Musical robots have already inspired the creation of worldwide robotic dancing contests, as RoboCup-Junior\"s Dance, where school teams, formed by children aged eight to eighteen, put their robots in action, performing dance to music in a display that emphasizes creativity of costumes and movement....

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a unique class of materials with the ability to recover their shape when the temperature is increased. An increase in temperature can result in shape recovery even under high applied loads....

Mobile networks and particularly UMTS bring to the service provision context a new concept, known as Virtual Home Environment (VHE), that advocates services totally independent of network and terminal technologies....

This book offers an analytical review of thermodynamic processes through EES (Engineering Equation Solver). The aim is to facilitate the study of the principles of thermodynamics, in a gradual and progressive manner. As the resolution of certain problems calls for a numerical solution, EES software simplifies the calculation procedure....

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