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Analytical Methods in Nonlinear Oscillations Approaches and Applications / by Esmailzadeh, Ebrahim, Younesian, Davood, Askari, Hassan

Table of Contents: “…-- Brief Review of Nonlinear Oscillations History -- Overview of the Book -- Nonlinear Dynamical Systems -- Conservative Oscillatory Systems -- Non-Conservative Oscillatory Systems -- Parametrically Excited Vibration -- Resonance in Nonlinear Systems -- Chapter II: Classical Methods -- Nonlinear Differential Equations -- Perturbation Methods -- Parametric Excitation and Hill's Equation -- Practice Problems -- Chapter III: Energy Balance Methods -- Part I Approach -- Fundamentals of the Energy Balance Method -- Modified Energy Balance Method: Galerkin Approach -- Modified Energy Balance Method: Least Square Method -- Hamiltonian Approach -- Modified Hamiltonian Approach -- Rational Energy Balance Method -- Part II Applications -- Generalized Duffing Equation -- Nonlinear Dynamic Buckling of an Elastic Column -- Vibrations of Cracked Rectangular Plate -- Relativistic Oscillator -- Plasma Physics Equation -- Nonlinear Oscillator with Discontinuity -- NonlinearOscillator with Fractional-Power Restoring Force -- Generalized Conservative Oscillatory Systems (Type 1) -- Generalized Conservative Oscillatory Systems (Type 2) -- Duffing Harmonic Oscillator -- Helmholtz Duffing Oscillator -- Autonomous Conservative Oscillatory System -- Nonlinear Oscillation of Rigid Bar on Semi-Circular Surface -- Nonlinear Oscillations of Centrifugal Governor Systems -- Nonlinear Lateral Sloshing in Partially-Filled Elliptical Tankers -- Nonlinear Oscillations of Elevator Cable in in a Drum Drive Elevator -- Chapter IV: Residual Methods -- Part I Approach -- Basic Idea -- Frequency Amplitude Formulation -- Max-Min Approach -- Part II Applications -- Generalized Duffing Equation -- Generalized Conservative Oscillatory Systems (Type 1) -- Generalized Conservative Oscillatory Systems (Type 2) -- Nonlinear Oscillator with Fractional Power -- Nonlinear Oscillation of a Mass Attached to a Stretched Elastic Wire -- Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation -- A Rigid Frame Rotates at a Fixed Rate -- Conservative Lienard Type Equation -- Part III Practice Problems -- Chapter V: Semi-Inverse and Variational Methods -- Semi-Inverse and Variational Approaches -- Part I Approach -- Variational Principle.…”
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Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems Selected Papers from KICSS'2014 - 9th International Conference, held in Limassol, Cyprus, on November 6-8, 2014 /

Table of Contents: “…-Application of Rough Sets in k Nearest Neighbours Algorithm for Classification of Incomplete Samples -- An Application of Firefly Algorithm to Position Traffic in NoSQL Database Systems -- Length of Hospital Stay and Quality of Care -- Bio-Inspired Hybrid Intelligent Method for Detecting Android Malware -- Predicting the Impact of Advertisements on Web Pages Aesthetic Impressions -- OntOSN - An Integrated Ontology for the Business-Driven Analysis of Online Social Networks -- Social Media and Communication Processes at Work: Evidence from China -- Educators as Game Developers - Model-Driven Visual Programming of Serious Games -- First Year Students' Algorithmic Skills in Tertiary Computer Science Education -- Implementing a Social Networking Educational System for Teachers' Training -- Virtual Environment for Creative and Collaborative Learning -- A Semiotic and Cognitive Approach to the Semantic Indexation of Digital Learning Resources -- The Significance of 'Ba' for the Successful Formation of Autonomous Personal Knowledge Management Systems -- The Significance of Memes for the Successful Formation of Autonomous Personal Knowledge Management Systems -- Computer Creativity in Games - How Much Knowledge is Needed? …”
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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines / by Koetsier, Teun

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- Cultural evolution -- Production technology and information technology -- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens -- Animals using production tools -- Monkeys and apes using production tools -- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals -- Communicating honey bees -- Communication among monkeys and apes -- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens -- Olduwan technology -- The adze makers of Langda -- Language as an information tool -- The control of fire -- The Stone Age Revolution -- Information tools -- Whistle languages -- Talking drums -- The Ishango bone -- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific -- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires -- Economic surplus -- Agriculture -- The wheel -- Monumental architecture -- Complete writing -- Towards the alphabet -- Mathematics -- Sundials and water clocks -- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science -- The Axial Age -- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India -- Oral versus written thought -- Aristotle's Logic, a New Information Tool -- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that -- Deductive science -- The birth of the theory of machines -- The wedge and the pulleys -- Archimedes -- The invention of the screw -- Heron's Mechanics -- Combinations of simple machines -- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane -- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity -- The invention of artillery -- Production machines in Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture -- The Phaistos disc -- The abacus -- Water clocks and sundials -- The Armillary Sphere -- The anaphoric clock -- The astrolabe -- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism -- The front dial -- The upper back dial -- The pin and slot mechanism -- The hodometer -- Automata -- 6 The Middle Ages -- Marco Polo -- Textile machines -- Military technology -- Metal technology -- Movable type printing -- The hodometer and Su Sung's clock -- Automata -- Chinese influence in the West -- The Golden Age of Islamic Science -- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa -- Al-Jazari's production machines -- Al-Muradi -- The rise of the West -- Jordanus -- The Vision of Ramon Llull -- The invention of the printing press -- Llull's influence -- A new information machine: the mechanical clock -- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution -- The impact of the printing press -- Da Vinci and the others -- Parachute, tank and machine gun -- Da Vinci as an engineer -- Da Vinci's fame -- Theaters of machines -- Exterior ballistics -- Del Monte and simple machines -- Galilei and simple machines -- The Archimedean screw pump -- Astronomy -- Galilei's Discorsi -- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin -- There is more -- The dream of a mathesis universalis -- Calculators -- Scepticism -- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron -- The background -- The role of the Scientific Revolution -- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution -- The Malthusian trap -- The escape -- One or more Industrial Revolutions? …”
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