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Creep refers to the slow, permanent deformation of materials under external loads, or stresses. This book is suitable for experts in the field of strength of metals, alloys and ceramics. It explains creep behavior at the atomic or "dislocation defect" level.

Suitable for a first undergraduate course in applied probability, this book introduces elementary probability theory and stochastic processes, and shows how probability theory can be applied fields such as engineering, computer science, management science, the physical and social sciences, and operations research.

This book surveys the wide evolutionary variations of HIV and the different, sometimes opposing theories which try to explain them. It compares ways that drugs anbd the immune system affect the virus's evolution, and the implications for vaccine development.

Provides an introduction to the methods used in the combinatorics of pattern avoidance and pattern enumeration in compositions and words. This book describes the strengths and weaknesses of a wide variety of solution techniques and approaches, presents an overview of the field, and illustrates fresh methods and definitions with worked examples.

The purpose of this book is to explain why molecular structure can be determined by single-crystal diffraction of X rays. It is not an account of the practical procedural details, but rather an account of the underlying physical principles, and the kinds of experiments and methods of handling the experimental data that are used.

Preziosi's latest collection of essays, including a critical commentary by Lamoureux, suggests multiple interpretations and hidden resonances in each text, opening up alternatives to contemporary discourses on art history and visual culture.

Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels. This book presents a multilevel theory of emotions and social life.

This overview of intersubjectively theory offers contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytical neutrality, intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration and what it means to think and work contextually.

Takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. This book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and policies of neoliberal states.