Providing the first truly comprehensive overview of Network Tomography - a novel network monitoring approach that makes use of inference techniques to reconstruct the internal network state from external vantage points - this rigorous yet accessible treatment of the fundamental theory and algorithms of network tomography covers the most prominent results demonstrated on real-world data, including identifiability conditions, measurement design algorithms, and network state inference algorit...

It is undeniable that the recent revival of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly changed the landscape of science in many application domains, ranging from health to defense and from conversational interfaces to autonomous cars. With terms such as “Google Home”, “Alexa”, and “ChatGPT” becoming household names, the pervasive societal impact of AI is clear. Advances in AI promise a revolution in our interaction with the physical world, a domain where computational intelligence has ...

Progress in Mine Safety Science and Engineering II discusses mine safety techniques and technologies, methods and approaches, as well as problems and issues, and will be of invaluable to academics and engineers interested or involved in mine safety issues.

Based on the author's extensive research experience in collagen textiles and tissue engineering, this book presents a comprehensive introduction and guidelines for engineering artificial tissue using collagen-based fibrous material as a therapeutic candidate for regenerative medicine. The book covers different aspects of fibrous collagen material, including its chemistry, sourcing, fabrication, and applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.Collagen-Based Biot...

This timely book documents marvelous brachiopod fossils from the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic transition of South China. Numerous beautiful pictures and detailed descriptions (specifically the measurements of body size) of brachiopod species are presented. Systematic discussion on the evolution of brachiopod biodiversity and morphological features across the critical interval is not only extremely important for paleontologists to understand the marine ecosystem evolution from the Palaeozoic to the ...

This book timely provides high-quality records of 32 PTB sections across different depositional settings from terrestrial to marine facies in South China, including descriptions of lithologies, high-resolution correlation of key boundaries and fossil occurrences at each section. This book also analyzes the patterns and processes of the community and ecosystem evolution over space and through time in the lead to the end-Permian mass extinction, and critically analyzes the mostly debated hyp...

This book focuses on the topology theory of mechanisms developed by the authors and provides a systematic method for the topology design of robot mechanisms.The main original theoretical contributions of this book include:A. Three basic concepts· The “geometrical constraint type of axes” is introduced as the third element of the topological structure of a mechanism. When it is combined with the other two elements, the kinematic pair and the connection of links, the ...

Are you eager to give your kids the world, starting with the gift of languages? As a parent of three and an educator for thirty years, I have seen firsthand how speaking more than one language opens doors, connects us to our roots, and even sharpens our minds.Welcome to the Family AdventureIf you are holding this book, you are probably a bit like me—passionate about providing your children with opportunities and skills that will last a lifetime. This book i...

Gabriel Olsson is falling in love.From the moment I saw Lily Larson—lost in the middle of campus—I knew she was a golden girl. She’s blessed with charm, beauty, and confidence. Yet out of all the guys in my Swedish hometown, she chose me. I’m not questioning why because Lily is my sunshine in the dark Nordic night. She awakens a romantic side I didn’t know I possessed.Everything was perfect until the day she left, when my awkwardness made our break-up espec...

Andy Robson’s night takes an unexpected—and completely ridiculous—turn when a tall, jaw-droppingly gorgeous stranger shows up at her dorm room door… completely naked. No, she's not dreaming. Turns out he’s fleeing someone's irate boyfriend and in desperate need of help. Against her better judgment, Andy clears the hallway and lends him some clothes, only to have her intrigue quickly fizzle when she learns he’s a hockey player. At Monarch College, hockey players are practically royalty, and...

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.SCIENTISTS WARNED IT WOULD HAPPEN.Meteors devastated the Earth. World governments developed plans to help surviving citizens. The United States disbanded and salvageable land was divided into four quadrants—North, South, East, and West—governed by The Remnant Council.Struggling to survive, seventeen-year-old Ava ends up in juvenile detention, until she is selected for a new life—with a catch. She must be injected with an experimen...

The final installment of the Multi-Award-Winning series.The days of hiding are over.The battle for supremacy is here.The fate of the rebels is at hand.Ava heads to South Korea to bring down the facility that manufactures the CODE army. But she can't do it alone. She'll have to trust fellow conspirators and put her life on the line.When the South rebel leader searches for missing team members, she's captured and t...