Flexible Multibody Dynamics presents an overview of rigid body dynamics, analytical dynamics, constrained dynamics, and flexible multibody dynamics. The text presents a comprehensive review of numerical tools used to enforce both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints.
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In this book experts in 26 areas of seagrass biology present their work in chapters which are state-of–the-art and designed to be useful to students and... Læs mere
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The aim of this work is to bridge the gap between the well-known Newtonian mechanics and the studies on chaos, ordinarily reserved to experts.
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But, while a knowledge of rumen organisms is not strictly neces sary for the normal, practical feeding of farm animals, in recent years there has been much more emphasis on increasing the productivity of domesti cated animals and in rearing farm animals on unusual feedstuffs.
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Factor X: Re-source—Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry’s Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess.
In spite of being a very promising theoretical perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in consequentialist and/or deontological terms.
This book examines features of rural aging across economic, racial, ethnic, migration and other structures and patterns, with a focus on debunking myths and an emphasis on opportunities and challenges experienced by older populations in rural places.