ChristensenPublisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 186094504X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis of scale invariance, a central unifying theme of the book.Criticality refers to the behaviour of extended systems at a phase transition where scale invariance prevails. The many constituent microscopic parts bring about macroscopic phenomena that cannot be understood by considering a single part alone. The phenomenology of phase transitions is introduced by considering percolation, a simple model with a purely geometrical phase transition, thus enabling the reader to become intuitively familiar with concepts such as scale invariance and renormalisation. The Ising model is then introduced, which captures a thermodynamic phase transition from a disordered to an ordered system as the temperature is lowered in zero external field. By emphasising analogies between percolation and the Ising model, the reader's intuition of phase transitions is developed so that the underlying theoretical formalism may be appreciated fully. These equilibrium systems undergo a phase transition only if an external agent finely tunes certain external parameters to particular values.Besides fractals and phase transitions, there are many examples in Nature of the emergence of such complex behaviour in slowly driven non-equilibrium systems: earthquakes in seismic systems, avalanches in granular media and rainfall in the atmosphere. A class of non-equilibrium systems, not constrained by having to tune external parameters to obtain critical behaviour, is addressed in the framework of simple models, revealing that the repeated application of simple rules may spontaneously give rise to emergent complex behaviour not encoded in the rules themselves. The common basis of complexity and criticality is identified and applied to a range of non-equilibrium systems. Finally, the reader is invited to speculate whether self-organisation in non-equilibrium systems might be a unifying concept for disparate fields such as statistical mechanics, geophysics and atmospheric physics.Visit http: //www.complexityandcriticality.com for animations for the models in the book (available for Windows and Linux), solutions to exercises, as well as a list with corrections.