This reference manual provides a list of approximately 300 technical terms and phrases common to environmental and civil engineering which non-English speakers often find difficult to understand in English....

Using cognitive theory of multimedia learning, this book examined the different effects of text-picture annotation and audio-picture annotation on L2 vocabulary immediate recall and reading comprehension....

Last few decades has shown tremendous interest and growth in wireless technology. It was Tesla's dream to trasnfer power wirelessly from one end to other end of the world. Until few decades back it was a topic of interest for few. But this days even major and high tech companies have drawn their attention towards this technology....

Cement-based materials are by far the most important building materials. Microstructure study of cement-based materials has aroused a vast concern all over the world....

In this research, three new consensus measure methods have been developed for group decision making problem in this research. One is a Markov chain based consensus measure method, the other is order based, and the last one is a similarity based consensus measure approach....

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class....

Intelligent agents are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. An intelligent agent consists of a software system capable of performing intelligent tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment....

Effective decision support systems (DSS) are quickly becoming key to businesses gaining a competitive advantage, and the effectiveness of these systems depends on the ability to construct, maintain, and extract information from data warehouses....

Intelligent decision support relies on techniques from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and database management systems. Most of the existing literature neglects the relationship between these disciplines....

An expert guide for applying data mining with uncertain reasoning to a wide range of uses This volume presents a holistic view of data mining by integrating this diverse and exciting field with uncertain reasoning....