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Anger in the Air: Combating the Air Rage Phenomenon provides airlines with valuable input to help them better meet the service expectations of their customers and avoid instances of air rage on their flights. What do today's customers need and expect? What do airline customers perceive as the quality of services and how can the gap be closed between expectations and perceptions? more...

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This book represents the work of top scientists in the field of intelligent control and its applications, prognostics, diagnostics, condition based maintenance and unmanned systems. The work presents an approach to solving engineering problems related to manufacturing, automation, and especially unmanned systems and describes recent advances in the disciplines mentioned above. The main goal of the book is to demonstrate how concepts and ideas from diverse disciplines are merged within a common framework applied to the solution of complex problems. The book includes fifteen contributions from scientists and engineers focusing on intelligent control applications to engineering systems. The focus areas are: diagnosis, prognosis and condition-based maintenance; unmanned aerial systems; bioengineering and neurotechnology; intelligent control systems. The work presents approaches to solving diverse engineering problems, focusing on approaches dominated by the 'school of thought' at the Georgia Institute of Technology over the past 25 years. more...

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Incorporating the latest technology, this book is the first to focus primarily on the design, production and maintenance of low-volume roads and parking areas. more...

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Ballistic reentry vehicles, capsules and planetary probes are the fastest human designed objects to fly through planet??'s atmospheres. With velocities over Mach 20, RV??'s have to dissipate a huge kinetic energy, and environment may exceed 100 g??'s at center of mass, 100 bars stagnation pressure and 100 MW/m?? on nosetip. Design of thermal protection system is a formidable material engineering problem. Vehicle conception covers large discipline realms, among which Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics are essential as they only can provide necessary aeroshell shape, mass and inertia properties and tolerances to achieve adequate environment and trajectory performance. Capsules and probes have different missions and entry conditions but approaches and methods are identical. Based on a long engineering experience, this book offers a comprehensive and state of the art analysis of aerodynamic and flight mechanic entry topics. In addition, it provides a large set of application exercises and solutions. It is addressed to university and engineering school students, as well as engineers in aerospace companies and government agencies, or simply curious readers. more...

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Die gro_en Automobilmdrkte der Welt (Triade) befinden sich in der Sdttigung, die neuen Wachstumsmdrkte Asien und Osteuropa kvnnen auf lange Zeit die fehlende Nachfrage nicht ersetzen. Als Folge befindet sich die gesamte Automobilbranche global in einem mvrderischen Verdrdngungswettbewerb, vorgetragen mit immer neuen Modelloffensiven  und aggressiven Rabattschlachten. Die Folge sind sinkende Ertrdge bei allen Beteiligten, Arbeitsplatzabbau und Produktionsverlagerung in Niedriglohnldnder. Dieses Buch bietet eine beeindruckende Bestandsaufnahme der Weltautomobilindustrie und gibt eine fundierte Prognose ]ber die Zukunftsfdhigkeit der elf verbliebenen Volumenhersteller (IWK-Survival-Index). Das Buch zeigt, wie sich der Weltautomobilmarkt in den ndchsten 10 Jahren entwickeln wird, wie die Konzentration auf die Zulieferer wirkt und welche Konsequenzen die Entwicklung auf dem Automobilstandort Deutschland hat. Die Neuauflage bietet auf der Grundlage aktueller Daten den globalen Automobilmarkt-Entwicklungstrend und eine Neuberechnung des IWK-Survivial-Indexes mit dem neuesten Ranking der einzelnen Automobilhersteller. more...

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