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

Whether Turkey’s high and fast economic growth is a result of the Customs Union between Turkey and the EU or not has been among one of the most discussed topics in Turkey. This controversial issue in recent years is escalated among the discourses by most Turkish business people....

The book is about the operation of Multinational Corporations in China and India. MNCs in almost all industrial sectors are found in China and India. They are called big emerging markets. A healthy growth of component industry has been coupled with the rapid growth of automotive and vehicle industry in both countries....

In this research, the effect of income inequality as measured by the share of national income going to the wealthiest 10% of the nation in the U.S. is assessed for its significance at explaining stock returns in the U.S. market from 1927 to 2012....

Fatigue is one of the main distress mechanisms considered in asphalt pavement design. Research efforts have focused on developing reliable fatigue prediction models based on strain, stress, or both (i.e., stiffness)....

The Boundary value/periodic problems for the nonlinear equation (or, more generally, second order nonlinear ODEs) have been the focus of nonlinear analysis study for a long time....

In this book, various problems of wind power and energy storage under market environments have been resolved. In deregulated industry, the electricity market was divided into submarkets for different services: (1) Markets for energy services and (2) Markets for frequency control....

Even with the abundance of navigation aids, marine traffic collisions are still happening, mostly due to human errors in controlling the ship....

Principle of positional cloning approach and review the investigation of a paternally imprinted QTL (Quantitative Trait Loci) mapped and fine mapped into the IGF2 region of SSC2 with strong effect on muscle mass and fat deposition in pigs. This book aims to further pinpoint the QTN (Quantitative Trait Nucleotide)....

This book provides extensions to mathematical techniques of nonlinear optimization theory, as applies these techniques to provide self-contained treatments for various versions of the benchmark model of optimal economic growth....

Dispute settlement decisions (DSD) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are presented with the aid of extensive annotations, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive summaries of case histories. The extensive index in each volume enables access to particular titles....