The spatial distribution of future population and employment has become a focus of recent academic enquiry and planning policy concerns....

Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is the first international mechanism controlling proliferation of missiles and related technology. The core limitation imposed by MTCR is on proliferation of high propulsion ballistic missiles and related technology....

This book argues for an innovative approach to the systematic learning of metaphorical expressions, idioms and proverbs....

As the speedy development of modern society, people start to attach more importance to higher education. Thus, it becomes crucial to understand how the higher educational institution should perform to attract more outstanding students. The main objective of this research is to find out the determination of students\" satisfaction in higher learning....

After decades of the research and development, the piezoelectric materials have been integrated into interdisciplinary fields of research and applied in many branches of the industries. Today, due to the high demand on precise, compact and low power consumption devices, the fields of piezoelectrics are still growing very fast....

This book documents the realisation of software measurement standards in surface metrology, as part of the National Measurement System in the UK. Those standards, in the form of the reference dataset with reference results, have been developed by both simulation and experimental methods....

The demand for computational power has significantly increased in the nanoscience era because simulations are usually performed at molecular levels with quantum mechanics. At the same time, the performance and availability of both commodity computers and inexpensive high-speed networking hardware have increased drastically in the past decades....

Risk assessment is an important tool in helping engineers, scientists, and management make better decisions about the environmental planning of mines. It\'s not always an easy task, however, because it encompasses so many issues and approaches....